Gripes about Wichita (Park: homes, neighborhoods, living in)

[bjmkw23580]

Originally Posted by janetjanetbobanet

... It's not a hard place to drive around in for the most part, and there are way less crazy drivers there than in KC or Denver. I never had a police officer be rude to me...

Yeah, ditto, I don't miss Denver or KC drivers. At least here, you don't hafta actually WORRY about every car around you. Coming from OK a year ago, I've even finally slowed myself down. It's really not worth speeding here as much as it was down there...you'll eventually end up not much further down the road

[Brasidas]

Originally Posted by Plains10

The media turns it into a political issue which it is not. I will belive the scientists who are the experts, and compiled the IPCC report. Climate change is real with humans partly responsible. We should invest in green technologies and other technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. Kansas has been rather forward thinking lately and not invested in more outdated coal plants. Energy efficiency, conservation, net metering, and renewable sources of energy is the future. For baseload I still like nuclear and natural gas over dirty coal.

I know this will be a shock to you, since you've chosen to use poor terminology, but the climate has never been observed to be static. It has always been changing, and the term "global climate change" is a politicized tautological attempt to trap any dissenter of the concept of anthropologically driven global warming into agreeing that the euphemistically derived term "climate change" takes place by default. The IPCC report was compiled by bureaucrats with a socio-political agenda, though originally derived from the various studies of climatologists and various scientific fields with climatological impact, it has been hijacked to serve a political purpose. People such as myself who have an education in atmospheric physics and computer modelling of chaotic phenomena have a pretty good idea what political outcome is sought by which groups with a stake in a non-rational response to non-scientific data. Evidently, this is still eluding the more gullible of the lay public. Pity.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by Brasidas

I know this will be a shock to you, since you've chosen to use poor terminology, but the climate has never been observed to be static. It has always been changing, and the term "global climate change" is a politicized tautological attempt to trap any dissenter of the concept of anthropologically driven global warming into agreeing that the euphemistically derived term "climate change" takes place by default. The IPCC report was compiled by bureaucrats with a socio-political agenda, though originally derived from the various studies of climatologists and various scientific fields with climatological impact, it has been hijacked to serve a political purpose. People such as myself who have an education in atmospheric physics and computer modelling of chaotic phenomena have a pretty good idea what political outcome is sought by which groups with a stake in a non-rational response to non-scientific data. Evidently, this is still eluding the more gullible of the lay public. Pity.

Well, the politics will still somehow screw up solid science, eh?
The IPCC is still the official report, and they do regular updates every few years.
To label all scientists as having a specific political agenda would be a falsehood.
If you have been following the coal plant debate in KS most are still against it because 90% of the electricity generated would be sent to other states while we would get all the pollution.
In conclusion, I still believe that we need to develop technologies to reduce CO2 emissions considering the developing countries like China are building new coal plants every week. We have to take the initiative and be a global leader regarding green technologies.
I think you realize that clean coal does not exist. For baseload I prefer anything besides coal. For an example of a heavily polluted area of the US I would suggest taking a trip to the Ohio River Valley.

[drjones96]

As George Carlin once said,"When the earth is tired of us it will shake us off like a bad case of fleas".

Study the history of climate change over the vast history of the world before you call a 2-5 degree temperature change a global catastrophy.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by drjones96

As George Carlin once said,"When the earth is tired of us it will shake us off like a bad case of fleas".

Study the history of climate change over the vast history of the world before you call a 2-5 degree temperature change a global catastrophy.

A 2-5F warming over the next 100 years would be completely disastrous for most areas of the globe. I have taken climatology courses so I know for a fact that the losers are far more prevalent than the winners.

[meetthedawn]

The parks, I have lived all over the western US and have never seen so many parks in one city..... Central Riverside down to Herman Hill .. "One Big Park" or at least they're connected by good bike and ped trails. The water, how many lakes are there? 20 + more? The greenery, are the flowers blooming, trees in bud, grass green? The people, I'd bet someone waved or said, "hello" today. Oh yea, you can live like a king for very little.
PRIORITIES !!

[Fiddlefeet]

This is not a gripe --- although, as I remember, the wind in Wichita could blow a little kid over -- my question is: Would 2219 W. 24th Street be an undesirable neighborhood now? It was great when I was a kid. Please advise.

[bjmkw23580]

Yeah, the gripes are pretty trivial...

I have another gripe. I'm looking for jobs in the IT field. I'm kinda middle of the road in terms of expertise. But I'm finding mostly these crazy-high senior-level positions that want an unreal amount of experience and a myriad of certifications. And large companies (I'm gonna especially pick on Cox Communications) that I applied for multiple positions report that I'm overqualified for some and underqualified for others. No fit, so no offer. Where does that leave me!? I'd even settle for an entry-level opportunity just to get out of this contract bullcrap that I so desperately want out of, but those are even few and far in between. You might be finding me behind the counter in a Quick Trip soon ...

But it may be the current economy also.

[Vision-Quest]

how could their be any gripes about Wichita, Kansas. i mean, wichita has everything a smaller town in kansas wants, great parks, at least some kind of entertainment, a great zoo, its got a historical cowtown, and bike trails even. Wichita has something no other town in central-western kansas has, which is an economy, every small town out west is dying because they are in the middle of nowhere and nobody goes out that way anymore because they have I-70 to the north, that might be one reason those towns are dying, or it could just be the fact that each town is 10-20 miles apart from eachother and each one is so boring to live in. im from one of those small towns (sterling) and it is deffinantly not fun, the people arent all that great, i loved it when i got a chance to go to wichita to go to the zoo, or even all the fun stores they have scattered around.

i got plenty to gripe about all the small towns to the west, but deffinantly not wichita.

[Modron]

Originally Posted by bjmkw23580

Yeah, the gripes are pretty trivial...

I have another gripe. I'm looking for jobs in the IT field. ...
But it may be the current economy also.

IT jobs in Wichita just aren't easy to come by. I was trying to change from education to IT a few years ago, I even enrolled in a college IT program, but after looking at how available IT jobs are here I stopped. It wasn't worth it at the time to spend a lot of money on classes on the possibility of getting an entry level job and then having very little opportunity to move up. We had one really sharp tech in my school district who worked for us for a little more than a year at $9/hour who finally was hired by LSI Logic. But, he sure had to "pay his dues" being patient until something better came along.