The EU is working pretty well? Where? When? How? All I see is a means for governments to get laws (or binding directives, same shit different pile) passed on the EU level that they'd never get through their own legislature, at least not without friction. This way, they'll shamelessly deny ever having known about this and blame everything on the EU, the unfathomable hydra of beaurocracy. I guess in that respect, it works. For some.

If someone is hell-bent on writing shitty, unreadable code, it doesn't matter what language they're writing it in. Sure, C++ will give you a few extra tools to commit crimes with, but just using C's preprocessor, you can so massively obfuscate your code so as to make it entirely incomprehensible even without malicious templates and impishly overloaded operators. Is any of that the fault of the language, or are you just blaming it for offering many powerful tools? And have you ever tried debugging or understanding a messy java project with 5000 files that does little more than a properly written C++ project with 20 files? I have. The language doens't matter. In conclusion: blame idiotic programmers, not their tools.

Or they could ask those crazy guys from Finland. Their CGI in such movies as Star Wreck and Iron Sky looks pretty damn convincing, and as I understand it, their budget was pretty small, compared to the result. And for the former, they actually did B5 CGI...

Even after all those years I still hear the voices of the actors in my head as I read that. That's true love 3

Bro, this is slashdot - do you even have to ask?

Not with CAN. CAN has no concept of a sender address. It is thus impossible to determine where a CAN telegram originated.

My argument was nnot about whether particular climate models are accurate or not. It was about whether the study of climate qualifies as a science.

Your understanding of what does and doesn't constitute science is flawed. Science has to be falsifiable, meaning it has to be theoretically possible to prove that a set of theories is wrong if it is wrong. It doesn't and never had to be feasable or possible with current technology.

Again, higher temperatures (no matter who caused them) = polar ice melting = higher sea levels.

You won't have more land. You will have a lot less land.

Actually it goes much further than slightly warmer summers: the interesting question is about polar ice melting and how it will effect sea levels. You WILL care if you live in SF and your house drowns in the ocean :)

That would have been so impressive if at least one of your links worked ;]

Did the turing test change recently? Hadn't noticed. Did someone inform Marvin Minsky?

Please stop! I can't take any more of this!