Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves

From	Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves
Date	2016-07-22 16:39 -0500
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On 7/22/2016 4:15 PM, mapou001@gmail.com wrote:
> True but even the mighty Roman empire came to an ignominious end. Besides, this is a
> new age, the age of the global internet. Knowledge is increasing rapidly and science
> is no longer the exclusive playground of a few elitist assholes. Everybody has access
> to it and anything can happen. Disruptive things. Wait for it.
>
> ahahahaha...AHAHAHAHA...ahahahaha...

Expertise requires 10,000 hours of concentrated effort and training. The 
"global internet" does not change that. It does not impart knowledge and 
understanding to the casual everyman. Having access to a search engine 
will not make you competent to practice medicine, or to design 
buildings, or to compose music, or to play chess, or to build furniture, 
or to do experimental science.

It is the fantasy of the terminally lazy and miserably ignorant that 
they will be able to have knowledge and influence due to some imagined 
coming "revolution", and that they will be lifted up as a kind of mental 
proletariat, where all are equal, all will have the same value, and none 
will have any position of higher regard. Savain revels in the Biblical 
passage that says the first shall be last and the last shall be first, 
because that's his only hope, and a fervent one at that.

It does not occur to NUTJOBS like Savain, that their feelings of 
oppression come from dissatisfaction with their own accomplishments, and 
that the lack of accomplishments is rooted in their own lack of 
dedication, their own laziness, their own aversion to failure, and their 
unwillingness to accept responsibility for their own lot. This is why 
McGinn, for example, has to live in a duplex funded by his parents, with 
no vocation other than to wander down the street to a park to record 
himself talking. Savain, no doubt, is in a similar position.

-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-22 13:09 -0700
  Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-22 16:56 -0400
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-22 14:15 -0700
      Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 16:39 -0500
        Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-22 15:43 -0700
          Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 10:50 -0500
          Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 11:36 -0500
        Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 23:04 -0700
      Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 20:59 -0700
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 16:18 -0500
      Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-22 20:49 -0400
        Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-07-23 01:29 +0000
          Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 16:59 -0400
            Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-07-23 21:12 +0000
              Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 19:58 -0400
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-07-24 05:36 +0000
        Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 10:52 -0500
          Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 17:06 -0400
            Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-24 15:10 -0500
              Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-24 20:03 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-24 20:19 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 08:10 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 09:51 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 11:55 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 12:03 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 12:25 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 15:52 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 14:16 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 16:29 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 15:08 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 17:20 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 15:34 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 07:18 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-27 09:32 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 13:04 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-27 11:21 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 15:35 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-25 18:51 -0400
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 17:10 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-25 18:50 -0400
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 12:25 -0700
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 15:53 -0500
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 08:01 -0500
  Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 15:56 -0500
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-22 17:16 -0400
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 23:13 -0700
  More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves jay moseley <jaymoseley@hotmail.com> - 2016-07-23 09:46 -0700
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 12:23 -0500
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-23 11:08 -0700
      Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-24 15:06 -0500
    Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-07-25 18:50 -0700
      Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 20:06 -0700
        Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 17:10 -0500
      Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-26 09:00 +0200
        Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-26 00:05 -0700
          Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-26 09:13 +0200
            Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-26 01:10 -0700
              Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-26 10:48 +0200
                Re: More of the taxpayer's money going to LIGO thieves mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-26 09:11 -0700

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