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I have heard many broadcasters, including the BBC and even the Evil Satanic Baby-Eating CBC, use our pronunciation for our troops, the other for US troops. A simple courtesy, and technically correct. So I am a nitpicker. But "bigoted"? Gimme a f'n break ...

What a bunch of ingorant a**holes. Idiotboy can't even pronounce LGen Leslie's rank properly either.

A word to the wise. you might want to be careful about citing that particular person in a forum like this. she has some rather "interesting" opinions about some of our nation's fallen soldiers. rather reminiscent of toobis, in fact. here's a link to what she had to say about some troops killed...

trivia quiz. anyone recognise this OP? (spotted last year. number changed by new management)

did someone say libertarians are not utopians? if that's the case, you should have no trouble naming a few libertarian countries then. you know, ones where the government does law enforcement and defence, and nothing else whatsoever. just one? anybody? ps -- the republic of sealand is out of...

i wish mark steyn would just come right out and admit that he did a little dance of joy on sept. 11. he's been using it to showcase his cluelessness ever since. in fact, you can almost hear the little twerp drooling in this article he wrote in the national post two days after 911: isn't there a...

so i guess that means all these other corrections on that NYT page must also be proof of an MSM conspiracy, then? ::)

Yup, reuters sure dropped the ball on this one (and yes, they HAVE apologised). but as probably the only person here who actually worked at reuters once upon a time, i gotta laugh at this whole idea that the company has some sort of ideological bias. their editors have a wide variety of opinions...

a sad day for the eddies. RIP mcpl. fears no foe.

like i said already, every single point made on those (rather old) links you provide has been demolished long ago. the "hockey stick" graph has long since been superseded by numerous other (and far more important) models, studies and datasets that show the same results anyway. solar radiation...

no argument there. although i think that nuclear power will probably have to play a key role in any sensible approach (to both problems). how could you possibly know this? and despite the mountain of evidence and a clear theoretical mechanism already pointing pretty conclusively to manmade...

since we are on the topic of "math illiteracy", could someone please explain to me how: 22 BILLION tonnes (yearly average manmade co2 emissions)  is a smaller number than 200 MILLION tonnes (yearly average co2 emitted by volcanoes)? (figures courtesy of the u.s. govt...

what "American goods and services" would those be? so far the asians have parked a net $700 billion plus in low-yield us govt debt, and counting, simply to keep forex rates where they want them. that's not a free market at work, and i don't see how it can go on forever.

GO, i didn't mean to derail this thread about your essay, so ... you might want to clarify just how the emissions trading scheme is intended to work, and focus on why you think it won't work. as a derivatives market (something i take a semi-professional interest in), the carbon markets are...

not in any peer-reviewed scientific journals, it wasn't. the USGS says humans produce 22 billion tons of co2 a year, volcanoes only 230 million, at most. volcanoes also produce particles that should have a cooling effect. http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Hazards/What/VolGas/volgas.html no...

exactly! the politicians start coercing wealth to pay for such collective schemes as, say, the police or the military or the post office, and before you know it we're all being sent to the gulag. of course in a democratic country, the extent of "socialism" (however you choose to define it...

another problem with FRS is if you are outside of N Am, the locals may reserve those freqs for other purposes, depending on where you are. i know that if you used a canadian or us-bought frs in japan, for ex, you would not be very popular with the coast guard, since their rescue services use...

there's really no wiggle room on this one. these outraged muslims attacking danish embassies are in effect demanding that we (the west, that is) discard a bedrock principle of western civilisation -- freedom of speech and thought. they might as well be asking us to adopt middle eastern standards...

there sure can be, if the price is right. the most important fact here is that thare are far too many dollars out there. the central banks will only keep them hoarded safetly under their mattresses for as long as they believe other central banks are doing the same. i can't say exactly how much...

it's the massive structural imbalance of the global forex market that makes the possibility of iran pricing its oil in euros so scary. the dollar is propped up by asian central banks, which effectively finance the massive us fiscal deficit. a move to petro-euros could easily set off an avalanche...