In recent months, the White House has been accused of trying to muzzle scientists researching global warming at NASA and other agencies.Now, just *who* is doing the accusing is left out, as is *who* at the White House has the muzzle, as are specific scientists and projects.
This isn't journalism. This is utterly shameless fear-mongering.
"...the script...was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans..." Imagine that! Uncertainty in science. If you want certainty, get a shaman/priest/rabbi.
"...officials omitted scientists' interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data..." Why would they do that? Don't they know the great unwashed can't be trusted to draw trhe "proper" inferences?!?!!?!!
"...changes were made for reasons of objectivity. And some scientists who consulted on the project said nothing major was omitted." Speaks for itself, I guess.
*AND*, despite the summary above, "Sullivan said that to his knowledge, no one in the Bush administration pressured the Smithsonian."
Let's face it: the watermelon left won't be satisfied until we're living at the subsistence levels that obtained around 1350, or thereabouts. WiFi is just another guilt to beat us over the head. Along with cars, cows, and cell phones.
We. Not them.
If they get their way, ee'll be hauling ploughs, shoveling cowshit from barns, milking by hand, dying from brucellosis, planting and harvesting roots by hand, never traveling more than five miles from the place of our birth, etc.
All so they don't have to endure any humidity as they saunter from their limos to their G5s, experience an "all circuits busy" message on their phones, or share the rod with the less-enlightened.
I'm sure most of the kids were pure as the driven snow.
That said, here in Atlanta the fashion is for young black men to go 'round in pants so loose they look like they're about to fall off. This is directly taken from the ill-fitting clothes provided to those in gaol. The desire is to emulate the local heroes, the local criminal class.
My point is that CCTV surveillence is influencing how the local "bad apples" dress. These "bad apples" are influencing the broader culture. This is not a happy development.
Read anything by Theodore Dalrymple - he's published in "City Journal", and has a number of books out (e.g., "Life at the Bottom").
His observation is that dysfunction grows to consume all the money made available to combat it. Filming people isn't going to fix anything. Holding them accountable will.
Oh and also, the last time I was in the UK, I was struck by all the kids wearing hoodies.
You're amazed that Polamd has laws, and that the Polish police enforce those laws? Is that it?
I guess I understand the perspective, given that President Horehay is planning to reward the US's Mexican marine population (10 million, or so) with an amnesty.
The BBC has been explaining to me just how evil I am for the last 40+ years.
Thanks for your input, but compared to the professional Big Lie artists at the beeb, you're a relative piker.
Keep at it, however, I hear3 the Hugo Chaves has a gigantic anti-US propaganda machine just firing up. You could do worse than earn decent money in a decent climate, all for doing what you love.
It chose 41 countries for the survey in which testing could be done safely and where there was "the most to learn about government online surveillance"....
Countries which carry out the broadest range of filtering included Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, the study said.
Huh. So, you pick 41 autocracies, find there's some web censorship, and conclude that *web* censorship is on the rise.
Just the sort of story/. would retransmit and amplify.
"Too young to remember the war, aren't you, Case?" Armitage ran a large hand back through his cropped brown hair. A heavy gold bracelet flashed on his wrist. "Leningrad, Kiev, Siberia. We invented you in Siberia, Case."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Screaming Fist, Case. You've heard the name."
"Some kind of run, wasn't it? Tried to burn this Russian nexus with virus programs. Yeah, I heard about it. And nobody got out."
He sensed abrupt tension. Armitagc walkcd to the window and looked out over Tokyo Bay. "That isn't true. One unit made it back to Helsinki, Case."
When I was working on the development of DEC's DHU-11 at their Acre Rd., Reading, UK plant, we had this real comedian on staff.
One day, when the first protoype of the DHU-11 (we're talking wire-wrap here) was to be demoed, he rigged up a little plastic pipe that ran from the backplane of the PDP 11/24 holding the prototype to a place just out of sight of the various higher-up mucky-mucks who were receiving the demo.
Right after the machine was fired up, he took a big drag on his cigarette and blew into the pipe. Smoke out of backplance, widespread panic in lab. I mean, we all know that ICs become useless after the magic smoke is released, and we were using some of the first 8751s Intel ever made.
After we staked him out over an ant hill, we went off for pints at the Swan at Streatley.
Your original post similar to one I'd received a couple of minutes ago. I answered it, and was referring you there. Being a big fan of Prime Minister's Question Time, I went with that great stock answer.
The reason I'm so hot against the Prius is that one night when I was leaving a meeting of Atlanta Freenet, I found that two of the granola types at the meeting had parked their Prii on either side of my Explorer. As we were leaving, they heaped scorn on it, while sniffing their farts, until I said "Good night!", got in, and drove away.
I confess, I won't buy a Prius because I simply can't stand the smell of my farts.
I will take a look at the Subaru. That said, I've had the ford 10 years, and it has served me well. All I do is keep changing the fluids and tires.
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Please pass on some other conspiracy theories from your rich internal life.
I got the blockquoting wrong on the
"Now, just *who* is doing the accusing is left out, as is *who* at the White House has the muzzle, as are specific scientists and projects.
This isn't journalism. This is utterly shameless fear-mongering.This isn't journalism. This is utterly shameless fear-mongering."
bit.
Please tell me some of the other conspiracies from your rich internal life.
"...the script...was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans..." Imagine that! Uncertainty in science. If you want certainty, get a shaman/priest/rabbi.
"...officials omitted scientists' interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data..." Why would they do that? Don't they know the great unwashed can't be trusted to draw trhe "proper" inferences?!?!!?!!
"...changes were made for reasons of objectivity. And some scientists who consulted on the project said nothing major was omitted." Speaks for itself, I guess.
*AND*, despite the summary above, "Sullivan said that to his knowledge, no one in the Bush administration pressured the Smithsonian."
Let's face it: the watermelon left won't be satisfied until we're living at the subsistence levels that obtained around 1350, or thereabouts. WiFi is just another guilt to beat us over the head. Along with cars, cows, and cell phones.
We. Not them.
If they get their way, ee'll be hauling ploughs, shoveling cowshit from barns, milking by hand, dying from brucellosis, planting and harvesting roots by hand, never traveling more than five miles from the place of our birth, etc.
All so they don't have to endure any humidity as they saunter from their limos to their G5s, experience an "all circuits busy" message on their phones, or share the rod with the less-enlightened.
Makes me want to reach for my pitchfork, it does.
subject line says it all...
I'm sure most of the kids were pure as the driven snow.
That said, here in Atlanta the fashion is for young black men to go 'round in pants so loose they look like they're about to fall off. This is directly taken from the ill-fitting clothes provided to those in gaol. The desire is to emulate the local heroes, the local criminal class.
My point is that CCTV surveillence is influencing how the local "bad apples" dress. These "bad apples" are influencing the broader culture. This is not a happy development.
Read anything by Theodore Dalrymple - he's published in "City Journal", and has a number of books out (e.g., "Life at the Bottom").
His observation is that dysfunction grows to consume all the money made available to combat it. Filming people isn't going to fix anything. Holding them accountable will.
Oh and also, the last time I was in the UK, I was struck by all the kids wearing hoodies.
You're amazed that Polamd has laws, and that the Polish police enforce those laws? Is that it?
I guess I understand the perspective, given that President Horehay is planning to reward the US's Mexican marine population (10 million, or so) with an amnesty.
The only thing worse than a bad joke is a bad joke bad followup.
The BBC has been explaining to me just how evil I am for the last 40+ years.
Thanks for your input, but compared to the professional Big Lie artists at the beeb, you're a relative piker.
Keep at it, however, I hear3 the Hugo Chaves has a gigantic anti-US propaganda machine just firing up. You could do worse than earn decent money in a decent climate, all for doing what you love.
Just the sort of story
Obviously the *entire* US is incompetent, the evidence being (a) its use of Microsoft Word, and (b) Iraq, *or* (c) both.
/.? The mind boggles.)
Thanks. I understand. Thanks. No need to keep beating the drum. Thanks.
(Where would I be without
"Too young to remember the war, aren't you, Case?" Armitage ran a
large hand back through his cropped brown hair. A heavy gold bracelet
flashed on his wrist. "Leningrad, Kiev, Siberia. We invented you in Siberia,
Case."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Screaming Fist, Case. You've heard the name."
"Some kind of run, wasn't it? Tried to burn this Russian nexus
with virus programs. Yeah, I heard about it. And nobody got out."
He sensed abrupt tension. Armitagc walkcd to the window and looked out
over Tokyo Bay. "That isn't true. One unit made it back to Helsinki,
Case."
When I was working on the development of DEC's DHU-11 at their Acre Rd., Reading, UK plant, we had this real comedian on staff.
One day, when the first protoype of the DHU-11 (we're talking wire-wrap here) was to be demoed, he rigged up a little plastic pipe that ran from the backplane of the PDP 11/24 holding the prototype to a place just out of sight of the various higher-up mucky-mucks who were receiving the demo.
Right after the machine was fired up, he took a big drag on his cigarette and blew into the pipe. Smoke out of backplance, widespread panic in lab. I mean, we all know that ICs become useless after the magic smoke is released, and we were using some of the first 8751s Intel ever made.
After we staked him out over an ant hill, we went off for pints at the Swan at Streatley.
Subject line says it all....
I had *exactly* the same reaction.
Geez. Every 30 years, or so, everything old is new again. I'm getting tired of this constant repetition in life.
I mean, I was praying *never* to see bell-bottoms ever again, as long as I lived. Shudder.
Your original post similar to one I'd received a couple of minutes ago. I answered it, and was referring you there. Being a big fan of Prime Minister's Question Time, I went with that great stock answer.
This "litre" thing sounds like an innovation from vile France.
If you're British,
- Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?
- Do you want to call that raggedy arse Bonaparte your king?
- Do you want your children to sing the Marseillaise?
- Do you want to wipe your backside with wax toilet paper?
No to all, obviously.
Then pass on this litre thing as well.
http://www.toyozone.com/inventory/vehicleDetail.as px
Base $23,070
Options $4,890
Manuf. Delv, Proc & Hndlg $675
Subtotal $28,635
Dealer Fees $593
Total $29,228
"Earth First! We can log the other planets later!"
I do take your point.
The reason I'm so hot against the Prius is that one night when I was leaving a meeting of Atlanta Freenet, I found that two of the granola types at the meeting had parked their Prii on either side of my Explorer. As we were leaving, they heaped scorn on it, while sniffing their farts, until I said "Good night!", got in, and drove away.
I confess, I won't buy a Prius because I simply can't stand the smell of my farts.
I will take a look at the Subaru. That said, I've had the ford 10 years, and it has served me well. All I do is keep changing the fluids and tires.
"I refer you to my comments of some moments ago."