But of course, one down mod and it disappears, never to be seen again. No one spends a lot of time looking for 0 or -1.

It happens incessantly. Slashdot has the most restrictive and narrow monoculture of "acceptable opinions" of any group I know of, and that includes fundamentalist Christians.

Well, as a start, the fact that they are faking a fair bit of it and cherry-picking the rest. And that the models suggest something to 3-sigma and it has fallen far out of it to about 6 sigma and shows no sign of taking the expected trajectory.

    Aside from that, not too much, but that seems like a pretty big problem.

Because the extra weight may have caused the island to capsize:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

The french have a tradition of making themselves the official arbiters of things they don't actually do anything. See also FAI - Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the guys who required the Neil Armstrong to get an FAI Sporting License in order for them to recognize that the Moon Landings took place "officially"

The IAU doesn't agree with that. They renamed many of the craters originally named on Apollo, for no other reason is that they are the IAU and couldn't stand that someone else was actually doing something, rather than talking about it.

I think that governments are perfectly capable of becoming corrupted even without Bill's influence.

The harm that Google has $5 billion that they want.

Fine, accept code from foreigners, but be well aware that this will make is certain that it will not be used in many corporate sites. One of the items I have to certify when using open-source in a corporate environment is that there is no foreign content. Otherwise it cannot be used. No one is going to go through the source code from something like OpenOffice and look for malicious code, and show that it does not exist, if it has off-shore content, it will not be used, period.

Given that the mere innocent mention of certain Prophets can incite a riot, I don't think even that is a good criterion.

    Doing otherwise gives the most irrational types a trump card on what constitutes free speech.

      Brett

My grampa was not retarded, so he wouldn't have liked it.

This is 100% nonsense, every single point. As long as people think these are the issues, there is no hope for fixing. The funding and money parts are the most absurd - American education is grotesquely over-funded.

Up near Hudson Bay in Canada is a good candidate. That's where the Canadian Shield proto-continent is, mostly unaltered since Archaen times.

Where does it say that?

More likely, he figured it wouldn't get accepted if it was utterly uninteresting. Faux outrage is far more compelling.