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Comment Re:Tell Al Gore to give up his mansion and car fle (Score 1) 178

Has anyone actually proven that carbon offset actually do anything beneficial? All the items I have seen from various global warming groups is they are nice to have people focus on what they call a problem but overall are a distraction.
If you want to see something really interesting compare the following groups and see what they charge to plant a tree:
1) Arbor Day Foundation
2) TREE AID
3) A carbon offset company, like Al Gores.

Comment Re:*Some* old ones are valuable (Score 1) 219

As the number of books for a title go down some software, be it amazon or the sellers, automaticcly increases the prices. So for that book there could just not be many people selling it.
When you get a book like that the best place to check is ebay. When I was recently throwing out my old books I had a few books that amazon placed in the $100 range and ebay had a bunch at $.10; did not think that a 3rd edition of a management book that was currently near edition 20 would be of that much value.

Comment Re:This is what Ronald Regan protected us from (Score 1) 220

There were two studies earlier this year that found the reason.
1) The USA has alot of children having children and there is a better chance of the baby having problems and dieing. The USA counts birth from the first breath of the baby which is not used by other countries. This and the death rate from illegal people have babies really brings down the USA overall life exceptacy.
2) The USA leads the world in accidents and young people performing possible life threating activities. However the reports pointed out if have an life threating accident or something else you are more likely to live if you make it to a USA hospital.

Comment Re:USPS setup for failure (Score 1) 220

WHich law are you talking about the early 1970s law where the USPS said they would take over the obligations and save monies to pay for peoples retirements or the 2006 law that came about because they where not saving money with which they would need to pay people retirement in a few more years and required them to build up the fund so they could meet their obligations?

Comment Re:USPS setup for failure (Score -1, Flamebait) 220

Please stop repeating this lie, granted it is repeated enough on alot of hate sites. For you it was probably a mistake since you did not know the truth.
Congress want to protect the taxpayer from having to take over the duties that the USPS said they would do, the postmaster general and the postal unions want to make the taxpayers pay for thier poor management and keep things as they are.
The postal accountability law requires the USPS to actually do some proper financial management and dropping it would not make them competative again; even ignore the money they owe for this they would of lost money for the last couple of years. Without the money set aside they would not be able the meet the obligations they agreeed to back in the 1970s and the people who retiring now would not have the monies that they are suppose to get.
Privatization would solve nothing of this since the obligations would follow the person who purchased the company.
BTW the 75 years is number of years that for ACCOUNTING purposes they have to figure future liabilities. It is NOT how long they have to fund benefits. That 75 years of accounting is followed by the DoD, social security, department of Housing, etc.

Comment Re:WTF, PRZ? (Score 1) 183

No, you the receiver can make the decisions.

Software like this is old, even Microsoft sell software with similar options.

Instead of using the normal mail you have to you their software. Since the email only unencrypts in that software it can control how long it is kept, if you can forward it, if you can save it, etc. So unless you do screen captures if the sender only wants you to be able read it once that is all the software is going to allow you to do.

Comment Re: More false history (Score 2, Informative) 206

The Pope gave him a chance to prove his idea and he could not. It was when he would not stop saying that the main scientific thinking of the day, based on the works of Aristotle, were wrong that he got house arrest.
Before you complain about that it is very much around today present the same amount of scientific research against a popular mainstream thinking and the scientist of today will call for you to be fired and blacklisted.

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