Public weather forecasters should not be held legally liable for their forecasts since the day-to-day weather is based on so many factors that may or may not be accurately predicted. ... Pielke point out that the Springer case was based on improperly using available information, rather than inaccurately predicting the weather. ... Predicting weather conditions for several days away has gotten much better over the past 25 years. ... The result was a hurricane that made landfall on the Louisiana coastline almost 24 hours earlier than originally predicted and killed almost all of the Bartie ...

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Forster predicts the terrible consequences of technology. ... The future of communication has been predicted accurately by the author, people tend to prefer the virtual form of communication any day rather than the physical, which seems to be too much work to many. ... The means of communication was invented by us to bring people who are separated by great distances together, but Forster predicted that in the future we would simply stay at home all the time and use the new advance in technology to communicate with others. ...

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"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden."" Can you imagine a time in which books are a source of hostility, not of knowledge? Can you imagine a world in which people hate literature and crave to see ...

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In Fate, author Richard Taylor discusses several areas covered under the following sections: Fatalism and Determinism, Fatalism with Respect to the Future and the Past, The Sources of Fatalism, Divine Omniscience, The Story of Osmo, Four Questions, and The Law of Excluded Middle. The first section,...

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