What do you look like? What accent do you have?

Handsome, and sonorous. Why?

In my impression, general parlance has always seemed to indicate 'several' as three or more. Maybe we just live in different neck of the woods and usage is regional.

Do the math. It doesn't work.

Remember, we're not talking total energy; just the delta in a year. If that is 0.1 degrees per year, that's what would need to fed into the energy/mass equation. Other comments in this thread show how the entire input of the sun on the earth in a year come out to 80 tons. I doubt the increase in heat year over year even makes one ton.

You're not getting fatter, baby... the extra pounds are because you're getting hotter!

The kids playing videogames tend to be the ones being bullied. If they wanted to make the law more sensible, they should tax athletic equipment to fund an anti-bullying program. Make the ones most responsible pay more.

After Firefox 13 with silent updates, people won't even be aware if the version number changes

This should be communicated far and wide, so that slashdot users... nay, the WHOLE WORLD... are warned to never upgrade past 12.

When I look at my two cartons of classic comic books which are worth about nil, thanks to their reprinting of comics, I realize you can never again look at them as something which could be considered 'investment' ever again

...and that's a good thing.. The popular perception as comics as an investment back in the 90's coincided with a huge decline of the quality of comics. Buy comics if you want to read them, not as a potential investment. Why should they be treated any differently than any other form of book or magazine?

Jan 2012 minus Jan 2009 makes three years. How is that not 'Several'?

Do you also dismiss everything Winston Churchill ever wrote because he once called a duchess "ugly" ?

You clearly didn't even understand the criticism you're responding to.

Worked for me last summer. Got into the US from Mexico with just a driver's license. The border guard complained and fussed a bit, but let me through with a warning.