So you value "evidence that the work was probably bogus" from an Accountant who majored in Chemistry over every professional climate science association on the planet? That the UN IPCC is defrauding the world for the sake of "covering up for one of their own"?
> There is more than enough evidence to justify investigation of Mann's work So investigate it. That's what scientists do, that's what peer review is for. The criminal justice system is for murderers and robbers, not scientists with unpopular conclusions.
I'm tired of hearing freeloading couch potatoes sniping at innovators for not bringing them chicken cordon bleu on a silver platter. Make the damn thing yourself and then call yourself up, you demanding little prick. Or just keep your problems to yourself while you wait for other people do the work for you.
In The Science of Fear (a book I heartily recommend), Daniel Gardner claims the strength of our "feeling of knowing" generally has no statistically significant correlation with factual reality. Humans are not very good at "knowing." and our most cherished concepts of "truth" may be unverifiable or demonstrably false.
Which is why, paradox intended, a person who knows he knows nothing is wise.
"the reduction [of software piracy] would create over 6,000 new jobs and generate billions in GDP and tax revenue"
That also assumes that any money not spent on proprietary software is being stashed under a mattress.
The truth is more like the money would be diverted from other spending, and these "billions" of dollars would just be distributed differently, with no plausible increase in net GDP or tax revenue.
In criminal court, that's right. But for better or worse, at-will employment means employers can fire us whenever they feel like it. There is no requirement for them to convince a jury we violated something in the employee manual.
Somebody paid to register that domain. Find out who it was. Maybe that means subpoenaing Registrar B for a credit card number or bank account, and subpoenaing the bank for the account holder's name.
"Identity theft" is just fraud, twisted around to make the impersonated customer the victim rather than the business that allowed it to happen. Fraud is a crime, and law enforcement should be involved. Of course, IANAL.
I think you're right. Anyway, registrar B probably wouldn't let him without access to the creator's account. And his inability to login probably won't be enough to prove he's not the domain owner. I see no upside with this approach.
the tax "dollars" you're talking about are backed by nothing and created and distributed by the banks as they see fit
Fixed that for you.
The US Government doesn't create money, it borrows it from a privately owned banking cartel which goes by the name "Federal Reserve". Money is created when Banks lend it into existence.
The IRS counts on us to make the interest payments on the federal debt (nobody in the system harbors any illusions of paying down the principal).
But even the interest-only payments on $12,000,000,000,000 are pretty much a bitch. We generally can't make the payments, a situation gov't bean counters call a "deficit".
Even if you gave people all the facts, people wouldn't have all the facts. Most of us have confirmation bias, filters that let in only what we decide to believe (including falsehoods). If anything unwanted manages to get in, we mangle and distort it until it too confirms our world view.
The only way democracy would work well is if people didn't act like people. Until then we decide based on superstition and dogma, groupthink and partisanship. And we get what we've got.
> It just completely undermines the democratic process. What democratic process?
Does anyone really think any congressman can write a bill and submit it to his colleagues for study, after which congress will discuss it rationally, then vote?
The problem isn't exactly "running out of money"; banks are generally happy to conjure up more. The problem is that Federal Reserve Notes are history's greatest Ponzi scheme, and the gig is just about up.
Soldiers as well as defense contractors like to be paid in something of worth, preferably that can be carried without a wheelbarrow. And without them, who is going to loot whom?
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So you value "evidence that the work was probably bogus" from an Accountant who majored in Chemistry over every professional climate science association on the planet? That the UN IPCC is defrauding the world for the sake of "covering up for one of their own"?
> There is more than enough evidence to justify investigation of Mann's work
So investigate it. That's what scientists do, that's what peer review is for. The criminal justice system is for murderers and robbers, not scientists with unpopular conclusions.
Unless ...
nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Censere, should have been. I didn't preview, and slashdot dropped the funky (diacritical?) 'e's I pasted in.
> Isn't a census where you count every member of a population?
No. It's where you count as many as you can, and from that number, estimate the total.
Etymology Latin, from cnsre to assess
TFA isn't very long. Author explains that the address it shows initially is:
"(Example: MAC of my previous router, 00-11-24-ec-72-cf, actually located at 7070 Flight Ave, Culver City CA for comparison)"
I'm tired of hearing freeloading couch potatoes sniping at innovators for not bringing them chicken cordon bleu on a silver platter. Make the damn thing yourself and then call yourself up, you demanding little prick. Or just keep your problems to yourself while you wait for other people do the work for you.
> I can still get better than 1% interest rate
Yes, but 1% plus I-called-first-contact bragging rights? Priceless.
In The Science of Fear (a book I heartily recommend), Daniel Gardner claims the strength of our "feeling of knowing" generally has no statistically significant correlation with factual reality. Humans are not very good at "knowing." and our most cherished concepts of "truth" may be unverifiable or demonstrably false.
Which is why, paradox intended, a person who knows he knows nothing is wise.
"the reduction [of software piracy] would create over 6,000 new jobs and generate billions in GDP and tax revenue"
That also assumes that any money not spent on proprietary software is being stashed under a mattress.
The truth is more like the money would be diverted from other spending, and these "billions" of dollars would just be distributed differently, with no plausible increase in net GDP or tax revenue.
On the other hand, you do get enormous refrigerator space at no extra cost. Handy, if you have a surplus of marshmallow sauce.
Competition.
Where I live I can have dial-up, or cable.
> Sometimes I can't believe I live in this country, it's so goddamned weird.
Sometimes I don't believe goddamned weird things I read.
> SSN was just an example for gods sake.
Then hopefully God will find that example more useful than we have.
In criminal court, that's right. But for better or worse, at-will employment means employers can fire us whenever they feel like it. There is no requirement for them to convince a jury we violated something in the employee manual.
Somebody paid to register that domain. Find out who it was. Maybe that means subpoenaing Registrar B for a credit card number or bank account, and subpoenaing the bank for the account holder's name.
"Identity theft" is just fraud, twisted around to make the impersonated customer the victim rather than the business that allowed it to happen. Fraud is a crime, and law enforcement should be involved. Of course, IANAL.
I think you're right. Anyway, registrar B probably wouldn't let him without access to the creator's account. And his inability to login probably won't be enough to prove he's not the domain owner. I see no upside with this approach.
> you're an idiot. i'm telling you that for you.
Your concern for my welfare is touching. If only I knew how to benefit from this information...
Perhaps we can slow down a bit, for my sake. Which of my statements was false?
the tax "dollars" you're talking about are backed by nothing and created and distributed by the banks as they see fit
Fixed that for you.
The US Government doesn't create money, it borrows it from a privately owned banking cartel which goes by the name "Federal Reserve". Money is created when Banks lend it into existence.
The IRS counts on us to make the interest payments on the federal debt (nobody in the system harbors any illusions of paying down the principal).
But even the interest-only payments on $12,000,000,000,000 are pretty much a bitch. We generally can't make the payments, a situation gov't bean counters call a "deficit".
Even if you gave people all the facts, people wouldn't have all the facts. Most of us have confirmation bias, filters that let in only what we decide to believe (including falsehoods). If anything unwanted manages to get in, we mangle and distort it until it too confirms our world view.
The only way democracy would work well is if people didn't act like people. Until then we decide based on superstition and dogma, groupthink and partisanship. And we get what we've got.
Of course they skipped some of his history - they had to condense eighty years into one magazine article.
In that case they'll let Google do it, then subpoena their records.
I happen to know that it's the super-secret Godless Liberal Bleeding-Heart Peacenik Eco-terrorist Jihadist Martyrdom Brigade! Peace be upon them.
> Twice in a year? Something is broken.
Why? Foot traffic at 7-11 is bursty. Traffic accidents are bursty. Weather is bursty.
What mechanism would force oil rig explosions to be chronologically separated by the Earth completing an orbit around the Sun?
...for a while. There are a finite number of atoms on earth, and exponential functions have a nasty habit of approaching infinity.
> It just completely undermines the democratic process.
What democratic process?
Does anyone really think any congressman can write a bill and submit it to his colleagues for study, after which congress will discuss it rationally, then vote?
The problem isn't exactly "running out of money"; banks are generally happy to conjure up more. The problem is that Federal Reserve Notes are history's greatest Ponzi scheme, and the gig is just about up.
Soldiers as well as defense contractors like to be paid in something of worth, preferably that can be carried without a wheelbarrow. And without them, who is going to loot whom?