How's the "distilled water sold to me at the price of platinum by a big sized company cures everything but the establishment doesn't want me to know it because it would hurt Big Pharma" thing going on that side of the pond? We've got most European governments spending lots of our money in pseudoscience because they…

You'd be hard pressed to find someone outside America who doesn't says it like that...

I know, my country is close to bankrupcy and my politicians make me want to cry. Yours make laughs instead, because we don't have our own creationists outside churches and extremist media... yet

I can't think of a single time that political decisions influenced the progress of science or the use of technology!

Sure, the companies that make the new generation weapons today are private, but there'd be a lot to talk about them being privately funded, since private companies can't exactly go to war against other private companies from another countries.

Appealing to the fringe elements works very fine by making anything not insane look like moderate. It's happened in several European countries already: the extreme right gets 2% of the seats and suddenly both major parties get their panties in a bunch about whatever real or perceived problems people are expecting the…

Good luck with that...

just go on scholar.google.com and search "survey scientists climate change" without the quotes. I said 95% before but I'm seeing 97% in some ones.

I know it's getting old but...

Well, it was only *sort of* a joke.

I don't think I stand a chance of convincing you, but Climate Change is actually a pretty bad example. You can't know who is right about something, but with very little effort you *can* find that an overwhelming majority of scientists agree on Climate Change, and the controversy only exists outside of scientific…

Yeah, she'd hit you harder

which includes nearly everything we write about on Lifehacker

You try spelling Antarctica right when you're not a native English speaker, and have in a tent in Antarctica, being sleep deprived and crunching numbers for the best part of a year. You should be surprised they spelled "dome" right.

About Righties, it's a matter of short-sightedness. If they adopted the "green energy is awesome" posture, they'd be saying "we have been so entrenched in this that we have spend 40 years saying the same things instead of listening to what science (including Economics) had to say". They'd also be saying "you're not…

Now for the most part Global Warming isn't believed by most scientist, but climate change is. So in the end it turns out that what Fox was denying was somewhat true

The statistic says "one of ten managers who die in the workplace. Considering that managers are unlikely to do any dangerous work and that heart attacks or other illnesses usually have people being taken to a hospital and dying there, you've got that dying from something falling on you, stabbing you, falling or…

But there IS a trade-off between capacity and size. It's already inside your computer: you have your ridiculously fast and ridiculously small registers, inside the processor, that it uses to momentarily store the data it's doing calculations with, then your slightly bigger but still insanely fast cache, where it…

Yeah, if it's Summer 2011 this should come out pretty soon.

It's *sort of* a tradeoff. Think why sports cars are that fast and yet so expensive. Because it's expensive to make them that fast. This is the same, only you can buy one third of a sports car for one third of the price, and then more than three times the people buy it, so it makes more economic sense to sell…