Greetings good citizen, part of the reason nothing gets...not a good word again so I'll punt and insert 'fixed' is 'worldview'.
Why does the media take the widest possible view especially after rapacious capitalism causes a fatal incident like the failure to properly maintain the jet engine that exploded, killing a passenger and injuring several more.
We could explore the world of subcontractors that bid competitively on the lucrative contracts to overhaul these critical pieces of infrastructure and how the tendency to let certain factors slide because they 'almost never' fail and have a significant impact on operating profits...which most management compensation plans use to measure manager's compensation.
[In case you were wondering why jet engines blow up and what 'capitalism' has to do with it...] It's the same thing that drives a capitalist to add melamine to baby formula (to boost profits.)
Do I need to remind you again that ALL money is 'funny' and profits can only be measured in 'benefits to society' because dollars and cents are MEANINGLESS!
Se habla mismanagement? No comprehende? Figures...
Well, your worldview is broken and as an adult there isn't much that can be done to repair it because the 'refusal' to correct ignorance is the precise reason stupid is permanent.
Watched an episode of Nova last night that spotlighted the 'feud' between Bill Nye (the science guy) and Joe Bastardi, a Penn State meteorologist and the darling of conservative climate deniers.
While I believe global warming is being driven by the build up of iron in the sun's core made worse by carbon sequestration, the climate alarmists wrongly believe we can do something about it and the truth is we can't. As has been repeatedly demonstrated, one feeds the other [the gradual warming is releasing previously sequestered greenhouse gases, which the burning of fossil fuels is 'contributing to'.
At BEST we can slow it down but we can't stop it and it's a fools game to even try. Even the far side of a temporary condition like nuclear winter would result in 'scorched earth' that nature would NEVER recover from.
Supposing the, er, 'thaw' we are experiencing is being driven by 'cosmic forces' such as increased cosmic radiation as our solar system moves through it's quarter of a million year long orbit around the center of the galaxy [during which, as far as anyone can tell, the polar ice sheets both melt completely at least twice...and it's the ice sheets that provide us with 'proof' of global warming [if they melt completely your 'evidence' disappears, although not completely. The fossil record tells us that the ice caps disappeared at least twice...but they don't tell us conclusively WHY.]
We DO know that for most of it's existence our planet, when it wasn't bleeding lava, is actually just OUTSIDE the fabled 'Goldilocks zone' and has spent most it's history partially covered in ice.
[Unlike conservo-whackos, I'm not telling you what to think, I'm just giving you something to think about. The Galactic year is too long and civilization is too short to know ANYTHING for certain. What I point to above is what the evidence suggests. [Newly discovered 'Dark Matter' may play a larger role than any of us suspect in our highly politicized battle over 'human caused' climate change.]
So we return to the subject at hand, worldview.
In particular, yours.
Que sera, sera, am I right? What happens, happens and I don't sweat the details because it ain't up to me! That's how most of you pass your time here...it's also why this place is a stinking cesspit. [YOU may have found a 'pleasant-ish' corner to watch the world go by from but it's been getting seedier and grimier with each passing decade, hasn't it? Will YOUR kids find such a place? Not likely and what then?]
I know the answer is the same as it ever was, 'not my problem'.
I'm not going to throw stones because I'm no better than you, I sit here stirring the pot but nothing more...and when it's time to act I might even sound the alarm [as I have been with frightening regularity] but I am guilty of actually doing nothing besides belaboring the obvious for the not particularly observant.
Since this is a slow motion train wreck, pulling the trigger too early would be catastrophic...for all parties involved. I'm not in a position to actually change anything [with the minor exception of minds, that I do have access to, albeit limited.]
It is here we face the age old conundrum of the horse, you can lead one to water but you can't make it drink.
Now I leave you with your own conundrum, horsie...
Thanks for letting me take you to the river...
Gegner
PS: your 'worldview' matters more than you think!
Why does the media take the widest possible view especially after rapacious capitalism causes a fatal incident like the failure to properly maintain the jet engine that exploded, killing a passenger and injuring several more.
We could explore the world of subcontractors that bid competitively on the lucrative contracts to overhaul these critical pieces of infrastructure and how the tendency to let certain factors slide because they 'almost never' fail and have a significant impact on operating profits...which most management compensation plans use to measure manager's compensation.
[In case you were wondering why jet engines blow up and what 'capitalism' has to do with it...] It's the same thing that drives a capitalist to add melamine to baby formula (to boost profits.)
Do I need to remind you again that ALL money is 'funny' and profits can only be measured in 'benefits to society' because dollars and cents are MEANINGLESS!
Se habla mismanagement? No comprehende? Figures...
Well, your worldview is broken and as an adult there isn't much that can be done to repair it because the 'refusal' to correct ignorance is the precise reason stupid is permanent.
Watched an episode of Nova last night that spotlighted the 'feud' between Bill Nye (the science guy) and Joe Bastardi, a Penn State meteorologist and the darling of conservative climate deniers.
While I believe global warming is being driven by the build up of iron in the sun's core made worse by carbon sequestration, the climate alarmists wrongly believe we can do something about it and the truth is we can't. As has been repeatedly demonstrated, one feeds the other [the gradual warming is releasing previously sequestered greenhouse gases, which the burning of fossil fuels is 'contributing to'.
At BEST we can slow it down but we can't stop it and it's a fools game to even try. Even the far side of a temporary condition like nuclear winter would result in 'scorched earth' that nature would NEVER recover from.
Supposing the, er, 'thaw' we are experiencing is being driven by 'cosmic forces' such as increased cosmic radiation as our solar system moves through it's quarter of a million year long orbit around the center of the galaxy [during which, as far as anyone can tell, the polar ice sheets both melt completely at least twice...and it's the ice sheets that provide us with 'proof' of global warming [if they melt completely your 'evidence' disappears, although not completely. The fossil record tells us that the ice caps disappeared at least twice...but they don't tell us conclusively WHY.]
We DO know that for most of it's existence our planet, when it wasn't bleeding lava, is actually just OUTSIDE the fabled 'Goldilocks zone' and has spent most it's history partially covered in ice.
[Unlike conservo-whackos, I'm not telling you what to think, I'm just giving you something to think about. The Galactic year is too long and civilization is too short to know ANYTHING for certain. What I point to above is what the evidence suggests. [Newly discovered 'Dark Matter' may play a larger role than any of us suspect in our highly politicized battle over 'human caused' climate change.]
So we return to the subject at hand, worldview.
In particular, yours.
Que sera, sera, am I right? What happens, happens and I don't sweat the details because it ain't up to me! That's how most of you pass your time here...it's also why this place is a stinking cesspit. [YOU may have found a 'pleasant-ish' corner to watch the world go by from but it's been getting seedier and grimier with each passing decade, hasn't it? Will YOUR kids find such a place? Not likely and what then?]
I know the answer is the same as it ever was, 'not my problem'.
I'm not going to throw stones because I'm no better than you, I sit here stirring the pot but nothing more...and when it's time to act I might even sound the alarm [as I have been with frightening regularity] but I am guilty of actually doing nothing besides belaboring the obvious for the not particularly observant.
Since this is a slow motion train wreck, pulling the trigger too early would be catastrophic...for all parties involved. I'm not in a position to actually change anything [with the minor exception of minds, that I do have access to, albeit limited.]
It is here we face the age old conundrum of the horse, you can lead one to water but you can't make it drink.
Now I leave you with your own conundrum, horsie...
Thanks for letting me take you to the river...
Gegner
PS: your 'worldview' matters more than you think!
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