azgolfer

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by azgolfer 16y ago
The trillion dollar stimulus package is the glaringly obvious one.
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by azgolfer 16y ago
LOL - Ruby is Smalltalk, not object oriented PERL. PERL has had objects for quite a while.
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by azgolfer 16y ago
Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual ???????? Never mind Richard Feynman, the guy who thinks socialism works and apologizes for Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's murdering tens of millions is America's greatest intellectual.
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by azgolfer 16y ago
Yeah, for a measly hundred billion we can get some more astronomers. Great ! It's the geniuses that do most of the science and I think they tend to gravitate there anyway. I'm reminded of Feynman's comments on the field of gravity, back in
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Peer review is neither necessary nor sufficient for science.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
from Wikipedia "After graduating, Einstein spent almost two frustrating years searching for a teaching post,"
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Seems to me an a guy who couldn't get hired as a physicist had a rather large effect on physics in 1905. The hiring process is a form of 'peer review'.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
IIRC Reagan proposed a balanced budget, had the Grace commision recommending large cuts in government spending/programs through privatization. This was completely rejected by Congress, and Tip O'Neal said the budget was 'Dead On Arrival'.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Sorry about that,then. I assumed it disappeared becuase you deleted it. I thought it would stay around in threads even if it was downvoted.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
I wasn't talking to you. You're the guy who pulled his thread when valid arguments were brought up that didn't support your point. I'm sure that's why you feel right at home at Real Climate.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
If you want skepticism go to Climate Audit or Watts Up With That, then use your brain to decide if their arguments have merit.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
And if the teeter totter shows he is as light as a duck, burn the denialist !
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by azgolfer 17y ago
I would say it's the proponents that are doing it wrong. The supposedly independent and objective inquiry into the climategate scandal has already had one member forced to resign (the editor of Nature, btw) http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/
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by azgolfer 17y ago
I was just getting interested, and that was never five minutes.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
That article is about one of the IPCC authors validating a 'denialists' claim. It is the climategate scientists that broke the law, but the statute of limitations had expired (it is only six months, the law is seriously flawed), so they hav
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Because stuff like this http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article702... is now pouring out, and realclimate.org is implicated in the climategate scandal, so you might want to go somewhere else for unbiased information
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Here is the most recent example of someone looking into the GISS data. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/11/giss-adjustments-in-au... The models have obvious warming biased 'adjustments' built into them and there is no model, which when
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by azgolfer 17y ago
It's AGW that is the extraordinary claim that needs extraordinary proofs. Ridiculously bad computer models with 'adjusted' data from cherry picked stations are not proof of anything, so we have no idea what our net contribution is to the te
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by azgolfer 17y ago
It's significant because we've spent billions (and almost spent trillions) on a problem that doesn't exist - AGW. And this is from one of the leaders of the movement that created a false impression of that problem.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Sensitivity to something is invariably decreased by exposure. In my life, I've gone from a picture of bare breasts being a big deal and a huge turnon, to seeing graphic movies of any kind of sex imaginable free 24/7 on the internet. I don't
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Yeah, right. As every day their are more revelations of corruption and incompetence in 'Climate Science'. There is really no such thing. Anyone who says they can build a computer model of the climate is either stupid, ignorant or corrupt. T
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by azgolfer 17y ago
I still say robots are far better than humans for space exploration. There was even a proposal for repairing the Hubble with them. It would have been better if they had designed it with this type of repair/upgrade mission in mind. But it is
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by azgolfer 17y ago
This could have been done for way less than 175 billion (the estimated cost of the shuttle program).
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by azgolfer 17y ago
The Shuttle program has alwasy been a boondoggle. There has been not one significant piece of science that has come out of it. Robots are far better at space exploration than humans.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Microwave radiation is too low energy to cause DNA mutation, so it can't be a direct cause of cancer. Besides, wouldn't we see ear cancer more than brain cancer ?
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by azgolfer 17y ago
The book 'The Big Test' explains the rise of intelligence testing and the origin of the word 'meritocracy'. Prior to intelligence testing, college admittance was very influenced by whether your father had gone to that college. The hierarchy
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Yes, and the Fannie/Frdedie mortgage meltdown IMO was the result of government 'reverse' redlining.
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by azgolfer 17y ago
Yes and the brilliance of the founders was creating a very limited federal government. The aristocratic senate and the house 'of the people' had to agree. The bill would get vetoed by default. One senator could stop any bill by filibusterin
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by azgolfer 17y ago
I've always thought wide screen was strange. Didn't it originally come from projecting from two movie cameras side by side ? It's terrible for closeups in movies. It seems to me the human eye 'viewport' is somewhere around 4:3
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NASA Accused of manipulating climate data(wattsupwiththat.com)
24 points by azgolfer 17y ago|9 comments

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