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Holy shit, you can sue a city for being a bureaucracy?

I just think it is no coincidence at all that countries with low or even no gun ownership rates have correspondingly low gun-related death and crime rates.

I'm not going to favor repealling a constitutional right, but I think that the right to bear arms was a much, much different right two centuries ago than it is today. With gun-related deaths in the pentuple digits, something's going wrong. Cue Penn & Teller THE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST A RUNAWAY GOVERNMENT IS A WELL ARMED CITIZEN ARMY

Uhg who cares about gay marriage? Really? It's a state issue.

Prove my point, Eric.

Ah, I get you now. Word, I agree.

Right, tied. These polls really have no bearing other than a ball park figure for me.

No one better impeach Bush, what will we hate then?

Well one quantitative reason behind shitty journalism (on television at least) was the repeal of the Fairness in Reporting Act, which federally mandated that equal time be given to specific themes and topics. With that out the window, journalism centers were now quite literally able to report on whatever they want. However, the most immediate trend of the 21st century seems to be one of pandering to ratings, especially marked by the takeover of news centers by large businesses: CNN is owned by AOL-TW, etc.

Go look around in the other global warming thread, they are there. Whatever one is the one with Kunh as the co-author.

I already gave everyone the sources. Quit being a fucking baby about this. They're from an astronomy textbook. I'm simply hosting them because those graphs are the original files from the textbook, from one of the authors, not a scanned image.

Nothing for breakfast. PB&J, fudge pop tart, and a slice of ham so far. Probably pasta for dinner. I'm gonna lose weight, what with this cooking for myself 100% of the time shit.

I got it in a little deal with buying a laptop. Opened once to remove the UPC. iPod hasn't been turned on once, everything's still in there. Minus the UPC that is. Anyways, $175 shipped, I accept paypal. It's the latest version, by the way.

so when do I get my free Dr. Pepper?

Well he totally just convinced me, I don't know what you're talking about.

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It's one of the variables that causes climate change. I've never said that our part isn't there, it is, but carbon dioxide emissions play a relatively small role. Cars spit out a lot, I ride a bike now, and there are good reasons to consume less of everything.

Hey, remember when it was revealed that these guys stole a bunch of beats for their album?

What the hell gave you that idea?

Just throw Magic Johnson in there to spice up the mix.

This chart isn't the easiest to understand...Usually timelines put older stuff on the left and newer stuff on the right, and this one has it reversed. The farther you go to the right, the farther into the past you get. But the chart shows a link between CO2 and temperature, but has no implication for cause and effect. However, saying that CO2 is an effect of heating and cooling doesn't explain what the source of the CO2 is, since matter has to come from somewhere. Obviously, since humans weren't producing shit tons of CO2 tens of thousands of years ago, we can only say that natural processes dictated the temperature. Nothing was putting more CO2 in the air, only the temperature was changing vis a vis the aforementioned variables that I've mentioned. As the temperature gets hotter, the ocean releases CO2, and CO2 levels go up. So just one of the places where CO2 is an effect, not a cause.

I already gave you the sources, Eric.

The effect they have is relatively small. Solar variability, the albedic variable, and the Milankovitch cycles will have a greater effect on the temperature than carbon emissions will ever hope to have. Our emissions are having an effect, but don't put your blinders on.

Based on carbon emissions? Wrong. CO2 levels are an effect of heating and cooling, not a cause of it. And we've got about another 10,000 years before the next ice age.