But that's just the problem is that respectable journals aren't rejecting alternate theories "because they disagree with the AGW gospel" they reject alternate theories because they disagree with our observations of reality.
Or maybe it could be a combination of factors, such as: (1) Rush Limbaugh isn't very technologically savvy and (2) he's pushing an ultra-rightwing agenda where "government can do no right" is orthodoxy.
Look, there was that time when Limbaugh thought he had a copy of Obama's college thesis. He immediately took it to air as serious news, only to later realize he had been pranked by internet satirists. IIRC when Rush found out he had been punk'd he claimed the "thesis" was 'fake but accurate' (insert heavy sigh).
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/10/25/2009-10-25_limbaugh_falls_for_obama_thesis_hoax__but_is_in_no_rush_to_apologize.html
The man just ain't that bright.
Yes, some PDFs are unsearchable, but the PDF (which Limbaugh was specifically talking about) wasn't one of them. Limbaugh was in error.
I posted the direct quote of Limbaugh from Media Matters, because:
(1) I know some people don't like MM, so that you wouldn't have to click the link.
(2) It was the first result from google. I'm lazy.
You're free to google the quote for another source if you care that much.
I think I've done everything I possibly can to reasonably accommodate your sensitivities.
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats "have reformatted the [economic recovery] bill -- they've made it a PDF file when they posted it.... And, so, you can read every page, but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is as posted on these public websites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this."
http://mediamatters.org/research/200902130016
In order to provide anything useful to this discussion you would have to prove that children are being brainwashed by the current public school curriculum.
Not teaching evolution is a symptom of moving further away from, not closer to, the facts and fact based reasoning.
Why this should concern you is that people with little or no sense of fact based reasoning are known for imposing their mystical thinking on everyone else.
Mathematically it might not be useful yet for the reasons you've pointed out.
I think the value of Drake's equation is that it has moved societal views of extra-terrestrial life from "you believe in little green men!" to "yeah, the universe is a really big place that might have more life in it".
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why there are so many retarded comments posted on internet news articles.
It's pretty amazing just how much of the world is based on trust isn't it?
Do you feel the same way about the science of Evolutionary Biology? I hear they don't often hire Creationists.
The report that the article refers to is the 2009 State of the Climate report. More information about it is available at the NOAA website: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100728_stateoftheclimate.html
But that's just the problem is that respectable journals aren't rejecting alternate theories "because they disagree with the AGW gospel" they reject alternate theories because they disagree with our observations of reality.
Never tell me the odds!
Or maybe it could be a combination of factors, such as: (1) Rush Limbaugh isn't very technologically savvy and (2) he's pushing an ultra-rightwing agenda where "government can do no right" is orthodoxy. Look, there was that time when Limbaugh thought he had a copy of Obama's college thesis. He immediately took it to air as serious news, only to later realize he had been pranked by internet satirists. IIRC when Rush found out he had been punk'd he claimed the "thesis" was 'fake but accurate' (insert heavy sigh). http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/10/25/2009-10-25_limbaugh_falls_for_obama_thesis_hoax__but_is_in_no_rush_to_apologize.html The man just ain't that bright.
Yes, some PDFs are unsearchable, but the PDF (which Limbaugh was specifically talking about) wasn't one of them. Limbaugh was in error. I posted the direct quote of Limbaugh from Media Matters, because: (1) I know some people don't like MM, so that you wouldn't have to click the link. (2) It was the first result from google. I'm lazy. You're free to google the quote for another source if you care that much. I think I've done everything I possibly can to reasonably accommodate your sensitivities.
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats "have reformatted the [economic recovery] bill -- they've made it a PDF file when they posted it. ... And, so, you can read every page, but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is as posted on these public websites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this."
http://mediamatters.org/research/200902130016
Rush Limbaugh sayz: "Government loves PDFs because they aren't searchable".
just a ploy to get you to buy the same movie one more time.
It sounds like you are describing: http://www.wikihow.com/ Now we just need more engineers & technicians contributing to it.
In order to provide anything useful to this discussion you would have to prove that children are being brainwashed by the current public school curriculum.
Not teaching evolution is a symptom of moving further away from, not closer to, the facts and fact based reasoning. Why this should concern you is that people with little or no sense of fact based reasoning are known for imposing their mystical thinking on everyone else.
Atlas Shrugged was one long, drawn out, "slippery slope" argument. Are you happy now?
Mathematically it might not be useful yet for the reasons you've pointed out. I think the value of Drake's equation is that it has moved societal views of extra-terrestrial life from "you believe in little green men!" to "yeah, the universe is a really big place that might have more life in it".