Freenode in general is annoying. They take running an IRC network way too seriously.

The minute you figure out how to build an online society without strife is the day an elephant pops out of the sky to hand you a trillion dollars.

This leveling-up problem is not unique to Wikipedia. It's endemic throughout the entire world. People "level up" all the time for a promotion or raise, and people "level up" for political advancement. Sometimes one's idea of "leveling up" is assassinating the current guy with the level above him and then assuming his position.

Does it absorb *carbon* or *carbon dioxide*? It really grinds my gears when the two are used interchangeably. Let's begin.

Carbon is an element. Because of its sp3 hybridized orbitals, it can basically bond with whatever the fuck it wants. For that reason, it will either bond with itself, forming allotropes such as coal, graphite, or diamonds; alternatively, it can bond with other elements, forming molecules. (There are also cases where carbon forms carbanions and carbocations).

Once of these molecules that can form is carbon dioxide, CO2. In addition to having carbon, it also has two oxygen atoms. Yet here is the big difference: because there is a lack of polarity between the carbon atom and the oxygen atoms, there are very few van der Waals forces attracting carbon dioxide together, making it a colorless gas. Compare this to carbon, which is usually a black solid or a colorless crystalline solid.

In conclusion: CARBON is not CARBON DIOXIDE. And do NOT conflate the two EVER AGAIN!

After reading this article, I decided to go pet my cat. She's so adorable with her purring. I feel like feeding her now.

Wikipedia did not ban Scientology, it did not ban Scientologists, you do not get banned for being a Scientologist.

An IP address which belonged to the CoS was banned, not because of its affiliation, but because it has a history of taking a dump on Wikipedia articles, which Wikipedia's administrators don't take kindly to.

"Flag" in this case being a euphemism for "penis" somehow?

The FSF actually got the GFDL changed so that Wikipedia would be able to ditch it.

The only things which I have had the privilege to name lately are, unfortunately, only routers.

When I got an AirPort Extreme, I named it "Stanley".

When that broke down, and the router that came with FiOS was handling most of the work again, I named it "Morgan"

Then I realized: the FiOS router came first, so really I ended up naming the two routers "Morgan Stanley".

I know I have named things "Thing 1" and "Thing 2".

...until I can drive this thing on the street. Otherwise, you're just wasting money on an alternative to walking.