The explicit details of the capital structure of a company are typically
obfuscated from the average employee.
But these changes
obfuscate from the real questions.
It has been an accumulation of obstacles that have
obfuscated me from bringing my message to the public,» said Paterson, who added that he is looking forward to a full investigation.
Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes
obfuscate from the real problem — the excess of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to perpetuate global warming.
There is ample room for the speakers, Micro USB and power buttons, as to not
obfuscate them from easy access.
The do all sorts of clown dances to distract and
obfuscate from the real world empirical data that shows their CO2 dogma is wrong.
Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes
obfuscate from the real problem — the excess of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to perpetuate global warming.
Not exact matches
Asian Americans and the issue of affirmative action have long been used to drive a wedge between communities of color and
obfuscate the real purpose of the program, which brings opportunity to students
from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Separate
from greedy self - serving religion, which is
obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:
Long lists of human rights, while they may sometimes be well intended, only
obfuscate the question and distract us
from the work at hand.
PETA tends to
obfuscate the pet issue because «animal liberation» is understood to be a multi-generational project and targeting pet ownership would compromise the organization's ability to get donations
from loving dog and cat owners who think they believe in animal rights.
It was the timing of that decision that further
obfuscated the issue because when World Cup was closing in and his name was nearly cemented in the 23 man squad, he chose to move away
from limelight and in doing so, had probably done an irreparable damage to his World Cup dreams.
There appears to be a current and very deliberate attempt to
obfuscate what a VAT actually does (create a level field and back out taxes
from exports, allowing recipient countries to impose their own taxes at consumption) and conflate it with protectionist measures such as straightforward tariffs or the proposed complex «border adjustability» tax, the latter explicitly prohibited under WTO rules precisely because it is not a level playing field (imports are taxed and exports are subsidized).
McKechin told Politics.co.uk afterwards the minister had attempted to «
obfuscate» by drawing attention away
from the listing regulations, however, when these were what had failed.
Distinguished Melaye with his high sense of drama has
obfuscated the real issue by his actions, depending on who you believe, jumping out of a police to save his life
from tear gas attack or attempting to escape
from lawful police custody.
This is nothing but more shameful marketing
from Duke personnel,
obfuscating the situation with hand waving and double speak as was done for years as Baggerly and Coombes tried to shed light on this situation.
The story of our origin is further
obfuscated by the fact that scientists have long had to rely on DNA extracted
from extremely hard to find bones and teeth — often buried in inaccessible areas — to understand how we came to be and what our family trees look like.
Even Murch, however, can't save the picture
from its own worst instincts, first with irradiated sailors heroically injured by their courage, then during a fifteen - minute conclusion that manages to not only shoehorn a television playing the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson in mad - scientist fright makeup toasting fallen comrades under
obfuscating end titles.
The film
obfuscates its own dubious morality by briefly noting that Hanna could never be absolved — but
from a dramatic standpoint, she is, something director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter David Hare appallingly seal by pilfering their coda
from Schindler's List.
More often than not the employment of handhelds and security footage is a distraction and when coupled with lighting schemes intended to disorient or
obfuscate what's around the corner
from the audience it is a downright detriment.
These admins suck out all the remaining money
from private ed budgets, while furnishing Gestapo - like services to their masters, serving to intiimdate,
obfuscate, insulate, and prevaricate.
It's taken years for the boys in Affalterbach to tweak the formula for their 12 - cylinder top dog,
obfuscated by the simple (and decidedly First World) issue of how to wrangle ungodly amounts of torque — in this case, a stunning 738 lb - ft (or 1,000 newton - meters) of rotation
from the handbuilt, 6.0 - liter twin - turbo V - 12.
A techno - black - gold rendering
obfuscates both front and rear, leaving a side view not all that different
from the current mechanized mite's.
The above data was pulled
from memory by redditor randomstranger454 who has discovered that the developers have bizarrely chosen to
obfuscate these settings behind a BASE64 format, rather than a simple txt file that can be edited.
In some cases, words and phrases snatched
from the ad copy — «will be girls,» «undecided, and «Picasso» — are echoed suggestively in the titles of paintings; in others, such as Poetry, headlines charged with dread and import loom through
obfuscating veils of paint.
Inspired by a recent visit to Hong Kong, Turk created a Styrofoam box sculpture especially for this exhibition, adding to his infamous trompe l'oeil sculpture series in which he casts a substantial bronze sculpture
from a seemingly ephemeral object and then paints it to further
obfuscate the true materiality of the piece.
Comprised of 35 works spanning
from the late 1960s to the present, it's a crystalline show that helps to elucidate the long view of an artist who has made a career of otherwise
obfuscating it.
As in many works
from this period, such as Zwei Fiat, 1964 (Museum Frieder Burda, Baden - Baden), the movement of the figure is captured in the
obfuscating sweep of the artist's brush.
By
obfuscating reality, night provokes the extraordinary visions of a preconscious dream — visions that signaled transcendence for the Romantics and a release
from binding aesthetic dogma for contemporary painters.
The notion made for a good segue into her essay «The Islands of Evasion: Notes on International Art English» (2003), included in Social medium as a response to arguments —
from Hito Steyerl, Martha Rosler, and others — regarding the
obfuscating language used in e-flux press releases and other explanatory art texts.
The intricate transformation of works
from various stages of his practice into new ones functions to
obfuscate hierarchies between media and artworks, considering the relationship between art's autonomy and its formal developments, the nature of the gaze and the complexities of time.
Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and
obfuscated science in the climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come
from folks on all sides of this issue at one point or another).
They take every opportunity to
obfuscate the issue with comments like the scientists are wrong, it's all a hoax, when they've heard
from a friend of a friend of a friend whose brother flunked statistics, never took science, but works for an oil company and has his own blog, that it is so.
Hyperbole, disinformation (
from all sides) and truth inextricably mingle and
obfuscate what is already a complex topic with many facets.
You do take funds
from fossil fuel companies for your skeptic «research» in order to distract,
obfuscate, and confuse voters into thinking climate change is not happening or that it isn't the fault of us humans.
Unfortunately, most of the new material to emerge in the last year
obfuscates and obscures this already complex mechanism — in part because each new paper tries to differentiate itself
from the...
I'm not an expert but
from reading about the case the flaw wasn't exactly
obfuscated if you had access to the source.
Apart
from his devastating content, his writing puts
obfuscating academia to shame
As far as I can see, and typical of «rebuttals»
from both, the explanations given change depending on the questions asked, there's no internal coherence in C / AGWSF as it was designed to
obfuscate not educate.
Or you can continue to try and distract
from this, but until you can actually provide proof that visible light
from the Sun heats land and oceans as you claim then you are merely
obfuscating to cover up the obvious, the AGWSF claim that visible light heats land and ocean is STUPID.
What more perfect classroom is there for tutoring the intelligent layman to be skeptical of the «known laws of science» than the stream of stupidity wrapped in
obfuscating words than the hockey stick of Mann and the screaming doom
from Hansem's mouth?
This doesn't actually help any framing, because it still seems to intentionally
obfuscate the interesting question, whether you are starting
from a position of general acceptance of the mainstream view on anthropogenic climate change across disciplines (as expressed in IPCC, national academy summaries etc.) or not.
Selecting example C code
from the
obfuscated C contest is hardly a fair comparison.
In their responses, they throw much in the way to
obfuscate the reality that Gummer's predictions were barely grounded even on computer modelling, and were far
from uncontroversial, even within consensus climate science.
Even doing Fourier analyses is just
obfuscating the concept that there must be standard repeating patterns that make up the apparent random noise — well you may find some but they will be dependent on the algorithm used and the end points they won't describe the chaotic system because by definition they expect repeating patterns at various scales
from a chaotic system.
Like the new NASA page on IR which will no longer give such a real vivid description of what IR is, what we feel as heat
from the Sun, and what Near IR is, not hot, but avoids stating this, so this NOAA page doesn't actually give you the information which clarifies, it
obfuscates.
Warby explained that NT1 was evasive and
obfuscating during the right to be forgotten trial and did not accept his guilt
from the earlier case.
This sentence also has some
obfuscating adjectives: should we infer
from the wording that there is a different rule for «abnormal federal prisoners» than for «normal» prisoners»?
While the chances of someone guessing the long and
obfuscated URL that points back to your shared album is minuscule, that doesn't prevent the people with whom you share the URL
from sharing it with others.
Marble does this by hiding («
obfuscating») text fragments used in CIA malware
from visual inspection.