Can you spot where people might think you were?

"carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas tied to climate change, is being released into Earth's atmosphere on a global scale."

And here was me thinking it was being released on a inter-galactic scale.

Isn't that exactly what LG have done?

It's a fair point, but what exactly is being shared? Having a shared high IQ is no guarantee at all of the shared or compatible interests, personality, life aims or values. All the kind of stuff that helps in a social club, and relationship most definitely needs.

The only thing they have in common is an interest in knowing how smart they, and other people are, by one particular yardstick. As interest go, that's pretty shallow.

To be fair, it's not just climate change deniers who do this. All manner of nutters have the same tactic.

Make a fact up because it feels right and in line with their particular agenda, state it, hope no-one notices they made it up, keep stating it, forget that they made it up, continue stating it, hey! it's almost as good as true now!

I think they work to the tactic that if they keep saying something, it gradually becomes true through repetition.

My point was more that Microsoft have tactically acknowledged that their servers are an open book to the TSA, but they think that people and companies will be keen on giving them even more to read.

Take my money now, dammit!

I'm getting a foldable car. It's going to be sweet! It must be true because it's on teh internet.

And to think that just the other day Microsoft were complaining that the NSA fallout was getting worse. Are they hoping to swamp them with simply too much data on Microsoft's servers?

Why isn't this standard procedure for all data repositories?

Doesn't matter how efficient and secure you are, if one person can wipe absolutely everything from one control panel then you have a risk that is not being addressed. And one that isn't even difficult to address.

Never under-estimate the depth of stupidity on the internet. Or forum contributors' willingness to dredge and recycle it.

I think it's unlikely that France would be training for the World Cup at the local public park.

In all seriousness, would anyone like to provide a glossary?

CS I can guess, but AP??

When did UIDs start being issued at birth?

What of mental issues or addiction?

Higher intake of calories could be themselves a symptom of a medical problem.

Not saying it's a significant number of cases, but likely to be higher than the direct medical problems that cause it.

Well this is my main problem with bitcoins.

Mining bitcoins is like mining gold (which is naturally I suppose where the term comes from). You are digging up something that is essentially useless in itself other than it has some rarity. But the big difference is that gold does have some use unrelated to its value as a medium of wealth. If we are going to devote time and energy to "mining" a fabricated and virtual object, could it not at least be something that has some other use or value ?

Constructing meaningless strings of numbers that are nothing except "complicated" seems like a poor use of resources.