http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/29/2055227&from=rss ``In a report commissioned by the UK government, respected economist Sir Nicholas Stern concludes that mitigating global warming could cost around 1% of global GDP if spent immediately, but ignoring the problem could cost between 5% and 20% of global GDP. The 700-page study represents the first major report on climate change from an economist rather than a scientist.'' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096084.stm BBC's take http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203408&cid=16637436 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203408&cid=16637672 ^ "Anyone expecting to be alive for the next 44 years is going to be paying the costs according to this report - and we'll be paying costs sooner than that, just not at the 5% to 20% level. In essence doing nothing will mean the world will potentially be 1/5th less productive and wealthy in 2050 as it could otherwise have been." http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203408&cid=16637126 -----==========----- http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/30/by_eating_this_food_.html http://smallprint.netzoo.net/by-eating-this-you-agree-that-it-is-of-mine/ ^ The one and only edible EULA! http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203689&cid=16654927 ^ "What, are we afraid of ideas? Is a war of guns and bombs better?" http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203561&cid=16647833 ^ Frisbee laser tag http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203551&cid=16648403 ^ "They don't want to give up all that windows specific knowledge without a fight." http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203499&cid=16643403 ^ "It's like HR thought that if they just kept asking for more, eventually they'd get it." http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203487&cid=16641359 ror http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203689&cid=16655027 wry -----==========----- On testosterone, courtesy, agressiveness, and Real Men(tm) http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203382&cid=16633548 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203382&cid=16634586 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203382&cid=16638415 ``I'm sorry but the argument that being assertive and aggressive is an appropriate replacement for being intelligent and diplomatic does not hold water with me. You can't use Rumsfeld as an example of what people should be like until you can prove that Rumsfeld isn't a complete idiot.'' -----==========----- There's that pesky "pride" thing that, though a virtue in Americans, is a character flaw in everyone else on the planet. -- misanthrope101