And what happens to the insurance companies if they get it all wrong using the runaway greenhouse model? (Answer: record profits!)

and placing trust in an experiment or model's results only as far as

Experiments and models are very different things. Experiments test how well your model matches the actual universe. Models test how well your model matches your model.

I'd say that we should be tazing texters, physically beating serial talkers, and reserving the instant death penalty for people who answer their cell phones.

How can I vote for you?

In one week will we be reading about how country X is sending an icebreaker to free the three stuck icebreakers?

It'll be Canada to show you amateurs how it's done.

A math teacher would lose his job if he taught kids that 2+2=5.

No, he wouldn't; he'd be protected by his union.

AGW is also a theory

At this stage, it's only an hypothesis.

AGW is a complex thing - there will be no one conclusive experiment that confirms or blows the whole thing.

AGW has exactly one experiment (computer models are not experiments; they are just expressions of their models), and its results will only be known in retrospect a couple hundred years from now. But even then, they will need to untangle dozens of extraneous factors from the results before drawing any conclusions.

Why are variables called "bool"s instead of "leib"s?

Car, scooter, bicycle? Something with wheels.

The COBOL program should be subtracting 06 from 13 giving 7!

And all of your stuff is right behind your locked door that's easily picked. That means you want other people to take your stuff since you don't live inside a vault. But even then, some highly-skilled people would still be allowed to take your stuff. Unless, of course, you actually DON'T WANT THEM TO. Then taking your stuff is illegal.

There is also being an asshole who is stealing stuff.

SPY (big-ass S&P 500 index ETF; click the "10y" link in the graph). The index went up 73.7% over the past 10 years and it pays about a 1.9% dividend. That's 5.7% per year compounded on the index alone plus another 1.9% dividend = 7.6% per year return over the past 10 years.

Even better, a NASDAQ ETF QQQ has returned 152% over the past 10 years with a dividend of 1.2%. This is 9.7% on the index plus 1.2% giving a total compounded annual return of 10.8%! But don't worry, you're totally brilliant for staying out of all of this.

I'm sure they'll call the next model the Surface One to avoid any confusion.

Somebody explain to me again how private enterprise is just in every way better and more efficient than government?

Just compare the 95% of mega-corps that aren't in a bankruptcy death spiral to the 70% of governments that are.

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What the hell? There is no commercial use. Stop being dicks and release it to the public domain.