It's their search engine. Start your own search engine and you will get to decide what's in it.

Oil is visible, and there are currently regulations mandating that they clean up spills. Once there weren't, and in those times they didn't cleam them up, and the spills were a lot larger.

Note that companies have a strong financial interest not to leak methane: every 1% they leak is profit they are throwing away; you don't think big evil greedy capitalist corporations are going to throw away money like that?

They did with oil.

"Eat shit and live, motherfucker!"

"Well, doctor, if you insist..."

You can trace down the story of George Washington and the cherry tree, too. I'm not sure about the one about him throwing a half dollar over the Potomac.

IIRC from my school years, when the Spaniards landed in the new world, the Indians already had dogs, but not horses. If this is correct, as I assume, at least one of your assertions is factually inaccurate, unless you push "native dogs" back 10,000 years or more. It would be almost like saying Australia had no native dogs. Sort of a weird use of the language, even if defensible if you specify what you mean.

The problems are worse, but it has better coverage of Sailor Moon.

I don't buy Abrash's "Myth of technological innovation". Counter-Proof: Multiple Discovery

Newton and Leibniz simultaneously invented Calculus. There have been many other simultaneous tech inventions.

If you are not first, there are always a few other people very, very close.

My wife also thinks there's a big difference between the Dems and the Repubs.

The measurements have shown that there are very significant, but unquantified, methane leaks. And the people doing the measurements were being paid by those who benefit from minimizing the significance of the leaks. One can't know what this means, but not being suspicious strikes me as naive.

OTOH, it's also unreasonable to believe that they are extremely dangerous. There no real evidence of that either. (Perhaps those earthquakes would have happened anyway, and anyway they were minor.) But there is significan evidence that the sides of the drilling are not being properly maintained against gas leaks. Also there is significant leakage around the drilling site. (This has always happened at oil wells, but when you're drilling for oil, the evidence is pretty clear, and the stuff can be collected and refined...though that's not a very profitable activity, so it won't happen without oversight.)

Downloading is copying. Before you download, there is one copy, on the server. After your download, there is still a copy on the server and there is also one on your computer which you directed your computer to write by initiating the download. It's pretty simple, really.

You can make low pass filters in the digital domain, just as in the analog domain. It's fairly easy, in fact. Instead of having the digital meter display the direct digitized signal, have it display an average over the last n samples. You could even make the value of n user-selectable, so you can control the amount of "slowness".

/Oblg. "Good 'ol Emacs" http://xkcd.com/378/ :-)

> AMD at one point made processors which used the full precision value of PI and returned correct results for fsin(x). It broke software, so AMD "fixed" it by breaking it in microcode.

Do you have a link for that please? Thanks.