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Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction
Hugh Pickens writes to mention that Italian scientist Giampaolo Giuliani, a researcher at the National Physical Laboratory of Gran Sasso, recently gave warning about an earthquake that was to happen on March 29th of this year near L'Aquilla. Based on radon gas emissions and a series of observed tremors he tried to convince residents to evacuate, drawing much criticism from the city's mayor and others. Giuliani was forced to take down warnings he had posted on the internet. The researcher had said that a 'disastrous' earthquake would strike on March 29, but when it didn't, Guido Bertolaso, head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, last week officially denounced Giuliani in court for false alarm. 'These imbeciles enjoy spreading false news,' Bertalaso was quoted as saying. 'Everyone knows that you can't predict earthquakes.' Giuliani, it turns out, was partially right. A much smaller seismic shift struck on the day he said it would, with the truly disastrous one arriving just one week later. 'Someone owes me an apology,' said Giuliani, who is also a resident of L'Aquila. 'The situation here is dramatic. I am devastated, but also angry.'"
That's a laugh. I grew up with, work with, live next to, and am friends with many rednecks. I consider myself to have strong redneck roots...
The simple truth of the matter is that many of them consider all non-white or immigrant people to be "taking their jobs away", and will loudly proclaim the same. No joke.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Actually, he invented it a very long time ago. It's called "Windows". He handed it off to Bill Gates, who proceeded to make millions marketing it before handing it off to that idiot Ballmer. I have no clue on how Ballmer plans to react to the imminent catastrophe; neither does he.
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Oh, please. Land sales fraud goes right back at least as far as the first American colonies, with some colonists paying excessive fees to go to a new land of milk and honey. The Israelites probably spent that 40 years in the desert looking for the land of milk and honey because that's what the real estate agent promised them, and it took them 40 years to find a place nice enough to be worth invading instead. (The Bible and Talmud are pretty clear, they were "given" the promised land the same way the colonists were "given" America" by taking it away from the people living there.)