Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammar. Show all posts

08 October, 2015

QOTD*: Hillary Clinton on Trade Deals

Updated the last post to reflect Hillary's belated opposition to the TPP deal, but I think this quote from her interview with Judy Woodruff merits highlighting.
...We've learned a lot about trade agreements in the past years.  Sometimes they look great on paper.  I know when President Obama came into office, he inherited a trade-agreement with South Korea.  I, along with other members of the cabinet, pushed hard to get a better agreement -- We think we made improvements -- Now, looking back on it, it doesn't have the results we thought it would have, in terms of access to the markets, more exports, et cetera.


And here I thought, listening to her at first, that she was just referring to the insane trade-deals her husband pushed through as president, but no, she's indicting her own competence & record as well.

She then goes on with some nonsense about how 'in order for us to have a competitive economy in the global marketplace', the US needs to 'raise wages' 'at home' (which the Republican meanies have blocked).  So, in other words, she doesn't get the fundamental complaint ordinary workers in the West have against these deals, nor why they are so favoured by the corporate elites, at all.  I sure am filled with confidence in Hill' as the Dem's candidate right now.


* Should really be QOYD for 'Quote of Yesterday', but I suppose that's not 'a thing.'**

** More and more, I feel like commas should be placed outside of quotation-marks, but it just doesn't feel right for the full stop/period.  I'm 'evolving' on the issue.

19 April, 2015

themarketbusiness.com: I Can Haz Fake News-Organisation?

Maybe I should have gone with the story about the cat-hunting vet...

Okay, what happened is, I clicked on a story because I just couldn't make head nor tail of the headline.  And still couldn't understand a fucking word of what I was reading.  And thought for a second or two, that it was just the science-y stuff going over my head, but no...it's just utter fucking gibberish.


Analysts of the School of Manchester have discovered a new study that light shadow dramatically affects how animals only report what time of day it is, like the shadow exchange comes from within the biological clock of the brain itself. The physiology of animals and pets habits modification according to what time of day it is, why there is the threat of arrest or time to go hunting.
The research study was published Friday in the journal PLoS Biology, and also shows how the researchers examined the changing light at dusk and dawn to see what tone represents a particular time of day. And, while it has been recognized that there are changes in the intensity of light as the sun rises and sets, the study group research found that golden light is bluer compared to the one on the day. Electric task of brain clocks computer mice were also analyzed, since subjects are shown various aesthetic stimuli and found that their nerve cells were much more aware of color from blue to yellow adjustments in contrast adjustments to brightness .
The next step was to develop a model that simulates daily sky shade and light settings. When computer mice were placed in the sky substitute for several days, your body temperature were higher just after sunset, as the sky a dark blue lit. If the sky brightness is altered, but the actual shade, computer mice were much stronger before sunset, verification that her biological clock was not in sync with the regular cycle of day and night.
To ensure that this change in the temperature level was undoubtedly due to a change in the clock, scientists analyzed SCN slices from mice associated with heaven synthetic experiment. “One of the surprising aspects of the clock,” Brown says, is that “when you take it out of a pet and put it in a meal, the cells remain to shoot.” By measuring the distance of throw in some sliced, the scientists could bring if the clock running fast or reduced. The cells of mice that do not see variant delayed shadow behind those who did, a confirmation that the change in the level of peak physical body temperature was due to the clock, the group reports today in PLoS Biology.
Visits brownish human potential applications in this work. “What this opens the possibility of improving existing alreadying ways to deal with jet lag or things like seasonal depression disorder,” he says. A technique for dealing with jet lag is a light box that immerses a traveler to intense light to deceive his / her watch. Including shade for light could provide much better results, says Brown. The new finding may even change our understanding of why the vision shadow developed. Analysts suggest that it could have been a much better means for pets to set their clocks in a world where clouds could minimize glare from light yet still allow colors radiate through.

And no, it's not just this one story; there's page after page of this crap, on every news-story imaginable, all written in the same unintelligible style that looks like someone ran this garbage through a sub-standard auto-translate and back a couple of times.  Lack of apostrophes and misuse of pronouns are dead giveaways.

Although I am sorta liking the sound of 'heaven synthetic experiment', and 'brownish human potential applications'.

Here's some more clippets from the headlines on themarketbusiness.com: