Plague is amatuer stuff, short incubation periods, only 25% fatal but easily treated, and there is even a vacine, unlike other things currently in the news.

The Establishment of the Caliphate is Daesh's over-arching goal, this is the same millenia old Sunnis vs. everybody non-Sunni thing; actually it probably even precedes Islam.

You're absolutely right. The problem with the Shuttle had nothing to do with the wings. The Shuttle used solid rocket boosters that could not be throttled down in case of emergency, and relied on O-rings to seal the segments that comprise the casing. (Challenger.) The leading surfaces of the Shuttle were made from fragile reinforced carbon-carbon that would shatter when impacted. (Columbia.) As you noted, the Shuttle also sat next to the cryogenic fuel tank, which caused ice to hit the Shuttle. (Not only did this cause Columbia to burn up, it also caused problems on other missions.) There was also no realistic intact abort option for the Shuttle. If shit went bad, the astronauts had to shimmy down a pole, and then JUMP out of the Shuttle.

The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser has a hybrid fuel system that could be turned off. It also sits on top of the stack to prevent ice being a problem. It also has an abort system to give the astronauts a chance to survive during ascent. The wings also generate more lift than the Shuttle's, which gives the spacecraft a better glide ratio. The only thing is the RCC, which apparently is tougher on the Dream Chaser than the Shuttle.

All of the models use an over estimated equilibrium climate sensitivity and therefore have always over-estimated any warming due to CO2 anthropogenic or otherwise. Even more troubleing is they always under-estimate negative feedbacks which again over-estimate any warming, this leads to the trend lines between model predictions and reality to actually diverge. I do agree the oceans have warmed, but I'm to going to lose any sleep over the Global oceans at 0 - 700m warming at a trend of 18 onehundreths of a degree per decade.

I believe that would be Windows NT 5.1.

We've had the batteries a long time, Thomas Edison developed the NI-Fe battery back in 1901, you wouldn't want them for an electric car, but to level-out grid demand or to keep the lights on in the house after sundown when you're off the grid they are near perfect.

That should be happened not happening, hasn't been any warming statistically significant from natural noise for 18 years.

Unless your talking about Libia and it's resources, of course that doesn't count because it was the Europeans that started that brouhaha and dragged us in as an after-thought, and because their Industrial-military complex contractor changed their mind. Just because we told that dirtbag Gaddafi, that we would leave him alone if he gave up his WMD ambitions and quit sponsoring terrorism isn't any reason to actually leave him alone when he did.

I read about that in the PopSci issue back in 1969, right next to an article about flying cars.

If your narcissistic enough, you'll fingure that people will switch from Windows to OSX or IOS just to experience the full Itunes experience, if the version of wiindows is Win8/8.1 it not very much narcissism either.

Marketing works on the principle that those jerks share, if not the same zip code, at least the same corporate culture as engineering. And the turnaround between when they observed the situation, when they made a decision and when we got to see the effects of that decision is several years shorter than engineering. So, yeah, I stand by what I say, and, hell, I'll add: I do not own stocks in any electronics hardware company, but I feel that shareholders should examine the performance of Intel in this case and see it as a predictor of where the company will be in four years.

In any case, if their marketing guy is a such a rube as to be roped in by this, is it absurd to imagine that their 2018 CPU will be powered by an E-Cat?

Alright, to finish things off, here's what someone who actually paid his dues, going out in a blaze of glory for pointing out Games Journalist Corruption, has to say.

I know, nobody's reading this. Well, hopefully someone at Intel is; and if you are, here's another post by that editor so horribly offensive because of her gurl parts that you publicly sided with a lynch mob. This one is on ethics, a word, to judge by their recent actions, so unfamiliar to your colleagues, that I wouldn't be surprised if the SEC levied historical fines against your company.

The local weatherman, if he/she is a meteorologist, looks at several commercial models, the NWS models and adjusts due to his professional experience in an area, he/she is unlikely to go anywhere hell Sonny Eliot (Sonny Idiot) was on the air for 63 years.

Just use tineye a reverse image search engine, just upload an image and it matches it to any that they've found while crawling the web.

Well I just googled "Nude celebrities" and got lots of hits, clicking the images button isn't exactly "Work Place Safe" either, maybe you have "safe search" turned on.

These "Celebrities" should be very careful what they ask for, imagine if the URL to every photo, and every article written about them just fell into the great bitbucket; if you don't nuke'em from orbit, you'll never be sure.