Monday, August 13, 2012
All because of one day on the calendar
Drought? What drought?
Kansas always has droughts. Alfalfa doesn't seem to be bothered by this year's drought. Could we learn something from this? No, of course not. We're EXCEPTIONAL. We don't learn.
The current problem is a classic agricultural mistake: monoculture. Corn production is required by the Gaian national suicide laws, and corn production is subsidized by the Gaian national suicide laws. So farmers grow lots of corn, and ag research focuses on corn. Alfalfa fades into the background even though it's more adaptable, enriches the soil and encourages honeybees.
In terms of both government subsidies and the natural cycle, corn is 'taker', alfalfa is 'maker'.
But we keep growing more corn. All because the fucking Iowa caucus comes first on the calendar.
A new government forecast says alfalfa hay production is up 15 percent in Kansas after a huge spike in harvested acres.
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday that Kansas growers are expected to harvest 2.25 million tons of alfalfa hay. The expected yield of 3 tons per acre is the same as a year ago, but it is coming off about 750,000 acres.
Kansas farmers planted 100,000 more acres of alfalfa hay this year in response to record hay prices last year.
Kansas always has droughts. Alfalfa doesn't seem to be bothered by this year's drought. Could we learn something from this? No, of course not. We're EXCEPTIONAL. We don't learn.
The current problem is a classic agricultural mistake: monoculture. Corn production is required by the Gaian national suicide laws, and corn production is subsidized by the Gaian national suicide laws. So farmers grow lots of corn, and ag research focuses on corn. Alfalfa fades into the background even though it's more adaptable, enriches the soil and encourages honeybees.
In terms of both government subsidies and the natural cycle, corn is 'taker', alfalfa is 'maker'.
But we keep growing more corn. All because the fucking Iowa caucus comes first on the calendar.
Labels: bee, Smarty-plants
¶ 2:40 AM
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Conflation is their secret weapon
Americans have trouble distinguishing ideologies from nations.
Why? Because of our idiotic insistence that all humans are identical and all traits and tendencies are learnable. Our rulers, both R and D, always write their warmaking narratives in terms of ideology, basing their fables on The Power Of Young Democracy and The Miracles Of Capitalism. If only those foreigners could learn to recite our miraculous Randian Scriptures by heart, they would instantly abandon their own established cultures and patterns and pick up our Superior Exceptional Culture. They would instantly leave off their nasty unthinkable habits of forming normal families and raising normal children, and pick up our much healthier Exceptional habits of sodomy, morbid obesity, stock bubbles, transparently false pseudoscience, total government paralysis and Kardashians.
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This idiot belief in the power of ideology gives our enemies a secret weapon.
Example: the neocon conflation of Muslim with Arab. Sheikh Osama wasn't confused but made good use of our confusion. He was fighting to pull the ARAB NATION loose from Western influences. He was using Muslim ideology to fuel the fight because most Arabs are Muslims. As a secondary benefit, our conflation meant we would be overreacting against Muslims, helping him to fuel the fight.
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What's the best way to distinguish nation from ideology? Actions taken to benefit a nation would be the same regardless of ideology.
Example: Soviet ideology and the Russian nation. Our actions in Korea and Vietnam were ordered by USSR through its agents here. Both wars served the interests of Russia as a nation, because we were mainly fighting China in both.
Any government of Russia would want us to keep their Chinese competitors busy.
By the time Vietnam came along, the Soviet agents had entirely taken over our media. They were able to use our ideological idiocy to conceal the basic national-interest purpose of the war. We believed we were "freeing Vietnam from Communism" when in fact we were just keeping China busy again.
Because the Soviets run our media, they were able to divide and collapse our culture, thus serving the interests of the Soviet ideology as well as the Russian nation. LBJ, Nixon and McGovern were all objectively working for Brezhnev. And that's all Brezhnev wanted. Russians are realists, unconfused by ideology. ¶ 7:16 PM
Why? Because of our idiotic insistence that all humans are identical and all traits and tendencies are learnable. Our rulers, both R and D, always write their warmaking narratives in terms of ideology, basing their fables on The Power Of Young Democracy and The Miracles Of Capitalism. If only those foreigners could learn to recite our miraculous Randian Scriptures by heart, they would instantly abandon their own established cultures and patterns and pick up our Superior Exceptional Culture. They would instantly leave off their nasty unthinkable habits of forming normal families and raising normal children, and pick up our much healthier Exceptional habits of sodomy, morbid obesity, stock bubbles, transparently false pseudoscience, total government paralysis and Kardashians.
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This idiot belief in the power of ideology gives our enemies a secret weapon.
Example: the neocon conflation of Muslim with Arab. Sheikh Osama wasn't confused but made good use of our confusion. He was fighting to pull the ARAB NATION loose from Western influences. He was using Muslim ideology to fuel the fight because most Arabs are Muslims. As a secondary benefit, our conflation meant we would be overreacting against Muslims, helping him to fuel the fight.
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What's the best way to distinguish nation from ideology? Actions taken to benefit a nation would be the same regardless of ideology.
Example: Soviet ideology and the Russian nation. Our actions in Korea and Vietnam were ordered by USSR through its agents here. Both wars served the interests of Russia as a nation, because we were mainly fighting China in both.
Any government of Russia would want us to keep their Chinese competitors busy.
By the time Vietnam came along, the Soviet agents had entirely taken over our media. They were able to use our ideological idiocy to conceal the basic national-interest purpose of the war. We believed we were "freeing Vietnam from Communism" when in fact we were just keeping China busy again.
Because the Soviets run our media, they were able to divide and collapse our culture, thus serving the interests of the Soviet ideology as well as the Russian nation. LBJ, Nixon and McGovern were all objectively working for Brezhnev. And that's all Brezhnev wanted. Russians are realists, unconfused by ideology. ¶ 7:16 PM
Not sure what I was trying to do
Started this chart a while ago... I don't really remember the point I was trying to make. Most likely arguing with some partisan commenter who was identifying the all-consuming enemy army EPA as a Democrat project. Decided to finish and post the result, just to get the files out of my active folders. (Excel here.)
It does disprove the partisan point. There's not much correlation between Pres party and EPA. Nixon invented it, and the longest and steadiest rise came during Reagan and Bush 1. After that, the Satanic agency reached a saturation point or ceiling. This is unusual and definitely NOT the goal of a bureaucracy. Every bureaucracy, like every bacterial colony, demands constant exponential growth.Chart shows the genocidal EPA's workforce and budget. Upper blue line is workforce, lower yellow columns are budget.
It does disprove the partisan point. There's not much correlation between Pres party and EPA. Nixon invented it, and the longest and steadiest rise came during Reagan and Bush 1. After that, the Satanic agency reached a saturation point or ceiling. This is unusual and definitely NOT the goal of a bureaucracy. Every bureaucracy, like every bacterial colony, demands constant exponential growth.Chart shows the genocidal EPA's workforce and budget. Upper blue line is workforce, lower yellow columns are budget.
Labels: Carbon Cult
¶ 11:27 AM
Misteromney's Neighborhood 4
Sequel to previous Vulture Romney pics, this and this and this and this.
Two numbers men. Two bean counters. Two accountants who see nothing but the bottom line. Two stock traders who are willing to sacrifice meaningless stuff like lives and jobs and companies to maximize a numerical variable and fill in a term in an equation.
Just what we need. ¶ 6:22 AM
Two numbers men. Two bean counters. Two accountants who see nothing but the bottom line. Two stock traders who are willing to sacrifice meaningless stuff like lives and jobs and companies to maximize a numerical variable and fill in a term in an equation.
Just what we need. ¶ 6:22 AM
Friday, August 10, 2012
Icy day in hell!
News:
The UNITED NATIONS is urging the world to disobey a Gaian prophetic command!
Frozen hell, flying pigs, toothy hens!
AND:
BBC spewed the last-ever episode of its Gaian genocide propaganda splat, "Our Fragile Fragile Endangered Endangered Weeping Burning Burning Burning Burning Planet" today.
AND:
Radio Nederland spewed the last-ever episode of its similar Gaian murderfest a few weeks ago.
Not clear why these two monstrosities were halted; it's good enough that they are gone. The airwaves will be vastly less polluted by falsehood and grotesquery from now on.
David Hallam, director of the FAO's trade and markets division, told Reuters that biofuels policies needed to become more flexible to help prevent new food crises developing.
"One idea is you have some kind of price trigger so that as maize prices rise then the mandates adjust," he said, adding that the FAO wanted to reopen debate on biofuels policies.
The UNITED NATIONS is urging the world to disobey a Gaian prophetic command!
Frozen hell, flying pigs, toothy hens!
AND:
BBC spewed the last-ever episode of its Gaian genocide propaganda splat, "Our Fragile Fragile Endangered Endangered Weeping Burning Burning Burning Burning Planet" today.
AND:
Radio Nederland spewed the last-ever episode of its similar Gaian murderfest a few weeks ago.
Not clear why these two monstrosities were halted; it's good enough that they are gone. The airwaves will be vastly less polluted by falsehood and grotesquery from now on.
Labels: Carbon Cult
¶ 10:01 AM
Thursday, August 09, 2012
Busy signal
Publisher just came up with more quality-control stuff that needs to be done. I'll be neglecting this space for a few days.
Not that it matters to anyone... this blog is only read accidentally and randomly by people looking for strange combinations of words like "eggstacks porn" or "ufo moon" ... but I need to make this note for my own discipline. Otherwise I'll feel vaguely guilty when I don't write a daily pointless and unread comment. ¶ 12:26 PM
Publisher just came up with more quality-control stuff that needs to be done. I'll be neglecting this space for a few days.
Not that it matters to anyone... this blog is only read accidentally and randomly by people looking for strange combinations of words like "eggstacks porn" or "ufo moon" ... but I need to make this note for my own discipline. Otherwise I'll feel vaguely guilty when I don't write a daily pointless and unread comment. ¶ 12:26 PM
Nice compendium
UK Guardian has a clever article listing 25 major players in the 2008 Mafia takeover, asking 'Where are they now?'
24 of the players are individuals, ranging from Bush The Son to Greenspan to Brit hedge fund owners. The 25th is The American Public, who eagerly went along with the bubble as always.
None of the individuals are in jail where they all belong. A handful have disappeared from public life, but nearly all are loudly unrepentant, forming new companies to commit new crimes.
When gov't rewards you for criminal activity, you're going to commit more crimes. That's the lesson you've learned.
The only repentant player is The American Public. They have been eliminating debt and staying out of the stock casino.
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Along the same lines: Here's an interesting 30-minute interview with Kirsten Grind, author of a book about the fall of Washington Mutual. What happened: In 2005 New York mafiosi took over WaMu, formerly a quiet and careful bank. The mafiosi transformed the bank into an engine of fraud and crime, and collapsed it so Jamie Dimon could buy it cheap. ¶ 2:38 AM
24 of the players are individuals, ranging from Bush The Son to Greenspan to Brit hedge fund owners. The 25th is The American Public, who eagerly went along with the bubble as always.
None of the individuals are in jail where they all belong. A handful have disappeared from public life, but nearly all are loudly unrepentant, forming new companies to commit new crimes.
When gov't rewards you for criminal activity, you're going to commit more crimes. That's the lesson you've learned.
The only repentant player is The American Public. They have been eliminating debt and staying out of the stock casino.
= = = = =
Along the same lines: Here's an interesting 30-minute interview with Kirsten Grind, author of a book about the fall of Washington Mutual. What happened: In 2005 New York mafiosi took over WaMu, formerly a quiet and careful bank. The mafiosi transformed the bank into an engine of fraud and crime, and collapsed it so Jamie Dimon could buy it cheap. ¶ 2:38 AM
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Confusion from 'Top two' primary
For the last couple elections, Wash state has been using a 'top two' primary for state offices, and has been voting entirely by mail. News media still haven't adjusted to either innovation.
The problem with the 'top two' is understandable.
In most cases the remaining two candidates will be one R and one D as expected.
In some local districts where only one team is active, the primary will send two Rs or two Ds to the November election. This is effectively a 'nonpartisan' election, though it's not described as such.
Because the media are locked in horserace mode they end up treating a D vs R primary result as a contest with one winner, even though it's not really a contest. The D and R are not 'squaring off' against each other, and neither one will win at this stage. In theory they have only risen to the top of a much larger set of potential candidates, though the other potentials don't really exist.
It's an ambiguous and unfamiliar situation, so I can't blame the media for having trouble with it.
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The misrepresentation of mail voting is just stupid. Media breathlessly encourage us to make our vote count on election day, and try to build up suspense toward that fateful Tuesday. Nobody's listening, because the interested citizens have already sent in their ballots immediately after receiving them.
(I still do the latter, though I no longer see the point. This season's ballot contained exactly zero candidates worth the trouble of making a mark, so I had a little pointless fun. Wrote in names like Goldman Sachs, Ridpath Hotel, and Partly Cloudy. Since Goldman Sachs is the guaranteed winner in all elections, I might as well vote for them directly instead of by proxy.) ¶ 5:33 AM
The problem with the 'top two' is understandable.
In most cases the remaining two candidates will be one R and one D as expected.
In some local districts where only one team is active, the primary will send two Rs or two Ds to the November election. This is effectively a 'nonpartisan' election, though it's not described as such.
Because the media are locked in horserace mode they end up treating a D vs R primary result as a contest with one winner, even though it's not really a contest. The D and R are not 'squaring off' against each other, and neither one will win at this stage. In theory they have only risen to the top of a much larger set of potential candidates, though the other potentials don't really exist.
It's an ambiguous and unfamiliar situation, so I can't blame the media for having trouble with it.
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The misrepresentation of mail voting is just stupid. Media breathlessly encourage us to make our vote count on election day, and try to build up suspense toward that fateful Tuesday. Nobody's listening, because the interested citizens have already sent in their ballots immediately after receiving them.
(I still do the latter, though I no longer see the point. This season's ballot contained exactly zero candidates worth the trouble of making a mark, so I had a little pointless fun. Wrote in names like Goldman Sachs, Ridpath Hotel, and Partly Cloudy. Since Goldman Sachs is the guaranteed winner in all elections, I might as well vote for them directly instead of by proxy.) ¶ 5:33 AM
Not supposed to do that!
The US "government" spends 30 years telling us that Persia is a deadly threat, and telling us that we should avoid all transactions with Persia.
Finally a New York prosecutor takes them seriously and tries to prosecute a British bank that was dealing with Persia.
So what happens?
Hey, Lawsky! You're not supposed to take this shit seriously! Most of all, you're not supposed to PUNISH a bank! We were getting ready to handle this in our usual way, by PAYING the bank a few quadrillion quintillion vigintillion gigamegateradollars to guarantee their silence, and now you screw it all up by trying to PUNISH fraud!
We see similar friction between NYPD and the federal Department Of Jesse Jackson (DOJ). NYC took the 9/11 thing seriously and proceeded to monitor the actions of suspicious Muslims. Department Of Jesse Jackson (DOJ) is now trying to squash this overly appropriate police action.
Many of us have seen from the start that TSA and DHS were created solely to keep the American people confused, disarmed and repressed. (I was retarded, didn't catch on until 2006.) By now it's clear that 9/11 was not a sudden and surprising attack, it was just part of the schedule. ¶ 2:45 AM
Finally a New York prosecutor takes them seriously and tries to prosecute a British bank that was dealing with Persia.
So what happens?
The explosive allegations by Benjamin Lawsky, head of the recently created New York State Department of Financial Services, complicate talks between the Treasury and the 160-year-old British bank to settle claims over the transactions...
Mr Lawsky's report, full of colourful language alleging "fraud" and a "staggering cover up", threatens to rewrite the rules on how foreign banks settle such cases. In the past they have been almost choreographed with public shaming kept to a minimum.
Hey, Lawsky! You're not supposed to take this shit seriously! Most of all, you're not supposed to PUNISH a bank! We were getting ready to handle this in our usual way, by PAYING the bank a few quadrillion quintillion vigintillion gigamegateradollars to guarantee their silence, and now you screw it all up by trying to PUNISH fraud!
We see similar friction between NYPD and the federal Department Of Jesse Jackson (DOJ). NYC took the 9/11 thing seriously and proceeded to monitor the actions of suspicious Muslims. Department Of Jesse Jackson (DOJ) is now trying to squash this overly appropriate police action.
Many of us have seen from the start that TSA and DHS were created solely to keep the American people confused, disarmed and repressed. (I was retarded, didn't catch on until 2006.) By now it's clear that 9/11 was not a sudden and surprising attack, it was just part of the schedule. ¶ 2:45 AM
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
No consensus there
While Madman Hansen continues to pour out his toxic nonsensical gibbers, and his supine cult followers in other branches of government and academia and media and churches continue to obey him blindly, other parts of NASA are mysteriously able to avoid Consensus "Science" and Fashionable "Science".
I note that the latest Mars rover has landed on an alluvial fan, where the silt deposits are likely to show the presence or absence of life.
The Mars folks at NASA are casually using earthy words like delta and channel, fully adapted to the idea that Mars had lakes, rivers and oceans just like Earth. This idea is quite recent by Kuhnian standards. Until 30 years ago the absolute Consensus was that Mars was permanently dry and dead. Any other idea was risible and ridiculous. We learned in school about Schiaparelli's old and "stupid" image of canals on Mars. The ridicule was boosted by an intentional mistranslation: Schiaparelli wrote canali which means channels, not canals.
These Mars folks are clearly able to swing with the facts. They were persuaded by their own observations to abandon the old Consensus.
Maybe they could teach a few things to the Climate Criminals in another section of NASA... No they couldn't. You can't teach mass-murdering psychopaths. They will just keep killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and killing until they are locked up or killed. ¶ 2:45 AM
I note that the latest Mars rover has landed on an alluvial fan, where the silt deposits are likely to show the presence or absence of life.
The Mars folks at NASA are casually using earthy words like delta and channel, fully adapted to the idea that Mars had lakes, rivers and oceans just like Earth. This idea is quite recent by Kuhnian standards. Until 30 years ago the absolute Consensus was that Mars was permanently dry and dead. Any other idea was risible and ridiculous. We learned in school about Schiaparelli's old and "stupid" image of canals on Mars. The ridicule was boosted by an intentional mistranslation: Schiaparelli wrote canali which means channels, not canals.
These Mars folks are clearly able to swing with the facts. They were persuaded by their own observations to abandon the old Consensus.
Maybe they could teach a few things to the Climate Criminals in another section of NASA... No they couldn't. You can't teach mass-murdering psychopaths. They will just keep killing and killing and killing and killing and killing and killing until they are locked up or killed. ¶ 2:45 AM
Monday, August 06, 2012
Hansen's brilliance
To all appearances, James Hansen seems to be a fully wacked-out psychopathic sadistic blood-loving hypergenocidal madman who has already caused thousands of deaths by starvation and freezing, and who has permanently destroyed entire national economies to satisfy his infinite power fetish.
Ah, but appearances are deceiving. I've finally sussed out what Hansen is doing. He's creating a Grand Synthesis Of Quantum Climatology. A Unified Pseudotheory Of Everything.
He has brilliantly mixed Heisenberg and Heatwaves, Schrodinger and Storms, Dirac and Droughts, Feynman and Floods.
By Hansen's ingenious new formulation, weather phenomena do not exist unless James Hansen observes them and describes them.
Previously we believed that thousands of droughts had occurred through history, and that most of them were longer and deeper than this year's drought. Not so! Hansen was not in Oklahoma in 1955, therefore no drought occurred there. Hansen was not alive in 1934, therefore the Dust Bowl did not happen. The many "lean years" mentioned in the Old Testament and other historical documents simply did not happen.
Previously we believed that hurricanes and tornadoes had declined in frequency. Not so! Certifiable And Peer-Reviewed Climatologists tell us that only this year's hurricanes and tornadoes occurred, therefore the frequency is infinitely increasing.
Previously we believed that deadly blizzards had occurred every year in some part of the world. Not so! Only this year's blizzards occur, because only this year's blizzards are under Hansen's microscope.
Nature and logic are easy for an infantile lunatic. I see it, therefore it exists.
Ah, but appearances are deceiving. I've finally sussed out what Hansen is doing. He's creating a Grand Synthesis Of Quantum Climatology. A Unified Pseudotheory Of Everything.
He has brilliantly mixed Heisenberg and Heatwaves, Schrodinger and Storms, Dirac and Droughts, Feynman and Floods.
By Hansen's ingenious new formulation, weather phenomena do not exist unless James Hansen observes them and describes them.
Previously we believed that thousands of droughts had occurred through history, and that most of them were longer and deeper than this year's drought. Not so! Hansen was not in Oklahoma in 1955, therefore no drought occurred there. Hansen was not alive in 1934, therefore the Dust Bowl did not happen. The many "lean years" mentioned in the Old Testament and other historical documents simply did not happen.
Previously we believed that hurricanes and tornadoes had declined in frequency. Not so! Certifiable And Peer-Reviewed Climatologists tell us that only this year's hurricanes and tornadoes occurred, therefore the frequency is infinitely increasing.
Previously we believed that deadly blizzards had occurred every year in some part of the world. Not so! Only this year's blizzards occur, because only this year's blizzards are under Hansen's microscope.
Nature and logic are easy for an infantile lunatic. I see it, therefore it exists.
Labels: Blinded by Stats, Carbon Cult
¶ 4:59 AM
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Modern speed
Someone was explaining how the Mars Rover's landing tonight will be heard 7 minutes after it happens.
Strikes me that this explanation is much less necessary now than it would have been in 1950.
The speed of light hasn't changed, of course! But in 1950 our systems were much more localized, which meant we never had a chance to experience the delay of finite signal speed. When the announcer on an AM station said "At the tone, the time will be 6:00" you could set your clock to the second. When you talked on the phone, the response was instant and crystal-clear. You could send mail in the morning to a resident of your city, and he would get the letter the same afternoon. (Two deliveries per day!)
Now everything is funneled into vast central repositories at vast distances, where it's digitally processed, held, and multiplexed. We're accustomed to slight delays and terrible quality in phone conversations. We're accustomed to hearing 5 or 6 second delays in satellite conversations on TV. We assume mail will take 5 or 6 days to reach a neighbor, if it reaches him at all.
Mush is slow as molasses. ¶ 4:52 PM
Strikes me that this explanation is much less necessary now than it would have been in 1950.
The speed of light hasn't changed, of course! But in 1950 our systems were much more localized, which meant we never had a chance to experience the delay of finite signal speed. When the announcer on an AM station said "At the tone, the time will be 6:00" you could set your clock to the second. When you talked on the phone, the response was instant and crystal-clear. You could send mail in the morning to a resident of your city, and he would get the letter the same afternoon. (Two deliveries per day!)
Now everything is funneled into vast central repositories at vast distances, where it's digitally processed, held, and multiplexed. We're accustomed to slight delays and terrible quality in phone conversations. We're accustomed to hearing 5 or 6 second delays in satellite conversations on TV. We assume mail will take 5 or 6 days to reach a neighbor, if it reaches him at all.
Mush is slow as molasses. ¶ 4:52 PM
Where does this come from?
There's a deeply stupid assumption underlying articles like these, all taken from today's Science Daily. (Not picking on Science Daily; it's just that the common thread shows up in one place this morning.)
Crayfish Species Proves to Be the Ultimate Survivor
Giant Moa Had Climate Change Figured out
Extinction Risk Factors for New Zealand Birds Today Differ from Those of the Past
The common stupid-factor is a complete inability to account for adaptation. This often connects with the other stupid-factor: Global Warming Is Real And Satanic; but the failure to understand flexibility is deeper and longer-lasting.
"Scientists" can't figure out how birds will adapt to a supposed 2-degree increase in global average temperature. First, of course, there's no such thing as a global average; the bird's own local world may well be getting cooler or staying the same. Second and more important, birds somehow manage to adapt to a constant 40-degree daily variation and a 40-degree seasonal variation.Right here in my yard, the California Quail are feeding every day, "ultimate survivors" in a total annual range from -20F to 100F. The quail already tolerate a ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DEGREE RANGE. And you idiots think they won't tolerate TWO FUCKING DEGREES?
Quail-o-meter™
Where does this unspeakable dumbness originate? Is it from the total absence of negative feedback in the conceptual world of the "scientist"? Is it a total failure to distinguish living from non-living things? Every object is just an undifferentiated passive particle? Or living in a world of pure numbers and computation, never putting your eyes or hands on actual THINGS? Or more charitably, is it an unconscious projection of their own urban softness? I can't live outside in -20F, so birds can't either?
Damned if I know.
Crayfish Species Proves to Be the Ultimate Survivor
Giant Moa Had Climate Change Figured out
Extinction Risk Factors for New Zealand Birds Today Differ from Those of the Past
The common stupid-factor is a complete inability to account for adaptation. This often connects with the other stupid-factor: Global Warming Is Real And Satanic; but the failure to understand flexibility is deeper and longer-lasting.
"Scientists" can't figure out how birds will adapt to a supposed 2-degree increase in global average temperature. First, of course, there's no such thing as a global average; the bird's own local world may well be getting cooler or staying the same. Second and more important, birds somehow manage to adapt to a constant 40-degree daily variation and a 40-degree seasonal variation.Right here in my yard, the California Quail are feeding every day, "ultimate survivors" in a total annual range from -20F to 100F. The quail already tolerate a ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DEGREE RANGE. And you idiots think they won't tolerate TWO FUCKING DEGREES?
Quail-o-meter™
Where does this unspeakable dumbness originate? Is it from the total absence of negative feedback in the conceptual world of the "scientist"? Is it a total failure to distinguish living from non-living things? Every object is just an undifferentiated passive particle? Or living in a world of pure numbers and computation, never putting your eyes or hands on actual THINGS? Or more charitably, is it an unconscious projection of their own urban softness? I can't live outside in -20F, so birds can't either?
Damned if I know.
Labels: Blinded by Stats, Carbon Cult, Experiential education
¶ 3:39 AM
Saturday, August 04, 2012
The worst insults the best
Commissar Stamberg, in some kind of editorial, has insulted the memory of Norman Borlaug.
One of the worst humans dares to insult THE BEST human.
Listen up, Commissar Stamberg:
(1) Borlaug's "Green Revolution" had nothing to do with electric grids. It was all about improving seeds and farming methods.
(2) The problem with cascading grid failures is not TOO MUCH technology. It's STUPID technology. The push to connect everything together in one grid was not driven by technology. It was driven by greed. Enron. Ken Lay. Goldman Sachs. The grid is all in one piece so Enron or Goldman or the Indian equivalent can securitize electric flow; so all electricity can be traded as fungible abstractions on a single market.
(3) Good technology always requires minimal connection. We had it right in the 1950's. Each city or rural area had a separate system, large enough to make a profit but not large enough for New York traders to commoditize. If Spokane's system failed, it had exactly zero effect on Seattle's system, because there were NO FUCKING WIRES connecting the two systems. ¶ 7:28 AM
One of the worst humans dares to insult THE BEST human.
Listen up, Commissar Stamberg:
(1) Borlaug's "Green Revolution" had nothing to do with electric grids. It was all about improving seeds and farming methods.
(2) The problem with cascading grid failures is not TOO MUCH technology. It's STUPID technology. The push to connect everything together in one grid was not driven by technology. It was driven by greed. Enron. Ken Lay. Goldman Sachs. The grid is all in one piece so Enron or Goldman or the Indian equivalent can securitize electric flow; so all electricity can be traded as fungible abstractions on a single market.
(3) Good technology always requires minimal connection. We had it right in the 1950's. Each city or rural area had a separate system, large enough to make a profit but not large enough for New York traders to commoditize. If Spokane's system failed, it had exactly zero effect on Seattle's system, because there were NO FUCKING WIRES connecting the two systems. ¶ 7:28 AM
Mush at its best
Beautiful example of the Western "mind" at work, which is incapable of understanding human differences or regions or borders or nations. It's all one mushed-together average.
No, fuckhead Bildt. Belarus expelled your ambassador because you committed AN ACT OF WAR against a SEPARATE NATION.
In the bizarre demented imperial arrogant Western "mind", Belarus is not a nation. All humans are identical, therefore all humans are identical to Carl Bildt. All humans have the same tastes and needs as Carl Bildt. Thus Carl Bildt is perfectly justified in invading any part of The Planet to spread Feminism, Critical Queer Studies, Global Warming pseudoscience, and Multiculturalism. There is no boundary between Carl Bildt and other humans; all other humans are subsumed within Carl Bildt's galactic infantile ego.
For those who are too lobotomized to understand the concept of NATIONS, just turn it around. Imagine that Belarus or some other country, unhappy with our culture and government, sends a plane to New York without permission, and drops 879 teddy bears on New York. Would that plane be allowed to continue flying? Would any of those teddies (could be bombs, after all!) be allowed to stay on the ground? No. The US gov't would quite properly consider it to be an act of war, would shoot down the plane, would spend billions to find and detonate every one of those 879 dropped bears, and would invade three or four randomly chosen countries in response. ¶ 4:34 AM
On July 4, a Swedish public relations firm used a light plane to dump 879 teddies bearing slogans supporting human rights over Belarus.
The invasion of the toys into Belarus airspace prompted the president, Alexander Lukashenko, to sack his air defence chief and head of the border guards.
According to Sweden's foreign minister, Carl Bildt, Mr Lukashenko has now expelled his country's ambassador, Stefan Eriksson. Stockholm retaliated by telling Belarus its ambassador is 'not welcome' in the Scandinavian country.
Mr Bildt said the Lukashenko regime had expelled his country's envoy 'for being too supportive of human rights'.
No, fuckhead Bildt. Belarus expelled your ambassador because you committed AN ACT OF WAR against a SEPARATE NATION.
In the bizarre demented imperial arrogant Western "mind", Belarus is not a nation. All humans are identical, therefore all humans are identical to Carl Bildt. All humans have the same tastes and needs as Carl Bildt. Thus Carl Bildt is perfectly justified in invading any part of The Planet to spread Feminism, Critical Queer Studies, Global Warming pseudoscience, and Multiculturalism. There is no boundary between Carl Bildt and other humans; all other humans are subsumed within Carl Bildt's galactic infantile ego.
For those who are too lobotomized to understand the concept of NATIONS, just turn it around. Imagine that Belarus or some other country, unhappy with our culture and government, sends a plane to New York without permission, and drops 879 teddy bears on New York. Would that plane be allowed to continue flying? Would any of those teddies (could be bombs, after all!) be allowed to stay on the ground? No. The US gov't would quite properly consider it to be an act of war, would shoot down the plane, would spend billions to find and detonate every one of those 879 dropped bears, and would invade three or four randomly chosen countries in response. ¶ 4:34 AM
Friday, August 03, 2012
Christy's minimum-temp hypothesis
John Christy's presentation of his hypothesis about rising minimum temps makes great intuitive sense. I'd been thinking along the same lines; UHI certainly keeps Tmin high, and that could be the source of higher averages.
It's already obvious that a global spatial average is nonsense. Each spatial region has its own independent patterns and trends. Christy is now starting to show that a temporal average is also nonsense. Each 'temporal region', such as night vs day and summer vs winter, has its own independent patterns and trends.
Let's try to compare a good long-term non-urban vs urban record, focusing on temporal regions.
For the non-urban, try Armagh found here. This goes back to 1853 for rain, but the min and max temps start at 1865.
Sorted out the text so it included only the full rows of max/min, ran up an Excel (here) and then a graph.
The Met Office records are in degrees C; I converted to degrees F so humans can understand it. X axis runs from 1865 to 2012.
Note that the data points are monthly min and max, which makes a highly crowded line graph ... but the net effect gives you a pretty good 'envelope' of the seasons. The top edge of the 'envelope' in each graph is summers, and the bottom edge of the 'envelope' is winters.
Well, do we see anything special about the present? Nope. Not in the min or max. I can see a period in the 1990s when the winter max was sort of high, but it doesn't beat the 1865-1885 range.
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For a more urban site, here's the same stuff for Heathrow airport. This series starts in 1948, so the scale looks different and we can't see the big curve (down from 1865 then back up) that shows in Armagh.
Note that the min temp has a definite and steady upward trend for this urban site.
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Armagh is a small city with lots of green, and Ireland has very little air conditioning.
So: If the 'temporal region' of min temps is rising, it has to be UHI. It's asphalt and compressors, nothing else.
It's already obvious that a global spatial average is nonsense. Each spatial region has its own independent patterns and trends. Christy is now starting to show that a temporal average is also nonsense. Each 'temporal region', such as night vs day and summer vs winter, has its own independent patterns and trends.
Let's try to compare a good long-term non-urban vs urban record, focusing on temporal regions.
For the non-urban, try Armagh found here. This goes back to 1853 for rain, but the min and max temps start at 1865.
Sorted out the text so it included only the full rows of max/min, ran up an Excel (here) and then a graph.
The Met Office records are in degrees C; I converted to degrees F so humans can understand it. X axis runs from 1865 to 2012.
Note that the data points are monthly min and max, which makes a highly crowded line graph ... but the net effect gives you a pretty good 'envelope' of the seasons. The top edge of the 'envelope' in each graph is summers, and the bottom edge of the 'envelope' is winters.
Well, do we see anything special about the present? Nope. Not in the min or max. I can see a period in the 1990s when the winter max was sort of high, but it doesn't beat the 1865-1885 range.
= = = = =
For a more urban site, here's the same stuff for Heathrow airport. This series starts in 1948, so the scale looks different and we can't see the big curve (down from 1865 then back up) that shows in Armagh.
Note that the min temp has a definite and steady upward trend for this urban site.
= = = = =
Armagh is a small city with lots of green, and Ireland has very little air conditioning.
So: If the 'temporal region' of min temps is rising, it has to be UHI. It's asphalt and compressors, nothing else.
Labels: Blinded by Stats, Carbon Cult
¶ 6:08 AM
Very Unprecedented! But wrong.
Something highly unusual occurred around here a couple days ago. The "Emergency" "Alert" "System" was activated for an Amber Alert. That wasn't the unusual part; they confuse us with Amber Alerts every week or so.
Here's the unusual part: For the first time ever, the Amber Alert was NOT about a custody dispute. Until now, EVERY SINGLE Amber Alert has been a repossession by one parent or the other. Sometimes the "law" enforcement agencies have fudged the facts to make it sound like an unidentified stranger, but EVERY SINGLE TIME it turns out that they knew exactly who took the kid, and EVERY SINGLE TIME it was the non-custodial parent repossessing the kid from the custodial parent.
This time, it was a troublemaking 16-year-old who rather obviously faked a removal from her room, then ran away to be with a boyfriend that the parents didn't like.
At least it's a different form of fakery.
One thing we can be DEAD SURE OF: If a genuine criminal abduction ever does occur, it will NOT lead to an Amber Alert. We can be DEAD SURE of this because it already happened ten years ago. Joseph Duncan killed several members of the Groene household, snatched two kids, and wandered all over the Northwest with them, appearing constantly in stores and other public places. He killed one of the kids before he was finally caught. A public alert could have led to much quicker capture and saved one of the kids, but no public alert was issued.
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Later the same day: Well, we're already back to Custody Dispute normal now. ¶ 4:37 AM
Here's the unusual part: For the first time ever, the Amber Alert was NOT about a custody dispute. Until now, EVERY SINGLE Amber Alert has been a repossession by one parent or the other. Sometimes the "law" enforcement agencies have fudged the facts to make it sound like an unidentified stranger, but EVERY SINGLE TIME it turns out that they knew exactly who took the kid, and EVERY SINGLE TIME it was the non-custodial parent repossessing the kid from the custodial parent.
This time, it was a troublemaking 16-year-old who rather obviously faked a removal from her room, then ran away to be with a boyfriend that the parents didn't like.
At least it's a different form of fakery.
One thing we can be DEAD SURE OF: If a genuine criminal abduction ever does occur, it will NOT lead to an Amber Alert. We can be DEAD SURE of this because it already happened ten years ago. Joseph Duncan killed several members of the Groene household, snatched two kids, and wandered all over the Northwest with them, appearing constantly in stores and other public places. He killed one of the kids before he was finally caught. A public alert could have led to much quicker capture and saved one of the kids, but no public alert was issued.
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Later the same day: Well, we're already back to Custody Dispute normal now. ¶ 4:37 AM
Thursday, August 02, 2012
What's with 10.144.128 and Sitemeter? // Fixed.
I suspect the 10.144.128 range of IPs has somehow taken over Sitemeter listings as of about 3 PM yesterday.
If it were a pure automatic bot, I'd think all of its 'visits' would show a zero length. Instead, the pattern of times and lengths looks the same as usual, with a few 2 or 3 minute reads scattered among the 0-length reads.
The difference is that all the IPs are 10.144.128.# instead of the usual mixture of nations and sources. So it looks more like a 'detour' than a simple bot. A brief look at Google shows that other Blogspot-based blogs are noticing the same phenomenon.
Also: Blogspot's own statistics (independent of Sitemeter) show 14 reads of the blog coming from Sitemeter. Within Sitemeter, the 10.144.128 source made exactly 14 page-reads.
5 hours later: Yikes! It's getting worse! In the 5 hours since I posted this item, there are now 96 "reads" from that one IP. Normally I get that many reads in a full week. Again, a few of them them look like real human reads, but most are single-page zero-length.
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Finally fixed. I removed the Sitemeter widget from my template, and the hits stopped. Obviously the hits seen by Sitemeter stopped; that's how it should work! ... but ALSO the hits as seen by Blogspot's own statistics stopped. So the hits were enabled by the Sitemeter widget.
Graph from Blogspot. I edited the template at 12:54 PM.
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And a couple days later: According to the Twitter feed of one tech type, this whole mess was not a bot at all. It was Sitemeter changing its servers and missing some of its usual information. In other words, those mysterious reads that appeared to be in the normal time pattern were in the normal pattern, they just lacked the normal URL references. I've put the Sitemeter widget back, and things seem to have returned to normal. You'd think Sitemeter would want to provide info about these things, but apparently it doesn't. = = = = = Finally, Nov 2012, after several more failures and oddities, I switched to Statcounter. I don't know if Statcounter goes weird as often as Sitemeter, but at least Statcounter announces when it has a problem so you can tell what's happening! Also, Statcounter seems to give a somewhat more useful set of info. ¶ 6:11 AM
If it were a pure automatic bot, I'd think all of its 'visits' would show a zero length. Instead, the pattern of times and lengths looks the same as usual, with a few 2 or 3 minute reads scattered among the 0-length reads.
The difference is that all the IPs are 10.144.128.# instead of the usual mixture of nations and sources. So it looks more like a 'detour' than a simple bot. A brief look at Google shows that other Blogspot-based blogs are noticing the same phenomenon.
Also: Blogspot's own statistics (independent of Sitemeter) show 14 reads of the blog coming from Sitemeter. Within Sitemeter, the 10.144.128 source made exactly 14 page-reads.
5 hours later: Yikes! It's getting worse! In the 5 hours since I posted this item, there are now 96 "reads" from that one IP. Normally I get that many reads in a full week. Again, a few of them them look like real human reads, but most are single-page zero-length.
= = = = =
Finally fixed. I removed the Sitemeter widget from my template, and the hits stopped. Obviously the hits seen by Sitemeter stopped; that's how it should work! ... but ALSO the hits as seen by Blogspot's own statistics stopped. So the hits were enabled by the Sitemeter widget.
Graph from Blogspot. I edited the template at 12:54 PM.
= = = = =
And a couple days later: According to the Twitter feed of one tech type, this whole mess was not a bot at all. It was Sitemeter changing its servers and missing some of its usual information. In other words, those mysterious reads that appeared to be in the normal time pattern were in the normal pattern, they just lacked the normal URL references. I've put the Sitemeter widget back, and things seem to have returned to normal. You'd think Sitemeter would want to provide info about these things, but apparently it doesn't. = = = = = Finally, Nov 2012, after several more failures and oddities, I switched to Statcounter. I don't know if Statcounter goes weird as often as Sitemeter, but at least Statcounter announces when it has a problem so you can tell what's happening! Also, Statcounter seems to give a somewhat more useful set of info. ¶ 6:11 AM
Risking a Sport metaphor
I shouldn't try Sport analogies, because I have zero understanding or knowledge of Sport.
Nevertheless, I'll stupidly wade into unfamiliar waters:
What we need is a Badminton World Federation supervising our politicians.
The Chinese Badminton team was banned for playing the wrong game. They were supposed to be playing Badminton, but instead they were playing Tournament. They were using their Badminton skills as tools, but their strategy was aimed at improving their team's placement in the next Olympics. They were trying to win Tournament, not trying to win Badminton.
Our politicians have the same problem. Playing the wrong game. They were hired to play Legislature, but instead they put 100% of their strategy and effort into playing Team-Builder.
They were supposed to use their Legislative skills to create, revise and revoke Laws, for the benefit of the people they represent. Instead, they make moves that appear to be Legislative moves, with precisely zero Legislative effect. They're playing without a ball. No new laws, no revised laws, no repealed laws, no budgets result from their actions. Their only goal is to expand the size and funding of their own team. The R-shirt players are trying to expand the R team, the D-shirt players are trying to expand the D team. Nothing else. ¶ 4:03 AM
Nevertheless, I'll stupidly wade into unfamiliar waters:
What we need is a Badminton World Federation supervising our politicians.
The Chinese Badminton team was banned for playing the wrong game. They were supposed to be playing Badminton, but instead they were playing Tournament. They were using their Badminton skills as tools, but their strategy was aimed at improving their team's placement in the next Olympics. They were trying to win Tournament, not trying to win Badminton.
Our politicians have the same problem. Playing the wrong game. They were hired to play Legislature, but instead they put 100% of their strategy and effort into playing Team-Builder.
They were supposed to use their Legislative skills to create, revise and revoke Laws, for the benefit of the people they represent. Instead, they make moves that appear to be Legislative moves, with precisely zero Legislative effect. They're playing without a ball. No new laws, no revised laws, no repealed laws, no budgets result from their actions. Their only goal is to expand the size and funding of their own team. The R-shirt players are trying to expand the R team, the D-shirt players are trying to expand the D team. Nothing else. ¶ 4:03 AM
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Gonna be fireworks in the corporate suite
Roy Cohn, the current CEO of HadesBanc LLC, must have known this was coming. Comrade Vidal has entered the building!
A vicious and bitchy battle for supremacy is likely to keep Hell HQ buzzing for quite some time. Comrade Cohn destroyed more lives directly, but Comrade Vidal caused more widespread chaos and confusion. ¶ 4:27 AM
A vicious and bitchy battle for supremacy is likely to keep Hell HQ buzzing for quite some time. Comrade Cohn destroyed more lives directly, but Comrade Vidal caused more widespread chaos and confusion. ¶ 4:27 AM
