I'm the opposite. I hate carrying around coins. I would rather have a small stack of bills in my wallet than a pocketful of coins, since I have to have the wallet anyway for license, credit card, etc.

That is in one location. The NOAA report is based on average land and ocean surfaces across the whole globe. There will certainly be high and low outliers in any specific place that you wish to look. The point was that overall, the planet has been above the previous average for quite a while.

That would PROVE it true. If the CO2 level is higher this year than in any year past, it is a record. Then if it is even higher the next year, it is again a record, and so on.... presumably every year, until we do something about it or it magically disappears somewhere.

It will have a massive effect. You don't seriously expect auto manufacturers to design and engineer new cars, set up plants to produce all the component parts, and totally retool their assembly lines to build these new models overnight, do you?

Unless someone comes along and repeals the CAFE requirements, which is unlikely, given the political bad-will it would cause, Obama and Congress have made a significant step towards reducing total US emissions.

That is precisely why it is claimed that he is so accurate. Election results will change right up until the day of the election. No one can make a prediction months out that isn't just a wild ass guess.

The fact that he changed Florida to leaning left (based on minor poll movements), and it appears that Florida is indeed leaning left, validates his model quite well. If that changes, and he is wrong on Florida, then maybe his model isn't any better than any of the other sites.

They don't care when life begins, or they would be lobbying for changes to the tax code too, allowing you to claim a dependent the moment a child is conceived. What they really want is control of you and your body when it suits their needs.

Strange, in most of my races, the Republicans are listed first, followed by the Dems, then all the other parties. Maybe it stems from the way your state's ballot information is provided? Who knows.

You make some interesting points. I don't disagree with you, other than one missing point. Insurance rates will rise if there are more disasters. I don't think insurance companies are huge profit makers like investment banks are. They generally base their rates on the expected payouts plus some margin of profit. So we'd ultimately wind up paying more for the same coverage. It would end up basically being another tax on the middle class which was used to create temporary jobs. That could be good or bad, depending on your political views.

Shouldn't they be comparing OLED sales to something relevant, like LCD/Plasma sales? Comparing it to sales of a certain screen resolution seems about pointless. They aren't competing technologies. An ulltra HD screen can also be OLED.

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Steve Huffman, one of the creators of Reddit, talks about this exact solution during his Udacity class, Web Application Engineering. http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/CourseRev/apr2012 I think it was during week 4 "Whom to Trust," but I don't have links to the exact video. So in short, yes, it has been done effectively in the past, though I believe they wrote their own code to do it.

You come across as a spammer to me too. Linking to any site 19 times in 9 days is definitely overkill, and even more-so if they are links to your own site. Link to the original content if it is that important or newsworthy.

I thought the same thing, but now rereading the original question, it seems like he wants every single line. A lot of the main, important, fiber lines follow railroads or power line easements, and many of those routes aren't even public right-of-way. They are granted privately to the railroad/utility companies by individual landowners. That was the basis of my explanation as well.

Looking back, he actually wants to see public right-of-ways. I don't think that using deeds for this is feasible. A lot of older roads just kind of have assumed right-of-ways, and even where recorded, you'd have a lot of the same problems as with piecing together railroad easements. Not to mention, there are hundreds of times as many roads. I'm sticking with my suggestion to just hi-light all the roads on his map :)

True, I didn't mean to argue your point, just that the whole endeavor is pointless. You'll be making lots of trips to the recorder's office every time you need a new deed that is referenced by the one you are working on. Most places don't have them online, especially the older ones that you'll be looking for.

Plat maps won't help. Nor will most of the info available publicly online. I've worked for a civil engineer for 10 years, and the bottom line is that the information is so spread out, and in some cases nonexistant, that you would never be able to do this.

The first problem is that in many cases the easements are so old, and the deeds so difficult to read, you could spend hours piecing together the right of way over one parcel of land. Many times there are multiple easements as they were added-on over the years. They are also shared by different utilities.

So for example you'd find one document that grants Verizon the use of a railroad's right of way. Then you have to pull all of the deeds for the railroad (hundreds or thousand per county) and try to put them together. Those old railroad deeds will say something like "the east 99 feet of Farmer Smith's property, in so-and-so a section." Then you have to go pull Smith's old deed, which says "40 acres, lying south of the river, and east of Farmer Johnson's land, and north of some other guy's property." And no, those are not exaggerations at all. In short, you'll be putting together the puzzle pieces for weeks, and then you might have a single line along a railroad done for your county.

Add on top of that, many street right-of-ways are just assumed. Sure, maybe there are some old deeds that grant the right-of-way for each road over each parcel of land, but again, you'll be putting together a giant puzzle with pieces that don't fit together well.

In short, good luck. You'd be better off just taking a map and hi-lighting all of the roads, assuming that at least some communication lines follow each road.