I'm not a global warming naysayer, but are humans solely to blame for this? How much of it would have happened anyway? (I'm thinking of the sun's 11-year cycle and the recent larger-than-normal volcano activity)

If you are a dissident escaping from a tyranny like N. Korea or Cuba, then, yes, the US is the place to go.

Another source of the strong Swedophilia around the world, is that until a few years ago, the Swedish educational system was open to, and free of cost, to anyone applying from around the world, and accepted students purely based on academic merits. Unfortunately, this practise was not allowed within EU and discontinued some years after Sweden joined EU.

The quantifiable costs and benefits are given in the IPCC report: according to the report, inaction means a possibility of losing a few percent of world GDP decades-to-a-century from now, and action means a certainty of losing a few percent of world GDP sooner than that.

Unfortunately, there simply isn't enough Uranium for that.

If I was in their position and saw what was happening around me, I'd be making friends with the side that seemed to be winning to find out the truth about what was going to happen next. if the parents chose not to, you can't blame God for that. They might not have known the specifics about what was going to happen next,

> I wonder who you think the "terrorists" are.

The Muslim Brotherhood. They are the parent organization of pretty much every terrorist organization. If AQ if "The Base" then the MB is the "Mothership."

"You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with [intelligent, well-socialized blacks]. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice."

Am I the only one that finds great irony in that statement? Maybe the "amulet" only works if you don't talk about it.

You can see and calculate the numbers for yourself:[...]

Hmm. Many slashdot posters are almost certainly smarter than any random black person they're going to meet.

Almost certainly smarter than any random white, yellow, purple or green person too. That's an unfortunate downside of being intelligent.

What good is your "heavy emphasis on black suffering, de-emphasis on white rights" attitude to a skinny, nervous white kid sitting in an all-black bar alone at 2 AM on Friday night?

actually so called affirmative action is pure example of racism (as in company has to have 10% of blacks or 50% of women in this position and you even when you have better grades or past experience do not get position just because you are unwanted white male.

I never said or implied anything of the sort

I agree with all those statements.

Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.

Nope, I'm pretty sure I meant exactly what I said

at my core I am fiercely independent and more of a scientific, less artistic thinker.

I don't know of any places like that in real life; the closest I can think of are Atlanta and Detroit. But if a place like that did exist, things probably wouldn't be much different, except the white people would be getting the short end of the stick.