You don't remember it because it was one of the largest mobilisations and tasking of programmers the world has ever seen. If nothing was done, there would have been massive problems throughout every computerised industry, as all kinds of bugs were identified and fixed. I was there - were you?

Yup - still vacuous. It will only ever tell you a tiny piece of the story, so to draw any kind of conclusions from that is rather similar to judging a book by its cover.

That's your response? That's all you have? You can't explain your hatred?

Poverty is entirely fixable. You are also assuming non-natives are poorer than Parisians, which is also clearly nonsense.

Well, you've criticised Islam in the past (by confusing fundamentalist Islam with moderate Islam), and also talked highly disparagingly about Muslim people. That is where it crosses into xenophobia. The fact you can't even get your hate straight in your own head doesn't particularly paint you in a good light.

The Data Protection Act stipulates it precisely is not in the private market - misuse of it is taken pretty seriously. But whatever - kneejerk reactions are waaay more fun!

The internet doesn't, but many startups create interfaces between the internet and the real world, and timezones matter a great deal in the real world. That's the thing. Maybe you don't get it, but plenty of others seem to be.

Which is great, but that doesn't instantly mean there should be a "placebo market" which attempts to pretend to be better than actual medicine, to the point where it tries to get people to only use it. That's bad. Let doctors prescribe placebos, not water-fondlers.

Yeah! Fuck due process!

Because many people are in prison for non-violent offences. The companies which make money from prisons, and the unions along side them, put pressure on the police to ensure people are sent there, as it is in their financial interests. Hell, the police like doing it because it makes them seem "tough on crime", without having to explain the difference between someone having some weed or stabbing a nun in the face - "crime" is "crime", and the tougher they are on it the better for them.

If the people in prison were there for good reason, then you'd have a point. As it is a sizeable portion are there for absolutely no good reason, and the system actively encourages that.

A huge black mark on science? Weird. You really have no idea, and seem to be proud of that fact. The only black mark is on the societies and cultures which raise people who think the way you do - selectively eschewing the scientific method when its findings make you feel bad. The science is sound, your understanding of it is not.

Your logic is, well, fucked. The pope can say whatever he wants - it doesn't change the evidence. Your clearly need to do some reading, as your knowledge of this field is severely lacking.

We need to preserve the diversity of life to survive. This is well understood by biologists. It has nothing to do with rights, but simple pragmatism. The more species we can rely on for our sustenance the better, as should a problem occur with one (a pest, overutilisation, etc.) we have more species to fall back on while we fix the problem. We saw what happened to Ireland when their food diversity dwindled - famines leading to millions dying and being displaced.

That is not how populations work. If it were, the highest birth rates would be in the developed, not developing, worlds.

Your understanding of this field is flawed, it seems. The "mild warming" you are talking about does not improve agriculture. The crops humans rely on are heavily suited to their environment. Our staple grains are usually less nutritional with increased CO2, so we'd need to grow more to sustain the current population. The land suitable for agriculture will move towards the poles, into areas with sub-par soil (in the case of areas previously scoured by glacial activity) and no infrastructure to farm it (as the farmers live where they currently farm, and moving them, their machinery, and the associated industry support continually towards the poles for generations to come). So not only are your grains less nutritional, you need to grow more of them with fewer resources in poorer soil.

People do care and they have called out the charlatans. You seem to believe the charlatans, though, which would explain why you are claiming things the evidence simply does not suggest. I'd suggest reading the IPCC reports, but I don't think that'd help you.