Let's face it the ex-KGB heavyweight played the community organizer like a banjo. Ice-cold against cool. Ice-cold won.
Problem is the Obanjo keeps playing a different tune. Not a wonder the world thinks it is a useless banjo.
So that's it then. Fortunately you know better. You are smarter. You analysis of the reason is definitive.
Surprised you're not running the world with an intellect that probes so deeply.
The real reason Africa will go to wireless is because they steal the copper and aluminum cables and sell them to a scrap merchant.
Often cables are removed within 24 hours of them going up. It is easier to guard base stations especially if they are put in a village and the headman is paid a few dollars a month to guard the installation.
As an Indian I'd rather be searched than dead. I have no problems with them targeting people if it will stop a bombing. See it is a funny thing, but I don't want to die.
Corporations and their funds should not be allowed to give or fundraise for politicians period. Only private citizens should be allowed to do either. It should not be a tax deduction either. It would fix a lot of problems.
George Soros and the Koch brothers thank you for your post. They agree.
I voted for him twice and am disappointed, but have to admit he is still better than the alternative.
What kind of fuckwit follows such logic. You don't know what the alternative is, but you 'know' it is worse. Frankly under Obama the Dems have taken the crude tactics of the Bush era and refined them to the point of danger. The approach is positively Orwellian. They are now setting up a department to influence the attitudes of the American people . Read Nudge for more details of what they hope to achieve.
And unlike under the Republicans the media, in love with Obama, simply goes along with whatever Obama does. often now he circumvents the normal process of government and nobody says a thing. There is no critical opposition to Obama, Holder and their cronies who lie and cheat and manipulate with alacrity. There are few critical articles, complaints or attacks from the media. Citizens are on their own. Obama lied to get elected (and co-opted almost every voting black in the land to do it) and he just keeps rolling along. Gitmo, drone program, supporting wars, pals from Goldman Sachs, all worse than under Bush. All lies/hollow promises he told the American people still unfulfilled.
And suckers like you are thrilled. Did you ever try and think for yourself?
That Ford and its competitors have stolen significantly more information than that from independent inventors, small firms, employees, etc. Call it stealing or not, but making millions-billions on others work is immoral and stealing in my book, even if you make them sign something to let you.
Wow, you seem to have a lot of dirt on Ford. Don't hide it, publicize it with facts. Or are you jus' sayin'.......
A simpler way is simply to have a one year campaign saying that anybody caught crossing will be shot on sight.
After one year implement the plan. One or two will be shot and word will spread like wild fire that the 'gringos' are serious.
Border crossings will drop to almost zero.
Excellent post - my thoughts exactly. I am not a meteorologist, but I have advanced degrees in statistics and can (and have) read the Fortran source code of the model that was also leaked. Clearly the Economist writer did not / could not read the model source code. Besides the code being an unstructured rat's nest there was dubious data manipulation and filtering. One section seemed to filter out outliers on the low side only. But I have no context. Maybe there was a legitimate reason for doing it that way. As you say it would be much simpler if all the raw data sets (Hadley CRU, NOAA and the two satellite based measurements) are simply made available on the Internet.
I saw similar fuzzy data related to AIDS in Africa. Since all researchers had a vested interest in showing how bad AIDS is in Africa (otherwise their grants would dry up) there was definitely exaggeration - maybe unconscious - to paint the bleakest picture possible. There was no conspiracy - it was just that almost all researchers tended to exaggerate the figures in the same direction. Many AIDS infection projections for Africa were also published in peer reviewed journals. And I am sure that every reviewer was honest within his or her frame of reference, but because everyone in the field was pulling in the same direction the (peer reviewed) figures have now been found, in retrospect to be exaggerated. Again I must emphasize, no conspiracy. Just people with a little vested interest doing their job.
I suspect there is similar phenomenon occurring within the GW community. Imagine in this scientific climate applying for a grant to prove that GW is less serious than currently believed. You chance of getting the money would be slim to none.
Don't be sanctimonious - read the f'king Fortran source code of the model yourself and then make a conclusion. I have and it is clear the thing is an unstructured rats nest and that there are several algorithms in it for removing or excluding data that does not support their AGW position. And unfortunately the original data has gone missing. What can one conclude? Regardless of whether there is or is not AGW this work cannot be trusted. And your silly comments about WSJ are irrelevant. George Monbiot (Google him) who is a believer in AGW has also said that what Mann and Jones has done is questionable. He called it a crisis. (Get some facts into your head before you put finger to keyboard.)
What bogus nonsense. I travel to the US frequently from Europe and even from India - the passport checks while rigorous are no more than an inconvenience. The twaddle written here implies they take you into a room and interrogate you like in the movies. Passport control into Brazil, at least via Miami, is also pretty strict. But again it is a minor convenience rather than some major effort. Perhaps the toughest border crossing is arriving in the UK from outside the EU. Then they really scrutinize you. I would expect nothing less from countries in the modern world given the terrorist threat. Chicago lost the Olympic bid - the efforts of the Dark Doofus notwithstanding because America has had the games several times. Spain and Japan have also hosted the games. South America has not, and anyway Rio is one of the most beautiful cities in the world which is an added bonus. Everyone has anecdotal stories about how bad US border guards are,but I have as many stories about other places I have traveled to: Singapore, Russia, China and countries in Africa. Of course, once you are in the EU moving from one state to another is easy, but try flying into the EU - say Spain - from some unusual country like Yemen. They detained me for 4 hours while they checked my background which is Canadian - and finally I have even been detained by Canadian border guard for several hours after flying in from India via Frankfort.
I Wuz hume un skoolled and tink it very good me ma let me learn by self - no big fat yella skool bus for me.
Now I is ready for work as a goood edukaetd Amerikan.
Got bad news for you: have you been to India lately where population growth goes on unabated. Similarly in Africa and the Middle East.
Probably the only benefit from you not having any kids is to ensure stupid genes don't enter the gene pool.
Free - you are kidding or (more likely) simply uninformed. Canada was the only country in the developed world to prosecute someone for publishing the Mohammed cartoons.
having lived in several countries and now Canada and can tell you that Canada is less free - despite the propaganda - than say a place like Aussie or NZ.
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Did they also ban all medicines and antibiotics made after 1986?
Let's face it the ex-KGB heavyweight played the community organizer like a banjo. Ice-cold against cool. Ice-cold won. Problem is the Obanjo keeps playing a different tune. Not a wonder the world thinks it is a useless banjo.
So that's it then. Fortunately you know better. You are smarter. You analysis of the reason is definitive. Surprised you're not running the world with an intellect that probes so deeply.
Aditya Mukerjee looks like a terrorist so what do you expect.
The real reason Africa will go to wireless is because they steal the copper and aluminum cables and sell them to a scrap merchant. Often cables are removed within 24 hours of them going up. It is easier to guard base stations especially if they are put in a village and the headman is paid a few dollars a month to guard the installation.
Record power in the summer sun. Talk to me about a shitty February day and I'd be impressed.
Insight from an affirmative action nobody
You're wrong - not 'your wrong'. America's appalling education showing again.
As an Indian I'd rather be searched than dead. I have no problems with them targeting people if it will stop a bombing. See it is a funny thing, but I don't want to die.
Detroit is the model of the future.
Only if she ran the Tardis as a brothel.
Where is Captain Ahab when you need him.
Or the mercury in new light bulbs.
Corporations and their funds should not be allowed to give or fundraise for politicians period. Only private citizens should be allowed to do either. It should not be a tax deduction either. It would fix a lot of problems.
George Soros and the Koch brothers thank you for your post. They agree.
I voted for him twice and am disappointed, but have to admit he is still better than the alternative.
What kind of fuckwit follows such logic. You don't know what the alternative is, but you 'know' it is worse. Frankly under Obama the Dems have taken the crude tactics of the Bush era and refined them to the point of danger. The approach is positively Orwellian. They are now setting up a department to influence the attitudes of the American people . Read Nudge for more details of what they hope to achieve. And unlike under the Republicans the media, in love with Obama, simply goes along with whatever Obama does. often now he circumvents the normal process of government and nobody says a thing. There is no critical opposition to Obama, Holder and their cronies who lie and cheat and manipulate with alacrity. There are few critical articles, complaints or attacks from the media. Citizens are on their own. Obama lied to get elected (and co-opted almost every voting black in the land to do it) and he just keeps rolling along. Gitmo, drone program, supporting wars, pals from Goldman Sachs, all worse than under Bush. All lies/hollow promises he told the American people still unfulfilled. And suckers like you are thrilled. Did you ever try and think for yourself?
That Ford and its competitors have stolen significantly more information than that from independent inventors, small firms, employees, etc. Call it stealing or not, but making millions-billions on others work is immoral and stealing in my book, even if you make them sign something to let you.
Wow, you seem to have a lot of dirt on Ford. Don't hide it, publicize it with facts. Or are you jus' sayin'.......
A simpler way is simply to have a one year campaign saying that anybody caught crossing will be shot on sight. After one year implement the plan. One or two will be shot and word will spread like wild fire that the 'gringos' are serious. Border crossings will drop to almost zero.
Excellent post - my thoughts exactly. I am not a meteorologist, but I have advanced degrees in statistics and can (and have) read the Fortran source code of the model that was also leaked. Clearly the Economist writer did not / could not read the model source code. Besides the code being an unstructured rat's nest there was dubious data manipulation and filtering. One section seemed to filter out outliers on the low side only. But I have no context. Maybe there was a legitimate reason for doing it that way. As you say it would be much simpler if all the raw data sets (Hadley CRU, NOAA and the two satellite based measurements) are simply made available on the Internet.
I saw similar fuzzy data related to AIDS in Africa. Since all researchers had a vested interest in showing how bad AIDS is in Africa (otherwise their grants would dry up) there was definitely exaggeration - maybe unconscious - to paint the bleakest picture possible. There was no conspiracy - it was just that almost all researchers tended to exaggerate the figures in the same direction. Many AIDS infection projections for Africa were also published in peer reviewed journals. And I am sure that every reviewer was honest within his or her frame of reference, but because everyone in the field was pulling in the same direction the (peer reviewed) figures have now been found, in retrospect to be exaggerated. Again I must emphasize, no conspiracy. Just people with a little vested interest doing their job.
I suspect there is similar phenomenon occurring within the GW community. Imagine in this scientific climate applying for a grant to prove that GW is less serious than currently believed. You chance of getting the money would be slim to none.
Don't be sanctimonious - read the f'king Fortran source code of the model yourself and then make a conclusion. I have and it is clear the thing is an unstructured rats nest and that there are several algorithms in it for removing or excluding data that does not support their AGW position. And unfortunately the original data has gone missing. What can one conclude? Regardless of whether there is or is not AGW this work cannot be trusted. And your silly comments about WSJ are irrelevant. George Monbiot (Google him) who is a believer in AGW has also said that what Mann and Jones has done is questionable. He called it a crisis. (Get some facts into your head before you put finger to keyboard.)
What bogus nonsense. I travel to the US frequently from Europe and even from India - the passport checks while rigorous are no more than an inconvenience. The twaddle written here implies they take you into a room and interrogate you like in the movies. Passport control into Brazil, at least via Miami, is also pretty strict. But again it is a minor convenience rather than some major effort. Perhaps the toughest border crossing is arriving in the UK from outside the EU. Then they really scrutinize you. I would expect nothing less from countries in the modern world given the terrorist threat. Chicago lost the Olympic bid - the efforts of the Dark Doofus notwithstanding because America has had the games several times. Spain and Japan have also hosted the games. South America has not, and anyway Rio is one of the most beautiful cities in the world which is an added bonus. Everyone has anecdotal stories about how bad US border guards are,but I have as many stories about other places I have traveled to: Singapore, Russia, China and countries in Africa. Of course, once you are in the EU moving from one state to another is easy, but try flying into the EU - say Spain - from some unusual country like Yemen. They detained me for 4 hours while they checked my background which is Canadian - and finally I have even been detained by Canadian border guard for several hours after flying in from India via Frankfort.
I Wuz hume un skoolled and tink it very good me ma let me learn by self - no big fat yella skool bus for me. Now I is ready for work as a goood edukaetd Amerikan.
Got bad news for you: have you been to India lately where population growth goes on unabated. Similarly in Africa and the Middle East. Probably the only benefit from you not having any kids is to ensure stupid genes don't enter the gene pool.
I am talking about a different Bono - U2 is the clue
You may be pro Bono and that is your choice. I, however, think he is a meddlesome turd.
Free - you are kidding or (more likely) simply uninformed. Canada was the only country in the developed world to prosecute someone for publishing the Mohammed cartoons. having lived in several countries and now Canada and can tell you that Canada is less free - despite the propaganda - than say a place like Aussie or NZ.