No, contracts waiving parental rights are routinely overturned if it means the State can recoup money they spent. To legislators, fathers are nothing but a source of income. They have no actionable rights in many cases, but are still saddled with all the responsibilities.

His response if it's upheld should be to quit his job and collect welfare and food stamps. The best way to combat greedy asshole politicians is to cut off their money supply, unfortunately.

It may not actually disappear, but in many cases can effectively disappear into cycles that takes millions of years to complete. It all depends how and where it's used, and in what state it is in after that use.

Why would you project a model about human-influenced climate change to a time when there were no humans? Also, are you scaling your' Projections" to the total carbon output of the human race at the time? The carbon output of the Romans was quite a bit less per person than it is now, and the overall population was also significantly smaller.

Overall climate science is not about accurately predicting what weather we'll have in a given year. Anyone who believes that is a moron, as most deniers are. The point is that the models very accurately reflect average global trends.

Do you fit the profile of an average person in your area in every way? Oh, then those averages must be wrong, correct? Guess what, they're not. They're not a tool about specific cases, but about trends.

Honestly, I us the Wii more as a platform to watch movies than anything else. It's actually my most-used console, but I don't use it for gaming. At all.

If it had better development support, had a web browser that worked (come on Opera, really? You could've done so much better), and supported user-made applications without the need to essentially jailbreak it that would be excellent.

If they made something other than FPS games for consoles (yes, I know they do; that's called hyperbole) I might be interested in buying another one. Unfortunately, with the content they spew right now AAA publishers can fuck right the hell off.

Because, because, we don't like what happened and believe due process is only applicable to cases where we agree with the defendant. So there!

It would fall under that definition, but violating the statute requires proof that it was in actual operation at the time. Without a confession, there is no way to convict someone for operating it because nobody can tell if it's actually in operation except for the user.

Your parents paid tuition there in addition to paying public school tuition for their entire lives (property taxes + income taxes). As long as people pay for the system, public school cheerleaders don't care where you send your kids. They only care when your taxes follow your kids.

People didn't like Washington's Running Start program for high school juniors and seniors because taxes followed them to pay for tuition at State colleges. Never mind the excellent education for capable students, or that it kept students like myself from dropping out completely. They don't care if you drop out, but don't dare try to use the money for another institution.

Only for rigorous science is that actually very important. Lack of any evidence corroborating a relationship (when you have reason to believe you have examined all modes in which such a relationship could take place) is indeed very good cause to believe no relationship exists between two entities.

Only for the most rigorous standards is the lack of ability to 100% "prove a negative" relevant. Most things have a much lower bar, and the lack of any corroborating evidence of a relationship is actually pretty easy to provide with decent transparency.

Given the revelations of Snowden, claims of paranoia just don't have the same impact they once did.

Where in the hell did you get "grown children" from? Parents looking over their children's shoulders is not the same as being so overbearing you damage them forever. There's this little thing called "middle ground," which it does not seem you have heard of.

Heh, I came here to post exactly the same thing.

Indeed. The comparison fails because the corrosion of aluminum is not comparable to rust (being non-brittle). A coating of aluminum oxide is actually pretty good at protecting the aluminum beneath it because it doesn't flake, unlike ferric oxide.

4WD offsets the problem with driving an rear-wheel-drive vehicle with no weight over the rear axle. Any pickup is crappy for driving on slick surfaces unless it either has a lot of weight in the back or is 4WD.

The higher rating also includes the frame, which is especially important in the longer vehicles (crew cab longbed, for example).