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School has been trying to bury me. I am still here and will be getting back to this soon.

Freeman Dyson has gone so far as to say that the warming "isn't global." And that is, in some sense, true. I'd prefer "isn't uniform" personally, but whatever. Typically, when the global warming is reported quantitatively in a temperature scale, what is meant by that is the global mean...

Tangentially related to this, do you have an updated banned list for Peasant Magic? I lost interest when I found that everything was horribly out of date, and I think the timing of that was itself quite a while ago...

ANT isn't finished yet. I might play it next time. There are a lot of bad matchups for Burn really. I think the worst is probably Belcher. What's Burn going to do? Outrace it? At least CounterTop leaves a window of opportunity for some damage to get through. It takes over the game after a few...

I didn't get an exact count, but I heard the number 14, which sounds about right. CounterTop was the most popular archetype. I also saw a Painter's Grindstone deck and some sort of monoblack control. Al0ysiusHWWW played his own creation, a sort of mono-artifact Stax deck, and unsanitarypigs...

And it's been a long time. But last night, I did just that. Actually, both of my teammates have posted here at one time or another, but you guys would probably only remember one. Anyway, I went there with unsanitarypigs and Al0ysiusHWWW. And I got paired up against both of them! I played my...

Getting back to the ice core questions... #1: I was going to try to convey how tricky this is and that the answer isn't straightforward, but then I realized that there is a sort of simple answer. The most recent years from which we have ice core data are from, well, now... ...kind of. I mean...

Unless your name is Hewlett-Packard, you can't be held responsible... :p I think you see what I was getting at, but perhaps I should explain Ptolemy's model a little. I don't know the math behind it, but basically, in his model the solar system is geocentric (which is now obviously wrong) and...

Who are you?

I find this line really, really tired. I find it hard to address this in an agreeable manner. But none of that is your fault. So I'll just say that I take issue with the way you have framed this and the difference between the way in which the two of us frame this may be irreconcilable and make...

Two things. 1. Even if this were true, it wouldn't really have any bearing on anthropogenicity. If it turns out to be the case that global warming is beyond our power to stop, that doesn't mean it wasn't partially caused by us. 2. I don't think it's the case that it's beyond our power to stop...

I know. But your belief on the matter might vary from utterly worthless to significantly relevant depending on the extent to which it is justified. Well let's be getting to some specifics. Which particular details of the science on anthropogenic global warming do you find highly speculative...

The book was about chemistry in general, but there was a section on catalytic converters. Again, it was from 1995 and a lot has changed since then. I get what you're saying though. Whether or not it applies much to catalytic converters (and I really have no idea), I'm sure that it is often the...

What happens next is somewhat dependent on which blessing Kelgar elects to use. He could choose to use Healing Touch on either Throg (7/18) or Dorgath (6/14) or he could boost his own or Throg's combat ability for the turn with one of his other blessings.

So you're not familiar with the most important relevant scientific research, but you're still comfortable dismissing the whole thing as political? Don't you see a problem with this? The politicians could be even worse than you think they are. They could be as bad as possible. And that still...

And what leads you to believe this? That's great, except beliefs don't change reality they correspond (or fail to correspond) to. I don't care what you believe. I care about what you know. Or, if you prefer, I could also phrase it that I don't care about what you believe, but I care about what...

From the map, it looks like we'd have to back up pretty far in order to get into an open space where we could fight them more than two-abreast. Is that right? These guys seem tough enough that we should use every advantage we can...

By the way, last year I found this book on the dust list at work (the list of books at the library that haven't been checking out that we pull off the shelves a librarian to examine and decide whether they should be removed from the collection so that their shelf space can be used for something...

I don't know what the proportions are between bills that are specific and ones that aren't. Maybe it's worse in some places than others. Here in Washington, we have one guy who manages to get initiatives on the ballot all the time that are ostensibly about some innocuous-looking thing and then...

Ambiguity about whether or not something counts as a rider. If a bill is exceedingly specific in what it targets, a rider is probably going to stand out. But a lot of bills are vague and sort of lump several different things under one umbrella issue. When that happens, something that one person...