Yeah, sue him. He'll have a hard time finding an attorney, given that all lawyers go to hell.

You can't "withdraw" free software. Duh. It's free, people can use and distribute it as it pleases them (according to the limitations of the free license you released it under).

Read Trust me, I'm Lying -- it is a book by a self-confessed media manipulator who got depressed and left the industry. He worked for an apparel company. One example tactic was to take sexually explicit photos of porn stars, and then complain about said photos to feminist groups. And then: OUTRAGE!!!

The story of ACORN is a perfect example of how media manipulators manufactured a scandal -- literally creating reality for movement conservatives -- in order to shut the group down. To this day, some GOP congress critters are unaware that ACORN is defunct. The interesting thing is, the more outraged a person is (politically), the easier they are to manipulate. It is all rather ironic.

Image a world where Al Gore won the 2000 election. Maybe he would have done the same things that Bush did:

• Pull the plug on the hunt for Bin Ladin
• Ignore warnings of an imminent terrorist attack
• Invade Iraq until false pretenses
• Give huge tax cuts that apparently pay for themselves with economic growth
• Stack government science committees with fundies
• Use a pseudo-scientific definition of life to pull funding on stem cell research

I am sure that Gore would have made many annoying mistakes, but you are fooling yourself if you think both parties are the same.

People in politics are motivated as much by their personal beliefs as anything else. Judge them by what they do.

Sorry, but no. Self plagiarism is not a copyright problem, it is an ethical one. Even if you hold the copyright to a publication, it is an academic fraud to try and republish it on a new journal as if they were new results, without a citation.

What is it with the metric ton of medium.com articles appearing recently? Their advertising and media presence team got awake and started mass-submitting stories to slashdot?

Some people put forward the moral argument that you shouldn't spend other's hard earned money. Others put forward the moral argument that we should help the poor. Still others use considered analysis and modeling to try and understand the network of incentives in order to predict the outcome of policy initiatives. There are no a priori correct answers here. Do you know what this last group thinks of your assertion?

Some reach for the moral argument you just put forward. Others think the moral, neigh Christian, thing to do is to help the poor. Still others believe in studying society, and figuring out how to reduce overall costs, including hidden costs such as crime. This is hard work, takes time, and no answers are a priori correct. Do you know what this last category thinks about the so-called "Obamaphone"?

Sorry, I meant all points that are at a distance 1+1/(2pi*n) from the South pole (wrong position of the division symbol)

On a related note, there is also an infinite number of shapes a manhole cover can have so that it cannot fall into the hole. But don't tell that to the interviewers.

The set of points that are at distance 1+2pi/n miles from the south pole, for each positive integer n.

This brainteaser is old and widely known. And the traditional answer is wrong. (Hint: there are an infinite number of valid points on the Earth surface, and some of the solutions are 20.000km afar one from the other.)

6.41% of a standard deviation, according to TFA. Not exactly the same thing.

As usual, don't trust journalists. :(

all it took was a cheque from the music industry lobby to the Prime Minister of Canada.

FTFY.

It is a fallacy that addressing AGW means limiting the poor's access to energy. There will be change no matter what, and change begets winners and losers, and the losers are the current crop of plutocrats who run the GOP rage machine, and this nonsense about addressing climate change making us collectively poorer is just one of many pratts.