The USA has a long history of making friends with despicable regimes. As more despicable than Cuba, I'd put: Myanmar, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Rwanda, and Cambodia. Arguably tied with Cuba would be: Honduras, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, and Uganda.

Then, if you travel back in time, you have despicable regimes in Iran, Chile, and Argentina.

Trade is ultimately for more powerful in making positive changes in these societies.

My guess is that you come from the wingnut wing of the American political spectrum, and thus have a "four-legs-good, Cuba-bad" mentality.

Obstinate rage didn't work for 50 years. Maybe trade will bring change -- it sure works that way in the rest of the world.

Wow. First post and you've already hijacked the thread into another systemd flame fest?

No, it's not. Semver mandates that the major version is bumped exactly when there are "incompatible API changes". This is a simplified (and les well-defined) version.

It worked well with do-not-track, right?

How exactly is systemd causing this problem? Neither you nor the author on the other thread give any sort of argument (which is the reason why he/she was accused of being a troll in the first place).

It's like a caliper, but used by non-native English speakers than me. :p Thanks for the correction, always welcome.

Gee, what was the last legitimate mainstream science paper you read on the hockey stick? Rich, eh?

Projection isn't a river in Egypt.

Or maybe read some original papers on the issue! Of course, if it doesn't agree with Anthony Watts, then you'll probably consider it propaganda. Bet you never read these.

The thing with crankery, is that cranks never let themselves in on the secret. It is a "self-secret" if you will.

Haha, nah, denialists are the ones running the PR campaign, and Mann receives constant death threats. Do you know what a mimophat is?

The sad truth is that it will not cost the USA economy much (if anything) to make huge strides in reducing CO2 emissions. The technology is already here. Koch and Koch will need a new business model, which is what this is really about.

I believe that Steve McIntyre believes what he says, and thinks he is doing the right thing. Now what is true is that, McIntyre, McKitrick, Lindzen, Spencer, Pat Michaels, all travel in the same circles, receiving money from industry insiders who perfected the tobacco strategy. No-one is going to hire these people now, so they are dependent on the largess of the interests that they serve. Too bad for them.

Oh, I agree that green groups are annoying in their tactics. I decry the uncivilized tone of all of it. Now, if you want to know who started it, then you have to read some history, and I assure you, there is a lifetime worth of references to read there. (Personally, I spot check about one in every 100 references -- and check more regularly if one fails the sniff test. I find this effective.)

Well, it does strike me as true that those who are public in their opposition to climate science have ruined their careers, and are now 100% reliant on think-tank money and funding in order to pay their bills. That's the price for being a crank. Now *you* may not think it is crankery, but cranks never do. So how do you tell what is real?