With the global warming problem solved, I'm going to buy a 300 hp F-150 pickup to drive to work every day. You know, the one with grill work up to your neck.
The success of women in law, medicine, and life sciences strongly supports the argument that discrimination and cultural bias are not significant barriers to women, but that the paucity of women in many fields of engineering is due to inherent tastes.
New physicians and lawyers are now predominantly women. Not only are these fields lucrative, but there's a lot of people practising in them (that is, there are far more openings than for physicists or mathematicians).
I'm not making an argument. I'm stating facts based on hard data. And the facts are that there is more ice than last year, and last year the north
pole was not open water.
Sorry if those facts don't fit with whatever world view you're trying to push. I'll try to adjust the facts better next time.
And to think I once dismissed Immanuel Velikovsky as a crank of the first order, as ignorant of science as he was of biblical history. Boy, do I feel stupid now.
We can expect the heavens to rain manna from Mars upon us at any time.
When I hayed, I weighed 130 lbs. The wet bails (which I quickly learn to identify) weighed as much as I did.
Today most haying appears to be mechanized, and I think that's a good thing.
This is what happens when you have 5% unemployment over a sustained period of time. In my neck of the woods, where unemployment is even lower, high school kids have their pick of summer jobs. They learn they can be picky about where they work.
This is not necessarily a bad thing (low unemployment is better then the alternative) but it does bring with it a certain attitude in the young.
Those young whippersnappers should try haying in 95 F (35 C) weather. They would learn to appreciate an IT job, I tell ya.
If the U.S. government burdens international corporations based in the U.S. with increasingly severe regulations and responsibilities, these corporations will do exactly what you would expect them to do.
They will move their headquarters elsewhere.
The U.S. no longer dominates the world economically as it once did. There are now effective counter weights in Asia and Europe, and this trend will only continue. The Economic Populist appears oblivious to this.
I had the opposite experience. I was given 4 months working notice. That meant that in 4 months I would be let go without severance.
I developed a lot of software in those 4 months, especially since I was the "walking dead" and people tended to leave me alone. I would have loved to just quit, but I had bills to pay.
It would have been easy to put small but critical flaws in the software had I so wished. Indeed I could have degraded the performance of the system with perhaps no one ever finding out, much less suspecting that it was intentional.
Of course, I am above all that. But it was remarkable how much trust the company had.
Take a fresh, unwrinkled piece of aluminium foil,
hold it tight against your face by pressing your hands
against the side of your face, and say in a deep,
resonant voice
I AM IRON MAN!
Only really works once. Then you need a fresh
piece of foil.
Patents are a vicious cycle. The more patents your competitors have, the more
patents you need.
Why? Because one of the best and cheapest way through the patent thicket is to trade licenses. In other word, "I'll let you use my patents if you let me use yours." Such strategies are explicitly recommended by IP professionals. It allows groups of companies to form cabals, where outsiders are effectively barred from competing because they don't have access to critical licenses.
It's no wonder there are 500,000 patent applications every year.
My company has received warnings letters about possible patent infringements on our part. As manager of R&D, I've helped respond to them.
The main thing to keep in mind is that such patent infringement claims are mostly bluff. Sending a letter to a company claiming patent infringement is a relatively cheap thing to do, and might result in a competitor discontinuing a product or paying a license fee. But responding to such a letter in a coherent, technically competent, and determined manner is often enough for the patent holder to back off. They don't want a legal battle any more than you do.
Indeed, if you can make a case for prior art then the patent holders will really want to avoid a fight, for such a battle might invalidate their patent.
Well she's had a hard life, bouncing from job to job and man to man.
Actually that's a poor picture of her. She's kinda hot, at least on
television. Check this out.
This was about 10 years ago. She had it taken as she was charging her swim coach with sexual harassement, which says something about her mindset.
It's interesting that Wales got involved with her when she approached him about "correcting" her Wikipedia entry, much the same theme as the current story. Except rather than an exchange of money, there was perhaps an exchange of bodily fluids.
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With the global warming problem solved, I'm going to buy a 300 hp F-150 pickup to drive to work every day. You know, the one with grill work up to your neck.
Chalk up another global disaster averted.
The success of women in law, medicine, and life sciences strongly supports the argument that discrimination and cultural bias are not significant barriers to women, but that the paucity of women in many fields of engineering is due to inherent tastes.
New physicians and lawyers are now predominantly women. Not only are these fields lucrative, but there's a lot of people practising in them (that is, there are far more openings than for physicists or mathematicians).
right above
I'm not making an argument. I'm stating facts based on hard data. And the facts are that there is more ice than last year, and last year the north pole was not open water.
Sorry if those facts don't fit with whatever world view you're trying to push. I'll try to adjust the facts better next time.
I was referring to the very specific claim that the north pole ice would melt by September of this year. Current data doesn't support it.
As to whether the arctic ice cap has been decreasing over many years, that is supported by the data.
The Cryosphere Today is a web site run by the University of Illinois. It gives daily information on the extent of polar sea ice.
As shown here and here and here, the arctic ice extent is actually greater than last year, although lower than historical averages.
We seem to have conflicting data.
I was joking.
And to think I once dismissed Immanuel Velikovsky as a crank of the first order, as ignorant of science as he was of biblical history. Boy, do I feel stupid now.
We can expect the heavens to rain manna from Mars upon us at any time.
I was kidding about a bale weighing 130 lbs. Maybe 50 lbs. To a scrawny teenager they just felt like it.
But some bales out in the field were definitely wet, and they're weren't rotten. Could have used more drying time I guess.
When I hayed, I weighed 130 lbs. The wet bails (which I quickly learn to identify) weighed as much as I did.
Today most haying appears to be mechanized, and I think that's a good thing.
I'm sorry, I missed the part where I said it was "wrong".
I did make fun of it, although I also made fun of geezers who brag about the bad old days (e.g., me).
Go pick a fight somewhere else.
This is what happens when you have 5% unemployment over a sustained period of time. In my neck of the woods, where unemployment is even lower, high school kids have their pick of summer jobs. They learn they can be picky about where they work.
This is not necessarily a bad thing (low unemployment is better then the alternative) but it does bring with it a certain attitude in the young.
Those young whippersnappers should try haying in 95 F (35 C) weather. They would learn to appreciate an IT job, I tell ya.
My God, James Clerk Maxwell was right after all!
Deeply tanned anyway.
They may want to work on the name. People are nervous enough flying without getting onto a plane with a "kill switch" installed.
Just sayin'.
But I have an idea. NASA could fake the sun landing! No one will ever suspect.
If I read it write, U5 is shorthand for U.S., Germany, UK, Canada, and NZ. That's an odd assortment of countries. Where did that come from?
I sounds like an Irish rock band.
If the U.S. government burdens international corporations based in the U.S. with increasingly severe regulations and responsibilities, these corporations will do exactly what you would expect them to do.
They will move their headquarters elsewhere.
The U.S. no longer dominates the world economically as it once did. There are now effective counter weights in Asia and Europe, and this trend will only continue. The Economic Populist appears oblivious to this.
I had the opposite experience. I was given 4 months working notice. That meant that in 4 months I would be let go without severance.
I developed a lot of software in those 4 months, especially since I was the "walking dead" and people tended to leave me alone. I would have loved to just quit, but I had bills to pay.
It would have been easy to put small but critical flaws in the software had I so wished. Indeed I could have degraded the performance of the system with perhaps no one ever finding out, much less suspecting that it was intentional.
Of course, I am above all that. But it was remarkable how much trust the company had.
Take a fresh, unwrinkled piece of aluminium foil, hold it tight against your face by pressing your hands against the side of your face, and say in a deep, resonant voice Only really works once. Then you need a fresh piece of foil.
Patents are a vicious cycle. The more patents your competitors have, the more patents you need.
Why? Because one of the best and cheapest way through the patent thicket is to trade licenses. In other word, "I'll let you use my patents if you let me use yours." Such strategies are explicitly recommended by IP professionals. It allows groups of companies to form cabals, where outsiders are effectively barred from competing because they don't have access to critical licenses.
It's no wonder there are 500,000 patent applications every year.
My company has received warnings letters about possible patent infringements on our part. As manager of R&D, I've helped respond to them.
The main thing to keep in mind is that such patent infringement claims are mostly bluff. Sending a letter to a company claiming patent infringement is a relatively cheap thing to do, and might result in a competitor discontinuing a product or paying a license fee. But responding to such a letter in a coherent, technically competent, and determined manner is often enough for the patent holder to back off. They don't want a legal battle any more than you do.
Indeed, if you can make a case for prior art then the patent holders will really want to avoid a fight, for such a battle might invalidate their patent.
Well she's had a hard life, bouncing from job to job and man to man. Actually that's a poor picture of her. She's kinda hot, at least on television. Check this out.
This was about 10 years ago. She had it taken as she was charging her swim coach with sexual harassement, which says something about her mindset.
It's interesting that Wales got involved with her when she approached him about "correcting" her Wikipedia entry, much the same theme as the current story. Except rather than an exchange of money, there was perhaps an exchange of bodily fluids.