Under the headline, Investors suffer as US ethanol boom dries up, Financial Times reported today on the plight of people like Microsoft’s Bill Gates whose investment in the ethanol industry are not panning out: Investors, such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, are sitting on billions of dollars in losses after buying into the corn-based ethanol industry [...]
Corn Ethanol Boondoggle Costs Investors Millions
October 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · alternative fuels, bill gates, biofuel, corn ethanol, corn-based ethanol, cornography, Energy, energy woes, Ethanol, ethanol industry, ethanol plant, ethanol producers, Financial Times, George W. Bush, I know it when I see it, Microsoft, petrol
Stripes: Report Faults Computer in B-2 crash
June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Stars & Stripes reported today that, according to the Air Force accident investigation report released yesterday, the Feb. 23 crash of a B-2 “Spirit” bomber on Guam was caused by bad computer data sent to flight control computers from three tiny sensors on the bomber’s wings. Despite rumors to the contrary, I could find no [...]
Tags: · Air Force, b-2, b-2 "spirit", b-2 "spirit" bomber, flight control computers, guam, Humor, mac humor, Microsoft, microsoft windows vista, pro-mac humor, spirit, stars and stripes, vista, vista operating system, windows
Minds Set, Changing on Subject of Global Warming
April 11th, 2007 · No Comments
It seems more and more people find themselves disagreeing with Al Gore or, in the least, beginning to question whether the former vice president-turned global warming alarmist might be wrong. Here are some examples I thought readers of Bob McCarty Writes might find interesting: Salon.com columnist Camille Paglia offers a refreshing opinion about global warming. [...]
Tags: · Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Apple Computer, Camille Paglia, Former Vice President Al Gore, Global Warming Alarmists, Global Warming and Climate Change, great global warming swindle, Inconvenient Truth, Inconvenient Truth Serum, Microsoft, MIT, NASA, New Scientist, Richard Sprague, Salon.com, Scientific Consensus, Stanford University, The Great Global Warming Swindle, Visions of Apocalypse, WebTV Networks, Wharton School of Business
