Keep the standards where they are, and if no women make the grade, no women make the grade. There. Did that hurt your head?

Progressive societies let people wear whatever gender label they like, whilst still knowing that there is a differing underlying biological reality. No-one with a functioning brain thinks they're exactly the same as natural-born females in every respect. In part, it's about not being a dickhead about it, perhaps that's what you have difficulty with.

The tone of his post is perfectly calm. I think you've failed in your attempt to cast him as irrational/furious.

Mad Max forks Debian in the 3rd act.

If their goal is to come across as incredibly pathetic, they are succeeding mightily.

Despite what Oscar Wilde might have said, publicity that predominantly ridicules isn't something I'd be that proud of.

lol. "Feminist critics".

In terms of classification, what matters most is temperature and luminosity. That tells you where the star is in terms of its life (e.g. where is it on the Hertzsprung-Russell chart). If a star has similar temperature and luminosity to the sun, then it's sun-like. It could be different in a myriad other ways but those are the important ones.

Seeing as the Sun will be a planetary nebula by then, it's probably not so much of a worry. :)

Richard Hoagland, is that you? heheh... I'm afraid to even look up what he thinks (well I know what he thinks, it's another NASA cover up :)

It's saying "Brian, get the fuck out of the bathroom what in fucks name are you at in there anyway."

"picking a fight" on an internet forum is not a "threat". But then, you know that - you just went ahead and said it anyway, because you thought it suited your purposes at that moment. In truth, it just highlights that you're unreasonable and/or a troll.

Agreed entirely. And to rub salt in that particular wound, by cheerleading for the terroists' competency they're making the fight against them go much worse. Terrorism thrives on being taken seriously, and their interests/incentives align exactly with western politicians on that.

Subtle statistical relationships just don't exist in your world, do they?

I agree with this; I honestly do not think that anyone making the 'terrizm/thinkofthechildren' arguments are being intellectually honest. They want to snoop and they'll say whatever the fuck it takes to be allowed to do it. I believe that's the reason why the whole terrorism thing is so overblown despite being, on a geopolitical level at least, a small problem in the west.