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Fox host ‘let down’ by implausibility of suitcase nukes
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“You mean ‘24′ isn’t true,” Co-host Page Kelly inquired, referring to Fox’s national security-themed prime time hit, starring Kiefer Sutherland as CIA agent Jack Bauer. “’24’s my favorite show.”
“It is a little bit of a let down,” agreed Greg Kelly.
Simpsons movie pirate fined $1,000
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A Sydney man who recorded The Simpsons Movie on his mobile phone has been fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to two charges.
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft says 23-year-old Jose Duarte was the first person in the world to post an illegal copy of the movie on the internet.
The federation says that the movie was uploaded onto a US website in July.
Within two hours, the movie had been downloaded thousands of times.
Duarte, from Prairiewood in western Sydney, today pleaded guilty to distributing copyright material and possessing a device to do so.
Since just about every mobile phone has a camera, we are now ALL guilty of “possessing a device to distribute copyrighted material”.
Isn’t it great when corporations can buy their own laws?
Cost of the war in iraq compared to research and development of solar technology
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These figures are in millions. The source for energy R&D expenditures is from the National Council for Science and the Environment. Take a look here: http://www.ncseonline.org/Affiliates/Handbook/cms.cfm?id=904
Though the war in Iraq now costs about $120B a year, two authors (one a Nobel prize winner) estimates the total cost of this war exceeds 2 Trillion Dollars: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15499.htm
“Accrued liabilities for U.S. federal employees’ and veterans’ benefits now total $4.5 trillion. Indeed, our debt for veterans’ health and disability payments has risen by $228 billion in the past year alone…The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the interest payments on the money borrowed to finance the Iraq war will total $264 billion to $308 billion.”
That $2,000,000,000,000? Well, that amount of money could’ve built solar thermal plants here that would have provided energy for 2/3rds of our nation’s energy demand: http://www.solarpowerrocks.com/…