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    william.scherk
    william.scherk

    Posted

    On 2/23/2020 at 1:06 PM, Jon Letendre said:

    [1] Here is your insult:  “the visuo-spatially inept Jonathan.”

    [2] I haven’t asked you to hurl insults at Bob, you incompetent liar.

    [3] I asked you to backup your insults toward Jonathan.

    Back up your insults toward Jonathan.

    Can you back up your insults, Asshole? Doesn’t look like you can, so far.

    So far it looks like you make up all your insults from thin air.

    Show us one error Jonathan made in this long, complex visuo-spatial discussion, just one, Shit-for-Brains, so we can all see that you do not lie right through your teeth ... show us one error Jonathan made ... 

    https://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/topic/16950-where-are-you/

    1. You are wrong – inept or lying – again. I didn’t use that v-word, numskull. That he failed to solve the coin rotation paradox is evidence of ineptness and is not made from “thin air.”

    2. You said: “Bob Chatzaf says he logically proved there can be no such passages, and further, he says that “drawings are crutches for the logically feeble.” Are the people on that thread “logically feeble” and he their cognitive superior, as he insists? We need your help, Merlin.”

    Given your strong preference for insults as substitutes for rational arguments, ‘nuff said.

    3. You are very fond of double standards. Why don’t you demand that Jonathan backup his insults of me? I posted the Wikipedia page about the coin rotation paradox on this thread. For that he called me “visuospatially and mechanically inept,” which was wholly baseless and arbitrary. Moreover, given that he failed to solve the paradox and I succeeded, which one of us is inept?

    Backup your insults of me, hypocrite.

    Your insult is baseless, potty mouth. I didn’t refer to anything Jonathan said about the “1-mile S-W-N” riddle, lame brain.

    william.scherk

    Posted

    I see. Jon unwittingly reveals his dominant motive for visiting OL. It is not to learn or discuss, but to hurl crap and insults at other people he hates and know he is a "snake." He is so disappointed that I won't join him in his hurling crap and insults at BaalChatzaf, who may not even read them. Foul-mouthed Jon's pseudo-self-esteem remains in need of a big boost. He'd have a much better chance of a boost by begging Jonathan, MSK, or Ellen. 😄

    william.scherk

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Jon Letendre said:

    Excellent, Merlin.

    Now do this one ...

    https://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/topic/16950-where-are-you/page/4/?tab=comments#comment-284304

    Bob Chatzaf says he logically proved there can be no such passages, and further, he says that “drawings are crutches for the logically feeble.” Are the people on that thread “logically feeble” and he their cognitive superior, as he insists? We need your help, Merlin.

    Elon Musk's Favorite Riddle  I have no desire to sling arrows at BaalChatzaf. He hasn't posted here in 4 months. He is getting up there in years. Give him a break.  

    william.scherk

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

    Now, the warming specifically of the Arctic might be cause for worry.  However, the details of CO2-as-driver theory don't do the job of explaining what's happening in the Arctic.  The anomaly distribution and warming patterns are discrepant with the theory - giving alarmists another headache (like "the hiatus") to scrabble to find ways to fit into their paradigm.

     
     
    By the way:
     
    william.scherk

    Posted

    On 2/14/2020 at 12:23 PM, Jon Letendre said:

    It is explained in the article. Find the word “illusion.” Merlin falls for the “illusion” then struggles to get back up, and thinks you might, too, that’s all.

     

    On 2/14/2020 at 12:34 PM, Jon Letendre said:

    You are supposed to be dazzled by the outcome that the moving coin has done a 360 while going, not all the way around, but merely halfway around, the static coin.

     
    No, fabricator. I didn't fall for an "illusion" and said nothing about being being dazzled. I dared the conceptually and mechanically inept Jonathan to explain why what happens does happen. He failed. You and Brant also didn't explain why or even feel it was needed. I'm not surprised. None of you saw the significance of the center of the moving coin. Déjà vu.
     
    Analysis and Solution
     
    Why does the moving coin make two rotations? From start to end the center of the moving coin travels a circular path. The radius of that path is twice either coin's radius. Hence, the circumference of the path is twice either coin's circumference. How much the moving coin rotates around its own center en route, even if none, or in what direction -- clockwise, counterclockwise, or some of both -- has no effect on the length of the path. That the coin rotates twice per the description on Wikipedia makes a distraction.
     
    william.scherk

    Posted

    22 hours ago, Jonathan said:

    That's false. MSK answered your questions.

     

    21 hours ago, Jonathan said:

    Btw, Merlin, don't you have something better do in your doderage?

    Isnt there another Wikipedia page that you can destroy with your stupidity?

    Ha ha ha  ha ha ha.  

    You are still a lying, obnoxious ignoranus.  
     
    Doderage? Are you senile?
     
    Here's your chance to improve or mutilate Wikipedia.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_rotation_paradox  Edit the page to explain why the phenomena happens.  I bet you can't do so correctly and without help. But you can show your stupidity to many people not on OL.
    william.scherk

    Posted

    On 2/11/2020 at 10:09 AM, Jonathan said:

    do you have any insights as to why Trump has changed his position?

     

    On 2/11/2020 at 12:38 PM, merjet said:

    Do you? Ask MSK, moron. Maybe he'll tell you what he pretends to know about what's on Trump's mind.  He didn't or wouldn't tell me anything relevant. Mere word games and smoke screens. Nothing about planting trees or bigger subsidies.

    Still no answers.

    william.scherk

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    You didn't get it.  Fine by me.

    Heh. I get it fine. You either can't or don't want to explain:
    - why Trump declared that the U.S. will join the pledge to plant a trillion trees that intake carbon dioxide, and
    - why Trump signed legislation to hand out much bigger subsidies to companies for sequestering carbon dioxide, increasing one subsidy from $10 per ton to $35 per ton and another subsidy from $20 per ton to $50 per ton.

    Maybe Trump succumbed to little Greta at Davos.  🙂

    The video of Scott Adams you posted was mostly a big waste of time. The part you alleged as relevant turned out to be a smoke screen. I’m not interested in your word games or your ploys to dodge my question. 

    william.scherk

    Posted

    On 2/7/2020 at 10:17 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    So let me take another swing.

    He thinks President Trump is a climate change fanatic?

    Questions, questions...

    Strike two. Here comes a change-up pitch. Maybe. 🙂 Why does President Trump seem concerned enough about climate change to say "nothing's a hoax" and do the two things I referenced to fight it? Are they mere vote chasing? 

    william.scherk
    william.scherk

    Posted

    MSK: "Are you just blanking out the data shenanigans or do you really believe nothing goes on?"

    What data shenanigans? Just because the government is a customer of Amazon Web Services, there must be shenanigans? Where is the evidence?

    Are you just blanking out all the shenanigans between the Trump Organization and governments before he was President? Is the Trump International Hotel lease with the government shenanigan-free? Do you believe nobody employed in the Trump Organization, e.g. maids, gets food stamps?

     

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    william.scherk

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    Merlin,

    Not really. I am against them being in bed with the government.

    But if they get in bed and start doing the government's bidding, they lose their high moral standing.

    Yes, really. For example: https://kdvr.com/2018/09/07/bernie-sanders-introduces-bill-targeting-worker-pay-at-amazon-walmart/

    And Amazon having government as a customer is "in bed with the government"? What's next? A company that sells office supplies to any part of government is "in bed with the government"?  A building owner that leases space to any part of government is "in bed with the government"? And that some of its employees having received food stamps puts Amazon "in bed with the government"?

    By such criteria Donald Trump was "in bed with the government" and "lost his high moral standing" before running for President.

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    william.scherk

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    The argument is if taxpayers are going to pay substantial sums of money for a corporation to exist, the taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for the corporation's employees to eat because the corporation pays lousy wages and finds an unearned loophole for charity handouts from the government to cover the cost. 

    Wow. You sound like Bernie Sanders.

    william.scherk

    Posted

    19 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

    Using the peripheral activities of the political party operative to update your estimate  show that you are  a Bayesian   at heart.   Good show. 

    A person who adhered to the frequency theory of probability and statistics would require at least 30 Florida races under the prevailing conditions to either keep his null hypotheses (Trump wins)  or rejecting it and taking the alternative hypothesis (Hillary wins). 

    Ah, you are a subjectivist. And the issues are way more complicated than your overly simplistic portrayal. Interpretations of Probability.