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Comment Re:Goes to show. (Score 1) 467

by dan14807 on Saturday April 04, 2009 @06:34PM (#27460745) Attached to: Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work

Marathoners are often plagued with health problems. Do a little less running and a little more strength training and you'll (surprise) strengthen your body. Marathoning will just turn your body into a skinny little wraith optimized for pounding the pavement for 26.2 miles at a time.

Submission + - Dell lays off 200 at small-town call center

Submitted by

mr_josh

on Friday August 03, 2007 @01:45AM

mr_josh writes: "Dell closed its Roseburg, OR call center this morning, giving its employees less than 24 hours notice. FTFA:

"They've already had all of our checks cut," said another employee, Travis Dominguez. "They knew the whole thing was coming and everything."

Roseburg is a small (about 25,000 people) timber town in southern Oregon, and it was a pretty big deal when this call center opened in 2002. They were given huge property tax incentives at the time of their opening, and those incentives are about to run out. Also, some employees from the call center put together a lawsuit several months ago, "claiming Dell violated federal and state wage and hour laws."

Coincidence?

http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070802/NEWS/7 0802014"

Submission + - Why biofuels won't help climate change

Submitted by mark99 on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:55AM

mark99 writes: We all know that Biofuels have lots of problems, yet they seem to be the best bet for converting our economy to renewable enery without massive technical changes to our infrastructure. This article seems to disaggree, but it also seems full of logical fallicies, like implying that if there is no "net new crops", then there will be no carbon gain.

However conversion of biomass that would not have been eaten, but will be disposed of and turned into CO2 anyway reducing the amount of oil we dig out of the ground and vaporize would surely be a huge gain would it not? Or does this senario rely on tech that we do not have?

And it seems to imply that you have to put non-renewable energy in to get biomass generated energy out, that can't be right, since then it would never be profitable, but we know that it is once oil hits a certin cost. Is this worth discussing again, or have we beat this horse to death already?

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