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Comment Shoot from the hip (Score 1) 1385

This administration again seems to do things without thinking things through. They are spending money building this out with NO IDEA if people will actually use it. There must be reasons why rail passenger travel died in the USA last century. What makes this administration think they can revive it? I hope people do use it so the money is not wasted. It seems to me that if you want to get there fast and have to deal with getting local transportation, one would choose the fastest way. If you are not in a hurry then I would think one would prefer to have your own car, filled with "supplies" for your trip and useful for local travel when you get to your destination. As I said I hope the money spent is worthwhile, I just think it probably won't be used much and we will be stuck with subsidizing it for the next century.

Comment Re:Handbrake has a Linux GUI (Score 1) 501

I have to say that Handbrake is my favorite desktop application. Of course it gets a lot of use since I rip all my DVD/bluray purchases and put them on my media server. Of course it cannot rip the bluray but I use it to re-encode them to save some disk space. Also use it to encode my AVCHD video files from my Sony HD camera so I can play them on Linux. Try Handbrake!!
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Climate Engineering As US Policy? 355

EricTheGreen writes "The Associated Press has an article featuring Obama administration science advisor John Holdren discussing potential climate engineering responses to global warming. Among the possible approaches? His own version of Operation Dark Storm — shooting micro-particulate pollution high into the atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. I'm sure the rest of the world would have no issue with that at all, of course. Yikes ..."

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