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• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Summing up: Humans are NOT responsible for ALL climate change throughout ALL of history, and no one is saying that we are. Humans ARE responsible for SOME climate change that has occurred during our history, including adding to or subtracting...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  would you think that two and a half days in the life of a 75 year old man is a fair estimation of any aspect of his life? If those two and a half days occurred after he has already...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Uh, Church? Take a look at this. Not so much humans causing it directly, as a drop in human population contributing to it indirectly, or rather, human populations contributing to the warmer climate that preceded it, and then the drop...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Excuse my earlier imprecision. 91 years and two months should have read "90 years and two months"; and 90.16667 years is even more intensely less than a century than was my mistaken figure of 91.16667. Better?...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  "A one-meter rise in sea level will place those areas in danger from storm surge, and the same mechanisms leading to that rise also lead to increase in storm activity and intensity. Results would occur by the end of the...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  So that means we can safely discount anything you say, Church, since I'm sure you've been wrong at some point in your life and therefore cannot be trusted to be right about anything... and by the same token, nobody is...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  "Beach houses are one thing, but when places like New York City or the outskirts of Philadelphia are underwater" Yeah, let us know when that happens. A one-meter rise in sea level will place those areas in danger from storm...
• Commented on Climate Change Now
  Beach houses are one thing, but when places like New York City or the outskirts of Philadelphia are underwater, it's a bit much to ask folks to adjust to. Likewise the extreme droughts, flooding and other impacts upon agriculture, thus...
• Commented on Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet
  I have only one question: exactly which meds is Palin currently off of?...
• Commented on Licensed to Drink
  Oops, that should have read "...available to me in limited amounts at age 13..."...
• Commented on Licensed to Drink
  Architexas @ 43: You just described my teen years and alcohol education, although mine took place in New York state, and the drinking age was 18 then. My parents made alcohol available to me beginning in limited amounts at age...
• Commented on Town bans hoods, hats, shades in banks
  So what happens if you are a Muslim or an Orthodox Jew and you need to visit the bank?...
• Commented on If the banks are so healthy, how come we're all still broke?
  Antinous, Even 1453 is over 150 years later than 1300 (remember, I said mid-to-late 15th century, and 1453 is mid-15th). And while the 16th century in Italy is definitely Renaissance, it is still considered medieval for some other parts of...
• Commented on If the banks are so healthy, how come we're all still broke?
  #26: I'm not talking about 300(AD) to 1000 as much as 1000 to 1300. Just those last three centuries of the late middle ages. Erm, no. The Middle Ages last until some point in the 16th century (though there are...
• Commented on Sales booming in remote-kill devices for cars sold to poor credit-risks
  Elvis Pelt, #35: You mean don't trust any car under 40?...
• Commented on Sales booming in remote-kill devices for cars sold to poor credit-risks
  I'm waiting for this scenario to play out: Joe and Jane are in a troubled marriage. Joe is, among other things, a vindictive, abusive a**hole. After several years of marriage and the birth of two children, Jane finally gets up...
• Commented on TV news about man with Fir tree growing in his lung
  In the real Russia, tree inhales you....
• Favorited Rabbit Hole Day: January 27th -- change your blogging style! on Boing Boing
• Commented on Why URL shorteners suck
  Adonai @ 13: Zone Alarm blocks TinyURL for you? It doesn't for me. Also, I disagree that most shortened links go to spam or rickrolling; most of the ones I've ever clicked on are completely legit....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Ceronomus, I'll answer your questions when you actually manage to ask a sensible one, and don't embed it in a post full of false accusations and strawman arguments. Until you can bring yourself to do the above, kindly eff off....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  #163: Summer...if you really think that there should be no difference between children and adults, let us take a moment and imagine that world shall we? I never said I think there should be no difference between children and adults,...
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Ceronomus, it comes down to one thing: do you, or do you not, believe in the concept of presumption of innocence until guilt is proven? If you do believe in it, do you believe it ought to apply to everybody...
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Ceronomus, this isn't about responsibilities. This is about rights. And a fifteen year old with a job DOES have job-related responsibilities. He or she may well be contributing to his or her family's income. He or she may even be...
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Also: Age of majority. Its a fact in most cultures. True, but the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" applies even to minors. Or at least it does in civilized cultures....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  #153: You are comparing cracking down on the movements of minors as the same thing as racially motivated laws? Well, try this on for size: instead of it being people under 16, what if it were people over 70? Doesn't...
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Quoth "Anonymous" at #111: No really -- what is it that kids under 16 years old have to do after 9pm that is so important that they absolutely have to be out and about without adult supervision? and the same,...
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  9 PM seems an awfully early curfew time for someone fifteen years old, especially on weekends or school holidays. Also, tarring all teens with the same brush as being uniformly "bad" is as harmful as failure to rein in the...
• Commented on Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch
  Morgan, I have a genetic abnormality that causes me health issues that cannot be avoided by a vegan diet. Sorry dude, but you really haven't got a clue what you're talking about....
• Commented on Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch
  Urgh. Make that "no amount of raw food WILL change a person's genetics." That's what I get for attempting to post while simultaneously holding a meatspace conversation. Blargh....
• Commented on Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch
  Oh, for fuck's effing sake. Morgan, for someone who "isn't on a crusade", you sure as hell remind me of the nutjob preacher on the street corner soapbox, ranting at anyone he thinks might listen. Only instead of railing against...