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Re:Christianity & Trumptards have underscored
Howso? How would the world benefit from the fall of man?
You're a moron. Man is the pinnacle of evolution and as such is the ultimate destiny of this planet.
The world would also benefit from having less of this sort of idiocy.
A Tardigrade can survive in much more extreme environments than a human, and is therefore ahead in evolutionary terms.
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Re:Lockdown
What a fucking douche. There are millions of people who own firearms and don't shoot children. There are drivers who intentionally run over children. Are you going to forbid kit car plans because someone might use them for killing children? There are legitimate uses of a weapon. Self defense, hunting (legalized and regulated), sport (skeet shooting), and of course on the firing range.
You and your fucking comment are as sick as the deranged asswipes who shoot at innocent people, children included. Fucking retard.
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Re:Get the facts
You sir are an idiot, there are plenty of campaigners for prostitute rights in the UK, they even have their own Union.
https://www.theguardian.com/pr...
https://www.iusw.org/
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Re:The real question is
You jest, but there have been cases where the teen gets charged under the child pornography laws for making it. There are some states that try to address this, but there are still quite a number of them that still prosecutes under child porn laws.
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Re: It's morally binding
Hey wanker, your nation is still out of control and the ones to blame for the CO2, not just the Yanks. China lifted 1 child 3 years ago and now you are back to breeding like bloody rabbits when you are not raping each other. You make India look wonderful for women. Total muppet.
And yes, even as your nation continues to pollute heavily, you are adding (not simply replacing) even more coal plants all over the globe, including your own nation. Tossers like you continue to lie and try to defend what your nation is doing when you are the worst. If the yanks start building new coal plants, then you will have made things much worse.
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Re:The past is making a come back
How on earth is the past making a comeback as a result of this?
In the UK we've had deliveries from supermarkets via internet shopping for ages now. I'm pretty sure I remember using Tesco in about 2004 or so and it wasn't new then. I found this article from 1998 indicating it was being tested then, and in some cases rolled out nationwide:
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Re:Awesome
$3 trillion is a drop in the bucket and sounds way too good to be true, so I think you've got your numbers wrong. Climate change is projected to cost the world economy $33 trillion a year by 2050, and already costs the USA alone $300B a year (couldn't find a figure for current worldwide annual cost, but you can assume that it must in the trillions).
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98% False Positive
I wonder if it was as successful as this.
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Re:Says the anonymous coward
>Oh won't somebody think of the Children...
Well, somebody is
Indian police trace 3,000 missing children in just four days using facial recognition technology
http://www.vocativ.com/news/427175/facial-recognition-lost-children/index.html
When Fu Gui was six, he was abducted on his way home from school in Chongqing, China. He was then trafficked to Quznahou, about 1,000 miles away, where he was sold to foster parents. Now, 27 years after he was taken from his family, he has been reunited with them. And it’s all thanks to the latest cross-age facial recognition technology from Chinese tech giant Baidu.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facial-recognition-could-move-beyond-mug-shots-1522855817
When police found a senior citizen apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s missing from her family on Staten Island in 2014, officials took to technology.
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Re:I should add
This too is bullshit since keeping the higher paid jobs here in the USA spreads the wealth to local service industry which creates more customers that can afford airpods and other imported chinese garbage. You think poor Chinese or Indonesian workers are buying Harley Davidson? No, USA factory and service workers are.
I've actually been in a Harley Davidson dealer in Indonesia, so someone there is buying them.
Size of US Market: 320M
Size of Global Market: 7500M
There are now more billionaires in Asia than the US
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Re:Are You Kidding me?
did Lucas (or someone else in the know) state this was the original intent?
Almost. Jar Jar's voice actor hinted strongly that the story was moving in that direction, see here: Star Wars: The Darth Jar Jar Binks theory is partially true, says actor.
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Re:Read the souce
What's obvious here is that you're mostly just crap at communicating your point - and just as crap at recognising the points of others.
GP is clearly referring to seasonal variation, which is obvious enough that I'm assuming you just prefer to trash anyone who disagrees rather than concede anything. Since the only clarification you bothered to offer was a reference to the "key" part of your quote, yet you included both "when" and "where" in your claim, you could've meant regional variations or diurnal variations, or maybe something else entirely.
Since e.g. Germany is further north than nearly all the US, yet can already generate excess solar at times (clearly adding some storage will allow further increases of solar in their energy mix) - then I'd say latitude is not a barrier for the great majority of the population. And if you meant that peak usage often lags after peak solar, then storage helps there too.
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Send it to Sweden
They are running out of garbage, for real.
In the end they will burn it controlled for heating.
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I'm not such a fan of UBI anymore
Recently I've found different solutions with similar goals to be more promising and less problematic, such as universal basic services and/or a citizens' dividend.
Problems with UBI:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.co...
http://neweconomics.org/2018/0...
Some better solutions:
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grooming
This is where "grooming" happens in the UK:
In August 2014 the Jay report concluded that an estimated 1,400 children, most of them white girls,[24] had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men.
... The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors revolving around race, class and gender—contemptuous and sexist attitudes toward the mostly working-class victims; fear that the perpetrators' ethnicity would trigger allegations of racism and damage community relations; the Labour council's reluctance to challenge a Labour-voting ethnic minority; lack of a child-centred focus; a desire to protect the town's reputation; and lack of training and resources.The problem isn't a lack of mandatory government IDs online, the problem is an abject failure of Britain's government and governing elites to protect children from rape.
Furthermore, if mandatory IDs online had been used, these horrific abuses would never have come to light because even more people would have been carted off to jail for "causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety."
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Re:100% in favour
Its the UK. No freedom of speech. No freedom after speech. The GCHQ keeps the UK internet to sort.
"GCHQ collected information from every visible user on the internet" (25 September 2015 )
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
"IP addresses could be cross-referenced with other data" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -
Don't take seriously anything that government says
When it tries to claim that certain domestic politicians don't officially exist:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...even to the extent of imprisoning people who mention his name, it has lost any authority to comment on what might be fake news.
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Re:It wasn't a terrible movie
Maybe that works great for something like Lost where you can jerk the audience around for 6 seasons,
You can only jerk the least intelligent or most patient segment of the audience around for 6 seasons. It was obvious to me within the first season that the show was an intellectual cocktease with no intent to put out, raising tantalizing new mysteries all the time in an attempt to distract you from an almost complete lack of answers and a complete lack of good answers. Which turned out to be exactly what was happening behind the scenes.
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Re:You need the lesson
When house prices grow at 12% a year, and income doesn't, waiting means that one may well never be able to buy a house at all.
No it doesn't. First of all, if you're saving less than 15% every year (and subsequently investing it,) then you're doing a pretty bad job at managing your financial priorities. Oh wait, you moved into a place with rent costs that you can't afford so you can't save anything? All I can say in that case is: it must suck to be that dumb. Anyways, it's pretty rare for a housing market to rise at or above 12% within a year. When it does, a hard crash follows afterward. The reason the prices are going up is because too many people treat them like an investment, which means they're allowing the price of the house to detach from its actual value, which means they're speculating, which means they're creating a bubble, which inevitably pops. In this housing market, I'm forecasting a 40% or above decline in housing costs when the next recession hits. Why? Because housing expenses are now close to 50% of the CPI, so either we deal with big-time inflation with no end in sight, the housing market crashes, or the fed raises the interest rate enough so that mortgage interest is north of 6%, which would greatly reduce the demand for expensive housing.
The previous recession saw housing prices fall by about 60%, by the way.
Sounds like you don't have an ex-wife or a family,
Duh, I deliberately chose not to until I had graduated from college and obtained a decent and stable income. Why would you not do this? You prefer to think with your dick instead of planning ahead? If you prefer the term "I just wanted a family", that's fine and all, but why on earth would you do that when you still have a low income? Research shows that when parents wait until they're established will raise kids in an environment that provides better development, both physically and educationally. Having kids and/or an ex-wife (or a wife period) before then is unwise.
and live in an area with a lard-based diet.
What would be the problem with that?
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...Yes, lard has gotten respect over the last two years, and it doesn't make you stupid (there is even evidence that it can contribute to the opposite.) What people began blaming on fat in the 60's was actually attributable to sugars more than anything else, we're only finding this just recently. As for being in an area with high lard consumption in particular, I don't know what other people use to cook their food, nor do I care, but I do know that basically any ingredient you'd like to use is in a local grocery store. Me in particular? I generally eat out these days (except for breakfast and lunch) about 3 days a week going to a steakhouse and having a ribeye (basically, every gym day.) As far as I know, there is no lard involved, (I rarely eat the kind of food that benefits the most from lard) but if there is, I wouldn't care. And yes, I'm very lean (160lbs, 5'10") and visibly fit, which is something else you need to do to keep your mind sharp.
This is why I can afford nice things, and you can't: You're quick to jump into groupthink (otherwise you wouldn't have made that retarded statement,) you don't seem to understand enough about finances and budgeting (really, budgeting and planning came naturally to me as a 12 year old without needing anybody to teach me anything, while you're an adult and you still don't get it,) you appear to not care about actual science, you don't keep your knowledge up t
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Do you know any other tunes?
Do you know any other tunes? It turns out what you're playing for is only the beginning of the story. Here is something from the middle.
Vicious truck attack kills 84 during France fireworks display
Berlin massacre reminiscent of deadly Nice attack (12 dead, 48 injured)
Barcelona attack as it happened: At least 13 dead and 100 injured after van hits crowd in act of terrorWe don't know how it will end yet, but the portents aren't good.
German Intel Report Reveals Extent Of Islamist Infiltration In Germany
You can avert your eyes if you want to, or refuse to hear, but that will not stop the truck, bomb, knife, machinegun, . . .
How Edward Snowden Changed the Habits of a Terrorist
There is only one person I know who changed behavior because of Snowden. In October of last year, I traveled to Kenya to meet members of al Shabaab, an al Qaeda linked group that had pulled off a spectacular attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi a month earlier. One of the members, a man named Abdul, changed the SIM card on his mobile repeatedly. When I asked him why, he gave me a one-word answer:
“Snowden.”
It's all good, right?
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Re:Still need to take this with skepticism
Well, the Dutch don't have a horse in this race. I'd much rather trust them than an Anonymous Coward.
I don't know if I would give the Dutch a free pass about anything in Malaysia or Indonesia...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is likely they have no horse in this race, but the Dutch have had more than their fair share of horses in that part of SE asia since the days of the Dutch East India Company...
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Re:THIS is science
OK, I've found what your second point refers to. "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."
The first point probably has so many examples I can't be bothered looking for them, but if I did, I'd start with climate change.
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Re:Any large company/industry needs scrutiny
It is more accurate to say they are no worse. At least the harm they cause to humanity is a few steps removed compared to the direct harm caused by Big Oil and Big Pharma.
There is direct harm to humanity - it makes us depressed and angry. There is tons of research and the link is clear.
Citations:
https://www.psychologytoday.co... https://www.independent.co.uk/...
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Re:Kim Jong Don Absolutely Knows What HIV Is
By going to the other extreme, Trump gives mass media their ratings fodder and he can deal with the issues on his own terms.
I totally agree with the first half of that - its the reason he never does press interviews, on twitter there is no way to hold him accountable for his statements, its all one-way.
But as for the 2nd part, "deal with" imputes a level of interest in the issues (versus his level of interest in self-promotion) that just does not exist. He just DGAF about anything unless its about him. There are tons of reports about that, like the fact that his aides have to put his name in every paragraph of their memos otherwise he just gets bored and stops reading.
The narrative that trump is stupid is 100% wrong, he's super smart at one thing - self-promotion. Everything else he's ignorant AF about and being ignorant is a luxury he has because he's been so successful at self-promotion.
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Re:so how do you prevent from scanning your plate
https://slate.com/news-and-pol...
https://whyy.org/segments/blac...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.bitchmedia.org/art...
and on and on and on, just from the first page of my links search. I'll leave finding the hundreds of stories about white people stopped in black "drug areas" as an exercise, it's not much harder to find as many as you want to know it's a problem too. -
Re:Sadiq Khan is an inbred moron.
No, it's not. The only measure by which London was more violent than New York was by cherry picking the one and a half months of the year where the snow was so bad in New York that no one went out, whilst London was relatively mild.
London is still vastly safe, and has vastly less violent crime than New York if you use a sane, non-cherry picked measure, such as a year, or multiple years:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
"In the calendar year of 2016 there were 334 murders in New York. In the financial year 2016-17 (1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017) there were 102 murders in London, suggesting â" but not proving - that at that point the UKâ(TM)s capitalâ(TM)s murder rate for any given 12-month period was less than a third of New Yorkâ(TM)s.
Similarly, New York had 352 murders in the calendar year 2015, while Londonâ(TM)s Metropolitan Police recorded 109 homicides between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016."
So really, New York is still more than 3 times as deadly as London. The fact someone managed to find a single 6 week period out of hundreds over the last few decades where the London figure just edged higher for a short outlying period is a prime example of cherry picking stats.
If you think cherry picking makes you correct, I've got a bridge to sell you, because 3.3x more deaths is not evidence that New York is safer. I could therefore be just as an obnoxious dick as you're being and claim that it's in fact evidence that guns are the problem and say, well, I'm right, because this proves it.
But I'm not a retard like you, and I'll happily admit that correlation is causation and that whilst guns COULD be the reason New York is more than 3 times more deadly as London, I don't have any evidence, just as you don't have any evidence to the contrary. The fact is you don't know, and I don't know, but to dismiss it as a possibility is just flagrant willful ignorance, especially as both cities are pretty damn close demographically, and even Bill Bratton has advised in both cities police forces meaning guns are one of the only key differentiators, which in turn means you're more likely to be wrong, than right, that they're not a factor in New York being so much more deadly.
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Re:What a bunch of projection
Russia, China, bumbfuckistan don't have a drone murder program blowing up innocent people for completely bullshit reasons.
Russia and China are both actively taking land that wasn't theirs, right now. Look around. Be glad you're not in the Ukraine or on an island less than half the Pacific east of China (unless you are a comrade). Russia blew up an airliner while instigating the "quote" civil war "unquote" in Ukraine and immediately dropped a ton of lies on top of it to cover it up. Their misinformation campaign is solid - lying is the thing they seem to be the best at. China: all you have to say is Tiananmen Square. This is the level of atrocities that these governments are capable of. Imagine the West falling to that.
It just sucks to live in a country responsible (not just actively pursuing - actually *responsible*) for the freedoms enjoyed by a large part of the world we live in, which is also honest enough to fess up to its mistakes. I was just born on the wrong side of the planet, I guess.
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Re:It's not White House anymore
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Re:Darwin award nominee?
I nominate the guy who tried to get a selfie with a bear. Seriously, folks. Always ask the bear for permission before taking a selfie.
We need more like him. LOTS more.
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Re:Darwin award nominee?
I nominate the guy who tried to get a selfie with a bear. Seriously, folks. Always ask the bear for permission before taking a selfie.
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Re:Damn That Trump For Ending The Korean War!
Well Trump definitely didn't. We know that for a fact!
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Re:Fascists can die in a fire
More like Amazon and Google are yielding to pressure from Egypt, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (or from one of their friends) that don't like when people bypass their bans, which itself is pretty fascist when they dictate how you can use the Internet.
What makes something fascist? I don't know anymore. It used to be relatively simple.
Yeah, I get that. Some asshat called me a fascist and assumed I agreed with NAZIs because I had the audacity to defend free speech. But that sort of hyperbole has always been around. It's bullshit and has always been bullshit. It's a cheap and easy low-effort insult by pseudo intellectuals who can't stop their rage-boner against Hitler. Tribalism through and through. They simply hate the other side enough to hate anyone near them as well.
There's a bunch of little things that taste like fascism, but I think it boils down to trying control what people do. If they're free to make their own decisions without being forced, compelled, threatened, or encouraged than it's not fascist. And yeah, that's a sliding scale. If China instituted fines for muslims instead of outright confiscating their prayer mats that'd be a step away from fascism... but it's still pretty fascist. If NY added a sugary-drink-tax to try and make people be less fat... that's a little fascist.
A handful of shitty countries are trying to control how people use the Internet. That's fascist. They're pressuring these companies (or their political allies, like the USA govt) to put a stop to the workaround. These companies are yielding, or helping out, probably just because it helps make them a buck as well. That's aiding fascists.
Maybe that's reading into it though. Maybe they really just want to control the internet a little more and make it a little more regulated (which WILL help them profit). That's a slight amount of... controlling others. Forcing Internet services to have a more truthful identification. Imagine if slashdot suddenly forced you to stop using "GLMDesigns" or being an anonymous coward and enforced "real names only". In the name of stopping shitposting. That's control. Regulation. And it's a little fascist.
So, what the fuk is fascism.
Authority enforcing unity through the threat of capital punishment. "Do things our way and conform or we'll chop you down to size".
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Re:We don't think Trump is Hitler
> The same guy that isn't rounding up people
Er: https://www.citylab.com/equity...
> The same guy who isn't telling the police to shoot people, but is more then happy to attack them publicly win or lose.
Or roundly praise and encourage police brutality: http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
> The same guy who places blame on both groups, but also says both groups have good people in them.
Whilst one of those groups are literal neo-Nazis that killed people, and others are counter-protesters against that. I'm not sure how supporting murderous neo-Nazis is a plus in your argument as that's certainly a little bit Hitlerish.
> He's put people into place who are ardent believers that the constitution isn't a "living breathing document" but foundational to the point that it's sacrosanct and all law should be build around
As long as it fits their hard-right interpretation of the constitution rather than a fair, objective interpretation, and he stacked the courts to make sure it stays that way. The problem with the constitution isn't that it's black and white between those who back it and those that don't, it's that it's way too ambiguous in many areas, and it's a question of whose interpretation is right. The fact you think there's a single correct interpretation and that those who back it can be the only true defenders of the constitution doesn't make you right, it just makes you a hard line uncompromising wing nut.
> Trust in media is declining worldwide and he isn't the cause of it, the media itself is.
Nope. The media isn't remotely responsible for Russian disinformation campaigns, nor is it responsible for the populism that rallies people against them with lies, from people like Trump, Le Penn, and Farage. That's firmly on the populists and the propagandists - the media would love to be able to continue reporting facts without being attacked for it, but each time they do and it's related to Trump he sows distrust by claiming they're lying, simply for publishing the facts. That's the very essence of populism, and yes, it's also exactly Hitler's modus operandi.
Thankfully however, you're largely wrong, and most people haven't fallen for it. Trust for traditional media has actually risen overall, "increased distrust in the media" is almost entirely based off the back of distrust in social media, precisely because of the expose of the disinformation campaigns being run off the back of social media. Whilst trust in traditional media saw a dip during the running of fake news propaganda campaigns that were run in support of the Trump camp, the aftermath of that has led to a bounce in support for traditional media, and a plummet in the trust of social media. Here's the UK picture for example:
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk...
Effectively what we're seeing is pushback from attempts to turn public trust against the media - whilst it worked for folks like Trump and the Brexit crowd at first, when people realised they were being lied to in populist campaigns, they railed against it and returned to supporting the traditional media because they know it's more trustworthy than the networks on which the populist disinformation campaigns were run.
Sure he's not created concentration camps, or invaded his neighbours, that's not all Hitler relied upon, and Trump most definitely has used a large number of Hitler's tactics. In fact, here's a bunch of people allied with Trump and his political ideology admitting exactly that:
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Re:anti science reached too high
So, by your theory, more than 50% of the US-govt-sponsored studies during the Bush administration should have been anti-climate-change.
Not true at all. You pretend to misunderstand the very concept of the "conflict of interest". Whoever is in charge of an institution, for its employees to conclude, that their work is pointless and overvalued is to issue themselves a pink slip. Worse, it also means, their entire choice of profession is (almost) meaningless. Few people are capable of it — and climate scientists aren't any better at it, than anyone else. Hence the frantic resistance...
Meanwhile, consider this — none of the theories you are alluding to would be acceptable for American financial institutions.
The folks who used to work for Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers would like to laugh (and cry) at this obviously false statement.
The regulations I'm referring to were introduced after those names have collapsed. "Obviously false" my tail.
The problem is that the best way to falsify is to run a different experiment with different subjects
Which is just another way for you to admit, it is not, in fact, falsifiable. You've accepted — and confirmed — this fact, you are just trying to explain why. And the "why" is irrelevant... The few falsifiable statements that have been made, have already been falsified — indeed, I offered a link to one, more are easily available. I've requested citations to the counter-examples, which you — despite replying twice already — have been unable to provide. I will not reply again, until I see the list of link-pairs I described above...
But that doesn't make them unscientific.
The person starting this thread claimed, "climate science" is equally scientific to the perfectly falsifiable field of medicine — and denounced everyone, who accepts medical treatments like vaccines while rejecting climate scientists' recommendations, as hypocritical. That statement was bullshit, because medical researchers actually do follow scientific method. Climate researchers do not — whether it is due to some fault of theirs, or the very nature of their domain, is irrelevant.
Whether this makes them completely unscientific or just less scientific, is a matter of semantics — but it certainly makes their conclusions less reliable than those of other disciplines (such as medicine). Hence, rejecting or questioning them is not at all "anti-science".
The "raw data" showed a higher temperature rise, due to the effects of increased industrialization near recording stations, so they had to "massage" it to remove that flaw
Thank you for confirming my statement — that massaging did take place. I'm not saying, it was not necessary — I was just pointing out, that it was done by programs written by fallible humans, who had the same conflict of interest I keep bringing up. They had all the incentive to "hide the decline" — such as by subtly altering the software or tweaking the calibration constants in it until the resulting figures confirmed, what they (or their bosses) wanted to see.
They also attempted to hide the raw data, and even destroyed some of it. Had scientists working for "Big Tobacco" or "Big Oil" been caught at any of such, their credibility would've been destroyed forever — why you'd give the "Big Government" scientists a pass, escapes me.
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Re:Japan? Take it with a pinch of umami.
Isn't just Japan. Children and other relatives have been collecting dead pensioner checks for ages. Here are some recent examples...
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-sco...
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Re:The Deep South of the West Coast
The likes of the UK are currently banning knives and acid, I'm sure possessing a rock or stick without government permission will be illegal sooner or later.
Even then, it's unlikely to change such insufferable arrogance.
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Scientists with conflict of interest
What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world's largest pasta company
So what?.. Nearly all of the "climate scientists" draw their salaries from government institutions. Yet, we aren't supposed to question their "consensus" affirming the need for the governments to expand, as tainted by the obvious conflict of interest...
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Re: You can build them
A lot of the time they re-use abandoned buildings. They use disused underground tunnels in london for indoor farms https://www.independent.co.uk/...
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Re:Semi-pregnant = healthy baby with no legs
And lo and behold, there is a sand shortage:
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Re:Played correctly, the US has an advantage
Given that you have to prove your affiliation to the communist party to donate to sperm banks in China, that day has not even remotely come.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
This kind of hysterical chicken littlism out of you guys is... cowardly. What kind of a nation could people like you produce?
You'd be intimidated by anything.
Just take a page out of old B movies, realize you're a the streaking woman, and slap yourself.
Here you're going to have the unjustifed gall to presume to be offended. Never mind that you just suggested the US is more ideological than China.
Sperm banks.
And because I'm sure you're going to lack the integrity to concede the point and suggest I'm just giving one example that doesn't matter:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
This is something out of a bad movie and they're actually doing it.
Go through the stages of grief at realizing you said something stupid... no denial... no anger... just accept it and we need not talking about it again.
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Re: Weasel words
"What is funny, is that America works it tail off to not hit civilians"
That went out the window in many of the drone strike operations and has gotten worse under Trump
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Re:Found in Canada too ...
All over the UK too.
"Fake mobile phone towers discovered in London: Stingrays come to the UK"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
"More than 20 fake phone towers, which indiscriminately hoover up information from phones, were found"
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Drop it like a hot potato.
Why don't people drop google, facebook, et al. like a hot potato?
Because people are inert, hopelessly dependent on the system. They fight to protect it.
That is why nothing will change.
We don't need/want governments to enact laws (Macron, etc.).
People need to look themselves in the ass and take their own lives into their own hands.
Same with the new visa requirements for the US. Just don't go !!! Just don't do it !!! For crying out loud - how difficult can it be ?!?!?!
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Re:Why indeed
You've left out some of the real charms of the current era.
Profs claim scientific objectivity reinforces 'whiteness'
Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
The Appalling Protests at Evergreen State College
All-women's college asks profs not to call students 'women'
Professor notes men are taller than women on average, SJWs storm out angrily
Americans who practice yoga 'contribute to white supremacy', claims Michigan State University professor
Conservatives, Libertarians Are ‘on the Autistic Spectrum,’ Says Duke Professor
Victimhood Culture Only Getting Worse, Professor Warns
Professor: Small Chairs in Preschools Are Sexist, ‘Problematic,’ and ‘Disempowering’
Prof creates checklist for detecting white supremacyBelieving in meritocracy, promoting a "collegial" environment, and even deciding “to stay out of all of this ‘identity politics’” are all forms of tacit white supremacy, she claims.
I blogged yesterday about a mob trying to shut down Jordan B. Peterson and others at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and wondered aloud, “Where are there police?!” Well, turns out one of the SJWs was arrested after breaking the glass .
.Officials say officers searched her backpack and found a weapon — a metal wire with handles commonly known as a garrotte.”
I could go on, there are so many stones unturned.
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Re:Naturally This Will Upset People Because Reason
a lot of countries outside the USA are proposing no more sales of ICE cars around 2025 and beyond. Seems like Norway is starting the trend https://www.independent.co.uk/...
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Re:Non-ionizing radiation can be harmful
There was actually an accident in the early 90s when a group of (american) soldiers where killed by a wrong configured radar system. Don't find a link for that, but I found this: https://www.independent.co.uk/...
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Re: Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...
> the richest man TO EVER EXIST
Demonstrably untrue. I know you people are all into "alternative facts". But in the real world, that's called bullshit. And when you lead off with lies, there's no reason to pay any heed to anything else you people say:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
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Assange could easily go free
There's a simple plan where Assange could easily move outside the embassy.
1) Create a fake Twitter account and post a really mean tweet followed by an announcement you'll be holding a parade just outside London - this will draw the entire London police force and most of the military to strike down the tweeter before he can tweet again, enabling Assange to walk out of the embassy unchallenged.
2) Embed himself in management for an under-age rape gang, as they are immune from policing in the UK and presumably he could make a good living there.
Of course, once free if I were him I'd stay away from park benches and BMW's given how much he has entered pretty much every government.
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Re:I'm down with OPP
No one does that. The tale that this country or that country pays for a 'free' university education is just that a fairy tale.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
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Re:I am blinded in one eye
maybe your wishes are coming true https://www.independent.co.uk/...