I seem to recall something along the lines of Facebook buying out certain companies for the explicit purpose of killing SMS text messaging.

For those that want to give the anti-vaccinators something to argue about, the summary title is misleading. From TFA:

"Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular-Pertussis vaccine (DTaP) is recommended for all children at 2, 4, 6 and 15–18 months of age, with a pre-school booster between 4 years of age and entry into kindergarten."
"Infants too young to have completed the primary vaccine series account for the lion’s share of pertussis-related complications, hospitalizations and deaths (at least four in Oregon since 2003). We reviewed data on infants hospitalized with pertussis during a two-year period from March 2009 through February 2011. One hundred forty-six infants with pertussis were reported during this time, and 62 (43%) of them were hospitalized for a median of 3 (range, 0–32) days. The median age at onset for hospitalized cases was 8 (range, 2–25) weeks."

So in other words, many children hospitalized for whooping cough were too young to have been fully vaccinated.

That's not too far off from a typical Phoenix July day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate

Intel processors are (mostly) made in the USA. Chinese labor practices don't fly in Intel's American fabs.

I fail to see how a 1 degree average change can make any significant difference (In Phoenix, if one day the temperature ranges from 80-110 degrees F, and the next day it's 81-111 degrees F, you won't notice).

That said, one thing that's consistently missing is how much the standard deviation of the temperature changes. You might not notice a 1 degree standard deviation shift, but you will notice a 5 or 10 degree standard deviation shift.

Why is this data never present in global warming arguments? Any climatologists care to explain?

It depends on what part of the country you're referencing. Some areas (like the desert southwest) are largely populated by people who moved from elsewhere. Other areas (like the east coast) are often populated by people who grew up in the region.

One thing about the USA is that the limits of moving from one part of the country to another is largely a financial matter, and rarely a political or linguistic matter. Outside of a lack of funds or job prospects, there's not much to stop a person in Alaska from moving to Florida, or someone in Hawaii from moving to Maine. In other words, mobility is something we have plenty of.

Your bank might limit to 4 numerical digits, but my bank (Wells Fargo, for the record) allows 8+ digit PIN numbers for debit/ATM cards.

Didn't you learn from your mistakes the last time you tried this?