Of course it does. Everyone knows there are only two positions for every possible topic. That's why the two party system is such a huge success, and why everyone loves it so much.(Excepting of course commies, who prefer a one-party system... see, there's the two options for how many political parties a system can have!)
The idea that there could be a third viewpoint is inconceivable.
I was under the impression that it is not possible to enter a contract which violates the law. If you give your written consent to allow an illegal action to be performed against you, that contract (or at least that portion of it) is not valid.
Oops, left out a link in above post. Re: tax costs: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ke...
Meanwhile, a rough estimate of your income after taxes means you're probably taking $100-$125,000 a year home.
I'd guess 125k is absolute worst case tax situation, based on this.
There are people out there that have to feed a family of 3 on $25,000 a year.
Yeah, this. You're quoting an income that puts you in the top 8% of Americans. If you're finding it hard to get by, I'm curious to know what your imagination thinks average wage earners do to survive.
I never said that I did. I may well do, but it's really quite beside the point, as what the exact nature of any consensus is was never part of any comment I made.
As I originally stated, you claimed that someone else's opinion was wrong. Yet the opinion was never expressed by someone else, only imagined by you. This is the very definition of a straw man argument.
I've quoted one thing in this thread, and it was your words. I'm not sure what drugs you're on that are causing you to imagine something else that I quoted, but at least you're loyal to your delusion.
That much is obvious.
you think there is a consensus
You really like constructing those straw men, don't you? Nothing I've written here could lead to this conclusion. So not only do you not have any way of knowing whether or not I think there is a consensus, you don't have any information as to what I think that consensus might be. And yet, your're 100% positive that I must be wrong about it.
Since you're so knowledgable about information you don't have access to, can you tell me if the tie I'm going to wear next Tuesday goes with the shirt I was planning to wear it with?
Anyone who argues against things that people didn't say is wasting their own time. You are one of those people.
(Reread my post. Show where I state that there is any consensus, on any topic, of any magnitude.)
Interesting. Nobody here claimed that was the consensus. I've never heard anyone anywhere claim that was the consensus. I wonder why you would choose to pick a fight with a straw man?
Um, no.
For the period 1999-2003, the average # of US deaths due to heat was 688 per year, which is not at all similar to 1100 per week.
Once again, posting false information on Slashdot proves to be no impediment to being modded +5 informative.
I can't tell how many dickheads there are today. Can you google it for me?
Your information is incorrect. There was a small section of coastal California that had a Mediterranean climate long before Europeans showed up. This area was expanded into desert regions by importing water from other areas.
Your final sentence seems to imply some kind of link between desert and warming, but I'm not sure what link you think there is. There are deserts in the world which are frozen all or most of the year.
Grass is green, sky is blue, water is wet. More at 11.
Now that I think about it, none of those are true in the literal sense.
That sentence is only true if words literally don't ever mean anything. Which may be literally true, but is useless. I'm going to go on pretending that they do.
I can't believe nobody has posted the most obvious solution yet. Upgrade to IPv6.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
