In most countries, if you frivolously take on a lawsuit and lose, you pay for the court procedure. You would indeed take up the courts time, but in the end, it is you who pays for that time. Revenue generation is unaffected (and incidentally, in these countries, revenues go to the state, not the police force).

No, if the property is worth $1,000,000, he can take a mortgage to pay the fine. And if the property can only ever make $20K a year, how come it's worth a million bucks?

Losen up. Your begging the question.

The scientific consensus is that the so-called "climate sceptics" have nothing to contribute. Just drivel. So they're shut out, like the creationists. Meanwhile, science continues.

A model is a hypothesis. The 'null' model is the one that states there is no relation between the variables. If your model is not better than this 'null' model, what have you shown exactly?

Europe was 1.2 degrees warmer than average in 2014, beating the record of 2011. Also Russia experienced a very warm winter. I think you have a bit of a bias to the North-American part of the Northern hemisphere.

I'm in Holland. Holland is in the Northern Hemisphere. We had the highest average temperature in 2014. The highest in 3 centuries. Hell, I remember March 9th 2014, having a barbecue with my family with 20+ degree celsius. Every month with the exception of August was warmer than average. 2015 is not a whole lot different: no winter to speak of, no frost, no snow, no ice. Temperatures are again in the high 10s. You might want to do a bit more research.

We're perfectly capable of predicting that a boiling pan of water will run dry, and even predict when exactly, without even having the faintest idea where exactly the next bubble will surface.

Yeah, the Founding Fathers truly fucked up this one. Thinking that by disallowing congress to infringe on the bearing of arms, a well-regulated militia would be formed. Automatically. What were they thinking? Look at these guys in the video: a well-regulated militia? No, bozos with lethal weapons. Epic logic fail.

I think it's pretty clear that the intent behind the second amendment was the perceived need to have a well regulated militia. In other words, if you want to carry a guns, sign up to join the national guard. The first amendment doesn't have such provisions. In practice, the very liberal interpretation of the second amendment outside of its original intent seems to be a wholly bad idea in densely populated regions. In rural areas, less of a problem.

Both humans and Europeans are primates, evolved from primates. Apes also evolved from primates.

As all these extra cables are not needed for providing service, their sole purpose is to feed some free market fundamentalist pipe dream. The more sensible solution is to have only one provider for each type of cable technology, and have sensible regulations in place to make sure that there is a competitive market for service providers. Saves a lot of money, as otherwise you will be paying in some way for the twenty identical cables going to your house.

So once they quit there was no longer a danger for the commies to wreak havoc in our streets? How does that work? Your mind I mean.

This is an interesting view, in particular because the Czech army was not at all small, and definitely not a walkover. All they wanted was some support from the Western countries. But Chamberlain determined otherwise and gave up an army that would have been pretty useful when the inevitable happened. Maybe the Brits weren't ready for war, but the Czech's were, and that army got lost. So either Chamberlain was a lousy strategist, or he did believe that he could contain Hitler by giving him ground. Probably both.

Have you seen "World War Z"?? These zombies were wicked, nothing like these lame stumbling death we've seen before. They're fast, ferocious and spread like wildfire. In hand-to-hand combat, you become zombie in seconds. One of those can definitely spread an infection. I think "World War Z" has real zombies, in the other movies I think the zombies are ill or something.