Sure. It's like the grown-ups drive around in real cars while out in the garage the kids argue over who made what on their go-kart whose design they copied from the kid up the street.

No, one guy has interpreted the MS terms to come to that conclusion without explaining why. I can see nothing in the MS terms that would disallow GPL, but I do see terms that explicitly allow GPL as it is an OSI approved license.

So I ask you, why can GPL not be used?

Just the one with the most prisoners. And legal bribery of your politicians. And more military than basically the world combined. Yeah, just your average modern utopia.

It's rising about a foot per century at the moment, so hopefully it wont start rapidly rising. Looks like you'll need to do something though in the next century I guess yet I have no doubt you can rise to the task. Your engineers have risen to every challenge so far, and it's a marvel of the modern age. If any country should give it's trust to science and engineering, and be confident in mitigating any danger it's you guys, you do it so well.

Why get it when CentOS fits the bill perfectly? Apart from the GP's rationale, it's also helping to build the profile and perception of CentOS if a major CIO advocates it. Congratulations are in order to the CentOS team for their great work, the fact it was even considered let alone requested is a testament to their excellence. Bravo.

So, pray tell, if physicists can't comment on climate science, why is the APS releasing statements about it in the first place, especially ones with such unscientific terms? Nothing in science is incontrovertible, the scientific method requires that any and all theorems can and should be questioned.

Well his other complaint is that somehow the mass of a proton is up for question while climate science is incontrivertable. Either they're both up for grabs, or the scientific method doesn't apply to climate science.

When is it ok to kill a human being? When is it ok to kill a dog? When is it ok to kill a rat? When is it ok to kill a spider? When is it ok to kill an ant?

When you are defending yourself or innocent parties from an existential threat to life.

Calling carbon a pollutant, well mislabelling CO2 as carbon and then calling it a pollutant is far more disingenious. You may as well call the ecosystem the carbonsystem. To say that addition of carbon dioxide to the environment is bad for life on earth relies entirely on 100 year predictions of temperature and has nothing to do with any biological fact.

Well you breath in ~400 ppm CO2 and breath out ~4000ppm CO2, so I guess it's TEN TIMES BACKGROUND LEVELS!!!

It's almost as if every molecule of every living creature contains carbon which was once atmospheric CO2. You - yes YOU - are made of the flesh of the animal made from the fruit of the plant made from the sunlight and CO2. Your entire body is a carbon footprint, a carbon spewing machine. Please turn yourself in to the nearest recycling centre.

There's more reason to question clean energy than that strawman though. Alternatives to gas and coal are expensive and difficult. Realistically solar and wind can only ever provide a fraction of what we need, hydro is regional and situational and has its own environmental issues, as does nuclear, and many such as tidal, thorium and geothermal are a long way from being effective. The easiest way for a western economy to reduce their CO2 output today, right now, is to go nuclear or to build modern coal fired plants which are far cleaner burners than the existing installed base. Both of these options are polictically unpalatable to environmentalists though, so don't expect them to happen anytime soon.

Yep, even skeptics agree that the world has been in a warming trend over the last 160 years, which is about the limit of the instrumental record in most places around the world. Problem is, 85% of mankinds CO2 contributions have happened in only the last 60 years, leaving 100 years of natural warming. All that is apparent is a natural trend continuing that existed before mankind could have possibly influenced events. In any case, CO2 is just one forcing among hundreds, and is easily eclipsed by H20. What's next, a ban on steam? Demonizing CO2, the giver of life, into pollution was the worst mistake the green movement has ever made.

I'm saddened that slashdot is so empty of a real scientific mindset. Since when was reproducing and verifying others experimentation anti-scientific instead of the very bedrock, the foundation of the scientific method?

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