I agree it's a rough hiring process but nobody said it would be easy. The good thing about western democracy is that you're less likely to be assassinated or tortured for your political views than elsewhere. The problem with all revolutions is that they don't remove the establishment, they become it. Kinda sad to say but the current (western) establishment is quite likely "as good as it gets" by historical standards.
...based on the dynamics of the AGW arguments here, attacking methods and data and conclusions is tantamount to attacking the Scientific Method.
I disagree, I started following climate science in the early 80's, became convinced it was a serious problem in the mid 90's, and started posting on AGW somewhere around 2000, The (often raucous) AGW debate on this site has overall been a good example of how science works over time to defeat self-interested propaganda (eg: I can't remember the last time I heard the "volcanoes" canard on slashdot). I think at the very least most people who have followed the slashdot debate are better informed because of it, I know I am.
My dad developed a vertical hairline crack in his front left tooth in his mid 40's, my own front left tooth did exactly the same thing. As for diet my 80yo dad was a war baby, a UK war baby's diet was peculiar, for example he still loves lard* sandwiches if anyone will let him have lard (Yuck!!). Thing is I was raised in Australia on a combination of traditional northern English "cuisine" and burnt offerings in tomato sauce from the backyard barbie. I ate the same as my parents, dad smoked like a chimney into his late 50's. As an ex-taxi driver I'm confident when I say they are both very healthy and active for their vintage, one indication is both of them can still drive, another is that they are still spending my inheritance on annual holidays to exotic lands.
*lard = solidified fat from the bottom of the roasting pan
Disclaimer: I realize diet is important but I think people get a little too OCD about it. For example, my ex-wife spent most of the 80's and 90's counting calories, she became that proficient she no longer needed the book. Alas it's now a redundant skill since everything is labeled, and measured in KJ.
I've seen two fireballs in my lifetime, one was like you see in the movies, long tail then a bright greenish/yellow flash, it was a clear summer night and the event was on the front page of the newspaper the next day. The second one was on a damp winter night, it broke up as it came through a low cloud layer, it had several thin short tails and was moving relatively slow compared to a regular shooting star. I could see the pieces separate into a shot gun like formation of glowing yellow/red particles. Perhaps in the second case the cloud blocked the flare and what I was seeing were the remains, I don't know?, I also don't know if anyone else noticed it.
I'm not saying anything about the vid in question (haven't even clicked it), just pointing out that two similar events looked very different to me and the obvious difference in observing conditions was thick cloud cover.
That was my first thought about the Russian meteor, however I read "they" had figured out it was traveling in the opposite direction. If that's true then it was just a coincidence the two rocks arrived on the same day. This is the first I have heard of the Californian rock, but fireballs are not a particularly rare event, I've been lucky enough to wittiness two fireballs first hand in 50yrs of looking up.
A lot of 50+ developers here in Oz never leaned to touch type, like me they were not allowed to take typing classes at HS. Most schools classified typing and home economics as a girls only subjects in the 70's. Thing is I was too interested in getting my hobby programs to work in the 80's that by time I went to uni at age 30 I had to slow down to learn touch typing, consequently I never did. I only really notice my sloth when sitting next to my wife who can fly along at 100wpm, I can peck out ~35wpm at best. However, since typing speed has proved to be totally irrelevant in my 20+yr career as a software developer. Obviously it's a useful skill but I have no need or desire for the long and boring grind required to reprogram my finger muscles. For me it's just not worth the effort.
This is just a replay of the Top Gear fiasco. Telsa seem to have a habit of "shooting the messenger", that in itself puts me off the brand more than price and problems.
It isn't actually necessary for public institutions to be populated with rabid activists for the public to be protected.
The US seems to suffer this problem more than other western nations, it's full of rabid pro-industry "activists".
The process worked despite her removal.
And came to the same conclusion. Being pro-reality does not equate to being anti-industry.
reckless fools like her
Her research was impartial and correct, there is not a shred of evidence that she is a "rabid activist". She did what a public servant is supposed to do, she "spoke truth to power", unfortunately the system is such that she was basically talking to herself. That's not her fault, that's the fault of the system that offers the job. Have they fixed that, or did they just give the position to the next person who came through the "revolving door"?
She still works for the US government.
Good, that institution is in dire need of a reality check. If you want to rid the EPA of corruption, then you should start by sacking this guy
Yes, but they don't have the right to form a monopoly via a secret cartel, nor do they have the right to use that monopoly to keep prices artificially high (gouging). That's the main suspicion here, officially the government just want an explanation for the price disparity with similar nations, a convincing explanation was not provided by the industry so the ACCC set up an inquiry. The ACCC is the governments consumer and competition watchdog, unlike it's US equivalent it has real teeth, consequently when it barks people pay attention. The industry will feel some intense political pressure to lower prices while the inquiry is running, but (so far) they haven't found any extraordinary evidence of collusion between companies so I think at best it will just temporarily dampen prices.
Actually these companies are being accused of systematically gouging Aussie software consumers, they are accused of colluding to corrupt the "free market" by secretly agreeing with each other not to engage in a price war. However other than "high prices" I have not heard any evidence to support that accusation.
My daughter (who now has her own kids) was taught basic algebra at an Aussie HS using a spreadsheet, it was the teacher's own idea and it worked a treat. I think it worked so well because she was doing rather than just seeing or hearing.
A lot of kids have trouble with algebra because they don't get the basic concept of variables and references, they do understand those concepts in general they just don't link it to algebra. I had the same problem teaching grown ups C pointers many years ago, in a lab class of ~50, less than 10 would get the basic concept on the first lesson. Seems hard to believe but in my experience most students get stuck because they have missed something very basic, often because the teacher thinks it's so obvious that it's not worth spelling out.
I guess it does contribute to greenhouse gases since one of the byproducts is Water Vapor.
The Earth's atmosphere is essentially chemically saturated with H2O, pump more in and it just falls out as rain (or dew in the desert) over the next few days. There are two things that water vapour, temprature and pressure. Water vapour has actually increased by about 4% since the 70's, this is because CO2 has warmed the atmosphere and warmer air can hold more water, which creates even more warming. This phenomena is called a "climatic feedback" it amplifies the change due to a "climate forcing" (in this case, increased CO2). Even if you stop the artificial forcing, things will keep changing until the climate reaches a new equilibrium (or the oceans evaporate as on Venus).
Corn to ethanol was a cynical hat tip to the greenies, in reality it's nothing more than political pork for US corn farmers that distorts the global market.
As an ex-paper boy I assure you newspaper deliveries were MORE flexible than Amazon 50yrs ago.
They are patenting an entire delivery scheduling methodology for customer order management of groceries (etc) that will re-occur on a predictable and fairly precise time period of the customer's choosing.
I have a picture of a milkman's horse lifting his blinkers with one hoof and rolling his eyes at this patent, it's just ordinary business practice for any company that delivers stuff to your door. The local chemist paid me to deliver stuff on on a push bike way back in the 60's. Most family's had one car (at most), the chemist had plenty of regular customers who had difficulty getting around so he bent over backwards to accommodate their needs. He didn't have a computer and trucks, he had an order book, a big black phone, and a bunch of eager kids on push bikes who had more than enough local knowledge to make UPS blush. If a customer was in dire need during school hours, he would get in his VW and deliver it himself. Virtually the same service is available today but it's organized by the government, you get a qualified nurse in a tiny car rather than a grotty kid on a push bike. There is however a shit load more paper work involved to join up.
Copyright protects Amazon's software implementation of this age old business practice, the only possible use for a patent such as this is to burden and stall serious competitors with serious litigation, as in Apple vs Samsung. Software patents are a legislative experiment that failed. It was worth having the experiment, but now we know that all it does is provide an arena for elephants to fight, and we all know what happens to the grass when elephants fight.
It's seems obvious to me that is what he meant, it also seems obvious to me you meant "observations" not "facts". A "fact" is an absolute truth only within an axiomatic system, science is not an axiomatic system. A "scientific fact" is a rigously tested theory that has no known conflict with observation.
The XKCD reference is a very old "form factor" joke that pre-dates the internet. Unfortunately a large number of laymen in the press and politics are the real butt of that joke, it is not a serious critisizim of how epidemiology is practised in the real world.
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I agree it's a rough hiring process but nobody said it would be easy. The good thing about western democracy is that you're less likely to be assassinated or tortured for your political views than elsewhere. The problem with all revolutions is that they don't remove the establishment, they become it. Kinda sad to say but the current (western) establishment is quite likely "as good as it gets" by historical standards.
...based on the dynamics of the AGW arguments here, attacking methods and data and conclusions is tantamount to attacking the Scientific Method.
I disagree, I started following climate science in the early 80's, became convinced it was a serious problem in the mid 90's, and started posting on AGW somewhere around 2000, The (often raucous) AGW debate on this site has overall been a good example of how science works over time to defeat self-interested propaganda (eg: I can't remember the last time I heard the "volcanoes" canard on slashdot). I think at the very least most people who have followed the slashdot debate are better informed because of it, I know I am.
Your right, I used "lard" because I thought a "dripping butty" was something only Northern Englishmen had heard of. :)
My dad developed a vertical hairline crack in his front left tooth in his mid 40's, my own front left tooth did exactly the same thing. As for diet my 80yo dad was a war baby, a UK war baby's diet was peculiar, for example he still loves lard* sandwiches if anyone will let him have lard (Yuck!!). Thing is I was raised in Australia on a combination of traditional northern English "cuisine" and burnt offerings in tomato sauce from the backyard barbie. I ate the same as my parents, dad smoked like a chimney into his late 50's. As an ex-taxi driver I'm confident when I say they are both very healthy and active for their vintage, one indication is both of them can still drive, another is that they are still spending my inheritance on annual holidays to exotic lands.
*lard = solidified fat from the bottom of the roasting pan
Disclaimer: I realize diet is important but I think people get a little too OCD about it. For example, my ex-wife spent most of the 80's and 90's counting calories, she became that proficient she no longer needed the book. Alas it's now a redundant skill since everything is labeled, and measured in KJ.
Dale Askey appears to have the qualifications to know exactly what he's talking about here so they have to try and shut him up.
They have been given top notch advise for free, why do they "have" to interpret that as a existential threat? - Parinoia?
I've seen two fireballs in my lifetime, one was like you see in the movies, long tail then a bright greenish/yellow flash, it was a clear summer night and the event was on the front page of the newspaper the next day. The second one was on a damp winter night, it broke up as it came through a low cloud layer, it had several thin short tails and was moving relatively slow compared to a regular shooting star. I could see the pieces separate into a shot gun like formation of glowing yellow/red particles. Perhaps in the second case the cloud blocked the flare and what I was seeing were the remains, I don't know?, I also don't know if anyone else noticed it.
I'm not saying anything about the vid in question (haven't even clicked it), just pointing out that two similar events looked very different to me and the obvious difference in observing conditions was thick cloud cover.
That was my first thought about the Russian meteor, however I read "they" had figured out it was traveling in the opposite direction. If that's true then it was just a coincidence the two rocks arrived on the same day. This is the first I have heard of the Californian rock, but fireballs are not a particularly rare event, I've been lucky enough to wittiness two fireballs first hand in 50yrs of looking up.
it's a non-issue.
A lot of 50+ developers here in Oz never leaned to touch type, like me they were not allowed to take typing classes at HS. Most schools classified typing and home economics as a girls only subjects in the 70's. Thing is I was too interested in getting my hobby programs to work in the 80's that by time I went to uni at age 30 I had to slow down to learn touch typing, consequently I never did. I only really notice my sloth when sitting next to my wife who can fly along at 100wpm, I can peck out ~35wpm at best. However, since typing speed has proved to be totally irrelevant in my 20+yr career as a software developer. Obviously it's a useful skill but I have no need or desire for the long and boring grind required to reprogram my finger muscles. For me it's just not worth the effort.
Bullshit. If you don't respect the rule of law as a pillar of civilization you're not even in the same game.
This is just a replay of the Top Gear fiasco. Telsa seem to have a habit of "shooting the messenger", that in itself puts me off the brand more than price and problems.
"Life itself" is rather poorly defined at the molecular level.
It isn't actually necessary for public institutions to be populated with rabid activists for the public to be protected.
The US seems to suffer this problem more than other western nations, it's full of rabid pro-industry "activists".
The process worked despite her removal.
And came to the same conclusion. Being pro-reality does not equate to being anti-industry.
reckless fools like her
Her research was impartial and correct, there is not a shred of evidence that she is a "rabid activist". She did what a public servant is supposed to do, she "spoke truth to power", unfortunately the system is such that she was basically talking to herself. That's not her fault, that's the fault of the system that offers the job. Have they fixed that, or did they just give the position to the next person who came through the "revolving door"?
She still works for the US government.
Good, that institution is in dire need of a reality check. If you want to rid the EPA of corruption, then you should start by sacking this guy
Yes, but they don't have the right to form a monopoly via a secret cartel, nor do they have the right to use that monopoly to keep prices artificially high (gouging). That's the main suspicion here, officially the government just want an explanation for the price disparity with similar nations, a convincing explanation was not provided by the industry so the ACCC set up an inquiry. The ACCC is the governments consumer and competition watchdog, unlike it's US equivalent it has real teeth, consequently when it barks people pay attention. The industry will feel some intense political pressure to lower prices while the inquiry is running, but (so far) they haven't found any extraordinary evidence of collusion between companies so I think at best it will just temporarily dampen prices.
Actually these companies are being accused of systematically gouging Aussie software consumers, they are accused of colluding to corrupt the "free market" by secretly agreeing with each other not to engage in a price war. However other than "high prices" I have not heard any evidence to support that accusation.
My daughter (who now has her own kids) was taught basic algebra at an Aussie HS using a spreadsheet, it was the teacher's own idea and it worked a treat. I think it worked so well because she was doing rather than just seeing or hearing.
A lot of kids have trouble with algebra because they don't get the basic concept of variables and references, they do understand those concepts in general they just don't link it to algebra. I had the same problem teaching grown ups C pointers many years ago, in a lab class of ~50, less than 10 would get the basic concept on the first lesson. Seems hard to believe but in my experience most students get stuck because they have missed something very basic, often because the teacher thinks it's so obvious that it's not worth spelling out.
I guess it does contribute to greenhouse gases since one of the byproducts is Water Vapor.
The Earth's atmosphere is essentially chemically saturated with H2O, pump more in and it just falls out as rain (or dew in the desert) over the next few days. There are two things that water vapour, temprature and pressure. Water vapour has actually increased by about 4% since the 70's, this is because CO2 has warmed the atmosphere and warmer air can hold more water, which creates even more warming. This phenomena is called a "climatic feedback" it amplifies the change due to a "climate forcing" (in this case, increased CO2). Even if you stop the artificial forcing, things will keep changing until the climate reaches a new equilibrium (or the oceans evaporate as on Venus).
Corn to ethanol was a cynical hat tip to the greenies, in reality it's nothing more than political pork for US corn farmers that distorts the global market.
They are patenting an entire delivery scheduling methodology for customer order management of groceries (etc) that will re-occur on a predictable and fairly precise time period of the customer's choosing.
I have a picture of a milkman's horse lifting his blinkers with one hoof and rolling his eyes at this patent, it's just ordinary business practice for any company that delivers stuff to your door. The local chemist paid me to deliver stuff on on a push bike way back in the 60's. Most family's had one car (at most), the chemist had plenty of regular customers who had difficulty getting around so he bent over backwards to accommodate their needs. He didn't have a computer and trucks, he had an order book, a big black phone, and a bunch of eager kids on push bikes who had more than enough local knowledge to make UPS blush. If a customer was in dire need during school hours, he would get in his VW and deliver it himself. Virtually the same service is available today but it's organized by the government, you get a qualified nurse in a tiny car rather than a grotty kid on a push bike. There is however a shit load more paper work involved to join up.
Copyright protects Amazon's software implementation of this age old business practice, the only possible use for a patent such as this is to burden and stall serious competitors with serious litigation, as in Apple vs Samsung. Software patents are a legislative experiment that failed. It was worth having the experiment, but now we know that all it does is provide an arena for elephants to fight, and we all know what happens to the grass when elephants fight.
Maybe you meant science doesn't deal with proof?
It's seems obvious to me that is what he meant, it also seems obvious to me you meant "observations" not "facts". A "fact" is an absolute truth only within an axiomatic system, science is not an axiomatic system. A "scientific fact" is a rigously tested theory that has no known conflict with observation.
In actuality, it's...
Observation -> Hypothesis -> Theory--> Test---> Scientific fact.
- Feedback loops not shown.
Please stop using the term g-force.
Please stop using idiotic requests as a segway into self serving displays of technical prowess.
Wait, are they trying to discourage bad spelling and grammar, or encourage it?
Neither, they're trying to sell you a pen.
I for one consider it to be parody.
Money can be tracked more easily than hookers.
The XKCD reference is a very old "form factor" joke that pre-dates the internet. Unfortunately a large number of laymen in the press and politics are the real butt of that joke, it is not a serious critisizim of how epidemiology is practised in the real world.
My first thought was to tie the shoelaces on top of the drone.
Nope, this is definitely a Dr Who plot, the mother-ship is a giant air ship in the shape of a Dylect(sic?), it will be arriving any day now.