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Our planet has had countless warmings and coolings throughout its history. "Climate Change" on a global scale is the norm for this planet. 500 years from now history will show the current "Global Warming" (or Climate Change, if you prefer) is just one more of those, and would have happened...

I like it when something happens, like a big snowfall, or flowers growing on Greenland, and they say something along the lines of, "This hasn't happened for 2000 years!" Well, what did man do 2000 years ago to cause it? "Nothing, but this time, man caused it." Ah.

I'm in beautiful downtown Tomah, WI, where the sun is shining and the birds are all frozen solid.

Take a gander here. Shipping takes 2 days, so you'd still be out 2 motel nights, but you wouldn't be paying dealer list price, either. I replaced my original 90-amp alternator with a 150-amp alternator when I got the van. Since 250,000 to 300,000 miles is the average life of an alternator, at...

A few years ago, right after the demise of the Polar Bear was predicted, they had a guy on the radio (BBC) who's job it is to track Polar Bear populations all over the arctic. He said there are certain populations that are shrinking, and certain populations that are growing, and these...

Assange isn't clueless. You're assuming that he's speaking literally. He's not. He's very smart, and using the button-pressing word "McCarthyism" only adds to his goal. There are a lot of people around the world who don't like the US, and therefor are on the side of anything (like Wikileaks) or...

Sorry, NE2 is "New Every Two", where you get that $50 discount on a new device. My Aircard was eligible for the New Every Two on 04/09/2010, but I've been waiting for the 4G modems. Go to MyVerizon and it will tell you if and when you are eligible for the NE2 discount for your phone and...

4G is in the early stages, just like when 3G (EVDO) was new and you could only get a signal in large metropolitan areas. It'll take a year or so for it to be rolled out in wide areas, and then 2 maybe 3 before 4G has the same coverage as 3G does now (at least with Verizon). If you have a 4G...

Well, all that's really needed is pretty much whatever the inverter requires, which in this case is #4 AWG cable (1500 Watts). Even a 10-foot cable from the alternator will comfortably handle 100 amps for at least half an hour with a #6 AWG cable. There's a tradeoff between wire sizing, and...

Or a porn star?

The driver isn't owed a dime. The minute he left the shipper without the implicit approval of dispatch he literally and figuratively abandoned the load contract. Whether one just so happened to have gone dry run after he left is irrelevant, since at the time he left, the load was not a dry run...

I dunno. Maybe by MB, but not by Sprinter techs, anyway. The 03's, and maybe 04's and earlier, you could rebuild them pretty easy. Don't know about the latest models. But with mine, they redesigned it, mainly to prevent some of the problems rebuilding the earlier units had. The rail itself...

1 - Yes 2 - No I believer her because what she says is true, they never have promoted any technology to disable cell phone signals, nor have they stated they intend to require them. They have stated they have and are looking into it, but there's a snotload of things they look into that never...

I'm officially at 350,000 miles now. Looking for the transmission to go any minute. :D A few months ago I had a clogged radiator, replaced that and the fan clutch. AC went goofy and had to replace the lines and condenser. The compressor will need replacing in the Spring. Couple of weeks ago I...

The above from Politifact (and from distraction.gov, the DOT's site) deals with cars, which the Department of Transportation isn't really in charge of. It's the States who dole out driver's licenses and make the laws. The DOT is in charge of Commercial Motor Vehicles, tho, and they're not about...

You're assuming they haven't taken steps to legally gain citizenship. I don't know about Pedro Ramirez (first link), but I would guess that he has. You really should read the story in the second link about Hector Lopez. Not only has he taken steps, but his parents tried to get here legally in...

Well, I mentioned that illegals would still be here. The fact that so many illegals come and go across the border as they please, and can take or send money back to Mexico at their whim, will be a thing of the past if the borders are secure. There will still be some who take advantage of...

It was a joke, and an on-topic one at that. :D

What if one of the openly straight troops becomes HIV positive after his enlistment?

Darkest Night, actually. Early tomorrow morning the Moon will pass through the shadow of the Earth, totally eclipsing the moon, same as it does at least twice a year like clockwork. Except this year it will happen on the Winter Solstice, for the first time since 1638. The last time that it...