I don't disagree. I'm not partisan and don't really like any of them.

Accordingly, I fully subscribe the politicians are like diapers theory.

On the plus side Harper's government has lost more SCC rulings than any other one that I can remember.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

That makes me happy.

I have a rooted phone running 4.3. I use Chrome for browsing, but realize other apps may use webview and be vulnerable. In fact they make it easy for developers to do so.

http://developer.android.com/g...

I'm wondering if I can simply disable it by deleting/renaming a library or something similar, or will that make the entire OS unstable? I don't care if it breaks apps - those would only the vulnerable ones anyway. Absent that, it looks like it is possible to remove access to individual apps through their manifest files.

http://developer.android.com/g...

But of course as I said that would break them.

I'm not a developer, but maybe a script that will search out all manifest files (as root of course) and neuter any vulnerable apps by altering them would be useful. Once you know which ones are broken you can set about safely fixing them.

Any thoughts?

And likely none of it would ever be admissible in an American court of law........

Your last four 2-term presidents - Reagan, Clinton, G W, and now Obama - have faced both both houses controlled by the other party in the last 2 years of their term.

Seems your presidents just wear out their welcomes before their full 2 terms are over.

This is all true, but I'm quite thankful that the courts have been doing a pretty good job protecting us from the government.

I think Harper has lost more Supreme Court and Federal Court cases than any government I can remember. Hope it keeps up that way.

Freenet was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the headline.

This isn't a new idea.

The only way to get usable fuel out of tar sands crude is to take it to places where wages are low, labor safety and pollution control is non existent. They can't refine it in Canada.

Plenty of Canadian oil is refined and used in North America. The rest of our domestic oil supply comes on tankers from overseas. I guess they can't refine it where they are either.

Actually makes no difference to me, so long as my tank is full. Just seems sensible to do it all in the most efficient way.

Build the damned refineries in the tar sands.

And then use pipelines to move the refined product to markets? Sure you have thought this through?

I see, so your view is that if a theory can't explain everything, it cannot explain anything.

Not at all. Consistent and accurate predictive ability would go a long way to convincing me they have a grasp of how it all works. Instead they search for their missing heat.

And no points for just predicting "warming" - it is an interglacial after all, that's a given, and it's been warming for the entire instrumental record (since ~1850), so it's pretty much a no-brainer.

So basically the models are awful, and they can't predict SFA better than a loaded coin toss.

That is not science. Did you think everyone would just take their word for it?

This unauthorized copying and/or distribution constitutes copyright infringement under the U.S. Copyright Act. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(c), this letter serves as actual notice of infringement.

WTF would Canadians care about 17 U.S.C. 512(c)?

If they can't afford Canadian legal staff to even write their letters they will likely not have much success in Canadian courts anytime soon either.

If your doctor knows as much about physiology as climate scientists know about the mechanisms governing climate, the latter is a given.

Likely sooner rather than later.

When overall life expectancies and standards of living worldwide start to decline rather than rise, I'll re-evaluate your position.

I don't see that happening any time soon, "big oil" notwithstanding.

Isn't global warming [from greenhouse gases] an exponential system? When the planet gets warmer, doesn't that release more greenhouse gases from clathrates under the ocean, causing more warming?

No, or warming would have "runaway" eons ago.

We do have a "code of ethics". We work to improve people's lives.