Oddly, what looks like intelligence to some people looks like an entirely
ridiculous assertion of opinion without any evidence, reason, or evident perspective to back it up.
Not exact matches
The worst kinds
of false news aren't even the most obvious kinds — the clear fakes or
ridiculous assertions — the Microsoft researcher and former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center says:
Probably the best examples are the
ridiculous assertions by various companies, including General Electric, that «the quality
of our earnings is supported by our cash flow», and that «Cash is cash.
Interestingly, though, Myerson's
ridiculous assertion in a roundabout way shows how you change culture... In this case, Nadella effectively shunted Windows to its own division with all
of the company's other non-strategic assets, leaving Myerson and team to come to yesterday's decision on their own.
He's just refuting the
ridiculous assertions by some creationists to refute clear evidence
of evolutionary theory, or suggest that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
The
ridiculous assertion that because Christians follow their religion they are somehow outside
of basic human rights is absolutely criminal... We are doomed if what you three have posted becomes the common belief.
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements
of the learned, their
assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely
ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood
of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.
The type
of atheists, like most on this post, that continue with the
ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside
of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some religious text contains some apparent condemnation
of their lifestyle.
Ironically, the only books I am aware
of that makes
ridiculous assertions about the origin
of life popping into existence are the Torah and it's derivatives, the Bible and Qu» ran.
You may wonder how it is possible for a person like myself to find these sorts
of assertions ridiculous.
Your
assertion of hypocrisy is
ridiculous, and borne
of complete ignorance.
One
of the book's more
ridiculous assertions is that the so - called Sangreal documents, held by the Priory
of Sion, include «the legendary «Q» Document,» which «even the Vatican admits... exists.»
In any case how can we be sure that the people who make such outrageous
assertions are, indeed Arsenal supporters when many
of them often use
ridiculous names?
When I asked Malliotakis about that allegation today she responded with a mashup
of replies, first saying that she would «stay on topic today,» then dismissing Dietl's
assertion as «outrageous» and «
ridiculous» and ending by saying «there's no comment on that... it's frivolous» as her staffer moved to end the press conference.
It should have been taking decisive action but engaged instead in systematic understatement
of the danger: it has made
ridiculous assertions that the U.S. should not do anything that China does not agree to do and has stubbornly insisted that no action should be taken to improve climate change «if it hurts the economy.»
American Federation
of Teachers President Randi Weingarten bashed the report, huffing that it's full
of «
ridiculous assertions» says,
She promptly bashed the report, insisting that it's full
of «
ridiculous assertions» and countered with half - truths and threw in a little class warfare as red meat for her members:
This is actually one
of the most
ridiculous assertions when it comes to Skyward Sword.
This is a
ridiculous graph that ignores the stop / start nature
of technological progress and adoption and falls in the arena
of pure
assertion (e.g.there ought to be major spikes corresponding to the widespread postwar adoption
of automobiles, etc.) This was discussed with Pratt some time ago and any conclusions based on it are indefensible imaginings.
Such grants have brought us «studies» connecting «dangerous manmade global warming» to dwindling frog populations, shrinking Italian pasta supplies, clownfish getting lost, cockroaches migrating, and scores
of other remote to
ridiculous assertions.
We don't get any closer to science by denying the significant possibility that we are causing significantly adverse changes in climate than we do by the
ridiculous assertion that we understand the chaotic complexity
of climate well enough to say with certainty how many parts per millions
of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to how many degrees
of global warming.
His opposition stemmed partly from the valid argument that they impose real hardship on Iranians, but also from the very dubious claim that they make war more likely, and from the legally
ridiculous assertion that western use
of financial tools to block oil sales «is a financial blockade, and blockades are acts
of war.»
I'll leave readers to ponder which
of these
assertions is the more patently
ridiculous, but NASA's Gavin Schmidt's comments at RealClimate do shed some light on the former one.
joeldshore makes a
ridiculous assertion when he claims the rate
of rise in atmospheric CO2 has doubled from 1 to 2 ppm «over the last 40 years».
What I found so terribly
ridiculous was the
assertion (such as in the headline) that the point
of FOI requests was to bog down researchers to delay their future publications.
He / she / they are doing this by posting
ridiculous assertions (including untrue paraphrases that grossly distort the words
of others) and by changing the subject whenever the daft nature
of the
assertions is pointed out.
Despite delusions
of grandeur [«Steven Mosher is to Climategate what Woodward and Bernstein were to Watergate»] and
ridiculous assertions [«He was just the right person, with just the right influence, and just the right expertise to be at the heart
of the promulgation
of the files»] Mr. Mosher was nothing more than a temporary go - between that he used to inflate his importance in the matter.
LolWot successfully explains why the Moshers, Currys and Fullers
of this world are
ridiculous: the
assertions they make are blatantly internally inconsistent and self - contradictory.
They knew much
of the landscape
of uncertainty and they went ahead and said 95 % surety when any scientist or even layman with a modicum
of interest in the subject could see that was completely
ridiculous assertion.
Given all that, I would assert that solving the inverse scattering problem
of this epic proportions is impossible, and the
assertion that it is «not particularly difficult» is simply
ridiculous.
Point taken, but not because any part
of it [Trenberth's
assertion] requires proof
of being
ridiculous.
The issue is so polarized, it has come to
ridiculous black - and - white
assertions from supporters
of both sides.
Ultimatley defending the credibility
of the report by reference to the actual report's
assertion that it is credible is
ridiculous.
Interestingly, though, Myerson's
ridiculous assertion in a roundabout way shows how you change culture... In this case, Nadella effectively shunted Windows to its own division with all
of the company's other non-strategic assets, leaving Myerson and team to come to yesterday's decision on their own.