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Dreaded Christmas spammer ...

http://www.newmars.com/forums/profile.p … ile&u=1898

( now that really is rude, everyone knows you're not supposed to advertise Christmas stuff until after Thanksgiving )

Nurse jobs spammer ...

http://www.newmars.com/forums/profile.p … ile&u=1896

Except perhaps for Deputy PM Avigdor Lieberman's recent call for ethnic cleansing?

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/D … y/9793.htm

Early Earth haze may have spurred life, says University of Colorado study
http://www.physorg.com/news82056355.html

...
The researchers mimicked Titan's hazy skies by exposing methane gas to an ultraviolet lamp, then added carbon dioxide gas to the mix to see if conditions that were probably present on early Earth would produce a similar organic haze. "It turns out that organic haze can form over a wide range of methane and carbon dioxide concentrations," said Tolbert. "This means that hazy conditions could have been present for many millions or even a billion years on Earth while life was evolving."
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According to the study, a similar haze hanging over Earth early in its history could have supplied more than 100 million tons of organic material to the planet's surface each year. "As these particles settled out of the skies, they would have provided a global source of food for living organisms," said Trainer.
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In addition to serving as a source of organic material, a haze layer over Earth could have shielded living organisms from harmful UV rays and helped to regulate Earth's early climate, according to the study.
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Really?  The kindest word his closest allies have for him is incompetent.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feat … cons200612

According to Perle, who left the Defense Policy Board in 2004, this unfolding catastrophe has a central cause: devastating dysfunction within the administration of President George W. Bush. Perle says, "The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible"

Pity about Lane-a.

Actually, I was thinking of Geoengineering ...

http://www.metatronics.net/lit/geo2.html

I thought this was an excellent question.  This powerpoint has a lot of interesting information on the subject ...

http://aquanic.org/images/slides/World% … 202006.ppt

Apparently, 35% of all seafood now comes from aquaculture.  I didn't realise the proportion was so high.  "Wild capture" has remained basically steady for at least the last 10 years, with aquaculture making up the difference.

Top ten wild fishers in millions of metric tons ...

1. China              16,756,000
2. Peru               6,090,000
3. USA                4,939,000
4. Indonesia                      4,675,000
5. Japan                4,596,000
6. India                3,689,000
7. Chile               3,622,000
8. Russian Fed           3,281,000
9. Thailand               2,817,000   
10. Norway               2,550,000

I had no idea fishing was such a huge industry for Peru.

China is also first in aquaculture, by a long shot.  India is 2nd, and it doesn't do a tenth of what China does.

Classic tragedy of the commons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Peaking of world oil production, an update by Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor, SAIC:

In-depth introduction to the issue and its complexities. Prepared for the Atlantic Council, 23 October 2006 (735 KB PDF)

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/hirsch_pea … ouncil.pdf

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Separately, I noticed that some analysts are now including Canada's oil sands in the lists of world proven reserves ...

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/reserves.html

... pushing its proven reserves from 14 bbl to 180 bbl, putting it 2nd only to Saudi Arabia.  Oil sands production costs are $15/barrel compared to Saudi's $2/barrel. 

This is probably the best indication of where the world stands with respect to the prospects for new oil field discoveries - oil sands are it.

Unofficial lists also include Venezuela's oil sands ( 52 bbl -> 360 bbl ! ) but I doubt doe.gov will list the higher figure for some time 

There have also been noises about oil shale ( US has 1000 bbl equivalent, equal to some estimates of remaining world oil supplies ), but production costs are closer to $30/barrel and it burns 1 barrel of oil in energy to produce only 3.5 barrels.  Even biodiesel does better.

Do you mean HTML?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

If you mean a human language, then I'd love to see a sample of the new internet language.  Maybe you could post a link.