36 thoughts on “The Moron Is Banished”

  2. Douchenozzle. But it’s just a matter of time for the other troll, who doesn’t even provide entertainment, as Douchenozzle did, in its own pathetic way, for years. I’ll miss it, but not much.

  4. My opinion is still the same as before.

    He sure did have a nice day poking your buttons on every post. It is almost like he wanted to get banned. Why gratuitously insult the blog owner? It isn’t like there is no one else around for him to go after. Insults are like swear words, you have to work them in sparingly for them to have any impact. In the long run, DN-guy would have had more enjoyment arguing over policy and other things than just throwing out uncreative insults. And I am sure Rand would rather have had a reader he could argue with rather than just return insults to.

  6. I just received email from DN-Guy,

    Bob, looks like I won’t be posting anymore, but as you continue to read Transterrestrial Musings, please keep the following in mind:

    An approach complementary to General Circulation Models (GCMs), using the anthropogenic CO2 radiative forcing as a linear surrogate for all anthropogenic forcings [Lovejoy, 2014], was recently developed for quantifying human impacts. Using preindustrial multiproxy series and scaling arguments, the probabilities of natural fluctuations at time lags up to 125 years were determined. The hypothesis that the industrial epoch warming was a giant natural fluctuation was rejected with 99.9% confidence. In this paper, this method is extended to the determination of event return times. Over the period 1880–2013, the largest 32 year event is expected to be 0.47 K, effectively explaining the postwar cooling (amplitude 0.42–0.47 K). Similarly, the “pause” since 1998 (0.28–0.37 K) has a return period of 20–50 years (not so unusual). It is nearly cancelled by the pre-pause warming event (1992–1998, return period 30–40 years); the pause is no more than natural variability.

    Best wishes,
    DN-Guy

    2. Bob-1,

      I would think that a good way to get yourself banned is to make a habit of posting utterances from a banned member.

      Is there some reason you felt compelled to post something from dn-guy KNOWING that he was banned so that….well….he could not post?

      Why did you do that?

      1. It was a joke, you goofball. If he posted stuff like that, do you think Rand would have banned him?

        1. A joke? Seriously, Bob, based on your body of posts on this site I find that hard to believe, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. Oh, and definitely hang on to that day job.

          1. Guys, sadly, Bob’s probably telling the truth. Has DN *ever* posted anything intelligent like that?

    3. Ignoring, for a moment, the discourtesy implied in posting something from someone who has been banned, let me offer the following observation:

      While I am obviously speaking only for myself, I believe that if everything that the douchenozzle had posted had been that serious, on-point, and moderately phrased, he would never have been banned in the first place. Obviously there is a lot of room for debate about what he referred to, but at least it was a serious comment, rather than snark with little value.

        1. Well, it struck me as unlikely that a) the douche would have your email address and b) that he’d be capable of writing anything like that, unless he’s been playing us for years.

        2. Lovejoy’s paper is wildly wrong, since for it to be true then all other warming and cooling periods, which are known to be of greater magnitude than the warming that was caused by human emissions with 99.9 percent certainty, had to have been caused by humans with a certainty even greater than 99.9 percent, and that’s while humans were hunting animals with spears.

          1. “had to have been caused by humans with a certainty even greater than 99.9 percent, and that’s while humans were hunting animals with spears.”

            Only true if past warming wasn’t caused by natural forcings that haven’t been having as large an effect more recently.

          2. And there’s the rub. With 99.9 percent certainty Lovejoy says that there are no large natural forcings operating now (except downwards), despite the giant fusion ball in the sky reaching peak activity at the end of the 20th century. So if the sun can’t cause any warming no matter what it does, what caused the Roman Warm Period, Romans? What was the “forcing” that caused the Little Ice Age?

        3. I admit it had me going for a few, but upon reflection, yes the satire should have been obvious. You are also correct with regards to DN. If he’d actually put up arguments like that, Rand wouldn’t have banned him. Having people around who can intelligently disagree with you makes for a lively blog.

    4. Do you really find that credible? It is absurd. 99.9% confidence? Hey, I’ve got an investment guaranteed to make you a billionaire with 99.9% confidence. Interested?

  7. Rand, I have this theory that your various critics are all the same person taking on different online identities.

    Back in the day, I also thought that Admiral Bobby Inman, Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and General Colin Powell were all the same person. I mean you never saw more than one of them at a time on ABC Nightline, but they each had the same wonkish double talk and arch-of-the-eyebrow when responding to Ted’s questions, now didn’t they? Yes, one appeared to be black and another a woman, but that just goes to the sophistication of “tradecraft.”

    1. I think Jeanne could have kicked all their butts in a cage match. Damn, it would have been fun to have a cup of coffee with her.

      1. As someone who was far more likely to agree with Amb K (as opposed to the other Gen Powell or Adm Inman), I have some bad news for you:

        I had several dinners with Amb K (among others), and she was an utterly uninspiring and unappealing dinner companion.

    2. “Back in the day, I also thought that Admiral Bobby Inman, Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and General Colin Powell were all the same person.”

      Yes, Steve Gutenberg the greatest actor of all time.

  8. I thought Douche Nozzle was often contributory. I have yet to see anything from Guestofritz but snark.

  9. My take is, and always has been, that when one is a guest, be it in a home or on a blog, one should show respect and courtesy to the homeowner (or blog owner). That is, simply put, behavior that is incumbent upon a guest.

    It would, after all, be very uncouth to go to a party in a private home and there revel in the fact that the homeowner and host is being sued. If a guest in my home did something like that to me, I’d physically eject them.

  10. Arizona CJ
    July 22, 2014 at 10:28 am
    My take is, and always has been, that when one is a guest, be it in a home or on a blog, one should show respect and courtesy to the homeowner (or blog owner). That is, simply put, behavior that is incumbent upon a guest.

    Yes, that’s it in a nutshell. If you go to someone’s home, insult the host, and crap in the pool, you shouldn’t be surprised when you’re shown the door and told not to return.

  11. I generally tended to ignore dn-guy’s lack of manners because that, along with heaping helpings of baseless self-regard, is simply normative of left-wing personalities. The content-free snark and scorn were, in like fashion, the political equivalent of catechistic taunts I received in childhood from some of the neighboring Catholic kids because I was raised Presbyterian (it didn’t take). But dn would sometimes offer up an actual proposition that was addressable. At such times, I would often address his thesis; usually in opposition, but on rare occasions, in agreement. Even the childish and jejune deserve credit when it is due. In that he, at least sporadically, made actual arguments, even though mixed in with a rich variety of the Aristotelian logical fallacies, he was, therefore, objectively more worth keeping around than “guest” who seems entirely a Johnny One Note, stuck monotonously on ad hominem and contributing nothing of substance to any conversation into which he elects to intrude himself. If Rand wants to regard this comment thread as an informal plebiscite on banning particular persons from his forum, I’d like to request that, in justice to dn-guy, Rand ban “guest” too.

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