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dantes said:
Because they're on several hundred thousand a year rather than several million.
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When I struggle to sleep at night thinking of the injustice in the world, the one that really irks is when the ridiculously wealthy pay a lower effective tax than the incredibly wealthy. It's a good thing Trump, who routinely pays no federal tax, addressed that with his tax changes.
 
A funny scene from movie edited by Ali G for maximum laughs: legit evidence.

The FBI's child porn agent investigating biden's laptop: fake news, a conspiracy, trump did it.
 
dantes said:
A funny scene from movie edited by Ali G for maximum laughs: legit evidence.

The FBI's child porn agent investigating biden's laptop: fake news, a conspiracy, trump did it.
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If I said I found child porn on your computer then handed a laptop to the police, the fbi would look into it.
 
Where on earth did you get the idea that they lock up paedophiles? Now that I think about it, it probably makes financial sense to enter a guilty plea, walk out of court with a suspended sentence, and straight into a queue of billionaires ready to hand you money for access to your supply.
 
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dantes said:
Like imagine it as two columns. On the left you have questions about the world. On the right you have tools you need to find answers. Those tools were built by people who wanted to answer the questions. Building those tools is fucking hard, Einstein and Feynman level hard. You have to live in the left hand column, and now and again throw out your findings into the right hand column.

What people don't get is science has now taken the easy and fake route of living in the right hand column. Mastering other people's tools. Making a living off the back of it. That's fine, but they will never answer another question about reality again. Which is a problem when something like a pandemic shows up and now all of a sudden your life is on the line, and all of your bullshit tools won't save you.
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So, to sum up, you don't think there is any continuous, or even any, methodological progress, and that scientists today are entangled in the methodological, and not having the problem of study as their priority. To me, this separation is too simplistic. Method and what you study has always been intertwined and influential of each other in a dynamic manner.

However, I agree that science has been politicised past recognition the last decade in particular here in Scandinavia where I live. And thus that method, and questioning method, due to political biases(and support), has become a battleground for "truth" and science, rather than what is the topic of study. I don't agree with your total generalisations though, that science is dead.
 
Most of the media is ignoring the emails found in Hunter Biden’s laptop, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t news. Joe Biden has an obligation to answer questions about his son’s influence-peddling and his own financial dealings—notably regarding China.

The New York Post last week obtainedthe contents of a laptop purported to belong to Hunter. The Post has been transparent that it obtained its copy of the hard drive from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who says he received it from the owner of a Delaware computer-repair shop, where it was abandoned in 2019. Mr. Biden derides this as a “smear campaign,” while House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff calls it without evidence “Russian disinformation.”

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Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says the government has no intelligence to support the disinformation claim. A repair-shop order from April 2019 contains Hunter’s name and what appears to be his signature. The shop owner supplied a subpoena showing the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI in December 2019. And the Biden campaign hasn’t said the emails are phony.

The emails regarding Hunter’s business in Ukraine have been widely reported. But as intriguing is a May 2017 email thread that includes a discussion about “remuneration packages” for six people as part of a business deal with a now-defunct Chinese energy titan, CEFC China Energy. The Chinese company was international news a few years ago, after the U.S. government charged a CEFC-funded organization with money laundering, and its CEO was detained by Chinese authorities. CNN reported in 2018 that “at its height” CEFC was “hard to distinguish” from the Chinese government.

According to the emails, both Bidens were in line in 2017 to benefit from a deal with CEFC. One email appears to identify Hunter Biden as “Chair/Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.” It also refers to financial payments in terms of “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?”

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Fox News says it has confirmed the veracity of the email with one of its recipients and that sources say the “big guy” is Joe Biden. An August 2017 email from “Robert Biden” (Hunter’s legal first name) crows that the original deal was for $10 million a year in fees, but that it had since become “much more interesting to me and my family” because it included a share of “the equity and profits.” The Biden campaign says the Veep’s tax returns don’t show any involvement with Chinese investments.


The Democratic-media refrain is that even if these latest emails are real—again, the Bidens don’t deny their authenticity—they fail to prove Mr. Biden broke any law. But felonies aren’t the minimum standard for political behavior. Mr. Biden was a private citizen in 2017 but was considering a presidential run. A transaction that would have made him—or his son—partners with an entity tied to the Chinese government raises questions about judgment and how he would handle China as President.

Joe Biden ought to clear the air on this China business in his own political interest. Is he the “big guy” in the email? What happened with the deal? China will be one of Mr. Biden’s toughest foreign-policy challenges, and the unexplained documents won’t go away once he’s elected. If Republicans hold the Senate, you can bet there will be more digging.

President Trump, as usual, is muddying the story with inappropriate demands that the Department of Justice investigate a potential crime. But the real burden here should be on Mr. Biden and the press. Perhaps Joe Biden wasn’t involved, and Hunter was using his father’s name to advance his own business interests. But it’s also possible that Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC business and was unwilling to tell his son that he couldn’t trade on his father’s name and position.

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Whatever the truth, the public deserves better than Mr. Biden’s Trump-like dismissal of the CBS reporter who so far is the only one brave enough to ask about the emails
 
I think what we need to do is to weigh up the crimes committed by Biden and Trump and see which one would serve the smaller sentence. Whoever gets out sooner should be president. After they've done their time, of course.
 
Athens said:
I think what we need to do is to weigh up the crimes committed by Biden and Trump and see which one would serve the smaller sentence. Whoever gets out sooner should be president. After they've done their time, of course.
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No. You have to pick a side and ignore the fact that your team is crooked too.
 
tomasjj said:
So, to sum up, you don't think there is any continuous, or even any, methodological progress, and that scientists today are entangled in the methodological, and not having the problem of study as their priority. To me, this separation is too simplistic. Method and what you study has always been intertwined and influential of each other in a dynamic manner.

However, I agree that science has been politicised past recognition the last decade in particular here in Scandinavia where I live. And thus that method, and questioning method, due to political biases(and support), has become a battleground for "truth" and science, rather than what is the topic of study. I don't agree with your total generalisations though, that science is dead.
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No exactly, not the method but the theory which ultimately explains what you are studying. Those theories are built upon complicated tools and techniques. Like Newtons' theory of motion is built upon calculus. So if you study the pandemic, it will take you a year to even begin to guess at the theory which explains it, more years to come up with experiments to test the theory, and then if you're in luck you can express your theory using existing modelling techniques or established mathematical frameworks. Otherwise you need to invent your own modelling technique which correctly represents the pandemic. This takes years. At the end you've published a handful of papers.

The alternative is to pick the pandemic as a field of study where the money is right now, then select a modelling technique off the shelf that you are familiar with, and apply it to the pandemic. This is utterly stupid. But it's what happens. You've finished the job in a few weeks or months. And by the end of the year you've had a few dozen publications "expanding the knowledge" of how to apply for example Monte Carlo simulations to pandemic growth. Because you seem to have done a lot of work, you get more money, to do more work, and more money, more work, and so on. So research funds gravitate towards scientists that take this utterly stupid approach, and now the entire sector is dominated by it.

So dantes may have developed the correct theory for particulate engineering. Asks for some money, the funding body turns around and says sorry dantes you ain't an expert, professor dumbass over there is far more active in the field, look at all his papers, we're giving the money to him, dantes says what the fuck man, I've solved particulate engineering, he didn't, why are you funding something that is a waste of time when... you know what, fuck you, I don't even give a fuck about particulate engineering, I was only trying to help you out with my genius, particulate engineering ain't my problem, it's yours, good luck with that. In future I'll use my genius to solve the financial markets, at which point you'll suddenly want to know how I did that thing won't you, and then I'll happily invite you over and tell you to go fuck yourself.
 
Is there any point reading articles about Biden in the NY Post or watching Hannity on Fox, its bound to be scewed pro Trump in any case.
 
The article I posted is from Wall Street Journal.
But in any event there's no point in you reading anything
 
dantes said:
No exactly, not the method but the theory which ultimately explains what you are studying. Those theories are built upon complicated tools and techniques. Like Newtons' theory of motion is built upon calculus. So if you study the pandemic, it will take you a year to even begin to guess at the theory which explains it, more years to come up with experiments to test the theory, and then if you're in luck you can express your theory using existing modelling techniques or established mathematical frameworks. Otherwise you need to invent your own modelling technique which correctly represents the pandemic. This takes years. At the end you've published a handful of papers.

The alternative is to pick the pandemic as a field of study where the money is right now, then select a modelling technique off the shelf that you are familiar with, and apply it to the pandemic. This is utterly stupid. But it's what happens. You've finished the job in a few weeks or months. And by the end of the year you've had a few dozen publications "expanding the knowledge" of how to apply for example Monte Carlo simulations to pandemic growth. Because you seem to have done a lot of work, you get more money, to do more work, and more money, more work, and so on. So research funds gravitate towards scientists that take this utterly stupid approach, and now the entire sector is dominated by it.

So dantes may have developed the correct theory for particulate engineering. Asks for some money, the funding body turns around and says sorry dantes you ain't an expert, professor dumbass over there is far more active in the field, look at all his papers, we're giving the money to him, dantes says what the fuck man, I've solved particulate engineering, he didn't, why are you funding something that is a waste of time when... you know what, fuck you, I don't even give a fuck about particulate engineering, I was only trying to help you out with my genius, particulate engineering ain't my problem, it's yours, good luck with that. In future I'll use my genius to solve the financial markets, at which point you'll suddenly want to know how I did that thing won't you, and then I'll happily invite you over and tell you to go fuck yourself.
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Haha! I enjoyed that!
Although, pandemics, and models relating, have been developed prior to COVID.
And, while I agree it takes time to do science in the right manner, in relations to your method/theory thesis here, if your house is leaking, you fix the roof first, then you start on the new house.
 
tomasjj said:
Haha! I enjoyed that!
Although, pandemics, and models relating, have been developed prior to COVID.
And, while I agree it takes time to do science in the right manner, in relations to your method/theory thesis here, if your house is leaking, you fix the roof first, then you start on the new house.
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Or if your house is leaking, you can burn it down, blame any kids who died of smoke inhalation for not escaping in time, and marvel at how you always wanted to live in the great outdoors anyway.
 
Rosco said:
Most of the media is ignoring the emails found in Hunter Biden’s laptop, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t news. Joe Biden has an obligation to answer questions about his son’s influence-peddling and his own financial dealings—notably regarding China.

The New York Post last week obtainedthe contents of a laptop purported to belong to Hunter. The Post has been transparent that it obtained its copy of the hard drive from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who says he received it from the owner of a Delaware computer-repair shop, where it was abandoned in 2019. Mr. Biden derides this as a “smear campaign,” while House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff calls it without evidence “Russian disinformation.”

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Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says the government has no intelligence to support the disinformation claim. A repair-shop order from April 2019 contains Hunter’s name and what appears to be his signature. The shop owner supplied a subpoena showing the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI in December 2019. And the Biden campaign hasn’t said the emails are phony.

The emails regarding Hunter’s business in Ukraine have been widely reported. But as intriguing is a May 2017 email thread that includes a discussion about “remuneration packages” for six people as part of a business deal with a now-defunct Chinese energy titan, CEFC China Energy. The Chinese company was international news a few years ago, after the U.S. government charged a CEFC-funded organization with money laundering, and its CEO was detained by Chinese authorities. CNN reported in 2018 that “at its height” CEFC was “hard to distinguish” from the Chinese government.

According to the emails, both Bidens were in line in 2017 to benefit from a deal with CEFC. One email appears to identify Hunter Biden as “Chair/Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.” It also refers to financial payments in terms of “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?”

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Fox News says it has confirmed the veracity of the email with one of its recipients and that sources say the “big guy” is Joe Biden. An August 2017 email from “Robert Biden” (Hunter’s legal first name) crows that the original deal was for $10 million a year in fees, but that it had since become “much more interesting to me and my family” because it included a share of “the equity and profits.” The Biden campaign says the Veep’s tax returns don’t show any involvement with Chinese investments.


The Democratic-media refrain is that even if these latest emails are real—again, the Bidens don’t deny their authenticity—they fail to prove Mr. Biden broke any law. But felonies aren’t the minimum standard for political behavior. Mr. Biden was a private citizen in 2017 but was considering a presidential run. A transaction that would have made him—or his son—partners with an entity tied to the Chinese government raises questions about judgment and how he would handle China as President.

Joe Biden ought to clear the air on this China business in his own political interest. Is he the “big guy” in the email? What happened with the deal? China will be one of Mr. Biden’s toughest foreign-policy challenges, and the unexplained documents won’t go away once he’s elected. If Republicans hold the Senate, you can bet there will be more digging.

President Trump, as usual, is muddying the story with inappropriate demands that the Department of Justice investigate a potential crime. But the real burden here should be on Mr. Biden and the press. Perhaps Joe Biden wasn’t involved, and Hunter was using his father’s name to advance his own business interests. But it’s also possible that Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC business and was unwilling to tell his son that he couldn’t trade on his father’s name and position.

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Whatever the truth, the public deserves better than Mr. Biden’s Trump-like dismissal of the CBS reporter who so far is the only one brave enough to ask about the emails
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Sooo...


There is no suggestion a law was broken? but the issue here is the Bidens dealing with companies abroad and so what would that mean in terms of their dealings with the govt of that country?

If the FBI have had this info for over 6 months now and just sat on it, or decided not to anything then maybe there isn't a legal issue.
Plus this doesnt mention the pedo accusations Dante keeps going on about.. is that even a real thing.
 
Atlas said:
Sooo...


There is no suggestion a law was broken? but the issue here is the Bidens dealing with companies abroad and so what would that mean in terms of their dealings with the govt of that country?

If the FBI have had this info for over 6 months now and just sat on it, or decided not to anything then maybe there isn't a legal issue.
Plus this doesnt mention the pedo accusations Dante keeps going on about.. is that even a real thing.
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The New York Post published scanned images of documents proving the FBI had the laptop. Because they're not very bright, you could tell what was written on the reverse side of the paper by zooming into the image. That's how the repair shop guy got made. It's also how the name and signature of the FBI agent was found as belonging to Joshua Wilson, who's been working on child porn for his entire career. Then you have Giuliani who says he saw the contents of the laptop and is now calling him a nonce for all intents and purposes. I'd guess the files include pictures of kids from family photos or something, the repair guy assumed the worst, the FBI sent their child porn guy to come and collect it, and that was the end. But we have an election to win, so you don't give that corrupt son of a bitch the benefit of the doubt. Shoot first, ask questions later.
 
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