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281  Other / Off-topic / Re: Did he fire 7 shots or only six? (Andrei Karlov) on: December 19, 2016, 11:36:58 PM
What exactly is your point here? Are you saying that the gunman took longer than expected to be shot by police?

Also I counted at least 8 shots, possibly 9 (if the audio has not been edited).
282  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Gun attack on Russian ambassador in Ankara on: December 19, 2016, 11:28:15 PM
Religion of peace in full swing yet again.

The jihadi salafi lunatics are against the text of Quran, and for that reason muslims are fighting against ISIS.

 Andrey Karlov was in Turkey with legal mission and under Shariah Law he have a protection of the Turkish State on this territory.
Killing such person, is acting against the Shariah law and against the State of Turkey.
This is why salafi jihadists are illegal under the Shariah Law too.

You should burn all the Quran books, starting today.

This ideology should be outlawed.  I don't give a shit who is fighting who.  

The reasons we have terrorists attacks is because of the 6th century ideology.  You cannot escape this one.

Quran 2:191



While I understand where you're coming from, I disagree that we should start "burning Qurans" and "outlawing ideologies" , that's an authoritarian road that no-one needs to go down.

And actually, if you research this terrorist ideology, suicide bombings etc. you'll find it is in fact a very modern phenomenom. Much of it started in the mid 20th century with the Soviet/Mujahideen conflict, the Islamic uprising in Iran and the civil war in Lebanon.

All of which had significant American meddling involved... There's a strong case in fact that the arbitrary borders laid out after WW1 is a major cause of all of this Middle Eastern turmoil - in the centuries before they seemed to be doing a lot better there!

But yeah, I hate this terrorist bullshit too man, but it's a lot more complicated than some people realize.
283  Economy / Economics / Re: Need help buying stocks/shares - what are some good online brokers? on: December 19, 2016, 11:09:58 PM
You have to admit that someone promoting the stock of a pharmaceutical company on a Bitcoin forum looks a lot like pump-and-dump.


Seems like an odd place to try and instigate a pump and dump...

Anyway, to be clear, I am just looking for information on some reputable online brokers. Been in the bitcoin scene for years, but I don't have much of a clue about investing in stocks.

Being currently based in the UK, can I use American or foreign brokers? Or do I have to deal with UK brokers?
284  Economy / Economics / Re: Need help buying stocks/shares - what are some good online brokers? on: December 19, 2016, 02:20:50 PM
Is this a pump and dump?

Uh, do you mean am I trying to pump and dump stock of a company with a market cap of nearly £3bn on a bitcoin forum? No, no I'm not.

I just think they're an interesting company that may do well in the future, considering the widespread acceptance of medical/recreational marijuana across America right now.

So, do you know of any good brokers that allow small investments similar to the values I mentioned?
285  Other / Off-topic / Re: What type of music do you guys like?? on: December 19, 2016, 04:02:04 AM
I listen all kind of music. Mostly electronic, but it varies from my mood. When i was younger i started with gothic and power metal, not long after that a industrial and heavy. After that, well i listened everything that was nice to my ear Cheesy . Now I appreciate most music from movie and game industries. They are the best you can find in this day and age.

Check out my post above with the track by Igorrr, you might like it (along with his other stuff)

If you like movie/game music check out a group called S U R V I V E. They made the soundtrack for Stranger Things, really talented synth producers.
286  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Man-made global warming = Govt take care me for life on: December 18, 2016, 09:38:47 PM
Serious question, have you ever been diagnosed with bipolar or manic depression?

Lol. Is that your "factual" retort? Typical totalitarian-style, leftist response.

Indeed even boomers are caught up in the leftist disease. Nevertheless the leftist disease is more pervasive amongst the Millennials.

Like I said, I've been on the fence with the whole AGW theory for years, and make a point of reading as many opposing views as possible

Stop reading and first learn to think. Without a functioning brainstem, reading can only lead you astray into confusion or indoctrination.

If you don't have an analytical mind, then you will be easy prey for AGW indoctrination. Those who are very smart, can see the generative essence of the thermodynamics. And thus immediately detect junk science. (Climate) models are not proven science. Models are theories.

I am not going to go off on some long-winded debate wherein I have to educate you on science. Please. I am not going to scream over the 1000s of voices trying to indoctrinate you with their "rational facts".  That is your responsibility to yourself. Why would I invest that much effort?? That would be entirely irrational of myself. Yet you say I am bipolar or manic for telling you frankly that you are a dufus (maybe shock, awe, and embarrassment might wake you up, but I doubt it). That is the simple of way of saying you should STFU because you don't know what the fuck you are writing about. And instead go become smarter.

Btw, CoinCube used to be on the fence. And when I told him frankly, he wised up. Why? Because he is smart.

You see, again you're demonstrating your arrogance by using the term "leftist" - this debate has nothing to do with political alignment, it has to do with the actual science behind global warming. The fact that people on the "left" are more likely to believe in AGW and people on the "right" are less likely to, is irrelevant to the actual science itself - you're conflating political values with scientific evidence. Not to mention, you're oversimplifying the political terms "left" and "right" to fit your own worldview.

I for instance am quite left wing when it comes to social issues, but quite right wing when it comes to economics and trade. I don't label my political stance because I think that's counterproductive, but I have quite anarchist/libertarian views, but believe there should be some sort of "minarchist" government to avoid desolating the planet through unregulated industry due to pure unadultated capitalism.

I think. A lot. That's why I said I've been on the fence for so many years, if I didn't think then I'd just accept the first thing a teacher told me in school. Stop trying to profile people and assume their personality/world view from a view sentences they write on the internet - that's a pretty ignorant way of judging people, no?

And I didn't "say" you were bipolar or manic, I simply asked. Methinks the lady doth protest too much?
 
287  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Man-made global warming = Govt take care me for life on: December 18, 2016, 08:40:12 PM
@Anonymint

You see, your delusions of grandeur are causing you to profile people like me as "mind-controlled Millenial asshats" that "disrespect their elders" and have been indocrinated by some sort of NWO school of thought.

None of this is true, I'm not a millenial, I could be older than you and it's just as likely that you yourself have been indocrinated by the filter bubble that you're confined to due to your paranoia of modern society, and your internet search history.

Serious question, have you ever been diagnosed with bipolar or manic depression? Because although you're obviously a very intelligent person, your trains of thought can be very incoherent and off topic. Plus you have a tendency to rate your own opinions and theories as superior to others, without succintly explaining why.

Like I said, I've been on the fence with the whole AGW theory for years, and make a point of reading as many opposing views as possible to try and gain a balanced view on the matter. It seems to me that you've already made up your mind and refuse to even contemplate opposing points of view.

That's a dangerous mindset that can lead to indoctrination.
288  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Fuck your vaccines on: December 18, 2016, 08:15:06 PM
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Thanks for your critique.  It's cumbersome to document complex philosophical framework prior to each use of the word 'believe'.  I do try to use the word carefully and mostly stand by my use though I was not careful and it could be read from one of my sentences that I believe 'all' people in positions of power blah, blah, blah.  That was a mistake on my part.  Other than that I stand by my writings.

In logical analysis I use the method of testing the null hypothesis liberally when possible.  Basically, if a null hypothesis is absurd, I tend to assign high weight to a hypothesis and sometimes shift it to a 'fact' or 'near fact' which I can legitimately 'believe'.

The null hypothesis of hCG laced tetanus vaccines being developed is that they were not.  In this case the null hypothesis is that in spite of documented scientific literature and lack of denials of such a program, it never existed.  That nearly impossible to sustain so I 'believe' that such developments were almost certainly undertaken.  There is an outside possibility that the evidence for them was fabricated for some unknown reason, but that is very difficult to believe.  Especially in light of corroborating observations.  By far the simplest explanation was that such developments occurred, and there are abundant reasons to believe that there were means, motive, and opportunity to do just that.

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As for metals in the body interacting with electromagnetic radiation, like I said from the start it is a 'weak' hypothesis.  Just something I thought up to match against the observation that there seems to be a strong desire to inject them in to humans early and often.  Other hypothesis which are stronger exist including that big brother loves us all, wants the best for us, and will brow-beat the fuck out of anyone who goes against their will.

The observation that some metals (such as iron) tend to be better conductors than others (such as Al) can be weighted against the hypothesis but does not kill it.  In part this is because the hypothetical electromagnetic methods are not known and probably don't even exist at all (which directly applies to the strength of the hypothesis and which is why I consider it 'weak'.  It's filed away, however, because if evidence of electromagnetic population management operations do strengthen, so does the hypothesis about injections.  I would note that in the study of electromagnetism, it is noted that elemental forms of metals behave differently than those found as constituents of more complex molecules like hemoglobin.

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I tend to not spend much time on metaphysical hypothesis (e.g., Christ died to save sinners, or dark matter and alien consciousness control us all) for the same reason I don't drive my car into a bog where it is certain I'll get stuck.  The world is chalk full of more tangible areas of exploration where real progress can be made.

The systematic favoritism/discrimination related to 'evidence' (and more generally, theories/hypotheses) is a different matter all together.  If questioning the official dogma about, say, polio and our hero scientists involved with it leads to loss of employment and any 'evidence' against it is banished from 'scientific' journals, then I consider limited 'evidence' to be explainable by mechanisms outside of the hypothesis I seek to explore.



Thanks for your humble and well thought out reply - it is a refreshing thing on BCT when users respond in an intelligent, rational manner (when so many users on here revert to fallacies and personal attacks).

There is a lot in your post which I will need some time to process, but it does seem as we are venturing into the philosophical/epistemological realms of evidence and its strengths and weaknesses.

I also don't spend much time on the "metaphysical hypotheses", my example was just to demonstrate the problems when we claim "the evidence is hard/impossible to obtain, therefore the hypothesis may have scientific merit". I realize the real life implications of that claim are far more complex, when we are discussing effects which are relatively well documented and follow the general laws of established physics, such as the effects of vaccines.

I just wish we could escape some of the pseudoscience related to the more controversial aspects of vaccines, eg the misinformation that Andrew Wakefield perpetuated and still is popular today among certain groups. I do think that Big Pharma should be more transparent in their research/deployment of drugs and vaccines, because they are certainly corrupt in many ways and making money is very high on their priority list.

A serious problem that should be addressed is certain pharmaceutical companies suppressing studies that claim their drug is ineffective: Case in point - studies that showed that Tamiflu was fairly inneffective were suppressed by Roche Pharmaceuticals, and governments around the world spent millions stockpiling a drug which in most cases is nearly useless! But I see that as a company being corrupt for monetary gain, dissimilar to a company planning to market a dnagerous drug/vaccine to depopulate/control the masses through physiological means.

However this doesn't mean that every drug or vaccine produced is necessarily dangerous or ineffective. We just need to be careful and attempt to find as much unbiased research as possible on drugs and vaccines (unbiased being the tricky one haha).

289  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Believers are 100% successful gamblers. on: December 18, 2016, 05:56:30 PM
The most striking for me is that Jews don't seem to believe in Hell (and they didn't believe in Jesus either). So, hell or not, who should you believe? And what happens to all the good people that died before Jesus but happened to be believing other gods? Or those that died after Jesus but never heard of him?

Yes, that's the only thing that's strange... and not the fact that you have over 4000 religions

"The precise number of religions in the world is not known, but available estimates show the number to be about 4,300, according to Adherents.com"

So the better question would be what religion is the true one.
Pro tip: none

Haha yeah, this whole thread is stupid. Partly because of what you just said, you'd have to believe in ALL of the religions to have a good chance of getting on the right side of god. Also you can't just pretend to believe in all the gods (because the true god would know if you were lying or not, because he/she is an all-knowing god).

So the only people that 100% get to go to heaven are the absolute madmen that literally believe in every single god ever known.

But some gods might find it blasphemous that you believed in all the other gods too, so I don't know, I guess mathematically everyone's pretty fucked whatever they believe  Cheesy

You are assuming that one of the religions got it right.   What if they all are wrong?

God would only take hardcore atheists to heaven.

That would be ironic.  We would probably establish democracy, put God on the government pension, bring equal rights to all fallen angels etc.  Now, there is your Broadway musical!!!


Haha, yeah that crossed my mind literally 2 seconds after I posted!

Of course another option would be that the actual god is so obscure, that it's not part of any religion but just believed in by a single person who happened by chance to believe in the right god. He goes to heaven, and it's just him and god there, no-one else.

The Broadway musical could be about this god who's really annoying, and keeps trying to get the only guy in heaven to play stupid games with him and shit. And all the while, the guy is really pissed off that he happened to believe in the one true god, and he keeps hoping that some more people on Earth will believe in the "correct" god to end his perpetual boredom and torment so he can have some company...  Cheesy
290  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Man-made global warming = Govt take care me for life on: December 18, 2016, 05:47:00 PM
Also no need for ad hominem attacks, calling me a dumb ass is not constructive to the debate. Also nothing you've said proves that man is not capable of impacting the long term temperature of the Earth.

Because you implied (upthread) that we are not rational, when it is you who needs to do your homework. We already have.

And because you don't do your homework, you choose to destroy your free-will:

Incorrect. The Nazis (and all groups other than the Jews) practice evolutionary groupwise self-destruction. The Nazis were collectivists (go study it!).

The Jews are succeeding because their group strategy is correctly aligned with the natural laws of nature.

The Jews sit outside the collectivism and anneal with it groupwise. The is essentially what George Soros was saying when he said being amoral w.r.t. to opportunity costs is rational. This is why the Jews don't do usury to each other (they are a small group scattered across many collectivist regimes, forming a common philosophical bond or group strategy, and usury is collectivism paradigm in the large), only to the other gentiles.

Collectivism is the fault of those who participate in it. The Jews did not take away the free will of the gentiles. Even farm animals have less free will then the gentiles. No wonder the gentiles are less intelligent (on a groupwise basis) than cows, because they choose collectivism every damn time even though the Lord said not to in 1 Samuel 8.

And we will let you do it. Please continue. You will reap what you sow.

Classic Anonymint. Rather than continuing the debate, you go off on an obscure tangent about Nazis, Jews and collectivism.

You're very smart, but you're not as smart as you think you are. And your arrogance, delusions of grandeur and inability to clearly communicate your ideas will put you at a disadvantage, if your so-called "Age of Knowledge" comes to pass.

On topic, I'm currently studying for a science degree, and I've always been a very critical thinker and a huge skeptic. I've been on the fence in regards to climate change for over 15 years, but in the last couple of years my opinion has shifted to "it's probably happening and humans are probably responsible". Mainly because I've seen the vast majority of research claiming the opposite debunked, and I've seen a lot more solid evidence claiming AGW from what I consider to be credible sources.
291  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Man-made global warming = Govt take care me for life on: December 18, 2016, 04:30:14 PM
Well, one way that man could change the exchange of heat would be to set off every nuclear bomb that exists in the whole world, creating a nuclear winter. Off topic yes, but it shows that what you said is certainly not impossible.

Read the thread. I already refuted that. It would not be a long-term effect. Man annihilates himself with a nuclear winter, then everything comes back to normal again within decades. Man can't impact the long-term thermodynamics of the Earth and the solar system. Sorry dumb ass!
I'm not sure that it would take only decades for the atmosphere to return to normal, it could take much longer. I guess it has to do with your definition of "long term". Also no need for ad hominem attacks, calling me a dumb ass is not constructive to the debate. Also nothing you've said proves that man is not capable of impacting the long term temperature of the Earth.
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well no, it's a well known fact that the composition of the atmosphere does have an effect on the thermodynamics of planets. Different gases in the atmosphere will cause the planet to retain more or less heat. We can see this by studying other planets.

You've got that backasswards. The long-term composition of the atmosphere is dictated by the thermodynamics of the earth, not vice versa. The longer explanation of why that is so is your homework assignment. I will give you one tidbit to start with, which is that CO2 lags temperature rises (and declines) by 200 - 800 years because it is the warming and cooling of the oceans that cause the release of more or less CO2 from the massive mass of the oceans. Humans can't impact enough mass to offset the effect on the oceans. The Earth is a self-stabilizing system because of this huge heatsink, and the main heat sources are internal below the crust and the Sun (by many orders-of-magnitude than anything humans can do on a long-term basis).

This may have been true in the past, but a lot of research suggests that CO2 both is an effect of warming, and causes it through feedback loops.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature-intermediate.htm

Not to mention there are many other factors involved, such as the release of methane from permafrost which could create more serious feedback loops in regards to the greenhouse effect.
292  Other / Off-topic / Re: What type of music do you guys like?? on: December 18, 2016, 03:56:11 PM
I can't describe myself as somebody who listens to all genres of music since I've pronounced tastes in music. My favourite genre is classical music and my favourite composers are Ferenc Liszt, Claude-Achille Debussy, Joseph-Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninov, Ernest Bloch, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitriy Shostakovich, Alexander Scriabin, Bela Bartok, Robert Schumann, Gustav Holst, Hector Berlioz, Zoltan Kodaly, Cesar Franck, Edvard Grieg etc. And also, although I'm a cellist, I rather enjoy listening to concerti, sonatas, sonatinas, etudes, preludes, suites, rhapsodies and various pieces for piano, violin, viola, clarinet, flute, oboe etc.

Wow, that is a pretty solid list of composers! Although I haven't heard of some of them, I am a big fan of Debussy, Holst, Grieg and Shostakovich. I am a flutist myself (although I haven't played in an orchestra for a few years). But my musical taste is quite varied, I like anything from baroque/classical, to electronic music like dnb/gabber techno, heavy/death metal and even ambient stuff.

One of my favourite artists at the moment is a guy called "Igorrr", he is a French producer who fuses elements of classical and baroque music, with black metal and breakcore. It is an incredibly unique sound, and he's a very talented guy. Here is one of my favourite tracks (Tout Petit Moineau), performed with one of his live vocalists (she is an amazing singer).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk1K5Mmnbg
293  Economy / Economics / Need help buying stocks/shares - what are some good online brokers? on: December 18, 2016, 03:38:06 PM
I am interested in spending a (relatively) small amount of money on some stocks and shares from a few companies. In the region of $500-$2000 worth.

Can anyone suggest a good broker that deals in smaller amounts of capital like this, without charging too much commission?

The main company I am interested in purchasing shares in is GW Pharma (GWPH), I think they may do quite well in the next few years.
294  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Believers are 100% successful gamblers. on: December 18, 2016, 03:02:40 PM
The most striking for me is that Jews don't seem to believe in Hell (and they didn't believe in Jesus either). So, hell or not, who should you believe? And what happens to all the good people that died before Jesus but happened to be believing other gods? Or those that died after Jesus but never heard of him?

Yes, that's the only thing that's strange... and not the fact that you have over 4000 religions

"The precise number of religions in the world is not known, but available estimates show the number to be about 4,300, according to Adherents.com"

So the better question would be what religion is the true one.
Pro tip: none

Haha yeah, this whole thread is stupid. Partly because of what you just said, you'd have to believe in ALL of the religions to have a good chance of getting on the right side of god. Also you can't just pretend to believe in all the gods (because the true god would know if you were lying or not, because he/she is an all-knowing god).

So the only people that 100% get to go to heaven are the absolute madmen that literally believe in every single god ever known.

But some gods might find it blasphemous that you believed in all the other gods too, so I don't know, I guess mathematically everyone's pretty fucked whatever they believe  Cheesy
295  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Would you eat a human? on: December 18, 2016, 02:52:40 PM
Must eat, not for nothing else, to survive

That's what we're trying to say here but some people are somewhat delusional. Eating another human would not be wrong or anything if it's to survive in the last resort. This doesn't involve killing that human and eating him but that can occur too, but rather a freshly dead human body.

Yes, I think that only a crazy sociopath/psychopath could actually kill and eat a person if there was other food available.

I believe a larger percentage of people in a survival situation would kill and eat a person to survive. I personally could never do such a thing, but people can do strange things when they are nearly dead from starvation. The siege of Leningrad is an example of this:

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By December 1942, the NKVD arrested 2,105 cannibals dividing them into two legal categories: corpse-eating (trupoyedstvo) and person-eating (lyudoyedstvo). The latter were usually shot while the former were sent to prison.

[...]Instances of person-eating were significantly lower than that of corpse-eating; of the 300 people arrested in April 1942 for cannibalism, only 44 were murderers.[69] 64% of cannibals were female, 44% were unemployed, 90% were illiterate, 15% were rooted inhabitants, and only 2% had any criminal records. More cases occurred in the outlying districts than the city itself. Cannibals were often unsupported women with dependent children and no previous convictions, which allowed for a certain level of clemency in legal proceedings.

Most of the animals (dogs, cats, mice, rats etc.) had already been eaten by this point. I find the bolded part very interesting - most of the cannibals were women trying to help their children survive. This is where the moral lines become very blurred, and is a good example of what desperation can do to the human psyche.

Now the third situation, is eating a person who has already died when there is no other food available. I think the vast majority of people would do this, even though they might not think so. Here is a post I wrote from another thread, with an account of someone who had to do this to survive. I personally see nothing immoral about doing what he did, and would do the same myself.


Have a read of this article, an interview with a guy who was in a plane crash and managed to survive on the side of a mountain, in part by eating the flesh of some of the victims.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160403-andes-uruguay-rugby-cannibal-plane-crash-canessa-ngbooktalk/

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We had to eat these dead bodies, and that was it. The flesh had protein and fat, which we needed, like cow meat. I was also used to medical procedures so it was easier for me to make the first cut. The decision to accept it intellectually is only one step, though. The next step is to actually do it. And that was very tough. Your mouth doesn’t want to open because you feel so miserable and sad about what you have to do.

My main issue was that I was invading the privacy of my friends: raping their dignity by invading their bodies. But then I thought, if I were killed I would feel proud that my body could be used for others to survive. I feel that I shared a piece of my friends not only materially but spiritually because their will to live was transmitted to us through their flesh.  We made a pact that, if we died, we would be happy to put our bodies to the service of the rest of the team.

I think that last part is beautiful - what seems initially like a grotesque act, becomes a statement of peace and love to humanity, giving life to friends who would otherwise have died.
296  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Man-made global warming = Govt take care me for life on: December 18, 2016, 02:12:10 PM
...one of the more reputable scientific journals such as Nature or the Royal Society.

Which are controlled by the proponents of the junk AGW science. Wherein they obscure their lies in shitloads of technobabble, manipulated data, cherry picked data, models to fit the conclusion desired, and other forms of JUNK SCIENCE.

If you think man can control the long-term thermodynamics of Earth, you are not a scientist. Any person with even a reasonable comprehension of thermodynamics would understand it simply doesn't make any sense. Compute the mass of the oceans and tell me how man could do anything which would change the exchange of heat at any level of long-term significance? Impossible!

The long-term thermodynamics of the earth are controlled by the massive internally stored heat and the Sun. Period.

CO2 lags temperature changes because the oceans release more CO2 when they warm. The sun and flow from internally stored heat below the crust, controls the temperature of the oceans.

Please stop the nonsense. Especially please don't accuse us of being simpletons who can't understand basic thermodynamic facts.

"Compute the mass of the oceans and tell me how man could do anything which would change the exchange of heat at any level of long-term significance? Impossible!"

Well, one way that man could change the exchange of heat would be to set off every nuclear bomb that exists in the whole world, creating a nuclear winter. Off topic yes, but it shows that what you said is certainly not impossible.

As to your claim that "The long-term thermodynamics of the earth are controlled by the massive internally stored heat and the Sun. Period.", well no, it's a well known fact that the composition of the atmosphere does have an effect on the thermodynamics of planets. Different gases in the atmosphere will cause the planet to retain more or less heat. We can see this by studying other planets.

I'm not talking about AGW here, just refuting the claims in your post. I don't see how you can be so sure of yourself, when you say things that are objectively false.

As to your rubbishing of the most reputable, peer reviewed scientific journals, do you have any evidence that they are controlled by these "proponents of junk AGW science"? You do realize that, even after peer review and publication, these journals are read and reviewed by tens of thousands of scientists across the world, who work in different fields, some of which are experts at things like statistical analysis and epistemology?

Not to mention the vast majority of opposing evidence to the AGW theory seems to come from suspect sources, sometimes linked to the fossil fuel industry or other fields which represent conflicts of interest.

If you are so sure, why not write a solid scientific paper yourself? You may not be able to get it published in a reputable journal, but I'm sure you could get it published online and reviewed.
297  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Man-made global warming = Govt take care me for life on: December 18, 2016, 01:49:28 PM
Global temperature changes and even wild fluctuations are a completely normal thing if you look at the history of Earth. Such effects are caused by various cosmic (ecliptic, sun activity, cosmic radiation) and earthly factors (land mass distribution, sea currents, mountains -> wind changes). The global temperature was a lot higher than today during hundreds of million years. We are currently living within a temporarily warm period within an overarching ice age.

Drawing conclusions based on temperature changes of a few decades or even centuries of modern history is not convincing at all.

Your first part is true, global temp changes are normal when we look at the history of the Earth, but these changes happened over a huge timescale. What isn't normal is the incredible speed of the current warming trend, coupled with the spectacular increase in CO2 ppm during the last 150 years. That's what's worrying.

No, your assessment is not correct. There's evidence that temperature changes occurred very rapidly in ancient times as well. This is also quite logical if you consider factors such as land mass movements which ultimately lead to the closure of sea passages and hence sudden changes in sea currents (for example the merging of the North and South American Continent). Changes in Earth ecliptic and sun activity also occur within short time spans.

In addition there are no measurement methods for assessing temperature changes on a micro timescale in the past. Research is limited to determining mean temperatures over extended periods of time. Therefore it's well possible that wild swings and rapid increases/decreases in temperature occurred in the past as well.

OK, first show me evidence that temperature changes in ancient times occurred as rapidly as they are now. Bonus points if you can tell me the CO2 ppm at the time.

Your second point doesn't make sense because you seem to have contradicted your first point. How can there be evidence for such rapid changes, if there are no measurement methods for the changes?

Pick one, and we'll discuss it.

Could easily do, but not gonna happen, sorry. You're way too arrogant to justify any further effort for discussion.

Man-made global warming theory is activist pseudo-science. It's based on scientifically unsound extrapolation of insufficient data sets, collected under confirmation bias. I have no doubt that we'll see a dramatic shift of the scientific mainstream regarding that topic within the next 15 years.

That said, as a pure thought experiment it would be interesting to think about the opposite scenario of a global cooling. Would scientist and public leaders demand the release of more CO2 in that case? Smiley


I don't really think I'm being arrogant, I simply pointed out the contradiction in your two points and asked for evidence for your claims. As you refuse to link to any evidence I will assume you don't have any.
298  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Fuck your vaccines on: December 18, 2016, 01:36:59 PM
I agree that we should question everything, and use critical thinking to try and find the truth about these kinds of issues.

But that doesn't mean we should simply accept and believe hypotheses just because there's a possibility they might be true. That's the opposite of scientific critical thinking, especially when there is overwhelming evidence that is contrary to the hypothesis.

Yes, of course it's possible that vaccines are a covert plan to sterilize and depopulate the human race, weaken their immune systems so they rely on drugs made by Big Pharma, or change their brain chemistry to make them more susceptible to government mind control.

But until we get some good evidence that any of this is true, it makes no sense to believe it. Especially when the evidence that vaccines have saved millions of people's lives and are relatively safe is overwhelming.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.

To 'believe a hypothesis' is a nonsense phrase.  At least as I define things.  By my definition a hypothesis cannot be believed.  It sits among other complementary or mutually exclusive hypotheses to be analysed against incoming information or new formulations of information.  Of course it can easily be rejected for a variety of reasons, but NOT simply because it is out of fashion in some way.

It is also the case that one can expect 'good evidence' to surface only when there is a mechanism by which that can occur.  If there are mechanisms by which evidence is limited in quality then it makes no sense to reject a hypothesis by virtue of lack of evidence.  In my analysis of the vaccination issue I see many many efforts to support one hypothesis and discount a competing one in very dishonest ways.

There are strong hypotheses and weak ones.  A good example of a weak one is what I tossed out about metallic components in brain tissue being deliberately installed to make some possible electromagnetic impacts more functional.  I classify it as 'my own' because as far as I remember I came up with it on my own and in a response to the question of why there might be a desire by some to get aluminum (and a bit of Hg) containing vaccines injected into a baby on the first day of life.  Even more, why do so when it seems that the vaccine itself has at best an ambiguous benefit.

My chief argument against the hypothesis that electromagnetic means are sometimes used to manipulate human development and behavior is that such programs could be leaked by insiders and/or detected by outsiders.  With the advent of sensitive and flexible analytical tools available to the masses, it's hard to imagine that someone somewhere would not be interested enough to study and detect such programs.  I've not seen it, but then I've not looked that hard either.

Going back to your suggestion that MKULTRA did exist 'but none of that shit really worked' I would say that this is simply unknown.  If the official story is to be believed, most of the records were destroyed.  It is an interesting subject generally for a variety of reasons, and it did seem to be a fairly long running and well funded program which in and of itself calls into question the assertion that none of it worked.  Where I go from here is to pay attention to some continuing similar research (e.g., being able to pull a graphical image of a face out of a person's thought patterns), and analyze the lives of some of the people who were known to have participated in some of the MKULTRA experiments such as Ken Kesey and Ted Kaczynski (aka, the unibomber.)



I agree that to "believe" a hypothesis is a nonsense phrase, but in your previous posts you seem to say that you do in fact believe hypotheses (bolded by me):


Going by your logic, the human race should have been extinct long back. Vaccination was first invented in 1796. And now, the vaccination coverage is close to 99% of the world population. If your post was true, then 99% of the world population should have been infertile by now. But as per the latest stats, the human population in the world is increasing by some 10 million individuals per annum.

You need to take a little time to understand the basics of what a guy says before casting aspersion on his/her 'logic'.  Otherwise it's a strawman.  Obviously nobody is saying that all vaccinations have any particular effect.

What a lot of us are saying is that we may not be getting a complete and honest story about some of the things that some of the injection regimes are designed to achieve.  Here's another article with the same basic concerns.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-the-un-using-vaccines-to-secretly-sterilize-women-all-over-the-globe/5413599

I have zero difficulty believing that such programs exist, and only slightly less believing that the development effort would not have been undertaken without and intent to deploy it.  Only slightly less than that in believing that attempts at deployment have been undertaken from time to time here and there.

While a lot of people who, years later, ended up on bitcointalk.org were reading Ayn Rand I was reading Garrett Hardin's 'Lifeboat Ethics'.  I do have a better than par understanding of the ethical considerations associated with population.  Indeed, when nearly forced to pick from a list of about 200 'charities' to donate to 30 years ago, I choose 'Zero Population Growth.'  I have an understanding of how some people consider 'scientific' means of controlling population to be more ethical than, say, war or starvation, and I don't even necessarily disagree with them in principle.

I also understand how any means of population control be it laissez-faire or engineered can be parlayed into accumulation of wealth as long as it is at least predictable.  I've come to believe that those at the seats of power can and do use any and all of the generally possible population control methods for personal enrichment even while a vast majority probably do earnestly believe that they are using their unique wisdom and capabilities for the 'betterment' of humanity (or more generally, of the planet.)

Currently we have a situation where utter hog-wash 'scientific' arguments like 'global climate change' and spiritual feelings used as bedrock cornerstones are being sold to (aka, implanted) in the public mind to justify eugenics programs.  This makes me believe that the motives are at least as much about obtaining power and control as they are 'ethical' in an abstract manner.  It also contorts any operational efforts which will likely lead to a bad outcome.

Most people still rely on their generational line for security in old age.  Covertly sterilizing people is 'evil' for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones is that it robs them of this potential.  The globalist new-agers might justify this in a belief that they are going to 'end poverty by 2030 world-wide' but it is entirely unclear that they will be able to achieve this.  OTOH, it is crystal clear to any thinking person that the only possible way to do this would be to massively de-populate the planet down to the 1/2 to 1 billion mark that their leaders love to toss around.  Anyone who actually believes this 'agenda-2030' hype is either to stupid to understand what is going on (most of them), or does see the big-picture and welcomes it.



As for your "electromagnetic radiation" hypothesis, well you're right in saying that if it were true then there's a good chance that the program's details could be leaked, that's one good argument against it. Another would be that aluminium isn't very magnetic, so would seem like a poor choice of metal to have any effect on external EM radiation. The iron in a person's blood would be more susceptible to this sort of thing, no? Another argument still would be that there is no evidence of any actual method or apparatus that could perform these kind of effects, or even any process by which it could occur (in the realm of publically available scientific literature).

Yes, I agree with you that the evidence for certain hypotheses is "limited in quality/quantity", and therefore it makes sense to at least consider them. But that doesn't mean that they should be given any sort of scientific merit, just because the evidence is limited and/or hard to get.

As an example, I could formulate a hypothesis that everyone on Earth is being controlled by a being from an alternate dimension, through some sort of dark energy radiation that is undetectable by any equipment on Earth. Just because the evidence for this hypothesis is probably impossible to acquire, that doesn't give the hypothesis any scientific merit whatsoever.

As far as I can see, this totally refutes your claim "If there are mechanisms by which evidence is limited in quality then it makes no sense to reject a hypothesis by virtue of lack of evidence."
299  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Fuck your vaccines on: December 17, 2016, 11:18:19 PM
I agree that we should question everything, and use critical thinking to try and find the truth about these kinds of issues.

But that doesn't mean we should simply accept and believe hypotheses just because there's a possibility they might be true. That's the opposite of scientific critical thinking, especially when there is overwhelming evidence that is contrary to the hypothesis.

Yes, of course it's possible that vaccines are a covert plan to sterilize and depopulate the human race, weaken their immune systems so they rely on drugs made by Big Pharma, or change their brain chemistry to make them more susceptible to government mind control.

But until we get some good evidence that any of this is true, it makes no sense to believe it. Especially when the evidence that vaccines have saved millions of people's lives and are relatively safe is overwhelming.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
300  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What's your view on Alien or Alien life? Does it exists? on: December 17, 2016, 10:13:47 PM
Aliens might exist and might not exist at the same time that's why I choose maybe in the choices. There is a chance that alien life might not exist in this very vast universe of ours since scientist and NASA are not able to find one on their journeys to space and studying about it. It is also possible that maybe out there far away from us, there is another life or aliens, maybe other colonization that is also a human, but lives in another planet, one that is very far away from our own and we can't find it yet because universe is so wide and cannot all be explored for 5 years or even 10 years.

Yes you're right, also we don't know what conditions are required for life to spontaneously occur as it has done on Earth.

Life could be fairly common throughout the universe, or the Earth could just be a huge fluke and the only planet with life in the whole universe.

Until we find alien life we simply don't know, and can't even estimate the probability.
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