Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "wocomoDOCS" channel.

Gotta understand, they spent so much money on their brilliant writers and photographers, they didn't have any left for an editor...
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@royalspin The mysterious and evil "they" strikes again!
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The formula " "Thou shall not kill" sounds right. But..." is disingenuous, it seems to me. There are a small number of absolute pacifists in the world, but everyone else -- all conventional users of the phrase "Thou shalt not kill." -- agrees on the universal right to self-defence. This slightly different ("Thou" and "shall"??) phrasing is a bit odd., and there is no "but" for most of us. In the same vein, it seems to me that people whose main thing is opposition to cults very often have a cult of their own to push. What's up "Truthseeker"? Tell us more about this "justice" you stand for. -dlj.
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That's a horrible thing to say about Shauberger, "a scientist I liken to Tesla," but quite plausible. Like the con-man Tesla, he seems to have had a few good ideas and to have combined them with a whole lot of high-flown bullshit.
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@royalspin That's delusional. Tesla didn't "come up with" alternating current. In Westinghouse's fight with Edison, Tesla made lofty pronouncements from his bar-stool. He hit it lucky, taking Westinghouse's side. Westinghouse rewarded him by paying him well for some trivial patents on speculative multi-phase power transmission which have never found practical use. The last (and only) huge transmission station for Tesla's entirely lunatic power transmission system was recently broken down and sold for scrap lumber in New Jersey.
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Elenrai Elenrai: Agreed on your first point. My long-time partner's English was her eighth language, and she would make fun of my inability to understand songs in Jamaican English which she understood plainly. From her vantage point, like yours, the difference was like NooYawk to Jaw-jha, minimal. On your second,, you're right again, but lose, pronounced "loooz" is the opposite of find. That's what you want here.. Loose, pronounce "luce," is the opposite of tight, and is a common error among people who pronounce route "rowt." Loose usage makes you lose face. :-) -dlj.
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There is nothing "natural" about the flume he copied at 4:14. It is quite obviously an artificial stone channel, and because it wasn't big enough for the lumber industrialists' use he built a bigger one.
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@DannyBoyle-tp5vg Tesla was a second-rate con-man whose theories about energy were mostly bunk. He hit it lucky just once, picking Westinghouse over Edison in the alternating-current dust-up. That was just public relations, not science. The only time he was above water may have been when he sold Van der Graaf generators to Hollywood for their sci-fi movies. That's those nice sparky machines which no, Tesla didn't invent. It's said Tesla died broke. This is an understatement. He didn't pay his bar bills at the Waldorf Astoria, and eventually they cut him off.
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@just1john Reich, the orgone box nut? Maybe not quite that bad. Tesla gave it his best shot, though.
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@DannyBoyle-tp5vg Donald Trump, his near neighbour on Fifth Avenue, is just as good as Tesla ever was, maybe better. They're both major league con men, but Trump is a heavier hitter in the bankruptcy department. Tesla, on the other hand, is the clear leader in stiffing bars for his booze bills.
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@just1john Naww, facts don't seem to be your thing, John. But if you ever snap out of sneer mode I'd be happy to join in any scientific speculation you bring to the table.
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Andrew Bishop What do you think, Andrew? Being polite to the furriner? The very frequent group dynamic of nobody wanting to make waves? One possibility might be that they all assumed that it was a Chinese dialect other than their own -- which in fact it very well might be. I don't know. The dialect thing is interesting: on very professional or competent language programs, e.g. Memrise (some of which is incompetent, but most of which is good), among people all of whom have spent their entire lives in Beijing, there will still be differences in pronunciation audible to us -- but perhaps not noticed by them. The difference between the BBC English of today and that of my childhood is huge -- which I expect might be denied by people who have lived in England and never noticed the change taking place, but is obvious to me, returning after a gap of fifty or sixty years. Putonghua, like BBC English, is an artificial and official language, and will both change and become more standard over the next fifty years, I imagine. Cheers, -dlj.
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Andrew Bishop Andrew, Agreed on all points. I've just started with a tutor from Guilin, near the Vietnamese border, and run into some interesting problems. In some words he pronounces Beijing ze and zhe identically to my ear -- and then insists to me that I have to acqure a better understanding of the difference between tones... and I am nowhere close to being able to explain to him that, right or wrong, I disagree with him that that's the problem. Nice to make your acquaintance. Don't be a stranger. -dlj. david.lloydjones AT gmail DOT com. https://www.facebook.com/david.lloydjones.391
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@Zeus-bc8fv No, he wasn't a puppet of the West. I've heard that in various crude forms from other Russians enough to know that he has enemies spreading that particular slander, but it's just not true. What you have to realise is that after a generation of Brezhnev -- on top of the foundational unworkability of the Soviet system -- any change at all had to be change in the direction of the West. The only other direction was off the edge of everything into nothing but chaos. The non-Western direction was represented only by the anti-Gorbachev clown-parade. The drunk part, however, you may have pretty much correct, some of the time and at the end at least. As with the slanders above, though, it seems likely that his drunkennes has been exaggerated at every opportunity by his enemies.
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