But Jeff Jarvis quotes debate moderator Anderson Cooper as saying
about the questioners: «These are people that are very passionate about this topic.
We worry about those who do not fit in, we are uneasy
about questioners and doubters, we feel that there needs to be more order» and regularity.
I have come to learn that questions are more
about the questioner than the questioned.
He need not worry
about the questioner who simply bellows out some hack partisan criticism.
Moreover, the presence of an anonymous audience of strangers requires that questions and discussions be accessible to people who have no information
about the questioner.
It does not require any knowledge
about the questioner.
Not exact matches
Even today, many company owners who use factors don't much like to talk
about it, except to assure the
questioner that their relations with their banks are just terrific.
Yellen's
questioner hadn't asked
about whether there is too much emphasis put on the timing of the first increase in more than eight years.
But when an analyst then asked Mr. Musk
about Tesla's capital requirements, the chief executive did not answer the question and told the operator to move to another
questioner.
If you read the response in context, it is not quite as ridiculous as it sounds: Bowden's point seems to be that the regulatory burdens that his
questioner complained
about aren't that important, because the private equity business is so good that the additional regulatory costs are easy to bear, and well worth it to avoid messing up a good racket.
Questioner 35: My question is
about Coke.
Questioner 21: Last year you had some very pointed comments
about Valeant.
Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked
about his jacking up of drug prices, then promptly went on Twitter and insulted his
questioners as «imbeciles.»
The next
questioner was Joseph Spak of RBC Capital Markets, who asked
about Model 3 orders.
If you have watched him make a big concession in a debate, or respond sympathetically to a hostile
questioner, or provide a generous account of an opposing view in a book or essay, then you know that his kindliness is often the sign that serious intellectual vivisection is
about to commence.
The
questioner asked Isay
about farm boys who might be attracted to sheep.
He evidences irritation when repeatedly asked
about his position on abortion, and refers
questioners back to his by - now tired and unconvincing 1984 speech at Notre Dame.
When most of the interviewees admit that it is indeed a baby, they are asked to finish the following sentence: «It's okay to kill a baby in the womb when...» Various responses follow: «That's very hard to say...»; «It should never be done lightly...»; «If the mothercannot provide for the baby...»; «If the mother was raped...» The
questioner presses the issue: «When asked
about the Holocaust, you said that you valued human life, so why is this situation any different?»
Having established that the Holocaust was an unspeakable crime against humanity, the
questioner then invites those being interviewed to make a provocative connection: «How do you feel
about abortion?»
Then the smart response from Rubio would have been to tell the
questioner that this is not the appropriate forum to talk
about the age of the earth, that he is here to talk
about economic issues.
Austin was asked why he didn't warn his ailing cousin
about his Feb 2 vision and Austin's response ignored the
questioner's brilliant question.
On the whole, millenials in the church don't care
about whether their friends / neighbors / coworkers are believers / non - believers /
questioners.
In Episode 98 of Edit Your Life, Asha and Gretchen talk
about her new book, The Four Tendencies, in which she lays out a simple framework for understanding our internal motivations (Obligers, Upholders,
Questioners, or Rebels).
Tomorrow I'll post the results of the early rising poll and also some more thoughts
about the situation with the woman who doesn't want to spend time away from her daughter (there's been an update from the original
questioner).
Real danger comes from the quiet
questioner who knows the subject and cares
about it.
I was called by a pollster last week
about the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of Buffalo, but the
questioner couldn't say who commissioned the poll.
Not one of the
questioners during the nearly four - hour hearing seemed to indicate that they would vote against a mayoral control extension, even though a few senators asked de Blasio pointed questions
about the various investigations circling his administration and other disparate education issues.
Asking a specific question at a specific time is not an indication that the
questioner only cares
about that subject.
Later still, he practically scolded a
questioner asking
about 3 - D printing — totally reasonable in a city which plays host to Shapeways and Makerbot — by saying Makerbot sounded like something they'd serve in a «Williamsburg bar.»
If the Telegraph article is correct in suggesting that immigration is once again a major issue, then might I suggest, as I have done in the past, that the topic be defused by asking any hostile
questioner about tory policy:
In a debate full of tough
questioners, NY1 political reporter Grace Rauh may have been the toughest, in this case asking Dietl
about his history of unpaid taxes.
He doesn't take the
questioner's invitation to extrapolate conclusions
about the use of private companies to do this sort of thing, surprisingly enough.
At the Asian American Federation mayoral candidate debate, one of the
questioners began to ask Christine Quinn
about restrictions in the city health code which prevent the legal making of kimchi, a widely served Korean food.
But things started going south when
questioners started talking
about President Donald Trump.
Questioner says they have a lot of initial interest from faculty
about pursuing funding opportunities identified in advance, but faculty do not always follow - up.
Questioner / Cross-Examiner — poses questions
about the opposing team's arguments to its Question Responder.
Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee's Talk Show Series, studio audience
questioners ask da Vinci questions
about his life.
This is what it must have been like to listen to eager stock analysts explain in 1998 why some hot new Internet start - up was a sure thing while dismissing questions
about strategy and execution as evidence that the stodgy
questioners «just didn't get it.»
When the public is asked
about the current level of school funding, it is incumbent on the
questioner to find out if the responder knows anything
about what the current level of funding is.
Questioners typically asked
about specific education policies being advocated in current conference debates.
What happens in the last year of a ten - year forecast is a more severe version of what the prior
questioner asked
about the 2009 forecast of 2019.
I must admit that when you're live on national television, it is sometimes difficult to find a polite way to tell well - intended
questioners that it would be irresponsible to provide a forecast
about things that are, by definition, unknowable.
One thing I have learned
about this form of skepticism is that the
questioner never asks, «why is it happening this time?»
If I was a
questioner, I'd ask them
about potentialities of the future earthquakes under Greenland and West Antarctic ice,
about small so far earthquakes for first time on record in west Greenland last summer (UK Guardian early September), magma close to surface northeast Greenland (MSNBC early December), magma close to surface by Pine Island Glacier W. Antarctic (NYT January), rain at North Pole last summer and morels on Greenland big enough to fly a helicopter into (UK Independent, both articles early October)
Either — you know what you're talking
about, and so can answer your
questioner; or — you can't answer, and make up all sorts of pathetic evasive excuses like the question lacks good faith, you don't like rabbit holes, asking the person to go and find the evidence you claim, etc etc.....
The
questioner, the physicist
about whom I'm writing today — let's call him Denier 3 — raised his hand at the end and asked if the speaker had considered the criticisms of climate models made by a scientist not present at this conference, a climate scientist famous for his denialist position (let's call him «Famous Denier»).
I had merely given a straightforward, quantitative answer to a straightforward, quantitative question not
about any presentation by me but
about a presentation given by Professor Lindzen, because the
questioner knew that I had been at the meeting at which Professor Lindzen had spoken and that I might be able to answer.
The
questioner would never have done this for a physicist lecturing on gravity, and I want to get people to think
about why they think climate change is any different.
I vividly recall a video in which a
questioner in Australia tried to lecture my friend Stephen Schneider
about how climate forcings were logarithmic and that this somehow invalidated the whole of climate science (wrong on multiple levels, and Stephen put the
questioner in her place).
A better question, however, would be to ask exactly how the
questioners came to know the detailed information
about the skeptics» associations with anything related to the fossil fuel industry.