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The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

A different take"Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven?t we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and the phoney mortgage miasma?"What lesson did you learn? Did these markets fail or did government intervention in market operations corrupted them? Why are tax...

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Discussion threads 2009-10-17

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Human Rights: An Inconvenient Truth

Human Rights: An Inconvenient TruthUS should standardize human rightsand then have everyone sign the document.You can't allow input from too many parties since this might end up with socialist rights like healtcare, education, or even worse 'habeas corpus' that would undermine our economy or the war on terror.I think we...

Tags: Inconvenient Truth, Human Rights

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

An Inconvenient Truth ...: About Enterprise Job Scheduling

Since the 1970s, job scheduling solutions have been adapting to the ever-changing landscape of information technology. Initially, job schedulers were monolithic programs residing on mainframe systems, providing end-to-end scheduling for mainframe environments. With the rise of distributed systems in the 1990s, new job schedulers were created to address automation challenges...

Tags: Job, Agent, Inconvenient Truth, OpsWise Software, Mainframes, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations

White papers 2007-12-31

Gore's crusade to halt global warming

Watch a trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth"The documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" offers a passionate look at one man's efforts to help save the planet from irrevocable change. That man is former Vice President Al Gore. See the trailer for the documentary, which opens in select theaters on June 2.

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Videos 2006-06-01

Additional Resources

Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license

Tar and feather them nt ;-)ntYeah - they made good on GPL2 - tar them anyway!It's Microsoft - hurt them even when they do admit their errors and make good on them!Seriously Dude, see a shrink!A tad serious?Lighten up a bit - a shrink? I will put my mental health...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, tool, Microsoft Windows 7, open source, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Making money off global warming

Carbon Credit: The "global warming" SCAMGuess who is the biggest seller of carbon credits?? You know, the program where you buy an imaginary credit as payment for putting something in the air that you were already doing for free.Hint: An inconvenient truth based on a very convenient set...

Tags: global warming, Making Money

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

News to know: Droid, Moffat, Android, Amazon, 3D HDTV, Net Neutrality

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Verizon unveils 30-second ad for Droid Android phone; slams iPhone Jason Perlow:DROID aims to make Apple...

Tags: Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Sam Diaz, Matthew Miller, Net Neutrality, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2009-10-19

What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?

It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...

Tags: Bill Gates, Population Growth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Global warming: relax, nothing is going to happen

RE: Global warming: relax, nothing is going to happen...When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it's usually newsworthy.So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?Latif is one of the leading...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Before Copehagen, there'll be Pittsburgh, and then there'll be...

Hope it's not too lateDespite a cool US, the rest of world is getting warmer.http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090916_globalstats.htmlPlease explain.....Why the National Climate Data Center using NASA satellites show a decline in global temperatures over the past decade? Yeah it may be warmer one year over the next, but the temperature chart is...

Tags: Data centers, global warming, downward slope, past 10-year, slope, NASA

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Remodelled house generates more energy than it uses

It is AMAZING how much CFLs save ....Not just in raw wattage consumption, but on reducing the heat load on air conditioning.It adds up to BIG BUCKS every month!LEDs the next big thingCFLs require about 1/3rd of the energy to produce a given light output, when compared to incandescents.LED bulbs,...

Tags: Engineering, CFL, light-emitting diode, mercury

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...

Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Would you go the extra mile to get rid of an old computer responsibly?

Would you go the extra mile to get rid of an old computer responsibly?The dump works good for me....Throw it away and be done, I have heard enough about how the earth is ending and if we do not stop eating meat, driving, using A/C we are all doomed.I can't...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, extra mile, old computer, computer

Discussion threads 2009-05-29

Cloud computing: Resistance is futile

Cloud computing: Resistance is futileSecurity issues unresolved; resistance is futile = what a jokeAt an RSA conference no less.Here is a a news flash: Security has to be the PRIMARY concern. Not just some inconvenient speed bump on the way to making money.For someone to say this is quite revealing....

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, security

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Earth Day tech deals: Gentle on the planet and your wallet

It's Earth Day, which means it's time to look at some eco-friendly tech products that can make your life a little more green without putting a dent in your savings account. The Motorola Renew W233 Phone The Motorola Renew W233 Phone is the world's...

Tags: Earth, Phone, Cell Phone, Amazon.com Inc., DVD, Motorola Inc., Renew, Telecom & Utilities, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Polar meltdown both north and south

Polar meltdown both north and southJust trying to justify their jobsthey would be out of work if they came to any other conclusiongovernment funding begets global warmingprivate funding begets global realistsyou decideThese are the same modelsthat failed to predict the current cooling trend, that failed to predict the spike in...

Tags: global warming, south, north, troll, meltdown

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

High speed rail: derision or da future?

High speed rail: derision or da future?How many times has Amtrak ....... had to be bailed out? How many of the lines are still even in operation? Do you think there won't be security measures before you board the train? How many died in the bombing of...

Tags: Vertical industries, High Speed, derision, government

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warming

Contrary to past indicators, the whole Antarctic is warmingMisleading Article againUnfortunately, if you look at their actual graph in the Nature article, Antarctica also shows the plateau and cooling that the world has been showing to the satellites for the last decade.Ref: http://climatesci.org/2009/01/21/follow-up-on-todays-ap-article-by-seth-bornenstein-entitled-study-antarctica-joins-rest-of-globe-in-warming/It's just localYou can't make a conclusion on...

Tags: past indicator

Discussion threads 2009-01-22