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Monday 18 November 2013
Dishonesty - Moral Compass Broken
Ratings from the public rely on good faith. Professional liars like this guy break the model, making it useless for everyone. You also have to ask - what limits would such people observe? If they can be dishonest here, why not criminal elsewhere?
I've panned a few books - but never without reading them.
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Anonymous commenters - please add a signature (doesn't have to be your real name) on each post of yours. Anne O'Namus, Norm D. Ploom, Angry from Kent, Demosthenes, or even your real initials, it doesn't matter.
Commenters are expected to be polite to each other, but the same standard doesn't apply to comments regarding me.
Australian commenters are very very strongly advised to publish anonymously. Sydney alone has more defamation actions than the entire USA and UK. Nearly double that of the UK in fact.
As Google does not reliably inform me that a comment has been posted, and I have no control over first publication, I assert that all comments are innocently disseminated under the NSW DEFAMATION ACT 2005 - SECT 32 and similar acts.
Only trust reviews from people when you know you can trust their opinions, that applies as much to papers and radio as to the web.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of funny business isn't anything close to Tea Party specific, there are elements of most political movements that believe the ends justify the means. Alinsky's Rules for Radicals may be the most famous example on the left.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably about as accurate to lump libertarian with Tea Party as it would to lump feminist with transgender. I consider myself libertarian, and while the Tea Party is somewhat closer to our views when compared to the two major US parties, it is a coalition at best, rather than anything close to a merger.
Somebody's lying. How do you know who it is?
ReplyDeleteIt's worth noting that that the Koch brothers have a history of hiring honest researchers. There was William Niskanen (who had been fired from Ford after disagreeing with his alleged corporate masters) and the more recent case of Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study.
The Post’s anonymous source, who said he’s willing to speak to the Labor Department and Congress about the falsified data if asked to do so, said unemployment data manipulation, which continues to this day, involves more than just one rogue employee.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, a full two years before President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House, the Census Bureau reportedly caught an employee manipulating unemployment data. However, the Post notes, instead of correcting the problem, it only got worse and escalated throughout the 2012 presidential election.
Honesty?