Sadly dense population centers in the US frequently have just one ISP option. The good old telco monopoly is back.

How does that preclude genetic engineering? "BuzzFeed" has put an impossibly high bar on the authors to prove that it was engineered. In reality the authors simply said the sequences in this coronavirus were unlikely to occur in nature and they left it at that.

So the paper says this coronavirus contains sequences that are not likely to have occurred in nature. Obviously with the advent of CRISPR it's now pretty straightforward to splice genes around in a lab. Then good old BuzzFeed comes to the rescue and ridicules the paper by claiming that because the authors can't prove it was engineered it could well just be a coincidence. The paper never claimed it was engineered, it just pointed out that these sequences were unlikely to occur in nature. Idiots.

You're probably trolling but.... per the article, "all models are imperfect, some are useful." Modeling the Earth is pretty difficult to do given the numerous feedback mechanisms (both positive and negative) that come into play. Saying that because models are showing a surprising change means we don't understand the science is just ignorant.

I agree with much of what you wrote. But one important historical clarification - the Haber-Bosch process was absolutely first invented to provide nitrate fertilizer. Only later was it adapted for munitions.

The BB10 OS was a delight to use. Imagine being able to peak into your inbox no matter which app you have running? I have a Priv now and while I like it (especially the trackpad feature) I still miss the old OS.

I suppose the Pentagon, announcing that climate change is the biggest foreseeable threat, is in on this too? They want some grant money?

If your definition of "hyper alarism" is Venus then sure. The rest of us are "hyper alarmed" at the thought of meters of sea-level rise, vast swaths of the planet becoming uninhabitable due to heat and drought, refugee crisis of an unimaginable scale (just imagine relocating everyone in the lower half of Florida).

That's absolutely false. *Some* methane is being released from the sea floor (actually quite a lot of it) but the cattle industry alone generates huge amounts of methane.
 
  What's extra scary is that CH4 is usually quoted as being 30x as potent as CO2 but that's on a 100 year time scale. Methane in the atmosphere tends to break down. Given that methane rates are *rising* it's more appropriate to use the immediate CO2e value of .. 120x. As someone above noted, we are so screwed. I've never envied the elderly before now.

They're an option for phones with sub-standard battery sizes. Kind of lame though to have the efficiency loss going from the external pack to the internal battery.

Could you share some of your MTA rules? I run just vanilla spamassassin (latest version) and I am finding it has become borderline useless.

The US technically has the same but if you're within something like 100 miles of the border (which includes the coastline) you are in a "speical" area where your rights are flimsy. https://www.aclu.org/constitut...

LOL.. yeah, "social pariah." Goes to show just how far down the rabbit hole you've gone. why don't you try stepping away from the screen once in a while. Join a club. Volunteer. 95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.

Might binary view of the world you have.

What are you blathering about? Chen might have business moves that you disagree with but he has not "wasted billions." BlackBerry's cash position has held steady outside of acquisitions such as Good. We'll see what happens with the new Android based DTEK50 phone. It's aimed right at businesses and may well be bought by the boatload given BB's commitment to patching frequency, hardware security, and so on.