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I am so sick and tired of this "GLOBAL WARMING" balogna. Wake up people - we are talking about an eleven percent increase (over 100 years - maybe actually only 5 percent) in a non toxic gas which is only 4/100's of one percent of the atmosphere. Our thieves in government want to tax tax tax to make the problem better. I personally don't believe there is a problem, but if there is, I'm sure there are a billion cheap solutions to it, like increasing biomass in the oceans, or producing paper and sequestering it in abandoned mines, or maybe planting a bunch of trees and harvesting the wood. What I do know is the government solution if far far worse than the disease.

dbhoro87 - "getting high is one of the oldest traditions in human culture" LOL so isn't murder - I seem to remember someone pulled a body out of a peat bog and it had a rope around it's neck I don't think he had a bong in his pocket but I guess he could have. Look - I'm an old guy - I don't need to read books and articles written by dopers telling me how wonderful grass is. I've SEEN IT and it's not wonderful. I have known dozens of people whose lives were cut short or put on the back burner because they used marijuana and subsequently treated other drugs similarly. Don't worry marijuana is going to be legalized or decriminalized. The country is hell bent on following the European socialist model, decriminalized drugs, plenty of sex and a dumber more manageable populous. After all the president thinks our best days are behind us and is doing his very best to make it so. But smoking marijuana IS bad for your lungs, 3 joints do as much damage as a pack of cigarettes. I knew a guy RAY who started his day off smoking two joints - a total loser - worked as a electronics salesman at one of those discount stores. Ray liked to mix grass and coke, but coke can leave you awfully jittery and paranoid, so in the process of coming down he blew his girlfriend's head of with a 45. He's still in prison and his girlfiend is still dead. Like I said - The fact that you've got to itemize how it hasn't affected you means you are a loser. Cheers ... marijuana can make nothing happen for you too!

Dave, Your article might garner some interest if your readers had any idea of what you were talking about. I'm sure there are those out in InternetLand who understand completely and therefore don't need your article, but I would bet the majority of Popular Science readers come to the Popular Science website to LEARN something they don't know. Being confronted with "Every AVR programmer worth her weight in ATmegas knows about the AVR Butterfly--a ridiculously low cost ATmega169 demonstration and evaluation kit" tells me absolutely nothing. A nice sentence full of sound and fury signifying nothing and definately a sentence that does not inspire me to read further. So when I see any AVR's or ATmegas walking down the street, I'll be sure to cross over to the other sidewalk.