Meh. A simple error in the writeup, which I'm sure is not present in the scientific papers.

http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/?question=3318

The screams... it's all about the screams. And dinner. Think of it as the psychotic version of dine-in movie theaters.

You might want to look in the mirror.

Scripting languages usually feature dynamic, strong typing. (The runtime always knows exactly what type its dealing with.)

Most compiled languages have static, strong typing. C is somewhat of an exception, being relatively weakly typed. (It's easy to make all sorts of bizarre type casts, sometimes implicitely.)

A few languages are very weakly typed, such as Forth.

Solar still has issues, and it's only becoming really viable with modern tech. Nuclear has been producing power with minimal environmental impact for decades.

Let me give you a clue.

Antarctic sea ice has increased, for some reason. When we're talking about sea level, sea ice is almost completely irrelevant. Drop an ice cube in a glass of water, mark the level, and the level won't change after the cube melts.

Antarctic land ice has decreased, and is going to continue to decrease. That will raise sea level. Get a glass of water, and put an ice cube where it isn't floating, and where the ice will melt into the glass. Mark the level, and it will change.

The radioactive cesium released by Fukushima has a half-life of about forty years. That's short enough to be a real problem and long enough to take centuries to mostly go away. (Heck, radium's about sixteen hundred years, and nobody wants to handle that directly.) The radioactive iodine has gone away, every single atom of it. While there's a certain amount of truth in what you say, there are radioactive substances that are quite dangerous for long periods of time.

Nobody builds Chernobyl-type reactors any more. That simply can't happen with most reactors.

Fukushima really wasn't that bad. Other energy sources have killed far more people and have also rendered areas uninhabitable. It was as bad as it was because (a) it was an old design, and (b) there was this tsunami that killed twenty-five thousand people going on, disrupting a whole lot of things.

Anybody who says it hasn't warmed in 17 years is (a) wrong, and (b) obviously trying to cherrypick. Neither inspires confidence.

In what way is TOR preventing finding the perp? If we had a record of each and every hop, we'd trace back to an IP address. That's not identification or location.

Moreover, the site seems to have a domain name, so check the registries.

If somebody were suing my employer, why would they need to look at anything that belonged to me? I don't own this computer, or the papers on my desk. They're corporate property.

Habeus Corpus may be suspended when necessary in case of insurrection or invasion. I take it you are aware of no military actions on US soil during Lincoln's Presidency.

But free-to-p[l]ay gaming is also becoming a serious contender. It solves the problem of gamers who won't buy a game without a demo, it solves the problem of having an adequate online player base, and it solves the problem of gamers who simply won't buy games but who might buy the occasional piece of DLC.

The truth is that Gamestop guaranteed their eventual nonexistence when they dropped games for old consoles. I get that they can't stock everything, but it eliminated my reasons to go in there. I can get all the same stuff cheaper somewhere else, and I can get a lot of stuff that they can't (or won't) get. Since I don't really need a $200+ headset, I'm not sure what I'd go in there for anyway.+

What "real facts" are those? There has not been a single climate model put out by anyone ever that has predicted Earth's climate with any degree of accuracy for any decent amount of time. There has been no experimentation against a nullable hypothesis.

I do know what bogey man means, and I used it correctly.

"Because coal is cheaper in the short term, not accounting for externalities" 10 is more than 20, if you ignore 15 out of the 20.

Climate change isn't an important externality, it's bullshit. And that fact is becoming increasingly clear to the public.

If you've got a computer and net access, you can set up a good and well-documented development environment for free. You can access a vast array of knowledge in the field. You can get people to answer your questions. This is exclusionary only in that it requires a computer and net access, and while those are generally inexpensive and very common they aren't universal.

Once you actually get into the field, you'll find that you're in a fairly meritocratic community (it does have its prejudices, but TFS doesn't seem to focus on them). If you can code, you can be accepted socially. It can be more difficult to get a job, but that's true in every field.

Nor does it require being on the autism spectrum, or total dedication. The developers I know have strong outside interests and other priorities, and most don't seem to be on the autism spectrum. I'm successful in the field, and have been working and studying in the field for decades, but I don't remember any grueling training.

Edwards is, very simply, writing about a fictional situation. He may have a legitimate complaint, but I'd like to see how it relates to the real world before I address it.

How about we just use nuclear power for most cases because it's more efficient, safer, etc.?
How about we just use electric cars for most cases because they're simpler, more efficient, etc.?
How about we just stop using coal because it's fucking terrible all around?

Why do we need a climate change bullshit bogey man to get politicians to stop blocking natural progress?