Global warming is one of the most ridiculous and transparent frauds I have ever seen. It's based on nothing more than simulations - which are *not science*, but computer dicking around - which have proven incorrect time after time. The people involved have a vested financial and career interest in promoting it. It offers absolutely no solutions to reducing CO2 (far from it, it permits virtually anything in terms of emissions by the worst offenders), but does require massive payoffs from the Western World to the craphole world, effectively as reparations.
It's embarrassing that *anyone* with a functional nervous system cannot see this, but they found the most gullible groups possible, who have *no* capabilities for critical evaluation to spin up and do the promotional work for them. Gullible definitely includes "computer scientists" like those on Slashdot, who have spent their entire lives watching Galactica reruns and actually consider themselves and call themselves scientists, instead of clerk-typists. The same people who were STUNNED when bitcoin collapsed, despite it being stunningly obvious scheme to manipulate them and steal their money.
All forms of socialism are guaranteed to result in enslavement, because you have to coerce people into it, and force them to work against their own interests. You can't have UBI without stealing the money elsewhere, which you have to force people to pay.
As a matter of fact, Wolfram Alpha has (or used to have) a very similar assertion - if you discovered something using Wolfram Alpha, Steven himself had to be given credit, or something along those lines. Vis.:
Therefore, "failure to properly attribute results from Wolfram Alpha is not only a violation of [its license terms], but may also constitute academic plagiarism or a violation of copyright law."
I am not aware of anyone having made an issue out of it either way (and the software itself is rather useless, for anything I have ever tested it for), but that's in the ballpark with TFA.
I think in this case the IPCC might be doing society a tremendous service. Having a "world government" panel on climate attempting to decide (dictate) what an individual can and cannot eat could not illustrate more clearly what "world government" actually means. Doing things like this virtually guarantees no one will ever take:world government" seriously, Just like the Democrats daily writing the script for the "Trump 2020!" ads. Keep up the good work!
So, you think it's quite reasonable to require an airplane tethered to the ground with 70' wires, and entirely mechanically operated, no batteries, no electronics, and can only be flown in a circle should have a transponder and the operator pass a test about a air navigation? After having never even see a quadcopter up close, or ever having flown RC?
You know *nothing* about this, you are the problem, and you are the reason this is happening.
The government was quite happy yo go to court, they *agreed* to this as part of a settlement. Said agreement is still under scrutiny by the court for being too lenient.
Some of both, obviously, but more of the latter IMHO. The guy is under a lot of stress lately, and he's letting his inner demons spill out via Twitter occasionally, leading to some serious consequences for himself and his companies (and shareholders).
He's acting like a drug abuser, the paranoia and erratic statements are classic symptoms.
Uh, what? Whick kooks have "proven" that it's false? And why is anyone paying any attention to them, even to debunk it? There's something very big missing from TFS (and the TFA, which I uncharacteristically read).
Model airplane people have been self-policing, mostly successfully, for about 100 years and without drones/quadcopter/FPV, this issue would never have come up.
The method they use to fuel their rocket *is* stupid, or at least willfully ignorant, as are several aspects of their launch sequence - particularly the static test with the payload stacked. The one that resulted in the payload being destroyed, completely unnecessarily.
I tried to point that out to the national model airplane organization (AMA), and that they needed to make a distinction between traditional models and drones - because *it was metaphysical certainty that drones were going to be heavily regulated* and nothing they could say was going to stop it. But no, they decided to embrace drone idiots just like everyone else. The result is *very likely* to wipe out most forms of RC gliders, large-scale, jet turbines, and the original form of model aircraft, free-flight (no control system at all) and require airmanship tests for everyon. This is likely to include *control-line*, which are tethered to the pilot and can never exceed 70 feet or fly outside a designated hemisphere close to the ground. Oh, and you may have to be 16 or 18 years old or more to take the test, so forget kids flying gliders in the park.
Of course, it's all ultimately unenforceable, and will only be adhered to by the people who are *already responsible operator* and don't need regulation, and ignored by the idiots they are targeting.
This is all a catastrophe for model airplane fliers
Another ridiculous "law" that makes morons feel good, but accomplishes nothing. Trains to nowhere, that will never be completed, bot-banning, forcing gender distribution regardless of merit, all sheer genius!
That was effectively my point, there's no question that you can mathematically predict what will happen, most of the time. But this thread is about one of the examples where it doesn't appear to work, along with the various other examples mystery coefficients or mystery energy or mass being kludged in to patch things up.
I think that this apparently "statistical" nature is a function of something very fundamental that we don't yet understand, and some day, somebody will find the reality with a slap to the forehead and a loud "D'OH!"
Note that this has *always* been the case in physics and science in general. Phlogiston theory predicted a lot of things correctly for a long time, for a lot of people who were not morons. Then the edges started fraying, people tried various fixes to try to patch it back together, until someone came along with a conceptual advance, then the old way seems ridiculous and obviously wrong. We are in the "fraying edges" point of the cycle (like the late 1800s).
Quantum physics is ultimately very unsatisfying, no matter how well it works. You always have the feeling that it's a working kludge, but has to the results of us just not understanding something very basic.
That's probably an even better point than mine. Say what you want about obesity, but obesity gives you some reserves in these sorts of situations (which is why adding fat when food is plentiful is an evolutionary advantage). If you are 6 feet/150 lbs, you aren't going to miss many meals or survive for long without being able to eat without serious problems in a few days. 6 foot, 200, you can go a while.
In 1918, it was still realistically possible to be malnourished in the developed world just from poverty. Now, that's not realistic and obesity is epidemic among the poor. No one needs to go hungry anywhere in the developed world, and only politics, not scarcity, causes it in the 3rd world.
Supportive health care has gotten MASSIVELY better since 1918, astronomically so. A similarly virulent strain would be bad, but nothing like as bad as it was, because a lot of people back then died due to lack of even basic supportive care.
Of course, no one said it had to be the same level of virulence, it could be much worse, so ignoring the possibility doesn't make sense.
What - so everyone else can go about their business and OD themselves later that evening? And continue their criminal self-destructive behavior unimpeded?
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Global warming is one of the most ridiculous and transparent frauds I have ever seen. It's based on nothing more than simulations - which are *not science*, but computer dicking around - which have proven incorrect time after time. The people involved have a vested financial and career interest in promoting it. It offers absolutely no solutions to reducing CO2 (far from it, it permits virtually anything in terms of emissions by the worst offenders), but does require massive payoffs from the Western World to the craphole world, effectively as reparations.
It's embarrassing that *anyone* with a functional nervous system cannot see this, but they found the most gullible groups possible, who have *no* capabilities for critical evaluation to spin up and do the promotional work for them. Gullible definitely includes "computer scientists" like those on Slashdot, who have spent their entire lives watching Galactica reruns and actually consider themselves and call themselves scientists, instead of clerk-typists. The same people who were STUNNED when bitcoin collapsed, despite it being stunningly obvious scheme to manipulate them and steal their money.
Another cry of "wolf!, if I repeat it often enough and loud enough, maybe there really will be a wolf this time.
All forms of socialism are guaranteed to result in enslavement, because you have to coerce people into it, and force them to work against their own interests. You can't have UBI without stealing the money elsewhere, which you have to force people to pay.
As a matter of fact, Wolfram Alpha has (or used to have) a very similar assertion - if you discovered something using Wolfram Alpha, Steven himself had to be given credit, or something along those lines. Vis.:
I am not aware of anyone having made an issue out of it either way (and the software itself is rather useless, for anything I have ever tested it for), but that's in the ballpark with TFA.
Except that that is *exactly* what this panel is suggesting. Keep up the good work!
I think in this case the IPCC might be doing society a tremendous service. Having a "world government" panel on climate attempting to decide (dictate) what an individual can and cannot eat could not illustrate more clearly what "world government" actually means. Doing things like this virtually guarantees no one will ever take :world government" seriously, Just like the Democrats daily writing the script for the "Trump 2020!" ads. Keep up the good work!
One hysterical scare story after another, all of which require drastic damage to the civilized nations.
Does anyone still fail to grasp that this is about centralized control of individual behavior instead of the environment?
So, you think it's quite reasonable to require an airplane tethered to the ground with 70' wires, and entirely mechanically operated, no batteries, no electronics, and can only be flown in a circle should have a transponder and the operator pass a test about a air navigation? After having never even see a quadcopter up close, or ever having flown RC?
You know *nothing* about this, you are the problem, and you are the reason this is happening.
The government was quite happy yo go to court, they *agreed* to this as part of a settlement. Said agreement is still under scrutiny by the court for being too lenient.
He's acting like a drug abuser, the paranoia and erratic statements are classic symptoms.
Art by assholes, for assholes.
Uh, what? Whick kooks have "proven" that it's false? And why is anyone paying any attention to them, even to debunk it? There's something very big missing from TFS (and the TFA, which I uncharacteristically read).
Model airplane people have been self-policing, mostly successfully, for about 100 years and without drones/quadcopter/FPV, this issue would never have come up.
The method they use to fuel their rocket *is* stupid, or at least willfully ignorant, as are several aspects of their launch sequence - particularly the static test with the payload stacked. The one that resulted in the payload being destroyed, completely unnecessarily.
I tried to point that out to the national model airplane organization (AMA), and that they needed to make a distinction between traditional models and drones - because *it was metaphysical certainty that drones were going to be heavily regulated* and nothing they could say was going to stop it. But no, they decided to embrace drone idiots just like everyone else. The result is *very likely* to wipe out most forms of RC gliders, large-scale, jet turbines, and the original form of model aircraft, free-flight (no control system at all) and require airmanship tests for everyon. This is likely to include *control-line*, which are tethered to the pilot and can never exceed 70 feet or fly outside a designated hemisphere close to the ground. Oh, and you may have to be 16 or 18 years old or more to take the test, so forget kids flying gliders in the park.
Of course, it's all ultimately unenforceable, and will only be adhered to by the people who are *already responsible operator* and don't need regulation, and ignored by the idiots they are targeting.
This is all a catastrophe for model airplane fliers
Capitalism gave you everything you have in life, including the medium required to bitch about it.
I checked "disable ads", and yet this article still appears. /vertisement
Another ridiculous "law" that makes morons feel good, but accomplishes nothing. Trains to nowhere, that will never be completed, bot-banning, forcing gender distribution regardless of merit, all sheer genius!
That was effectively my point, there's no question that you can mathematically predict what will happen, most of the time. But this thread is about one of the examples where it doesn't appear to work, along with the various other examples mystery coefficients or mystery energy or mass being kludged in to patch things up.
I think that this apparently "statistical" nature is a function of something very fundamental that we don't yet understand, and some day, somebody will find the reality with a slap to the forehead and a loud "D'OH!"
Note that this has *always* been the case in physics and science in general. Phlogiston theory predicted a lot of things correctly for a long time, for a lot of people who were not morons. Then the edges started fraying, people tried various fixes to try to patch it back together, until someone came along with a conceptual advance, then the old way seems ridiculous and obviously wrong. We are in the "fraying edges" point of the cycle (like the late 1800s).
Quantum physics is ultimately very unsatisfying, no matter how well it works. You always have the feeling that it's a working kludge, but has to the results of us just not understanding something very basic.
That's probably an even better point than mine. Say what you want about obesity, but obesity gives you some reserves in these sorts of situations (which is why adding fat when food is plentiful is an evolutionary advantage). If you are 6 feet/150 lbs, you aren't going to miss many meals or survive for long without being able to eat without serious problems in a few days. 6 foot, 200, you can go a while.
In 1918, it was still realistically possible to be malnourished in the developed world just from poverty. Now, that's not realistic and obesity is epidemic among the poor. No one needs to go hungry anywhere in the developed world, and only politics, not scarcity, causes it in the 3rd world.
Supportive health care has gotten MASSIVELY better since 1918, astronomically so. A similarly virulent strain would be bad, but nothing like as bad as it was, because a lot of people back then died due to lack of even basic supportive care.
Of course, no one said it had to be the same level of virulence, it could be much worse, so ignoring the possibility doesn't make sense.
Yes, you have addicted and out of control people ODing, and you don't do anything to stop it. You are quite the great humanitarian.
What - so everyone else can go about their business and OD themselves later that evening? And continue their criminal self-destructive behavior unimpeded?
Well, actually, it's a federal crime no matter where in the USA you live, and no matter what your local laws say.