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Change of political climate re: climate change

There'll be a change in climate change politics in the U.S. effective January 21, 2009. Environmental advocates are pointing to a line-up of strong scientifically-trained appointees, in contrast to the current administration where politics consistently trumped science. Some of the promises made during the campaign by the Obama...

Tags: Climate, Environmental Advocate, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-22

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Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?

Governance and Control are a serious isssue...The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops...

Tags: Virtualization, Recruitment & Selection, tech industry, Google Inc., cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Eliminate the FCC?

Eliminate the FCC?Way of the world.As is well known, a government agency which regulates an industry becomes an advocate for that industry. And scientists have no fewer interests and opinions to advance than other people.You wrote:That's the problem. Any government institution can be corrupted, any set of safeguards overrun...

Tags: Federal government, FCC

Discussion threads 2008-12-24

How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?

How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study

Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind studySide effect of wind farms: Lots of dead birdsThe big problem with wind farms, is the amount of birds that it kills on a daily basis. Drive near any wind farm, and you will see the unfortunate...

Tags: turbine

Discussion threads 2008-03-30

Human Rights: An Inconvenient Truth

The debate on business and human rights is set to heat up this year with the 60th anniversary of the UN General Assembly resolution adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR. The Beijing Olympics and a sharpened focus on the potential winners and losers in the climate change crisis...

Tags: James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-25

From eco-warrior to nuclear champion

From eco-warrior to nuclear championNuclear waste hysteriaIs probably the biggest challenge facing nuclear power. And it all stems from the fact that people have been misled into thinking radiation is more dangerous than it is.The really long-term radioactive stuff is so low-level, it's more dangerous to live in North Dakota.Waste...

Tags: Waste Disposal, nuclear energy, Greenpeace, nuclear champion

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

Professor, clean water advocate share Heinz environmental award

Two individuals will share the 13th annual Heinz Award for the Environment, scheduled to be presented Oct. 22 in Pittsburgh. Each year, $250,000 awards in five achievement categories are presented by Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation to honor the memory of her late husband, Senator John Heinz of...

Tags: Storage, Heather Clancy, H.J. Heinz Co., Borders Books & Music

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Jobs does Windows with open source

Jobs does Windows with open sourceYeah, I just caught thatBut still, it would be more correct to say that the browser engine is open sourceand I believe has been for a long time. Dana said Safari itself was open source, which is a subtle, yet very important difference. Having Safari...

Tags: Alpha, job, Microsoft Windows, open source, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Apple Software, Open-Sourced Components

Discussion threads 2007-06-16

Home wind turbines turn fashionable in Britain

Home wind turbines turn fashionable in BritainWonderfulThis is a wonderful concept, and needs to be adoped by more countries.http://one.revver.com/watch/79286/format/flv/affiliate/23672Nice Britain but ....In my country, Cyprus, things are even better. You get a subsidy of 55% of the cost and in the case of solar panels you get a 15 year...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Benefits, good cause, tax, renewable energy, subsidy, turbine

Discussion threads 2006-10-14

Waking up to an HP executive's nightmare

Waking up to an HP executive's nightmareNixon...complain about some of his other policies, but I can't think of anything more important than his policy of detente towards China. The fact that China is a fast growing nation today helping 1.3 billion people escape poverty (and on a likely path...

Tags: Free trade, Corporate law, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nixon, World Trade Organization, antitrust

Discussion threads 2006-10-05

Greenpeace, Apple clash over toxic waste

Greenpeace, Apple clash over toxic wasteGreenpeace is worthlessThey are a overgrown ape that needs to be put down. All they do is hype up junk science and try to pass it along to fellow congressmenHoly S*** !Greenpeace is targeting PVC , what a kick in the pants . All...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Greenpeace, PVC, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-29

Embedded Windows systems architect revisiting platform choice

Embedded Windows systems architect revisiting platform choiceSo what's his message for Gates and Ballmer?and he has a message for Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.So, what is his message? The article seems to stop just when it gets interesting. Am I missing something?Alternative OSesI am a Linux advocate and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Windows XPe, Linux, Microsoft Windows CE, RTOS, operating system

Discussion threads 2005-01-18