Solar Power - Close but still costs too much

Strangely, the "incentives" are increasing demand but not lowering the "per unit" price. The cost is still high because demand is higher than supplies. So would "more" incentives really help anything?

Incentives should be saved until there is a supply surplus.

Financially, Solar Power for the Home Is a Tough Sell - New York Times [This Post Continues after the jump...]

The "REAL" reason behind what happend to Imus - Pravda.Ru

American radio icon Don Imus disgraced, fired after threat to reveal 9/11 secrets - Pravda.Ru

This is HILARIOUS.. it reads like something on "the onion" or an "April fools joke" on the web. It's even worse than most tabloids in the US would print... (probably because it doesn't involve UFO's)

But I think it's serious!! [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Avoiding Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants

FOXNews.com - Avoiding Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants - Blog | Blogs | Popular Blogs | Video Blogs

I don't like Amnesty either, but sometimes you have to realize that a lot of water has already spilled over the damn so to speak. If we fix the damn (secure the boarder, etc) I for one don't want to spend millions and ruin a lot of lives by mopping up everyone that has entered illegally. Yes, the broke the law by entering illegally, but we have looked the other way and allowed it to happen, that coming down hard now just doesn't seem fair.

I don't know the details of the plan, but $3500 in fines would put a hurt on me, so I don't think its a slap on the wrist by any means.

I for one am DESPERATE to seal the boarder and would consider any plan that does so. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees and with them the Human Race?

Interesting situation.. I've heard other things about bees dying off, but this (if accurate) seems significant.

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

UPDATE ---- Instapundit has some better info...

For instance, there was this claim: "Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees."

That's wrong. Corn, wheat, rice, rye, barley, and all the other grain crops do not rely on insects for pollination, and they make up the majority of the calories consumed by the human race.

It's true that there are a very large number of crops which do rely on insects, but many of those do not rely on honey bees, or at least do not have to. In many areas, they use a different kind of bee that looks a lot like a honey bee but is much different in life cycle. These bees don't produce honey, and all the females are fertile, with each producing 5-10 grubs. They work collective laying sites with the grubs being placed in holes in wood.

Is this another case of MASS HYSTERIA that mankind is somehow going to kill the planet?

UPDATE #2
Besides, Einstein may never have said anything about BEES [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Human error and Bad Command doomed Mars Global Surveyor

Human error doomed Mars craft - Los Angeles Times: "Mars Global Surveyor" [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Police and firefighters in MARKED cars can get camera tickets also!

Red-light fines to go to police, firefighters | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas News:

"Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit."

It's about time !! [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Steve Jobs, Apple, and EMI Get it

Steve Jobs, Apple, and EMI Get it

This reminds me of a Star Trek Quote from "Mirror Mirror"

Kirk and Spock readily agrees that the Empire is doomed; "The illogic of waste", Kirk tells him.

"One man cannot summon the future," Spock reminds the captain.

"In every revolution , there's one man with a vision," Kirk insists. "Be that one man!"

Maybe Jobs is that man for the coming music/entertainment revolution!! ....or maybe not... :-(

Quotes from http://scifi.about.com/blmirrormirror2.htm [This Post Continues after the jump...]

NYC Emits 1% of Greenhouse Gases

interesting...

NYC Emits 1% of Greenhouse Gases | TIME [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Woman loses final embryo appeal

BBC NEWS | Health | Woman loses final embryo appeal

At first I thought this was a good thing, that a father has equal rights in reproduction as the mother. But then I realized that the father has simple gained the right to have an abortion, a right I don't think anyone really has.

These embryos will be killed, yet their mother wants them to live. This is the same thing that happens when a woman has an abortion when the father of the child wants to raise the child.

So now, prior to implantation, fathers and mothers both have the equal right to kill their own children. It's a sad world, especially when the court that upheld this right is named a "Court of Human Rights" [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Conservatives, don't ignore McCain - Los Angeles Times

Conservatives, don't ignore McCain - Los Angeles Times

I don't think I've ever given significant money to a specific candidate (I have given token amounts to the general republican party, I think). But I think it's time I put some money on McCain. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

RIAA, MPAA want permission to lie ("pretext")

Recording, movie industries lobby for permission to deceive - Los Angeles Times

Now we see the ridiculous measures that are said to be needed to fight piracy. The RIAA and MPAA will become the new "big brother" if we let them. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Why cell phones are still grounded

I've heard this many times before, and believe it.
But this sort of foot dragging may be good.
It's very expansive to "prove a negative" as in prove that a given device will NOT interfere with any airplane equipment. It seems to me that the price of just about all gadgets would go up if they had to be tested this way.

Or we could say everything is usable until we proved a certain item DOES cause problems. But most people don't want to take this kind of risk, even though it is more logical.

Why cell phones are still grounded [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Blogger freed after record contempt stint - CNN.com

Well, it looks like he gave in a little. But the video he put on-line doesn't have the crime in it, and the part he sold did (I think), so this may not be over yet.

Blogger freed after record contempt stint - CNN.com

I just don't understand this, If I would be required to testify about something I saw on private time or even while at work, why shouldn't Joshua Wolf or any reporter? [This Post Continues after the jump...]

NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God. 48% reject Evolution

NEWSWEEK Poll: 90% Believe in God - Newsweek Beliefs - MSNBC.com

Lots of good figures.. but I always question the way the choose to state these numbers. Why do they keep mixing percentages with ratios and number with word-numbers. Do they think this is supposed to be "good reading" or something? [This Post Continues after the jump...]

How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media

How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media » Ad Terras Per Aspera

Not my normal type of post.. but very practical [This Post Continues after the jump...]