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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 9th April 2016, 01:01 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 12,091
Posted By gumboot
That was a bit of a turning point for me. I got...

That was a bit of a turning point for me. I got through the 15 or however many it was points... and realised what a mountain of evidence there was to refute each point, and realised that no one who...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 6th April 2016, 10:45 PM
Replies: 641
Views: 147,270
Posted By gumboot
Hopefully as fast as our environment is...

Hopefully as fast as our environment is changing...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 6th April 2016, 08:57 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 12,091
Posted By gumboot
I actually just wonder if it was a result of...

I actually just wonder if it was a result of people growing up and realising there were real problems in the world to deal with?

The popular mass of the 9/11 Truth Movement seems to have been...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 6th April 2016, 08:42 PM
Replies: 462
Views: 70,710
Posted By gumboot
In this context tilt is just asymmetrical drop....

In this context tilt is just asymmetrical drop. So they happened at the same time.
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 6th April 2016, 08:38 PM
Replies: 462
Views: 70,710
Posted By gumboot
Just as a backstory, the purpose behind the...

Just as a backstory, the purpose behind the graphic - and jaydeehess is quite right, it's only a (very simple) graphic, not a scientific schematic - was to use as a reference point for erroneous...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 6th April 2016, 03:07 AM
Replies: 462
Views: 70,710
Posted By gumboot
A very long time ago I created this simple...

A very long time ago I created this simple graphic to explain collapse progression. In the intervening years I've not come across any real need to modify it.
...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 6th April 2016, 03:02 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 12,091
Posted By gumboot
I haven't engaged a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist in...

I haven't engaged a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist in years. I just can't see the point. There's an ocean of evidence of what happened, and not a scrap of evidence for any alternative theory I've ever...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 31st March 2016, 05:02 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 8,265
Posted By gumboot
This touches on my issue with the entire concept...

This touches on my issue with the entire concept of utilising "terrorism" as a term or a label. Terrorism is simply a tactic, and it's relatively meaningless in terms of dealing with a specific...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 31st March 2016, 04:40 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 8,265
Posted By gumboot
I think you can make a legitimate argument for...

I think you can make a legitimate argument for some of the bombing campaigns of WW2 (by various belligerents) being terrorism. There is, however, one crucial argument against it which I think does...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 31st March 2016, 04:29 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 8,265
Posted By gumboot
IS attacks only really function as a form of...

IS attacks only really function as a form of terrorism when considering IS attacks against Muslim populations. At it's essence, terrorism is a socio-political tactic whereby civilians are targeted...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 08:44 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
This is a pretty sensible solution. If the real...

This is a pretty sensible solution. If the real threat is an ideology, and the real mechanism is billions of dollars being pumped into tens of thousands of extremist schools (and I think that's...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 08:35 PM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
Posted By gumboot
Those negative effects are limited to immediately...

Those negative effects are limited to immediately after the change, not a net result of the entire duration of DST. Car accidents actually decrease.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 08:26 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,655
Posted By gumboot
Was Chicken Little Right?

I have been musing on recent global events, which seem to have a decidedly negative flavour. Whether it's terrorism, instability in the Middle East, climate change, Corporate influence, or any range...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 07:34 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
The situation in Saudi Arabia is a bit more...

The situation in Saudi Arabia is a bit more complex than that. The Wahhabists and the Royals basically hate each other equally, but they tolerate each other, because each protects the other from the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 07:21 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
No, you condemn violent and hateful ideology. And...

No, you condemn violent and hateful ideology. And then you condemn anyone who promotes or acts on that ideology.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 07:10 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Bush is actually a really good demonstration of...

Bush is actually a really good demonstration of the notion that a stopped clock is right twice a day. Bush was an idiot, and nearly everything he said was idiotic, and the criticism of why he used...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:44 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Al Qaeda's first terrorist attack against the US...

Al Qaeda's first terrorist attack against the US was in Aden, Yemen on December 29th 1992, and their second was in New York on February 26th 1993. How can you possibly expect anyone to take you...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:35 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
You must have been asleep when ISIS seized a good...

You must have been asleep when ISIS seized a good chunk of Iraqi territory. Iraq is a member state of the United Nations, and entitled under Article 51 of the UN Charter to request that other nations...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:25 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
I'm just pulling this out again because this is...

I'm just pulling this out again because this is once again an example of a westerner projecting western values and concerns and getting it completely wrong.

Islamic Radicals didn't get pissed off...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:21 PM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
They're not, actually. Most of their recruits are...

They're not, actually. Most of their recruits are middle class and educated. Most of them are recruited in schools.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:17 PM
Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
Posted By gumboot
Kidnappers in New Zealand are unlikely to have...

Kidnappers in New Zealand are unlikely to have guns.
Forum: USA Politics 22nd March 2016, 05:24 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 4,921
Posted By gumboot
Most of the words the west use to describe these...

Most of the words the west use to describe these groups and their ideologies is completely wrong. It doesn't matter if you use "Radical", "Fundamentalist" or a host of other terms. It's not accurate....
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:18 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Yes. It's disturbing that...

Yes.







It's disturbing that you seem to genuinely believe something that's quite fundamentally untrue, and that anyone with even a passing familiarity with the organisations involved...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:08 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
It was actually explicitly written into the...

It was actually explicitly written into the construction contract that if war broke out the UK would keep the ships. A clause that was, as you point out, standard fare at the time.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 06:06 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
ISIS follows a particularly nasty interpretation...

ISIS follows a particularly nasty interpretation of Salafi Islam (also known as Wahhabism). And that's saying something because Salafism is already pretty nasty. It's main tenant is that the messiah...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 05:41 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
PhantomWolf you seem to be confusing the sort of...

PhantomWolf you seem to be confusing the sort of Islamic terrorism we saw in the mid to late 20th Century with the sort of Islamic Terrorism that really only emerged in a serious way right at the end...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 05:18 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Except that if you understand their ideology you...

Except that if you understand their ideology you realise that "their own" aren't their own at all, but are actually part of "us". If anything "their own" are worse than "us" because we're just...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 05:14 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Again with the western justifications based on a...

Again with the western justifications based on a western viewpoint. Do you actually know anything about the ideologies they adhere to?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 05:09 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
I was being deeply, scathingly sarcastic. Hence...

I was being deeply, scathingly sarcastic. Hence the "Oh hang on..." comment.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 03:42 AM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
Posted By gumboot
While DST was originally implemented for economic...

While DST was originally implemented for economic and energy efficiency reasons, the economic benefits are disputed, and if they even exist are very small.

However the benefits from DST to the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 03:30 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Very good point. Belgium gets what they deserve...

Very good point. Belgium gets what they deserve for their imperialist ambitions in the Middle East, and we can expect France to soon suffer further attacks in response to their retaliatory invasion...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 02:45 AM
Replies: 631
Views: 80,965
Posted By gumboot
Statistically, if a terrorist bombing occurs...

Statistically, if a terrorist bombing occurs anywhere in the world at the moment, the most likely perpetrators are Islamic extremists. Sure, other people commit terrorist bombings from time to time...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 01:27 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 13,706
Posted By gumboot
The Second Amendment relates to arms, not guns....

The Second Amendment relates to arms, not guns. Sidearms, firearms, armchairs, armbands, yardarms...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd March 2016, 01:24 AM
Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
Posted By gumboot
Huh? It says fat chicks are harder (more...

Huh?

It says fat chicks are harder (more difficult) to kidnap, not that they're less likely to be victims of attempted kidnapping, or that no one wants to kidnap them. The inference is clearly...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 06:43 AM
Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Posted By gumboot
That's how crime stats in the US are counted....

That's how crime stats in the US are counted. It's called the Hierarchy Rule.




So you learned something today.
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 21st March 2016, 06:16 AM
Replies: 294
Views: 25,969
Posted By gumboot
Given the collapses had totaled the water mains...

Given the collapses had totaled the water mains and virtually every fire truck in NYC, I struggle to believe FDNY could have actually fought the fire in WTC7 even if their lives had depended on it.
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 21st March 2016, 06:08 AM
Replies: 206
Views: 29,905
Posted By gumboot
I'm confused, if the Naudet documentary was...

I'm confused, if the Naudet documentary was staged days earlier, does that mean Joseph Pfeifer is in on it? What about his brother Kevin, who died in WTC1? Was he in on it too? How does that work?
...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 21st March 2016, 05:49 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 3,927
Posted By gumboot
However Mordor is in perpetual darkness thanks to...

However Mordor is in perpetual darkness thanks to Sauron, and also happens to be a blasted ash plain, so I think it's safe to assume there are no farms in Mordor. But then, geography was never...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 21st March 2016, 05:45 AM
Replies: 1,340
Views: 233,994
Posted By gumboot
Still haven't finished Heart of Darkness really...

Still haven't finished Heart of Darkness really is the literary equivalent of trying to ford a river of treacle. Crazy, illogical, badly made treacle.

Between attempts I finished a random fantasy...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 05:14 AM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
Posted By gumboot
Having everyone change their clocks on the same...

Having everyone change their clocks on the same arbitrary date, and keeping the same business hours, is far more manageable and less chaotic than having individuals and businesses arbitrarily change...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 05:06 AM
Replies: 166
Views: 16,562
Posted By gumboot
That's actually a myth, and more or less the...

That's actually a myth, and more or less the opposite of the truth. DST was first proposed by a New Zealander; George Hudson and the reasoning behind it was to provide more leisure time in the early...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 04:52 AM
Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Posted By gumboot
Are you sure about that? I find it hard to...

Are you sure about that? I find it hard to believe the Netherlands has passed legislation banning the watching of DVDs encoded to another region. No one else has a law like that.




I'd be very...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 04:44 AM
Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Posted By gumboot
Distribution rights have nothing to do with...

Distribution rights have nothing to do with copyright law; it's a contract between the content owner and the distributor, and it in no way binds the customer. If you use a proxy to access US Netflix...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 04:26 AM
Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Posted By gumboot
It's because it's the longest to dial, which...

It's because it's the longest to dial, which means you can't dial it too fast in a panic and then not get through. (Touch-dial phones reintroduced that problem).
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 04:23 AM
Replies: 147
Views: 19,182
Posted By gumboot
I know you didn't being up crime rates, but...

I know you didn't being up crime rates, but comparing crime rates between countries is absurd. The way countries report crime varies enormously. To demonstrate just how enormous that difference is,...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 03:57 AM
Replies: 619
Views: 76,752
Posted By gumboot
That's not particularly surprising. Flags are...

That's not particularly surprising. Flags are symbols, and their "value" is directly relative to the value of the thing they represent. New Zealanders will generally value the thing the NZ flag...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 02:56 AM
Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
Posted By gumboot
In my experience most "offensive" jokes only work...

In my experience most "offensive" jokes only work by satirising the world view they're exploiting. They don't reinforce discrimination, they ridicule it.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st March 2016, 02:49 AM
Replies: 169
Views: 19,417
Posted By gumboot
This entire issue makes me really, really angry....

This entire issue makes me really, really angry. There's now talk of measures such as DOC (the Department of Conservation, responsible for managing all of New Zealand's publicly owned conservation...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 11th March 2016, 09:24 PM
Replies: 149
Views: 23,384
Posted By gumboot
As a child, a friend of mine had a really nasty...

As a child, a friend of mine had a really nasty ear infection that resulted in a severe fever with pretty crazy hallucinations. He was convinced that his family and the doctors were actually alien...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 1st March 2016, 05:53 PM
Replies: 2,821
Views: 226,329
Posted By gumboot
Driverless cars are decades away. The "millions...

Driverless cars are decades away. The "millions of miles" that Google like to trumpet doesn't reveal that all of that driving has been done on a very tiny selection of pre-prepared roads. Currently...
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