Fishy Policies

do research
hide data
ignore facts

take no action

back in 2009
data from trawlers
from 46 countries

were sampled
scientifically sifted
labourishly researched

plus bonus
two global fisheries
tuna and shark fin

using long lines?

at a bycatch rate
of 92 per cent
industry shark fin

tops as efficient
league champions
just cut off fins

more soupy tails

throw away body shark
destined to bloody sink
fish to extinction brink

destined to drown in extinction seas

Bangladesh shrimp fisheries
were ultimate survey losers
worst with over 95 per cent

of catch composed of non-target species

research data Marine Policy published
EU Common Fisheries Policy prepared
forthcoming review hopefully influenced

hook line and sinker sunk
reports composed just more fishy stories
mother ships ever catch hungry not Chinese junks

newsflash species once considered
unpalatable are appearing in fishmongers
alternative markets booming extinctions looming netted

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Incompetence Sentences Our Seas

WWF global fisheries analysis report
data to 2009 study shows at least
40 per cent of the entire world’s catch
is invisible to fish sea management

calculate combined global fishing effort
the number of vessels and the amount
of time spent at sea continues to increase
but catches remain static decrease exit

more boats chase fewer fish to extinction point
world’s fish stocks are in crisis total 80 per cent
of world’s fisheries fully exploited over exploited
immature fish unregulated are unbred fast caught

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TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

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We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

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There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

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I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

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There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

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Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

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Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day.

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Robert Nozick

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

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In This Information Age

In this information age with data everywhere
And mobile phones and wireless sending signals through the air
Its so easy to believe that what we know is what's retrieved
From endless browsing searches and data base machines
Yet there seems just one thing missing - as with facts we're overwhelmed
Its that things have far more meaning when we find them for ourselves
We rely on received wisdom - become experts over night
And take things at face value - rarely checking if they're right
We find communities of interest reinforcing our own views
And confuse uninformed opionion with the facts behind the news
We are also gossip junkies - knowing who has slept with whom
And we do this in the comfort of our lonely living rooms
We make friends we won't cast eyes on and we know most everything
Save the joy of conversation and our own imaginings.

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Austan Goolsbee

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

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James Randi

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

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Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

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Once again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on 'consensus science' and not scientific fact.

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Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

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You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

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It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

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