The Guardian played it cute and used Twitter to do so.
Do you rely on Guido's band of libertarian wonks and hope people stumble upon it on Google - or do you appeal directly to (say) Stephen Fry' 830,000 followers (plus practically every working hack and writer who usually use Twitter as a way to banter away the working day)?
It is about distribution, not just publication. The story went from standstill to game-set-match in about 4 hours and that was the Twitter effect. Nowhere near enough people read Guido's ramblings to create that impact that quickly.
To use an example. Imagine a celebrity's 13 year old daughter gets raped and there's a court order banning the publication of any information that can identify her.
There is already a law (not a court order, statute law) banning the identification of rape victims in the UK. Of course you can't stop every sicko doing what they can to get around that.
But the issue here was a law firm exploiting a very narrow legal loophole to circumvent parliamentary privilege and suppress publication. That Carter Fuck created a PR catastrophe in doing so will hopefully be a salutary lesson (ha!). A similar shitstorm could be brought onto the head of anyone who exposed a rape victim. It is simply a question of if enough people care.
an action packed novel about the impact of the time dilation effect on soldiers returning from an interstellar war against the mysterious Tauran species.
That's a bit like saying Animal Farm is concerned with the power struggle between different types of animal - true , but not quite the point.
The LTC crash was caused by the founders (Nobel Laureates in Economics) having a model to quantify risk.
If memory serves, their crucial error was failing to anticipate that competitors would be able to reverse engineer what they were doing (hubris much?), and copy it.
Of course, had they built that in then the model would have changed in character and become non-linear (linear models assume systems don't learn, iirc) and made its greatly restricted utility obvious. Failure to do so meant they got caught in a sort of inverse gamblers' fallacy.
They get called deniers because that is exactly what they are: in the face of overwhelming evidence, they continue to deny, using logic that is identical to 9/11 wonks, moon hoax nutters and, yes, even Holocaust deniers.
The classic approach is to take one *apparent* anomaly and present is as if it is Popperian falsification - when the truth is more often that the supposed anomaly is itself explained by the theory
No, global cooling was one of several theories at the time (and not especially well supported even then - it just got a lot of press coverage) that has not stood up to empirical testing.
it's only the highest grossing film of all time... Ah yes - proof that from time to time botht he Oscar people and the public take leave of their senses. A movie so bad that not even Kate Winslett's tits can save it.
The RIAA does not represent the artists, it represents the record companies (who scarcely have the artists' best interests at heart). Hence its name : The Recording Industry Assoc of America.
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Do you rely on Guido's band of libertarian wonks and hope people stumble upon it on Google - or do you appeal directly to (say) Stephen Fry' 830,000 followers (plus practically every working hack and writer who usually use Twitter as a way to banter away the working day)?
It is about distribution, not just publication. The story went from standstill to game-set-match in about 4 hours and that was the Twitter effect. Nowhere near enough people read Guido's ramblings to create that impact that quickly.
There is already a law (not a court order, statute law) banning the identification of rape victims in the UK. Of course you can't stop every sicko doing what they can to get around that.
But the issue here was a law firm exploiting a very narrow legal loophole to circumvent parliamentary privilege and suppress publication. That Carter Fuck created a PR catastrophe in doing so will hopefully be a salutary lesson (ha!). A similar shitstorm could be brought onto the head of anyone who exposed a rape victim. It is simply a question of if enough people care.
What? As opposed to the complete silence you get on Slashdot, as illustrated in - ooh, I dunno...this thread...?
See also the entire canon of Kurt Vonnegut...
How the hell did this bollocks get modded "interesting"?
You guys aren't familiar with the Express "news"papers are you?
*sigh*
That's a bit like saying Animal Farm is concerned with the power struggle between different types of animal - true , but not quite the point.
If memory serves, their crucial error was failing to anticipate that competitors would be able to reverse engineer what they were doing (hubris much?), and copy it.
Of course, had they built that in then the model would have changed in character and become non-linear (linear models assume systems don't learn, iirc) and made its greatly restricted utility obvious. Failure to do so meant they got caught in a sort of inverse gamblers' fallacy.
Look up "ad hominem" dude.
Oh goody. The "we don't like your argument so we'll mark you troll" brigade is still in charge around here then.
They get called deniers because that is exactly what they are: in the face of overwhelming evidence, they continue to deny, using logic that is identical to 9/11 wonks, moon hoax nutters and, yes, even Holocaust deniers.
The classic approach is to take one *apparent* anomaly and present is as if it is Popperian falsification - when the truth is more often that the supposed anomaly is itself explained by the theory
I'm guessing we would have heard if it had been unsuccesfully launched...
For shame!
No, global cooling was one of several theories at the time (and not especially well supported even then - it just got a lot of press coverage) that has not stood up to empirical testing.
Oh please. Show me a source independent of Black Hat then you can mod me anyway you like, until then grow the fuck up.
And the evidence that this is the case? The word of some "spokesman" for Black Hat.
Right. That's me convinced!
...who has Mozilla's petard ready for them to hoist?
Surely that's -666 ?
The sound in the background is Apple trademarking iTron...
Blimey! It's the one who put the 'coward' in anonymous!
*giggle*. So, someone using "cunt" gets modded "Funny". Someone pointing out how juvenile this is gets modded "Flamebait". Gotta love this place.
Crikey - use of the word "cunt" getting +4 funny. Slashdot's grown-ups having the day off?
The RIAA does not represent the artists, it represents the record companies (who scarcely have the artists' best interests at heart). Hence its name : The Recording Industry Assoc of America.