And I know two out of three locally where many of the idiots are in management. Most of these are not the type of people I want handling my food. But yes, I do eat there when pressed for time. (Maybe a couple times a month at most)
Even when the ice is gone and the methane hydrate is about do release millions of years worth of methane into the atmosphere they will be making excuses as to why it's not really warming.
In a little over a century man has released the CO2 that took nature many millions, (hundreds of millions) of years to accumulate/sequester. I think we are approaching CO2 levels that were last seen over a million years ago. Remember that it only takes a few more degrees temp rise that what is predicted in another century to release the Methane on the continental shelves. There are areas in the arctic just off the shore of NE RUSSIA where it's already boiling to the surface over large areas. Methane is far more effective as a green house gas than CO2 and there is more of it stored as Methane Hydrate than all the oil, coal, and gas we've pumped out of the ground since the start of the industrial revolution.
We're looking at one study by one scientist in one location. The rest of the world (land and water) has been showing an increase in temp for decades and this year is no exception. One location could easily have a hotter temp in the past for decades, but world wide is a different story.
We can plan for the normal stuff, but like the 100 year flood or 500 year flood (had one of those about 15 years ago) you can't have enough people on hand to take care of those 500 year events or storms that are far beyond the norm without making your product prohibitively expensive. Normally the power companies would just bring in help from neighboring areas, but when an atypical storm covers as many as 4 or 5 adjoining areas the extra help just isn't there.
We used to live way out in the boonies. Never did have a power outage of more than a few minutes. Since we moved here which is only about a 2 miles from the city limits we've had many failures. After the Year 2000 scare I waited for generators to go on sale. in less than 12 years I've put over 120 hours on that generator.
Much of Michigan is swamp (that's wet lands for the PC crowd, but it smells like a swamp, looks like a swamp, and grows one Hell of a crop of big Mosquitoes...It's a swamp!) That means fast growing trash trees. IOW the wood isn't much good for anything. They can completely clear the right of way and in 10 to 15 years the dead falls are getting into the power lines so they have crews just about all year that are cutting trees. If they hired enough people to do all the regular maintenance and keep the right of ways clear, our electricity would be much more expensive. Almost as much as they pay in California.
Better take a class on job interviewing. Most want well rounded people "with potential". Programmers who are good, but have few outside interests and are satisfied with just programming are a dime a dozen. Often we would have to explain in plain language what a program would do and how. I moved up to project manager, so I had to listen to engineers and management who thought they knew how to program. Getting them to explain what they wanted in terms that could be translated into a project charter was often a "BITCH!", because they didn't know what they didn't know. You have to learn how to tactfully tell some one who is higher up the food chain than you, that they are full of crap and still keep your job let alone get that next raise. That takes social skills. Staying in good physical shape is also important as you are going to be sitting in front of computers many hours of the day, which is not good for your body or eyesight. Those with stamina are much better at pulling all nighters too. The stereotyped programmer you see in the movies is rare! Most of the IT people I know and have worked with are not just programmers or "IT People". They have families, participate in sports. Remember that many sports let you burn off frustration and adrenalin to keep you in good shape while staving off that heart attack or diabetes.
BTW I know a number of applicants who either talked they way out of a good job at the interview or soon after starting.
Knowing how to program and write good code is one thing, but you do have to interface with team members and management at the least. There is a huge variation between employers, but those are common across the board. It's very unusual to be given a project and then left alone to do it. We had team meetings usually every other week, but they could be every week. It depends on the size of the project and the complexity of the coding as well as hardware.
Of course who you get for a boss is a crap shoot. You may get a good one and you may get one who is a firm believer in CYA and using those who work for them as toilet paper. Do you wait it out or move on? Moving on carries a stigma with it and if done very often personnel departments only get that far in looking at the resume before they too move on.
Don't forget you should know ahead of time what that company offers for salary and benefits. Your first day of work is none too soon to be planning for retirement and "other alternatives".
Judgmental, Decision making, and social skills are something many if not most college students lack. Of course a good study ethic doesn't hurt either. If you CS curriculum is line the one I had you will have very little time left for socializing once the classes start. The good jobs to to the ones who take the right courses AND get good grades.
The world and the government owe us nothing. We have to earn it. Attitude sets us apart from just being one of the bunch to being at the top of the heap. Many companies are looking for those who not only do an outstanding job, but who want to move up the ladder.
They didn't get it quite right though. Technically the mandate was changed to a tax which the Administration went along with, that is until it was passed, then they went back to claiming it's a fine and insisting it's not the largest tax increase in history? (or at least in many, many, decades)
It works out that we will gain 20 or 30 million more people for the same number of doctors to see...IE here comes rationing. Add to that those with pre existing conditions paying the same as healthy young people...which equals a huge increase in costs (estimated to be between $2,000 and $3,000 per family per year) that will have to be on the shoulders of the working man and woman. IE...Us!. No more selecting the technology you and your doctor want. If it does the medical work, the cheapest that will do it is what you get, no matter that you are a welder and the cheap one will quit around strong magnetic fields. What happens to the family doctors who are no longer taking new patients are 20 - 30 million new ones are entered into the system along with a huge number of new and costly regulations.
The whole thing boils down to those of us who have had insurance finding it difficult to get in to see our doctor and large increases in the costs for medical treatment and devices.
You've met one now. Anything I use often goes to the task bar. Everything else stays with start. If you use it often a single click on the task bar icon and it's running except for that Damn "are you sure you really want to let this program make changes?" prompter. Why would you want to have mouse over tot he start button, then find the application likely by having to click on all programs, then select the application and then double click on that, or move through menus to get to the application. I still use the start button for the less often used applications so I see it still having a place. I'd sure hate to have all those start icons on the desk top.
Somebody that actually gets it. We (in the US) have the best economic system in the world which is quasi capitalism. It's not perfect and as stated above it needs regulation, but we have the most mobile society in the world with rich getting poor and poor getting rich although with the current economy more are moving down than up. In the past few years about 26% of the rich moved down but still the number of poor moving up was in double digits percent wise. Government anti business policies have drastically slowed down the recovery with the likelyhood of a double dip recession increasing. Like Marxism they are working with a punishment system instead of a reward for excelling.
Remember the Mercury capsules? They were about the size of an oil drum but small on top with the heat shield being wider. The things had windows about 3" X 1.5" if that. And I thought "depends" were part of the astronaut uniform. Can you imagine being up there for a week without a change?
They are supposed to honor those Dr letters. What about Defibs, pacemakers, and other life critical devices? Those could potentially kill the wearer depending on that the mm machine did to one of them.
The problem with non capitalism systems is they do not stem the growth either. Capitalism just lets the workers live better. If you check 3rd world countries you will see populations growing to the point that their resources can not sustain them. Here over regulation is likely to do the same .
I do remember and I can tell you that our first snows would be in mid to early October. I remember because on the first day of pheasant season I would end up walking though 8 to 10 inches of snow most years. As to spring and melting snow? No, I don't remember when that happened over 50 years ago. At 21 I had other things on my mind.:-)) Over the last decade they have been in late November to mid December. Officially our winters are about 5 to 6 weeks shorter over the last 50 years based on when specific lakes freeze over until they have open water.
Of course they ignore that in all but several instances which disrupted the normal cycle the CO2 rise *followed* the temperature rise while now it is leading. The other anomalies were the Siberian traps and Decan traps where a few million years of magma upwelling dumped a lot of CO2 and SO2 into the atmosphere causing mass extinctions.
Tactile feedback for the inexperienced pilot may or may not be a factor. When I say inexperienced that could include a 20,000 hour plus pilot who has never experienced it. OTOH the "tactile feedback" in the control stick can be actual feedback from the control surfaces, simulated by the computer, or a pair of springs in the stick. The pilot can not tell the difference with one important exception. As you slow close to the stall the forces become less. In some planes the change in feedback Vs speed can be substantial. In others the changes may be at the very high and low ends and in some it's basically just at the very low end. Just before the stall it feels like the stick has been disconnected. Flying a plane with no feedback is an interesting experience.
I had the opportunity to fly one that had no "break out force"and no stick gradient (increase in force the farther you get from neutral) and even though the stick was mechanically connected to the control surfaces there was no feedback. . It also had very sensitive and responsive controls.It was exactly like using a joystick in a game with no springs, but with "Gs"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s was lost when the computers put it into a low speed PIO, or would that be CIO?
Not just the average person, but most are completely clueless about science and technology and how things work. If they understood physics and it applies to them and not just everyone else we'd not be killing off well over 30,000 people on the highways per year and maiming for life many times that, but we have improved it peaked at over 50,000 per year. They still don't understand that we had to engineer safety into cars to protect them.
Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is serious, but a good percentage do not believer in Global Warming (GW) at all which is a natural process, let alone AGW
I believed in what the scientists were saying because they made sense, but it took a course in Meteorology and one in climatology to really get a handle on the process.
"I think" which means I don't know for sure, that much of the resistance is due to the way it was presented as a catastrophe and in a manner that would be costly to fix, if it can be. Unfortunately most scientists are not well versed in explaining things to the unknowing who aren't going to want to believer in anything that will inconvenience them of cost them money. In addition there were think tanks hired to spread false information and these are very good at PR. Give some one two choices, one from a scientist and one from a PR firm. The PR firm tells people what they want to hear while the scientist is telling then something they don't want to hear. Who are they likely to believe even if the scientist has all the facts to back up what they are saying? It has now become politicized. The left has demonized the right and much of it is false information. The right pushes back with each side becoming more extreme. The left tends to back global warming, but they are a group that is not known for honesty so if they say AGW is a fact the Right is likely to view it as another scam. My guess it the left is mostly responsible for the increasing disbelief or resistance to science from the right. The right tends to grasp at any negative publicity about AGW or even GW. They can't except that a couple of scientists making a mistake or a few fudging their data does not invalidate the science. They''ve pretty much been conditioned to react that way. Marx was an expert at dividing people like that.
Unfortunately I have to agree with you. The average, no... make that most individuals are completely clueless about anything scientific or technical and view it with skepticism. Those that are educated and I use the word loosely, go for the useless, feel good about yourself because you have a degree, degrees at institutions where they run up debts of well over a hundred grand. They they complain about the system because their masters in basket weaving doesn't get them a job. As for useful degrees, as the one interviewee said, "But those courses are too hard".
Their understanding of economics is about on par with science and technology. Lets face it, we, the economy, and those with useless degrees would be far better off if they'd just settle for getting good grades in high school. Then go out and get a job.
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And pink slime is actually good meat.
And I know two out of three locally where many of the idiots are in management. Most of these are not the type of people I want handling my food. But yes, I do eat there when pressed for time. (Maybe a couple times a month at most)
Even when the ice is gone and the methane hydrate is about do release millions of years worth of methane into the atmosphere they will be making excuses as to why it's not really warming.
In a little over a century man has released the CO2 that took nature many millions, (hundreds of millions) of years to accumulate/sequester. I think we are approaching CO2 levels that were last seen over a million years ago. Remember that it only takes a few more degrees temp rise that what is predicted in another century to release the Methane on the continental shelves. There are areas in the arctic just off the shore of NE RUSSIA where it's already boiling to the surface over large areas. Methane is far more effective as a green house gas than CO2 and there is more of it stored as Methane Hydrate than all the oil, coal, and gas we've pumped out of the ground since the start of the industrial revolution.
We're looking at one study by one scientist in one location. The rest of the world (land and water) has been showing an increase in temp for decades and this year is no exception. One location could easily have a hotter temp in the past for decades, but world wide is a different story.
We can plan for the normal stuff, but like the 100 year flood or 500 year flood (had one of those about 15 years ago) you can't have enough people on hand to take care of those 500 year events or storms that are far beyond the norm without making your product prohibitively expensive. Normally the power companies would just bring in help from neighboring areas, but when an atypical storm covers as many as 4 or 5 adjoining areas the extra help just isn't there. We used to live way out in the boonies. Never did have a power outage of more than a few minutes. Since we moved here which is only about a 2 miles from the city limits we've had many failures. After the Year 2000 scare I waited for generators to go on sale. in less than 12 years I've put over 120 hours on that generator. Much of Michigan is swamp (that's wet lands for the PC crowd, but it smells like a swamp, looks like a swamp, and grows one Hell of a crop of big Mosquitoes ...It's a swamp!) That means fast growing trash trees. IOW the wood isn't much good for anything. They can completely clear the right of way and in 10 to 15 years the dead falls are getting into the power lines so they have crews just about all year that are cutting trees. If they hired enough people to do all the regular maintenance and keep the right of ways clear, our electricity would be much more expensive. Almost as much as they pay in California.
Better take a class on job interviewing. Most want well rounded people "with potential". Programmers who are good, but have few outside interests and are satisfied with just programming are a dime a dozen. Often we would have to explain in plain language what a program would do and how. I moved up to project manager, so I had to listen to engineers and management who thought they knew how to program. Getting them to explain what they wanted in terms that could be translated into a project charter was often a "BITCH!", because they didn't know what they didn't know. You have to learn how to tactfully tell some one who is higher up the food chain than you, that they are full of crap and still keep your job let alone get that next raise. That takes social skills. Staying in good physical shape is also important as you are going to be sitting in front of computers many hours of the day, which is not good for your body or eyesight. Those with stamina are much better at pulling all nighters too. The stereotyped programmer you see in the movies is rare! Most of the IT people I know and have worked with are not just programmers or "IT People". They have families, participate in sports. Remember that many sports let you burn off frustration and adrenalin to keep you in good shape while staving off that heart attack or diabetes. BTW I know a number of applicants who either talked they way out of a good job at the interview or soon after starting. Knowing how to program and write good code is one thing, but you do have to interface with team members and management at the least. There is a huge variation between employers, but those are common across the board. It's very unusual to be given a project and then left alone to do it. We had team meetings usually every other week, but they could be every week. It depends on the size of the project and the complexity of the coding as well as hardware. Of course who you get for a boss is a crap shoot. You may get a good one and you may get one who is a firm believer in CYA and using those who work for them as toilet paper. Do you wait it out or move on? Moving on carries a stigma with it and if done very often personnel departments only get that far in looking at the resume before they too move on. Don't forget you should know ahead of time what that company offers for salary and benefits. Your first day of work is none too soon to be planning for retirement and "other alternatives".
Judgmental, Decision making, and social skills are something many if not most college students lack. Of course a good study ethic doesn't hurt either. If you CS curriculum is line the one I had you will have very little time left for socializing once the classes start. The good jobs to to the ones who take the right courses AND get good grades. The world and the government owe us nothing. We have to earn it. Attitude sets us apart from just being one of the bunch to being at the top of the heap. Many companies are looking for those who not only do an outstanding job, but who want to move up the ladder.
They didn't get it quite right though. Technically the mandate was changed to a tax which the Administration went along with, that is until it was passed, then they went back to claiming it's a fine and insisting it's not the largest tax increase in history? (or at least in many, many, decades) It works out that we will gain 20 or 30 million more people for the same number of doctors to see...IE here comes rationing. Add to that those with pre existing conditions paying the same as healthy young people...which equals a huge increase in costs (estimated to be between $2,000 and $3,000 per family per year) that will have to be on the shoulders of the working man and woman. IE...Us!. No more selecting the technology you and your doctor want. If it does the medical work, the cheapest that will do it is what you get, no matter that you are a welder and the cheap one will quit around strong magnetic fields. What happens to the family doctors who are no longer taking new patients are 20 - 30 million new ones are entered into the system along with a huge number of new and costly regulations. The whole thing boils down to those of us who have had insurance finding it difficult to get in to see our doctor and large increases in the costs for medical treatment and devices.
You've met one now. Anything I use often goes to the task bar. Everything else stays with start. If you use it often a single click on the task bar icon and it's running except for that Damn "are you sure you really want to let this program make changes?" prompter. Why would you want to have mouse over tot he start button, then find the application likely by having to click on all programs, then select the application and then double click on that, or move through menus to get to the application. I still use the start button for the less often used applications so I see it still having a place. I'd sure hate to have all those start icons on the desk top.
So's my old, "used to be tomcat" when I pick him up.
Somebody that actually gets it. We (in the US) have the best economic system in the world which is quasi capitalism. It's not perfect and as stated above it needs regulation, but we have the most mobile society in the world with rich getting poor and poor getting rich although with the current economy more are moving down than up. In the past few years about 26% of the rich moved down but still the number of poor moving up was in double digits percent wise. Government anti business policies have drastically slowed down the recovery with the likelyhood of a double dip recession increasing. Like Marxism they are working with a punishment system instead of a reward for excelling.
You need to be reclining during acceleration unless it's gentle. After the flight you'd have to take your hemorrhoids out of your shoes.
Remember the Mercury capsules? They were about the size of an oil drum but small on top with the heat shield being wider. The things had windows about 3" X 1.5" if that. And I thought "depends" were part of the astronaut uniform. Can you imagine being up there for a week without a change?
They are supposed to honor those Dr letters. What about Defibs, pacemakers, and other life critical devices? Those could potentially kill the wearer depending on that the mm machine did to one of them.
I'd trust my neighbor over the EPA!
There is very little historic evidence pro or con. Most is "prehistoric" from paleoclimatology.
The problem with non capitalism systems is they do not stem the growth either. Capitalism just lets the workers live better. If you check 3rd world countries you will see populations growing to the point that their resources can not sustain them. Here over regulation is likely to do the same .
I do remember and I can tell you that our first snows would be in mid to early October. I remember because on the first day of pheasant season I would end up walking though 8 to 10 inches of snow most years. As to spring and melting snow? No, I don't remember when that happened over 50 years ago. At 21 I had other things on my mind. :-)) Over the last decade they have been in late November to mid December. Officially our winters are about 5 to 6 weeks shorter over the last 50 years based on when specific lakes freeze over until they have open water.
Of course they ignore that in all but several instances which disrupted the normal cycle the CO2 rise *followed* the temperature rise while now it is leading. The other anomalies were the Siberian traps and Decan traps where a few million years of magma upwelling dumped a lot of CO2 and SO2 into the atmosphere causing mass extinctions.
Tactile feedback for the inexperienced pilot may or may not be a factor. When I say inexperienced that could include a 20,000 hour plus pilot who has never experienced it. OTOH the "tactile feedback" in the control stick can be actual feedback from the control surfaces, simulated by the computer, or a pair of springs in the stick. The pilot can not tell the difference with one important exception. As you slow close to the stall the forces become less. In some planes the change in feedback Vs speed can be substantial. In others the changes may be at the very high and low ends and in some it's basically just at the very low end. Just before the stall it feels like the stick has been disconnected. Flying a plane with no feedback is an interesting experience. I had the opportunity to fly one that had no "break out force"and no stick gradient (increase in force the farther you get from neutral) and even though the stick was mechanically connected to the control surfaces there was no feedback. . It also had very sensitive and responsive controls.It was exactly like using a joystick in a game with no springs, but with "Gs"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkcrtvN60s was lost when the computers put it into a low speed PIO, or would that be CIO?
And this has what to do about global warming? You are comparing religious beliefs, not belief systems against science or science against ignorance.
Not just the average person, but most are completely clueless about science and technology and how things work. If they understood physics and it applies to them and not just everyone else we'd not be killing off well over 30,000 people on the highways per year and maiming for life many times that, but we have improved it peaked at over 50,000 per year. They still don't understand that we had to engineer safety into cars to protect them. Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is serious, but a good percentage do not believer in Global Warming (GW) at all which is a natural process, let alone AGW I believed in what the scientists were saying because they made sense, but it took a course in Meteorology and one in climatology to really get a handle on the process. "I think" which means I don't know for sure, that much of the resistance is due to the way it was presented as a catastrophe and in a manner that would be costly to fix, if it can be. Unfortunately most scientists are not well versed in explaining things to the unknowing who aren't going to want to believer in anything that will inconvenience them of cost them money. In addition there were think tanks hired to spread false information and these are very good at PR. Give some one two choices, one from a scientist and one from a PR firm. The PR firm tells people what they want to hear while the scientist is telling then something they don't want to hear. Who are they likely to believe even if the scientist has all the facts to back up what they are saying? It has now become politicized. The left has demonized the right and much of it is false information. The right pushes back with each side becoming more extreme. The left tends to back global warming, but they are a group that is not known for honesty so if they say AGW is a fact the Right is likely to view it as another scam. My guess it the left is mostly responsible for the increasing disbelief or resistance to science from the right. The right tends to grasp at any negative publicity about AGW or even GW. They can't except that a couple of scientists making a mistake or a few fudging their data does not invalidate the science. They''ve pretty much been conditioned to react that way. Marx was an expert at dividing people like that.
Whether it's a house, car, music, or game when we tire of it, or want new, better of different it's just common sense to sell it.
Unfortunately I have to agree with you. The average, no ... make that most individuals are completely clueless about anything scientific or technical and view it with skepticism. Those that are educated and I use the word loosely, go for the useless, feel good about yourself because you have a degree, degrees at institutions where they run up debts of well over a hundred grand. They they complain about the system because their masters in basket weaving doesn't get them a job. As for useful degrees, as the one interviewee said, "But those courses are too hard".
Their understanding of economics is about on par with science and technology. Lets face it, we, the economy, and those with useless degrees would be far better off if they'd just settle for getting good grades in high school. Then go out and get a job.