You not knowing of people doing it doesn't mean it's not being done. Your knowledge of the world does not decide what is and what isn't. The only thing you seem to be condemning with any competency is your understanding of this subject.
What do you think the AngularJS app talks to? Right - frequently PHP. You can contend whatever you want - you don't seem to know what you're talking about:)
It's phenomenal as a scripting language, especially if your scripts need to share functionality with your website. Couple it with the HHVM binary and it's incredibly fast. Complaining about the mysql_ functions is fun, I know, but seeing as everyone uses a library to abstract their database queries, it hasn't been a problem in years and years and years.
As you can see, it talks directly to the SAPI in order to send headers. No libraries. No dependencies. No nothing. Why should anyone take any of your criticisms seriously when you are clearly talking out of your ass?
People realised this about 10 years ago and started writing libraries to hide this nonsense from the rest of the language. As that has been done, you can stop complaining about it, as that just serves to make you look ridiculously ill-informed and outdated, something I'm sure you did not intend.
Cats & buildings kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines, and fossil fuels kill orders of magnitude more than cats & buildings through pollution & loss of habitat.
So you are basically admitting that you don't know much about climatology, but feel secure enough in your awesomeness that a cursory thought about it is enough to bring you to the right conclusion - that climate change is nonsense, and all the evidence has been made up. Brilliant. You are a gift to the world. Muppet.
That "relatively small amount of snowfall" is the remains of the snow pack, hence his comments. Jackson Hole's snow pack is in a downward trend, and has been for some time now, because of a lack of precipitation in the area.
So no, you really don't understand what you're saying, but your hubris is letting you think you have a solid grasp. Ouch. Sucks to be you!
The land "given" to us by climate change will not be suitable for the crops we used to grow on the land taken from us by climate change, as crops need the correct soil, the correct amount of sunlight, the correct seasonal changes, and so on. Also, the sea level rise doesn't sound too drastic, but that extra foot would cause all kinds of hell during a storm surge. That affects all cities near the coast, which includes some of the most important cities in the world, and billions of people. Those can't just be moved one weekend by a couple of guys with a rented U-Haul.
We're fucked without food, and climate change can definitely make that a reality for a great many people, who will do whatever they can to feed their families. You can find all this information in the IPCC reports, it's not esoteric stuff.
It would be even better to fix the system than to throw a bunch of kids under the knowledge bus simply because their parents are backwards religious muppets. If science lessons are only allowed to teach scientific facts, then we'd be fine. The examples you cited were not of rigorous science, but of claims dressed up in scientific terms, just like creationism.
You didn't have religious studies classes at school? We did (in the UK), and they were really informative. They just looked at each of the major religions and taught what adherents believe, what they do, and why they do it. I was an atheist going in, and a better-informed atheist coming out:)
And in lots of places 100% of the kids are in to soccer or some such pursuit - should the science lessons in those areas teach that the world is a soccer ball? Science lessons are for teaching science, not an audience-friendly bullshitting session designed to make people not realise they believe abject nonsense. They should teach this garbage in church.
Then give people links or explain things more clearly:) Relying on something you yourself know to be unreliable, then getting upset when it is unreiable, seems rather strange to me:)
The ID movement was born out of the creationist movement. The name ID was chosen because it sounds science-y. The first ID literature was creationist literature with a global search-and-replace.
Very well put - I used the word "evidence" as meaning something which stands up to rigour, not necessarily just as a thing someone thinks means something. I should have been more precise. Thanks for the correction!
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I'm not arguing but genuinely interested - what's Singelgracht then? :)
You not knowing of people doing it doesn't mean it's not being done. Your knowledge of the world does not decide what is and what isn't. The only thing you seem to be condemning with any competency is your understanding of this subject.
What do you think the AngularJS app talks to? Right - frequently PHP. You can contend whatever you want - you don't seem to know what you're talking about :)
It's phenomenal as a scripting language, especially if your scripts need to share functionality with your website. Couple it with the HHVM binary and it's incredibly fast. Complaining about the mysql_ functions is fun, I know, but seeing as everyone uses a library to abstract their database queries, it hasn't been a problem in years and years and years.
Don't bring facts to a PHP-hatenanny!
You sound like PHP raped your daddy.
As you can see, it talks directly to the SAPI in order to send headers. No libraries. No dependencies. No nothing. Why should anyone take any of your criticisms seriously when you are clearly talking out of your ass?
Who the fuck cares? That's a problem for people who hate PHP for whatever reason.
People realised this about 10 years ago and started writing libraries to hide this nonsense from the rest of the language. As that has been done, you can stop complaining about it, as that just serves to make you look ridiculously ill-informed and outdated, something I'm sure you did not intend.
You should see how HHVM fares - it has a much lower memory footprint, and runs PHP code lighting fast. It's simply amazing.
The temperature has been increasing steadily over the last 15 years, though...
Cats & buildings kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines, and fossil fuels kill orders of magnitude more than cats & buildings through pollution & loss of habitat.
So you are basically admitting that you don't know much about climatology, but feel secure enough in your awesomeness that a cursory thought about it is enough to bring you to the right conclusion - that climate change is nonsense, and all the evidence has been made up. Brilliant. You are a gift to the world. Muppet.
That "relatively small amount of snowfall" is the remains of the snow pack, hence his comments. Jackson Hole's snow pack is in a downward trend, and has been for some time now, because of a lack of precipitation in the area.
So no, you really don't understand what you're saying, but your hubris is letting you think you have a solid grasp. Ouch. Sucks to be you!
That's what the evidence seems to suggest, yes.
The land "given" to us by climate change will not be suitable for the crops we used to grow on the land taken from us by climate change, as crops need the correct soil, the correct amount of sunlight, the correct seasonal changes, and so on. Also, the sea level rise doesn't sound too drastic, but that extra foot would cause all kinds of hell during a storm surge. That affects all cities near the coast, which includes some of the most important cities in the world, and billions of people. Those can't just be moved one weekend by a couple of guys with a rented U-Haul.
We're fucked without food, and climate change can definitely make that a reality for a great many people, who will do whatever they can to feed their families. You can find all this information in the IPCC reports, it's not esoteric stuff.
Your questions have been answered already. That you still ask them is strange.
It would be even better to fix the system than to throw a bunch of kids under the knowledge bus simply because their parents are backwards religious muppets. If science lessons are only allowed to teach scientific facts, then we'd be fine. The examples you cited were not of rigorous science, but of claims dressed up in scientific terms, just like creationism.
You didn't have religious studies classes at school? We did (in the UK), and they were really informative. They just looked at each of the major religions and taught what adherents believe, what they do, and why they do it. I was an atheist going in, and a better-informed atheist coming out :)
And in lots of places 100% of the kids are in to soccer or some such pursuit - should the science lessons in those areas teach that the world is a soccer ball? Science lessons are for teaching science, not an audience-friendly bullshitting session designed to make people not realise they believe abject nonsense. They should teach this garbage in church.
Great Britain != Britain. Clearly your education wasn't taken too seriously by anyone.
Then give people links or explain things more clearly :) Relying on something you yourself know to be unreliable, then getting upset when it is unreiable, seems rather strange to me :)
The ID movement was born out of the creationist movement. The name ID was chosen because it sounds science-y. The first ID literature was creationist literature with a global search-and-replace.
Then there is the Pallas cat which has round pupils, and the Fox which (while a canid) has cat-like pupils. Interesting stuff :)
Very well put - I used the word "evidence" as meaning something which stands up to rigour, not necessarily just as a thing someone thinks means something. I should have been more precise. Thanks for the correction!