Comments on: The Bali revelers and the media http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JMB http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/#comment-302225 JMB Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:38:13 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/#comment-302225 Please ignore the "9". Please ignore the “9″.

]]> By: JMB http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/#comment-302224 JMB Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:36:56 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/#comment-302224 It is all perfectly logical if one's goal is grubbing loot from the productive 9 (while there's loot left to be had). There is no difference here from the crudest thief just because it is being done on a global scale. Oil for Food was just a dry run. It is all perfectly logical if one’s goal is grubbing loot from the productive 9 (while there’s loot left to be had). There is no difference here from the crudest thief just because it is being done on a global scale. Oil for Food was just a dry run.

]]> By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/#comment-302222 gs Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:57:17 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/12/16/some-things-change-some-dont/#comment-302222 <i>It is illogical for the Bali partiers and their hangers-on to focus on the country whose rate of increase is negligible and, relatively speaking, to ignore those nations whose rates of increase, and whose absolute increases, are much larger. That is, it is illogical if these bureaucrats and politicians were actually interested in the things they claim to be, rather than in picking our pockets and regulating our lives — while they revel in the usufructs of their power, and strut around like peacocks on island resorts.</i> It is equally illogical for them to ignore that the global environment is an exceedingly complex and <a href="http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2007/08/12/another-bad-fellow-2/" rel="nofollow">inadequately understood</a> system. It is equally illogical for them to ignore the strong likelihood of continuing or accelerating technological progress: to ignore the expectation that an advanced technical civilization can handily correct minor climatic wobbles. It is as illogical as <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jb/jb57.htm" rel="nofollow">straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel</a>. <a href="http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_beatles/piggies.html" rel="nofollow">Swine</a>. It is illogical for the Bali partiers and their hangers-on to focus on the country whose rate of increase is negligible and, relatively speaking, to ignore those nations whose rates of increase, and whose absolute increases, are much larger. That is, it is illogical if these bureaucrats and politicians were actually interested in the things they claim to be, rather than in picking our pockets and regulating our lives — while they revel in the usufructs of their power, and strut around like peacocks on island resorts.

It is equally illogical for them to ignore that the global environment is an exceedingly complex and inadequately understood system. It is equally illogical for them to ignore the strong likelihood of continuing or accelerating technological progress: to ignore the expectation that an advanced technical civilization can handily correct minor climatic wobbles. It is as illogical as straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel.

Swine.

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