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That sounds really homo...

Mumbles, you never fail to depress me. I tell you something is so, and instead of actually checking to see if I'm right, you just go by your precious third party information sources. This while posting graphs that show trends supporting my premise yourself. It takes thirty seconds to use google to fact check what follows. The satellite record shows a fraction of the warming in the lower troposphere as is occuring at the surface stations, the opposite o

[quote]If so then there would be no accumulated trend over multiple cycles. I acknowledged the fact that decadal cycles do in fact exist but pointed out that in itself does not deny that such cycles are not *superimposed* on real but slow AGW increases.[/quote] This is assumption, not fact. There were no satellites checking the temperature for the last warming cycle. There weren't even satellites checking the temperature for the last cooling cycle.&nbsp

Triple posting... [quote]I can understand and accept that answer, however you need to explain the same thing to the anti-AGW crowd when they claim that this year's winter in the US southeast proves anything. You can't have it both ways.[/quote] I don't need to explain it to anyone. That I bother telling you the same thing that's already been mentioned a few dozen times in these threads is probably a sign of severe mental defect. I

I don't know, I actually watch it, so I have an excuse to not be surprised. Somehow I doubt you bother with the whole 24 hour news stuff, so haven't a clue how grossly inaccurate MSNBC is by comparison... If investigative reporting weren't all but dead, and news outlets actually got their own news instead of almost entirely reporting from AP submissions, you'd be going somewhere. Instead, you're just being a dick over something all of them do. Next tim

The seventies were the end of the last cycle, the bottom of the normal climate curve for a place as far north as Boston. Comparing that to the tail end of the warming cycle is obviously going to leave a comparably warm state. GW, not much hope there, Florida is fairly well balanced due to lattitude.

I hate Florida anyway, bring it on! Six meters could really do us some good, but that bastard Greenland isn't going to cooperate...

Too much individual unit complexity would be problematic for a 4X. If it's just the channeler that becomes some weird freak of nature, it will look weird. If it's not just the channeler, what sort of implementation are you using for all those extra moves? Each one needs animated, massive work load increase if you have multiple skeletons. Even if they ship with everything being human, that would butcher mod compatibility and add insane levels of work to

I hate red, can you change it to blue? I don't like feeling red...

You mean you're finally accepting reality? Congratulations. :)

What kind of philistine has a computer, uses the internet, posts on forums, and yet doesn't play games?

Sactuary might be going somewhere, I'm not sure yet though. Season 2 has been much less repetative than Season 1, but then they've already blown the long term plot they set up in the first with just a few episodes. I think a cast change took them out and required a restart from their original intentions, in which case they've got real writers hiding in there.

I never finished games, so score-whoring is out of the question. I just disliked having my leader completely inactive for such long periods of time. The game is already decided by the time you can finish them inside the time it takes to wipe out entire civilizations.

One thing I don't want is the MoM style crafting... Making special weapons, hell yes. Making special weapons with your channeler specifically, maybe. Only making special weapons with your channeler? It always annoyed me that there wasn't some other method of producing weapons, you pretty much had to go artificer if you went the way of the hero recruiting whore.

Sorry Doc, but you sucked. :) You didn't play it enough to get everything down, the magic lines were godlike, and could most definitely solo with the right setup. You had bombard, long range offense, stack altering attack spells, and high level unit summons. That's everything you need to break an entrenched enemy and defend against counter strikes.

It took me a minute to decipher that title... I'm ashamed to say that I could then read the sentence just fine. Then again, considering how many different usages you've got in there, perhaps that is a great feat...

How about command function? Get high level unit, a regiment commander is born from the bloodshed, perhaps captured enemy standard bearers and such as well. They could attribute bonuses, use magic items, blah blah blah. Something along the lines of a cross between Total War and Warhammer unit function.

Since we're supposed to be getting tagged with automatic tech upgrading units, your spearmen aren't just spearmen, but spearmen with whatever tech spears you've researched. I'd still like to be able to re-equip them, but whatever.

[quote]Seriously: is there a standard that describes how surface stations are to be constructed and placed? ISO offered to sell me that result of a search on air temperature meteorology.[/quote] Why yes, there is. See the CRN site information handbook for placement requirements, not quite sure where you'd go to find the official place of specification for

It's a 4x with a historical bent, magic, and customizable units. Battles have been suggested to grow in scale from dozens of men to tens of thousands by the late game. This doesn't describe a card deck style playing system, and it doesn't describe a limited unit types approach either. The no scrolling abilities list bit will fit nicely, but armies can't turn into huge TW style armies if you only have two or three unit types that are specific in usage when you're building dif

[quote]I guess you still didn't read the references that I gave you. Both class 4 and 5 stations are excluded from the data.[/quote] Such a nice surprise, it's still not registering. Direct from the NOAA CRN Site Information Handbook. [quote]Classification for Temperature/Humidity Class 1 – Flat and horizontal ground surrounded by a clear surface with a slope below 1/3 (<19º). Grass/low vegetation ground cover <1

I'm sorry you're anal. I know, I couldn't help it. It calls to me so.

I rather like the ideas centered around roaming mercenary bands that can be hired out and will go bother a specified opponent. It would take some work, but it would be very nice in conjunction with a diplomacy system that enabled civilizations to pimp their own armies for a cause as well.

CO2 is a life cycle gas though, not a conventional pollutant. Same deal on methane, which almost entirely comes from live stock. If AGW is a joke, there is no cause for reducing it.

Meh, I have an X-Fi platinum, the line is very nice regardless of Directsound problems in Vista. My headphones are a little above par though, so having almost zero noise and excellent reproduction isn't going to be a big deal on the typical junkers. Amazon has a very nice price on them, Audio-Technica's ATH-EW9's. The wood backing is pointless overkill, but they're ridiculously good headphones for an open ear clip on. You need to get something nice to