That's not the point; if they actively benefit because of spammers, and their distribution method currently allows it, then they could stop it. This means that economic pressure on manufacturers will stop the spam.

But it's not true, and manufacturers don't like it. Drug producers don't like people buying knockoffs and Canadian drugs at reduced prices.

To start, there is a story on the front page of /. Today.

A dozen dogs per airport would still be an order of magnitude cheaper than the amount we spent on less effective technology. And the ability for handlers to search is equivalent to the TSAs current powers, but at least then I know that there will be the understanding that the system is fallible. If cost were the issue, we'd be much better off with the dogs.

As a bonus, dogs + simple metal detectors would reduce time needed by an order of magnitude.

Facts are facts, but the choice of facts matter. The questions chosen were done so to pick ones that Fox has misled viewers about.

But there are plenty of facts FOX watchers know that non-Fox watchers do not. There is a value judgement, and I think that the fox conservatives have gone a bit too far, but I can pick facts to bolster the other side pretty easily.

As I said above, can liberals list companies that got a bailout as well? Can they talk about tax rates, or Tea Party candidates? You might say these are specific examples chosen to prove a point, but the U of M researchers did the same thing.

To amplify this, let's ask the MSNBC crowd about the appreciation of the price of gold and the level of overall government debt, or what size the bailouts were and which companies were involved, and the FOX viewers would arguably come out on top.

So you are saying that the book of jude clarifies what happened more than a thousand years earlier? Hard to believe that it's authoritative. Oh, wait, the bible is literally true. (Unless you're Jewish, then you don't need to read the second half.)

It doesn't matter what large means to you; you weren't involved in the discussion. It also does not speak well of your abilities with numbers if "days" means nothing to you. It's multiple, as in more than one.

A 10gb database may not be huge, but the complexity of the convolutions that need to be performed on the location losses to find the loss curve is a bit difficult. Some re-insurers have an arbitrarily large hardware budget (in the millions per analysis machine, since they only need a couple,) and the software maxes out its ability to use multiple processors after 16 or so, and so HPC solutions in windows would be very useful.

Any other application built for windows has the same issue.
I work for a company doing modeling for insurance, and the software for catastrophe modeling (RMS, AIR, Eqecat,) all are windows only. The simulations and models take days to run for a large data set, and the software/modeling companies aren't about to switch off of windows for the software licensed from them, and there is nowhere else to go.

But picking the definitions to suit your ideological goals is?

One standard usage of "Free Market" is where supply and demand determine the price of goods; if cartels and monopolies form, the supply/demand cause is replaced by cartel or monopoly pricing, which disassociates the supply and demand.

First, you are wrong.
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/08/03/new-study-clinches-it-the-earth-is-warming-up/

I dislike the power grab by governments, but... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/09/im-skeptical-of-denialism/

Don't claim it's not true, point out alternative solutions. Unless you have been doing the research and have access to some data no-one else does that casts these claims into any REAL doubt.

Do you work for FM Global? That's what they preach for a living; it's true, and a fair point, and most builders don't have the correct incentives to build homes and buildings with risk in mind. Once it's sold, developers get to pocket profits.

I'd actually be more interested in what this does to regulatory requirements for buildings across the country.

It wasn't a tornado. Sorry. (I live in queens.)

It was just very windy in a place that isn't used to it. The wooden prefab apartments in flushing didn't fall down either - And they are basically all wood frame + sheet rock.

This will be used to refine vulnerability functions for modeling. The buildings can't/won't be built to withstand the forces, but they can reduce the insurers uncertainty about how much damage will be caused, and therefore how much to charge for an insurance policy.

To clarify, the smallest hurricanes have a larger geographical footprint than the largest tornadoes. A hurricane cannot form in a small area, and a tornado cannot be that large; the difference is in intensity. Tornadoes have much faster winds. Despite this, hurricanes are a larger source of damage.

In fact, the largest losses to insurance due to tornadoes+hail+wind in a given storm is just over $2bn, which is a big yawn compared to a large hurricane loss. It wouldn't make the top 20. Average loss per year for insurers due to hurricanes in the US has been higher than that, in the last 15 years or so. (And insurers are better at not paying claims for hurricanes, since "storm surge" is excluded due to it being flood.)

Reinforced concrete and cement buildings fall apart all the time due to hurricane force winds+storm surge.

Wood falls apart more easily, but we don't need to build to withstand european windstorms, only the (relatively infrequent) hurricanes.