You didn't read the first sentence of his post? Are you blind?!

I would actually dispute all of your comments, but picking up on the last point in bold, one of XML's key features is "mixed content", which is apparently (according to http://yaml.org/xml.html) not possible in YAML.

probably prefers to pick a peck of pickled peppers

As I unzipped the archive, I thought I saw .jar files. File extensions beginning with that letter are not welcome where I work...

That must be awkward ... most file extensions do begin with . after all.

There are actually many times more capitalist property owners in Cuba now than there were before the revolution.

Almost all of these private businesses are agricultural; in urban areas the state-owned sector is far more dominant. This is the result of the Agrarian Reform that was instigated at the very start of the revolution. Before the revolution, agricultural ownership was concentrated in very few hands. The Reform expropriated those holdings and transferred them to the farm workers themselves. It's true that they are rather constrained in how they can run their businesses, but they nevertheless do have the right to grow crops on their own land for sale direct to their Cuban consumers, so they are at least small capitalist enterprises.

Dude, get off your high horse for a moment and check out the photographic exhibition website where they say that we are talking about 100m (actually they say "320 vertical feet") of ice that's been lost in Rongbuk glacier. That's a lot of ice, and is far more than anything attributable to seasonality.

http://sites.asiasociety.org/riversofice/comparative-photography

It's the platypuses you really have to watch out for - the place is crawling with the venomous bastards

New Zealand used to have the silly British system but ditched it in favour of the Mixed Member Proportional, which, despite being proportional, still provides for local representation. There have been 3 or 4 elections under MMP in NZ and the system remains fairly popular.

It's "hotel" (backwards)

The prosecution has to show that Z's statements were defamation, but even if they do, Z has a defense if he can show that the statements are true - at least that's my understanding, IANAL.

Yes, how convenient for the Venezuelans that their country was colonised by the Spanish rather than the English. Your point?

The Venezuelan president has a right a legal defense on unwarranted attacks on his reputation - if he is defamed then he can take the matter to court. This doesn't make him a dictator.

Zuloaga has a defense to the charges against him: if he can prove his statements were true, then he can get off. But if his allegations about Chavez are in fact just inflammatory lies, then he's in some serious legal shit.

I was there when that happened, and from my window the streets were EMPTY. This may come as a surprise to you, but normal people don't go to the streets during a coup. The streets were completely silent, except for some fireworks going off every now and then.

Sure ... the streets were empty except for the large crowd of angry people beseiging the presidential palace and demanding the return of the president.

See it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144# though no doubt the machiavellian Chavez somehow faked this documentary from his prison cell in Fort Tiuna.

Maybe the streets outside your window were empty. Maybe "normal" people don't protest military coups. In which case thank god Venezuela is blessed with so many "abnormal" people prepared to stand up for their democratic rights and freedoms.

I'm confused. Can someone please explain to me why I was modded troll?

Because you got up some denialists nose?

You are dead right, though: in the past, acid rain and ozone-depletion denialists have made exactly that rhetorical move: acid rain was all a scam, and there's no proof CFCs had any effect on the ozone layer. Every time someone fucks up the atmosphere there'll be someone with an interest in denying that it's fucked up, and whenever the fuck-up is put right there'll be someone to say it never needed fixing.

Have you read the interview Phil Jones did with the BBC.

You mean this one?

Why yes, I have. You quite obviously have not or you wouldn't have come up with this bullshit:

He came clean and admitted that there is no evidence of man made global warming.

This can only be described as a blatant lie, given that when the BBC asked him "How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?", his reply was actually:

I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - [...] there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.