I am literally just withholding judgement. The opinion only needs to be challenged if it feels threatened. I do not wish to challenge it personally but would passively accept more information as it becomes available.
Genuine thanks for the notes - very interesting and a good read.
That's some good information. Thank you. This is quality discussion.
The irony of the concept of denial is that those (like myself) who choose not to form an opinion yet are lumped on with the denying group. This very concept itself is a form of fascism / authoritarianism.
Bringing Orwell back into the discussion, this is a form of doublethink i.e. holding two contradictory ideas:
1. Fascism is bad.
2. We'll use fascist tenets to promote that fascism is bad.
You've demonstrated my point entirely. I have been there but I cannot prove it. The idea that going there doesn't prove anything as well is valid.
So it's not possible to draw a conclusion, which is my point. So rather than be a "denier", I simply lack a conclusion and do not take the official one on faith.
I am neither a Republican voter nor a US citizen. In fact I'm sitting here at home in London in the UK staring at the Thames out of my front window.
I do not choose a team. I have no political allegiance. I do not vote as I do not wish to be responsible for the person I voted in. I try to be a rational independent human and do not align to a stereotype well. A close stereotype is secular humanist.
I suggest you do some research on "accepted norms" and how it applies to climatology plus how conflicting views with theories and data are thrown out without being considered.
This is a fair point and one I agree with, however the issue at the moment at least is that as standard of living grows, problems are pushed to other places. This is because they are truly uneconomical to solve locally due to people wanting to protect their standard of living.
The lowest rung of the ladder always gets to solve the problem at the end of the day.
It's a fair observation, but that is the US. There's a big rug in the far east with lots of toxic crap under it. There's also a lot of stuff we buried in various places and cross fingers it'll never escape.
I think you haven't been around long enough to remember the climate scandals of the 1970s. You know when we had an impending ice age. My grandfather also reminded me of the heatwaves in the 1950s and the associated "science" which came out then.
In climatology, the hypothesis has become the theory. The scientific method is therefore invalid ergo it is not science.
Oh here we go. Go and re-read my comments, then attempt to understand them again.
The word fabricated is wrong.
The issue is that we are fed assumptions and conclusions without the supporting facts or evidence and expected to consider them as facts.
I choose not to take the conclusions as gospel unless the facts are presented to me. In neither case facts are present which are independent and not politically biased.
If you believe something without having done the research or finding any facts, it's called faith. I do not support faith of any kind. It's illogical.
The reason it introduces so much emotion is that it's used as political leverage and people get all uppety when red vs blue comes into the picture.
We're screwing up our direct environment for certain as that is directly observable, but we're not necessarily screwing up our climate. The latter is pseudo-science, despite how we wrap it up. We just haven't been around long enough to come up with a climate model that makes any sense.
Probably was. Climate doom and gloom is a political thing, not a scientific thing. It's not possible to take at best 80 years of reasonable data from 4.54 billion years of the planet's lifetime and come up with sensible climate projections.
The typical response. The burden of proof is on the inclusive case.
Were you there? If not, all you have is stories passed down built on propaganda. I don't disbelieve, but i expect evidence. I've been to Auschwitz btw - have you?
I dint get the moon landings point. They did happen.
I reckon this is because the ranking algorithm deranked them when their click through from bing rate declined after the sudden publicity storm. Their #visitors delta probably went very negative after everyone stopped clicking links from various news sites.
Not quite - that's what your history teacher taught you.
There's evidence that an undetermined but quite large number of people sadly died in concentration camps during the second world war. The number, race and cause of death was not entirely determined and is not possible to determine any more. That's all the facts on the table - there are no more concrete facts at all believe it or not (find me a citation which is credible to prove otherwise!).
This is extrapolated into millions of Jewish people were killed in concentration camps which is the "official story" by the victors. The story came before evidence and evidence was destroyed before the story could be verified.
The main issue is that historical revisionism is used to piece together events so we can learn about the past.
When the label and respective charge of "holocaust denial" is placed one something, it is a closed subject where revisionism is no longer allowed.
It's an enforced dark age.
It should always be open for discussion and research. Perhaps one day some clarity will be found? Perhaps more can be brought to justice, perhaps more names could be cleared.
It's not closed, so don't close it is what I'm saying.
Without wanting to gush too much, but NT is a wonderful piece of technology. It's orders of magnitude better than anything else on the market without a doubt for any application.
The bit people have the "hate problem" with is the Win32 subsystem that is chucked on top of it.
Statcounter is a horse shit merchant. It's a bad choice for measuring market share statistics for anything. Let's take a look at this specific case and why it's wrong:
1. A lot of WP devices announce themselves as IE desktop rather than mobile.
2. People in the EU still primarily use them for messaging, email only. I rarely see people "on the web" on their mobile devices.
3. Apps requests do not necessarily count in the statistics and the majority of the time people spend is in apps (WP has native FB, ebay, Twitter apps etc). WP has decent native apps for pretty much everything.
The only thing that matters statistically are sales and retention which are numbers that are not uniformly available for any platform.
Re: fanboy FUD is the inevitable "Windows Phone sucks" mantra from people who have never even set eyes on a device.
Genuine thanks for the notes - very interesting and a good read.