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Death Valley Sets Record For Hottest September Day On the Planet 111

Posted by BeauHD from the appropriately-named-locations dept.
Death Valley set a new record for the hottest September day anywhere on the planet when its Furnace Creek thermometer hit 127 degrees on Thursday. CBS News reports: While the heat may send people seeking shade at a, say, a Los Angeles-area golf course, it actually draws the tourists to Death Valley, where scorching temperatures can sometimes surprise them. "The ground heats up, we've measured temperatures of 201 as far as ground temperatures. The ground is then radiating heat back up into the air," Death Valley National Park spokeswoman Abby Wines said.

But the heat wave is just in its third day Friday, and is expected to last through Labor Day, so setting another record is still a possibility. However, it's unlikely the park will break the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth -- 134 degrees recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913.

Comment Re:C'mon (Score 2) 189

I'm going to take a lot of heat for this unpopular opinion, probably, but since I visit this site less and less anyhow for various reasons I'll take the karma hit.

Do you also steal candy you don't like and eat it to only tell shop owners they didn't lose any revenue because you wouldn't have paid for it anyway since you figured it would suck and wouldn't have bought it anyhow? Is it ok to steal non-physical products because you can't feel them?

I am really sick and tired of this "it's not lost revenue because I didn't want it anyway" mentality. You downloaded content that was produced by someone and they expected to be paid for it. But you didn't want to pay for it. What you mean to say is "I didn't think it was worth giving my money to the producers/actors/musicians but I took the content anyway". It doesn't matter whether you think it was worth it or not; but they surely did.

I am no saint. I've used TPB and other trackers. But I'm not a fool who tries to convince the whole world that I wasn't stealing. I'm just adult enough to admit it.

Comment Re:Man, oh man! (Score 5, Informative) 582

by Jaden42 (#42812343) Attached to: US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery

No, but they could die (or at least suffer harm) if the mail was something like insulin or heart medication.

Merrly being snarky does not make a convincing argument.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/06/16869665-wait-a-minute-mr-postman-new-mail-delivery-schedule-raises-eyebrows?lite

The Postmaster General has already confirmed that mail-order medicine will continue to be delivered on Saturday.

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