Yes, that's because WD's 6TB Ultrastar He6 was hermetically sealed with helium inside, something the company said was critical to reducing friction for additional platters, while also increasing power savings and reliability. Seagate, however, said it doesn't yet need to rely on Helium to achieve the 50% increase in capacity over it's last 4TB drive.

At least, I'm sure I read that somewhere.

If you pick 17 years you get one conclusion.*

If you pick 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 or 34 years you get another conclusion.

(*actually, you don't. I've no idea where this "17 years" thing came from. The temperature data shows a rise over the last 17 years)

If what you produce on your computer has the same value to society as the AC's excrement, then maybe you *should* consider stopping using it...

Herd immunity is what keeps your kids from being crippled by polio.

Vaccines are not 100% effective. Learn how they work, at least for your children's sake.

I'm afraid you've been wrong since 2nd grade then.

The mirror is actually misleading. Here's an alternative question:

Why, when you're facing another person, are your left and right reversed, but your up and down the same?

Bonus question: It's easy to describe what up and down are (down is closer to the Earth, up is further away). How would you describe left and right?

Heh, I love it when deniers mindlessly repeat that quote. You don't even know what it means, do you? Because if you did, you certainly wouldn't be mentioning it.

You see, we measure how much energy the Sun outputs. And we measure how much the Earth reflects of that energy (its albedo). We also measure how much it radiates, which - if the Earth was at a stable temperature - would be the same as the difference between the first two. Understand so far? That's what the "CERES data" refers to.

What Trenberth is saying is that the CERES data shows there should be far *more* warming than we're actually measuring! When you take into account air temperature increase, melting ice, sea temperature increase, etc etc it *still* leaves a big chunk of energy to account for. Now, any sane person would therefore assume that the energy can't just vanish: it's got to go somewhere that we aren't measuring.

Not the deniers, they think it's all being whisked away by the natural cycle fairies. Or perhaps they just don't understand what it is they're saying and are mindlessly repeating what they read on some blog. Hey, maybe you can tell us. Which is it?

That's because it blocks while waiting on zero point energy. If performance is an issue, you can use /dev/unull instead, if you don't really need high quality nullity.

Government only rises to greatness when faced with an external threat, e.g. war.

Wars not make one great.

That's the bit that you found unrealistic? The 80 hour work week?

Not, for example, the idea of fighting off H1Bs from a 22nd Century space station?

Huh.

This is completely wrong. The Statute of Anne was introduced in 1710, when Johnson was less than one year old. And Johnson was contracted to write the dictionary by a group of London book-sellers who approached *him* for the task.

Did you just try to make a point by beginning with "I read an editorial..."?

Are you ill or something?

I think I'd have to go with the one that doesn't redefine "absorb" to mean "magically disappear".