Zimbabwe: American lion killer's extradition being sought

MuyLocoNC

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Your misattributed quote notwithstanding, the following graph summarizes the data from NASA and NOAA which concludes unequivocally that 2014 was indeed the hottest year on record. Take particular note of the header "Ranking of Record Years".
Misattributed, my ass.

You might want to take particular note of the specific use of "probability". If it was definitive, they would just list them in order, without the need for "probability". Maybe because their results are within the margin of error?
 

MuyLocoNC

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The dentist is a true believer that the exorbitant fees he paid to take an aging lion will ultimately benefit the species and the locals. Many people agree with him, people in charge of licensing these hunts. If he happens to get off on the kill, it changes nothing about the veracity of his claim.

You can argue the cost/benefit with the officials who believe as he does and allow these hunts, but you're mentally masturbating with all the manufactured outrage at how the lion was killed. Those folks with that outrage wouldn't be happy with any method used to kill the lion.
 

see4

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Imagine if every species that ever existed was "saved"

This place would be a nightmare. Could you imagine checking the mail and having to look over your shoulders for a saber toothed beast? I'm just trying not to get raped these days.
Big difference in trying to save a species of animal that humans were the cause of their demise and letting a species go extinct from natural causes. Not much we could have done about an asteroid impact. Nor was there much to be done about the massive ice sheets blanketing areas of land once teaming with sabertooth and mammoth. The later example taking place over several millennium, as opposed to man made shit storm happening over the past few hundred years.

I'm not debating that "shit happens", I'm debating why are we sitting idly by when there is something we can do about it.
 

see4

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The dentist is a true believer that the exorbitant fees he paid to take an aging lion will ultimately benefit the species and the locals. Many people agree with him, people in charge of licensing these hunts. If he happens to get off on the kill, it changes nothing about the veracity of his claim.

You can argue the cost/benefit with the officials who believe as he does and allow these hunts, but you're mentally masturbating with all the manufactured outrage at how the lion was killed. Those folks with that outrage wouldn't be happy with any method used to kill the lion.
What a poor excuse for such a poor human being. And your defense of him is a direct reflection of your poor character.

"He paid to play, what's wrong with that?" is basically the defense your ilk are using? So sad. So very sad.
 

see4

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When I buy a pickup, I use it. Throw shit in the back, go off road, paint gets scratch, wash it when it rains, shit happens.

My neighbor fuses about his "pavement princess" pickup and is always pissed off about a new scratch, a shopping cart ding, etc. I think that rig has taken years off his life...
I recently bought another vehicle, a Silverado to be exact. I throw shit in the back and go off roading. But prior to doing that, I added a layer of protection that prevented "shit from happening".

The difference between you and I, is that I have the ability to think ahead, mitigate disaster and plan accordingly; and you don't. And I don't have to fuss because I thought ahead.

If people were to just think ahead, look at the bigger picture, I think many of the debates we are having today about animals, global warming, oil, etc would not be debates.
 

abandonconflict

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if it was definitive, they would just list them in order, without the need for "probability". Maybe because their results are within the margin of error?

Unless all of the record years had probabilities adding up to 100%, which they do. The graphs only list the top few each but the actual record years all add up to 100%.

That's why it is a ranking of record years.


Ya dingus.
 

MuyLocoNC

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Unless all of the record years had probabilities adding up to 100%, which they do. The graphs only list the top few each but the actual record years all add up to 100%.

That's why it is a ranking of record years.


Ya dingus.
Again, if it's definitive, why the use of probability at all? You keep avoiding that point because it destroys your claim. Just for your future interactions, probability isn't the same as certainty, regardless of what the percentages add up to. Especially, when all of it is within the margin of error.

Ya chucklehead.
 

Wavels

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Unless all of the record years had probabilities adding up to 100%, which they do. The graphs only list the top few each but the actual record years all add up to 100%.

That's why it is a ranking of record years.


Ya dingus.
Again, if it's definitive, why the use of probability at all? You keep avoiding that point because it destroys your claim. Just for your future interactions, probability isn't the same as certainty, regardless of what the percentages add up to. Especially, when all of it is within the margin of error.

Ya chucklehead.
When AC finds himself to be logically flummoxed, he resorts to the intellectual knee jerk defense mechanism of simply calling you a dingus.
This, amazingly enough, seems to work for him.
At least it makes him feel better.
Name calling always changes minds!
As far as advancing his argument, not so much.
 

MuyLocoNC

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What a poor excuse for such a poor human being. And your defense of him is a direct reflection of your poor character.

"He paid to play, what's wrong with that?" is basically the defense your ilk are using? So sad. So very sad.
You'll notice that nowhere in my post did I defend him. I just stated the relevant facts, as we know them. You need to holler at the animal conservationists and ethologists that support and license these hunts. They disagree with you and you know, SCIENCE!


If people were to just think ahead, look at the bigger picture, I think many of the debates we are having today about animals, global warming, oil, etc would not be debates.
Translating: If everyone just believed everything liberals told them, we wouldn't argue.

No thanks, most of the time you resemble a bunch of monkeys trying to fuck a doorknob. In a majority of the cases, time reveals the accuracy of that description.
 

abandonconflict

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Again, if it's definitive, why the use of probability at all? You keep avoiding that point because it destroys your claim. Just for your future interactions, probability isn't the same as certainty, regardless of what the percentages add up to. Especially, when all of it is within the margin of error.

Ya chucklehead.
I did retort to your "point", you're just too dumb to get it. It is not probability in the sense of 2014 possibly having been cooler than any other year on record, it is a ranking.

Just a reminder, 2014 was the hottest year on record, as NASA unequivocally concluded.

Try to wrap your mind around the concept of a RANKING OF RECORD YEARS.
 

MuyLocoNC

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I did retort to your "point", you're just too dumb to get it. It is not probability in the sense of 2014 possibly having been cooler than any other year on record, it is a ranking.

Just a reminder, 2014 was the hottest year on record, as NASA unequivocally concluded.

Try to wrap your mind around the concept of a RANKING OF RECORD YEARS.
A simple ranking doesn't require a probability percentage if it's a certainty. You haven't addressed that at all. If it's not a probability percentage in the sense of 2014 possibly having been cooler than any other year on record, then kindly explain EXACTLY what the included percentage represents. And saying "ranking" doesn't answer the question.

That's why you've lost this argument every time. You look like an idiot to everyone that reads this.
 
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