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Whole Europe is selling football clubs, museums and car manufacturers to those double-face assholes (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, ...), because they're in need of their precious oil.
Cut the dependency on oil, and you'll solve peak oil, global warming and islamic terror at the same time.

Exactly, we humans really suck at making random choices.
50:50 at Rock/Paper/Scissors should actually be the worst-case scenario : If your opponent understands your logic and begins to win, just make truly random choices, and you'll get back to 50:50 after enough time.
But you should also try to bluff and analyse your opponent's smile, voice and body language.

I'm not sure global warming is an exponential system.
But I get your point, and you're probably talking about treshold effects and positive feedbacks.
And yes, it would be a bitch to control this system, and very hard to stay between -1*IAU and 1*IAU : http://xkcd.com/1379/
Disclaimer: IANACT

It must be true, Colin Powell brought a vial to the United Nations Security Council, and claimed it contained a 99.9999% pure North Korean IP.

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Thank you.

He did fuck a 9 year old girl, though (he was 53 at that time).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

OR let me ask it this way. Name one Islamic Nation where Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Atheists or anyone else is actually FREE to practice their religion (or lack thereof).

Try Marocco or, historically, Muslim Spain.

Stéphane Charbonnier, who is rumored to be one of the causalities of today's attack

Not rumored anymore.
Charb's dead, as well as Cabu, Wolinski, Tignous, Bernard Maris and at least 7 others.
Cabu was my favorite cartoonist, and the father of my favorite singer, Mano Solo.
May they all rest in peace.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/...
Are those stars or just noise? It's really hard to tell.

No, their fossil footprint isn't small, and there are many more important thing to do with oil, e.g. plastic.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

I'm a pretty big global warming doomsayer, but even I want to live in a world where I can fly to the other side of the planet in 24 hours if I really have to.

I'm a vegeterian, but I want to eat meat whenever I want.
PROTIP : Nobody really *needs* to be on the other side of the planet in 24 hours.

Do you have any "life todo list"?
I wish you luck and strength if you still want to get some important things done before the end.
3 friends died this year, and it reminded me of the importance of some things that I might have forgotten otherwise.

if everything's encrypted... viola.

Interesting. How do you plan to encrypt a big violin? :)