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Well, it's easier to pass than HIV...... someone coughing on you can pass the virus.... not so with HIV. True though, this has happened before, and it will more than likely happen again.

And of course we have the conspiracy theorists trying to pass this off as an 'escape' from a germ warfare lab. :)

What kind of monitor are you using? You realize that framerates over 60 have a tendency to really mess with the game??

Well, seems ethanol isn't all its cracked up to be, and it has become official. Find an article about the latest report here. Basically, what it comes down to is, adding ethanol to our gasoline in an effort to be 'green', is a miserable failure, that actually puts MORE carbon into the atmosphere, than just burning straight gasoline. Now, this is something I have suspected for quite some time in any event, due to a variety of factors... several of which are discussed in the article. (deforestation, edge-tilling, etc.) Now, the question becomes, what to do about it..... Is the government going to recognize that this is a failed effort, and drop the requirement, or, are they going to continue down the rabbit hole, and increase ethanol content as they have discussed in the not so recent past.... I seriously doubt the farm lobby is going to just shrug, and say "well, it was fun while it lasted"....... They are going to continue to advocate for ethanol fuels, as they make a fat pile of money from it. And of course, the legislators from states that are heavily into agriculture.... particularly corn, aren't going to want to see it go away either. I see this as a perfect example of money/politics taking precedence over common sense/science.

it isnt in their best interests. Imagine people talking about 'terrorist' attacks right here in the good ol' US of A? That wouldn't look good on his (president) record, now would it? Not to mention, given the content of his speech at the UN, it would appear that he sympathizes more with the terrorists, than his own people.

If they didn't denigrate us, and, they actually walked their lofty talk, I would agree with you. Till then, i must respectfully disagree. If you can't lead by example, you simply cannot garner the respect needed to lead in the first place. Let's face it, the only reason that those folks (Gore and Decaprio) are out there is because of self-righteousness and the fact that they consider their opinion somehow more important than those of us 'regular' folks. An agenda driven ex-politician and a hollywood celebutard rant on an absolutely uneducated spiel about climate and I'm supposed to take their word for it?? Why? Because of their "status"? The fact that they actually believe that disgusts me....Just my opinion. What makes you think they believe it? (especially in Leo's case....) There is a lot of money to be made from using your 'celebrity' to support one side, or the other. If someone were in a position to do so, I am quite sure that good ol' Leo could be bought, and from then on, be on the other side of the argument.

Fear has nothing to do with it. It's all about money. The oil companies don't want alternate energy to succeed, because that will cut into their profits.

You haven't heard about the terrorists now using CO2 bombs? Yep. They release tons of it into the atmosphere, attacking us indirectly by making our climate warmer..... or something..... :D I bet they are sneaking re-fried beans into the cattle feed too, that way, they produce more methane. (a greenhouse gas 10X worse than CO2.)

Respect isn't something given away for free, it must be earned. Sure, there are some situations where you MUST show respect..... (superior officers, etc.) but, in civilian life.... nope. You get what I feel like giving you. I don't base it on anything other than the person behavior. Nothing else really matters. Not race, gender, sexual orientation, phase of the moon, or the direction the wind is blowing.

Erm, I don't pay for news feeds.... original article I found on Yahoo... that one, I just googled for.

Post your load order. How much stuff do you have in your inventory?

And now we have the Australians manipulating data...... Which appears to have been a common practice..... "Data Homogenization" they call it... Correcting for things like changes in location of the instruments, or the instruments themselves, etc. Of course, they apply this process across the board, whether anything has changed or not... so, basically, NONE of the data they are using is what I would consider 'viable'.

Actually, the universe doesn't exist. We are all some nightmare, spawned by bad seafood. No idea who is having the nightmare, I just hope he doesn't wake up any time soon.

Posting your load order might help.....

When is the last time (first time?) you read a BAD review of an upcoming game? If you believe the 'gaming press', EVERY game that is coming out is going to be the next GOTY, or BlockBuster, or whathaveyou. The gaming press has zero credibility as it is, another scandal isn't going to make it any worse. There isn't anything left below "completely useless".

Watched the first minute and a half, and got bored. Who is this guy? Sure, some of his arguments may have merit, but, his delivery sucks. (not that that little tidbit negates what he has to say....) Sure, only once organization was CAUGHT on the email thing, but, another was busted red-handed altering HISTORICAL data. How stupid is that? Yet another was also busted manipulating data. (tossing data that didn't jive what they wanted to show.) Once again: Is the climate changing? Yep. Sure is. As a matter of fact, it happens pretty regularly, whether industrialized man is on the scene or not. Is mankind altering the process? Good chance of that.... Shall we devastate our collective economies because of it? They seems kinda extreme to me. Climate change is a SLOW process, they are talking over HUNDREDS of years here, so, lets start small, and work our way up, not jump into it whole hog, without a real clue of what we are actually dealing with, and trash our economy as a side affect.

Well, its not like I have any respect for the gaming "press" in any event. This is just further proof that they don't deserve any.

Stalin was as crazy as Hitler as far as wiping people out. He just did it to his own people, so no one outside there really cared. Stain did nothing without a reason and the backing of the Israel state was not to benefit anyone except him. It got England out of the Mideast and prevented America from taking it's place. Stalin didn't give a crap about anything else. I doubt very seriously wither any other people other than the Israelites cared anything about them having a state. They just went through a war and wanted to clean up the pieces. No European country had the power to control even their own country, let alone continue colonization of the Middle East. England had been promising to back a Jewish state since before WWI and had reneged every time. They were as exhausted as the rest of the European powers and needed an out. This idea that any country was completely behind Israel is crazy. They wanted a quick fix for an issue and did much the same as they did after WWI by simply doing something, no matter what the indigenous population wanted and then they retired to lick their wounds. Obviously you know very little about Josef Stalin.Next to nothing. You cannot simply make statements of this nature, without stating some facts to back your position. All this does, is give the appearance that you have no argument, so, you resort to attacking the person instead. Perhaps you should go and read the "Respect" thread.

Not picking specifically on Jews, they were just convenient as an example. My question is: How do you know the 'fix' isn't going to be worse?

Ah, but what are the consequences of Hitler not coming to power? Would the world be a better place? Or, would someone even worse show up? Or, would history be more resilient than we give it credit for, and someone else would take his place? So, let's say I went back, and killed Hitler. Came back to my 'present' time, and discovered that due to millions of jews NOT being killed, a plague came along, and wiped out 80% of the population of earth..... or, some other guy took Hitlers place, and was even worse.... and he managed to develop the A-bomb before the USA.... and happily used it to annihilate his enemies, leaving large parts of the world radioactive wastelands..... could I then simply go back in time, to when I came to kill Hitler, and tell myself "Don't do that, the alternative is even worse."???

Either that, or perhaps the accuser has his opinion, and refuses to accept even the remotest possibility that he hay be wrong....... and from the absolute certainty that he is 'correct', he assumes everyone else must be idiots.

That assumes the initial point is indeed incorrect. We also end up with folks telling the guy saying 2+2=4 is wrong, because some unknown number of scientists said so....... doesn't make it false either.

Objective Reality? Am I to assume from this that you disagree? Would you care to expand on that some?

Exactly. Sometimes, the changes were slow, and gradual, over thousands of years. Other times, the climate would make a major shift in as little as one hundred years. Sometimes, even less than that. Where I live, has been both a tropical paradise, (if you are in to that sort of thing) and buried under a mile of ice. Several times........ and that's just in the last couple hundred thousand years. One of my major malfunctions with the Global Warmists is, they seem to think that the climate is a static system, aside from seasons, that remains the same, forever and ever amen. That is most certainly NOT the case. Not to mention, that the minor variation they are crying about..... right in the neighbor hood of 1-2 degrees C, doesn't take into account possible inaccuracies of the initial data. (I should like to think that our numbers have gotten more accurate since the 1800's, when they first started tracking this data........) Looking at the data in a realistic light, 1 or 2 degrees is a rather insignificant change.