Thought this had to be a joke, maybe not. http://www.ibtimes.com/faceboo...

You left off #5, that while it's good to turn spoiled or over-produced corn into ethanol, to actually plant/fertilize/grow/harvest/synthesize corn in order to produce ethanol likely consumes more fuel than the ethanol produces. From what I've read, you can't power the farm tractors and distilleries without a net loss of gasoline.

Don't mind offering and reading wiki solutions. But I admit I prefer it on neutral turf to when it's hosted by the troublesome product maker, who sometimes edits or deletes angry comments

Not a denier or Rubio fan, but most of the comments on this page miss these two paragraphs in TFA.

"Scientists said the ice sheet was not melting because of warmer air temperatures, but rather because of the relatively warm water, which is naturally occurring, from the ocean depths. That water is being pulled upward and toward the ice sheet by intensification of the winds around Antarctica.

Most scientists in the field see a connection between the stronger winds and human-caused global warming, but they say other factors are likely at work, too. Natural variability of climate may be one of them. Another may be the ozone hole over Antarctica, caused by an entirely different environmental problem, the human release of ozone-destroying gases."

http://www.irinnews.org/report/87356/africa-hospital-acquired-hiv-underestimated

Actually here's an article that they did finally find African medical treatment to be a major cause of HIV, but it wasn't until 2009. Once you identify hospitalization and treatment as a primary cause, any correlation with any record of prior treatment for anything (e.g. shisto) is contaminated by the fact that whoever was diagnosed with the correlated illness probably got a shot.

And my 50 dollar bills.

Lived in Africa 2.5 years, mid 80s. It was obvious to us that anyone with a diagnosed anything, any previous disease (such as shisto but also STDs and malaria) has had an injection with an unwashed needle. I've written letters to WHO. Even when we brought our own hypodermic needles to European run hospitals (Norwegian mission in my case), the white doctors would forget and use a used needle.

Africans typically felt cheated if they went to a doctor and didn't get a shot, and most doctors kept "vitamins" to inject as a placebo. My suspicion has always been that this link to western hypodermic needle / syringe use would be embarrassing to the WHO, same as the dysentery outbreak brought to Haiti by UN helpers. If I'm wrong, I hope someone can at least point to the study showing vaccinations with used needles are NOT the main cause of HIV in Africa, I'd sleep better.

Wait, I thought they were digging straight down and surfacing in Texas. I should have RTFA.

I thought "three words" was making the point about not doing it right. Now you ruined it.

That's because of the news cycle, or your news sources. "If it bleeds, it leads". Your emphasis on "machete attacks" shows you should read the Economist instead of whatever you're getting your news from. Here's an article with some simple graphs and pictures about what's going on in Africa internet today. http://o3bnetworks.wordpress.c...

Putin remains very "popular". Hitler was "popular". 97% of people don't really need or use their freedom of speech to an extent that it threatens the establishment.

On a hopeful note, historically, Hitler's tightening control produced "brain drain" among his most talented scientists and engineers. Societies which resort to these kinds of controls usually fail to keep apace with modernization. It's the fallacy of "surgery of thuggery". When totalitarians intend to surgically intimidate just a few vocal intelligencia, their "tools" or administrative enforcers (gestapo) are too clumsy and over-reach, intimidating brilliant people in unintended manners. This same thing happens in the USA business regulatory environment, if a state government gives too much authority to its regulators, businesses move elsewhere.

" Critics, citing cultural differences (i.e., consumer branding and shopping preferences) as well as entrenched U.S. competition, say that the company may not be as successful in the U.S. Businesses such as Amazon, eBay, and PayPal already provide the type of services that the Alibaba Group offers. "

I have used Alibaba extensively for more than ten years of B2B trading and was surprised the article would find critics comparing it to Amazon, eBay and Paypal. It is a huge wholesale and B2B trading platform, selling components and raw materials not found on Amazon, Ebay, etc., and has been a major player in the USA for a long time. Less surprising is the fact that no such "criticism" is to be found in the linked articles, or outside the Slashdot summary.

Shouldn't we first try to transplant elephants and rhinos to Texas, and Siberian tigers to Canada, and Rwandan gorillas to central America? It has been politically incorrect to risk "invasive species", and in the 1970s we thought this would backfire. But if we are going to revive extinct species, it seems we've given up on the habitat specialization anyway, and perhaps should save species while they still have genetic diversity by relocating them to stable and law enforced environments.

You want a side of cactus fries with that?