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We're having one of the worst winter storms in history. It's snowed the past four weekends in a row. The first was a record 33" blizzard. It shut down our international airport during the Christmas travel season, and caused 8 hour delays as thousands upon thousands of people tried to get through airport security: We just set a record of a 115 mph (185 kph) wind gust, and we're pretty deep inland, on the east side of the continental divide.

The same place it assumes the eye just formed itself somehow by accident

Okay? Yes, they're accounted for. Here's NCDC's explanation: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/anomalies.html

Everything can't happen at once. Aside from that, I believe largely the same thing.

That's accounted for in the calculation, and the southern hemisphere certainly isn't underrepresented by the GHCN:

Umm, we were fighting the Axis Powers during World War II... a league of soverign nations. There's a vast difference between fighting the combined military forces of multiple soverign nations with an alliance spanning the globe vs. fighting paramilitary groups who aren't even powerful enough to overtake Iraq, much less conquer several surrounding nations.

What makes them facts? Because you say so? And if you're not just here to sell something, and you truly have 400 of them to look at, why not paste one or two of them for us to look at? Considering you're trying to advertise yourself by juxtaposing your book directly against Dawkins', I'd say it's personal for you as well. The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction. How many other works of fiction do you purport to be fact?

Which is a good thing. We certainly aren't ready for self-replicating molecular nanotechnology today.

By faking orgasm?

Molecular nanotechnology poses a greater threat to mankind than any technology we have previously conceived of, and yes, I'm quite concerned

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/01/10/warm.year.ap/ Gee, I think I'm noticing a trend...

The deaths resulting from dam failure following Typhoon Nina can be considered possibly the worst engineering disaster in human history. I don't know if it can be argued either way whether Three Gorges is helpful or not in this respect. Like many Chinese Projects it was of such a grandiose scale that it was horribly mismanaged and practically robbed blind by corruption. Shortly after it was constructed, the dam began to crack. That's sure not a good sign. It's displacing millions of people, moving them from prime farmland onto crappier soil, and it's forced many of them into poverty.

While I'm glad he admitted mistakes, and did something, however this was the wrong thing. Still, "do something" is better than "sit on your hands going dum de dum de dum" while we having our soldiers killed and maimed and squander billions of dollars and the entire region degrades into civil war. In a totally unrelated matter: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/08/iraq-oil.html The Iraqi parliment is about to pass production a US drafted bill almost verbatim which would effectively give control of their oil wells to western companies through production sharing agreements. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world.

So, prohibitive costs and draconian contracts aside, who wants one? http://apple.com/iphone/

This has been studied for thousands and thousands of years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession_of_the_equinoxes

I tend to have rather extreme "information wants to be free" oriented views regarding offending other people. Unless someone has reason to be personally offended (e.g. calling a black person n****r) from a statement I think their cause for offense is largely ungrounded. This applies particularly to PC types who like to get vicariously offended regarding speech about groups to which they do not belong. All that said, more detail about your situation would be needed for me to pass judgement. So far all you've mentioned is that you made a sexual joke involving nudity. That's not really much to go on.

Most Libertarians (i.e. capital-L, of the conservative variety) would condone prostitution as a consentual act between two people. As a liberaltarian, I'd at least insist on some sort of government regulation, if only to prevent the spread of disease.

I suggest a core dump followed by a massive intake of water

Umm, osmosis?

Some transhumanists believe it's statistically likely we're all a computer simulation. I don't buy it. That's not to say I don't believe the universe is really just a computer, just not one assembled and programmed by intelligent systems.

I don't know about the "maximum capacity" bit, but what you're describing sounds like the effects of ingesting bicuculline. The result is, as swasont said, a seizure.

There's nothing that necessitates a government subsidy for a prize fund, and traditionally such prize funds have existed as privately funded non-profit corporations. Perhaps I'm suggesting something more radical than necessary, but I'm curious as to why there is no "H-Prize" (for HIV) or "C-Prize" (for cancer). Those are two causes I'd certainly be willing to donate to. I'm not sure if you've read my previous views on the matter, but I certainly think the present American healthcare system is in a deplorable state. Perhaps the worst offenders are the health insurance companies, which provide the framework for the rest of the system to leech off of. The American healthcare system has received substandard ratings in terms of industrialized nations while consuming the highest percentage of an industrialized nation's GDP in order to do so (and America, having the world's highest GDP, is by simple deduction the world's largest medical spender) Unfortunately, in Africa that's a difficult proposition. For example in the Congo you have death squads exterminating the male population of rival factions, raping all of the women, then sticking guns up their vaginas and firing them, causing a condition known as a fistula (in which a gunshot wound causes urinary and possibly bowel incontinence). Read this story if you are unfamiliar with the conditions: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15704030/site/newsweek/ Conditions are deplorable, and "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge" attitude simply isn't going to cut it over there. I think that attitude is about as naive as assuming abstinence education will cut the teen pregnancy rate in America...

GCM reconstructions? If anyone were using pre-1880 data as some sort of instrumental baseline, but they're not. The margin of error is too great and the sample size too small. Certainly data from tree rings is useful in assessing the history of regional temperatures, but you're not going to see someone computing the global mean surface temperature using tree ring data alone. It'd be statistically unsound. That's why climate scientists let GCMs take over in assessing the global mean surface temperature in the time before the instrumental record (as you can see from the Mann Hockey Stick graph I pasted) You need to get over this whole idea that model output is inherently erroneous. The Standard Model is "just a model". We've never empirically observed a quark. We have no "hard data" that one exists. By the same line of reasoning you've used, the standard model is inherently wrong and unreliable.

The article also claims two orders of magnitude higher energy productivity over soybeans.

I don't suppose the phrase "global mean surface temperature" means anything to you (Hint: day and night cancel each other out) That said: The reconstruction above demonstrates how out of tune your perceptions of the climate system are with reality. 1200 years ago, the global mean surface temperature was not "10 or 12 degrees higher." As you can see the cooling trend preceeding the "Little Ice Age" was moderate compared to the rapid changes we've seen this century. I suggest actually studying the issue of climate change before going on the offensive. You also might try increasing the content of your posts, as at present they seem to be right at about 0% actual substance, consisting primarily of a barrage of insults and misinterpretations.