Get informed: Pinochet == Chile

But yes, he was presumably involved with the Argentine military government of 1976.

...yet another old right-wing homo-phobic Pope that will have to retire in less than 10 years.

Though I'm actually surprised they've chosen him considering the suspicions on his involvement in the forced disappearances during the last dictatorship in Argentina.

I'm the only one that looses his phone?

Ha ha; no, English is not my first language; not even my second language.

But thanks for the explanation; I haven't noticed those were two different words before.

Well, that's weird: people commenting without having an idea about the issue.
We dumping energy into the system?

We are not giving [so much] energy into the system; we are just pouring green-house gases into the atmosphere, which in turn stop the planet from loosing energy at the rate it has dissipated it before. That's called green-house effect, because it acts as the glasses in a green house, preventing the heat from leaving the system, and increasing the average temperature.

It is not about human turning their air conditioners on and heating the atmosphere; it's about burning gas/coal/petrol to generate energy for those air conditioners (and cars, airplanes, industry, etc.) and increasing the level of green-house gases.

360km (actually more like 400) is pretty little compared with earth's radius of over 6'000 kilometres

Mind moving the cursor somewhere else, please?

Why not microfinancing, such as http://kiva.org/ ?

The population growth is a really worrying issue I think we failed to nail in the last decades.
With a world average of 2.58 children per woman it doesn't sound too bad, but add to it the increase of life expectancy and it's then no surprise that we are still growing so fast.

We need to bring family planning to the poorest countries which hold the greatest birth rates as soon as possible. That will solve two problems with one shot: reduce population growth and poverty. Since giving them the opportunity to achieve economic stability before having children, and having less children to feed would give those families a lot more possibilities.

Second step would be education, to give them the chance of economic growth.

Don't call it birth control; it's better called 'family planning'.

A family is less poor not only if wisely chooses its number of children, but also the moment in time when they have it.

In countries with high birth rates (children per woman) couples get their first child so early that usually they don't finish school, before getting any working experience that would grant them a safe monthly income, nor any time at those job positions to save some money while they could have.

That's why I prefer the term Family Planning, it makes more sense.

Wouldn't this contribute to the already important problem of desertification?
If plans in the same area will be able to produce more bio-mass per squared meter, then the soil will be deprived of nitrogen and other nutrients faster, accelerating the process of desertification.

You can of course tell me that fertilising those lands will solve the problem, but fertilisers have their own problems on the long run, specially inorganic ones.

It does sound interesting for hydroponic cultivation and, why not, space farming.

You wait until April 31st: 31/4.

Oh, wait...

Great math video by Vi Hart, on why Pi is basically wrong.

Enjoy:
http://vihart.com/blog/pi-is-still-wrong/

> My results (running on quad-core Windows Vista 32-bit):
Quad-core running 32-bits?
And Vista?

I guess Santa doesn't read ./

It shouldn't.