I understand you were aiming for funny but that's a fine example of the real problem, ie: more or less everyone on the planet firmly believes they are personally immune to manipulation via propaganda, while at the same time 90+% of the species firmly believes their god is the "real god".
Being stupid has never been a "death sentence", there are trillions of non-human organisms living alongside us, the majority of them don't even have a brain. Civilization is not the natural state for a human, it's an invention that we are still trying to work out how to live with.
Oddly enough the solder they are using is 63%tin and 37% lead, the tin is not the "problem" since the problem doesn't occur without the extra trcaes of gold.
Sorry but either your comprehension sucks or your just trolling. They are not "using tin instead of lead", it's an alloy composed of 63% Sn + 37% Pb, ie: good old fashioned tin-lead solder, the abnormally high trace levels of gold is the cause of the problem.
An RTG falling out of the sky may hurt if it hits you on the head but other than that it's mostly harmless. Besides we already spread Pu all over the globe in the 60's and 70's, it's now a geological layer marking our entry into the nuclear age for millions of years to come..
The main audience for all 4 organizations is on the internet nowadays, eg: I'm an Aussie and I regularly read stuff in the Gaurdian and NYT. I do agree that WL is a not a newspaper but they do compete with newspapers to be first with the "news".
The WL ideal was to bypass the newspapers by dumping raw material onto the net but they were level headed enough to recognize they weren't big enough to handle that much material with the respect it deserved, so they begrudgingly made the papers into temporary partners in return for financing experienced staff to do the grunt work. I understand that WL is most likely not an easy partner to deal with, but given the outstanding track record of the NYT it sad to see it publish a self-serving editorial that goes beyond ignoring the facts and into the realm of propaganda.
They used Fema to move people who'd lost everything all over the country so they couldn't become a dangerous voting block
That's the lamest conspiracy theory I've heard all week. Fema and the rest of the clowns involved in that circus were simply incompetent to the point of criminal neglect.
Most of the alcoholics I've known over the last 50 years got their mental illness from drinking, not the other way around. Most of them can handle day to day life until some sort of personal crisis happens, such as a divorce. I feel sympathy for these people, I've even given a few a place to stay, but in my experience the only people who can really help them turn things around are themselves.
Here' just one example: The 60yo brother of the woman I hang out with got out of jail (DUI, assaulting police). He left prison with $800 to last him until his next dole cheque that was due in 2 weeks, he spent the $800 on CD's, booze, and a bag of dope in the first 2 days. I had helped him out by driving him around to various places, he rang me up broke from the city rail station, told me he had nowhere to stay because "the government hadn't given him enough money". I offered to pay 2 weeks rent in a back-packers lodge, he didn't thank me, he got upset because what he wanted was to move in (and mooch off) his sister. I'd had enough, I ended the call by telling him he had just fucked up his last chance for a roof over his head and I would personally beat him to a pulp if he hassles his sister again. That was 2yrs ago and we haven't heard a peep out of him since. Thing is, the man is neither lazy or stupid, he's an alcoholic.
It's a false dichotomy. The idea that the emergence of life was a unique event is a religious concept not a scientific one. Life arose on Earth from chemistry, most likely near hydrothermal vents since the convection currents supply a cyclic temperature gradient and the vent supplies the chemicals. It may have been supplemented with life from comets (surrounding environment) but whether the first ever microbe on Earth was a native or an immigrant is not only an unanswerable historical question, it's also an "unenlightened one" since a clear scientific definition that divides living and non-living chemistry still alludes us.
Wikileaks was careful to redact the ones they published.
Yep, WL spent a couple of months redacting informants names, the Guardian, Der Speigel, and (you guessed it), the NYT, all worked on the reactions together. All 4 organizations then published the story at the same time. But at the end of the day all 4 organizations are competitors, so I'll just file it under editorial sour grapes.
The problem with the MAD doctrine is the same as the problem with the second amendment, they both assume humans will act rationally when given the power of life or death over others.
I don't recall where I read it but I believe the "scam" was based on conflating Greenland and Iceland to people who didn't know the difference. I'm not a historian and I really have no idea if there's any truth in it, but it's plausible since "the promised land" is one scam that never fails to attract droves of punters.
One problem is for certain, and that certain climate "researchers" are playing politics rather than science.
Yep, Deming is known for making extraordinary claims with less than ordinary evidence, he's a "conservative think tank" scientist who abandoned peer-review years ago. Nobody has "edited history", science has self-corrected on the issue in the manner one would expect.. In other words, at first it was thought that the MWP was a global phenomena, further scrutiny by intellectually honest skeptics (ie: scientists) did not support the claims, so the claim has been refined. It's not a fucking conspiracy, it's how science works and why we no longer believe the earth is flat.
All you can do is check with multiple sources, and try to figure out what's most likely to be really going on.
Yes, but what the OP is saying is that when you do, they will find "what's really going on" is best matched by reputable sources such as the BBC and NYT. "Reputable" means the majority of people who care enough to regularly compare sources about their pet issue say they have a good track record.
"Perception is everything" - well, that appears to be the case.;)
Paraphrasing the best obituary I have read - "Chavez was neither as evil as his critics claim, nor as benign his supporters claim. He will be remembered in the same light as his personal hero Simon Bolivia, a man who asserted South American independence".
So by your own definition the W.B. should be forgotten
I'm not the AC, however patents are not secrets, by design they "share knowledge" with the general public. What the WBs did differently to the others is they monopolised the commercial opportunities.
The clockwork metaphor of the universe fell apart about 100yrs ago. The universe is random at a fundamental level but even if it were deterministic one of the laws in your point (b) is that most systems in nature are mathematically chaotic, no mater how well you measure the starting conditions it can NEVER be accurate enough to reliably predict the behavior of the system past a certain point in the future.
The thing I find "odd" is that often (always?) the statistics of a chaotic system are extremely stable, eg: weather is chaotic and is difficult to predict more than a week into the future, climate (the statistics of weather) is not chaotic.
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I understand you were aiming for funny but that's a fine example of the real problem, ie: more or less everyone on the planet firmly believes they are personally immune to manipulation via propaganda, while at the same time 90+% of the species firmly believes their god is the "real god".
Being stupid has never been a "death sentence", there are trillions of non-human organisms living alongside us, the majority of them don't even have a brain. Civilization is not the natural state for a human, it's an invention that we are still trying to work out how to live with.
Oddly enough the solder they are using is 63%tin and 37% lead, the tin is not the "problem" since the problem doesn't occur without the extra trcaes of gold.
There was lead in the solder, 37% to be exact.
Sorry but either your comprehension sucks or your just trolling. They are not "using tin instead of lead", it's an alloy composed of 63% Sn + 37% Pb, ie: good old fashioned tin-lead solder, the abnormally high trace levels of gold is the cause of the problem.
An RTG falling out of the sky may hurt if it hits you on the head but other than that it's mostly harmless. Besides we already spread Pu all over the globe in the 60's and 70's, it's now a geological layer marking our entry into the nuclear age for millions of years to come..
A lot of anger there? - Are you the guy who started the moon hoax meme or just another garden variety conspiracy theorist?
The main audience for all 4 organizations is on the internet nowadays, eg: I'm an Aussie and I regularly read stuff in the Gaurdian and NYT. I do agree that WL is a not a newspaper but they do compete with newspapers to be first with the "news".
The WL ideal was to bypass the newspapers by dumping raw material onto the net but they were level headed enough to recognize they weren't big enough to handle that much material with the respect it deserved, so they begrudgingly made the papers into temporary partners in return for financing experienced staff to do the grunt work. I understand that WL is most likely not an easy partner to deal with, but given the outstanding track record of the NYT it sad to see it publish a self-serving editorial that goes beyond ignoring the facts and into the realm of propaganda.
Trivia: The term "meme" goes back to the 70's, it was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book "The selfish gene".
Why the snark? Did someone shit in your morning coffee?
They used Fema to move people who'd lost everything all over the country so they couldn't become a dangerous voting block
That's the lamest conspiracy theory I've heard all week. Fema and the rest of the clowns involved in that circus were simply incompetent to the point of criminal neglect.
Most of the alcoholics I've known over the last 50 years got their mental illness from drinking, not the other way around. Most of them can handle day to day life until some sort of personal crisis happens, such as a divorce. I feel sympathy for these people, I've even given a few a place to stay, but in my experience the only people who can really help them turn things around are themselves.
Here' just one example: The 60yo brother of the woman I hang out with got out of jail (DUI, assaulting police). He left prison with $800 to last him until his next dole cheque that was due in 2 weeks, he spent the $800 on CD's, booze, and a bag of dope in the first 2 days. I had helped him out by driving him around to various places, he rang me up broke from the city rail station, told me he had nowhere to stay because "the government hadn't given him enough money". I offered to pay 2 weeks rent in a back-packers lodge, he didn't thank me, he got upset because what he wanted was to move in (and mooch off) his sister. I'd had enough, I ended the call by telling him he had just fucked up his last chance for a roof over his head and I would personally beat him to a pulp if he hassles his sister again. That was 2yrs ago and we haven't heard a peep out of him since. Thing is, the man is neither lazy or stupid, he's an alcoholic.
It's a false dichotomy. The idea that the emergence of life was a unique event is a religious concept not a scientific one. Life arose on Earth from chemistry, most likely near hydrothermal vents since the convection currents supply a cyclic temperature gradient and the vent supplies the chemicals. It may have been supplemented with life from comets (surrounding environment) but whether the first ever microbe on Earth was a native or an immigrant is not only an unanswerable historical question, it's also an "unenlightened one" since a clear scientific definition that divides living and non-living chemistry still alludes us.
Wikileaks was careful to redact the ones they published.
Yep, WL spent a couple of months redacting informants names, the Guardian, Der Speigel, and (you guessed it), the NYT, all worked on the reactions together. All 4 organizations then published the story at the same time. But at the end of the day all 4 organizations are competitors, so I'll just file it under editorial sour grapes.
The problem with the MAD doctrine is the same as the problem with the second amendment, they both assume humans will act rationally when given the power of life or death over others.
Personally I'd rather have the "Thump... Whoosh!" than die shiting out my colon from starvation.
I don't recall where I read it but I believe the "scam" was based on conflating Greenland and Iceland to people who didn't know the difference. I'm not a historian and I really have no idea if there's any truth in it, but it's plausible since "the promised land" is one scam that never fails to attract droves of punters.
One problem is for certain, and that certain climate "researchers" are playing politics rather than science.
Yep, Deming is known for making extraordinary claims with less than ordinary evidence, he's a "conservative think tank" scientist who abandoned peer-review years ago. Nobody has "edited history", science has self-corrected on the issue in the manner one would expect.. In other words, at first it was thought that the MWP was a global phenomena, further scrutiny by intellectually honest skeptics (ie: scientists) did not support the claims, so the claim has been refined. It's not a fucking conspiracy, it's how science works and why we no longer believe the earth is flat.
All you can do is check with multiple sources, and try to figure out what's most likely to be really going on.
Yes, but what the OP is saying is that when you do, they will find "what's really going on" is best matched by reputable sources such as the BBC and NYT. "Reputable" means the majority of people who care enough to regularly compare sources about their pet issue say they have a good track record.
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"Perception is everything" - well, that appears to be the case.
Paraphrasing the best obituary I have read - "Chavez was neither as evil as his critics claim, nor as benign his supporters claim. He will be remembered in the same light as his personal hero Simon Bolivia, a man who asserted South American independence".
So by your own definition the W.B. should be forgotten
I'm not the AC, however patents are not secrets, by design they "share knowledge" with the general public. What the WBs did differently to the others is they monopolised the commercial opportunities.
The clockwork metaphor of the universe fell apart about 100yrs ago. The universe is random at a fundamental level but even if it were deterministic one of the laws in your point (b) is that most systems in nature are mathematically chaotic, no mater how well you measure the starting conditions it can NEVER be accurate enough to reliably predict the behavior of the system past a certain point in the future.
The thing I find "odd" is that often (always?) the statistics of a chaotic system are extremely stable, eg: weather is chaotic and is difficult to predict more than a week into the future, climate (the statistics of weather) is not chaotic.
Cow burps come from grass and eventually turn back into grass. Land use is the real biosphere problem with cows.
Abiogenisis (turn up your speakers), has been studied quite well, I believe (but cannot prove) the missing ingredient in the experiments is time.
We can't work out how to do #1 with our current "spaceship", and that's in nice stable orbit around a star with a preexisting life support system.