Is CO2 really the cause though? I mean we already know that during the age of dinosaurs macro scale life thrived with atmospheric CO2 some 20 times what it is right now.

Furthermore, is warming really the problem? Because again, macro scale life did quite well at the time.

Also, historically speaking, we haven't seen any periods where warming has caused mass famine and/or extinction, and/or wars. We've seen the cold cause these things, but not warmth. We have however seen where bad economic policy has caused mas famine, wars, etc. That said, I'm not sure that making economic changes in the interest of arresting climate change (which is where the political conflict arises) is a good idea.

Two very different things: why does the universe exist and how did the universe come to exist. There is no why for the universe. It is. Looking for a why is what theists do.

Clarifying the clarification: I was only attempting to answer the question, "Why do atheists flock to science?" My answer was simply that, rather than arguing something vacuous, they simply say, "Meh, the scientific explanation will do for me." That is hardly flocking but just throwing a "good enough" explanation back at the theist that they will hopefully leave us alone.

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Same here in Colorado. We had a cool, wet summer. I think we only had one day that broke 100F. Saved a bunch on the water bill though. Barely had to water the lawn.

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No. You have a better chance of being right.

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If I, as a third party, want to offer telephone services that use broadband internet (VoIP), Comcast will be able to make my access to their consumers so crap

Well it's a shame then the FCC rules under discussion would have nothing whatsoever to do with that,.

Gosh, I wonder what you are getting if it's not at all what you thought. I wonder what you are getting from an agency intertwined with the cable companies, when you ask them to provide regulation from same companies... Perhaps utterly the opposite of what you wanted?

When people read the summary of this story, I'm sure a lot will be like "blah blah blah blah MAGNETS GOOD FOR HEALTH AND CURE EBOLA blah blah blah.

the janitor of the capitol building

no how about we keep all traffic on a level playing field. Or if they want to implement "slow lanes" I the consumer should be paid by the cable companies for putting the traffic I requested in the slow lane

depends on how you look at it. The highway funding has so many strings attached, some states are not taking it any longer either because the requirements are too high or the end result is a bigger hole for the state. Add in the fact that the feds said "you want funding? make your drinking age 21 or we cut you off"

While it may be better in some ways, in a lot of other ways it made things worse

This problem could have been easily avoided. Send iTunes users an announcement that they can go to the store and get the U2 album for free, if they want to.

That's how it worked for everyone that didn't enable auto-downloads of purchases (which is not enabled by default).

I *wanted* the album, and it took me two days to figure out how to get it. It did not appear for me anywhere automatically...

I can't believe people get worked up over being given music for free. Hey guess what, all sorts of free crappy music is in whatever music streaming service you favor also. Why not complain about that?

They're both still vulnerable to supernovae. You should have at least one backup in another galaxy.

Fun fact, the real reason for the Voyager mission was someone wanted a permanent backup of William Shatner singing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". You didn't ever see the back of that record they included with Voyager, did you... now you know why.

the bag of crap is useful

well with 7 billion people on the planet, this being pushed out to 4-10 million people or so. Enough of them are complaining about it so I could see that yes, worldwide U2 probably has 1% approval rating (or that even know who U2 is)

See, we have this thing called a society right. where different people do different things. I dont need to know how my engine works, I just know it does. I dont need to know how electricity works, I just know it does. I dont need to know how... you get the point. This is a horrible horrible piece of advice.

depends, If the machine in question was static than it is a problem. I have a few machines that I run with almost no headroom intentionally for specific reasons. then again I also dont use a mac