Yeah yeah, I didn't bother to look up the timescale this time, but I got all the other particulars correct.

Actually, Palm originally didn't require you to learn a modified alphabet in the form of Graffiti, on the Zoomer. That was what was so inexplicable about Graffiti. Making it the only input method was a bit odd.

In any case, I visited Palm before the Pilot even hit the streets, I had a friend who knew those guys. And I had a Zoomer and I still have a GRiDPad 2390, although it doesn't quite work properly.

There's still room for one PDA. That, as it turns out, is the iPod touch.

In the minority.

Please describe specifically where this pipeline is going to run, and where the water will come from. This should be fun! The fact is that the PNW is experiencing water problems, too. Oregon won't be any help, for example.

What made you think that an apostrophe was needed there? No, seriously, I want to know.

In fact, he's long been called a quack. And he is one.

But you since gave up, because otherwise you'd have shared the name of the company here. Since you didn't, I think I'll just mark this one as "apocryphal" and move on with life.

Little known fact, Graffiti was originally a software upgrade for the Zoomer. It also works on other GEOS pen devices, like the GRiDPad 1910 running Geoworks. 640x400 stylus-based PC...

Actually, it's more like what Apple did 16 years ago, since it's natural handwriting recognition, and the Palm required you to use a special alphabet.

Yes, that was truly an epic moment in time.

And here's where you go straight off the rails. See, space curved there. In specifics, the PDA market went away, and was replaced by the smartphone market.

it doesn't matter, because the earth has never been habitable to humans when the CO2 levels have been higher. We don't care if the current CO2 levels are average or not, it's completely irrelevant. What we care about is whether they are convenient for us. The earth has gone through numerous ice ages without substantial perturbation of the cycle. Now we've created conditions that may change the cycle upon which we depend for existence, and we've already seen negative effects which are attributable to this carbon release.

Atmospheric CO2 levels certainly have been this high before, but the last time coincides with the last great exinction, so that is in fact a spectacularly shitty argument for denialists to engage in.

Okay.

Wrong.

No, it's called topsoil. Maybe you should study up before you continue demonstrating your ignorance. Or are you just counting on my not responding? I now have done.

Your logical fallacy is attacking a straw man.

...in name only. The amount of freedom you get is based on how much money you have, and how inconvenient your freedom is to TPTB.

Range is not a problem, most guns can kill someone over a mile away. Accuracy is a problem, that is, killing the person you're aiming for and not someone else on the next block.

Yes, because the "right" to a speedy trial is a load of dingo's kidneys, just like all other "human rights" in this country.

The demand has to come from the students if the educating is going to happen. They have to want to be educated. School is all about forcing them to be educated, and throwing them and maybe their parents into a system that turns normal people into hardened criminals if they don't show up. Meanwhile, school has only gotten more arbitrarily authoritarian, with cops being called on ever-younger children for absolutely ridiculous things. Elementary penitentiary. We're not even trying to serve the students, except maybe as lunch.

That's not only a fallacy, but unlikely anyway. Most people are shit parents by any reasonable standard.

Anyway, the rich people mostly didn't work hard, and the people who work hard mostly don't get rich. So stop repeating that useless canard.

Again, that depends on the rate and type of decomposition. In fact, if you allow duff to build up, it sequesters carbon.

Some of it gets released back. The faster it gets released back, the more of it gets released back. Some of the carbon is sequestered in the soil.