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I think our scaly breasted chum is referring to slow internet access or low spec hardware at the client end, rather than anything to do with the forum or the rate it is dished out by the hosting server. Most browsers will let you turn off flash and images, or have plugins that allow you to load suc...

hah...... I expected to be able to party. Is that when you are in, or off duty at the plant???2?......... No drinking until after sunset. "lzzrdgrrl" on the speng board because I can fit my entire fist into my mouth, no problem. "Fishtits", for my other exceptional physical attr...

Mine is nowhere as noble - admirable as Cincinnatus or mythological - intellectual as Enki. The deprecated "Colonel Sun" was a joke at the Spenglerman board, which obsessed about the ME and US politics, while being hosted by Asia Times. Colonel Sun being the stereotypical Asian [Chinese] v...

Wired |Amazon Builds World’s Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist. This fall, Amazon built a virtual supercomputer atop its Elastic Compute Cloud — a web service that spins up virtual servers whenever you want them — and this nonexistent mega-machi...

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Merry Christmas to all. May there be peace on earth and goodwill toward men.

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To me it's not Christmas until I hear

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Isn't it true that, on average, the 1980s were hotter than the 1970s, the 1990s were hotter than the 1980s and the 2000s were hotter than the 1990s? There may be year by year (el Niño , etc.) or even multi-year fluctuations (Mt. Pinatubo, etc.), but decade by decade on the Earth as a whole, there's...

Minor technical problem: Post at : http://www.onthenatureofthings.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22#p104 Lists Endovelico as author of the post but, monster_gardener is the author........ As I didn't know how to link to that particular thread, I copied it and reposted, preserving the name of the...

Isn't it true that, on average, the 1980s were hotter than the 1970s, the 1990s were hotter than the 1980s and the 2000s were hotter than the 1990s? There may be year by year (el Niño , etc.) or even multi-year fluctuations (Mt. Pinatubo, etc.), but decade by decade on the Earth as a whole, there's...

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles. One can add to the list of the fully explained: the hue of the sky, the orbits of planets, the angle of the wa...

And a Happy Winter Solstice to everyone

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Happy Hannukah

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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte -- Georges Seurat, 1884

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Large 5.9M earthquake hits Christchurch A large earthquake has hit Christchurch, injuring at least one person and disrupting power, phone services and retailers. The magnitude 5.8 quake was 8km deep and centred 20km north east of Lyttelton. It struck at 1.58pm and was followed by a second sharp jol...