timouse

there was a dr who episode this past season where they visited an alternate earth. everyone had this device on one of their ears that turned out to be some insidious alien mind control device.

willy, i salute you for realizing that these headsets look silly in public and are absolutely a good idea for in car. you were on about a new car recently, lots of them now come bluetooth hands free enabled. you can talk to your rearview mirror and hear through your stereo.

I am on the 6th page. that's pretty funny cause I feel like I post a lot anywho.. gotta get workin on movin up!!!

seems to be 25 per page, so you are 150 + however many are above you on your page.

love the ears

I think DEM, ranking 14th and only having been on here for a little over 2 years deserves some sort of honourable mention– 5000-odd posts in just over 2 years?

impressive!

indeed. i got sucked in the same week and i'm way back at #54. of course dave was unemployed for a while after moving to ottawa, while i have to fit jambands in to a hectic schedule involving 2 jobs and several hours of cartoons a night.

Theme: These are my roots (Songs about a place you have called home. Feel free to interpret that as broadly as you like).

1. Roy Hurd - Adirondack Blue

2. Barenaked Ladies - Lovers In A Dangerous Time (the tail end of the video was done at/near the corner of McCown & Eglinton, walking distance to my childhood home)

3. B.A. Johnston - Jesus is from Steeltown

4. Frontier Index - If It Don't Work Out (THESE ARE MY BOYS!!)

5. ABBA - Waterloo (very broad interpretation)

6. Bob Dylan - Highlands (Haliburton for 10 yrs)

7. The Prince Brothers - Lake Of Bays

8. Bourbon Tabernacle Choir - Solitude Mama (reference to North Toronto ... "old neighbourhood")

9. Stephen Fearing - The Longest Road

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get well soon, POGrandad!

what she said

happy birthday to the classiest remaining member of my favourite band ever. (if only your colleagues could take the same approach).

may you and your liver have many years of happiness together.

come to canada!

this has turned in to an excellent read indeed.

i went from being distrustful of e to trying it and really liking it, after many pleasant experiences and some not so pleasant ones, i think i'm out.

if you can grow it, it's ok. if you need a lab and hard to obtain chemicals to produce it, that's enough to make me think twice.

as far as pot being decriminalized and/or legalized,

BC’s Marijuana Crop Worth Over $7 Billion Annually

Contact(s):

Dr. Stephen T. Easton, SFU Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow

The Fraser Institute, Tel

Email: stevee@fraserinstitute.ca

Click here for the complete publication.

Release Date: June 9, 2004

Vancouver, BC - BC’s annual marijuana crop, if valued at retail street prices and sold by the cigarette, is worth over $7 billion, according to a new study Marijuana Growth in British Columbia released today by The Fraser Institute.

Among issues considered in the paper are whether marijuana could be decriminalized, treated like any legal product, and the revenue taxed. Using conservative assumptions about Canadian consumption, this could translate into potential revenues for the government of over $2 billion.

The study’s author, Stephen Easton, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow at The Fraser Institute, estimates that there are roughly 17,500 marijuana grow ops in BC.

Marijuana is produced extensively and over 23 percent of Canadians admit to having used it. Easton points out that the broader social question has become not whether we approve or disapprove of local production, but rather who shall enjoy the spoils.

“If we treat marijuana like any other commodity we can tax it, regulate it, and use the resources the industry generates rather than continue a war against consumption and production that has long since been lost,†said Easton. “It is apparent that we are reliving the experience of alcohol prohibition of the early years of the last century.â€

Indoor marijuana cultivation and consumption appears to be higher in BC than in the rest of Canada. Easton points out that the most striking difference is that only 13 percent of offenders in BC are actually charged while that number climbs to 60 percent for the rest of Canada. In addition, the penalties for conviction in BC are low: fifty-five percent of those convicted receive no jail time.

While police resources are spent to destroy nearly 3,000 marijuana grow-ops a year in BC, the consequences are relatively minor for those convicted. The industry is simply too profitable to prevent new people moving into production and old producers from rebuilding.

“Unless we wish to continue the transfer of these billions from this lucrative endeavor to organized crime, the current policy on prohibition should be changed. Not only would we deprive some very unsavoury groups of a profound source of easy money, but also resources currently spent on marijuana enforcement would be available for other activities,†said Easton.

Note that the authors of this study have worked independently and the opinions expressed by them are their own.

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The Fraser Institute is an independent research and educational organization based in Canada. Its mission is to measure, study, and communicate the impact of competitive markets and government intervention on the welfare of individuals. To protect the Institute’s independence, it does not accept grants from governments or contracts for research.

Student Tries to Capture the Power of Sewage

By Lori Aratani

By Lori Aratani

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON It started with the mud.

Icky, sludgy, smelly mud from the depths of the Potomac. At age 13, Sikandar

Porter-Gill became fascinated with alternative fuel sources and wanted to

see whether he could harness the bacteria in mud from the river to generate

power.

His "mud battery" was a success. Now, two years later, Sikandar has moved on

to bigger things: experimenting with ways to turn sewage into power. Yes,

that's right, sewage.

Sikandar, 15, recently presented the findings of two years of

experimentation to officials with the Washington Suburban Sanitary

Commission's Seneca wastewater treatment plant in Germantown, Md. - people

who are always looking for ways to do smarter things with sewage.

Dressed in dark slacks, a blue shirt and blue-checked tie, Sikandar

nervously fired up his PowerPoint presentation.

"My experiment is called 'Improvement of a Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel

Cell Utilizing a Novel Concept of a Hydrophobic Coating at the Cathode and

the Incorporation of Graphite Granules at the Anode Electrode,' " he said

earnestly.

FUEL CELL

Translation? Sikandar, a sophomore at Gaithersburg High School, has spent

the past two years trying to develop a cheaper, more efficient microbial

fuel cell. The cell is used by scientists to harness the chemical reaction

that occurs when bacteria digest the organic matter in sewage. That process

produces small electrical charges, which are captured for power.

"I wanted to find a cost-effective way to produce (microbial fuel cells) and

then have them make more power," Sikandar said. The cells and sewage are a

perfect combination, because they both are "harnessing a process that's

already going on in nature."

As part of that effort, Sikandar, whose parents are molecular biologists,

experimented with membranes and coatings that are built into the microbial

fuel cell. He thinks his biggest breakthrough this time is using graphite

granules, which act as the electrode in the single-chamber microbial fuel

cell.

GREAT START

As a freshman, he had built a two-chamber microbial fuel cell but found that

he could generate 19 percent more power from the single-chamber setup,

despite using less sewage.

"He just keeps progressing," said his mother, Patricia Porter-Gill, who

remembers donning rubber boots to dig mud out of the Potomac for the first

experiment.

Officials with the sanitary commission were impressed.

"It's a great experiment that has a lot of potential," said Sam Amad,

manager of the Germantown treatment center.

The idea of using sewage to generate electricity has been around since the

early 1900s, but the science has only taken off in recent years. The

breakthrough came when scientists discovered that it is possible to generate

electricity without having to use chemicals in the process.

CONSULTANT

In researching his project, Sikandar consulted with Bruce Logan, professor

of environmental engineering at Pennsylvania State University, a leader in

the field of microbial fuel cell research. Work on microbial fuel cells is

also being done at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

As Sikandar concluded his presentation, members of the audience asked to see

models of his work, which he keeps in a shoebox with a green lid.

Employees gathered around him, asking about coatings and the merits of

different methods of filling the fuel cell with wastewater.

"At first, I didn't quite understand what he was doing," said Jorge Tello, a

senior plant operator. "But it looks very promising. We're very impressed."

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indeed.

EFF Kills Bogus Clear Channel Patent

Patent Busting Project Wins Victory for Artists and Innovators

San Francisco - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has announced it will revoke an illegitimate patent held by Clear Channel Communications after a campaign by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The patent -- owned by Instant Live, a company formerly owned by Clear Channel, and now owned by Live Nation -- covered a system and method of creating digital recordings of live performances. Clear Channel claimed the bogus patent created a monopoly on all-in-one technologies that produce post-concert digital recordings and threatened to sue those who made such recordings. This locked musical acts into using Clear Channel technology and blocked innovations by others.

However, EFF's investigation found that a company named Telex had in fact developed similar technology more than a year before Clear Channel filed its patent request. EFF -- in conjunction with patent attorney Theodore C. McCullough and with the help of Lori President and Ashley Bollinger, students at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic at American University's Washington College of Law -- asked the PTO to revoke the patent based on this and other extensive evidence.

"Bogus patents like this one are good examples of what's wrong with the current patent system," said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz. "We're glad that the Patent Office was willing to help artists and innovators out from under its shadow."

The Clear Channel patent challenge was part of EFF's Patent Busting Project, aimed at combating the chilling effects bad patents have on public and consumer interests. The Patent Busting Project seeks to document the threats and fight back by filing requests for reexamination against the worst offenders.

"The patent system plays a critical role in business and the economy," said McCullough. "Everyone loses if we allow overreaching patent claims to restrict the tremendous benefits of new software and technology development."

For the notice from the Patent Office:

http://www.eff.org/patent/wanted/clearchannel/notice_of_intent_to_cancel.pdf'>http://www.eff.org/patent/wanted/clearchannel/notice_of_intent_to_cancel.pdf

For more on EFF's Patent Busting Project:

http://www.eff.org/patent

Contacts:

Jason Schultz

Staff Attorney

Electronic Frontier Foundation

jason@eff.org

Theodore C. McCullough

Registered Patent Attorney

theo702000@yahoo.com

[updated: 3/13/07]

Posted at 12:02 AM

the people who make this shit are criminals who don't care about you or your health. they want to make money.

and again in english.

the people who make this shit are criminals who don't care about you or your health. they want to make money.

go cops, i say.

225 million dollars / 500,000 acres = $450 an acre

i'd like to know more before i start bitching about steve.

Harper Massive Environmentalist

ummm...i know all those words, just never seem them in that order before.

if this helps for the sites that won't let you copy, you can screen print to pdf using a free pdf writer from http://www.primopdf.com

Climate Changed is here.

fuck.

Canada

USA

England

France

Belgium

Netherlands

Morocco

Spain

Luxembourg

Thailand

Germany

Malaysia

Saudi Arabia

throat cancer

*cough* tour!!!! *cough*

nice juxtaposition' date=' hehe

really though, how is a broke guy recovering from throat cancer going to mount a tour where people would expect him to sing?

is he still doing the jamborees at his place in woodstock? i heard a rumour that he upped the price to $200 / head.

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:blush:

i completely missed the juxtaposition, AD. nice spotting.

fwiw, levon has not only beat throat cancer, but is singing a lot and well, and has a rotating cast of musicians in his orbit that also sing.

if he is asking $200 a head for shows at his barn and getting it, then he has seed $ for a tour. maybe at this point he doesn't need to tour.

Levon has always gotten the raw end of the deal with the band.

Especially when Robbie Robertson fucked him out off all the publishing and writing credits.....

I feel for him..,

that's always been my impression of the whole thing, and i had a wtf? moment when i heard the commercial in question.

levon has been struggling considerabluy in the last several years...throat cancer (which he beat), imminent foreclosure of his place in woodstock, but he's surviving.

*cough* tour!!!! *cough*

all right! congratulations!!!

Both Koerner and Davidson said they believe a warming climate is responsible. They said they hope Inuit and scientists working during International Polar Year can work together on more in-depth analysis of the observations.

"Those inclined to worry have the widest selection of ever in history."

-mark twain

Theme: Songs about drugs or dealing with drug habits!

1. Eric Clapton - Cocaine

2. DMB - Rhyme and Reason

3. Amy Winehouse - Rehab

4. John Lennon - Cold Turkey

5. Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues

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good luck dave! knock 'em dead!!!

happy birthday keri!

Sixteen Cities named Springfield competing to host the premiere of the Simpsons Movie.

The cartoon series is based in its own fictional town of Springfield - creator Matt Groening has said he chose it because it is a common US city name.

Film company 20th Century Fox will pick a winning short film submitted by the real-life cities about community life.

The fictional Springfield boasts several prisons and a nuclear plant. The series is now in its 18th year.

"There's plenty of serious issues to talk about, but this is something that we might as well try to have a little fun with," the mayor of Springfield, Oregon, Sid Leiken, told local newspaper the Register-Guard.

Worldwide success

The Simpsons revolves around the antics of bald, beer-guzzling family man Homer and his spiky-haired son Bart.

It is the longest-running prime-time entertainment series on television in the US and a worldwide hit.

There has long been speculation about whether it would be turned into a film.

Groening has said that the animated hit would keep going as long as he and his colleagues could keep generating fresh ideas.

"That's what you're looking for in television - surprise," he added.

who are these ratdogs? are they some sort of nuclear mutants?

Theme: Songs with the name Hank Williams in the title (first or full name)

1. Johnny Cash - The Night Hank Williams Came to Town

2. Neil Young - From Hank to Hendrix

3. Kris Kristopherson - If You Don't Like Hank Williams

4. Austin Lounge Lizards - The Car Hank Died In

5. Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song

6. Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?

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