10 questions for February 18, 2014.

A variant of my 10 thoughts.  Some Most are rhetorical questions.

1. Does it make sense for Nokia to spend labor capital to heavily skin the Android OS so that it looks like Windows Phone?
2. Follow-up question: If heavily skinning Android to look like Windows Phone means that you'll have to induce developers to adapt their Android apps to your forked Android, why wouldn't you just pay devs to build apps for Windows Phone and use Windows Phone OS?
3. Why are people against gentrification, when they're for cleaning up and improving their dilapidated neighborhoods?
4. If people doubt global warming, why do they selectively ignore parts of information that are contrary to their message, rather than try to explain why these contradictions exist?
5. Slightly related question: Marsha Blackburn said on The Newshour that the amount of atmospheric carbon (400+ ppb) was extremely small, so do you think she'd be fine with drinking water containing 400 ppb of lead?
6. Why do Republicans believe that the national debt is too big, even though the interest rate on it remains at historically low levels, while conversely think that atmospheric carbon is infinitesimally small (and therefore inconsequential), despite being at historically (as in 500,000 years) high levels?
7. Some might not quite get that last one, so allow me to rephrase the question: If someone told you that you could borrow money at historically low rates, would you bite, or would you wait for the rates to shoot up; conversely, if someone told you that we've never seen this much pollution in the air in the last 500,000 years, would you think it's okay to add more pollution, or would you maybe pause for a moment?
8. What's the first thing that comes to mind, when someone in an advertisement starts off a sentence with, "Honestly"?
9. Follow-up question: What's the first thing that comes to mind, when a politician starts off a sentence with, "I think we can all agree"?
10. If you read my last 10 thoughts post, then this is a follow-up: If Christian historical films include actors using a modern British accent, wouldn't it present an ironic paradox if these films were exported to the Middle East, dubbed in local, Neo-Aramaic?