Well, they better get in line for the semiconductors to run the new plant! :o)

I'm not trying to prove or disprove whether or not climate change exists or does not exist.

It's unreasonable to use a once-in-a-millennia or once-in-a-century weather event and slap a climate change label on it. This has happened before, as the old record here (for all of Canada) that was broken (in Lytton, BC) was set in 1937. Lytton (for those not from around here) is regularly the hot spot in BC, and they do record daily temperatures from 35 - 40 C in the summertime. Many records that fell were 70+ years old, and other places the records only go back 50 years.

In our area (near Vancouver, BC) we were below normal temperatures since March or so by as much as 7 C. Nobody commented on climate change then, it's just the weather. Now that the heat wave moved in for 4-5 days (which will help even out our skewed lower temperatures this year) it's all of a sudden climate change?

I'm up near Vancouver, BC and we are seeing temperatures never seen before.

I got home yesterday at 16:30 and the temperature taken on the north side of my house in the shade was 45.6 C. Our normal heat waves in the summer are usually between 30 C and 34 C. Most homes here do not have air conditioning. I am lucky and had central A/C installed but it was so hot the A/C couldn't cool my place properly. It was running constantly from about 11 AM until after midnight, and only able to keep the house around 27-28 C. Thanks to the dehumidification it didn't feel that warm. I can only imagine portables and window units have no chance, as I saw two of them hanging out of a window on my drive home.

No, they backported a lot of telemetry to Windows 7 too. It slid in with some other unsuspecting update with a very vague description.

Near Vancouver, BC Canada it was over $1.519/litre a day or so ago, or $5.74/gallon.

Would have preferred them to come out fighting against ther witch hunt, but this is better than nothing. At least Debian isn't getting drawn into it, unlike some.

You could also translate this as fear of speaking out about the topic, given today's PC climate... that was the first impression I got from this vote.

Apple isn't much better in this regard, if a bird farts on your phone Apple will say it's not repairable and you'll have to buy a new one.

I just imagined cars with big balloons hanging off of the back of them...

I loved the buttons on the back of the phone.

I looked at the new LG phones last year and was wondering WTF they were doing, and wound up with a Samsung phone.

The Samsung phone has 4 or so buttons on the edge of the phone, and I'm always pressing buttons accidentally when picking the phone up. That never happened with the LG phones I used.

The difference is when going far off road with an ICE, there's an easy solution: a gas can or two.

Their ICE engines have this capability too... there's been many recalls for 3800 supercharged engine randomly catching fire after being parked for a while.

The next iPhone will also reported not come bundled with a charger, and so far no one is telling Apple that it is ridiculous that they don't just eat the costs.

Aw, cut them some slack. Apple is so poor now that you need to buy a new phone everytime the battery dies. That'll get them out of the red.

I wonder when they're slated to close, like Lionhead Studios?

3. Over the air updates (Fans say it makes the car better over time)

This is a double-edged sword though, as features and functionality can also be removed with an update...