Are you kidding? Climate science goes way back to at least a hundred years ago!

The problem is that the "debate" is 99.99% among the people who have no background in the material (or worse; have a reason to bring confusion into the 'debate'), and then make all kinds of bold claims without working through the details.

No, that's actually the best understood part of Climatology, and it's not "up in the air" at all. Did you know the greenhouse theory is already more than a 100 years old?

DRM, nowadays at least, isn't so much about piracy but more about killing the used games market. Of course they'll tell you it's about piracy, but it really isn't

Why do Americans (most? I don't know, that's my impression anyway) when they throw up socialism, communism, marxism and even with nazism, they usually seem to have absolutely no clue what they're talking about. Didn't they get this topic at school? (Horrible teachers?) Or is this is because of decades of anti-soviet propaganda? Not intended as flame bait, just honestly wondering why. disclaimer: I do not belong to any of the above political groups ;o)

No it's not foolish, it's short term thinking. The same kind of short term thinking which is the norm in, oh, just about everything we've been doing the last 20 years or so. It gave us such wonderful things as the financial crisis, our addiction to oil and the continued destruction of the eco system we actually happen to live in. Okay.... I take that back, it IS foolish

Oh please, so all software bugs are suddenly the fault of microsoft? I've seen plenty of bugs in open source projects and I'm pretty sure no microsoft engineer had anything to do with that

Don't get me wrong, I actually like Obama, but isn't it somewhat... suspicious?.. that these emails where found a year after Obama's administration took office.. right around the time when his ratings are at an all time low?

The Netherlands never stood a chance. We had canons more than a century old for protection! When we refused to surrender they just completely levelled Rotterdam and threatened to do the same to other major cities. If we continued to fight, there wouldn't have been much left of the Netherlands and we'd still have lost.

Also keep in mind that the French just lost an entire generation in a very brutal war (world war I) and weren't exactly in the mood to repeat that -horrific- experience

Yes, pretty soon now we'll just increase the speed of light... oh wait

Well as long as steam keeps their prices 30-70% higher than retail for most Europeans (and sometimes as much as 200% higher prices for Europeans compared to the prices in America) Steam won't replace retail any time soon in Europe. It used to be cheaper.. but then they decided last December it was okay to **** their European customers over by simply replacing the Dollar sign with the Euro sign, keeping the prices the same in Europe when prices drop in America (& European retail) & prices where already inflated for Europeans in the first place. Even valve's own games are cheaper in retail!

lol, obviously the entire sentence is wrong! but you already knew that, didn't you? 1. political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles 2. movement based on socialism: a political movement based on principles of socialism, typically advocating an end to private property and to the exploitation of workers 3. stage between capitalism and communism: in Marxist theory, the stage after the proletarian revolution when a society is changing from capitalism to communism, marked by pay distributed according to work done rather than need taken from "http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861709575/socialism.html" just about every north & west european countries (& canada!) are social democracies or have socialist elements (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy)