If you're armed with deck guns, though, you have a whole host of other problems, like not being able to enter most civilian ports without special permission.

Because the group of individuals known as a government can't protect your "right" to health-care, basic food, shelter or a job without taking those things from other individuals under threat of imprisonment if they don't cough up. So a "right" to food means someone else has to grow it on their land and hand it over, either being paid with money that been taken from *other* productive members of the village or point blank stolen and handed over to the person asserting their "right". Some right ey?

The right to "basic food" means the right to take something that someone else has put a lot of effort in, what or who gives *you* that right just by virtue of being born? And what if ther people growing their food stop growing it and demand their rights too? Property rights are the core of all rights, without being "allowed" to own any singular item or piece of land how can one be at all free? Given the track record of societies that don't recognise property rights but *do* recognise the "right" to strike, housing, healthcare and food *cough*Eastern Bloc*cough* there's an extremely strong historical argument for the basis of what the libertarians are saying.

I'm not even nearly a "lie-bertarian" and even I understand that....

While I can understand that concern, I know that for many people (including myself) the multiplayer aspect of the game is the selling point, with the single player being a nice bonus. Granted I'll be playing on 360 and not PC, but when I can only get one game this season it's probably going to be the sequel to a game that had incredibly high replayability for me in the past.

I think the problem with being vegetarian is that you have to be quite careful to ensure that you get all the required nutrients. If you eat meat, it's easy to have a somewhat balanced diet by eating both meat and plant life. When not eating meat, you have to really think about what you are eating in order to assure that you get enough protein, fats, calcium, iron, and other things that aren't present in a lot of vegetarian foods. Granted, the same would happen if you cut out the vegetables completely, or any other food group. By cutting out meat, you have to compensate for it by eating a lot of beans/lentils, and other foods to make sure you get the right nutrients. I've seen a lot of people get it wrong, and end up with anemia, because they go vegetarian, and don't compensate properly. For people who eat both meat and vegetables, I don't think I've ever know any body who had problems due to missing out on nutrients.

Do away with client side browser scripting entirely and replace it with applications written in Javascript. I like languages, more are better. I don't like the requirement that I have to allow most websites to run essentially arbitrary code on my machine in order to view them. I know I don't have to go to those websites, but it is increasingly required to view just about anything. I don't trust my browser to protect me, and I resent having to switch to my virtual machine to browse, and then always having that notion that my virtual machine is probably a pox ridden compromised bit bucket that I should really empty at least once a week.

The problem with the array thing is that javascript don't really have arrays as a native type.

An array is really just an object with some fancy methods that allow you to use it array like. But their abstraction really sucks, because the length property don't give the number of elements in the array, instead it gives the index of the element with the highest index in the array.

This is done because an array which contain 4000 objects, really is just an object with 4000 data fields, and a few fancy methods. So the array don't really have a size as such. (Yes this sucks, and you can't just count number of fields in the object, because it also will have fields that the user have not added as members to the array).

An other and much bigger wtf is that the this reference is not always a reference to the object where the currently executing method
belong to. And this is by design, not just an implementation bug.

You don't have to participate in it, there's an option to skip the sequence right before it, as well as any time during it.

My MacBook Pro can melt the skin off my legs AND boil a pot of water, all without the slightest dip in performance.

It's genuinely surprising to me that someone hasn't heard that catchphrase. And I'm wayyy too young to have watched the show.

"This "incident" involves four scientists. Just four. "

You really need to get out more. Here's a map of the participants based on the email addresses
http://computationallegalstudies.com/2009/11/27/visualizing-the-east-anglia-climate-research-unit-leaked-email-network/

Four?!? That's like output from the CRUd programs. "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

> The oxygen and hydrogen in water molecules enhance the combustion of the
> aluminum.

"Enhance"? Um, the water _is_ the oxidizer.

This is not the act of a scientist; in fact, this would make you fail in the Elementary School Science Fair of your choice.

You are wrong. I work with scientists who recently had to destroy (actually, let go) several 100 terabytes of raw data stored on ageing tape. They decided to store the summarised data instead (only 10s of terabytes on disk). Apparently this is common practise.

while Science concerns itself with discovering truth

Science is concerned with discovering facts. If you want Truth, the philosophy department is two buildings over.

I'm constantly amazed by how many non-scientists are suddenly experts on science. Why don't you ask actual scientists?

I'm prepared to lose my excellent Karma on this issue. To be honest I'm not prepared to lose it over whether Microsoft is better than Linux, or Linux is better than Microsoft:

Research has shown Mount Kilimanjaro has been losing glaciers/snow cap over the last 150 years or so. The reasons for this are micro-climate issues, particularly deforestation around the base on the mountain. Now, will you just shut-up about Mount Kilimanjaro being somehow proof of CO2 based warming hypothesis. It isn't, it never was and it never will be.

Secondly, this whole topic is posted by a Real Climate shill and is nothing more than a propaganda piece to try to limit the damage from the unfolding scandal. The datasets aren't entirely independent as they both take data from the same poorly sited, poor maintained and poorly analysed surface station networks. Moreover, there are big data quality problems with NASA's GISS data. If CRU data agrees with GISS and CRU data has been fixed, I conclude that either GISS data has been fixed too, or that they're both crap.

Here's a brief analysis of data quality issues with GIStemp. Here's information about the poor quality of the surface station network.