The textbooks are out there. There are the IPCC reports. There is basic physics. You actually can create a greenhouse and measure the effect yourself. Go to the next department store, buy four planks and a sheet of acryl and put them in the garden as a small greenhouse. You also can go through old textbooks and look up the number for carbondioxide in the atmosphere. And you can graph the values in a time line, and you will see that they nearly linearily increase from 270 ppm around 1900 to 400 ppm today.

I for instance have an old book about the planets (author: L. Ksanformaliti, if anyone is interested) from 1984. This was long before any politically heated discussion about climate change. It was full of data on the atmospheres of the planets and of the local greenhouse effects, and how dependend the actual greenhouse effect is from the actual levels of the different gases like Methane and Carbondioxide, and that the Earth has a considerably high greenhouse effect, which increases the average surface temperature by 15 Kelvin compared to a Black Body. And it had references to other planets, and how the high levels of Carbondioxide in the Venus's atmosphere amount to a greenhouse effect of more than 400 Kelvin, and how the very low levels on Mars cause a very small greenhouse effect.

So when the debate came after the Kyoto protocol, I was always wondering how the deniers could be so ignorant of long known facts, as if they heard it for the first time, and how they could consider it made up and falsificated and whatever the accusations were. And I knew that this was primarily a political debate of not having to face the consequences of their own doings, and one way was to call the scientists who were just publishing the collected facts of their field fat and lazy and government paid shills. And then I saw that the discussion was mainly an U.S.-only debate cooked up by paid shills and astroturfers, and I knew everything was well.

Do you see pockmarks on the earths surface which result from baseball impacts at 100 kph? Even if you do, wind or the next rain wash them away very fast. And the energy of the cosmic particles was said to be comparable to a baseball at about 60 mph, thus you won't expect any more impact.

You know that Gnome is actually a result of The GIMP and not vice versa? Gnome builds on GTK, which stands for GIMP Toolkit (and not Gnome Toolkit). Gnome is basicly a standalone version of GIMPs UI widgets.

No, since 1973 copyrights don't have to be applied for. It is sufficient that the Work of Art was created, and that the level of creativeness was high enough. And yes, in theory you could leak some Work of Art of you and then sue the people who distribute it. But the problem is: Your Work of Art has to be appealling enough for people to actually wanting to copy and to distribute it.

Why should it be illegal, and who should get the blame if it happens anyway?

Even the word giant has the same root: it's just omitting the second g, gi(g)ant, for better pronounciation. It's gigas with the latin ending -nt meaning "the one who does", comparable with the english -ing.

Actually, giga(s) is greek and means "giant". And yes, the syllable for the billion is derived from the greek word. But that doesn't mean that the original meaning just vanishes.

No, as usual, things with no immediate use but too hardly earned to get thrown away get stashed until the time comes. And then forgotten. There is no cabal here. Guys can hope, but to hope natural laws change at will just to support the own ideology has the ring of futility to it.

It's Password Managers all the way down!

No, 700 miles is pretty close. 850 would be more closer though, it's about 1300 km.

While Westphalia is part of the ancient settlement area of the historical Saxons, contemporary Saxony has nothing to do with it. Actually, the title of Archduke of Saxony was handed to the Duke of Meissen, when the original Saxon line of Achedukes died out in the 15th century, carring the name Saxony from today's Westphalia and Lower Saxony to Meissen and Dresden.

Because most clocks sold worldwide still display the term GMT even though they are in reality using UTC.

No. I don't understand their behaviour. I know why they are acting that way. But that doesn't mean I understand them. I think they are exactly the type of person she complains about rightfully.

I have a DSL line on twisted copper with 30 MBit/sec. I've seen demonstration installs with 230 Mbit/sec on twisted copper. NSN has demonstrated 825 Mbit/sec on DSL via twisted copper in 2010. So where does your 20 M come from?

Hm. So you were saying, that you don't have the choice of fast food chains, because Domino's only serves pizza, while McDonald's only serves burgers?