"Of course, environmentalism is a religion, so it's going to be hard to wrench those folks from their dearly held beliefs of a natural Eden sullied by man that can only be saved through ritual sacrifice lest we face the judgement of apocalypse (sound familiar?)." - Overly Critical Guy
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=225014&cid=18223330

Thank you ....

"History being rewritten according to a hypothesis. It's just like Wikipedia." - DiamondGeezer
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=225014&cid=18225404

"So in short, he doesn't support your position...disagrees with those you agree with...and generally is "contrarian" to your position...therefore the man's obviously crazy." - jav1231
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=225014&cid=18226046

More of a wonderful writer than a friend.. but since they're in short supply, I'd prefer to see them when I can

"I once went to a restaurant and ordered a steak, medium-rare. I know a lot of people would rather have their steaks cooked well-done, grey all the way through. I'm not one of them. I like the tenderness that a little undercooking provides. .... please read the rest of the comment - BadAnalogyGuy

"Some people get to be in history books, but most of us don't. Whether or not there is an afterlife is irrelevant, what remains behind are our children and grandchildren. ... While the wisest and kindest of parents may not turn desperately for a scapegoat, most people aren't that strong. 40-50 years into life, no one wants to hear they've been doing it all wrong. Facing this would mean accepting that, on some level, you've wasted half your years. ... To admit the truth is painful." - MeanderingMind

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=224752&cid=18200196

How exactly does this work, once everyone with a wallet is dead?

"Capitalism isn't supposed to be anything except profitable. It's not supposed to provide services well. It's not supposed to interoperate well. It's not even supposed to keep people alive. It is supposed to maximize profits by any means necessary." - Paulrothrock

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=223660&cid=18110746

"We spend lots money to be able to defuse a benign, blinking LED toy within a few hours, but we don't spend the same kind of money to fix a devastated region in the United States within a year." - 3m_w018

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219900&cid=17837904

"Why talk about response to a major disaster when you can talk about the choice to live below sea level where hurricanes regularly hit, and then not leaving town when you're told to?

Doesn't matter. You're obviously a trolling twit. Or, you're serious, and also say completely non-non-sequitorish things like, "Isn't it funny that poor people get cancer when the NSA now has ways to back up petabytes of data in a drinking straw?" - ScentCone

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219900&cid=17837764

"In accepting consensus opinion (about global warming), you are ignoring one small little problem. The scientific method. [...] The problem is simple: scientifically, we cannot use the scientific method to predict change because our best models are not yet scientifically predictive. That's an absolute problem, and it can't be fudged by wishful thinking." - Morgaine

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219070&cid=17781812

(For an interesting comparison of ideas between two of my 'friends', see a previous "Friend" journal entry for a user named "Score Whore". That user and this one are disagreeing here.. but I would guess that they might have more in common than they think ... )

"Real friends don't expect you to do work for them. If that offends them, good riddance." - jlarocco

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=211000&cid=17187312

Another case of "flawless" logic.

"The social security debate was such a travesty because it ignored the actual effects on people, and was only based upon the GOP wanting people to own stocks so they'd become more conservative, and the Democrats wanted people to not own stocks because it would cause them to vote GOP." - alexhmit01

http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=210166&cid=17132672

"I paid for my cellphone so I get to use it when I want." - electrosoccertux
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=209410&cid=17073972

"Let's not assume our children are too dumb to learn about science or think like scientists." - bill_mcgonigle
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=208730&cid=17016894

"There can even be some largely apolitical justification for oil companies to be sponsoring science education. They are the largest employers of geologists, and oil probably account for a substantial portion of professional chemists. It's simply in their direct commercial interests to fund science. And if they do this, it's a good thing for everyone." - 91degrees
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=208730&cid=17016752

"If there is any group that can be called anti-human, anti-science, it is the "true believer" segment of the environmental movement. No other politically active group is so thoroughly terrified of every promising area of research and development, so violent in opposing science (animal rights groups bombing research labs, for example) and so quick to limit the quality of life of the majority of the human race." - MikeRT
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=208730&cid=17016824

"I KNOW that you're making a fall-down-in-hysterics joke to talk about Europe and Personal Responsibility. If they cared about the latter, they wouldn't embrace Socialism." - Reality Master 101

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207404&cid=16907178