Wrong.
If you look at the winter & spring periods, all the recent years had more ice than 2006 and yet they all finished much lower by the end of the summer melt.

That means more heat in the system - and you should research just how much heat is needed to melt ice.
HINT: it's a LOT

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...

This is only ice extent, which is probably the worst indicator of the decline in Arctic ice. Total ice area and volume are far better but more difficult to get accurate numbers.

I'd like to see more bison in the wild and wouldn't that give the hunters hardons

Here's also what the story says:
"State Police said in a statement that Bergeron, an experienced hunter who lives in the area, did not see the victim, and mistook the tails of her two dogs as the tail of a deer."

So this "experienced hunter" can't tell the difference between the ass end of TWO dogs and a deer??
If he's telling the truth, he shouldn't be allowed to hunt unaccompanied AND when it's not well-lit.

I've mostly been reading Tweaktown, with AnandTech & HotHardware as fallbacks for the past few years.

That's great to hear; wish my own company thought that way. We have talented developers but limit them to writing mostly reporting, integration & user interface code and spend megabucks buying commercial software when solid, stable free / open alternatives already exist.

That would be funny if it weren't so damn sad.

Good to know; nice to see more companies giving back to the opensource community.

Give me the same power, leeway & support structure that the cops have and I'll do it.

I also want to know if I can trust the people my tax dollars pay to protect me.
The cops have betrayed that trust FAR too many times for MUCH too long.

Does Netflix have a tradition of free / open source software contribs?

It's whoever we say and whoever doesn't have the means to buy us.

If it's not fun for the Chinese, it's not fun for all the developers & maintenance programmers who have to fix, support & enhance all that shit.