There is considerable debate centered on the cause of 20th century climate change. Few people contest the idea that some of the recent climate changes are likely due to natural processes, such as volcanic eruptions, changes in solar luminosity, and variations generated by natural interactions between parts of the climate system (for example, oceans and the atmosphere). There were significant climate changes before humans were around and there will be non-human causes of climate change in the future.
No, I was sick that day in 1st grade science class. I'm just another dumb American. The cloud put off by your smugness might actually cause some real global warming though.
(Jamie adds: and all it took was twelve years of overwhelming scientific consensus.)
According to The Leipzig Declaration, "There does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. In fact, many climate specialists now agree that actual observations from weather satellites show no global warming whatsoever--in direct contradiction to computer model results." It adds, "based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions. For this reason, we consider the drastic emission control policies likely to be endorsed by the Kyoto conference--lacking credible support from the underlying science--to be ill-advised and premature". This would mean that there is a possibility that global warming could happen, but right now there is no real evidence already happening.
My point, though, is that in order to agree with the police, I would have to agree with the government that controls it, which I don't (even though it isn't as bad as yours;-).
No country's government is better than mine.
You let the government and big corporations run your life? What a worthless, weak, un-motivated little lemming you must be.
the legislature can and does have the right to pass contradictory, non-sensical, idiotic and even unconstitutional laws.
You are completely wrong. The legislature may pass unconstitutional laws, but that is what the courts are for. Unconstitutional laws will NOT survive under our constitution.
The problem isn't that the two parties won't allow it, it is that the public is way too lazy to and ignorant to check into the viability of any other candidates. Until the extra parties can find a leader capable of pulling together a bunch of brain dead sheep, we will be stuck with two losers every few years.
I read the rules, but thanks for taking the time to care. Let's assume I find talking about sexual orientation insulting. Then, according to the rules, that speech will and should be banned. Who is to decide what is insulting to each individual person? For this game, it used to be Blizzard, now it's Lambda. Go figure.
from bliz originally: 'To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.'
I don't see anything wrong with that... oh, except not everyone can show how proud they are of their sexual orientation.
I guess it's just sad that they have to promote it. It should be assumed that guilds are friendly to everyone (realworld) and only against certain gameworld-traits for RP purposes.
I would have just mod'd it up, (have never seen mod points to give out), so I'll just type it. This is the best post on here. Thank you for stating it. Be specific-friendly if you want, but come on.... Bigotry will probably never go away (for some losers) and people will probably always kill each other over some books written while on acid 2000 years ago, but lets all just kill some dragons for craps sake.
It isn't being bigoted, it is FOLLOWING THE RULES. The rules are CLEARLY stated. Gay folk must follow the rules just like us straight shmo's.
No one wants to hear about the 20,000 women I've been with either. I'm sure they aren't hetero-phobes, they are just more interested in playing the freakin game.
Exactly.
On another note, I'm starting a guild for the balding. Not the bald, but the baldING. If you make fun of us in any way, I'm gonna get all huffy.
My friend has smoked marijuana since before college, all through college and now (+12 years) and owns his own highly successful franchise. I'm pretty sure some scientist dude named Carl Sagan smoked pot too. Many successful people do. It aint the weed, its the persons brain.
Yeah, after such growth overall in the industry, there has to be a slow-down. Of course, that is not acceptable in this knee-jerk, 'must always be growing' society.
I must disagree though with the p.c. comment(s). To me, GT Legends is an amazing PC release.
Please, think for yourselves. You are ruining the world based on some random dude(s) who made up a religion ~2000 years ago. It is so very sad to watch all these poor (simple minded) people wasting their energy and spoiling the "party" of life for others.
Just live. Have fun. Take care of your family. Try to make the world a better place. Keep your beliefs to yourself becuase I (and a lot of others) really don't care how devoted you are to a religion which may or may not have any truth.
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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/end.h tml [Paleo Perspective on Global Warming (NOAA)]
There's even a little something about peer review for all of us dumbasses, yay!
No, I was sick that day in 1st grade science class. I'm just another dumb American. The cloud put off by your smugness might actually cause some real global warming though.
According to The Leipzig Declaration, "There does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. In fact, many climate specialists now agree that actual observations from weather satellites show no global warming whatsoever--in direct contradiction to computer model results." It adds, "based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions. For this reason, we consider the drastic emission control policies likely to be endorsed by the Kyoto conference--lacking credible support from the underlying science--to be ill-advised and premature". This would mean that there is a possibility that global warming could happen, but right now there is no real evidence already happening.
Yup, this is what it's all about. Why would I need cable TV, when I can get all my laughs right here?
+1 Can't.Stop.Laughing
No country's government is better than mine.
You let the government and big corporations run your life? What a worthless, weak, un-motivated little lemming you must be.
...and I assume you will be putting up the secret of life on your douche-fest site?
You are completely wrong. The legislature may pass unconstitutional laws, but that is what the courts are for. Unconstitutional laws will NOT survive under our constitution.
Learn the rules! Illinois WILL pay the court costs. Period.
The problem isn't that the two parties won't allow it, it is that the public is way too lazy to and ignorant to check into the viability of any other candidates. Until the extra parties can find a leader capable of pulling together a bunch of brain dead sheep, we will be stuck with two losers every few years.
Request for new mod: +1 guilty pleasure
Ok, Blizzard should have let the guy know exactly what was the cause (using the keyboard macros?) and given him a chance to play nice.
It's still way ahead of any other way.
from bliz originally: 'To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.'
I don't see anything wrong with that... oh, except not everyone can show how proud they are of their sexual orientation.
I guess it's just sad that they have to promote it. It should be assumed that guilds are friendly to everyone (realworld) and only against certain gameworld-traits for RP purposes.
I would have just mod'd it up, (have never seen mod points to give out), so I'll just type it. This is the best post on here. Thank you for stating it. Be specific-friendly if you want, but come on.... Bigotry will probably never go away (for some losers) and people will probably always kill each other over some books written while on acid 2000 years ago, but lets all just kill some dragons for craps sake.
It isn't being bigoted, it is FOLLOWING THE RULES. The rules are CLEARLY stated. Gay folk must follow the rules just like us straight shmo's. No one wants to hear about the 20,000 women I've been with either. I'm sure they aren't hetero-phobes, they are just more interested in playing the freakin game.
Exactly. On another note, I'm starting a guild for the balding. Not the bald, but the baldING. If you make fun of us in any way, I'm gonna get all huffy.
Very little point.
My friend has smoked marijuana since before college, all through college and now (+12 years) and owns his own highly successful franchise. I'm pretty sure some scientist dude named Carl Sagan smoked pot too. Many successful people do. It aint the weed, its the persons brain.
Just curious as to the source for this: 'a very small minority of welfare recipients abuse the system'?
I must disagree though with the p.c. comment(s). To me, GT Legends is an amazing PC release.
Just live. Have fun. Take care of your family. Try to make the world a better place. Keep your beliefs to yourself becuase I (and a lot of others) really don't care how devoted you are to a religion which may or may not have any truth.
There must have not been enough lawyers back then.
That is because Walt lost the rights to Oswald and had to come up with a new character. So Mickey is kind of like Oswald 2.0
So why are you still here?