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I didn't dismiss/refute/claim anything or intend to start yet another global warming flame war. I'm probably as familiar with that research as you are and I'm not refuting it. If o…

Please don't bring that politicized stuff into the discussion. That's a different flame war entirely. If Jupiter is warming/cooling or Mars is warming/cooling, then something has t…

Yes. For one, there's that big ol' fusion furnace in the middle of the place that's tossing out a variable amount of energy as time goes on. Examining the weather of other planets …

Do we have sufficient data to conclude that other planets are not warming? How far back does our accurate, consistent measurement go? Years? A decade or two? I'm not sure we have s…

Actually, we probably do want to care about that. We know Earth's environment is changing but be don't really know why. Our planet is a single data point in the solar system, which…

It's the unfriendliness of the editor_s_ which has been the problem in my experience. When someone goes through the trouble of creating a well-cited article only to have it deleted…

You misunderstand how evolution works. It is not a progression towards perfection. You're conflating biological evolution with creationism / 'intelligent design'.

We're the species currently dominating a niche. Calling anything the 'pinnacle' of evolution implies some sort of progress towards perfection. Evolution does not work that way.

Estimated selling prices for lunar He3 are around $6-10 million per kg (with the commercial viability of even that figure being pretty optimistic), so I'm going to go with 'no'.

When you've become your planned '10-year self' and are running a company, you'll find that there is no up-side to giving a no-hire an honest reason for your decision and plenty of …

Of course, one of the first things they did was add a prominent "Send your feedback to Google!" link so customers could tell them exactly what they liked and disliked about the ser…

It always bugged me how Rumsfeld was slagged for that statement. I found it a very clear explanation of the difficulty in assessing a chaotic environment.

Time travel would be spiffy, but how easy is it to contact the Buzz engineers now? If you've ever dealt with Google "technical support" (even if you're a customer who shovels them …

Whatever they're up to, their logo certainly seems excited about it.

It actually does less than nothing. Since an e-petition site like the one linked gives people opposed to an issue the impression that they've accomplished something, those people a…

An e-peititon is going to do nothing. This nonsense distracts people from actual effort and helps bills like this get passed. If you want to make an impact, the minimum you should …

A business which "...generates single-digit or low double-digit millions in revenue..." is "a lifestyle business"?!?! I thought lifestyle businesses were small craft or bespoke sof…

You do lay off at that level if there's a mis-match between what a company is wanting and what the person was hired to deliver. If Microsoft's "evangelist" roles are changing, it m…

Laid off, not fired. That might sound pedantic, but there's a big difference between the two.

Nope. You can make tons of cool stuff and have an impact with loads of 'vision' as an employee, but you're not an entrepreneur if you're taking a paycheque and instructions from so…

Nice story, but it sounds more like a pet project which landed him a job rather than a company which was acquired. He states "With Automattic, I am still an entrepreneur" , but he'…

If you only wanted to evaluate their product, why didn't you use the free trial available for download? I just checked that site now for the first time myself and it was pretty obv…

I didn't see the instructions either. Everyone's brain knows a block of text in the right-side column of a web page is an ad and provides nothing useful to the task at hand.

If your business has no presence in the United States you should not need to pay any taxes to that government. This topic comes up frequently on the BoS board: http://discuss.joelo…