Re: Brin on global warming

2010-02-11 Thread Jim Sharkey
Nick Arnett wrote: http://open.salon.com/blog/david_brin/2010/02/09/the_real_struggle_behind_climate_change_-_a_war_on_expertise Ironically, Dr. Brin seems to know very little about the Know Nothing Party. They were anti-immigration, jingoistic Protestants, not anti-intellectuals. Just

Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Nick Arnett
So... Google Buzz introduced itself to me this morning, just as I was reading an article on privacy concerns about it. The biggest one is that it automatically imports contacts and shows them as friends. Sure enough, when I looked at Buzz, it said that it had automatically followed a dozen or so

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread John Williams
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: So... Google Buzz introduced itself to me this morning, just as I was reading an article on privacy concerns about it.  The biggest one is that it automatically imports contacts and shows them as friends. When buzz

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:20 AM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote: Why do you think it imported something from your contacts? Did you click on setup or whatever when the buzz screen popped up? It said it automatically imported the people I talk to the most. The list it showed me

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:20 AM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote: Why do you think it imported something from your contacts? Did you click on setup or whatever when the buzz screen popped up? Here is what it said, exactly: *Welcome to Buzz* *Buzz is a new way to share updates,

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread John Williams
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to Buzz Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. You're already set up to follow the people you email and chat with the most.

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Gogan
You guys are lucky, I just got the Palm Pre... love it .. sortof and set up my gmail account and a few others and it then imported ALL my facebook, gmail etc contacts and there are thousands of contacts now in the palm pre... http://www.gogan.com/blog/ Sent from Ballyboden, Ireland On Thu, Feb

Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Jon Louis Mann
You guys are lucky, I just got the Palm Pre... love it ..  sort of and set up my gmail account and a few others and it then imported ALL my facebook, gmail etc contacts and there are thousands of contacts now in the palm pre... http://www.gogan.com/blog/ Sent from Alex Gogan Ballyboden,

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: It said it automatically imported the people I talk to the most.  The list it showed me sure didn't look like that, however. It was probably the people with gmail accounts that you talk to the most. -- Mauro Diotallevi

Re: Br?n on global warming

2010-02-11 Thread Trent Shipley
Michael Harney wrote: Trent wrote: I believe that climate change is true, but that America's response must preserve the American way of life or to hell with the planet. You're kidding right? If we go down we're taking the world with us? A little Bond-villain-esqe don't you think? Can't

Re: Br?n on global warming

2010-02-11 Thread Trent Shipley
Michael Harney wrote: Trent wrote: Why not nuclear power? Less people have died in nuclear accidents than mining coal. Mining coal is more hazardous to your health than working in a modern nuclear power plant. It doesn't produce CO2. It doesn't produce environmental pollution other than

Re: Br?n on global warming

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Baker
Trent said: The problem with nuclear power is that we can't get all the uranium we need from reliable countries. A lot of it comes from Russia, the Central Asian Republics, and less stable African states. Aren't the worlds most productive uranium mines in Canada and Australia? Those two

Re: Google Buzz

2010-02-11 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Mauro Diotallevi diotall...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: It said it automatically imported the people I talk to the most. The list it showed me sure didn't look like that, however. It was

Re: Br?n on global warming

2010-02-11 Thread Trent Shipley
As you said. http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/u/uranium-reserves.htm Uranium mining (reserves?) in tonnes Australia 725,000 t Brazil 157,400 t Canada 329,200 t * Kazakhstan 378,100 t South Africa 284,400 t Namibia 176,400 t * Niger 243,100 t * Russia 172,400 t Ukraine