dimreepr

money will talk.

Money does talk, why else do you think there’s any doubt at all?

http://judithcurry.com/2015/05/06/is-federal-funding-biasing-climate-research/

There is much angst in the scientific and policy communities over Congressional Republicans’ efforts to cut NASA’s Earth Science Budget, and also the NSF Geosciences budget. Marshall Shepherd has a WaPo editorial defending theNASA Earth Science Budget.

Congressional Republicans are being decried as ‘anti-science’.

 

http://www.cato.org/publications/working-paper/government-buying-science-or-support-framework-analysis-federal-funding

Federal policies on climate change and federal funding of climate research are both extensive. The linkage between these policies and research has become a major topic of discussion, including numerous allegations of bias.

 

Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and a contented New Year...

You asked. I don't care if you believe me.

Why would I carry a sword when carrying a firearm is legal? Besides, its much easier to deal with two or three criminals at once with a gun than with a sword.

 

 

We are a country born of your tyrants as well, We decided to cast them off by force of arms. We learned a lesson from this experience. One of those lessons was never listen to the subjects of a crown when they speak of giving up your arms. Something about not believing that some people are born better than others makes us hold our liberties dear.

 

If those criminals actually intended you harm then they will, probably, whatever your weapon because they’ll have the same.

And yet you fail to see which one is more threatening to its people.

For a democracy to become a threat to the majority of its people, it first needs to become an autocracy.

 

My son had a methamphetamine problem. I pulled him out of a drug house, just an abandoned shack really, and brought him home to dry him out and find him a rehab. My son told me he had drug debts, so I started carrying a gun. When his dealers found where my son was they, two or three at a time, came calling to collect his drug debts. They also visited my wife at her place of work as well. During that period, there were several times where I and my wife were glad to have guns, We both carried, and brandished them on three separate occasions. By the way I did contact the police and they told me if I paid them they would just come back for more money, so carry a gun and use it as needed.

It’s easy to invent a story like that, on the tinternet, but if there were no guns available, wouldn’t a sword do?

Government exists, so the people need guns. It is simply part of the checks and balances built into our constitution. Why do you find it inconceivable that government can go bad? Have you not studied history?

I’m from England and have almost no access to a gun, unless I pass numerous tests; and as yet my government has decided not to try kill me despite our history, why has yours?

Just to add, we are a country born of tyrants, you are a country born of democracy; so why is it you’re the one who fears the past?

Ophiolite,

 

The question asked was: "Who here is a global warming skeptic?" not: "Who here can justify being a global warming sceptic?" Gang up on me all you like; it won't make any difference. Force of argument is no substitute for reasoned argument. I am sceptic about AGW, and nothing on this thread has persuaded me to think differently.

That sounds rather closed minded.

Maybe you should have given this post more thought.

If you don't like a smart alec then maybe this isn't the forum for you, most of us throw in a dumb comment now and then; learning from the mistake won't disappoint, excuses might.

 

... which reflects badly on human beaviour.

Human behaviour often reflects badly on human endeavour but the latter often prevails; go humans...

If you don't like a smart alec then maybe this isn't the forum for you,

That was only half my point.

most of us throw in a dumb comment now and then; learning from the mistake won't disappoint, excuses might.

I hope she is also open-minded enough to consider the weight of evidence.

That was the other half.

If you don't like a smart alec then maybe this isn't the forum for you, most of us throw in a dumb comment now and then; learning from the mistake won't disappoint, excuses might.

We have the right to keep and bear arms to preserve our lives, the lives of our loved ones, and the lives of our neighbors.

When has your life or anyone you know, ever been truly threatened? Let alone that threat being, honestly, alleviated by a gun?

No doubt your reply will have some instance/threat that you could twist but since you have never, along with 99.9% of the western populace, killed anyone with a gun; what level of threat do you REALLY face that NEEDS a gun.

We know by now that you like guns (as do I) but wanting/liking guns doesn't equate too NEED?

 

Nothing meaningful on any level. Just vacuous words.

Read those words again, you may find meaning, though from this maybe just a vacuum of understanding.

People are people and the world is only shit if you think it is, perspective is everything; Ophiolite just pointed that out, why blame him if you can’t understand?

Maybe, but he was born with a silver spoon and who knows if he was bored prior to his enlightenment,

Your story ‘TheGeckomancer’ may not have a happy/content beginning or a happy/content now but it could have a happy/content future, that is up to you not others; success in life isn’t measured by wealth/fame/power, if you choose that path success is a hollow prize and contentment will always be just out of reach.

The only meaning life has comes from contentment not success.

 

Because being born with a silver spoon in your mouth ever helped these existentially bored people?

 

Me think No.

Tell that to Buddha.

It's beyond idiotic to think I am insulting anyone by not immediately embracing a way of looking at the world that entirely different from my own.

I really don’t care if you take my advice or not, I’m certainly not insulted by that, I’m not even insulted by you suggesting I’m an idiot (it’s often true), it’s you that seems to be the insulted party here.

Stop and think for a damn minute.

 

Maybe you should try that approach; if you have a problem (in this case boredom) you have two choices, do something about it or do nothing and wallow in your misery, not a great deal of thought required.

I'm glad to see I'm making converts.

Ohh, I’m not a convert, I’ve always loved guns; I’m just happier to have gun ‘controls’ exclude the “rabid and extreme” from owning them; hmmm... Why are you so worried?

 

 

The point of that post wasn't to go Oh look how great I am.

Really? Ok

Everyone keeps telling me on here my accomplishments suck.

 

Do they?

 

I do strive to be a better person than I was all the time. Hence why I am on here trying to fix the things.

And yet you reject any and all suggestions.

 

The problem with meditation is which form?

 

That’s not a problem with meditation (auto-rejection again) they all ‘work’, if your problem is being bored for an hour or two and “it’s refreshing”.

Isn't democracy great!

Yay guns...

And that is a part of the problem. I am not unproductive. I maintain a job, one for which I can be promoted almost anytime I want, but choose not to. I am a ranked magic the gathering player, I enter and sometimes win tournaments. A longtime goal of mine was earning my A+ Net+ certifications did that. Got recognized for a scholarship program was the top pick of several thousand candidates, and aced those classes. I get no sense of accomplishment or satisfaction from any of it. It's just stuff I do to not be doing nothing.

There's nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self - Ernest Hemingway.

You may want to try a little humility and/or meditation, being bored is an excellent opportunity.

Most of these challenges are dangerous, and all for just an attempt to get a lot of views on social media."

In my day sometimes the audience was just one.

When I was a teenager being ‘dared’ was seen as a challenge to your manhood and one only refused when it was almost certain injury/death; that almost never happened, because a) The refusal always ended with “you do it” and so b) You only dared when you're confident you can do it and so c) You only dared when you thought they wouldn’t.

Perhaps it was. So how was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcZe1_nbQfY one done?

I don't really think a 'trick' was needed in that case, the first shot had a huge margin of error for, almost, anyone with enough practice and the second didn't really depend on anything but a careful set-up.

Phi, you and I have very different memories of trainspotting.

I think, and obviously it’s from an external perspective, that America’s biggest problem is that revenge seems to be a cultural norm.

It’s so seductive and so easily identifiable, the bad guy does bad things because they’re bad and if we’re not bad then obviously we’re the good guys. It’s so easy to think in those terms because we’re unique, unique finger prints, unique personalities and free will, so being bad is a choice and the bad guy deserves what he/she gets, even death is too good for them if they’re bad enough.

What’s more difficult to understand, is that whilst every human/animal is indeed unique, a dog still acts like a dog, a penguin acts like a penguin and a human acts like a human and each are subject to its life experiences; a kind/good person had understanding parents that treated/taught them well, including the consequences of bad behaviour, whilst the bully/bad person had uncaring/abusive parents that either beat them or maybe spoilt them and failed to teach them reasonable behaviour.

Now I’m not suggesting the bad person should be let off without consequence but a little understanding of the above should at least allow them a little compassion and a realisation that anyone can be good or bad, add fear to the mix, without understanding you create a black/white world where revenge is the only sensible option.

In the classical case, I think the proportion of making sense/not making sense from one person to the next on non-trivial matters is a "function of the square of the distance" from the world one has experienced, to another's.

That only makes sense if you live on a different planet and are trying to send messages between the two.

In which case, the gaps are unimaginably vast as too the understanding.

Since acceleration and gravity are indistinguishable, free fall and zero g should be as well

Why is that?

Gravity seems dependant on mass whilst acceleration seems dependant on energy.

What other "affect" do you think gravity has?

I don't know, hence my question, but thank you for your answer.