Ah! And right there at the end you've come back to my central point.

What if things had been turned around and it was the bible-thumpers who came out and announced that God was ticked off because we got his planet dirty, so he's going to crank up the heat as a punishment? If you're like me (or the rest of the species), then your first reaction would be, "shut up idiot." Which you would follow up with the assumption that its all part of trying to take evolution out of schools.

At which point the volume of evidence needed to convince you skyrockets.

I'm not describing my own position, just explaining how we got here.

We aren't dealing with empirical data, we're dealing with people. If you pipe them data in the wrong format they'll reject it and drop any further connection attempt.

They weren't, but it was quickly co-opted by those who were already radically opposed to industry and development. As a result, climate change became associated with their radical position, and rejected with it.

Had it been framed in the terms and manners of a conservative argument, and not presented by those whose arguments are dismissed out of hand, it would not be the controversy it is now.

TV channels are streamed to your box as MPEG-2. Netflix is streamed as H.264.

You don't need to be an AV geek to see why Comcast's complaints about Netflix et. all burdening their lines is utter bull.

Sigh...

Of course it looks that way! All of our programs and simulations are reflections of the universe itself, reproducing it on a small scale using the same rule set. Its akin to looking at a painting and thinking that it looks so real that maybe reality is just a painting.

if Climate Change hadn't been hijacked by wild-eyed hippies who insisted on pushing it in a way that turned off the people they needed to convince.

Insurance companies don't actually like paying out, so why are they paying when they know damn well the government has a fund that covers it?

Rodman is a ridiculous character. The CIA has used ridiculous people as intelligence assets in the past. Rodman gets to hang out with the leader of the most infamously impenetrable nation in the world and nobody questions it.

Am I the only one who thinks the CIA was knocking at his door the instant he got the invite? He's a crazy dick, who would suspect?

Okay, there's really only one thing to complain about with 8, and that's the Start Screen instead of a Start Menu. Classic Shell turns 8 into the hands-down best desktop OS I've ever used.

Well, it does try to push you into a roaming account, and adding printers is now completely retarded, but those are relatively minor issues I wouldn't even notice if it wasn't part of my job to add those printers.

Uuugh.

That was brutal...

...why not put piezos in the mouthpiece so you can charge the battery with your bite?

..to glue tags onto 5000 bees? Workers only live for a few weeks, so unless they have a LOT of bee-gluers hard at work won't their tagged bees start dying before they finish?

The guy wouldn't turn off his phone. After being asked, complaints to management... He was a jerk, and he got shot for it. Good.

How do we make the punishment fit the crime?

Though I guess a Russian prison is a pretty severe punishment as-is.

They should feel like pricks.