An interesting article, but only up to a point, since it does not describe how/what GE's technology is doing that is new or that solves the fluctuation problem. An "inverter" converts DC to AC. So now they're weatherproof? This is the leap forward? Looks more like PR for GE and PVs.

I have an iPhone 3G, and so do half my college teacher colleagues. They are as pleased as can be with the phone, which works just fine in every way. (Had Blackberry for two years before) Perfect? No. I would like longer battery life. One out of ten calls does not ring (but only buzzes). But they do register a message, and I get back to them fine. I am looking forward to getting the 3GS, and passing my 3G on to a friend.

Reading the link in the article "forced to close shop" actually supports another scenario (or two): that Madoff's father Ralph, in debt, was the trader using his wife's name (and their residential address) for legal cover, or that too-young Bernie was doing the same, trading in his mother's name. We'll know, eventually, I suppose. Point being: the proclivity to cheat might not, in this case at least, have been genetic, but taught to him by example by his dad; and that if it was/genetic, Bernie's dad might have been the "carrier" and his mom a nice lady who only ikb wanted her boys to succeed, OR, did not know what was going on at all. Makes you wonder about Madoff's grandparents... Where does this kind of argument end?

Circulating on the web, but it catches the attention:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.

If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.'

Kuhnigget, I have been enjoying your posts too.

In reply to your last, I guess I was impressed (over-impressed?) by Karl Popper's three-world analysis. There are three Worlds, Popper said: World One, which is the world of nature, ancient, given, indifferent, infinitely intricate and vast; World Two, which is the world of human (and to some extent animal) consciousness, with its perceptions, feelings, motivations, memories, and ideas (Popper does not contest that World Two evolves from World One), and World Three, which are our ideas, feelings, etc. embodied in laws, codes, languages, art-forms, journals, buildings, artifacts, machines and inventions of all sort, which are made from the interaction, as it were, of Worlds One and Two, but which come to constitute a world of their own, and the one we actually live in most consciously, and which feeds back to the other two Worlds ever more, with every passing decade. Unlike theists and deists, I think God belongs to/in World Three. So yes, you can do well without thinking the God-thought (or doing the "God-thing"), I agree, just as you can do well without music, poetry, the latest "news", entering this or that building, or (up to a point) human law. I guess I look around at religious belief and go, "you know, there's something there I don't want to dismiss."