Here's an idea: if you believe the GP and the majority of people who believe as he does are irrational, haul out your global climate data sets and indicate why they're irrational. It couldn't be worse and would probably be a lot better than the wretchedly stupid argument you just "formulated."

Not every climate skeptic is a denialist ostrich. Many of us can be converted with patience, lucidity and openness.

Grow up, we're not your parents. Take your patience, lucidity, and openness and bone up on the subject instead of expecting other people to hold your hand and convince you. If you want to remain a Denialist Ostrich, feel free to, but don't be surprised when you consistently catch blowback for such enthusiastic ignorance.

Doubtful he's all that innocent. The news article is nothing but his word and his side of the story.

Translation: He's guilty, guilty, guilty, and the fact that he's verbally defending himself doesn't mean squat. I fact, I won't ever believe he's innocent unless the LEO on this case knocks on my door and personally exhonerates him with backup documentation.

Trust me (having assisted with investigations into computer crime of all sorts) there is no way he could have been charged based on what HE says was the evidence. There's far more to it.

Translation: LEOs never abuse the law or their authority and this person was equitably, justifiably charged. And now that he's stuck with a public defender, he's permanently screwed regardless of his innocence. Aaaaah, I love the smell of American justice in the morning.

Well, I guess the Washington government could try to pass a law that taxes a company for a subsidiary whose primary location is in a tax-free zone. If it stood up to the inevitable legal challenge, I have no idea what the unintended consequences would be for the tax landscape.

Wrong. He turned over the correct passwords to the Mayor of San Francisco when the Mayor visited him in jail (sorry, I read it but can't find the story link now). As soon as he turned over the passwords, someone who wasn't in jail promptly botched the network.

Ah, when you reframe your idea like that, yeah, I'd buy in. Anything to get the true cost of the Whopper with Cheese and Bacon closer to it's real "cost."

You're ignoring Option #3: Create a special tax for processed foods, whether in a store or at a restaurant, just like they already do for tobacco and alcohol.

I also wish I was as cool as Richard Feynman.

> Geekoid said:
> Get involved and use critical thinking and you will be as cool as Feynman.

I try, but most of my attempts are utterly sisyphean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Chuck

Eh, sorry, but Americans elect candidates based on the quality of their lies. Obama's were better than McCain's, and his delivery was smoother.

Between your documented instance and the fact that the dumbest politicans are the ones who tell the explicit truth regardless of blowback, if you want to spread the blame, look no further than a public that isn't willing to be honest with itself and its expectations.

Chuck

Are flocks too small to pick up on the plane's radar? If not, fly around them.

I wasn't much of a fan of the book at all, but after seeing the film, the relationships between the old and new Watchmen made a lot more sense. I'll be re-reading the book because of it.

Frankly, I enjoyed it a lot. It won't end up in IMDB's all-time Top 10, but IMO it was a good movie.

Why should I give a shit about market shares?

You shouldn't, market share is for losers or people who want to standardize on one Distro standard (like OLPC or RedHat).

Linux isn't about "winning", it's about making a good operating system.

Ahem, you mean a thousand good operating systems, each one just a little different than the one preceding it, don't you?

If you want to improve it so it's better, then fine.

Here here!, but only as long as the Linux community remains as splintered and fractured as the 1000 Linux flavors out there.

If you want to change it just so it can attract idiots, then whatever, that's your perogative.

Aye carumba, it's a RTFM Linux user, God bless you! Speaking for the 98% of the world that does not use a Linux laptop/desktop, I applaud your willingness to ensure Linux remains pure.

Just don't expect me to change what I'm doing.

We don't, and we hope you continue to enthusiastically wrap yourself in the false dichotomy that creating a One Distro desktop for Joe Sixpack somehow removes your ability to choose from the hundreds of Linux distros that have nothing to do with Distro One.