Saturday, March 29, 2008

Black Google

Well, I turned on google today and was presented with a black screen in aid of Earth Hour. What a load of fucking bollocks. My reaction to this is to immediately make myself another cup of coffee, maybe turn the central heating up and a couple of rings on the cooker just for the hell of it.

Right, here's a post I recently put up on Asimov's forum:

A difference that's becoming increasingly notable between those 'scientists' who back the AGW hypothesis and those who don't is that the former usually sit in offices somewhere playing with statistics and computer models, whilst the latter are actually getting out there and measuring stuff. It's probably part of our big love affair with computers, and the daft idea that they are a solve all, which ignores the crap in crap out rule. Go to a doctor's surgery now and you can immediately tell which doctor is the best: he's the one looking at you and not at the computer screen.

Regarding looking at computer screens. I think I'm now going start using another search engine hopefully not run by a bunch of righteous pricks.

4 comments:

fleetofworlds said...

Neal - completely off topic but Line War arrived from Amazon this morning. You've excelled yourself. Thanks for all you do. And keep fighting the fight against the EnviroFascists.

vaudeviewsgalor said...

world goes dark, part of a larger thing. right. you feel like you're part of something, even if it is a platitude to the cancer that is the humanity death machine. being aware (or serving that ripe green group hug-candy) is gonna look good on your resume.

maybe you should start a page "blood goggles" = a one way rigged search engine for 'crimes of the earth' (3rd world dictators sure fire) everyone can can feel like they are part of something when they put the blood goggles on (2.99 ppd.), or stab their eyes out with chopsticks. your negative attitude is killing babies and destroying land masses at an alarming rate.


btw: as i put my pants back on i need to tell you this blogspot is owned by google. dogpile has a great search engine for video which is the reason i live over there.



our lights stay off here ....because we can barely afford rent.

Alex Cull said...

It strikes me that darkness is a pretty good weapon for those who want to control others. Imposing blackouts and curfews has always been the modus operandi of repressive governments such as North Korea. Darkness is also a symbol of ignorance - and when people are ignorant & huddling in their poorly-lit, poorly-heated homes, they are much easier to control. I'm hoping that Earth Day won't gradually mutate into Earth Week... Or Earth Year.

vaudeviewgalor raandisisraisins said...

Earth Death in the long run. E.D. existence is useless.

wheres my razor.