Sarcasm is just a lie with an attitude problem, isn't it!

If i'm paying for support, I get support. If someone thinks I'm an asshole, fine. I don't care about them. If I don't get the support I think i'm entitled to I'm going to complain. It's important to always make sure you get the name of whoever you're dealing with, and make a note of the time/date of the call. That way when you complain about them there's some chance of their managers knowing who it was calling their paying customers assholes or whatever and they get fired.

Nice one, Centurion. Like it. Like it.

What if you live, say, 20 miles from the capital? If that happened in London it would stop about *15% of the UK population from being able to use one! Perhaps that malware will be useful in re-enabling the damned things!

*I guessed that, but I think it's close.

But will this be free? That really killed it list time around.

Why is 8GB overkill? I put at least 16 in anything I have control over.

That's actually what it's like at "Mojave Spaceport". Hangers of small aviation practicioners and their junk. Gary Hudson, Burt Rutan, etc. Old aircraft and parts strewn about. Left-over facilities from Rotary Rocket used by flight schools. A medium-sized facility for Orbital. Some big facilities for BAE, etc. An aircraft graveyard next door.

SS2 has not completed testing and it is probable that there will be a need for redesign of one or more components. So, this is a really bad time to have the hand-off. Publicity isn't a good reason.

Yep, that's valid everywhere in the world because one law applies everywhere.

Up us! UP US!!! Why does everyone get that wrong?

There is no reason that we have to pick one and abandon work on the others. I don't see that the same resources go into solving more than one, except that the meteor and volcano problem have one solution in common - be on another planet when it happens.

The clathrate problem and nuclear war have the potential to end the human race while it is still on one planet, so we need to solve both of them ASAP.

They spelt "bomb" correctly?

Sure, there are going to be mediating forces in the environment. Melting is an obvious one. The positive feedbacks have been getting the most attention because they are really scary. It appears that there are gas clathrates in the ground and under water that can come out at a certain temperature. The worst case is that we get an event similar to Lake Nyos, but with a somewhat different mechanism and potentially many more dead. The best case is a significant atmospheric input of CO2 and methane that we can't control.

I don't think I have to discount Trenberth. He's trying to correct his model, he isn't saying there is no warming.