There aren't many inelastic systems in nature like the example you have given.

We know that water and plants will absorb co2 faster if there is more available.

Please state examples of how we have removed 'carbon sinks'

MUD1 was the first MUD, DikuMUD came a few years later.

I've programmed in both C and C++ and I've used PHP GTK and I'd choose X86 Assembler to build a GUI before I choose PHP for desktop GUI development. And all of the benefits you mentioned are almost completely alleviated with Boost

It's a fatfinger by TFA writer. $fp doesn't exist, it should be $output.

haha, nice catch

There is the PHP GTK project but I'm a PHP developer and even I'm wondering why you would choose PHP for developing a GUI desktop app.

There have been "sneak peeks" at PHP6 for a long time. This is by no means early.

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heh, I adopted a line of code, the recurring payment was processed by PayPal and then Miro's site broke so I paid for nothing. HOORAY!

s/satan/santa/ There, I'm saved

I've found the fastest way through the Great Firewall of China to be Mongolosploit. It may take somem time but it's persistent.

Most online retailers hate New York because we have horrible taxes, I believe NewEgg stopped requiring users to pay the tax in NY which caused them some issues. This will only exacerbate the intertube hatred of NY