Yet again this charlatan spreads bullshit on the internet about serious issues that are the subject of legal investigations without doing the most
basic fact checking.
And none of the men — not Levitt, not Dubner, not Myhrvold, and not Wood — seem to realize that they're making statements that are counter to the best available science and, in many cases, could have been detected as wrong with some simple and
basic fact checking.
Not exact matches
Now, in a collection of articles in its 26 October Japanese morning edition and the 27 October English Daily Yomiuri (available online here, here, here, and here), the media organization explained that reporters and editors failed to
check basic facts.
I didn't catch in time to actually
check any notes I had aganist the profiles on site, so can't say for certain but it appeared that they had listed some members as
basic / featured members but after contact with them and going back to the members user name in my buddies list and sent mail lists on site that evenone in all my lists was now listed as an online cupid So I can't back up my statement with hard
facts I know I had coontact with members on first contact were listed as
basic or featured.
In
fact, many people believe it is a better way to find someone as
basic vital
facts can be
checked even before you initiate communication.
Check out «Mastering the
basic math
facts» series by Sangiovanni and O'Connell.
Basic fact -
checking and fixing of simple logical issues (i.e. non sequitors) is also included.
Everything from continuity errors to
fact checking to consistency in geography to
basic physics (I was once asked how someone could jump down forty feet in bare feet, and walk away.)
Let me add that Verizon's 3G support was outstanding all through and I ultimately stopped making use of WiFi due to the
fact V3G was plenty rapidly sufficient for me.Interestingly, I'm making use of the Omnia being a wireless device all - around the residence for
checking electronic mail, Twitter, Facebook and
basic browsing.
ASIC lists allow you to
check basic facts about companies and investment schemes, such as whether they hold an appropriate licence.
In
fact, excepting a few questionable payday lenders, the vast majority of lenders will require you to have a valid
checking account as a
basic application requirement.
This is the kind of
basic, blatant mistake that really should have been caught by the most superficial of quality control
checks, and the
fact that it made it into a release version seems to speak to the enormous pressure the small team at Hello Games must have been under to get the thing out the door.
While the blogger's lawyers argued he was a «provocateur» who wouldn't be taken literally, the judge decided that «the defendant's dominant motive in these blog posts was ill will and that his repeated failure to take even
basic steps to
check his
facts showed a reckless disregard for the truth.»
Any media that gave their «report» an iota of attention without a little
basic fact -
checking needs to be on an «Unreliable Sources» list.
In my previous blog post, I showed a window into the world of far - left environmentalist reasoning, using the exact illustration of how Desmogblog co-founder James Hoggan immediately believed Ross Gelbspan's «the science is settled / skeptic scientists are industry - corrupted shills» core talking point as literally true upon first reading it, never reading alternative science assessments or doing the most
basic fact -
checking to see if Gelbspan's accusation was true.
The refusal of Levant to conduct even
basic fact -
checking in his posts, refusal to correct the content, and the ill will demonstrated in the content of the blog, all demonstrated malice, which would defeat any defence of fair comment or qualified privilege.
[188] I find that the defendant's dominant motive in these blog posts was ill - will, and that his repeated failure to take even
basic steps to
check his
facts showed a reckless disregard for the truth.
And for everyone, irrespective of satisfaction with interview answers, it is important to
check some
basic facts with past employers to ensure that the candidate has not been telling a pack of lies.