It hasn't been warming for 17 years. It's been warming for 16 years, mind you, and it's been warming for 18 years; and for 15 and for 19, and so on.
You don't have to be a statistician to see that the best interpretation of that is that 1998 was one damn hot year on a background of every increasingly hot years.
How does that "hiatus" combine with the denialist trope that CO2 rises after temperature, not the other way around, to result in record high CO2 after a pause in warming?
The rest of us are not regretting it. A "limited nuclear war" between Ukraine and Russia is NOT a viable alternative. And Russia doesn't have to hold nukes over the heads of Ukraine, they have plenty of conventional weapons to do the job.
I've said it before; revoke the student visas of all the Russian oligarchs' kids at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, all the prep schools.... the Russians would pull back in a week.
If the US can keep strangling Cuba at this point, when it's pretty hard to argue that the Soviets are going to stage an attack from there, it's hard to argue that Russia can't make sure that Ukraine doesn't go over to NATO and pose a threat. (For the record, both positions are imperialism, in my opinion).
Actually, Ukraine had quite a few nuclear weapons, left over from when the Soviet Union collapsed; like 1/3 the Soviet stock. This was quite a worrisome item in the recent past, so they disarmed. D'oh!
It's pretty well known that to appear scary/crazy is a good way to get what you want without even having to do anything really scary or crazy. Heck, that's a staple shtick in the repertoire of African American comedians.
Agreed. Maybe you can run a country if you're quite insane, but you can't run a country if you're quite insane and there are countless competitors looking to topple you and take over themselves. Not for long.
As much as we've been told that they're insane, the leaders of North Korea or Iran are not insane, just really scary. It's hard for really insane people to get to run a country, even if their daddy did it before them. And psychopaths don't indulge in suicidal acts of violence.
I don't believe vacuum cleaners are a major factor in energy usage in any country. I don't care how fastidious the Dutch are, they are probably not vacuuming ten hours a day.
When you come right down to it, customer service is where the seller's and buyer's interests are most explicitly opposed. The buyer would like somebody highly qualified to hold their hand, preferably the head engineer of the company, for free, every time they have a question. The company would like somebody from the third world who doesn't speak English and works for $2 a day to tell you to get lost.
Or, force you to buy customer service at the going rate for hiring an engineer.
I'm studying a formerly unknown means whereby certain plants, when heated, are able to transfer their mRNA to humans, resulting in a certain vegetativeness among the recipients.
Every company I've ever seen, the managers always say they're there to keep obstacles out of the paths of their workers. And in the vast majority of them, the fact is they are there to serve the wishes of their superiors by inserting a filter between them and the workers that allows commands to flow downwards, but forbids questions, suggestions, or other information from flowing upwards to disturb the top level's fantasies.
Indeed. There's that point in the growth of any organization, not just companies and businesses, where you have to shift from a bunch of people who know how to do their jobs, however convoluted they may seem (write the driver for the image acquisition/face recognition system, also fix printer jams) to a system where the knowledge is sort of incorporated into the structure of the company, so that people become individually replaceable. This is the point where most organizations fail. Others manage to survive, but become the proverbial big stupid organization. Some of the wiser ones decide never to grow to that point, rather staying small and personal.
The corollary; whoever puts up the money gets to put his relative, in law, and/or girlfriend into whatever position he wants, no matter how incompetent.
Take electronic engineering as an example. Used to be a decent engineer had to know all the ins and outs and peculiarities and nonlinearities of capacitors and resistors and so on. Now, we have a very small group of very skilled engineers designing integrated circuits which don't have nearly as many peculiarities and nonlinearities and are simple for much less skilled engineers to design circuits around. If you can make a field basically modular, you can get by with fewer expensive talented designers/engineers, and a lot more cookbook readers. Thus, object oriented programming, or the many attempts thereto.
Dealing with people isn't quite the same as managing them. I can deal quite well with people, get often cited as an official leader among my peers, knowledge resource, etc. etc. But I know I would be absolutely, completely, and totally useless at any kind of discipline, rating, etc. Which disqualifies me from any sort of management position. Although it's only recently I've come to realize that most of the folks who take these jobs aren't any better at it than I; it's just that they either don't know or don't care.
Exactly. I'm not in IT, I'm one of those techie guys they put in the business side because IT won't do what they want them to. So I'm qualified to grind the data and come up with analyses on which the company is happy to put millions of dollars at risk. But only if I don't wear blue jeans.
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It hasn't been warming for 17 years. It's been warming for 16 years, mind you, and it's been warming for 18 years; and for 15 and for 19, and so on. You don't have to be a statistician to see that the best interpretation of that is that 1998 was one damn hot year on a background of every increasingly hot years.
How does that "hiatus" combine with the denialist trope that CO2 rises after temperature, not the other way around, to result in record high CO2 after a pause in warming?
Another fine product of our species' dependence on petroleum.
The rest of us are not regretting it. A "limited nuclear war" between Ukraine and Russia is NOT a viable alternative. And Russia doesn't have to hold nukes over the heads of Ukraine, they have plenty of conventional weapons to do the job.
I've said it before; revoke the student visas of all the Russian oligarchs' kids at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, all the prep schools.... the Russians would pull back in a week.
If the US can keep strangling Cuba at this point, when it's pretty hard to argue that the Soviets are going to stage an attack from there, it's hard to argue that Russia can't make sure that Ukraine doesn't go over to NATO and pose a threat. (For the record, both positions are imperialism, in my opinion).
Actually, Ukraine had quite a few nuclear weapons, left over from when the Soviet Union collapsed; like 1/3 the Soviet stock. This was quite a worrisome item in the recent past, so they disarmed. D'oh!
It's pretty well known that to appear scary/crazy is a good way to get what you want without even having to do anything really scary or crazy. Heck, that's a staple shtick in the repertoire of African American comedians.
Agreed. Maybe you can run a country if you're quite insane, but you can't run a country if you're quite insane and there are countless competitors looking to topple you and take over themselves. Not for long.
As much as we've been told that they're insane, the leaders of North Korea or Iran are not insane, just really scary. It's hard for really insane people to get to run a country, even if their daddy did it before them. And psychopaths don't indulge in suicidal acts of violence.
It's never where or what you expect. That's why it's so hard to defend against.
Exterminate!
I never tell my kids they're smart or hard working. If they do something good, I tell them they got lucky, so they will develop a good lucky feeling.
I don't believe vacuum cleaners are a major factor in energy usage in any country. I don't care how fastidious the Dutch are, they are probably not vacuuming ten hours a day.
Meanwhile the guy with the pet dinosaur gets off scot free. Don't these people realize how dangerous those things are?
When you come right down to it, customer service is where the seller's and buyer's interests are most explicitly opposed. The buyer would like somebody highly qualified to hold their hand, preferably the head engineer of the company, for free, every time they have a question. The company would like somebody from the third world who doesn't speak English and works for $2 a day to tell you to get lost. Or, force you to buy customer service at the going rate for hiring an engineer.
Sorry libs, plant's aren't people.
You're the wrong person (?) to be making that argument.
I'm studying a formerly unknown means whereby certain plants, when heated, are able to transfer their mRNA to humans, resulting in a certain vegetativeness among the recipients.
Every company I've ever seen, the managers always say they're there to keep obstacles out of the paths of their workers. And in the vast majority of them, the fact is they are there to serve the wishes of their superiors by inserting a filter between them and the workers that allows commands to flow downwards, but forbids questions, suggestions, or other information from flowing upwards to disturb the top level's fantasies.
All this talk about engineers, but nobody mentions firemen, brakemen, and conductors.
Indeed. There's that point in the growth of any organization, not just companies and businesses, where you have to shift from a bunch of people who know how to do their jobs, however convoluted they may seem (write the driver for the image acquisition/face recognition system, also fix printer jams) to a system where the knowledge is sort of incorporated into the structure of the company, so that people become individually replaceable. This is the point where most organizations fail. Others manage to survive, but become the proverbial big stupid organization. Some of the wiser ones decide never to grow to that point, rather staying small and personal.
The corollary; whoever puts up the money gets to put his relative, in law, and/or girlfriend into whatever position he wants, no matter how incompetent.
Take electronic engineering as an example. Used to be a decent engineer had to know all the ins and outs and peculiarities and nonlinearities of capacitors and resistors and so on. Now, we have a very small group of very skilled engineers designing integrated circuits which don't have nearly as many peculiarities and nonlinearities and are simple for much less skilled engineers to design circuits around. If you can make a field basically modular, you can get by with fewer expensive talented designers/engineers, and a lot more cookbook readers. Thus, object oriented programming, or the many attempts thereto.
Dealing with people isn't quite the same as managing them. I can deal quite well with people, get often cited as an official leader among my peers, knowledge resource, etc. etc. But I know I would be absolutely, completely, and totally useless at any kind of discipline, rating, etc. Which disqualifies me from any sort of management position. Although it's only recently I've come to realize that most of the folks who take these jobs aren't any better at it than I; it's just that they either don't know or don't care.
Exactly. I'm not in IT, I'm one of those techie guys they put in the business side because IT won't do what they want them to. So I'm qualified to grind the data and come up with analyses on which the company is happy to put millions of dollars at risk. But only if I don't wear blue jeans.