With the way for profit schools work, and with charter schools producing worse outcomes than ordinary schools, there's plenty of money to pay anonymous shills on the internet to attack teacher's unions. In turn the teachers were being paid out of the value add to homes, which the people paying the property taxes hoped to recoup on sale, because home prices went up faster than wages and inflation combined. Now that the treadmill is broken, the result is an economic train wreck where services are gutted, because people don't see the value to them. In some cases, such as hockey rinks, ok, that's for the community to decide whether to pay for it, for other cases, such as education, this perverse incentive system injures the country more, and the obvious result would be to have a higher level of government step in, one that would have to pay for the results of under-education.
Please don't insult our intelligence, the e-sites reduce grading time. Charging your students for homework on top of tuition that is going up faster than inflation, and has for three decades, in the face of falling efficacy, is highway robbery of the young. You should be ashamed of yourself, but obviously are not.
The Biblical account is some 4000 years, at least, after events, and was redacted several times. It's not a source, though it is of interest when its contents align with other evidence, in the same way that other ancient texts align with evidence. This tells more about the text than the pre-history (and for PIE we are talking pre-history, and a different language family)
Most companies aren't rock star companies. For the last 40 years most of the American economy has been at break even productivity increases. If you are churning out essentially the same product as 30 years ago, people who are interested in the bleeding edge aren't interested in you.
Most people can't stand working with people who are that much better than they are. Rockstars can make everyone better, or everyone much worse.
The original article is loaded with business talking points that say "You don't need to pay people what they are worth." This is because right now companies want to hire drones, mid-level people and H1-Bs as peon labor. Problem, the drones have jobs, and don't like to change, that's why they are drones. There are no mid-level people, because they all got canned as junior people during the down turn. H1-Bs don't want to stay here as much any more, and many of them are of low quality.
Most people who think they are rock stars just play three chords really fast, which only works if they are in an environment that needs those three chords.
Right now CTOs aren't going anywhere, they are waiting to cash out. Which means SVP/EVP/Whatever the local real VP acronym is aren't going any place either. Which means directors aren't going any place. Which means managers aren't going any place. Right now there is bottomless demand for management quality team leads willing to work at senior peon prices. I'd like 50% off a Porsche 911 too, but it doesn't work that way. Call it the "ass ceiling" that many sharp technical people are running into, according to hierarchy logic, if star programmer reports to drone manager from the Dilbert Institute of Leadership, then star programmer makes 25% less than drone manager. The smart ones consult for some company that is facing a train wreck, work 9 months a year, or less, and make more money than full time positions go for in the average mid-sized company IT shop.
Ego and accomplishment go together. Drones hate accomplishment, because it makes them look bad, and they hate ego, because it makes them feel bad. No one is more hated in a bad IT department, than someone who can do 10 times the work as others, and yes, that's the quality difference.
As a manager, ask yourself what all the ranting competence haters will do when you hire the rock star. That's right, sabotage him, and you. Your job isn't to manage rockstars as a manager, they are either unmanageable, or they manage themselves. It's to manage drones, and drones trying to take out a rock star, are unmanageable.
There are a great deal more Directors and VPs who think they are rockstars, when they aren't, than developers. Why? Because developers have to make software, not excuses.
Rockstars will cull the poseurs fast. The problem is the first so called rockstar hire, because poseurs love to be the only hip person in the room.
Bottom line here, the worst investment in business is in the overqualified. Don't hunt house flies with howitzers.
"And due to the increased costs of automobiles (in part due to increased CAFE standards mandating ever more complex and expensive re-engineering of said automobiles) "
How dare people not allow you to externalize your costs!
Because of the fungibility of demand. It leads to the paradox that one group of people reducing consumption of a bottlenecked resource only lower the price, which then is then picked up by new demand.
Right now there are two brands of austerity out there: recession rationing, and regulatory rationing. They both only work in the short term, and are thus only good for temporizing, not solving, a bottleneck problem. Technological and social progress is, ultimately, a required element of a positive solution. People can find the negative solution on their own.
Faster accumulation of AGG means greater human forcing of temperature.
If we wanted to go back to the pre-industrial era and live in a semi-permanent malthusian depression, we could end global warming now. The challenge is to maintain current economic growth, and improvement in living standards, within the bottlenecks we face at any given time. Sometimes this does mean temporizing with them – i.e. slowing economic growth by monetary means until technology has advanced sufficiently to substitute around the bottleneck – however if liquidity gets low enough, a self-perpetuating cycle of austerity begins, and capital falls into disuse entirely.
Calculate out the cost of this infrastructure, now calculate out what could be done with it as carbon replacement. The opportunity cost is huge, and solely to protect sunk capital in carbon burning machinery.
We are thinking like slave owners, try desperately to annex new land to move an increasingly inefficient economic model to. It doesn't work on cold economic grounds, because this is capital that will be very far away from all other human activity, and have no follow on applications. If you want giant wind farms, put them someplace people can actually use them...
You remember in correctly, your statement is direct and factually false, sunspot cycles and minima are well known to cause large variations in temperature.
Last I checked the moderation system here, there was not choice for "bald faced lie." It is posts like yours that argue persuasively for the need for such a classification.
Once all natural forcing is taken into account, the Earth's atmosphere is warmer than it should be, and the only explanatory cause is the release of greenhouse gases from human activity.
Of course that means we want to study the baseline climate variability, because that is how we find ways of confirming, refuting, or improving the above stated theory. That climate varies, even more than by the amount cause by human activity, is obvious from the climate record, and in the cases of natural climate variation, we want to look for proxies as to what the natural forcing was that caused it. AGW is the delta between the climate that should be without AGW, and what is observed. The long increase in Antartic ice size should have decelerated, but not reversed into a historically abnormal warming (specifically if you pull down the supplemental data, there are four, and perhaps five similarly rapid warming events in their studied period in the geographic area that the scientists looked at).
What irks people who study climate is that "natural variability" is the latest foxhole for "burn more carbon until catastrophic events occur in the present." The "Carbon until catastrophe" paradigm is the fall back from the denial paradigm, with the usual suspects pimping it in the usual places.
Parents attempting to enforce conformity often backfires. Most of the most radical people come from restrictive upbringings, and have the fury that is born of a childhood of indignation to fuel their efforts.
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With the way for profit schools work, and with charter schools producing worse outcomes than ordinary schools, there's plenty of money to pay anonymous shills on the internet to attack teacher's unions. In turn the teachers were being paid out of the value add to homes, which the people paying the property taxes hoped to recoup on sale, because home prices went up faster than wages and inflation combined. Now that the treadmill is broken, the result is an economic train wreck where services are gutted, because people don't see the value to them. In some cases, such as hockey rinks, ok, that's for the community to decide whether to pay for it, for other cases, such as education, this perverse incentive system injures the country more, and the obvious result would be to have a higher level of government step in, one that would have to pay for the results of under-education.
https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/07/10/custom-textbooks/ http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-585832.html http://lubbockonline.com/stories/021700/loc_021700103.shtml http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/former-college-it-director-sentenced-in-kickback-scheme/27153
Please don't insult our intelligence, the e-sites reduce grading time. Charging your students for homework on top of tuition that is going up faster than inflation, and has for three decades, in the face of falling efficacy, is highway robbery of the young. You should be ashamed of yourself, but obviously are not.
"Is the most incompetent clod I have every had a course with going back to Kindergarden..."
The Biblical account is some 4000 years, at least, after events, and was redacted several times. It's not a source, though it is of interest when its contents align with other evidence, in the same way that other ancient texts align with evidence. This tells more about the text than the pre-history (and for PIE we are talking pre-history, and a different language family)
There have been two competing ideas on PIE for some time: Anatolia, and the Caspian sea steppes. Both could be correct.
"...with the aid of a mobile device."
Bottom line here, the worst investment in business is in the overqualified. Don't hunt house flies with howitzers.
How dare people not allow you to externalize your costs!
Using one form of consumption as an excuse for another is circular logic.
Right now there are two brands of austerity out there: recession rationing, and regulatory rationing. They both only work in the short term, and are thus only good for temporizing, not solving, a bottleneck problem. Technological and social progress is, ultimately, a required element of a positive solution. People can find the negative solution on their own.
More liquidity means more economic activity.
More activity means more trade.
More trade means more development.
More development means lower GDP/CO2
Lower GDP/CO2 means faster accumulation of AGG.
Faster accumulation of AGG means greater human forcing of temperature.
If we wanted to go back to the pre-industrial era and live in a semi-permanent malthusian depression, we could end global warming now. The challenge is to maintain current economic growth, and improvement in living standards, within the bottlenecks we face at any given time. Sometimes this does mean temporizing with them – i.e. slowing economic growth by monetary means until technology has advanced sufficiently to substitute around the bottleneck – however if liquidity gets low enough, a self-perpetuating cycle of austerity begins, and capital falls into disuse entirely.
n.b. I'm not a gold bug.
Links please.
We are thinking like slave owners, try desperately to annex new land to move an increasingly inefficient economic model to. It doesn't work on cold economic grounds, because this is capital that will be very far away from all other human activity, and have no follow on applications. If you want giant wind farms, put them someplace people can actually use them...
Last I checked the moderation system here, there was not choice for "bald faced lie." It is posts like yours that argue persuasively for the need for such a classification.
No I am sure there are a number of people who are as narrowly militaristic as you are.
Let me introduce you to this place called Iraq...
Of course that means we want to study the baseline climate variability, because that is how we find ways of confirming, refuting, or improving the above stated theory. That climate varies, even more than by the amount cause by human activity, is obvious from the climate record, and in the cases of natural climate variation, we want to look for proxies as to what the natural forcing was that caused it. AGW is the delta between the climate that should be without AGW, and what is observed. The long increase in Antartic ice size should have decelerated, but not reversed into a historically abnormal warming (specifically if you pull down the supplemental data, there are four, and perhaps five similarly rapid warming events in their studied period in the geographic area that the scientists looked at).
What irks people who study climate is that "natural variability" is the latest foxhole for "burn more carbon until catastrophic events occur in the present." The "Carbon until catastrophe" paradigm is the fall back from the denial paradigm, with the usual suspects pimping it in the usual places.
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And it is trivial to make a VM on your PC have different IP addresses and even different MAC addresses.
Or corporations. How would you like your medical premiums to go up if you do not agree to "screen and terminate?
hire an ethicist.
I'm pleased that you continue to uphold the fine reputation of the authors of video cassette recorders everywhere.
Read Kyllo, and take your meds, you are having the psychic supreme court justice on the internet delusions again.
Parents attempting to enforce conformity often backfires. Most of the most radical people come from restrictive upbringings, and have the fury that is born of a childhood of indignation to fuel their efforts.