Judging by the way Android devices are nailing PC sales, I'd say yeah, Linux has become a threat to the Windows desktop.

They think Gore is a fraudster because most of them are too pig-ignorant to realize all Gore is is a populizer. I get hit with "Yeah well, Al Gore!" all the bloody time, and ironically, I only watched about fifteen minutes of Inconvenient Truth. I frankly don't give a fuck what Al Gore says, any more than I give a fuck what the Koch Brothers and the endless parade of shills they employ have to say.

Yes, but I'll just cherry pick some date, oh I dunno, say January 2013 and say "See look at all that ice, global warming is a communist lie to make us give up our livers!!!!"

I've had the feeling that's been in the cards for a decade now. Migration would take a long time, but IBM is a long-view kind of company.

Sorry, but wine does change taste once it's in the bottle and even more so before it is bottled. Beaujolais Primeur is a wine that is best very soon after it is made, it deteriorates rather fast and is ready for vinegar after a year or so. Other wines are the opposite, they require longer time in the cask and even longer time in the bottle to reach their best taste. The famous French Bordeaux region chateau wines are a good examples of this.

Wine price is a combination of rarity, popularity and taste. Once wines get "expensive" the price of production, packaging and storage isn't a major factor any more, but for most wine, it is. The prices you pay in fancy restaurants are often way more than the same wines would cost in trade or in a liquor store. I don't know about the USA, but in Europe, many restaurants only break even on the food and have to get their profits on the drinks you order while you are in the establishments. That means that if you and your dining partner are in the shop for an hour, your bottle of wine you share will basically have to get enough money out of you to pay for the wages of the people caring for you during your stay and the profit of the restaurant owner. Don't be surprised if there's a $30 or more markup on that single bottle...

And doubtless when you're proven wrong you'll be back with more fabrications.

Give them time. Soon it will join the 4th in applying only to you in your home... with the door closed... and the curtains drawn... in your basement.. by yourself... sometimes.

It's amazing listening to people who think the only humans on the planet that count are the ones they can see from their front door.

I don't think it's a matter of ignorance alone. It's ignorance and callousness. There's a certain breed of conservative who doesn't even try to had their underlying pathology. They're damned proud of it. They're the kinds of guys who buy small arsenals and fortresses in the hills and masturbate to the idea of an apocalypse where they get to shoot anybody in sight and declare themselves king of their domain.

Oh bullshit. The world's largest economy could afford to basically arm its allies in a world war. The world's largest economy could fund a pointless decade in Iraq.

Don't blame the "liberals" (who are hardly the only ones responsible for the debt), and don't act like the United States, if it had the will to do it, could make significant strides. After all, whatever the economy is being banged about with now, in a hundred years will seem laughable.

I'm going to be blunt. I don't believe you. I don't think you have read the science.

Unless they're unlucky enough to live next to nicer areas where the locals won't let them in, or where desertification is picking up the pace.

You really are a simpleton.

Then go read the fucking science. Jeezus, what you, a fucking infant?

I haven't read anything by the likes of Al Gore or Green Peace in the better part of a decade. I go to the research, and so can you, if you'll just spend the five fucking minutes it takes to find it.

I see. So your solution is to simply ignore the ecological catastrophe, fuck future generations (and even some current populations) and live with the consequences of a perfectly avoidable disaster.

In a way, you're even worse than the denialists. You have adopted an ideological position and have decided that maintaining it should trump any change in human behavior.

He's a physicist, not a climatologist. He certainly would be better in some respects at assessing the models, but nowhere near as competent as, oh, I dunno, a climatologist. On the flipside, if a climatologist starts making grand declarations about quantum electroydnamics, I'm sure I'd be turning to Dyson for a rebuttal.