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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
 Cool. Taught my youngest to ride a bike today.
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The Atlantic. Robert Bryce. Gas Pains. If anyone has access to this full article, I would appreciate it. Got it. Thanks Bob!
Each of the 150,000 soldiers in Iraq consume 9 gallons of fuel a day. A major vulnerability. This is hilarious:
At the conclusion of its study the DSB recommended that the Pentagon make fuel efficiency a key consideration when buying new weapons systems. The Joint Chiefs of Staff dismissed the proposal in August of that year. Richard Truly, a former astronaut who recently retired as the head of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, chaired the DSB study. "The thing we were trying to get across was that this doesn't have anything to do with moral values," Truly told me. "It has to do with running the goddamn military with as little fuel as possible and showing the advantages to the warfighter himself—so that instead of having ten fuel trucks, you can have five." Unfortunately, Truly says, the prevailing wisdom at the Pentagon is that "fuel efficiency is for sissies.
2:55:26 PM
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Here's a "long tail" question. Do P2P systems harm niche copyright holders or "hit" copyright holders more?
10:12:27 AM
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Nice background article on gangs from Lynne Walker at Copley. The latest surveys put the number of gang members in the US at ~750,000 (you would probably need to double that number for those inside of jail). About ~1.5% of the US workforce. ~20-30% of these may be part of transnational gangs (I'm looking for firmer numbers).
"We're everywhere," boasted a Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS 13, gang member in Los Angeles. "Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, L.A., Washington, New York, Denver. There's a few in Missouri. There's homies in Canada, too. Wherever we go, we recruit more people. There's no way they can stop us. We're going to keep on multiplying."
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