"This is obviously a sociologist's dream topic to discuss because it can mean whatever you want it to mean and debate it endlessly without ever reaching a conclusion."
The Koch brothers are extracting money from you via law or legislation? You might want to check with a lawyer or something about this matter, I'm pretty sure that's not allowed (unless you were a defendant or something).
How dare you insult my wife? This is yet another example of the ad homs used by the leftist kooks against anyone they disagree with. You don't even know her IQ, moron!
And thank God for that! We all know that Shakespeare (who is a fraud anyway) is a form of white men's oppression on society; yet another example of the evils of patriarchy! Happy Fathers' Day!
Very well-said. There's a lot of ego, moral superiority posturing, self-worth/image, emotions, virtue-signalling, status positioning, political ambitions/ideology and, yes, gobs and gobs of taxpayer money bundled up in this whole ClimateChange onslaught of unrelenting hysteria. It's quite the phenomenon to behold, this extraordinary popular delusion and madness of crowds, but it shows what relentless messaging and propaganda by professional PR people and virtually unlimited funding can do.
We're dealing with a belief system here, and no amount of logic is going to dissuade any of the True Believers from their eco-religion, especially when there's so much taxpayer money being flung about to study and "solve the problem".
And nobody wants to be "on the wrong side of history" now, do they? Plus it's fun to abuse your ideological enemies, isn't it?
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
- Aldous Huxley
Now go on, accuse me of cherry-picking and misrepresenting the facts. Oh, no, wait - it's Dunning-Kruger. Or false consciousness. Or I want to kill the planet. Or I'm just evil. Hey, why not just go for all those things!
Stop interrupting the OP's little Modest Proposal. Perhaps non-believers should be muzzled, imprisoned or permanently silenced. Yeah, that's the ticket! WTF is wrong with these people?
To which "projects of this size" do you refer? Do you mean the ongoing, various (effectively worldwide) governmental efforts to diminish and eventually eliminate the fossil fuels industries?
AKA, most enviro-speak. Terminology redefinitions, vague answers, fuzzy and fudged numbers, weasel words, etc. Par for the course. They're all needed to obfuscate the reality of massive taxpayer-funded feel-good boondoggles.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I'll bring up these matters at our meeting later this week. The reason the site's in the shape it's in now is because of neglecting maintenance since it was started. There's usually only a part-time office admin type looking after things and they never really did anything but push some buttons and upload articles and wasn't aware of/didn't care about the need to keep the system and plugins current. Strange thing is that at one time the organization apparently was paying someone $250/week to do... something.
Nope, I'm doing it for free for an organization that can't afford a highly-paid developer (possibly like yourself) since I do have many years experience creating and running static websites and a couple very simple WordPress ones. I wonder if there are any statistics on CMS-based site operators who understand the intricacies of databases or if most people just install from a package and use the software without being experts.
Thank you for this great reply, it made me think more about the matter. I'll try to respond in more detail later today and I'm going to refer the decision-makers to your post.
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"This is obviously a sociologist's dream topic to discuss because it can mean whatever you want it to mean and debate it endlessly without ever reaching a conclusion."
Sort of like Climate Change, then.
Everyone's a racist now.
And Russia wouldn't be funding any anti-fracking activists or protesters (or other eco-activists, for that matter), would they?
Cracked block due to delta T when water hits engine?
The Koch brothers are extracting money from you via law or legislation? You might want to check with a lawyer or something about this matter, I'm pretty sure that's not allowed (unless you were a defendant or something).
How dare you insult my wife? This is yet another example of the ad homs used by the leftist kooks against anyone they disagree with. You don't even know her IQ, moron!
And thank God for that! We all know that Shakespeare (who is a fraud anyway) is a form of white men's oppression on society; yet another example of the evils of patriarchy! Happy Fathers' Day!
Thanks for saving the planet. Have another toke!
Does your username hint at Cheech and Chong and the 4:20 phenomenon?
Who's going to buy the stuff made and shipped by the robots? Oh, wait - I'm a Luddite, I forgot.
Very well-said. There's a lot of ego, moral superiority posturing, self-worth/image, emotions, virtue-signalling, status positioning, political ambitions/ideology and, yes, gobs and gobs of taxpayer money bundled up in this whole ClimateChange onslaught of unrelenting hysteria. It's quite the phenomenon to behold, this extraordinary popular delusion and madness of crowds, but it shows what relentless messaging and propaganda by professional PR people and virtually unlimited funding can do.
"The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible." I wonder who wrote that and what about it is so hard to understand.
We're dealing with a belief system here, and no amount of logic is going to dissuade any of the True Believers from their eco-religion, especially when there's so much taxpayer money being flung about to study and "solve the problem".
And nobody wants to be "on the wrong side of history" now, do they? Plus it's fun to abuse your ideological enemies, isn't it?
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
- Aldous Huxley
Now go on, accuse me of cherry-picking and misrepresenting the facts. Oh, no, wait - it's Dunning-Kruger. Or false consciousness. Or I want to kill the planet. Or I'm just evil. Hey, why not just go for all those things!
Stop interrupting the OP's little Modest Proposal. Perhaps non-believers should be muzzled, imprisoned or permanently silenced. Yeah, that's the ticket! WTF is wrong with these people?
To which "projects of this size" do you refer? Do you mean the ongoing, various (effectively worldwide) governmental efforts to diminish and eventually eliminate the fossil fuels industries?
And there will be no impact except on vegetation. Let the shitstorm begin!
"Externalities" are impossible to fully calculate and never resolved because there are always additional claims from opportunists.
"...talk around it..."
AKA, most enviro-speak. Terminology redefinitions, vague answers, fuzzy and fudged numbers, weasel words, etc. Par for the course. They're all needed to obfuscate the reality of massive taxpayer-funded feel-good boondoggles.
Parent Poster's sig is ironically relevant to it's comment:
"I cannot be held accountable for the things I say or do."
"...those same renewables will have surpassed the largest electricity-generating fossil fuel: coal."
Well, obviously. Aren't there efforts to make coal "illegal"?
Yeah, this seems to be yet more "science" designed to get media attention and therefore more funding. I'm absolutely certain the WHO has a PR firm.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I'll bring up these matters at our meeting later this week. The reason the site's in the shape it's in now is because of neglecting maintenance since it was started. There's usually only a part-time office admin type looking after things and they never really did anything but push some buttons and upload articles and wasn't aware of/didn't care about the need to keep the system and plugins current. Strange thing is that at one time the organization apparently was paying someone $250/week to do... something.
Thanks for the advice. In this case, we do need dynamic user input.
Thanks for this. Currently I'm using SP Upgrade to attempt data migration and there are some issues (although I've only just started).
Nope, I'm doing it for free for an organization that can't afford a highly-paid developer (possibly like yourself) since I do have many years experience creating and running static websites and a couple very simple WordPress ones. I wonder if there are any statistics on CMS-based site operators who understand the intricacies of databases or if most people just install from a package and use the software without being experts.
Thank you for this great reply, it made me think more about the matter. I'll try to respond in more detail later today and I'm going to refer the decision-makers to your post.