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Yes... Surely, that's not the case...

Oh, that's BAD.

Can I state the obvious? Boycotts are ineffective against anything larger than your small town mom & pop shop. You will be nothing but an unrecongizhable part of the noise in the chart unless you get others to participate en masse.

I guess that sort of depends on what you're researching and for whom.

Which seems pretty clearly to address John Cuthber's question, a question to which he repeatedly suggests that he has received no answer: And for the love of Thor, John, as a Resident Expert on SFN would you please learn to use the GD Quote button? We can do a one-on-one tutorial if you need it. Indeed. Nice point, Feline photovoltaics.

Not sure. Go here and see if you can find it where they list their other animations: http://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv/dna/

Global Climate Change It's real, despite denial Wake up, you Earthlings!

That's pretty cool, indeed. However, I think the link you tied to your image may not be correct (it had a trailing .gz which didn't work on my machine). Others can try here instead: http://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv/dna/movies/Replication_BR.mov

It doesn't matter, though. It's as if you're arguing against me because I've chosen to call my middle finger number 1 instead of 3, but the real meat of the issue is that it's one of five, so I could call it Fred or Janice and it would still be the same finger I'm describing.

I found a lot of potential validity in John's response above:

Were there any psychotropic drugs involved? Perhaps mass quantities of alcohol?

abateNth, if you are attempting to sound profound, you're not. Your post is not only off topic, but also rather meaningless.

Reasonable criticisms welcomed. Regurgitated nonsense shunned. Fair?

Nice point CD.

I'm not exactly crying in my milk, antimatter, but I completely appreciate your desire to help. I know you are not as bitter as I, and recognize that you want the best. I thank you for it. CDarwin raised a great point. Part of the problem is that I'm perfectly willing to respect their views as an individual, but don't sense the reciprocal coming from them. I'm tired of it, frankly. This is the kind of view that would persist in 1008, yet in America, in 2008, this type of thing is not only accepted, it's viral. It makes me throw up a little bit... in my mouth. It's not my intention to be elitest, but when my views are put relative to such ignorance, they cannot help but be anything else.

KS42, What are those findings you referenced? Be specific. Right now, all I can see is that you are promoting your website, and I'm confident that is not the case. What findings?

Try hitting the Quote button instead. Alternatively, you can manually program the quote, such as this: You then reply to that portion of the post here. After that, you quote the next bit: Just copy my text above and give it a whirl. I'm lazy, and your post above took too much work to figure out with all of the ************ and non quotes, so I'm genuinely trying to help you figure out the formatting bit so we can instead focus on the content bit. Cheers.

I find the whole situation rather disturbing, really. While I do chuckle once or twice at our reaction to the intelligent and biting rebuttals we are presented, on a much deeper level I find it rather depressing that such movies are made, and further, that audiences for them still exist in the year 2008. Oh well. Natural selection applies to ideas as well, so perhaps my disheartenment will not be chronic.

I'd like to try that second option for myself before coming to any conclusions. Where do I sign up?

I have always been sincere in my requests. Please do try to refrain from further speculations and conclusions about my motivations, and instead focus on the posts themselves. Thanks. I do tend to have a high standard for sources, and to a point of frustration SLance has made about me in the past is that I often don't find sources good enough to justify the conclusions being drawn from them. In this case, I perhaps too quickly disregarded his link (I usually won't bother with anything not stamped with a dot edu or a dot gov). I've now had a closer look. http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/weather/snow-ice.shtml And this was kind of interesting too:

What about water distillation technology in an arid climate? It might not be too relevant, but here's what made me think of it (a five minute interview after you get past the initial 30 seconds of humor): http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=164485 Vapor compression distilling? How cool is that?

I am SO very tired of doing this with you, and I can only imagine how tired others are... I denied nothing. I simply asked you to support with citation the issues you blanketly claim to be "patently correct." I do not understand how you are still missing this point. Further, in this specific thread, all I did was ask questions which would elevate the conversation and add to all of our common understandings. Being forced to defend yourself and being asked to supply citations and/or address questions are not one and the same, so please get off your soapbox already.

Okay. I'm still confused. What exactly am I being accused of being hypocritical about?

I've got a bridge I want to sell you...

Ughhh... Do you make predictions? If not, it's a hypothesis, not a theory. http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=31331