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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...

That site is made of win.

No, the former is a side effect of the latter. Climate is a complex system, but one example I remember of an effect of global warming is that higher temperatures overall cause more melting of ice, which can manifest as more precipitation in some areas. But yeah, strictly speaking, "global...

Sarcasm, EB? Over here, we haven't had any snow at all this year (we did get a little bit in early December I think). But that's not because of global warming. There has always been regional variation. Global warming is based on the mean global surface temperature, which really has been going up...

Well, that bolded part is basically what they are. All it means for something to be a rider is that it's a provision that is perceived as not belonging on a bill and is typically included in order to get it passed by letting it "ride" along on the larger bill. Oh, and they've been used to...

Engraged at seeing its last companion fall, the ogre raises its club and prepares to bring it down on Dorgath and... ...the club and its wielder both drop lifelessly to the floor, an arrow having pierced the ogre's heart. However, before Carrow has a chance to gloat, he is assailed by the ghost...

*Cugel will do likewise.*

Well, I was expecting to get back to this the same day, but I've been busy and haven't been online much because of computer problems. Not this computer, actually. My brand new computer that is running a hard disk test right now. Anyway, I forget what I had wanted to say to Train but hadn't had...