What a pity this wasn't discovered sooner... Skyler White could have asked Saul Goodman to hire his Eastern European hacker again to launder Walt's meth money through that car wash using HTTP GET requests.

You're not supposed to do any heavy back-end work with node itself; it can handle simple database interactions and streaming etc. but anything that requires serious computation is supposed to be forked off to a separate process. Unfortunately it encourages misuse by providing a toehold for JavaScript programmers to start worming their way deeper into server processing.

This is why I love Slashdot- just make an offhand analogy to something like airplane patents in a story about patent trolls, and eventually half the comments on the page are about airplanes. Can we just add "flying machines" to the tag list?

Maybe because they were nomadic.

Because those are short term predictions made days ahead by weathermen. Weather is less predictable in the short term than climate in the long term. Over a longer term (meaning years, not days) temperatures haven't been "colder than predicted".

So?

14 of the 15 hottest years on record have been this century. (The exception was 1998, an El Nino year.) 15 years is a longer term than weathermen deal with.

People do seem to understand the difference between short term and long term phenomena if it's a stock price we're talking about. I don't hear people asking "if Apple stock is rising, then what about the high prices during 2012?" as if it was the medieval warming period. But if it's a planet's temperature- "la la la la, fingers in my ears, I can't hear you!"

I see these two arguments being made over and over in these threads.

This one: "Correlation is not causation. So if something correlates, it means it's being caused by something else."

And this: "They're saying we're going to get more hurricanes? I guess they were driving SUVs and burning fossil fuels in 1667 when a hurricane hit Jamestown, Virginia, right? Huh? Huh?"

It seems a lot of Americans don't even realise how rain gets into the sky in the first place.

They certainly couldn't have "responded to pressure from Numic-speaking peoples moving onto the Colorado Plateau" since the invaders weren't driving SUVs. My own theory is that a tribe of invading Wikipedians altered that page during the 300 seconds before I saw your post.

I learned this from the global warming skeptics:

• 1. If it snows less than a weatherman predicts, it means climatologists are full of shit.
• 2. If it snows more than a weatherman predicts, it means climatologists are full of shit.
• 3. If it snows exactly as much as a weatherman predicts, invite him on your show as an expert to explain why climatologists are full of shit.

Pros:

• Everyone gets a billion dollars.
• Income inequality would go down.

Cons:

• Prices would go up.
• Charles Koch would still still have $42 billion more than me.

Ahh no., I didn't just tell myself.

How about these guys take into account the rising temperatures in oceanic heat reservoirs instead of restricting their analysis to lagging indicators like air temperature?

Can't argue with logic.

The medieval warm period wasn't as warm as it is today, and it was restricted to the North Atlantic. It was actually colder in Eurasia and the entire southern hemisphere.

Is Pluto a major or minor planet?

It mostly worked, although now I have trouble remembering people's names when I see their faces. I lost my job as an engineer because I was ditzy and forgetful for a few months after they removed a chunk of my brain out, but it was worth it. They used me as a subject in a study on recognizing numbers (since part of my skull was in a refrigerator somewhere). They also sent pulses onto cortical surface electrodes to see where the seizure focus was, and those produced visual hallucinations on the left side of my field of vision. Things in the left side of the room would look fuzzy, or colorful, or repulsive, or beautiful, etc. depending on which electrodes they zapped.