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Comment on Dilbert, Skynet and the latest from the transparency front by Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:49:07 +0000

We have all watched judo or karate experts spar with an opponent. This sparring allows the expert to assess all the defence loops and response times used by the opponent. The opponent, with lesser skills, can not do as well. Thus the expert defeats the opponent.
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Comment on Science -Technology Roundup by Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:37:44 +0000

TED is correct in denying the so-called ‘fake science’ espousers a forum. Science is all about repetition and verification, whereby new discoveries are made, and in turn verified. The fake science seems based on a revenue generation model that gathers money from people with no ability to test and asses the blather they are funding. The funds are indeed spent and more money asked for because a new discovery is ‘just ’round the corner’, needing your pence to put it over the top.
These guys are experts at being charlatans and the language they couch their appeals for $$ in has enough warnings and escape clauses to avoid criminal charges.
I have a rich friend who has spent $50,000 on trying to perfect a free energy mechanism based on magnets and polyphase motors – all sprinkled with essence of Tesla – magical words indeed. I look at it, and it is pure fakery. I am a graduate engineer, but he believes this monkey and spends $$, so I have learned to tune him out, the $50,000 is a pittance to him – I hate to see it wasted.
Keep that crap off TED, or TED will become a fund raising arm of these fakers.
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Comment on Sensible Tax Reform, Wealth disparities.. and Gun Control by lwk2431

lwk2431 — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:42:46 +0000

Re gun control you wrote:

“But this set of graphics (Challenging the Myth that Guns Stop Crime) is effective when they take on some of the fibs being told by the NRA.”

Josef Goebbels was effective, but that doesn’t mean that what he said was true (and no, I am not comparing Mother Jones to Goebbels). The point is that pretty graphics look good, but in this case i think they leave out an important factor.

I remember many years ago people trotting out stats showing people killed by guns and the tiny percentage that involved self defense. One may challenge Gary Kleck’s exact numbers, but the point he makes is absolutely valid. A lot of people probably use guns in self defense and those are not reported to the police and do not end up in any official statistics. In some areas reporting a self defense with a gun would get you arrested a lot quicker than the criminal you were defending yourself against.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman makes some interesting points in his book “On Killing.” The majority of people will not shoot to kill, even to save their own life. That might explain why so many people may threaten an aggressor with a gun, but very rarely shoot him, or shoot to kill.

The theorized numbers for how often this happen are all over the place, from 60,000 or so a year to 2,500,000 a year that Kleck projected. The real number is probably in there somewhere. The studies with the lowest numbers in many case don’t count instances where the aggressor is simply threatened and leaves. It is probably impossible at this point to calculate how many of those would have escalated to actual violence if the defender didn’t have a gun.

Let’s just pull a number out, say 100,000 a year, a number suggested by one study. That’s still a lot of lives and property saved. Maybe the truth is more, but I doubt it is a lot less. Just remember a lot of violence is in low income neighborhoods and in a lot of those – like Chicago – owning a gun is itself a serious crime. Not likely to get reported. And of course some of those self defense scenarios may be a less than reputable citizen defending against another similar citizen and neither wanting the police involved in their affairs.

If anyone is telling fibs I am not convinced the NRA has any sort of monopoly on that.

lwk
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