The longer "deniers" get labeled deniers, the stronger their arguments and position becomes. A hundred years from now, deniers will either be proven correct, or if we are to believe what we are told, we will be extinct.

Best Buy may not be Shangri La, but in many rural and semi-rural parts of the U.S., it's the nearest and best place to actually find a wide selection of electronics.

I live in semi-rural Wisconsin, and the closest Best Buy is 40 minutes away. It has literally been years since I last set foot in a Big Box store. Best Buy has never been the best place to buy electronics. Stop acting like Best buy is doing some sort favor to flyover country, and the curious people that inhabit it. The Internet is and always will be the best place to buy electronics.

No actually Richard Armitage at the State Department outed Valerie Plame. Scooter Libby confirmed it in passing to a journalist. Bush/Cheney had nothing to do with it. The crime was so severe the original leaker was never charged.

This would completely stop DMCA takedown notices in their tracks, as their intent is to clearly harass, threaten and intimidate. It would require the MPAA to write notices longhand, or on a electro-mechanical typewriter and snail-mail them to the supposed copyright violators.

Certainly someone has to pay for them, right?

Remember when there was still an evil republican in the white house, and people still acted like they gave a shit?

Companies didn't take other people's money at gunpoint. And when they foolishly spend other people's money that other people gave to them voluntarily, they go under like they're supposed to, making room for other companies that aren't so foolish. At least that's how it used to work. Now risk is rapidly being removed from the market, profits are privatized, and losses are public. Welcome to fascism (economic variety).

Well, at least Hope Class carriers will be unsinkable, because hope floats.

Violent offenders who are sentenced to life terms, often commit further violent crimes while in prison. So there.

The earth doesn't care about output per capita. It only cares about the total amount of CO2 released. On the other hand, if you are constantly trying to portray more developed nations in a negative light, then yes, output per capita is the way to go.