Are you suggesting that your browsing history is not strongly predictive of your browsing history, or do you merely object to the idea of it being determinative?

You seem to have omitted your argument amongst all your personal anecdotes.

Oh, all the women in your life. That must be a lot, and highly representative of women all over the globe. Your reporting of their opinion must be highly reliable, and your position valid.

This describes a bad way to use WINE. You should always use a WINEPREFIX, or use a tool like PlayOnLinux which does this for you. Using a single global wine configuration is a good way to trash your .wine folder repeatedly.

The validity of the theory isn't really dependent on the temperature record. Particularly, the properties of carbon dioxide are not determined by the temperature record. The exact value for climate sensitivity is an interesting academic question, but the lower bound is based on some pretty hard thermodynamics. A doubling of CO2 must produce at least 3.7 W/m^2 of forcing.

Well, aside from both of those numbers being inaccurate, it's not a valid criticism of AGW, and you have no idea why, and refuse to learn. Any other questions?

I'm not sure what you think is important about these graphs. You seem confused.

This is not a subject that you should feel free to spread lies about. Climate change denial is dumber and more harmful than Holocaust denial.

I'm thinking that it takes a good 10-15 years of practice and instruction to really get good at programming, and that no one pursues the practice in any sort of rigorous manner. It might be nice to have a professional or guild system that would formalize knowledge and instruction somewhat. On the other hand, the state of the art seems like a pretty rapidly moving target.

I agree completely. I do not like PHP, and I'm not doing any new projects in it, but PHP has arrived. They somehow made it fast, it has solid libraries, good tooling, and the language itself has a reasonable level of abstraction, without giving people too much rope (or is it parentheses?) to hang themselves with. If someone hasn't already become sick of PHP, there's not really any reason to leave now. Developing in Laravel with the Psy REPL is a pretty good experience. Composer works pretty painlessly, too. There's really not a lot to complain about these days, except that I think it's verbose and ugly, and occasionally limited in expression. On the one hand, you can't write the same kinds of one-liners that you can in Perl or Ruby, and on the other hand, you can't write the same kinds of one-liners that you can in Perl or Ruby. PHP is not for the people who like their code to be a perfect gemstone. It does get the job done though.

WordPress is its own separate self-sustaining ecosystem at this point, God help us. Nothing can save it, nothing can kill it.

If you're referring to the Big Rip, that's not currently believed likely. If you're referring to the black hole information paradox, there's probably not a lot of reason to believe that information can be destroyed. It's not really proven, but it's highly likely that information is a conserved property.

It's not like NSA is staffed by a bunch of sadistic bastards, evil robots, or maniacal traitors. They aren't evil on an individual level, simply because most people aren't evil. Psychopathy is rare, even if it is more prevalent in D.C. For the most part I'm sure they love their country.

Like you suggest, NSA did lie. Clapper lied to Congress with a straight face, on national TV. And perhaps the more important part is that they were caught lying, and this was widely publicized. It's at least possible that some unhappiness over this situation came home to roost. It's almost scary to think that Congress holds almost all the real power in this country, but they do at least theoretically have the power to bring NSA to heel when they want to. How effective their oversight is in practice? Probably beyond my pay grade.

Anyone's trust in the NSA should be extremely well informed and strictly circumscribed. However, this is the first indication that NSA has any sense of duty to the American people, or respect for the law, so I'm not going to shit on them for it. The larger failure is Congress' inability to defend the rights of American citizens.

No, that figure is correct unless thermodynamics is wrong. There is no effect which can reduce the warming below that threshold unless you find a new way to radiate energy to space. You talk about missing phenomena, but you have no real idea of the mechanism, so you don't actually know enough to suggest a plausible criticism or alternative. Suggesting that you know anything about this subject is therefore rather completely dishonest..Thanks for playing, have a nice day.

Doubling CO2 raises the temperature of the Earth by 3.7 W/m^2, or about one degree C. Water vapor is, as you say, not expected to be a moderating influence. I'm sure you've invented wonderful reasons to not believe in climate sensitivity estimates. You are an ignorant misanthrope, and a liar.