Comments on: Hide the Decline — Kiwi Edition http://www.threedonia.com/archives/16606 These are our principles. If you don't like them, we have others... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Republibot 3.0 http://www.threedonia.com/archives/16606/comment-page-1#comment-57926 Republibot 3.0 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:47:20 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=16606#comment-57926 Neither here nor there, but there's an old Isaac Asimov story about a computer technician immediately after the end of a war with aliens that, had we lost, would have been the end of the human race. We won entirely because of him, and he goes on about the problems of properly processing the information since none of it was terribly accurate - contractors underestimated costs, birth estimates were always wrong, resources were always mismanaged by war profiteers, and of course there was graft and corruption everywhere. All the info was so corrupt as to be useless, so ultimately he just sidestepped the entire 'computing' process and made all decisions by flipping a coin. This whole East Anglia/Kiwi thing reminds me of that. Neither here nor there, but there’s an old Isaac Asimov story about a computer technician immediately after the end of a war with aliens that, had we lost, would have been the end of the human race. We won entirely because of him, and he goes on about the problems of properly processing the information since none of it was terribly accurate – contractors underestimated costs, birth estimates were always wrong, resources were always mismanaged by war profiteers, and of course there was graft and corruption everywhere. All the info was so corrupt as to be useless, so ultimately he just sidestepped the entire ‘computing’ process and made all decisions by flipping a coin.

This whole East Anglia/Kiwi thing reminds me of that.

]]> By: Matt Helm http://www.threedonia.com/archives/16606/comment-page-1#comment-57886 Matt Helm Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:36:12 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=16606#comment-57886 You'd think the kiwis would know better with what is happening off their southern shores. This is a little too much of a significant indicator that global warming is a crap of bull. After all these years since the LOTR crews packed up and left, they're still in fantasy mode down there. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_new_zealand_icebergs You’d think the kiwis would know better with what is happening off their southern shores. This is a little too much of a significant indicator that global warming is a crap of bull. After all these years since the LOTR crews packed up and left, they’re still in fantasy mode down there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_new_zealand_icebergs

]]> By: Stosh from da Sticks http://www.threedonia.com/archives/16606/comment-page-1#comment-57880 Stosh from da Sticks Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:16:44 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=16606#comment-57880 The money quote from New Zealand's Climate Science Coalition: "We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It’s a disgrace." The money quote from New Zealand’s Climate Science Coalition:

“We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand over the past 156 years was indeed man-made, but it had nothing to do with emissions of CO2—it was created by man-made adjustments of the temperature. It’s a disgrace.”

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