That's not a scientific statement, it's a political one. Science doesn't vote, it either provably is or it isn't.
Actually consensus *IS* the way that science works. Nothing in science is ever proved. Proof only exists in mathematics and the court room. Science only ever comes to a consensus on the best explanation for observed phenomenon.
Is climate change human caused? Hell if I know.
If you know more about science maybe you would. Although if the article is correct, maybe not.
Origin of Species was a great work for it's time, but it's probably not worth spending much time on it as it's so outdated. It works at the wrong abstraction. Natural selection works at the level of genes, not species.
Your experience comes about because it's very boring having to debunk the same old denialist myths hundreds of times over many years. You may find it fun to repeat yourself on things you've already been proved wrong on, but it's not that entertaining for the other side.
The article was written about people like you Jane.
It was when I started digging into the science that I started changing my mind. I found irresponsible handling of data, bizarre secrecy where there shouldn't be any, and so on. And all this has mushroomed in recent years.
Where by "digging" you mean reading and believing what it said on "Watt's Up With That", because the politics were more in alignment with yours than Al Gore's were.
I said: "History didn't start in 1492. (or any of the earlier dates at which the current Americans can be deemed to have started."
And you come back with:
American history didn't start in the 1940s, fool. US history goes back to 1776, European American history goes back to 1492, and Native American history goes back tens of thousands of years.
I'm coming to the conclusion I'm corresponding with someone of a very low IQ indeed. Or maybe you just can't read.
Right, because the English and Germans don't have TV dinners or unhealthy foods.
I said cultural exports. The TV dinners the British and Germans have were invented by Americans, and the culture pushed around the world. As always the evidence is on my side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Traditional English food is what?
Roast beef, Yorkshire Pudding and vegetables on a Sunday. Fish on a Friday. Stew. Can't answer for Germans.
Now after citing that, tell me how that's oh so much more healthy then anything else.
Because it's real food, not a Frankenstein creation of corn products, mechanically reclaimed connective tissue and artificial additives.
Your bigotry is frankly hilarious. To blame the increase in weight gain throughout the developed world on the United States? In what possible way could you blame such a thing on us?
It's not bigotry, it's a knowledge of the facts. An appreciation of modern history.
Your bigotry likely is exploding at this point at the suggesting that the US did anything good ever.
And so now you're off into straw man territory. You really are very poor at rational discussion.
I'm still here. As I said you don't know me at all if you think I wouldn't be.
You're still responding but you've stopped actually defending your position.
You're beginning to understand why I pointed out you were a knuckle dragging tea partier. You weren't defending your position, only asserting. Annoying, isn't it.
I will take this as a concession
You can hold whatever untruth you like in your head. It'll have plenty of company.
Seriously? Personal accountability should always be first and foremost.
Yes, seriously.
Why should personal accountability be first and foremost? To the extent that people who aren't guarded enough get punished. To the benefit of those who are trying to take advantage of them. In what way does that make the world a better place?
You know I keep on asking you how your view makes the world a better place, and you can't answer. All you keep doing is coming back with more assertions that you hold true. It's looking more and more like it's religion for you rather than rationality.
Every point of measurement is data. Hence an anecdote is as well
A point of measurement is a datum, and thus that's the best an anecdote might be. However the other side of anecdotes is that as verbal or written stories there's at last as much fiction as fact amongst them, so they aren't really credible even as a datum.
Maybe it's time to have an alternative to tiobe. If both indexes, done with different methodologies, provide similar results, this would tend to bolster the validity of each.
But as I pointed out cursory examination proves it's garbage. I've already donr Obj-C. How about MATLAB being 5 places above HTML? Complete drivel.
Rubycodez, it's a bit of a giveaway you have a sock-puppet account when all messages have an inability to use capitals or the English language, and have a maturity age of about 11.
Answer the question. In what way is what you suggest better?
Right now you are blaming those parents that have been caught out by unknowing kids rather than the businesses who created their business models intending that exact thing.
At the moment you are presenting no reason that wouldn't also say phishing and spamming are OK and should be allowed. That you think that people that aren't 100 per cent in control of everything 100% of the time deserve to be ripped off. And that's somehow good.
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That's not a scientific statement, it's a political one. Science doesn't vote, it either provably is or it isn't.
Actually consensus *IS* the way that science works. Nothing in science is ever proved. Proof only exists in mathematics and the court room. Science only ever comes to a consensus on the best explanation for observed phenomenon.
Is climate change human caused? Hell if I know.
If you know more about science maybe you would. Although if the article is correct, maybe not.
Furthermore, your free use of unjustified invective made it clear you were a mindless bigot.
Your lack of self-awareness of your hypocrisy is predictable, but amusing.
Finally you link to something. And it's still not evidence to a single thing you've said. Wonderful!
Origin of Species was a great work for it's time, but it's probably not worth spending much time on it as it's so outdated. It works at the wrong abstraction. Natural selection works at the level of genes, not species.
In any case, I have. It's available right here.
How long did it take you?
Tell that to the Taliban, Boko Haram, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc, etc.
What good company the American religious right keeps!
Your experience comes about because it's very boring having to debunk the same old denialist myths hundreds of times over many years. You may find it fun to repeat yourself on things you've already been proved wrong on, but it's not that entertaining for the other side.
You're another of the people TFA was written about.
The article was written about people like you Jane.
It was when I started digging into the science that I started changing my mind. I found irresponsible handling of data, bizarre secrecy where there shouldn't be any, and so on. And all this has mushroomed in recent years.
Where by "digging" you mean reading and believing what it said on "Watt's Up With That", because the politics were more in alignment with yours than Al Gore's were.
So where's the information stored?
He's not claiming he has. He's saying he will. A kid claiming he's going to do something he won't isn't news.
Oh, he's also a Glasshole. Which is another reason to assume he's full of shit.
You've already played the "I'll take this as a concession" card. It failed.
And evidence is not simply contradiction.
Try again kid.
This technology is already on the market. They call it Google Glass.
I said: "History didn't start in 1492. (or any of the earlier dates at which the current Americans can be deemed to have started."
And you come back with:
American history didn't start in the 1940s, fool. US history goes back to 1776, European American history goes back to 1492, and Native American history goes back tens of thousands of years.
I'm coming to the conclusion I'm corresponding with someone of a very low IQ indeed. Or maybe you just can't read.
the movie industry is a tiny portion of our population.
Of course. But the influence is great.
You point at some land whale getting carted around in a midwestern wall mart and presume to label us all land whales.
I never pointed at any such thing. I refer to statistics not anecdotes.
Its moronic.
Bigot.
Are you by any chance British?
In both Scandinavia and Germany, I've always been expected to strip down, at least to my undies, but bare when needed.
I am. But I've also had healthcare in Austria.
Still, that's an interesting observation you have there. I'll bear it in mind when travelling!
Right, because the English and Germans don't have TV dinners or unhealthy foods.
I said cultural exports. The TV dinners the British and Germans have were invented by Americans, and the culture pushed around the world. As always the evidence is on my side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Traditional English food is what?
Roast beef, Yorkshire Pudding and vegetables on a Sunday. Fish on a Friday. Stew. Can't answer for Germans.
Now after citing that, tell me how that's oh so much more healthy then anything else.
Because it's real food, not a Frankenstein creation of corn products, mechanically reclaimed connective tissue and artificial additives.
Your bigotry is frankly hilarious. To blame the increase in weight gain throughout the developed world on the United States? In what possible way could you blame such a thing on us?
It's not bigotry, it's a knowledge of the facts. An appreciation of modern history.
Your bigotry likely is exploding at this point at the suggesting that the US did anything good ever.
And so now you're off into straw man territory. You really are very poor at rational discussion.
We arent talking about fraud here. Amazon isn't pretending that the in-app purchases are free and then charging people anyways. Quite the contrary.
Whilst it's not fraud, clearly it isn't "quite the contrary", as the courts have criticised Amazon.
And coming up with your own set of bizarre rules is not an argument against employing reasonable consumer protection laws and regulations.
I'll stop jerking my knee if you stop jerking your cock.
I backed that up in detail.
You didn't. I did.
You're now running away.
I'm still here. As I said you don't know me at all if you think I wouldn't be.
You're still responding but you've stopped actually defending your position.
You're beginning to understand why I pointed out you were a knuckle dragging tea partier. You weren't defending your position, only asserting. Annoying, isn't it.
I will take this as a concession
You can hold whatever untruth you like in your head. It'll have plenty of company.
Seriously? Personal accountability should always be first and foremost.
Yes, seriously.
Why should personal accountability be first and foremost? To the extent that people who aren't guarded enough get punished. To the benefit of those who are trying to take advantage of them. In what way does that make the world a better place?
You know I keep on asking you how your view makes the world a better place, and you can't answer. All you keep doing is coming back with more assertions that you hold true. It's looking more and more like it's religion for you rather than rationality.
Every point of measurement is data. Hence an anecdote is as well
A point of measurement is a datum, and thus that's the best an anecdote might be. However the other side of anecdotes is that as verbal or written stories there's at last as much fiction as fact amongst them, so they aren't really credible even as a datum.
Bigot.
Maybe it's time to have an alternative to tiobe. If both indexes, done with different methodologies, provide similar results, this would tend to bolster the validity of each.
But as I pointed out cursory examination proves it's garbage. I've already donr Obj-C. How about MATLAB being 5 places above HTML? Complete drivel.
Rubycodez, it's a bit of a giveaway you have a sock-puppet account when all messages have an inability to use capitals or the English language, and have a maturity age of about 11.
Answer the question. In what way is what you suggest better?
Right now you are blaming those parents that have been caught out by unknowing kids rather than the businesses who created their business models intending that exact thing.
At the moment you are presenting no reason that wouldn't also say phishing and spamming are OK and should be allowed. That you think that people that aren't 100 per cent in control of everything 100% of the time deserve to be ripped off. And that's somehow good.