Probably not what you meant - but David Brin's "Earth" is describing something like it. Not a completely bad book, but overall a bit whackadoodle, to be honest.

Pretty much so. You only mentioned half the cause of the European boondoggle, though. The other half stems from the fact that hugely disparate economies have been bound together, come hell or high water, by the Euro, which must not be devalued at any cost. Even if you have to destroy the village to save it. Without the Euro, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy all would by now simply have devalued their currencies and adjusted their debt and would just go on, as they have done countless times before. The whole "OMG DEBT DEBT AUSTERITY!!!" crowd just exacerbates the problem.

Well, I guess in the denial-o-sphere, they match the data to their preconceived theory, no?

It's more complicated than that. He not only has to provide a natural source for the warming, he also has to provide a mechanism which counteracts the effect of increased CO2, which, after all, is basic physics and known and validated over and over again since 150 years.

Yes. That's why we produce the same structural data as the X-ray crystallography guys do with a completely different method.

Oh, I forgot to mention, the above was only the digital processing. Before the raw data - i.e. the signal of the receiver coils - get digitized, they run through a preamp, a couple of analog filters, the main amp and the a/d-converter, each component, even the cables in between, adding artifacts and distortions to the signal.

In summary, every non-trivial measurement yields heavily processed data. You just need to be aware how exactly you processed them. Science, it works, bitches.

So, when I still worked on protein structures, each structure I ever calculated was a fabrication, since my raw spectra were averaged, zero-padded, treated with a window function, fourier transformed, phase corrected and baseline corrected, therefor, by your logic, not data, but mere fabrication. I let the publishers know that, guess I have to retract some papers and hand back my PhD then.

Heretic. You know perfectly well that Allah is the guy forbidding all imagery. You think he'd use a GUI? He's the command line guy here!

The scholarly treatment of the subject matter is very much appreciated. However, it just reinforces my point. Stand-off and armor piercing. Take them out at a 1000 yards and live the last days of the apocalypse in a relaxed manner, as a gentleman should ;)

Don't worry. Demonic hell beasts are handled like fast zombies. Firepower is key. Just don't rely on your anti-zombie shotguns. You want armor piercing capability. Minor upgrade to your gear, no big thing. Wait, don't you have at least one M82 for anti-alien action?? I thought you were prepared...

Ah, man. I take our German way to name acts over backronyms like CALM or PATRIOT...

Look at the glory of the LMBestrV - the "Lebensmittelbestrahlungsverordnung", a law regulating food treatment with electron-, gamma-, X-, neutron- or UV-rays.

Or look at the PatAnwAPO, the "Patentanwaltsausbildungs- und Prüfungsordnung", the act regulating training and examination of patent attorneys.

Only in such nomenclature can you really appreciate the majesty of the law... ;)

Go out. Now. ;)

An additional problem is that TV is pretty much an essential service these days. Turn off all channels for a week and watch the riots

The viewer, however, is not the customer. This is not a simplified market. The viewer may pay some cash to a cable subscription to notionally make him a participant in the market, the deciding force is the main customer, though - and that is the advertiser.

This necessarily distorts the market towards the advertiser-channel relationship to the detriment of the viewer.

Since, as demonstrated, the viewer is not protected by market forces, it is necessary to regulate this via the government to restore a balanced situation.

According to your insurance, it would probably be an act of God. Whether that again constitutes an act of war of God against you remains open. Given the general destructive nature of acts of God, the guy should probably be at least on a terrorism watch list by now.

Not publishing your fundings and affiliations is a pretty big no-no in proper science. For that alone I do not care whether it had an impact. That's not how you do it.

Unicornium for latin. Monokerion for greek, though. Think Triceratops, the three-horned.