Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I haven't ever seen one. Care to cite an example? It seems very weird to me. I would accept a meta-analysis or a review paper which collated references to the work. A list of 'co-authors' tells me very little. I can't easily find the specific paper that apparently meets one of the 7 criteria, or indeed see which of the 7 criteria it apparently supports.
It is certainly possible to re-interpret the findings of others, but without providing any context, just a long list of people, it seems very much a 500-strong 'appeal to authority'.The list is taken from the book written by Singer and Avery, which cites the work of the 500 scientists (note it's not 500 articles, it's 500 authors who have contributed to a much smaller number of research pieces). I haven't read it and know nothing about it, but I'd be dubious as to its quality.
No doubt Heartland are using it to their political advantage, but I presume the people to attack there are Singer and Avery, who made the original claims.
The list on the Heartland web site isn't the original work, or even the full reference list, which is what some people here have claimed.
(Note, please don't take me as a climate change denialist or supportive of it. I just think when we shoot them down, we should do it based on what they've actually done).
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I think part of the point is one compiles bibliographies of research, not bibliographies of scientists.
(If they did that, I'm sure that some scientists would feel their research was being misrepresented and be upset too - and I assume they would know best.)
But if you download the Heartland pdf it's nothing but a list of names. It doesn't actually mention what papers their conclusion might be based on.
This page has a link to the list of scientists, and a link to the articles with the scientists listed underneath the references. I don't know where it fits in their original release of information, but it's the page linked to by their response on scoop.
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I've read it. Apart from rollling around playing victim, Heartland doesn't provide any real justification for its actions. It really just makes it worse.
I read it too. I don't know how they've used their original statement, but just reading it I didn't have a problem with it. They've compiled a bibliography of 500 scientists whose research, they claim, indicates something. They were quite clear that they were doing a survey of the research, and that the scientists didn't support Heartland's position. It might have been slightly misleading, but it didn't strike me as grossly misleading or completely dishonest.
Scientists compile these types of research surveys all the time. This one might be not very well done, but I don't see why scientists are demanding not to be on the list. Surely they should just point out what their research says, and if the research that Heartland is promoting falls over because it's badly done, that's life.
You can't publish something and then demand that people not use it in their work. You can just counter them when they use it badly.
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Do you own a name if it was "forced" on you by your parents? Feel free to take proper ownership by giving yourself a new first name.
My sister went through some sort of re-evaluation of her name as part of her finding-my-identity stage as an adult. She went from spelling it as Fiona to Ffyona, as a reclamation I guess. Which must mean she has to spell it for everyone when she gives it to them.
We gave our kids both our surnames hyphenated - we felt it was a bit of a cop out at the time - but they are, AFAIK, the only "Levitt-Campbell"s on the planet - now I'm very glad we did it
For my first child I agreed he could just have his mother's surname, as she was opposed to hyphenated names, and I've regretted it since really. My second child has a hyphenated name (different mother) which is much more satisfactory.
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(once you add the 'Princeton' thing, which, given the number of typographical errors the type-written thesis, has already gone on to complaints about Affirmative Action)
They're attacking her for her bad typing? Does America have an affirmative typing action programme that they've been keeping secret? Is good typing a requirement of getting into Princeton?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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For example the Narn I Chin Hurin - it's got all the elements you need. A curse, a family split apart, unrequited love, incest, and suicide (actually make that suicides) to name but a few.
I just read that last week in sunny Rarotonga. My brother asked me if it was any good. "Well, I'm on the second to last page and pretty much everyone has either been killed or killed themselves. Oh wait, last page, another one's dead."
It'd make Once Were Warriors look like a happy cheery family movie.
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Ironically, he might win the popular vote there by half a percent, get exactly the same number of delegates as if he lost it by half a percent, and one way it'd still be game on, and the other it'd be the ball game.
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I am so glad you used an apostrophe there.
Ah. It was a close thing actually. The other meaning of the word isn't really part of my vocabulary.
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Before we installed it, I did the math, and discovered that it would never pay for itself, if the cost of the capital is included. It was basically a break even scenario - ie the amount of money saved on electricity bills equals the interest costs on the $7000 required to install it (either paid on borrowed money, or not gained on invested money).
Presumably this will change for the better if the units get cheaper (or you install when building), or as electricity gets more expensive.
Personally I think they should be subsidised. The more of them we put in houses, the less new power generation we need to build.
Do people with solar panels on their roof now - what do they do with any surplus electricity during the day? I can't imagine all of them put it back into the grid, do they sink it into batteries, or does it just get lost?
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Well... he won't be needed for The Hobbit, but I imagine he'll make some appearance in the second - didn't he & the rangers track Gollum down for Gandalf? (um... been close to 35 years since I read it)
The things that Aragorn does between hobbit and LOTR are meet Gandalf, serve for 20something years in the armies of Rohan and Gondor, and then spend 15 or so years hunting Gollum, finding him in the Dead Marshes. I can't see a major theme in a movie there.
It's going to need to be bumped way up to make it a significant part of a hollywood movie.
In practical terms, if Aragorn was to be a major part of the movie, I think they would have negotiated with Viggo by now, and we would have heard something. If that's the hook the movie is going to hang on, and Viggo isn't on board, you've announced a movie that is going to lose a major star who played the role in three previous movies. Serkis and McKellen were both on board before they announced a director.