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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (340182)	6/12/2007 4:03:39 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571899

Ted, > And your point is what? If you want to castigate American historical leaders simply on the fact that they owned slaves, you might want to go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. Pretty easy to ignore the fact that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves, no? Of course not......no one ever said the FF were saints. However, its one thing to own a slave and its another to trade in human flesh. Either way, I don't have much regard for a man like Forrest and am surprised some Southerners see him as a virtuous man.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (340182)	6/12/2007 4:22:10 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571899

Tree huggers.... Google, Intel launch energy efficiency program Web search leader Google Inc. and semiconductor maker Intel Corp. on Tuesday launched a broad-based program to introduce more energy-efficient personal computers and servers in order to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Called the "Climate Savers Computing Initiative," the new program has signed on computer makers Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Lenovo software giant Microsoft Corp. and other companies for the energy savings campaign. The program will set new efficiency goals for computers and software tools to manage power consumption. The goal is to set a new 90 percent efficiency target for power supplies, said Urs Holzle, senior vice president of operations at Google. That would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 54 million tons a year and save more than $5.5 billion in energy costs, he said at a meeting at Google's headquarters in Mountain View. The program, which also includes the World Wildlife Fund, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and California utility PG&E Corp., will follow the EPA's Energy Star guidelines for energy efficiencies in appliances and other devices this year to introduce the climate initiative. Energy Star standards require that personal compute power supplies hit at least 80 percent efficiency. That would rise to a minimum 90 percent efficiency by 2010 under the new climate initiative.