So just let's get this straight, you think that this line of reasoning:
UnknownSoldier: Hi I have this extreme claim.
Skeptic: Cool, but can you provide any proof of your claims?
UnknownSoldier: Proof? You are a damn pseudo-skeptic
They can also push out new microcode updates to the OS vendors, you can get microcode updates via BIOS and via the OS. If you'r on i.g Debian/Ubuntu you can install "amd64-microcode or intel-microcode" depending on if you use an AMD or Intel CPU. Microsoft and Apple probably include them in an update as well.
Don't confuse "The West" with the puritan UK. Lot's of Western European countries never censored or banned these magazines, except places like the UK and Norway.
Then you have no clue how a paper ballot voting system works which is strange considering how simple it is. Don't you learn things like this in school where you live?
And you think that people will trust a system that can generate random receipts when verifying a vote? If your answer depends on mathematics then it's too complex to be trusted by the population at large.
So I force you to return that receipt to me so that I can validate that you voted the way I told you to. This only makes the system more complex and does not solve anything, well except that it involves a blockchain so it's buzzword compliant and we all know how important that is.
In a proper paper ballot voting system you don't need to validate your vote since you instead can verify that the entire chain from cast of vote to counting is done properly. If the paper ballot voting system in a particular country is designed to allow the government to falsify the votes then they will design the electronic system to do the same.
I have not argued that DDT is not good to fight malaria, nor have I claimed that GMOs are safe due to them being "natural". It's only the anti-GMO people who talk about "natural" equalling safe.
And if they implemented it that way then they would have opened the floodgates for violent spouses, evil employers and other people with power (either by buying votes outright for cash or by threatening with violence) to force people to vote a specific way. This cannot happen in a normal paper ballot scheme since they have no way to control that you actually voted in the way that they expected you to but if the vote can be verified like in your example then this all of the suddenly works like a charm.
No one is saying that currency blockchains cannot be manipulated. It's well known that cryptocurrencies are open to manipulation if any one party controls more than 50% of the miners. And with this particular blockchain the Sierra Leone government controls 100% of the miners, what could go wrong...
Except of course that GMO:s are not from the "same brain trust that thought that DDT was OK or that is currently killing off bees through pesticide use". DDT was discovered and put to use in a time when there where no control of what substances companies and people used. GMO:s are put through many extensive tests before they are allowed on the market, something that i.e is not done for cross-breading which is what should scare you more.
None of those teared up your guts and killed you straight out directly. Cigarettes will take decades in order to kill you while they at the same time make you addictive so it's one hell of a good business model (not counting morality here). Booze and Opiods are not killing you unless you abuse them. Lead paint and asbestos have their place as well, it's just that you cannot use them everywhere and they where both used way before we discovered that they where bad for your health (they both go back thousands of years).
Never heard of any one deliberately creating exploding cars.
You can stop using a GMO just as you can stop using a pesticide. There have still to this day not been a single incident with a GMO spreading it's modified genes to another plant/crop.
No that is not what TFS or TFA claimed and nor what is happening. The GMO crops kept the population of pests in control which helped the non GMO crops (since the number of pests is lower). There have not been a single instance of a GMO crop spreading it's modified genes to other crops, so how you can say that it's a "well-known behaviour" is quite strange, one could almost say that it's a lie.
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So just let's get this straight, you think that this line of reasoning:
UnknownSoldier: Hi I have this extreme claim.
Skeptic: Cool, but can you provide any proof of your claims?
UnknownSoldier: Proof? You are a damn pseudo-skeptic
Is sound and logical?
So I take it that you have no use for 1 million USD or the impact you would have on the world if you managed to prove your woo to the world.
Not to mention a serious weapon, never really understood why they didn't just transport people out into space.
The you would have no problem collecting that 1 Million USD from James Randi?
No Q was not god, he is just an alien that to us seams to have god like powers.
If that is the case then you should start to use Visual Source Safe.
However looking at this particular issue this is not a microcode update so it must be done via a BIOS update, sorry for the confusion.
They can also push out new microcode updates to the OS vendors, you can get microcode updates via BIOS and via the OS. If you'r on i.g Debian/Ubuntu you can install "amd64-microcode or intel-microcode" depending on if you use an AMD or Intel CPU. Microsoft and Apple probably include them in an update as well.
Don't confuse "The West" with the puritan UK. Lot's of Western European countries never censored or banned these magazines, except places like the UK and Norway.
Then you have no clue how a paper ballot voting system works which is strange considering how simple it is. Don't you learn things like this in school where you live?
And you think that people will trust a system that can generate random receipts when verifying a vote? If your answer depends on mathematics then it's too complex to be trusted by the population at large.
So I force you to return that receipt to me so that I can validate that you voted the way I told you to. This only makes the system more complex and does not solve anything, well except that it involves a blockchain so it's buzzword compliant and we all know how important that is.
yep, it's illegal to bring a camera or another person inside the voting booth in my country for this very reason.
Ah ok, so idiots does exists is what you say, well I can not argue against that.
In a proper paper ballot voting system you don't need to validate your vote since you instead can verify that the entire chain from cast of vote to counting is done properly. If the paper ballot voting system in a particular country is designed to allow the government to falsify the votes then they will design the electronic system to do the same.
I have not argued that DDT is not good to fight malaria, nor have I claimed that GMOs are safe due to them being "natural". It's only the anti-GMO people who talk about "natural" equalling safe.
And this can be done with a paper ballot so just another example where you don't need an electronic voting system (or a blockchain for that matter).
And if they implemented it that way then they would have opened the floodgates for violent spouses, evil employers and other people with power (either by buying votes outright for cash or by threatening with violence) to force people to vote a specific way. This cannot happen in a normal paper ballot scheme since they have no way to control that you actually voted in the way that they expected you to but if the vote can be verified like in your example then this all of the suddenly works like a charm.
No one is saying that currency blockchains cannot be manipulated. It's well known that cryptocurrencies are open to manipulation if any one party controls more than 50% of the miners. And with this particular blockchain the Sierra Leone government controls 100% of the miners, what could go wrong...
depends on how much weight we put into each word considering the context of what was discussed
Except of course that GMO:s are not from the "same brain trust that thought that DDT was OK or that is currently killing off bees through pesticide use". DDT was discovered and put to use in a time when there where no control of what substances companies and people used. GMO:s are put through many extensive tests before they are allowed on the market, something that i.e is not done for cross-breading which is what should scare you more.
None of those teared up your guts and killed you straight out directly. Cigarettes will take decades in order to kill you while they at the same time make you addictive so it's one hell of a good business model (not counting morality here). Booze and Opiods are not killing you unless you abuse them. Lead paint and asbestos have their place as well, it's just that you cannot use them everywhere and they where both used way before we discovered that they where bad for your health (they both go back thousands of years).
Never heard of any one deliberately creating exploding cars.
You can stop using a GMO just as you can stop using a pesticide. There have still to this day not been a single incident with a GMO spreading it's modified genes to another plant/crop.
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No that is not what TFS or TFA claimed and nor what is happening. The GMO crops kept the population of pests in control which helped the non GMO crops (since the number of pests is lower). There have not been a single instance of a GMO crop spreading it's modified genes to other crops, so how you can say that it's a "well-known behaviour" is quite strange, one could almost say that it's a lie.