What we observe from that is that you have an inferiority complex. Don't worry, it's common among Europeans and quite justified.

Who cares? Why would I ever use either of those words unless I'm a TV weatherman?

Both Americans and Canadians use "fall" and "autumn" interchangeably. And whether your geographic location experiences significant changes in weather or not, seasons do in fact occur. You've reminded me of a discussion I was part of recently where someone claimed that autumn started on September 1st in various countries, as if nature answered to government fiat. More amusingly, he claimed New Zealand and Australia were two of these countries.

It doesn't make a difference as long as you're still living in your mom's basement.

Who said anything about health care? You also have rampant censorship of media and video games, and no firearm rights. Irrelevant.

How many more rivers can we dam? How many more towns can we flood?

They should be celebrating - they gambled, they won.

I'm sure they'd love to hear you say that in person. I'll buy you a plane ticket.

I'd let these guys use the inverter in my car for .001 BTC/min.

To be fair, DSL in 1997 was 256K-640K. Now it's 1-2 M.

Last I heard, your broadband already sucked and was controlled by two companies. And I hate to burst your socialist bubble, but it doesn't matter whether the government is left or right wing. With state capitalism, you have two or three companies in fake competition with poor service. With socialism, you have one company, no competition, and poor service.

I could have told you that putting a ski resort on top of a landfill was stupid. For one, the purpose of a landfill is for the trash to actually break down; this is an exothermic process that is going to give off heat-- not something you want happening on your ski slope. How about not cherry-picking worst-case scenarios and really talking about solutions?

I think cocks like you need to stop quashing debate and try holding your ideas up to your own lofty ideals.

We've come close to solving the REAL pollution issue with oil. The sulfur and CO emissions from vehicles are amazingly low. That, since you were apparently born yesterday, was what environmentalists focused on before big, bag climate change. The second big problem, of course, is the rare oil spill. This doesn't fix that, but until it is no longer human nature to cut corners or make mistakes we're never going to stop having problems like that.

It won't bring back the dodo, solve the honey bee population drop, or put the genie back in the bottle either.

One problem at a time. We don't need a world dictator to crush everyone under his boot-heel so that ideologues can have their Gaia.

Or make them speak like C3PO. It'll make picking up their body parts and stuffing them in a Wookiee's backpack that much more satisfying.