🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Doggone it, I was going to edit that to say I didn't actually feel that way. I'm just sick of the global warmenistas spending so much time lying about their goals.
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18 years of no warming, as measured by satellite.
Ho hum.
half of you haven't got the message
Half of who? What message?
you think of it as global warming
Globally, average temperatures will increase. That's why it got the name in the first place. But it makes people think "everywhere will get warmer" which is not the case at all. That's why it's a bad name, and anybody who uses the name is propagating confustion, either accidentally or deliberately.
Regardless of whether you are swayed by the evidence, you should stop using "global warming" as a meaningful term.
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Doggone it, I was going to edit that to say I didn't actually feel that way.
I am glad I could help by preserving it in Carbonite for asshole comments. ;-)
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Globally, average temperatures will increase.
Indeed. And then they'll get cold again.
Nobody's proven that "the temperature will rise" is a net bad thing yet, either.
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you should stop using "global warming" as a meaningful term.
I'm just giving the warmistas back the respect they gave to everyone else.
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That's a good way to encourage rational debate...
Why on Earth would we want to have a rational debate about whether mankind can or cannot have a permanent impact on the climate?
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What? Since when does Android run a window manager?
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Hey, the bad ideas thread is up on top of the topic list. That's convenient:
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Indeed. And then they'll get cold again.
Eventually that's likely. Earth's climate is anything but constant.
Nobody's proven that "the temperature will rise" is a net bad thing yet, either.
I don't think "net bad thing" is as important as "highly disruptive". If global climate change predictions are anywhere near right it's going to be a very uncomfortable time.
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If global climate change predictions are anywhere near right it's going to be a very uncomfortable time.
Considering they used to be "20m sea rise" I am not too worried about that.
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Seen on a blog elsewhere:
"Conveniently Coprophagic" is the name of my all-eukelele GG Allin cover band.
The audience for that joke is very small, but we really laughed.
I'm kind of afraid to admit I got the joke, but I don't think I actually have ever heard a GG Allin song.
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-shudder-
I got it also, sadly...
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A calculator that can only display the number 8.
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"B******* like you need to learn their place."
I don't get it. Why do Belgians like her need to learn their place?
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one asterisk short for a replacement on either of the prominent TDWTFers that i thought of when looking for replacements.
all the others have names that are obviously too short for to be splatted out there.
B******* Burnable Belgians Residents of Belgium
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boomzilla
blakeyrat
ben_lubarLet's play "who did @accalia forget existed?"!
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Since when does Android run a window manager?
He's talking about the recent apps button. In pre-Lollipop (and on lollipop tablets), Chrome was one entry, now there's one per tab
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Use Firefox instead?
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It can be turned off.
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So can most other computer programs.
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The feature that combines tabs with recent apps can be turned off...
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You never noticed that I really love recommending Firefox or Eclipse whenever the "better" alternatives do something wrong, did you?
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I had for Eclipse, but apparently not for Firefox?
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One question:
Who the fuck are John and Ed and where did Karl and Josh run off to?
What's on second, and I don't know is on third...
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Disappointed with the Huff. Rest assured there'll be a very strongly worded letter heading their way shortly.
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The chance of ISIS having any direct effect on you is approximately zero.
But of them and their ilk - how many of your personal freedoms have been compromised because of them?
How much liquid can you take onto a plane? Can you even get on one without having some guy fondling your privates?
And not to mention the bollocks Cameron's come out with when he implied making https (among other protocols) illegal?
Oh - an posting cartoons. A capital offence these days - or at least the threat of it. And this morning - this little tidbit - threats from the establishment about people wanting to actually look at the cartoons:
#Police from several UK forces seek details of Charlie Hebdo readers
Several British police forces have questioned newsagents in an attempt to monitor sales of a special edition of Charlie Hebdo magazine following the Paris attacks, the Guardian has learned.
Officers in Wiltshire, Wales and Cheshire have approached retailers of the magazine, it has emerged, as concerns grew about why police were attempting to trace UK-based readers of the French satirical magazine.
So yes - the ravages of the Religion of Peace®©™ are demonstrably having more of an effect on the west than Climate Change™.
global warming
No no no... We're suffering from Global Cooling. Well, we are in Newcastle. Probably why they changed the name to Climate Change - couldn't make up their mind which it was
Rest assured there'll be a very strongly worded letter heading their way shortly.
in Green Ink?
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If Global Cooling spreads, Newcastle girls wearing nothing but a short skirt and halter top will spread out and conquer the world
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wearing nothing but a short skirt and halter top will spread out
Three cheers for Global Warming!
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oh.
well still tall three of those names are too long to fit.
:-P
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And that guy wants you to know that "global warming" is worse than ISIS, by which he specifically claims that the average person will feel worse effects in their day-to-day life from "global warming".)
Well, duh. ISIS is just some guys taking over random territory for random reasons.
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The chance of ISIS having any direct effect on you is approximately zero.
He didn't talk about their "direct" effect. And somewhere around here we talked about how they were pretty close to Saudi Arabia. Oil disruptions could have some pretty serious day to day conseuqences.
So if a person believes global climate change is likely, or even if they believe it is unlikely but possible, the statement is spot on.
If a person thinks global climate change is unlikely, they don't understand anything about the climate. If they think we're going to cause predictable changes in the climate, I would say that they know a lot less about the climate than they think they do.
Disclaimer: I have no idea who this clown is.
Official mouthpiece of the Obama administration.
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That's a good way to encourage rational debate...
Warmists aren't really interested in debate. It's SETTLED, you see.
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If global climate change predictions are anywhere near right it's going to be a very uncomfortable time.
So far they're the opposite of that. But I'm sure that will change any day now.
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But of them and their ilk - how many of your personal freedoms have been compromised because of them?
How much liquid can you take onto a plane? Can you even get on one without having some guy fondling your privates?
And not to mention the bollocks Cameron's come out with when he implied making https (among other protocols) illegal?
Politicians are implementing strange and terrible ideas (business as usual), but now it's somehow the terrorist's fault!
Filed under: but can't we just get better politicians?#Police from several UK forces seek details of Charlie Hebdo readers
WAT? Wat wat. Wat wat wat?
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Politicians are implementing strange and terrible ideas (business as usual), but now it's somehow the terrorist's fault!
If we can blame SUVs for too much and too little snow, I think this is a fair cop.
WAT? Wat wat. Wat wat wat?
Yeah, I can think of two reasons. You want to track the troublemakers who want to offend people. You want to track the people who want to be offended so they can rationalize shooting up random people who are just randomly Jewish. I'm sure the British authorities are more worried about the first problem.
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Like Apple users?
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Especially Apple users.
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But but... they're all thinking different together!
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But but... they're all thinking different together!
Which is at least convenient for the rest of us.
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—"Here, take your special snowflake, join the line over to the left..."
—"Here, take your special snowflake, join the line over to the left..."
—"Here, take your special snowflake, join the line over to the left..."
—"Here, take your special snowflake, join the line over to the left..."
—"Here, take your special snowflake, join the line over to the left..."
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Bloody hell! I mean, I saw that map in the thumbnail of the video before, but this is the first time I watched it, and just seeing this...
YOUR DAMNED "OLD" PHONES STILL WORK!
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Use Firefox instead?
Sure, I could do that. I could also put on those gloves with giant biting ants woven into them.
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Probably why they changed the name to Climate Change - couldn't make up their mind which it was
They changed the name because they got tired of saying stupid shit like "global warming causes increased snowfall," which, even if it might technically be true in some isolated cases, sounds ridiculous. Of course these were the same people who only ten years or so ago said snow in the UK was more or less extinct.
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It causes more or less snow based on what the weather's doing this winter.
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Bloody hell! I mean, I saw that map in the thumbnail of the video before, but this is the first time I watched it, and just seeing this...
I didn't even realize that WAS a video before now.
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They changed the name because they got tired of saying stupid shit like "global warming causes increased snowfall,"
No, no no.....
Back in the 70's Global Cooling was a thing that was the exact opposite of global warming (though not considered as, erm, scientific):
Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community...
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Anyway - back on topic...
WTF 1: Using the "Have you stopped beating your wife" example against your interviewer a bit too soon and frequently to point out how his questions are just a tad loaded.
WTF 2: Having your interviewer take it literally
WTF 3: Worse still, when reported in The Telegraph (link below) the concept also appears to be beyond the actual reporter and they report the accusation as fact rather than rhetorical device:
A trade union leader was taken off air after repeatedly accusing the show’s presenter of beating his wife while defending a train driver who failed a breath test.
Backstory - train driver failed a drugs test (for alcohol), was sacked, unions want to go on strike because of the sacking. Leader of union gets interviewed to try and defend the union action, stating that the test wasn't fair. Whether the sacked employee actually contested the result and asked for another (or different) test isn't revealed.