The statement to which I responded was not wrong in some minor detail, but completely wrong.

How are scientists ever going to convince a doubting public when we endorse complete nonsense like this just because it doesn't contradict our favored position?

You may not like it, but science is (at least partly) about facts, and facts matter.

Which of course begs the question of why if its not getting warmer all the world's glaciers are simultaneously receding a a record pace not previously observed in human history.

Really? All of them? Wow! Who knew?

At a pace never previously seen in human history? Including the end of the last Ice Age? Amazing!

With facts like yours, who could possibly doubt?

You are assuming that the long term costs are footed by the company themselves. For instance, most places have insurance policies that will pay for damages from storms/weather and the drivers of the vehicles (and/or their insurance companies) pay for it when they are involved. Those prices are SUBSTANTIALLY lower than the costs involved in getting new "right of ways", checking against documented and undocumented subterranean lines (water, sewer, gas, oil, etc.) as well as the costs to actually excavate and bury the lines.

I thought they were overtly Jewish...

Technically, no. But Windows (or Linux) can program a wake-up alarm into the RTC chip. See for example http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup .

Seriously, you are 100% correct in what you say, but according to the GOP, the government doesn't create jobs, and thus, the government can't hire qualified people to do work, but instead needs to outsource it all to private industry, all the while not having the expertise needed to even evaluate the private companies it is contracting to do the work.

That was a merciless thing to do to a clam.

So in your mind Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes have no correlation. OK. Go here:

http://models.weatherbell.com/tropical.php

Global data. Western Pacific ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) is still slightly below average for the year, and worldwide ACE is only about 75% of normal. Does that help?

Um, not exactly.

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/11/us-hurricane-intensity-1900-2012.html

Um, no. Ever hear of Bell's inequality?

Let's also not forget that North Korea successfully launched a satellite into a stable polar orbit (higher than the ISS). That first payload was a bit of a dud, but they have a proven ability to send a package over any part of the Earth's surface.

That is/was actually best practices for a secured network. One of the exploits for gaining access to the network required rebooting the network equipment so that it would load code injected by the attacker either from local/physical access or remote access. By having all the settings wipe, the attacker would trip monitoring sensors (due to the network segment going down) as well as not be able to gain any more information about the network from the device that was breached.

However, usually when this is done, a network backup copy of the config is located somewhere that the admin knows. Terry very well could have had such backup copied, but since the city had already fired him, he felt no obligation to give them any more information than what was already documented (which very well may have been saved in a readme, or disaster recovery document that was available somewhere on the network, but again, he was fired on the spot and thus, should not have had any obligation to tell them where to go looking other then between his cheeks as he walked out the door).

He was asked to give the passwords over during a meeting with several people who had not signed the appropriate papers for having said access and had not been documented by information/system security for having a right to the passwords. There was also a conference call being held on the phone in the room with unknown persons who would have then also been privy to the password divergence. Terry simple say "no" to diverging the passwords in that location, at that time, in that manner. In his contract, he had a duty to protect the passwords, and he was still an employee at that time. Giving up the passwords in that location at that time would have been a breach of his contract and he could have been fired on the spot for doing so. He was placed in an impossible situation, where they were firing him if he gave them the passwords or didn't give them the passwords. At that time, no one from security had authorize anyone else to have the passwords, and as such, Terry did the only thing he felt was correct, which was to attempt to give them to the only person who was in charge of the system, which was the mayor, who could then give them to whoever he felt like, in whatever manner he thought he should since it was not written in any contract that he had to protect the passwords or be fired for giving them to someone who had not filled out the proper paperwork and been given approval to have them and doing so in a location where only the person who had been authorized to have them would receive them.

Someone must not realize that Oracle DB is the go to database for big government projects. As this was a "big government project" to begin with, Oracle DB was probably used as the backend in the existing design.