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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (10907)	9/8/2005 12:13:04 PM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

More. Back off topic: !!HELP!! SOMEBODY SAVE US FROM CONGRESS!!! 1. Congress requires at least two months to give "adequate" consideration to confirm a single Supreme Court Justice. 2. Congress required more than five months of study and hearings before adopting the Marshall Plan in April 1948... That was nearly three years after the disaster of WWII had ended and beaucoup "talk" about what should be done... A single man from the private sector was put in charge of the check book. 3. The disaster that was Katrina is over. The cesspool disaster which followed has just begun. No one knows what the rest of the hurricane season will bring. 4. No one has a clue, much less a proposal, as to how the gulf coast (including New Orleans) should be reconstructed. Yet we now have a race to determine which Congress person can be the first to propose the most money to dump into the area with the least oversight... and no plan. "On topic??!" Lord A'Mighty... I may never be "on topic" again. <Hoo><Haa> 0\|0

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (10907)	9/8/2005 12:32:09 PM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 14464

P.S. Harvey A... Next time you happen to hear from the lovely Ms. LuAnn D. Hanson... please... don't forget to let her know that my "offer" still stands. <Hoo><Haa> 0\|*

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (10907)	9/16/2005 4:19:23 AM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 14464

Are any of your Google forays detecting signs of new cash paying customers? Well Harvey... I'm still looking for some ENEL-like "paying customers" but in the mean time I ran across some "interesting" related Pioneer research in which HP seems to have an interest. Do you remember Michael Thomas and Colossal Storage? Well he's incorporated and added a board of directors now: colossalstorage.net But check out pages 25-34 of this HPQ presentation dated July/05: abinee.org.br Ferroelectric thin film is their storage element. They're using the "pico seconds" switching speed of ferroelectrics, but the read/write mechanism looks like nothing more than a cutting edge printer head with a large array of nano optical probes. It's as though the thin film were a sheet of paper... with incredible density. Each storage unit is no more than a paperless nano laser printer unto itself. There's a link to a summary of Pioneer's research paper on this optical digital memory: pioneer.co.jp You'd think that the real estate overhead for an optical printing R/W mechanism would be huge compared to our all electric R/W circuitry. But breaking the "sheet" of thin film "paper" into large arrays of physical addresses for a single sensing circuit must be a lot tougher than building large arrays of sensing probes with physical addresses. Unless of course we could make our thin film "sheet" out of a very large array of individual nano dots and apply a smaller array of individually addressable sensing circuits to them with... <Hoo><Hoo><Haa> Dr. FrankenOwl