The BMW Shark - 'with lasers' would market very well I thinks.

You first.

This again leads back to my conclusion that people with a liberal mindset believe that resources are running out, and that they need to force change on other people. I'm not saying they're completely wrong, even though I am, but this belief in extreme resource scarcity is at the heart of this sort of logic. Besides, we can do what China is planning, nudge big rocks closer and mine off of them. If you're worried about the climate not staying exactly the same from one year to the next, you have picked the wrong planet to be born on.

The accusation that climate change alarmists are forming a secular religion I believe is not completely unfounded. Anyone who would follow the Goracle on the topic of climate change may not like it when the computer models are finally generated that finally reflect reality. It will be data gathered from satellites that I believe will finally put an end to playing climate games by sampling data in way that produces the desired results. Recent NASA data that shows more heat escapes into space than we previously thought is part of the point I'm trying to make here. I'm not pretending to be an expert on this topic, but I know more than enough to understand that there are people with a vested interest in perpetuating any narrative that casts CO2 as the enemy of man.

Look at me, I'm dancin', I'm dancin'!

A lot of Stargate fans were turned off by SGU - even Atlantis was too much of a stretch for me.

All 3d interface UIs 'suck'. Huge learning curves are the trade off for powerful tools. Poser is not a powerful tool.

Abiword is seriously my default text editor of choice? WHY?
1. It's been around since I was in the later part of k-12, so I am used to it
2. It's saved my ass when I was stuck on the north shore and needed to write a paper (and I could only borrow a hotel computer with VERY slow dialup, the small download size seriously saved me)
3. It does not auto-number, auto-indent, auto-number bullets, or try to auto-help me constantly like the other office suites. --This is the big one for me.
4. Still has spell check and that's all eye want! (yes a joke there...)
5. Import/export filters are just as good as other programs.

Sure if the job calls for another tool I will switch, but 99.9% of .doc submitted files I write are made in Abiword.

Please avoid the broken window economic fallacy, in that breaking things does not benefit an economy.

Everything comes down to the data, and how it is interpreted. CO2 has been pegged as a gas that will cause positive-feedback runaway global warming, and every model has CO2 as the villain. The data we have does not backup this model either! So the very basis of these computer models need a lot more scrutiny.

Then again, who's going to be able to build a climate model that will be able to account for cloud formations and increased/reduced solar activity? Which I still believe has way more affect than CO2 does on the global temperature.

Quite Anecdotal to me. The Antarctic has 90% of the earth's ice anyway. The eastern half of Antarctica is 4x the size of the western half, and is cooling/growing.

It seems climate fear mongers only want to point to both the Arctic and the western Antarctic, where the west is somewhat unstable at the moment. They never seem to take into account the growing ice sheet on the eastern Antarctic, and the fact that it offsets other ice losses. I'm sure in another 30 years that part of the Antarctic may be decreasing, while another large area of ice is forming somewhere else. Normal cycles, should not be made into an international crisis.

Could be the 2nd most insightful post I've seen today... That's kind of sad actually.