What's even weirder is how incredibly warm it has been in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. We're talking about temperatures near 70 for weeks at a time in November, December, and January. It has actually been warmer in the mountains than at sea level much of the time due to persistent high pressure and an…
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Interesting graph. In a related note, Vancouver and Sochi have always been warm cities, and there was always a risk that there wouldn't be enough mountain snow in both places. Vancouver rarely gets snow at sea level, and in a particularly warm or dry winter (like this one) even the mountains can be pretty barren.…
Except, unlike England, Italy does look a lot like California!
Inside events could be held in Miami for all it mattered.
For Vancouver I think the average high is around 48F and the average low is around 35. It's much colder in the mountains around Vancouver (i.e. Whistler), but nevertheless they had snow machines working full time. In 2010, if I recall correctly, temperatures in the city were flirting with 60F and Steve Colbert…
Yeah but the South has a very different climate than Sochi. Around the Black Sea, they have really wet, mild winters. The American South has a more "standard" climate, with cool and dry winters encouraging plant dormancy.
"Seriously, were they expecting the grass to grow in the middle of winter?"
I question the accuracy of the Washington State map, which seems to imply that there's some difference in climate between the north and south part of the state. There's no appreciable difference and I doubt the criteria for snow days are different between say, Portland, OR and northern WA. The west coast isn't like…
Is anyone else picturing Streetpass-style games, maybe even interacting in some way with Streetpass?
It's not a gimmick at all. It's genuinely awesome. Other family members want to use the TV? No problem! Time for a bathroom break? No problem! It's hugely convenient and fun to use. It's actually far more useful than all the ridiculous media center stuff being pushed by the Xbox, which has nothing to do with, y'know, g…
It's really sickening to see the CEOs of companies like Walmart continue to make probably as much as a whole local store makes in profits yearly, even while they refuse their employees a livable wage.
I really liked Batman Forever but hated Batman and Robin. I sometimes think Forever gets unfairly maligned because of its association with the second Schumacher film. I think Joel Schumacher is actually a pretty great director, and when he originally set out to do a campy Batman, it worked pretty well. It was his…
Yeah, assholes are assholes. And, as we all know, men are constantly being raped, beaten, and killed by asshole women in huge numbers around the world every day. So naturally, women and men will have exactly the same fears and exactly the same reactions to harassment.
I accept your point, but in order to build (or fund) more public housing we still should be increasing density. SF's NIMBYism has always annoyed me. Density doesn't have to be a bad thing. Rising rents are typically one of the side effects of a constrained real estate market where growth has nowhere to go.
Why do people in SF constantly lobby against increased density then? OP's point was simply that you can't have it both ways. Either rents will go up or density will have to increase. And the Googlers are not wrong to point out the eco-friendliness of mass transit commuting and city living. So what's the other side's…
Yes, all HBO shows are heavily pirated. But as I said, unlike True Detective or Game of Thrones, the viewership of Girls is likely to be almost entirely made up of Millennials who don't subscribe to HBO.
Yes, all HBO shows are heavily pirated. But as I said, unlike True Detective or Game of Thrones, the viewership of Girls is likely to be almost entirely made up of Millennials who don't subscribe to HBO.
Millennials are watching all of those shows for free though. The difference with the other shows is that older people are also watching, and actually paying. Girls is bound to have a small viewership outside the millennial (aka torrent/streaming) demographic. Yet HBO obviously still feels the show is important,…
I'm not sure why everyone is reporting this as a revelation, since it has already been strongly suggested by multiple scientific studies for years now, and has been suspected by historians for decades. Anyway, nice to have more confirmation.