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This is just great…NOT!
If they would spend this kind of money to upgrade this countries railroad system and turn it into an actual mass transit system with bi-directional tracks running from major city center to city center, it would cut the need for so many long haul petrol guzzling trucks and cars.

But instead they spend it on more and better roads to move more cars to burn more nonexistent fossil fuel and destroy more farmland and communities in the process.

This is SO stupid! This isn’t progress, it’s genocide! The demand for oil is going to kill us all while king Albert E the stupid, lines his and his friends and families pockets…

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Telegraph | Travel | Travel gadgets: it knows where you are…

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By Dave, July 31, 2005 5:09 pm

Telegraph | Travel | Travel gadgets: it knows where you are…

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Life, the universe and everything meet today. Or something profane or is that profound? Anyway, the Hitchhikers guide is here (almost). I have been waiting for this tech to get here! Cool as hell!

Toys N Gadgets

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: At Last, My Blog Lands Me in Hot Water!

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By Dave, July 31, 2005 5:03 pm

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Weblog :: At Last, My Blog Lands Me in Hot Water!

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Hey, Joey!

Been nice knowing you (through your blog), guy. These Quick-Boys Movers sound like a bunch of Ruskie Mafioso or maybe thats what they want you to think. Hope that it doesn’t get to the guns and lawyers point…

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Techdirt:Patent Examiners Don’t Scale

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By Dave, July 31, 2005 3:49 pm

Techdirt:Patent Examiners Don’t Scale

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Can we say “Entire US patent system collapsing under the weight of its own inept management and rules/laws”, boys and girls?

With MicroSloth alone applying for 60 new patents a day I can sorta understand why…

GeekStuff

Slashdot | U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds

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By Dave, July 31, 2005 3:42 pm

Slashdot | U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds

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So why don’t they also vote to make pi = 3 while they are playing “crazy years” STUPID political games!

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OPML Editor support: Mac Version Out

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By Dave, July 31, 2005 3:12 pm

OPML Editor support: Mac Version Out

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A Mac version of the OMPL editor that Dave Winer n friends have been working on. I am trying it out and it looks interesting. I would want to run the server on my on domain instead of using his but so far the ease of updating is there. Markup is there. Links and images are there. So…

This looks good so far Dave! Thanks!

Now all I have to do is burn out a few more brain cells trying to figure this out… 😉

Code

Move is done

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By Dave, July 30, 2005 9:57 am

Got pissed off with Hosteria the other day when the site went down yet again, located and bought a new hosting package and started the move. I’m well pleased so far. The latency is about half of what it was at the old site and so far the only outages have been of short duration. The cost is so reasonable that I am looking at other site possibilities too.

Still waiting for calcis.us to propagate but all the others are moved. Got some small bugs to work out yet so if a link is broken or a page missing or something doesn’t take you where it is supposed to, in other words if something just don’t work right, PLEASE let me know! Comments here is fine or email me at depatty at gmail dot com

I guess I am going to have to break down and put some kind of ads on the sites too. Don’t want to but these sites are costing me out of pocket every month, with this move, and since I have no money coming in otherwise right now, I’ve got to do something. For now I think I will advertise our books on here and see how that goes.

So when the ads come, ya’ll click on them links, you hear.

Thanks for reading…

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Troll XP

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By Dave, July 30, 2005 9:41 am

Troll XP

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Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie strike again. The system administrater song!

Humor?

3d model of the dymaxion car

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By Dave, July 30, 2005 9:38 am

3d model of the dymaxion car

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I’m thinking engine, tranny and drive/steering cradle out from under a front wheel drive vehicle for dual front drive/steering and single drag steering wheel in rear. Hummm. I even have that Mitsubishi that got totaled which engine and drive is in in good condition that I need to do something with. Along with a need to get out and do something. But that will probably not be building one of these… 😉

Toys N Gadgets

Organic farming success

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 8:17 pm

Organic farming success
Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds

“Organic farming approaches for these crops not only use an average of 30 percent less fossil energy but also conserve more water in the soil, induce less erosion, maintain soil quality and conserve more biological resources than conventional farming does,”

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30% less energy is a huge saving when profits on farms today are pennies on the dollar.

Bet this study didn’t come from a government agency. Not a lot of profit in organic supplies. 😉

Back To The Land, Energy

Israeli Research: Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Visual Damage

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 8:12 pm

Israeli Research: Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Visual Damage

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I’ll be using my ear set more often now. Wonder what the safe distance is?

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New Scientist Breaking News – Planting trees may create deserts

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By Dave, July 28, 2005 6:30 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Planting trees may create deserts
The report summarises studies commissioned over the past four years by the Forestry Research Programme, funded by the UK governmentâ€™s Department for International Development.

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I have my doubts about the accuracy of this report. It sounds more like something the US gov would be spewing out.

Update:

I just reread this piece and I’d have to see the entire study. There at the end the one guy says that cutting all the trees only causes a little decrease in rain fall. But what about the air temperature of the area. Does it go up or down when the trees are cut? What about the temp of the ground. Again, up or down? Birds, animals? Insects, and lower life forms? What does it do to the wind patterns. And what does it do to erosion patterns in an area when clear cutting is involved. There are so many variables that while they may be honest in reaching their conclusions I suspect that they chosen their figures to make this piece of toilet paper sound the way the powers that be want it to sound.

Or I could just be in a foul mood… But I have lived with the effects of clear cutting an area and the decrease in water and increase in erosion…

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Boing Boing: RIAA: We didn’t take down RPGFilms.net

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By Dave, July 27, 2005 4:44 pm

Boing Boing: RIAA: We didn’t take down RPGFilms.net

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So they didn’t take the site down but they don’t know ANYTHING else.

Wonder if this is another case of white granny downloading hip-hop without a computer? or if they are all really as stupid and unimformed as the Q and A makes them (her) sound?

Guess that’s just a rhetorical question. After all the article is talking about the RIAA. That’s the folks that take all the money for the musicians work and spend it suing the bands fans, isn’t it?

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