Are you being sarcastic, trolling, or on drugs? I can't tell, you see, because of my internet Asperger's

The point is if they aren't sorry, they should be. The court can't order them to feel sorry, but it can order them to act like it.

Um. No.

the temperatures over the summer being a prime example. If there were hotter climates in earth's history, they were long before we arrived, and mostly speculative in the first place. In recent human history, the climate is unprecedented.

And there are very sound theories which say that the null hypothesis is not an effective response to what may be an immediate threat. Would you invoke the "null hypothesis" to dismiss concerns about a ballistic missile heading your way? The consequences of too much caution here are completely outstripped by the consequences of too little.

God this is as stupid as it was when people first started this stupid rumor: why would you need to "hide the decline" of climate in recent years when we have reliable meteorological data as to that? The question is NOT whether or not climate has been getting warmer: it has. The question is whether or not this correlates with human activity. The "decline" refers to the fact that pattern of tree-ring growth used to determine historical climate diverges from the actual meteorological data hat we have collected. While tree rings indicate a decline, there is in fact, NOT a decline, as indicated by about every meteorological authority ever. If a person says that climate is NOT increasing, they are lying. If they say that climate is not increasing because of human activity, that is a little less crazy.

TL;DR the "Stick" part of the hockey stick graph is up for debate, NOT the blade

the point is, if it's peer-reviewed, you don't get to jeer at someone and call them a child molester. Good science can indeed lead to incorrect conclusions, but that doesn't mean it isn't good science.

Good, except this doesn't explain ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, Arabia, Carthage, Ethiopia, the Central America empires, or any number of extremely sophisticated government structures originating and thriving in climates much warmer than northern countries (which have historically been populated by tribal raiders who at various points had nearly destroyed themselves wtih infighting) Nor does it explain the issues faced by South African regions.

Not for Africans it didn't

Historically, Africa has at various times done better or worse than other regions. However, colonialism seriously fucked them up. "Save Africa" is recent because "starving Africa" is recent

Yeah that's right, driving local industry out of business is the best thing for an economy. Free food has the same effect that undersold goods pushed into banana republics: it makes the population dependent on imports. Dependent on imports = your shit is all fucked. lrn2economics

Imagine if your LTE was as reliable as your GPS. Go ahead, I'll wait. You'd get dropped calls on humid days: and you can forget about serving anyone living in a city.

Isn't carnival of souls the ICP mythology? Why doesn't he sue them?

So then why are ALL electronic devices allowed during flight, but cell phones disallowed? Wouldn't you want the noisy stuff quiet at all times?

The thing that always gets me is the "cell phones but not other device" allowed until you reach the gate. How is is that, during the flight, cell phones send signals to the flight control and radar telling them to turn on their human masters, but everything else is okay, while once the plane is on the ground, cell phones are okay, but somehow if I use an mp3 player that DOESN'T have a phone plan attached to it, arcs of lightning will shoot out and melt everyone's eyeballs.

that's right! You heard me! POSSIBLY NOT AT ALL

My lease agreement says the landlord is responsible for making all repairs: even if I were permitted to, I am not obligated to. To connect this back to the main point, only FOSS software should be exempt by this logic, since a security hole in a product which cannot be altered is one which the user has no power over