November 30, 2006
Bad News Just Keeps Coming (for Microsoft)
Techworld.com - OS and Servers News - Birmingham City Council claims open-source success
Burn, Baby, Burn
Burn in this case meaning the burn rate on SCO's money is such that they won't last to try the IBM case in 2008, they'll be bankrupt by mid 2007.
More Innovation from the World Leader
Microsoft shows how great they are at innovation: » Five cool tech gifts, and two to avoid | Rational rants | ZDNet.com
They tried to copy the iPod and screwed up royally. The Zune music store is difficult to install, understand, and use, and their scheme of selling "Zune points" in $5 increments instead of selling individual tracks is just silly.
Way to stay consistent, Microsoft.
November 29, 2006
Tick Tick Tick
Ahmadinejad to Americans: Stop 'blind support' for Israel | Jerusalem Post
Iran's maniac president is warning us of what is coming. He fancies himself the next prophet, and the one who will bring the hidden imam back into the world.
And probably the next caliph of the world-wide caliphate.
We (or Israel) need to arrange an introduction to some virgins in paradise for this fucker before he blows up the world.
SCO a Laughing Stock - Again
Groklaw - Kimball Rules: SCO's Objections Denied! Wells's Order Affirmed - Novell Goes 1st.
November 26, 2006
The New is Wearing Off
of wind power: Star-Telegram | 11/26/2006 | Wind-power push raising ire
Here's an ERCOT (Energy Reliability Council of Texas) represenatative on wind, and remember they are very pro-wind:
"You cannot plan your grid around it," Bojorquez said. "During historic summer peaks, you can only count on wind to generate 2.6 percent of its capacity. Wind energy does mean you will use fewer amounts of coal and oil, but it doesn't mean you will replace any power plants. You will still the need the same number because wind is variable."
When you need the power most, wind can give you 2.6% of its installed capacity. Oh, yeah, that's going to save the world.
ERCOT says wind is offsetting 1,500,000 pounds of CO2 per year. My little Chevy pickup gets about 20 miles/gallon on my 28 mile daily round trip, so at 19.56 pounds of CO2/gallon, thats around 6,825 pounds of CO2/year, just from my little 4-cylinder fuel injected pickup. So in 220 years, I will make 1.5 million pounds of CO2. Good trade? tell it to the 300 or so other drivers around me every day, in one very small part of Texas. They (along with me) will make 2 million or more pounds of CO2 every year, and thats just a tiny fraction of the vehicles in this area, much less the state.
Realistically wind is offsetting less than .1% of total CO2 production in Texas, probably less than .01%. But they get huge tax breaks for doing it.
Wind is a tax scam.
November 23, 2006
If Only
If only each of the people who attended the memorial would go out and kill two Hizbollah members, Lebanon could have a chance to recover.
November 22, 2006
More Evidence
that we have elected the Party of Perpetual War: The Belmont Club: Clueless
November 17, 2006
Cat Killer
‘Birdman’ of Galveston says charge not valid
I wonder what the law says about shooting feral ornithologists?
November 15, 2006
Chutzpah!!
Iran complains to U.N. over repeated Israeli threats | Top News | Reuters.com
Iran, who has repeatedly said Israel must be wiped off the map, who is energetically pursuing nuclear weapons, is complaing that Israel is saying mean things to them.
Israel should shut up and bomb these barbarians already.
Let Allah sort it out.
November 12, 2006
And It Begins
Democrats say will push for Iraq withdrawal | US News | Reuters.com
November 08, 2006
Winds of War
Future history will point to the U.S. election of 2006 as the first domino to fall in the path to total war. Concessions and "redeployments" forced by the new congressional leadership emboldened Islamist leaders and governments, producing the expectation that Israel was now fair game and that the U.S. would do little more than posture and offer empty threats, with chilling results as Israel, in a last ditch effort to survive, deploys the weaponry that was only rumored before.
