i get more and more convinced everyday that EVERYTHING is just political. All decisions are made in this simple algorithm:
A causes B B is bad A is bad C is a replacement for B C is good This logic is horrible on many, many levels. mostly it is no logic at all, but that isn't my subject here. there are two things no one ever cares to talk about: externalities co-dependencies (i probably have the word wrong for this) an externality is something that is created and put upon you as a side effect of something else. like in my subdivision now the old biddies are trying to kill off the snakes. these snakes have never hurt anyone as far as anyone knows, but they are big and snakelike. the old biddies are frightened from them. what do you think is going to happen to the rat population if they succeed? get rid of DDT, hundreds of millions will die from malaria. get rid of R12, send global warming through the roof. every answer that is about prohobition of any sort works on the bad logic above. and if you try to point this out to anyone making the argument, they will shout you down. what is called scientific research is nothing but regression analysis. econometrics. it works under a limited set of circumstance, but it mostly doesn't work. it's basically about drawing a graph. like, say you want to know the relationship between fat intake and heart disease. to simplify this model, say the only fat anyone in the usa eats is butter. so you see how many sticks of butter a lot of people eat and whether they get heart attacks. you discover that dudes who eat 10 sticks of butter a day are dropping dead left and right from heart attacks. you also discover that dudes who are eating 1 stick of butter a year seem to never get heart attacks. so you make a graph and shows you how heart attacks and butter correlate. and you call it "science". and anyone who disagrees gets shouted down. and you start giving everyone margarine instead and every doctor and government organization and school and whomever tells you to eat margarine to save your heart. after all, it is science. amazingly, everyone starts to live the scientific wisdom of the food pyramid, only they are now dropping dead faster and from more things than ever before. so now those with a vested interest in selling that margarine need to make ptolemaic adjustments to preserve the gospel "truth proven by science." only thing is that this isn't any science, but bullshit and the gospels are all just so much politics. in the end it's just an orwellian world and the government tells you who oceania has always been at war with and you need to sit down and shut up or someone will hurt you. and all discussion of politics, education, medicine, economics, society, race, et a all just becomes pontificated bullshit and shit down and shut up. only the ramifications get more and more serious every day as the sit down and shut up technology increases, so much so that the 20th century can be viewed really as just one wholesale bloodbath over bullshit. and if anyone of you are interested, i'll explain why the correlation between teh hearts attacks and the sticks of butter are no science at all. On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > Crank up your AC now, before you kill the planet. Those 140s with bad AC > will be rising in price since it won't matta no mo. "BLOWS ICE COLD" will > be a BAD thing. > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901817_pf.html > > Algore is comin ta gitcha. Run away! > > --R > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090719/a3641c32/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
