Comments on the "head-in-sand" crowd....

Such people have been happening for a very long time, so I'm not sure I'd c all it extreme exception. People like it I think largely because it's remar kable how single individuals working alone sometimes manage to outdo entire research teams. It's not ego, it's ingenuity. Who doesn't like that.

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It doesn't happen often. Continental drift and hector pylori are the only e xamples I can come up with from recent decades.

uals working alone sometimes manage to outdo entire research teams. It's no t ego, it's ingenuity. Who doesn't like that.

It's easier to think outside the box if you aren't in the same box as all t he other thinkers. Preconceptions need to be examined from time to time - b rain-storming is famously aimed at getting people out of the familiar rut, but there's a tendency to emphasise the comic content and lose the search f or incongruity.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

Too much rage-y goo-goo gaa-gaa talk, too. It's amusing for a while, but eventually wears thin. Doesn't really impress or frighten anyone, either.

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bitrex

That's you!

Actually, it does. Snowflakes never grow up.

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Krw knows this the same way he knows anything - it got programmed in a whil e ago, and once something has been programmed into krw's processing it isn' t going to get changed, but it will get re-radiated at frequent intervals.

Cue discussion on simple memes as virus-like entities - if you host enough of them you haven't got any processing capacity left to check them for self

-consistency or consistency with the real world. And it doens't look as if krw ever had much processing capacity to start with.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

Jamie - being an idiot - hasn't bothered to identify any of my facts as "made up". He'd find it difficult. Trump's tweets are clearly dumb - though Jamie might not be bright enough to realise this - and his staff clearly can't stop him broadcasting them.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

Cursitor Doom is too dumb to notice that Jamie hadn't bothered to identify which of my "facts" might have been made up, which Jamie might have found d ifficult, because none of them are "made up". Jamie might well be too dumb to have noticed that Trump's tweets are dumb, but that doesn't alter the fa ct.

Cursitor Doom is much too dumb to make up his own facts - he lets the Daily Mail and Russia Today do it for him.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

Some alternate reality where I use the words "idiot" and "moron" every other post, I guess. Good news is that like Twitter there's an objective historical record of Usenet available that makes "alternative facts" difficult to support

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bitrex

Except when a Socialist is the mathematics professor that introduced complex quantities into electrical engineering with a number of now-classic books on AC analysis. Charles Proteus Steinmetz; ever heard that name before?

Honestly, a little fact-checking could improve credibility, TRY IT.

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whit3rd

Cursitor Doom's credibility is zero, and he doesn't have the wit to improve it, or to realise that he needs to.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

Well, above, we have an example of a socialist moron answering an communist idiot, both snowflakes.

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krw

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ough of them you haven't got any processing capacity left to check them for self-consistency or consistency with the real world. And it doens't look a s if krw ever had much processing capacity to start with.

Krw hasn't got the intellectual capacity to realise that "socialist" and "c ommunist" are two different words for two substantially different political philosophies.

I'm not a communist, and I think that communism are remarkably stupid way t o run a country, as I've mentioned here from time to time. I'm pretty sure that bitrex shares that opinion.

So krw once again comes across as the moronic idiot discussant, who is stup id enough to think that he can call his intellectual superiors either moron s or idiots. It does label him as a fool, not for the first time.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

You are not dealing with a fall deck yourself.

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M Philbrook

As if Jamie could recognise and correctly identify the 52 different cards ...

Jamie is even lower than Cursitor Doom in the pecking order. At least Cursitor Doom doesn't waste our time with anti-vaccination propaganda, or claims that un-pasteurised milk is good for you.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill.sloman

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