bcagrey- That is great satire! It is satire right? You are not seriously anthropomorphizing "nature" that it "not be so cruel"? The Northeast gets a big storm and that is "the point of no return"? Hilarious. The whole Atlantic/ Gulf seaboard gets hurricanes and always has. Actually, we have been in a low hurricane…

Run, run, the Jeze-Inquisition has come!

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2012/10/201210249148948252.html

Yes, the topic is that Smith used a word most in the world would consider a racial insult and my point is that Smith was wrong to think using the slur is 'cool' and that perpetuating racial slurrs by anyone is just perpetuating racism in general. ESPN is a culture setter for teens and having Smith bring the slur…

Fuel cells are useful mainly as small device power but no one seriously has a way to scale fuel cells to be a storage for the main grid. Even home sized fuel cells would be scary as to their explosive potential.

Oh, yes, it does. Just as much of rap contains mysogenist references to women and anti-Gay statements. I do not care what race someone says they are, no one gets a pass on saying racist, mysogenist, or sexual-orientation degrading statements. See, when you give an OK to any group to be prejudiced, you just spread more…

Not everyone in the world is "American". Black is the term used everywhere in the world except evidently in some small area of the USA."White" is what they call light skinned people. There is equal use of terms . Besides, I am arguing against what Smith said "Nigga" which many on here are defending and Smith's use of…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9637929/Street-lights-turned-off-in-their-thousands-to-meet-carbon-emission-targets.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9637929/Street-lights-turned-off-in-their-thousands-to-meet-carbon-emission-targets.html

The other day I congratuated io9 on having an actually realistically positive article about the modern world-well, that sure did not last too long. This is so negative and actually shows a basic lack of reading of the classics. Shakespeare still speaks to us today because so little of day to day life has actually…

I believe his point is in regards to humanity as a species, not any group within the singular human species. Humans divide themselves socially into lots of groups but species -wise, the rise or fall of any social group is not what scientists are talking about when they discuss how events -from pandemics to the…

The problem with main "green energies" wind/solar is they are unreliable and no realistic way has been found to store energy for consistant use in the grid. So, currently these are fantasy energy sources that are 'backed up' by old style coal/nuke energy plants, with the 'back ups 'truly being used more than the…

No engineering survives a hit from a 9 scale earthquake followed by a tsunami. No one even scales to that level in simulations.

How big a bird does it take to prey on a shark that big? One seldom sees even an eagle with a fish over half that size and osprey could not carry a 2 foot shark . Let's have a follow up on what bird did this.

Exactly which race do you address with that phrase, "Nigga Please"[by the way, you capitallized the "N"]? Do you use it with Chinese/Native Americans/Dutch/Latinos..exactly who do you consider this phrase ok for? When would you use it? At work, with a policeman, at a Biker Bar...? Educate us on the proper use of what…

Black is the term across Europe and Africa. The USA is not the world and it seems many Americans have forgotten that people from around the world come to io9 and Gawker and Deadspin. Dark skinned people of Afican descent who live in London do not call themselves African Americans. As to how Black/White /Brown/Yellow…

Well, I don't like people to be differentiated into any "races" because they are artificial and divisive. See, even trying to discuss the topic leads to difficulties in picking any language acceptable to everyone. For sake of communication, what term do you say everyone would agree with? We could all agree to that…

Cold people burn whatever they can not to freeze to death and most of the toxicity was from the tens of thousands of coal fueled heaters in individual homes and apartments- not just industry. People forget what a huge difference affordable electricity made in creating clean air versus everyone burning a few pieces of…

I think the term they used for this type fog was "miasma" which sounds like what the polluted fog-air must have felt like.

I keep trying to tell Gawker patrons that ad hominem is not argument. But at least that logic fallacy is not a racist slur.