It also doesn't work on the "continue to argue with an idiot when the conversation has moved on" principle.

I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Delete the project and tell all involved to stop being dicks. Why does this need to generate so much bullshit?

"It is possible to debate this" /= "This is not settled science". Yes, I dare say you will be able to blether for as long as I can. But here's the thing. Science converges on the truth. Yes, it might be wrong. But by definition you cannot know better than the scientific consensus, especially not on something as well scrutinised as AGW. So, in short, you can shove your "scepticism" up your ass, because I don't care and your opinion is of no relevance.

Does climate change happen naturally? Yes? Is the current experience of climate change natural? No. This stuff isn't up for debate; it's as established science as evolution and planetary motion. Unlike evolution, though, there are a lot of people with a financial interest in the status quo and therefore strive (often honestly) to show that AGW is not true.

Speaks the man who has never learnt how effective it is to be able to say "I like your hair" in the local language...

Couple of factors. One is typically the agent is using several systems that don't talk to each other, at least one of which dates from the 70s. Two is regulatory and risk requirements that mean you are forced to reenter data instead of checking it.

The other thing is that most of the efficiency from the poibnt of view of the customer is down to the local management of that rental location. Well managed places will zip you through, badly places won't.

Generally speaking anyone smart and careful enough to use a CNC milling machine is also smart and careful enough to use a firearm responsibly. Someone who buys a machine, plugs it in, and removes finished weapon...not so much.

So your contribution to the problem of people being asshats on the internet is to tell OP he needs to be slapped?

It may surprise you to learn that most terrorists are stupid and by making their lives harder it makes it easier to catch them beforehand or trace them afterwards. It's not like Pakistan isn't doing something we're not already doing in the West (trying buying an anonymous cellphone in Europe).

Because it reduces attack surface for the authorities. No, registration of SIM card details will not stop or defeat terrorists; but it does mean that the terrorist has to improve his security hygiene to remain undetected.

Wrong. Gas was extremely ineffective; all it did was deny an area to both sides and that only as long as countermeasures were not available. What changed the course of the war was the development of artillery and infantry technique; by 1918, the trench stalemate was becoming broken and had Germany had the resources to continue to prosecute the war it would turned into a war of manouvre.

There is a difference between not being able to include facts and outright misrepresentation. The Turing on screen is nothing like the historical Turing that shines through contemporaneous accounts. There is literally nothing about this film that is broadly accurate apart from a two sentence summary.

No, we're saying that you can't say "Turing commited suicide" because, well, he probably didn't commit suicide.

Russia signed a treaty guaranteeing Ukraine's borders, including Crimea. As for Saddam, you can read all about it in the Chilcot report when it comes out. I can wait.

It is a question of vested interests and poor incentives. Elected judges and elected prosecutors - how can you not end up with poor decisions? Poorly thought through kneejerk laws, like asset forfeiture and three strike life sentences - how can you have justice with a system like this?