Google thinks we’re only entitled to seeing Google’s “facts,” especially on climate change
Guest essay by Ron Arnold
With its $385 billion share value, Google, Inc. has bumped ExxonMobil to become America’s No. 2 ranked company in market capitalization.
That may not be a good thing. A February article in New Scientist announced, Google wants to rank websites based on facts, not links, and writer Hal Hodson said, “The internet is stuffed with garbage. Google has devised a fix – rank websites according to their truthfulness.”
Not surprisingly, the idea of changing page rank from popularity to “truthfulness,” based on a Google-made “knowledge vault,” did not go down well.
Fox News reported, “Google’s plan to rank websites is raising censorship concerns.” Douglass Kennedy opened with, “They say you’re entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts. It’s a concept not everyone is comfortable with.”
They’re saying we’re only entitled to Google’s “facts,” which completely short-circuits how slippery “facts” can be and naively equates facts with truth. Ask any lawyer about truth.
Today’s climate wars consist of arguments between highly qualified scientists about facts that some sincerely believe are true, and some sincerely believe are false, each for solid reasons. It should be an honest debate among equals, but it’s degenerated into a power play by alarmists to kill debate to drive favored public policies that are pushed by certain politicians and their social and political base.
Google’s truth plan is not so simple. Facts are statements about existence. Statements about existence can be true or false. Existence itself – your kitchen sink or the climate or whatever – can’t be true or false; it just exists. Say anything you want about existence, and it won’t change a thing. It still just exists. Existence doesn’t give a damn what you think about it. Facts are statements about existence, and statements are always arguable.
But get everyone to believe Google Facts, and you can enforce political policies worth trillions of dollars to climate profiteers – and impose punitive, economy-strangling, job-killing regulations on millions of families.
You can see where this is going.
Imagine: Big Google the Universal Truthsayer. That’s as scary as “Mr. Dark” in Ray Bradbury’s 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, only worse. It’s the perfect machine to kill all dissent and wither the Internet into a wasteland of groupthink, susceptible to disinformation campaigns from any power center from the CIA, to the rich bosses of Google, Inc. to Google’s political friends and allies.
What about those rich bosses? Google’s two co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created a corporate foundation in 2005. The Google Foundation has 2013 assets of $72,412,693, gave grants of $7.9 million, and added $29.4 million from corporate profits.
Three of Google’s top-ten recipients are key climate alarmists: the World Wildlife Fund ($5 million); Energy Foundation ($2.6 million); and rabidly anti-fracking Natural Resources Defense Council ($2.5 million).
NRDC is particularly influential because it also received $3.01 million in taxpayer-financed Environmental Protection Agency grants since 2009 and has 50 employees on 40 federal advisory committees: NRDC has 33 employees on 21 EPA committees, and more in six other agencies.
The big gun in Google philanthropy is Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose Schmidt Family Foundation ($312 million, 2013 assets) is a major armory for groups that attack skeptics of dangerous manmade climate change. The Schmidt Foundation has given $67,147,849 in 295 grants to 180 recipients since it was endowed in 2007.
Top Schmidt money went to Climate Central ($8.15 million), a group of activist climate scientists bolstered by $1,387,372 in EPA grants since 2009.
Schmidt also gave $3.25 million to the Energy Foundation, which was almost superfluous, since EF is practically the Mother Ship of green grants, with $1,157,046,016 given via 28,705 grants to 11,866 recipients since 1999.
Among the shadier grants in the Schmidt portfolio are anti-fracking, anti-fossil-fuel grants totaling $1.19 million to the Sustainable Markets Foundation, a shell corporation that gives no recorded grants, but funnels money to climate and anti-fracking organizations such as Bill McKibben’s 350.org, so that the donors are not traceable.
Schmidt supported the far-left Tides Foundation empire with $975,000 for an anti-consumer film, “The Story of Stuff.” It gave the Sierra Club $500,000 for anti-natural gas activism, the Center for Investigative Reporting $985,000 for an anti-coal film, and so forth. Schmidt’s list goes on for pages.
With all the massive resources of wealth and power alarmists have, we must ask: Why do they give so much to destroy the climate debate and the debaters? What are they afraid of?
Perhaps they have staked so much money and reputation on manmade climate catastrophe claims that they are terrified by the prospect that inconvenient evidence, data, debate and scientists could destroy their carefully constructed climate house of cards.
Or perhaps it’s what Eric Schmidt said at January’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, when he was asked for his prediction on the future of the web. “I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear.”
How? The mature technology will be wearable, give us interactive homes and cars, and simply fade into the background – to become something that we all have, that most of us don’t really know (or care) very much about, as long as it can do whatever we want.
That’s the view from the pinnacle of wealth and power. On the ground, the joke is on Google.
Michael Humphrey, Forbes contributor and instructor at Colorado State University, sees younger people abandoning the public forum in favor of one-to-one connectivity. He says they don’t trust the Internet.
Why? Millennials say the Internet is cheapening language, it is stunting curiosity (because answers come so easily), we are never bored so we lose creativity, it steals innocence too quickly, it makes us impulsive with our buying and talking, it is creating narcissists, it creates filter bubbles that limit discovery, it hurts local businesses, it is filled with false evidence, it desensitizes us to tragedy, it makes us lonely.
They want the real world.
Google that.
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Ron Arnold is Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and coauthor of Cracking Big Green: Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine.
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If you guys are worried, think about the home school crowd. or the anti vaxers.
The ones who shoud relly be worried, if *truth* was to be doled and metered out, should be the climate crisis hypesters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_18:38
‘The Greek word rendered as “truth” in English translations is “aletheia”, which literally means “unconcealed” and connotes sincerity in addition to factuality and reality.’
One last idea on this. Those intolerant of dissident ideas should consider what one of the great minds of the 20th century observed:
““It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
Like the bell telephone monopoly, Google will have to be broken up.
Microsoft and Google should both be broken up. They are too large to be constrained by competition.
But in the short-term, Google could provide better customer service by offering both options to the user:
Set the search to “Official truth” or “Most linked and interesting”.
Let everyone get what they want.
If Google abuse their near monopoly to prevent that option – break them in two.
Google already degraded their search ability when they suddenly eliminated the highlighting of words you are seeking in a document. Now, instead of scanning for the relevant paragraphs, one has to tediously go over the entire documents to find information.
It has made my work absolutely hellishly harder and I am a speed reader.
Or just nationalize it. The Affordable Search Act.
Nationalise Microsoft first.
Their Windows 8 debacle caused inefficiency for every business that fell for it. yet an operating system is vital infrastructure. It shouldn’t be left to a private company that needs to make large changes to force upgrades without any competitive pressure.
A single, stet controlled and standardised operating system would help people who want a computer to help them in their work. Microsoft works for nerds who see the computer as the product – for most of the economy the real products are the work done on a computer.
You might notice that the Baby Bells have all been reabsorbed into one large structure- AT&T, which was all along, their planned response to the mandated breakup. A large part of the communications revolution since then has been, not so much because Bell stood in the way of progress, but that innovators began to creatively think about alternatives.
Quite some time before the breakup, the American people were subjected to a massive propaganda campaign which made the old phone company out to be “the” evil corporate entity. Hardly a movie or TV show was produced which didn’t include at least one joke or proselytizing statement against the phone co.
We’ve all been here before (and often.)
AT&T was hellish back then, I had several battles with them. And they owned EVERYTHING. You were not allowed to own a telephone, we rented the stupid things. It was awful.
It was indeed awful. Of course the reabsorbed AT&T has started to go back down that path. The difference this time: When their billing process started getting opaque, I was able to dump them in favor of a cable company provided line. I grew weary of the fixed rate bill varying by up to 10% month to month.
You’re both right, the phone company was beyond awful.
In hindsight, it’s sort of a chicken and egg thing. The collective outrage of millions of customers who’d dealt with the empire was manifested in the popular media, which fanned the flames ever higher. The entire AT&T breakup issue provides the opportunity for great insight into the psyche of mankind, both individually and when we form ourselves into organizations.
WANTED TO GOOGLE! VOW! TRY IT!
A test on a simple truth question search on Google:
I Googled “is CO2 pollution?”
The first thing (first 2) that came up was SKS definition:
“Greenhouse gases including CO2 unquestionably fit the Clean Air Act’s broad definition of “air pollutants,” and must be listed and regulated by the EPA if it can be determined that they endanger public heath and/or welfare.
Alternatively, the definition of “pollution” from Encyclopedia Brittanica is:
“the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.”
Thus legally in the USA, CO2 is an air pollutant which must be regulated if it may endanger publich health or welfare. And according to the encyclopedic definition, CO2 is a pollutant unless our emissions can be stored “harmlessly.”
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I Googled “ is carbon dioxide a pollutant?” The Weather Underground came up number 1. Here is their definition:
Is Carbon Dioxide a pollutant?
“The fossil fuel industry points out in their ads that carbon dioxide it essential for both plant life and human life. Is it wrong, then, to label carbon dioxide as a pollutant? The definition of pollution in Webster’s dictionary is “to make physically impure or unclean: Befoul, dirty.” By that definition, carbon dioxide is not pollution. However, Webster’s also has the definition: “to contaminate (an environment) esp. with man-made waste.” Carbon dioxide is a waste gas produced by fossil fuel combustion, so can be classified as man-made waste. One can also make the case that carbon dioxide is contaminating the environment, since increased CO2 from burning fossil fuels has already harmed sea life. Carbon dioxide, when dissolved in sea water, is deadly to shell-building microorganisms that form an important part of the food chain in some cold ocean regions. The extra CO2 lowers the pH and make the water too acidic for these organisms to build their shells. As I reported in my blog on Acidifying the Oceans, the observed increase in acidity of 0.1 pH units during the past century due to fossil fuel burning, and expected continued acidification in the coming decades, could cause a massive die off of marine life and collapse of the food chain in these ocean areas. Based on these arguments, the fossil fuel industry’s slogan, “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution, we call it life!” could just as truthfully be phrased, “Carbon dioxide. We call it pollution, and we call it death.” One need only look at our sister planet, Venus, to see that too much “life” can be a bad thing. There, an atmosphere of 96% carbon dioxide has created a hellish greenhouse effect. The temperatures of 860 F at the surface are hot enough to melt lead. There’s not too much life there!
Crediting fossil fuels for our economic prosperity
The fossil fuel industry ads point out that the burning of fossil fuels has brought dramatic increases in wealth and prosperity to the world. This is a good point, and we should not seriously damage the basis of the world economy through reckless efforts to cut CO2 emissions. We can credit a good portion of the marvels of modern civilization to the availability of cheap fossil fuels to power our technological revolution. However, we shouldn’t get all misty-eyed about the wondrous things we’ve accomplished by using this ready source of energy left for us by the fossilized plants of Earth’s past. Any technology can bring about terrible suffering if used unwisely. Consider that fossil fuels have also made possible the horrors of modern warfare. The tanks of Hitler’s blitzkrieg–and the aircraft that have dropped the bombs that have killed millions of innocent people this past century–were all powered by fossil fuels. Air pollution from fossil fuel burning has killed millions as well. We need to be honest about both the importance of fossil fuels, and the dangers they pose if used unwisely. The threat of climate change due to burning fossil fuels needs to be addressed truthfully, so that we can make wise decisions about the future of our energy technology. The untruthful new ad campaign by the fossil fuel industry is harmful to this end.”
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“Is Carbon Dioxide a Pollutant?” In order of appearance on my Google search:
1. Weather Underground
2. Skeptical Science
3. Skeptical Science
4. Scientific American: “The Worst Climate Pollution Is Carbon Dioxide”
5. plantsneedco2.org: “Of all the myths quoted, calling carbon dioxide a pollutant is the worst – it simply is not true!”
6. wattsupwiththat.com: “Skeptics are winning the battle to reject CO2 as the only cause of warming, but losing the war to the misrepresentation of CO2 as a pollutant.”
The Scientific American article is an eye opener.
Just sayin…
Google is a private firm. Let them do what they want. Their only obligation is to their shareholders.
If you rely on the internet for your facts about the world, you are ignorant. The internet is mainly an echo chamber. Just a bunch of people and special interests shouting the same stuff over and over and over. Weak minds think that the loudest voices are speaking the truth.
For example, when you read about Neville Chamberlain in books, not on the internet, you will find that he was the ONLY head of a major state to actually oppose Hitler effectively. (Unless you count Mussolini and his defense of Austria against the German takeover, which he initially prevented by military force.) It was only the collapse of the French army which allowed Germany to run rampant over East and West Europe and to invade Russia. Otherwise, Chamberlain’s approach to Germany, war, economic isolation and destruction of the Nazi’s by overwhelming military force (England was re-arming, and Germany could never keep up.) would have worked very nicely without the need for millions of deaths.
You don’t know these things because you don’t read books.
I remember a world before Google. It was a fine place to live.
The CAGW madness will end in the end. The reality of what it would take to reduce total human CO2 emissions by let say 50% has not been discussed. The discussion to this point has been do you ‘believe’ in anthropogenic climate change. No one has asked would you accept a massive reduction in your living standard and the living standards of all future generation to ‘fight’ climate change. The public will not accept real sacrifices to significantly reduce CO2 emissions. It is fact that the green scams do not work. The only ‘solution’ if we truly want to reduce CO2 emissions is a complete conversion to nuclear power and draconian restrictions on everyday life such as banning air travel, forced population reduction, banning meat consumption, and so on. Has anyone watched and thought about the film ‘The Story of Stuff’?
Mixed in with the CAWG madness is a real scientific mystery, something that could change the foundations of science. We live in astonishing times. It appears we are going to experience the cooling phase of a Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle and then we are going to see what terminates interglacial periods. What terminates interglacial periods is the same forcing function that causes Heinrich events, such as the Younger Dryas abrupt cooling period. If the planet cools we are going to see if Salby’s assertion that the majority of the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 was due to warming of the planet not anthropogenic CO2 emissions is correct.
The general public is almost completely ignorant of the paleo climate record for the last 1.8 million years. The general public and the media confuse the term ‘glacial’ phase (a phase happens again and again) with the term Ice Epoch which is term for periods the Earth is anomalously cold. It is an urban myth that changes in summer insolation at 65N cause a 3 km thick ice sheet to cover Canada, the US Northern States, the UK, and Northern Europe for a 100,000 years. It is unimaginable that a 3 km thick ice sheet could have covered the vast regions of the Northern hemisphere for 100,000 years, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again (you get the idea).
The general public is not aware there has been 22 glacial/interglacial cycles in the last 1.8 million years. The interglacial periods for some unknown reason last no longer than around 10,000 years. The current interglacial period the Holocene is 11,900 years old. It is a fact that interglacial periods end abruptly, not gradually for some unknown reason. What causes cyclic abrupt cooling is not known.
I just conducted a simple Google search and this result was returned:
“Ludwig Boltzmann – Biography, Facts and Pictures
http://www.famousscientists.org/ludwig-boltzmann/
Ludwig Boltzmann was greatly demoralized due to the harsh criticism of his work. He committed suicide on September 5, 1906 at Duino, Italy by hanging himself”.
So they cannot hide from me, that great thinkers were often dismissed or persecuted during their own lifetime, by the representatives of the establishment.
If this all goes to plan then, in the future scientists will be driven to suicide as a result of sanctions imposed by Google itself.
Of course, these days Boltzmann would have had much more to contend with.
Doubtlessly he would have also had his “delusions of persecution” explained away as “conspiracy ideation” by the latest pompous simpleton with a chair in cognitive psychology.
This will work well with porn.
Just what we need – a content-sensitive public utility.
Pravda
I think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. I’m reminded of a story about someone with the
name “Kenisha” or some similar name doing a vanity name search on Google. The first items that came up were “bookings” and “bail bond” ads. “Kenisha” couldn’t logically accuse the Google folks for
racism, because those items high on the search list were created by other “Kenisha”s or her friends or relatives making specific searches on Google. How would Google, and their millions of users, be able to create or control a “facts” algorithm?
Google has not been my primar search engine for years.
This debate arose about twenty years ago when the internet was young and the idea of an encyclopedia (this was in the pre-wikipedia days) was being kicked around. People realized that competing interests would argue about what was true and false, so there was an idea that seals-of-approval (SOAPs) could inform readers of who endorsed what. You could judge the level of trustworthiness based on who endorsed the piece. At best it was a lowest common denominator measure of potential bias, but it did add a bit of useful information, similar to the like/dislike counters some blogs use on comments. Nobody knew how huge the web would be so it seemed like a good idea at the time. People still thought about information in a limited, print-book paradigm back then. The idea never got past the pure concept stage because of difficult questions. Could anybody apply a SOAP? What happens when SOAPs got so dense they weren’t interpretable? SOAPs were an attempt at organizing an informed competitive marketplace of ideas. Google’s proposal is an attempt to structure the marketplace for it’s own benefit.
“on Election Night 2012, guess where Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was? Working for the president. In the president’s campaign office. On a voter-turnout system designed to help the president get re-elected.”
http://nypost.com/2015/03/28/google-controls-what-we-buy-the-news-we-read-and-obamas-policies/
Now you know why Google wants to determine what’s truthful. They are just another left-wing run company.
The left has hated the fact that they lost the control of news information because of the internet. This “truth defining” is a step to get back control of it.
Google also broke the news archive search so that it’s now very hard to find old articles on things like glaciers melting, droughts, etc that we skeptics used to point out that severe weather has happened in the past when CO2 was well below the ‘safe’ level of 350 ppm as determined by the Rockefeller funded 350.org. I bet this stems from people like Cass Sunstein and Bill Clinton (who you can find on the Party of European Socialists website) who are on record of complaining about the internet fracturing peoples political views (so much for diversity…).
One to one access brings us to a dead stop and begins the slide back to the dark ages, when books and discussions of science, religion, philosophy, and even maths, were outside common access, unless you were a monk or some such thing.
I am old enough to remember the BBS (bulletin board service) origins of interconnectivity essay and debate across impossible miles, bringing together a more visible and larger voice to dissent, and new paradigms. Let us hope that we do not revert back to one to one communication. Why? Much easier to control than the larger louder voice of concerned groups spread across great spans of voting territory.
Pamela, one can create a free internet2 inside a censored internet. The dark net is one example. Any group of machines can make their own shared space, from uucp to mail to web services. Maybe I need to post a How To…
Believe nothing read or heard without verifying it oneself unless it, Weltanschauung congruent, agrees with ones worldview. G00gle is blocked from my browser so that I must disable the filters to use a G00gle service.
Sooo, lets take inventory……
FCC makes the internet a government run utility,,,,, check
EPA makes power producing fossil fuels evil……. check
Google makes only their preferred information available …… check
NOAA, NASA make adjustments to data to fill a need….check
The IRS, uses its power to halt non-profit opposition to the administration from forming….. check
The DOJ targets the opposition to the administration and incites riots via their activities…….check
The POTUS publically targets skeptics, discriminates, oppresses and degrades them…..check
NSA watches in the background and obtains private information accordingly …………. check
The UN waits in anticipation of global power over energy through control of CO2………. check
Activists use a false consensus of science meme to try to squelch dissenters……. check
How many more can you add to this storyline?
Conspiracy? No, reality!
“NSA watches in the background and obtains private information accordingly …………. check”
They can’t do this in areas without electricity, right? Makes me wonder if this is one of the reasons ‘policy makers’ the UN, and control-freak democrats are trying to use AGW as a means to redistribute our wealth to developing countries who have little or no access to electricy.
Google wishing to be the mundane Authority of Canonical Truth resouonds of the medieval Catholic Church and the case of the Copernican description of the solar system.
“Existence itself … can’t be true or false; it just exists. … Facts are statements about existence, and statements are always arguable.” sums it up nicely, as did Galileo’s remark (upon being pressured to ‘accept’ the proposition that the Earth is stationary in the heavens with the sun circling around it) “But still it moves.”
Galileo never said “But still it moves.” You do not know what actually happened during his second trial. You are just repeating a medieval lie. Galileo proposed a FIXED sun and then a Copernican system. (the Vatican astronomers had long since accepted the heliocentric model, in fact, Pope Paul III wrote the preface to Copernicus’ Book.) When asked to provide PROOF that 1) the sun was fixed AND that 2) the planets orbited the the FIXED sun, he admitted he could offer no objective proof and had to acknowledge that his theory was … a theory. and half wrong at that. He NEVER EVER said “But still it moves”. In fact, Galileo quoted Cardinal Bellarmine in his letter to Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina “That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven. not how heaven goes.” Neil DeGasse-Tyson often, and incorrectly, attributes this to Galileo, but Galileo, in his letter, attributes it to Bellarmine. So, Better get your facts straight.
Yeah, yeah and Marlowe actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays and all the greats in history were gay. A lot of this kind of stuff came out of modern egghead research in the dawn of post normal inquiry.
Neah… The cartoon image of the religious emptiheaded authorities, if you chose to draw one, ought to at least be truthful. I have transcripts of both Galilean trials translated from latin to english. I also have an electronic copy of Copernicus’s book(s).
Here is a history lesson. At the time of Galileo’s trials, The protestant reformation was in full bloom. ~50 years earlier, Copernicus wrote his book describing a heliocentric “cosmos” but refused to publish it because he was afraid of being labeled a sorcerer by the PROTESTANTS. He obtained a permission of & imprimatur from Pope Paul III and inserted his letter to the Pope in the volume. Here is the letter:
http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/dedication.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
The Church embraced the Copernican theory mildly but it was a new idea and not widely understood. Recall also that Pope Gregory XIII updated the calender from the julian to the one we use now, on Oct 15, 1582. It was based on scientific observation and calculations. We use it to this day.
The man who actually published Copernicus’ work (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) was Georg Joachim Rheticus who went on leave from University of Wittenberg to engage Copernicus. He published it then lost his job at UofW as punishment.
What you fail to realize is that the protestant reformation was purging catholics from all seats of authority in Europe, instituting a pure biblical approach to religion, compared with Catholicism which is biblical, and traditional, and authoritarian. The Protestants viewed heliocentricity as non-bliblical, therefore heretical and sorcery.
The cartoon Neil DeGasse-Tyson view of history is beneath people of reason.
That makes sense since Neil DeGasse-Tyson has proven himself to not be a person of reason.
When that marvelous new search engine first came out, its prowess dazzled many of us. Then, their motto “do no evil”, came to our attention and alarms started going off. Everything since has reinforced that initial sense of dread, for any who have been paying attention: that the motto might be camouflage.
Google’s masters are fully aware of this nation’s Constitution and Bill of Rights and the reasoning which enshrined those warnings of human frailty and injunctions against our proclivity for the abuse of power. Google’s founders have chosen to undermine that liberty for the rest of us, solely to enhance their own wealth and power. They have clearly rationalized their actions by aligning their thinking with Caesar: “What is truth?” Google’s rationale and “facts” given as search result, have no bearing on truth.
Facts are not truth. Facts are merely facets on the shining diamond of truth.
Wealth and power they already have. Such often go into the ideological sphere when W and P are achieved
Alternative to Google.
Get on that… it will have wide appeal.
Stop using Facebook, it is just a web page that acts against my interests at all levels.
Stop using Twitter it is just a gossip site.
Google will be a tough nut to crack. Suggestions?
Widespread adoption of an alternative is unlikely. We have seen it with Facebook and Twitter, where despite constant complaints, nobody wants to move to the alternatives. They exist, but they’re not widely used.
It’s not the internet that needs to be chaged, it’s society. Good luck with that.
http://duckduckgo.com
I use DuckDuckGo
The world according to William Connolley brought to you by Google
“Existence itself – your kitchen sink or the climate or whatever – can’t be true or false; it just exists. Say anything you want about existence, and it won’t change a thing. It still just exists. Existence doesn’t give a damn what you think about it. Facts are statements about existence, and statements are always arguable.”
The last sentence is arguable. The rest of the paragraph is what the Ku Klimate Klan can’t get through their heads. The unarguable facts are the ones that don’t jive with the last sentence in the paragraph quoted above. That is why you don’t walk on railway tracks.
The climate just is. For mankind to declare a “standard climate” is one of the loudest acts of bone-headed hubris we have dared to exert. Compared to what? The alarmist crowd never, ever, stands up and answers that question. They NEVER say what the ideal climate is, and in the process, fail to acknowledge its very existence as a variable chaotic entity. And in the next sentence, they imply they can control it, through a convoluted system of equivocations and dodges, as if the very “standard climate” they cannot define is somehow attainable.
How quaint. And how does one argue against such a mess? They keep moving the goalposts. and their only desperate recourse is to assemble an army of name-calling adolescents as a defence. An Army that can spray “facts” as being “scientific”, all the while unable to answer a few pointed questions. Those questions that “aren’t allowed”
90% of the time when I have a question google and other search sites point to wikipedia, now I just go directly to wikipedia. When I want to buy something I just go to Amazon or Ebay. Other times I want to find a news story I find it difficult to find even when my search words should lead right to it. Google is memory hole. Google is now even more annoying than Microsoft was at its peak. Google is evil. I have been avoiding all google services. How creepy is it for one company to be tracking your movements all over the internet. Youtube is a fantastic resource but I won’t log in to it.
I have a few virtual machines and a RaspberryPi and variety liveCd Linux boots that keep me more private… Watching youtube is more pleasant when you know they don’t know who you are… Check out Puppy live CD Linux and Virtual box for starters. Then moveup to Privatix and Tor.