Again, international law is clear that intention and nationality are not part of the criteria. Regardless of nationality, if you take off your uniform, hide your weapons and attack without first being an openly declared combatant, you have commited a crime- not a combat. Anyone who has been in the military has had…

But you fail to read your own quotes of the Convention. In the case of "carrying your arms " "during EACH engagement" and being "visible" the arms themselves become the "uniform", the open declaration of being a combatant. A terrorist/ brigand hides his status and is not out in open combat BEFORE and DURING combat.…

The British Met Office last week announced there has been NO GLOBAL WARMING for 16 years-officially NO WARMING. So, there is no warming to stop because there is no warming happening. Dvorsky, it would be great to see you review for io9 all the discussions of this finding that have been in the British news.

The British Met Office announced last week there has been NO WARMING FOR 16 years. A length of time about equal to the warming period that got all this scam started. So, there is no warming to stop because it already stopped.

It is exactly true that any combatants that do not wear uniforms are considered terrorists/brigands under international law -regardless who they are or who they represent. The issue is that not wearing uniforms causes 'civilians' to be killed because the non-uniformed combatants are actively using civilians as human…

There is a clear and simple difference between terrorist/brigands/pirates and militaries-uniforms. Uniforms were created as a way to identify who was a part of a military as opposed to brigands/terrorists/pirates. Wearing a uniform to identify that one is an open combatant also by reflection identifies those not…

If they use the Sesame Street real names , then Sesame Street, Inc. is getting money on these- slutty Big Bird does not need my Chinese borrowed dollars.

Hollywood just has no clue how being in the military actually works day to day. Battle LA was at least somewhat consistant to what a squad does and how it works but even they chose to throw out credibility by sending the squad back out in a totally unreal hero ending. A destroyer would only run a few days to weeks…

All I have to do is quote her last line:"fuck your debate". That sums up her principles and is the epitomy of extremism and fundamentalism.

Did you not read the article? The whole point of the article is that the author advicates that only her side is totally right and that people with opposing views are totally wrong. The picture is of a raised fist. Most of the comments are variations of "fucking Right" and other echoes of the article's use of "Fuck"…

So this is how otherwise reasonable people convince themselves they are so RIGHT they find themselves killing Jews, flying planes into buildings, and carrying on all the atrocities that after the action, people agree were horrible. No. You do not have ultimate Rightness. No one has ultimate Rightness. The problem is…

The issue is that there are multiple unanticipated consequences to China's program. The social scientists failed to anticipate the demographic result that restricting childbirth would create a period with an imbalanced ,aged population. That was just stupid as the demographics would be clear on any actuarial table.…

In the real world things actually have to be paid for . Scientists need salaries and light bills have to be paid. The next drug has to be developed. That is reality. Nothing comes free. If you say government should provide it you are just bpaying for it in common-it is not free. It is simply wrong -factually and…

China is not so different than all the developed nations. The developed nations have reproduction at barely above replacement levels and many, including Russia lag far below replacement. Kudos to io9 for this article but please, do not just move on from it. When you start to site the next environmental/overpopulation…

Thousands will live because thousands of scientists using hundreds of millions of dollars of private money created/invented the new antibiotics. To call them greedy is wrong. There will be no medicines unless people take their money and risk losing it completely in hopes of backing scientific research. And in the…

Thanks to you back.

Actually, there are lots of such creatures. Rats and ants being just two. There are far more of both than people and both change the world environment significantly. Humans have been reducing their reproduction for 50 years. Only some sections of North Africa, India and Oceania are actually reproducing at higher than…

Honey bees are not native to the Americas. Colony collapse is in large order due to the non-native invasive speciesEuropean honey bee not actually being very well adapted to the parasites and diseases of North American insects. Honey bees are bred and kept in huge artfiicial colonies that lend to disease spread.…

Didn't io9 have a story a few months ago about the very large fauna during the very hot climate period that followed the death of dinosaurs...? The hottest steady climate on Earth is at the equator and the Amazon river has very large fish, even though it is very warm in the lowlands. The greatest bio-diversity is also…

We deny the Climate scam. Climate Change ? To define change there has to be a constant state and Earth has no steady state climate. We all want a clean environment-we should not want to be fools and scammed.