Novell's Chief Marketing officer stated:

Here's a message from Novell about the merger, from John Dragoon, Chief Marketing Officer: On November 22, 2010, Novell issued a press release announcing a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation (“Attachmate”) would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash (“Merger Agreement”). Novell will continue to own Novell’s UNIX copyrights following completion of the merger as a subsidiary of Attachmate. Novell filed a Form 8-K/A with the SEC on November 22, 2010, with respect to the Merger Agreement.

That is, Novell will be a subsidiary of Attachmate and Novell will continue to own the copyrights.

In some early photo-radar locations, there was a loophole that nobody ever caught onto.

The citations gave an option of identifying the driver and address. If the address of the "identified driver" was foreign, the citation was immediately dismissed.

And one municipality had a maximum time during which the company handling the ticket had to issue the final ticket. If the owner of the vehicle waited until the last minute to identify the driver, there was not enough time to reissue the citation to the identified driver and so it was dismissed.

For a while, citations to anyone driving a rent-a-car were dismissed simply because the rental companies wouldn't respond to the citations. After much digging, a list of the correct addresses to send the citations for each major rental car company was made. After that, requests for identification of the drivers were promptly made by the rental car companies.

My solution to red light cameras is to drive 10-20 mph below the speed limit in any town that used red light cameras.

If those cities were really interested in safety, they could more easily do so, and at all light controlled intersections, by merely increasing the yellow light a second or two.

By the way, when New York City issued their RFP for red light cameras, the first city in the U.S. to do so, I was head of R&D for a radar company and wrote most of our proposal in response to their RFP. We were also working very hard back then to get the Washington DC contract. At the time, I thought that red light cameras would work well, but the actual results have convinced me otherwise.

While I was head of R&D at that company, we were also approached about developing a similar system for railroad crossings. Nothing ever came out of that, though.

It is not a caution light, not a stop light.

Correction: It is a caution light, not a stop light. The first "not" should not have been there.

That is Yellow is a *stop* light in canada, the US, and the UK.

Not true.

A yellow light in Texas is a warning that the light is getting ready to turn red. It is not a caution light, not a stop light.

In places that I'm familiar with, the requirement that you be able to clear the intersection means that if the cross traffic is backed up so bad that you won't be able to clear the intersection even when the light changes, then you must wait before entering the intersection.

My understanding is that just being in the intersection when the light turns red and then completing the turn normally is not impeding traffic.

In Texas, if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, then you didn't run a red light. Furthermore, you have the legal right of way to clear the intersection before crossing traffic may enter.

For unprotected left turns, that's why I pull out into the intersection during the green or yellow light and wait for the oncoming to stop before completing my left hand turn.

1. We do nothing about global warning until it is undeniably in full force (maybe in 25 years, 50 years, 100 years or 200 years), if it ever happen. The consequential scenarios are: - Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis that leads to our extinction.

The realistic worst case projections are relatively minor. The possible extinction projections are pure hysteria.

- Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis and with its ingenuity it mitigate the crisis, while a set back in history (maybe thousands, millions or billions dies), humanity continue to strive.

The crisis would be if global cooling were to happen instead. Instead of some possibility so remote that it only exists in the hysterical, global cooling of any but the most minimal magnitude would indeed kill billions.

- Nothing happen and Humanity continue to do what it does now without suffering any consequences of our current behavior.

If nothing happens, but we hobble our economies with useless activity that accomplishes nothing, the consequences are enormous.

Is global warming real? I don't care. Act now!

Panic does noone any good.

If global warming turns out to be real and it turns out not to be beneficial, we have plenty of time to counter the worst effects. That is, plenty of time as in "at least a century".

The questions we should be asking, but aren't, go much further.

First, of course, is the question of whether or not it is actually happening. The answer is far from clear. And if we can't answer that, then it is ridiculously stupid to be paniced by a bunch of hysterical politicians spend billions or trillions of dollars to fix something that may not even be broken. And the term "politicians" includes those so-called climate scientists who have ceased being scientists in their quest to become advocates of their own global warming religion. Furthermore, if we can't even determine whether or not it is happening, than we have plenty of time to try to do something later if needed.

After that is the question of what, if anything, we can effectively do to slow it down or stop it. If we don't understand the problem, then anything we do is likely to be far from ineffective and may accomplish nothing at all. Why should we destroy our economy for little more than a hysterical nightmare?

Third is the question that hardly anyone is asking or even thinking about. The global warming advocates all take the answer for granted without even thinking about it. That is the question of whether or not we should do anything if global warming is happening and if there are some effective things we can do to combat it. Global warming is likely to be overwhelmingly beneficial for most life on Earth including mankind. Sure, if global warming occurs, there will be some people who come out behind. But global warming means longer growing seasons, especially toward the poles. Large expanses of land would become available for growing crops.

The real disaster would be global cooling. If that occurs, expect billions of people to starve to death. Remember that in the fossil record, periods of cooling, not warming, are the climatological causes of mass extinctions. If global warming helps postpone the next ice age or lessen its effects, the benefits to mankind and other animal life are clear.

There is no reason to panic. Far from it. There is plenty of reason to welcome global warming.

It's time for scientists to go back to doing science. Those who can't should go find some other work and get out of the way of the real scientists.

Except when cattle are commingled at the slaughterhouse - infection could be spread there.

By far the major problem is cross-contaimination at the slaugherhouse/packing plant.

I would bet that if you looked at the number of deaths in the United States over the last 50 years that resulted from eating contaminated beef. you would find that all, or nearly all, were from contamination that occurred after the animal was slaughtered.