The desperation is the message…
Source: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?dir=next&pil=AFDAFC&e=201310032155
Nice to know that the NWS is an essential service during the shutdown. What we get from NWS (for free) is probably the best bargain in government services.
h/t to Jess Ferrell
Quick calculation without taking into account the letters density in English language gave me the probability that this happened by pure chance is 1 to 3670344486987776.
Odds makers – what are the odds that the healthcare phone number “1-800-F**KYO” came up on a random ‘draw’ from a pool of numbers?
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Even more microscopic than the telephone anagram for President DingleBarry’s Obamacare … 1-800-F*CKUO. And that one’s for real, without that asterisk.
Disagree. I see some leftist climate bureaucrat playing propaganda games on the taxpayer dime, on taxpayer computers. Fire his ass. P.S. They actually do NOT have a sense of humor, trust me.
Well that character set exceeds the 26 letter alphabet even restricting it only to uppercase. Right there in that press release we see both integers and punctuation. I would bet it is 64 characters wide at the minimum which pushes that probability down to about one or two cat whiskers above zero.
Arrrgh. Typo. Should have been …
Even more microscopic than the telephone anagram for President DingleBarry’s Obamacare … 1-800-F*CKYO. And that one’s for real, without that asterisk.
What’s that, an appeal to popularity?!
Hopefully you had equally concerned messages to the (D)ummycrats that pushed Socialized Medicine all throughout 2010 against overwhelming anti-popular sentiment and then capped it off with Congressional games to get it to “pass” by a handful of votes. This bill didn’t even originate in the house!
Anyway, even to this very day you would lose any popularity measurement for this latest welfare plan called Obamacare. Yet you suddenly now discover the concept “popularity” and express concern, *after* the bill was rammed down our throats, in order to preserve it?!
Are you experiencing any cognitive dissonance at the present time? Just wondering, because if you are not then hypocrisy is in your genes and you just might be a leftist.
Dear Understandably Frustrated Blade,
You likely DID understand my post at 11:43, but, your journalizing of it, placing your quote of me just below your discussion of a vulgar phone number, makes this clarification necessary (for my peace of mind). For the record, my 11:43 am, today, post, refers to the PLEASE PAY US message (not the phone number).
Wow, Blade, yeah, these are serious issues, but WHAT IN THE WORLD happened to your sense of humor? Those WUWT guys you are so harshly snarling at ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
I hear you, Blade, about the e-vi-l puppet in the White House (and all the demonocrat schemes like taking over the healthcare industry). You have a FRIEND in me (too).
Now, if you would, please tell us a joke so we know the real Blade is back, okay?
Janice
Never mind, Blade. I wrote too hastily. I now realize that your bluntness and irritation were directed only at me and Ed Mertin not multiple W-U-W-T people. Please forgive my mistake. Thanks. J.
> Paul Vaughan says:
> October 5, 2013 at 9:12 am
> It seems the US government has finally found a way to shut down climate skeptic operations.
> Today I went to get updated sunspot numbers (needed for new calculations) and found this:
Have you tried http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/spot_num.txt or is that not the data set you normally use?
No sweat. But be advised I didn’t mean to send *any* bluntness or irritation to you at all. I strung those three comments together separate from the other one completely on purpose. None of the those three were I criticizing.
In your case I was just disagreeing with you that there was any sense of humor from the embedded leftists in federal agencies. It’s only my opinion but it is born out from the countless libs I have lived among for countless years. It is a rare one indeed that has a real sense of humor, they have no time to enjoy life because they are single-minded in their pursuit and worship of Socialism, which is another way of saying – my money.
I actually have a wicked sense of humor myself, but on this issue with the IRS now empowered to collect this “tax” quite possibly at gunpoint, it is no longer a laughing matter, well, unless one happens to be on the other side of the “argument” – the welfare culture of bums and illegal aliens who are now entitled to spend our money while screwing up our working system in the process.
Hey, Blade, thank you.
I agree completely with all you wrote about libs. They really are warped. There is NO helping them see the truth — they don’t WANT to see it. If you have to deal with them chronically, then you certainly MUST have a very good sense of humor — or you would have gone crazy long ago. “Rock is heavy and sand a burden, but the provocation of fools who can bear?” (I think it’s in Ecclesiastes).
Nice to connect with you.
Your friend and ally for truth and LIBERTY,
Janice
@Janice … Dittos!
If other NWSFOs aren’t seething with jealousy…..
Well played, Anchorage.
I think it’s time to look at past issues for other messages.
Shutdowns are customary when there are computer updates.
Obamacare became effective on Oct 1.
The NSA is absolutely nothing compared to the Affordable Care Act data hub information compiled on every American. Files from many government and state agencies are being combined to implement Obamacare. Activist agencies are then given access to these files, ostensibly as facilitators.
Blade says:
October 5, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Not quite – there’s a “1” somewhere in there too. Dial what you wrote and all you’ll connect to “We’re, but we cannot complete the call as dialed.”
I mentioned this on Tips and Notes a few days ago, I guess this is a good
thread to mention it too.
NOAA’s ENSO data is not being updated, so the ENSO meter on the right side is stuck on the value from mid september, conveniently enough 0.0.
http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/pdisp_sst.sh?ctlfile=oiv2.ctl&ptype=ts&var=ssta&level=1&op1=none&op2=none&day=24&month=aug&year=2013&fday=6&fmonth=oct&fyear=2013&lat0=-5&lat1=5&lon0=-170&lon1=-120&plotsize=800×600&title=&dir=
Australia’s BoM must be relying on something from NOAA, as http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/nino_3.4.txt reports:
20130826,20130901,0.04
20130902,20130908,0.12
20130909,20130915,0.09
20130916,20130922,0.04
20130923,20130929,0.00
As a previous post said, as a Libertarian, I would be ok with continuing NWS. For those who commented to the effect, “Too much time on their hands” and other sour notes, without trying to insult anyone, lighten up, guys. It’s clever, and in fun, and probably didn’t take all that long—so they’re hardly the waste of money that paying Hansen was at NASA—and it’s certainly entertained the lot of us! I can use a laugh, now and again.
However, I use this site for my weather…perhaps I’m a bit biased after 20 years in the Navy, but it’s the best there is (NOAA wishes they were this good, and if NRL has any pesky alarmists in the soup, I haven’t heard of them…). And though I retired just over a decade ago, I have a sailboat on the water and I live in the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the US. June to November, I spend a great deal of time gazing at satellite imagery.
Oh, and this one is still fully functional, and has tutorials. Enjoy the finest wx-guessing tool on the net:
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.html
As a retired NWS forecaster who wrote hundreds of these discussions, I can tell you that this product was most definitely planned to spell out the phrase. For one thing, it was entered into the system around 5 AM in the morning, so the person had plenty of time on the night shift to compose it just right. Although this example is a little more political than most I’ve seen in the past, the practice of fooling around with forecast discussion product has been ongoing ever since I began in the NWS in 1980. One person I knew was especially adept at getting the right side of the discussion exactly lined up vertically by choosing words so that the line ended in the same place. Another person liked to get the space between the period at the end of a sentence and the first word in the next sentence lined up so that they formed diagonals or straight lines. And before all of these discussions became public (mid 1990s) and were strictly internal products viewable only by NWS staff, it was much wilder with people frequently creating pictures with the text, like pumpkins for Halloween and Santa faces at Christmas!
They should put out the message-pay us or we will tell the truth about global warming. That will get them back on the payroll. Perhaps an encoded “its all BS” or “IMPEACH OBAMA”- good to see that it was deliberate.
Went through two and never noticed. Gotta watch those Midnight-8am shift dudes-Lol
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“Missed it by that much.” 😎
Proverbs 27:3 Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool’s [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them. Amplified Version
(And just for the fun of it ….
Proverbs 27:3 A nagh ghaH ‘ugh, je sand ghaH a burden; ‘ach a fool’s provocation ghaH heavier than both. Klingon Language Version 😎
Oh, Gunga Din, thanks. I was too lazy to look it up using a concordance. Love the KLV. That would be fun to hear read from the pulpit, heh.
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😎 You’re welcome.
Since you know what a concordance is I assume you study the Bible. You might want to add a few PC based tools to your “toolbox”. I use BibleWorks. It’s a great program but it’s expensive. PowerBible is a good program and cheaper. There are also free online tools such as Crosswalk.com. An advantage to some of the PC tools is that a search can be tied to the original language word rather than just the English word. They often also allow you search for a phrase.
(I think I better stop now before I exhaust the Mod’s patience.)
re: “That is hilarious! What are the odds of that happening by pure chance?”
Assuming equal distribution of 26 letters of the alphabet
(1/26.0)**11 = 2.7245398995795435e-16
This estimate needs improvement though; an equal distribution is not realistic.”
I get 1.37624 e-16 after adjusting for the distribution of first letters of words in English. The equal distribution assumption was right to within an order of magnitude.
Interestingly, if you’d adjusted merely for the frequency of English letters without regard for place within the word, that would be an improvement to the model (since it takes more factors into account) yet you’d have gotten a much worse answer – 3.513 e-15. Another example of how incremental improvements to a model can actually make the results worse.