Correct, and PP is wrong. But upmodded wrong posts (and downmodded not-wrong posts) are common these days and I blame it on the trolls and moderation groupthink.
Civil and Environmental Engineering are also hard to offshore
If they are greenfield, labor-intensive large projects, no they're not. Cheap foreign workers, sophisticated engineering software and reliable internet make offshoring easy. Often western engineering firms will set up branches in India or China for just this purpose, bypassing western qualified workers. Of course it's easier to do during a recession and they just don't re-hire the laid-off when the economy picks up again.
When democrats fuck up it's because they're "only human", "improving", "evolving", "normal people with flaws" etc. When anyone else fucks up it's because they're evil and should never be elected. Haven'y you figured this out yet?
There's no reason why men should be considered as the only sex to be able to exhibit these traits w/o detracting from their identity as male or female.
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Never before have a commenter's sentence and sig gone so well together.
Talent? A bit. Uniqueness? Nope, maybe in the sense that voice actors "invent" a sound. Actors (stage excepted) have it easy. Voice actors even more so. Voice actors read from a script.
I am not surprised that your sensible, well-reasoned post was modded Troll by some idiot. The Klimate Kult, activists and well-meaning-but-emotionally-committed group-thinkers are always out in full force at Slashdot for every story related to this issue.
Projections in the media of damage and death from the potential impacts of climate change is what the average person hears about and is a useful motivator to convince them that trillions of taxpayer moneys must be spent. To mitigate against possible unspecific events in an uncertain location at an unknown time.
“The IPCC was not established – and is not controlled – by science academies. Rather, it is a child of one of the most politically driven bodies known to humanity, the United Nations."
"As a UN entity, the IPCC’s primary purpose isn’t to further scientific knowledge but to provide scientific justification for another UN entity – the 1992 treaty known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)."
"Evidence of this is in plain sight. At a 2008 event celebrating the IPCC’s 20th anniversary, chairman Pachauri told a group of IPCC insiders: “The UNFCCC is our main customer.”"
"Similarly a 2011 presentation by vice chair van Ypersele ends this way: “Conclusion: IPCC is eager to continue serving the UNFCCC process.”"
"An international treaty is a political instrument. This makes it impossible for any reasonable person to conclude that the IPCC is about science for science sake."
And (also obviously) this possible future melting has nothing to do with CO2 in the atmosphere, yet it is used to prop up the crumbling case for climate alarmism.
A rumor of an approaching truck that might be here in a week is spread by someone who wants you off the road. Do you move now or wait until you see the truck coming? Maybe the truck is going to stop to pick you up.
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Correct, and PP is wrong. But upmodded wrong posts (and downmodded not-wrong posts) are common these days and I blame it on the trolls and moderation groupthink.
You give a man something to do? Where they can be appreciated and respected?
Phoney, make-work jobs for benefits recipients (soon to include you and me, post automation revolution)!
I am reminded of tax breaks for Tesla buyers...
Civil and Environmental Engineering are also hard to offshore
If they are greenfield, labor-intensive large projects, no they're not. Cheap foreign workers, sophisticated engineering software and reliable internet make offshoring easy. Often western engineering firms will set up branches in India or China for just this purpose, bypassing western qualified workers. Of course it's easier to do during a recession and they just don't re-hire the laid-off when the economy picks up again.
So I take it you'll be voting Republican?
I stopped reading at "Climate models show..."
When democrats fuck up it's because they're "only human", "improving", "evolving", "normal people with flaws" etc. When anyone else fucks up it's because they're evil and should never be elected. Haven'y you figured this out yet?
There's no reason why men should be considered as the only sex to be able to exhibit these traits w/o detracting from their identity as male or female.
-- this post brought to you by the letter ' t ' in LGBTt (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, transsexual)
Never before have a commenter's sentence and sig gone so well together.
Maybe bored drivers could log in via the internet and supervise other auto-drive rigs while they're passengers in their own truck.
Talent? A bit. Uniqueness? Nope, maybe in the sense that voice actors "invent" a sound. Actors (stage excepted) have it easy. Voice actors even more so. Voice actors read from a script.
I am not surprised that your sensible, well-reasoned post was modded Troll by some idiot. The Klimate Kult, activists and well-meaning-but-emotionally-committed group-thinkers are always out in full force at Slashdot for every story related to this issue.
Projections in the media of damage and death from the potential impacts of climate change is what the average person hears about and is a useful motivator to convince them that trillions of taxpayer moneys must be spent. To mitigate against possible unspecific events in an uncertain location at an unknown time.
Where is he when you need him?
Let the ad hominems begin!
https://nofrakkingconsensus.fi...
“The IPCC was not established – and is not controlled – by science academies. Rather, it is a child of one of the most politically driven bodies known to humanity, the United Nations."
"As a UN entity, the IPCC’s primary purpose isn’t to further scientific knowledge but to provide scientific justification for another UN entity – the 1992 treaty known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)."
"Evidence of this is in plain sight. At a 2008 event celebrating the IPCC’s 20th anniversary, chairman Pachauri told a group of IPCC insiders: “The UNFCCC is our main customer.”"
"Similarly a 2011 presentation by vice chair van Ypersele ends this way: “Conclusion: IPCC is eager to continue serving the UNFCCC process.”"
"An international treaty is a political instrument. This makes it impossible for any reasonable person to conclude that the IPCC is about science for science sake."
"This is science for politics sake.”
And (also obviously) this possible future melting has nothing to do with CO2 in the atmosphere, yet it is used to prop up the crumbling case for climate alarmism.
The latest IPCC report has backed away from the doom and gloom but its summary for policymakers hasn't.
A rumor of an approaching truck that might be here in a week is spread by someone who wants you off the road. Do you move now or wait until you see the truck coming? Maybe the truck is going to stop to pick you up.
Slashdot today:
Broad-brush assertion accusing "deniers" of dishonesty gets scored 5, Insightful.
Amazing!
"apprehend"
That's an awfully uncommon use of the word.
Ironically, it is a Jagged Little Pill.
Higher energy costs will impact the poor and those on fixed incomes the most.
"Any academic would stand to make a huge name for himself or herself by finding compelling evidence that it *wasn't* real."
And then hundreds of billions of taxpayer money would no longer be spent on the climate change industry.
"The next step is going to be every doctor carrying an RFID detector and every patient tagged with an RFID tag."
You mean something like this?
http://www.centrak.com/clinica...
Dude! Get with the hysteria, outrage and FUD program!
"(Freud, if you don't believe me it's because my unverifiable model explains it, and you are in denial)"
That sounds like a Kafkatrap.