In parched nations across the world, like Israel, one of the problems is that water for farming is priced below cost because it's seen as an input to a national asset. The problem with that is that agriculture contributes relatively little to their GDP. So the cheapest water goes to the least output. Which is silly. If they merely priced the water according to it's relative contribution they'd make better use of it. Here in the SE US (and in France as well) we see some of the same thing. If you claim you are a farmer then you're essentially exempt from restrictions. But not every agricultural output is worthwhile. Grapes for instance are a good alternative to no longer growing tobacco. Vegetables are a good use of small plots of land. But corn? Barley? No one need Carolina corn. Not even as fodder. That's just a wasteful use of water and land.

Better yet - let's just do away with scoring. Everyone gets a trophy. See? NFL football is as American as gluten free sugar free apple pie.

What you're saying is that sane immigration laws actually work.

It will smack you in the face, or fall off the bed and scare the pets.

But interestingly what is the angle you can read it? Screens have a pretty narrow zone of visibility up down side to side.

Last point - please don't turn this into the next gadget my school district "needs". They already have enough technology that's useless.

Since PDF is now or will soon be an open standard and there opensource PDF readers a-plenty.

Also what are all the keys and buttons for?

And we're still in South Korea, the Philippines, Germany, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and a bunch of other places, will we not be an empire?

To make them cheaper, more durable, more pervasive and self updating. I think we've only got the last one and possibly more durable in the sense you could re-download them, if the reader aint broke. But I really don't see how this furthers literacy.

If I have a whole bunch of things in my arms, it's the book usually that will get dropped. Now if they made it out of flexible e-paper 0.5mm thick that would help. But a clunky box, no thanks. I have a bunch of those now and I don't want Nerdman's Utility Belt.

Seeing how they import >80% of their own gasoline and oil prices hurt them as much as they hurt us. You see Iran has never invested in its refining capacity since the Shah was toppled. Instead it took that money, and make no mistake, regionally unemployment in some parts of Iran >25%, impoverished themselves to pursue what they claim is a peaceful atomic 'power plant program' that even they themselves admit have no electrical generation facilities built along with the reactor or reactors.

3 years ago ELF Acquitaine studied the Iranian problem and told them they would have to invest 20 billion dollars to get their oil infrastructure up to snuff and to explore new sources. Instead Iran has spent billions chasing afted a dubious atomic program which everyone but they understand to be for nothing but a weapons program. So now even the Russians are a little nervous and news reports indicate that the Russians have pulled most of their own engineers and technicians out of the program, leaving the Iranians to pursue their 'peaceful' program on their own. But Iran is not to be denied so what they'll probably wind up doing is buying an atomic bomb or two or most of one and finishing it on their own. Hell maybe they'll get a few from Pakistan, for 'safe keeping'.

I see nothing but good times ahead, failing states in deep debt to Russia for technology and weapons, regional instability, Islamic radicals and nuclear weapons in a semi-managed condition. I'm sure nothing bad can come of it. And hell if it does, we can always blame America for everything.

Yes and no. The Danes nominally adopted Christianity in the early 9th C but didn't begin to practice it until nearly the year 1000. But Anglo Saxons writing about the Danes would have overlayed their own already hundreds of years old Christian tradition onto the Danish lore. In other words there's a bit of replacement theology going on here.

My postal carrier I'm sure would smoke crack no matter who he worked for. The companies that get contracting deals under minority owned set asides I don't believe do a better or worse job than anyone else. That's not the point of the contract. And so on.....

It connects the word 'attack' from the previous sentence about the London blitz. Geesh - guys, come on read for context and with an ear for dialog. You've got your heads stuffed so far up your own blogs you're guilty of groupthink.

I'm getting tired of hearing the implication from Salon and Co that we've going through the motions of anointing Hillary I.

On September 10th 2001, most of America outside of NYC was convinced that NY was nothing but queers, black people, lesbians, communists, perverts, illegal aliens, Hatians, the Mafia, Indian cabdrivers, crackheads, liberals, effete elitists and chassidic Jews. All of a sudden we were all heroes because of our zipcode. There's so much bullshit all around I can surf on it.

That's kind of the point of the comment. But you folks missed that because you're too busy climbing over each other to be the loudest angriest echo of GG. Maybe he wasn't thinking of gay marriage maybe he was thinking of all the millions of kids in single female parent black families. Anyway, just spit and growl at me. Be 16 see if I care.

Not with Intel's rather large and critical investment in Israel.