When plants convert crap to something edible, in the process, they render safe any bacteria in the crap. Or, the bacteria in the crap is rendered safe by sunlight, fresh air, wind, and maybe other environmental factors (cold, rain). When animals live crowded together and their crap is not allowed to get naturally cleaned in this fashion, and they dump the crap into lagoons, where it festers, then it gets into rivers and streams and pollutes and kills fish. Am I wrong?

What about the rest of the world? Brazil, Russia, India, China, France? Other countries? Aren't they using it more than the U.S.? I think the U.S. will be the slowest to migrate. We have the least need. Or so people perceive it.

Some percentage of voters will vote for her as long as she always says, "I'm a Christian and I oppose abortion". One of my coworkers is like that. With Bush, someone else people said was, "At least he always did what he said he was going to do" even if this is not true. Some people like a simple, straightforward person, who they think is honest. She's a real life Forest Gump, with some heavy duty Americana, Christianity, and "we're always right" and "bomb the living hell out of them" mixed in. But I don't think she can win a primary, and I don't think she can beat Obama. They will tell her what to say, and give her a hidden wire for the debates, but I still think she will flub things. People ultimately concluded that Bush was not quite as dumb as he came across. With Palin, it's pretty obvious that she's an idiot. It reminds of Michigan, in 2006, Dick DeVos vs. Jennifer Granholm. People were really unhappy with Granholm but terrified of DeVos. The republican should have won. But because it was DeVos, Granholm actually won re-election. Of course, the rest of the country is not all like Michigan....

I just like the idea of renewable better. I would rather just live without the electricity if I can't get it from these sources. I don't use ac now in my car or at home. I just get along without it. My office has ac though. I would rather pay more for renewable energy, regardless of cost.

So, OK, it's as a suspected: this is a terrible idea. I think this will die on the vine: "Anonymous reviews are ethical if they are about anonymous people,” jokes Rushworth Kidder, president of the Institute of Global Ethics, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting awareness of ethics. “But not named people. Only named reviews are ethical if they are about named people. Do not mix these."

What might Brooks himself say? I imagine something like this: "Oh, you disproved TMMM? Great! I've been waiting for someone to prove me wrong. That means you've found a reproducible way to improve the efficiency with which software is developed. You've found the silver bullet. Could you please publish your solution and let us all review it?" So, we're waiting...

Wow, this idea is almost as brilliant as bing. Why do people want to punish success? And why help m$? Google may dominate search, but m$ is still bigger, richer, & more powerful, right? Or not?

Does anyone care to comment on reports that Falun Gong practitioners have been imprisoned and used as organ sources? A summary can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports_of_organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China Personally, I believe it is happening. And obviously should be stopped, somehow.

Giant corporations declare bankruptcy, keep on operating, shed all their debt, and emerge from bankruptcy freed of all their debt, and just keeping doing business as usual. Sure, they may have the "bad credit" that a bankruptcy brings, but how does that really hurt them? Not like bad credit seems to hurt an individual. How would you know if you didn't get a job because of your credit? They don't have to give a reason why they didn't hire someone, do they?

Stop using pesticides, not just in the UK but all around the world, and stop creating genetically modified organisms, and maybe the bees will do better all on their own.

The killer app comes from the fact that there *should* be competition on desktops. Apple doesn't represent that. Google Linux will be the base of another n distros that all promise to do what you need for much much cheaper. Siemens NX runs on linux. That does 3d modeling. Linux doesn't need photoshop. Maybe Adobe will fall behind if they don't port to Linux. Ditto for D'Asssault Systemes and Quicken.