Gygax, and TSR in general, got what they deserved in my opinion, following their "acquisition" of board wargame publisher SPI. Screwed thousands of longtime gamers such as myself (I played both RPGs and wargames extensively), who then like myself voted against them with our wallets, never spending another dime on that company. What goes around, comes around.

The subject line that the data covers only Japan is disproved. I didn't call you an idiot. Just pointed out that the assertion is wrong and trivially verifiably so.

So the minnows apparently haven't benefited greatly to the detriment of the poor oppressed corporate farms?

So where did that water go, genius? Reservoir levels, Stream flow. Most of those numbers look well below long term median/average to me. So if the water isn't in the reservoirs or flowing in the rivers, where exactly is it?

Maybe there's a lot of room in certain people's posterior orifices that isn't accounted for here.

And your weather anecdote constitutes global data somehow. I am suitably impressed.

This looks like a temperature map of the WHOLE EARTH to me, found on the source site after about 10 seconds of terribly difficult clicking on a couple of buttons.

Umm, actually the air temps at Yellowstone were below average when I drove through the park one day before the Firehole Road melt happened. That is pretty much entirely due to upwelling heat from the subsurface magma chamber – otherwise why would only a very specific part of road be melting? Repeatedly so, though only every couple of years as I understand it. A few degrees' delta of air temps will not significantly alter the heat dissipation here. If the air temps get past 160F I'm pretty sure we have a major problem planet wide.

Not too many venture capitalists either.

Posting to undo mistaken moderation.

It was a "Police action".

Maybe that's why police these days are riding around in armored vehicles.

Sure, because there are no reputable ballet outfits in the US. And of course there's a Bolshoi in every shitty hamlet in Russia. I admire Russian culture, but this comparison was silly and bogus.

Get it right, man: Potatoe

D. Quayle

And would not have happened without Jobs either. As the GP says, "He didn't do it all himself, but then nobody does in business." Thus neatly answering GGP's challenge question.

My take on your position is that you are irrationally anti-nuclear to the point that you prefer the world continuing to burn hydrocarbons instead. How about we get rid of those first, then worry about the problems with nuclear after, instead of making the transition even harder than it will already be? Proliferation is a fact regardless what the big players do at this point. 70 years on, that genie is long out of the bottle and won't be going back in. When a state as paranoid and unstable as North Korea already has nukes, it seems moot to argue about such risks.

As I posted earlier, using some of the tax funds already collected for Yucca or wherever for research into reprocessing etc. could help. Your mind seems made up that it won't though, fine. Nothing my ignorant self says will make a difference to you.

I'm not a pro, just a citizen interested in having the lights stay on for my children, and not forcing them to live in a world where the ecosystem has been compromised by rapid temperature rise and ocean acidification. Those seem far worse prospects than a hundred Fukushima-style meltdowns.

I don't have time to read your reference now, but I will. Last post beating this dead horse of a thread.

You are so passionate in decrying the whole nuclear industry that either unintentionally, or by design, you are perpetuating several far worse by virtually any standard. Excepting the "Oh no! Radiation is invisible so it scares me" standard. Show me the numbers proving solar and other RE sources alone can power worldwide demand 24*7, (for bonus points, with technology from the 60s and 70s like you seem to be requiring of nuclear). What is the cost per KWh? Where do all the raw materials come from? What are the environmental costs of that mining, manufacturing, and disposal? How much land is used and what other functions are thereby displaced? What wildlife habitats are disrupted? Show us the math, or shut up. I'll even go first.