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    • ON: Tue Apr 8th 16:51 PM
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      Housing Market Tracker - Asia Hurting From Subprime, But Surviving
      Having been to Harry's Bar in Venice I can tell you 20% off is being damned with faint praise. It took me a month to recover from their high prices when I had lots of money. At 20% off, now it will only take 6 months to recover from the shock.
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    • ON: Sun Jan 6th 17:01 PM
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      Boeing's 787: Hacker Vulnerable?
      It seems to me that we should return to the days of the horse and carriage as that was much more safe than airplanes as no one crashed from 35,000 feet. It is time we learn how to protect our systems, but we will not learn by not trying to improve them. There are airplanes today that cannot fly without an automatic pilot as the human is just not capable of being as responsive as the system needs. If you have a system it can and most likely will fail. If we try to prevent that at the 100% level we will fail also. We need to stop yelling that the sky is falling and start concentrating on solutions to handle change. Regression is the last alternative not the first. If we spent our time on trying to figure out what to do with nuclear waste instead of just shutting nuclear generation down we would still be a world leader and not be dependent on oil in any way. The sky is falling doomsayers will stifle us until we all die of inaction. Using 350 pounds of corn to produce one gallan of gas is a major problem when it takes less than a pound of nuclear fuel to produce the electricity needs for a family of four for their entire lifetime. The estimated cost to safely launch one pound of nuclear fuel into the sun is $1000. That seems a low cost to include in the cost a family of four should pay for a lifetime of their electric needs. The kind of sky is falling mentality that drives the journalistic instincts of most of these "authors" what is destructive in our society, not the people that are trying to find new and better ways to do things. We do not need more people that hype antiquanted and regressive solutions to problems that really need innovation and initiative for their solutions.
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