The "conspiratorial thinking" they are referring to is the tendency of some to explain world events with false conspiracies.
It was simply measured by listing a selection of such false conspiracies (conspiracy theories). And seeing which of their subjects were nutcase enough to agree with them. The ones they used were:
"A powerful and secretive group known as the New World Order are planning to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government which would replace sovereign governments.
"SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was produced under laboratory conditions as a biological weapon.
"The U.S. government had foreknowledge about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but allowed the attack to take place so as to be able to enter the Second World War.
"The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of an organized conspiracy by U.S. government agencies such as the CIA and FBI.
"The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio.
"The assassination of John F. Kennedy was not committed by the lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald but was rather a detailed organized conspiracy to kill the President.
"The U.S. government allowed the 9-11 attacks to take place so that it would have an excuse to achieve foreign (e.g., wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and domestic (e.g., attacks on civil liberties) goals that had beendetermined prior to the attacks.
"Princess Dianaâ(TM)s death was not an accident but rather an organised assassination by members of the British royal family who disliked her.
"The Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols did not act alone but rather received assistance from neo-Nazi groups.
"The Coca Cola company intentionally changed to an inferior formula with the intent of driving up demand for their classic product later reintroducing it for their financial gain.
"In July 1947 the U.S. military recovered the wreckage of.891 an alien craft from Roswell, New Mexico, and covered up the fact.
"Area 51 in Nevada is a secretive military base that contains hidden alien spacecraft and or alien bodies.
"U.S. agencies intentionally created the AIDS epidemic and administered it to Black and gay men in the 1970s."
The fact is that the more of these dumb conspiracies you believe in, the more likely you are to be a climate change denier.
I think you just dis-proved the point you were trying to make using that example, because it's actually a bi-partisan statist position, not a right wing one.
Of course it doesn't disprove the point. It's simply that both Republican and Democrat are right wing. For example, the policies of the Democrat party are to the right of the policies of the UK Conservative party.
Pursuing economic interests through war is most certainly a right wing idea. Pursuing social justice through war would be a left wing one.
You continue to treat it as if it's an intelligence test, with those failing the test deserving to be injured. Whilst this angle is amusing for the Darwin awards, it's no rational approach to safety regulation.
Further, you suggest that because some categories of things can't reasonably be protected, then nothing should be.
You're making the point that true free markets are poor at dealing with the environment. That's true. They are also poor at dealing with all sorts of other concerns, which is why markets are regulated in all sorts of ways. And taxed at varying rates. All decided on by politicians. This is just one more way.
I'm quite open to non-market ways of dealing with the AGW problem. If you have any suggestions.
Doing nothing, just because the idealised, imaginary, true free market has no way to deal with the issue, is certainly not the answer.
It's not exactly a difficult thing to ascertain in a market economy. You simply include the environmental cost of manufacture and a lifetime of usage into the monetary price of the product. Then people choose which things they still need based on a true cost.
ZX BASIC did not have keyword completion. It was a tokenized BASIC, with the tokens being entered with a single keypress per token. There was no entering of part of a keyword, then being given the option of various completions.
Neither syntax checking as you enter, nor a split screen for listing and commands seem even necessary parts of an IDE, let alone things that would qualify it as an IDE.
Plenty of unix C/C++/script/python coders still use vi and emacs. Just because IDEs rule the roost in Windows and Java development, don't assume every coder users or even requires them.
Put another way: The only reason vi and emacs is so popular around here is that Linux hasn't got a decent IDE.
All of them (save for wxwidgets) paint all of their widgets themselves.
And that's what makes cross platform GUI toolkits so shit. If they are using their own widgets, they do not properly follow the look, feel and behaviour of the rest of the platform. Especially as new versions of the OS comes out, and the cross platform apps stay old looking.
It was the standard language used in CS courses back then. It was created to teach structured programming, and that was still the modern paradigm, with OO ideas still thought of as exotic and experimental.
The one thing VB could do back in the day (being an interpreted language). Edit and continue. I still don't know any IDEs that allow it. Compiled languages make it out of the question.
Visual Studio had Edit and Continue for C++ for at least a decade.
It's already happened. LA riots. Funnily enough it lasted exactly the same amount of time. 6 days.
The state will hold off from ending it initially. Minimise casualties, that sort of thing. But when they decide to end it, it's all over for the people opposing the state.
Now, is that because libertarians are simply hard to please, or because, according to various definitions, we don't really have any free countries in existence today?
That's the same argument marxists make. You can't judge marxism as not working in practice, because there are no true marxist states.
If you want people to believe you are an Apple customer, it's pretty silly to call them crApple.
It's even more silly when you say something that isn't true:
Case in point. I have iPhon4 and 3G. iPhone 4s are running iOS5 & 6. Which the new Netflix app requires. However, the 3G model is not able to update to iOS5. But iTunes only allows for one instance of an app. So you'll find that you're old phones are now updated to versions of applications they cannot run.
iTunes does not install any application updates which are incompatible with the phone. If the phone is on iOS4, and the app requires iOS5, then iTunes does not transfer it to the phone. If you already had an iOS4 version of the app on the phone, then it will remain with that one.
Your claim that iTunes only stores one version of an app isn't even true. Go to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Mobile Applications, and you can see multiple versions of apps, stored with the version number in the filename. Not all versions are stored here, only the ones that are needed to satisfy the fact that you have multiple devices, with different OS versions.
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We've both laid out our opinions. Clearly we are going to continue to disagree. There's no point continuing.
The "conspiratorial thinking" they are referring to is the tendency of some to explain world events with false conspiracies.
It was simply measured by listing a selection of such false conspiracies (conspiracy theories). And seeing which of their subjects were nutcase enough to agree with them. The ones they used were:
"A powerful and secretive group known as the New World Order are planning to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government which would replace sovereign governments.
"SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) was produced under laboratory conditions as a biological
weapon.
"The U.S. government had foreknowledge about the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but allowed the attack to take place so as to be able to enter the Second World War.
"The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of an organized conspiracy by U.S. government agencies such as the CIA and FBI.
"The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio.
"The assassination of John F. Kennedy was not committed by the lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald but was rather a detailed organized conspiracy to kill the President.
"The U.S. government allowed the 9-11 attacks to take place so that it would have an excuse to achieve foreign (e.g., wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and domestic (e.g., attacks on civil liberties) goals that had beendetermined prior to the attacks.
"Princess Dianaâ(TM)s death was not an accident but rather an organised assassination by members of the British royal family who disliked her.
"The Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols did not act alone but rather received
assistance from neo-Nazi groups.
"The Coca Cola company intentionally changed to an inferior formula with the intent of driving up demand for their classic product later reintroducing it for their financial gain.
"In July 1947 the U.S. military recovered the wreckage of .891 an alien craft from Roswell, New Mexico, and covered up the fact.
"Area 51 in Nevada is a secretive military base that contains hidden alien spacecraft and or alien bodies.
"U.S. agencies intentionally created the AIDS epidemic and administered it to Black and gay men in the 1970s."
The fact is that the more of these dumb conspiracies you believe in, the more likely you are to be a climate change denier.
I think you just dis-proved the point you were trying to make using that example, because it's actually a bi-partisan statist position, not a right wing one.
Of course it doesn't disprove the point. It's simply that both Republican and Democrat are right wing. For example, the policies of the Democrat party are to the right of the policies of the UK Conservative party.
Pursuing economic interests through war is most certainly a right wing idea. Pursuing social justice through war would be a left wing one.
No, the problem is that you are making a caricature out of other people's position and then claim they aren't willing to talk to you reasonably
You're claiming that there isn't a large number of free marketers that are denying AGW exists?
If yes, you are clearly wrong, and exhibiting another form of denialism.
If no, then it wasn't a caricature.
You continue to treat it as if it's an intelligence test, with those failing the test deserving to be injured. Whilst this angle is amusing for the Darwin awards, it's no rational approach to safety regulation.
Further, you suggest that because some categories of things can't reasonably be protected, then nothing should be.
Yes, the EU's logic is better than yours.
You're making the point that true free markets are poor at dealing with the environment. That's true. They are also poor at dealing with all sorts of other concerns, which is why markets are regulated in all sorts of ways. And taxed at varying rates. All decided on by politicians. This is just one more way.
I'm quite open to non-market ways of dealing with the AGW problem. If you have any suggestions.
Doing nothing, just because the idealised, imaginary, true free market has no way to deal with the issue, is certainly not the answer.
It took them less than a month to put a paper out. I'm in the wrong field. I could have graduated in half a year.
Not in math, you couldn't.
Are you suggesting a conspiracy whereby they made these statements up?
It's not exactly a difficult thing to ascertain in a market economy. You simply include the environmental cost of manufacture and a lifetime of usage into the monetary price of the product. Then people choose which things they still need based on a true cost.
That is indeed the way it should be. The problem is that the free marketeers won't honestly discuss this choice. Instead they deny the science.
So by that argument, there should be no safety standards on anything?
It's a development environment. It's isn't integrated.
ZX BASIC did not have keyword completion. It was a tokenized BASIC, with the tokens being entered with a single keypress per token. There was no entering of part of a keyword, then being given the option of various completions.
Neither syntax checking as you enter, nor a split screen for listing and commands seem even necessary parts of an IDE, let alone things that would qualify it as an IDE.
Plenty of unix C/C++/script/python coders still use vi and emacs. Just because IDEs rule the roost in Windows and Java development, don't assume every coder users or even requires them.
Put another way: The only reason vi and emacs is so popular around here is that Linux hasn't got a decent IDE.
All of them (save for wxwidgets) paint all of their widgets themselves.
And that's what makes cross platform GUI toolkits so shit. If they are using their own widgets, they do not properly follow the look, feel and behaviour of the rest of the platform. Especially as new versions of the OS comes out, and the cross platform apps stay old looking.
It was the standard language used in CS courses back then. It was created to teach structured programming, and that was still the modern paradigm, with OO ideas still thought of as exotic and experimental.
The one thing VB could do back in the day (being an interpreted language). Edit and continue. I still don't know any IDEs that allow it. Compiled languages make it out of the question.
Visual Studio had Edit and Continue for C++ for at least a decade.
It's already happened. LA riots. Funnily enough it lasted exactly the same amount of time. 6 days.
The state will hold off from ending it initially. Minimise casualties, that sort of thing. But when they decide to end it, it's all over for the people opposing the state.
Unless they're journalists.
Use evil to fight evil.
Ah, the approach of Stalin, Hitler, Pol-pot...
No mass murderer ever thought his evil wasn't justified by some perceived greater evil.
Sure. It means you can hold out in a bunker for a few days, if you have a child hostage. Until they decide to kill you anyway.
Now, is that because libertarians are simply hard to please, or because, according to various definitions, we don't really have any free countries in existence today?
That's the same argument marxists make. You can't judge marxism as not working in practice, because there are no true marxist states.
Somalia with its several competing gang-based governments is a free country? When I say the word free, this is what comes to your mind?
It certainly qualifies for the libertarian concept of free. Small government, few laws, few taxes.
Yes, it's an absolutely vile place. That's the problem with libertarianism.
Razor blades.
Back in those early Victorian days, they were "cut throat" razors. Very dangerous.
Then along came the safety razor. Still dangerous whilst replacing the blade, but much safer when screwed up in it's enclosure.
Then along comes cartridge blades, where the blade is kept in it's enclosure at all times.
Then comes the cartridge blade with wires running in front of the blades, safer still.
Parallel to all this, you have the development of the electric razor. Again, far safer than bladed razors.
Razors show exactly the same pattern of stepwise refinement to more safer designs. Including at the point at which we are replacing parts.
If you want people to believe you are an Apple customer, it's pretty silly to call them crApple.
It's even more silly when you say something that isn't true:
Case in point. I have iPhon4 and 3G. iPhone 4s are running iOS5 & 6. Which the new Netflix app requires. However, the 3G model is not able to update to iOS5. But iTunes only allows for one instance of an app. So you'll find that you're old phones are now updated to versions of applications they cannot run.
iTunes does not install any application updates which are incompatible with the phone. If the phone is on iOS4, and the app requires iOS5, then iTunes does not transfer it to the phone. If you already had an iOS4 version of the app on the phone, then it will remain with that one.
Your claim that iTunes only stores one version of an app isn't even true. Go to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Mobile Applications, and you can see multiple versions of apps, stored with the version number in the filename. Not all versions are stored here, only the ones that are needed to satisfy the fact that you have multiple devices, with different OS versions.