tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post5903165371035016737..comments2023-10-31T03:18:26.963-07:00Comments on Great Guys Weblog: Hurricanes and San Diego SunsetsBrethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-39096125781315156662017-10-07T18:54:29.642-07:002017-10-07T18:54:29.642-07:00Looking forward to the Bret model. Looking forward to the Bret model. erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-14179618130566074602017-10-07T18:07:23.908-07:002017-10-07T18:07:23.908-07:00Someone's already made one:
https://www.youtu...Someone's already made one:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMeA_3Z2foE<br /><br />But I can do better! :-)Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-50107357123778230552017-10-07T17:26:10.653-07:002017-10-07T17:26:10.653-07:00I don't want a check, large or small, I want a...I don't want a check, large or small, I want a flying pig drone and you can name it erp (electronic removal pig).erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-90613309869828639432017-10-07T16:55:20.591-07:002017-10-07T16:55:20.591-07:00Though I suppose I'd have to send Skipper a ch...Though I suppose I'd have to send Skipper a check as well since he first mentioned the flying pig idea on this thread.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-35756870871931402342017-10-07T16:53:41.651-07:002017-10-07T16:53:41.651-07:00erp,
LOL!
You know, I just might do that. Farmer...erp,<br /><br />LOL!<br /><br />You know, I just might do that. Farmers have a limited sense of humor generally, but I think that would be exactly in the sweet spot of their sense of humor.<br /><br />If I do the flying pig anti-bird drone and it sells, I'll send you a (smallish) check.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-21611402616797321832017-10-07T16:51:12.567-07:002017-10-07T16:51:12.567-07:00Clovis wrote: "I guess you could as well pate...Clovis wrote: "<i>I guess you could as well patent it and make some money too.</i>"<br /><br />Possibly. A closely related product already exists in somewhat rudimentary form. Birds are an ENORMOUS problem for farmers, especially for berries and related edibles. So there are products that are drones that are pre-programmed to go to a bunch of way-points while emitting sounds that predators of those birds make. They help some, but you either need a lot of drones or the birds just go wherever the drone isn't. (Prior to drones, many farmers would build falcon nests to entice birds-of-prey to come nest there and drive off the parasitic birds and they still do this.)<br /><br />My version of the product would use vision to detect the birds and keep harassing them until they were beyond some range (i.e. away from my decks). The same product could be more efficient than the existing bird drones for farmers because it would only expend energy on being aloft when there're actually birds to chase.<br /><br />I'm guessing it's not patentable though. Too many of the pieces are too obvious and/or already in existence. That doesn't necessarily make it a bad product. Patents aren't all that critical for products like these.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-45978427175843444082017-10-07T15:49:15.221-07:002017-10-07T15:49:15.221-07:00Bret, make your drone look like a flying pig, and ...Bret, make your drone look like a flying pig, and put me down for a couple and add a poop on command feature please.<br /><br />Clovis, in order for a hypothetical to be of any interest, there must something that makes sense. I don't know where you got the sentences you quote and I don't care. I am against the government giving our tax dollars to anyone or entity. Government's duties and responsibilities are spelled out and there is no reason for public servants step outside of them.erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-42247912881654742322017-10-07T14:38:11.742-07:002017-10-07T14:38:11.742-07:00Bret,
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I'm actually thinking of automating...Bret,<br /><br />---<br />I'm actually thinking of automating a drone such that everytime a seafull comes near my decks, it takes off and drives them away. It'd have to be a BIG drone to drive away a flying pig!<br />---<br /><br />Hey, now that's an interesting idea. I guess you could as well patent it and make some money too. Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-14086473375246435852017-10-07T14:25:58.737-07:002017-10-07T14:25:58.737-07:00Skipper,
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Having read that article, and the co...Skipper,<br /><br />---<br />Having read that article, and the comments, in detail, I am utterly at sea as to help you diagnose Harry's beliefs (your words), as opposed to erp's or my statements. So please, by all means, help me out here.<br />---<br /><br />It is a long article, and I am not sure I remember now all the relevant passages, but below I quote one of them.<br /><br />I guess I've meant that Harry, upon detecting the contradictions posed below - which are part of yours, and Erp's, discourse in previous discussions we had (to the best of my memory) - I can understand why he may end up believing his charge of racism.<br /><br />Notice I am not saying this validates his charges though.<br /><br />Quote of the article:<br /><br />----<br />But there are ways to neglect black liberty that are subtler than the white nationalism of the Confederatistas. Think about the different ways that market liberals and libertarians talk about “welfare” from how they talk about other kinds of government redistribution. There’s no talk of the culture of dependence among farmers, although they receive far more government aid per capita than do the urban poor. Libertarians absolutely and clearly oppose corporate welfare, but they don’t do so in the paternalistic language that corporate welfare recipients are morally hurt by being on the dole. The white welfare state of the 1930s-60s that channeled government support for, e.g., housing, urban development, and higher education through segregated institutions has a way of disappearing from the historical memory; the degrees earned and homes bought get remembered as hard work contributing to the American dream. But too many libertarians and their market-oriented allies among postwar conservatives treated the more racially inclusive welfare state of the 1960s and 70s as different in kind. White recipients of housing subsidies hadn’t been imagined to become dependent, non-autonomous, or unfree. When the FHA was insisting that neighborhoods be segregated in order to be eligible for mortgage or building subsidies, it contributed a great deal to the racial wealth gap that persists to this day. No free-marketeers of the era felt the need to engage in brave, politically incorrect inquiries into the lower intelligence of new white homeowners that might explain their long-term dependence. But once the imagined typical welfare recipient was a black mother, welfare became a matter not just of economic or constitutional concern but of moral panic about parasites, fraud, and the long-term collapse of self-reliance.<br />----Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-43272325233210838032017-10-07T13:57:50.326-07:002017-10-07T13:57:50.326-07:00Skipper,
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There is a serious problem with your...Skipper,<br /><br />---<br />There is a serious problem with your hypothetical: it is contrafactual.<br />---<br /><br />That can't possibly be a problem. By definition, hypotheticals need to have no relation to facts or reality.<br /><br />Were I interested on Erp's opinion on pigs flying, I would as easily ask. <br /><br />What problem do you see with hypothetical discussions, if that's what the speaker intended?Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-54222435002787867332017-10-05T09:42:24.261-07:002017-10-05T09:42:24.261-07:00Yeah, flying seagulls are bad enough on the poop f...Yeah, flying seagulls are bad enough on the poop front. Though flying pigs would be kinda cool!<br /><br />I'm actually thinking of automating a drone such that everytime a seafull comes near my decks, it takes off and drives them away. It'd have to be a BIG drone to drive away a flying pig!Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-80827660912402801542017-10-05T09:22:46.115-07:002017-10-05T09:22:46.115-07:00What Skipper said. As for the the flying pigs, th...What Skipper said. As for the the flying pigs, they wouldn't bother me if they didn't poop on my head.erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-50855126890934990752017-10-05T07:35:26.662-07:002017-10-05T07:35:26.662-07:00[Clovis:] Suppose someone could prove, beyond a sh...<i>[Clovis:] Suppose someone could prove, beyond a shadow of doubt, the hurricane that hit your home was a consequence of man made climate change. <br /><br />Would you feel any different about the loss (and all the bother) you had? </i><br /><br />There is a serious problem with your hypothetical: it is contrafactual. Not impossible, in the sense that proof of such a thing could, in theory, exist; but, in fact, impossible to obtain. Rather, it is contrafactual because it presumes the potential existence of something — changes in hurricanes due to climate change — which does not exist at all. <br /><br />According to NOAA, thus far there has been absolutely no detectable trend in the location, severity, or quantity of hurricanes due to any climate change that has occurred so far.<br /><br />None. Nada. Zilch.<br /><br />Might as well pose this to erp: Suppose there were flying pigs. How much would you spend on steel umbrellas?<br /><br />Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-7698385091781334762017-10-05T07:27:20.417-07:002017-10-05T07:27:20.417-07:00[Clovis:] It helps me to understand why Harry beli...<i>[Clovis:] It helps me to understand why Harry believes Erp and Skipper are 'racists' (his words - he said he won't come back to GG due to that belief, and kind of expelled Skipper from his blog.) </i><br /><br />Harry is a flagrant, unrepentant, liar.<br /><br />And the article to which you linked is absolutely <i>no</i> help in providing understanding why Harry believes erp & I are racists, for exactly the same reason why <a href="http://restatingtheobviousmaui.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/racists-and-cars.html#comment-form" rel="nofollow">this discussion</a> was completely fruitless. Harry promiscuously slings that nasty slur about, and has never, not even once, given the courtesy of substantiating it.<br /><br />(Moreover, Harry's charge is particularly rich, considering this: <a href="http://dailyduck.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/stringed-along.html#114296617383664121" rel="nofollow">I've said all along that I do not believe that Muslims in general and Arab Muslims in particular are capable of popular self-government.</a>)<br /><br />Just so here. You say this article helps you understand. Ok. How, exactly? Which parts of it, compared to things erp or I actually said, yields such a thing?<br /><br />Having read that article, and the comments, in detail, I am utterly at sea as to help you diagnose Harry's beliefs (your words), as opposed to erp's or my statements. So please, by all means, help me out here.<br /><br />(BTW, Harry expelled my from his blog because he got tired of being called out for his ignorant mistakes and outright lies — of which, on request, I can provide hundreds of references. He just tossed out the r-word as a pretext.)Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-37381690365442415392017-09-22T18:01:36.012-07:002017-09-22T18:01:36.012-07:00Good question. I would say only sentient entities ...Good question. I would say only sentient entities can be deceitful and a comparative is not sentient.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-64222206910182016162017-09-22T13:12:43.836-07:002017-09-22T13:12:43.836-07:00Thanks for the lesson, Bret.
Though, if we are go...Thanks for the lesson, Bret.<br /><br />Though, if we are going through all the subtleties here, I wrote "The comparative is deceitful there". I would be accusing the comparative, not you, of being deceitful. Can it acquit me?Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-39426499560540217992017-09-22T11:30:47.578-07:002017-09-22T11:30:47.578-07:00deceitful
adjective
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given to deceiving
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int...deceitful<br /><br />adjective<br />1.<br />given to deceiving<br /><br />2.<br />intended to deceive; misleading;<br /><br />--------------<br /><br />The first definition is kinda circular, the 2nd definition has "intended" as the first word. If one follows the circular definition, I don't think my statements quite qualify as deceitful.<br /><br />While "misleading" is given as a synonym, but I think it's a superset of "deceitful." If I write a statement that might lead someone to a false conclusion but I didn't do it intentionally, then it's misleading. If I did it intentionally, then it's both misleading and deceitful.<br /><br />But I'm not a vocabulary expert, so what I just wrote may not be correct. Or, more accurately, it's correct for what I mean and I think I've described common usage, but I may be wrong.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-54687195401784793142017-09-22T11:10:35.507-07:002017-09-22T11:10:35.507-07:00Bret,
Does the word "deceitful" imply i...Bret,<br /><br />Does the word "deceitful" imply intent? If so, that was not my intent :-)Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-80159181239314434332017-09-22T10:46:51.279-07:002017-09-22T10:46:51.279-07:00Clovis wrote: "The comparative is deceitful t...Clovis wrote: "<i>The comparative is deceitful there.</i>"<br /><br />Deceitful? I assure you it was not my intent to deceive. :-)Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-55531272405091559962017-09-22T09:12:43.264-07:002017-09-22T09:12:43.264-07:00Did you read the article, Erp?Did you read the article, Erp?Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-40131808987699516482017-09-22T07:29:41.487-07:002017-09-22T07:29:41.487-07:00Harry's arguments don't hold up. That'...Harry's arguments don't hold up. That's why he can't converse with those of us who believe it is racist to support AA and the teachers' unions who state that black kids can't learn arithmetic or English grammar or to vote for a candidate based on enhanced melanin.<br /><br />Who are the crony capitalists I believe deserve our tax dollars? erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-59153316404811639912017-09-22T06:59:12.919-07:002017-09-22T06:59:12.919-07:00No, erp, you only show aversion to cronysm when it...No, erp, you only show aversion to cronysm when it is connected to politics you dislike, mainly Democrats.<br /><br />Upon seeing <a href="https://niskanencenter.org/blog/black-liberty-matters/" rel="nofollow">this article</a>, I could not help but remember of our many discussions here. <br /><br /><br />It helps me to understand why Harry believes Erp and Skipper are 'racists' (his words - he said he won't come back to GG due to that belief, and kind of expelled Skipper from his blog.)<br />Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-20548564361991129282017-09-22T06:53:07.589-07:002017-09-22T06:53:07.589-07:00Ridiculous. I have repeatedly said I am against ...Ridiculous. I have repeatedly said I am against any government interference outside the constitutional responsibilities. I haven't had any cronies in government since Jefferson.erphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-28983484659353519592017-09-22T06:03:44.454-07:002017-09-22T06:03:44.454-07:00Erp,
Of course you will run from the argument, fo...Erp,<br /><br />Of course you will run from the argument, for the point is not that you are against Big Corp candies, as long as they play for your preferred cronies.Clovishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08921327103613284595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-61149738230709820722017-09-22T04:46:09.853-07:002017-09-22T04:46:09.853-07:00That 's an argument not worthy of JHS kids. I...That 's an argument not worthy of JHS kids. Ierphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826044412670324694noreply@blogger.com