Well, we know plants frigging *LOVE* the stuff... so if we don't we can probably anticipate higher crop yields.

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. For example, increased temperatures will stress food crops. More information is here.

They said the oceans would rise by 2009.

And, the oceans have been consistently rising.

But so far, the models created based on the presumption of the association keep breaking down and their predictions don't play out as expected.

Again, this assertion doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Models successfully reproduce global temperatures.

Unexploded ordinance: sounds like the debt-ceiling negotiations. ;-)

Time to read the article: e^(i \times \tau) = 1 + 0. The reason that e^(i \times \tau / 2) = -1 is because \tau / 2 = \pi corresponds to a half-rotation. So, you can get the same result, only with a more intuitive answer because the amount of rotation is built into the equation. This helps to understand that e^(i \times \tau / 4) = i because i corresponds to a quarter rotation.

I'd recommend trying the game with DOSBox. There you can set the clock-speed to allow the game to run at whatever speed you'd like.

From NPR's blurb: "A Harvard study that followed almost 50,000 male health professionals for more than two decades." And, "More than 5,000 of them got prostate cancer — 642 of them the most lethal form." That's a healthy sample size.

But, the supervisors have, in the past, been the predators (sexual abuse is more likely from a trusted adult than a random stranger). And, the schoolyard is a known fen for bullies. The entire world isn't some extraordinarily dangerous place.

In other news, millions of children are sent by their parents to school everyday where they are exposed to new ideas and serious threats such as potential predators or bullies.

Which is why I think Probability/Stats is more valuable than Calculus. You need the former to understand the newspaper. You need the latter to characterize equations. Guess which one most of us do more frequently.

I think Math C was probably Algebra II. I'd guess Math A = Algebra, Math B = Geometry, Math C = Algebra II.

The fact that cosmic radiation is greater than backscatter radiation is a red herring. You need to compare cosmic radiation vs. cosmic + backscatter. Unless the backscatter radiation is zero, the latter is always greater than the former. All that matters is the absolute danger of backscatter radiation. In a purely utilitarian sense, the question is: does backscatter prevent more deaths than terrorism causes? Given the lack of planes dropping out of the sky, I'm convinced that the backscatter is causing more harm at this point than the "bad guys." Not to mention the time and money being invested in "security" that could be spent on something beneficial (say, cancer research?). Or, the intangible cost of abandoning privacy.

Viewed from that perspective, your only real option is nuclear as a source of energy. Everything else just moves energy from one form to another whereas fission and fusion convert mass into energy. (Even solar energy is ultimately nuclear, no?)

I find Autorun very convenient. I carry my personal files on an encrypted USB drive. When I plug the drive into a USB port, it's convenient to have the Truecrypt mounting software auto-mount the encrypted drive automatically (well, prompting for the password automatically). Navigating to Start, Computer, arrowing to the right USB drive, opening that drive, arrowing to the auto-run file, and entering a password is much more complicated than entering a password. This is an operation that I perform on average once or twice a day, but sometimes more if I'm moving from computer to computer.

Okay, here's the dictionary. Although this lacks the background analysis.

I'm not sure if you're being serious, but here's a description of why it is, indeed, "just deserts."

Actually, the phrase really is "just deserts." Just desserts might mean eating cake and ice cream for dinner.