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Your luxurious prefab green home

XtremeHomes builds dwellings that are green-conscious--both by using sustainable materials and by consolidating the labor under one roof to conserve resources. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports from the company's factory in Oroville, Calif.

Tags: News.com, XtremeHomes, Extreme homes, home, house, green, material, construction, contractor, building, truck, Michael Kanellos, Michelle Kaufmann, Tim Schmidt, lumber

Videos 2007-08-30

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GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear site

Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.RE: GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear siteI do not worry, Israel does not miss around and will take care of it if they feel it is a threat, they have done it before and i am sure they will do it again. With or...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Iranian nuclear site, GeoEye, nuclear site, Deleted

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

NOAA sounding like Noah: head for the hills

Here are some findings on global warming released just now by NOAA. Heat waves will become more frequent and intense, increasing threats to human health and quality of life. Extreme heat will also affect transportation and energy systems, and crop and livestock production. ·...

Tags: Report, NOAA, Transportation, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?

Mandatory vehicle efficiency in US?long time comingthis cap on minimum mileage should have been done a long time ago.With typical administrations saying that the money the US spends on foreign fuel from hostile nations puts more American lives at risk. Its just common sense to create a minimum cap on...

Tags: Blogging, Now Let, vehicle efficiency, blog, Mandatory vehicle efficiency, gallon

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

The next plastics health scare is here

The next plastics health scare is here phthalates are poisonIt has been common knowledge for years that phthalates are poisonous.It is only corporate greed that keeps these chemicals on the market.The gangster corporations have control of our government and the regulatory process and will not give up their profits no...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Strategy, plastics health, health care, common knowledge, plastics, conspiracy theory, phthalate

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?

I am starting to see some awareness among the chattering classes that continued population growth, endless economic growth and unhampered resource consumption may not go on forever. We have have just lived through three decades when it is considered less than acceptable for any major corporationto grow at only...

Tags: Wealth, Friedman, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-08

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.

Circuit City Black Friday ad finally leaks. More yawns.UnderstandableTraditional Black Friday strategy calls for very low prices and very high consumer traffic to compensate for it. For electronics, add old models that need to be cleared out.With Black Friday consumer traffic most likely to be low this year, there...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Circuit City Black Friday, Black Friday, yawn, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services

Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...

Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Of course you realize, this means war.

Fanboys exist for every favored computing platform. When you’ve been writing about computing for any number of years, such as I have, you are eventually going become the target of kooks â€" people who post completely random stuff on your blogs, send you crazy and inflamed emails, or write...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Macalope, Jason Perlow, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-04-23

We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious myth

We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious mythHey there chicken little....>>Oh, and those dependable nuclear plants can't use abundant salt water.the sky is falling... no really... the sky is falling....Wiki "De-desalinization Plants". Plenty of abundant water for Nuclear facilities that way... And nuc energy can supply...

Tags: Jane Fonda Mind-set, precious myth, nuclear energy, Nuclear Plant, nuclear plant

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Broadcasters get leeway on digital TV switch

Broadcasters get leeway on digital TV switchHi Voska, Sorry! I was joking...... that was my take on our local conspiracy theorist's typical rant that everything is a government plot out to empty his wallet. I guess I might have done it a bit too well...Personally we have a nice...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, switchover, TV, digital television, broadcaster, leeway, cable

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

NJ bans sex offenders from the Internet

NJ bans sex offenders from the InternetGoing way too far against sex offenders.With the way things are going one would be better off being a murderer than a sex offender (though sometimes they're one and the same). The constraints being placed on sex offenders after they've served their time have...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Internet, sex offender

Discussion threads 2007-12-28

(Images: Tracking California's wildfires)

(Images: Tracking California's wildfires)FireThe Devil is burning California. Your contracts UP, people. The Devil is taking his due.RE: (Images: Tracking California's wildfires)If people in fire prone areas would just get SMART, and build with our AERATED AUTOCLAVED CONCRETE ( http://globalmodularconcepts.com and http://gmchomesfl.com ) their homes and contents would be...

Tags: Tracking California, wildfire, AAC

Discussion threads 2007-10-24

Cameras everywhere, even in online maps

Cameras everywhere, even in online mapsExactlyIt's a different approach to developing applications. Google puts out the technology and it's not clear what the use-case is..."It's a novelty that imposes on people's privacy. What's the point of this? Yeah, great, you can look at the area for real estate...

Tags: camera, Google Inc., public place

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

Nebraska bans Internet hunting

Nebraska bans Internet huntingWhich one is more sick?I am still wondering this myself.[i]"Sick ideas have a nasty habit of spreading," said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society.[/i]Internet Hunting or Slaughter Houses?Anyone want to join me for a hamburger for lunch?It's just wrongNature is or was balanced by...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Government, Internet Hunting, food, predator, hunter, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-05-24

Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home Server

Microsoft hits a home run with Windows Home ServerLinux gives you a better server. For free!Linux gives you a better server. For free! For example Ubuntu 7.04 server edition: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/products/WhatIsUbuntu/servereditionPlus the hardware requirements are dramatically lower. And old Pentium 2 with 192 MB RAM will do.Trust Linux on your server:...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, server, Microsoft Corp., WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, data recovery, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-04-26

Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industry

Steve Jobs blasts teacher unions and textbook industryUnion ProblemsThis is just another case where unions do more to harm the industry than help. The fact of the matter is, every teacher in the world is a teacher because they WANT to teach - the pay isn't and won't be...

Tags: Benefits, Steve Jobs, education

Discussion threads 2007-02-18

Imagine a world without DRM

Imagine a world without DRMWorld without DRMI think it would be a great place to live.What big business tends to forget is that people will pay for the content anyway. The consumer knows that without making money there isn't any reason to produce content.I buy DVD movies all the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, encryption, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2007-01-05