Cheers for the link. I'd forgot all about zompist. Good to see someone's still working on it.

Gore might have been a bit pessimistic, but that doesn't necessarily make him wrong: Arctic ice continues to thin, and thin, European satellite reveals. Also reported last week by the Beeb.

So you're declining to answer the question?

Spot on, spot on, and spot on.

He's not even trying. ObamaCare is a sellout to the Insurance-Industrial Complex, people still have no right to paid vacations or paid parental leave (nor are these even on the table), workers' collective bargaining rights remain sold down the river, and the country is still full of nutjobs with guns. Meanwhile, the US continues to throw its "We're on a mission from God" weight around the planet while, at home, the 1% continue to grow their slice of the pie.

There's just a little bit of difference between teargas and Sarin.

One of those things was not like the others, one of those things was not the same.

Putin makes a few omissions--e.g. he doesn't mention the weapons supplied to the Syrian government by foreign powers (such as Russia). But the analysis he offers is much more realistic than the black-and-white version being offered by Washington.

If he's serving anybody their own dog food, it's the proponents of American exceptionalism, particularly as expressed by the notion that the US is somewhat qualified or entitled to act as unilateral world policeman.

Liberty to what end?

P.S. För dem som spelar hemifrån idag med oss kan hittas här Putins brev (på engleska).

...then this screed might actually make some sense.

And thanks for the tip about Putin's column, which I didn't know about. Going to read it right now.

You manage to ignore your own statement that physics is a process.

Newton's laws are not wrong. They're approximations. Now we have better approximations.

And the upstream bits that originate with an application arbitrarily called a "server" are somehow magickally different from the upstream bits that originate from an application arbitrarily called a "client". That's it!

Except that they aren't.

The only proper, civil response to such blatant and utterly transparent intellectual dishonesty as yours is, "Go die in a fire."

You: ISPs don't already limit or charge users for their upload bandwidth.

We: Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Er, *5* minutes, and I've obviouly not yet had my coffee. Still a big WTF, though.

No kidding. I saw the "7 minutes" and decided that just about defines "WTF? You got a Pentium Pro in that case, buddy?"

For my stock consumer-grade HP laptop running OpenSUSE 12.1, it's 27 seconds from 'off' to KDE login screen. No SSD, either.