In reality only those who hold a P.E. (Professional Engineer -- somebody who is licensed by the State to be an engineer) should be called an Engineer. Sure, lots of people do engineering. . . but they are not true engineers.
In my experience, a PE license is a license to hire non-PEs to do all the engineering, under the PE's "direct supervision and responsibility" (supervision usually amounts to glancing at the work and asking when it will be finished, and responsibility is often figuring out how to wriggle out of trouble when things go wrong).
Older workers have been hit harder by the recession.
Except for those just starting out with no experience, this is true in all industries.
If you're a company trying to tighten your belt in a recession, you are not going to lay off the people with enough experience to do the job, who are young enough to be ambitious and energetic, and who have relatively lower salaries. You are going to lay off those who are older and slower (let's face it, once you get into your 40's, and especially beyond them, you slow down), who have a lot of knowledge and experience (the bosses always figure they have the greater knowledge and experience, anyway), but who are larger compensation relative to the less experienced.
When I was laid off my (non-IT) job at the height of the recession, a couple of the vice presidents semi-joked that all that would be left of the company would be the partners and young kids, none of them particularly good at doing the day-to-day work.
I've been involved in the design and construction of several call centers for a major financial company, all of them in the US, almost all of the employees having English as their first language. These probably added up to over 10,000 employees (though, of course, not all of them take customer calls).
I notice that "suck" is not in the list, When I was a kid, you could get your mouth washed out with soap for saying "that sucks" because everyone knew that was short for "that sucks dick" (unless you were talking about a straw or vacuum, which is another issue - a simple match list isn't enough, the context is what gives the letters their meaning). Somehow, "suck" has gradually lost association with its' original derivation and in common use the word's derogatory implications has ended up as its' meaning.
The problem isn't that companies like Apple can't manufacture in the US; the problem is that it costs more even when factoring shipping costs.
But the point of TFA is that after a few years of companies making decisions to manufacture in cheap labor countries, the manufacturing facilities in the expensive labor markets are shut down, and once you do that, you no longer have the capacity to manufacture those items in places like the US.
And since they can't wish it away, we needed studies that show that people react allergic to ASS. Funny that they surfaced almost a century after it got discovered, but hey, more and more people get allergic to various stuffs every day. Peanuts, penicillin, eggs, lactose, why not acetylsalicylic acid?
My son does have a serious allergy to aspirin, you insensitive clod.
There are more than 2 people involved in HFT trades, there are people who have investments whose prices are manipulated by the speculation. Also, there may be a distinct lack of coming to a meeting of the minds among the parties. One of the successful HFT strategies is to rapidly offer buys and sells at different prices just to see if there is a response, and these offers are usually retracted as quickly as they are offered; there was never a good faith offer. Finally, the rapidity of the trading can destabilize feedback loops and cause wild swings in prices that have nothing to do with the intrinsic value of the stock or commodity.
We do know that it's melting, and the only explanation that has any evidence to support it is that it's due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
I suggest you RTFA, which is about non-temperature-related issues, such as wind, currents, etc., that have a large effect on the extent of Arctic ice but are not being taken into account in the climate models.
Water is odd about being heated or cooled compared to most other materials. Water actually expands when it is cooled, which makes it less dense as it cools,
That is just wrong. Water expands as it cools only near its' freezing temperature. Above 4C, it expands with rising temperatures and contracts as it cools. Salt water may behave slightly differently, I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader, but it still generally contracts as it cools.
YMMV
My Windows 7 work computer boots to a usable desktop in under a minute, though I usually only log off (required by IT to log off or reboot and leave on overnight), and logging back on only takes about 15 or twenty seconds.
On the other hand, there have been plenty of times when I've left my desk long enough for the computer to go to sleep and had it take several minutes to get back to a usable state on waking.
Quite annoying for waking up to take longer than rebooting.
That inflection point just so happens to be when the economy started tanking, reducing tax income, increasing spending on safety nets, increasing the deficit at the same time the GDP went down, decreasing the basis of the percentage.
The rest of the world already has peak and off peak tariffs. This is really no different
No, there are already peak on off-peak rates, among other rate intracies. This is different. This is controlling the demand in real time in response to inputs, rather than creating a schedule that everyone knows ahead of time. As the article states (if you read past the headline), it is really a common, fairly well-understood control problem about how to make sure a feedback loop is stable.
Come to think of it, someone should put in place some dampening for high frequency trading, too.
Here's an idea: if you can't produce enough power you could... build more power stations. This is all about increasing profits for power companies by screwing over their customers rather than increasing the amount of power they can generate.
Historically, here in Illinois, the power company monopolies were allowed a percentage of capital investment as yearly profit. So they would have loved to build more capacity. Still, there comes a point when you're considering building for a peak load, but only using a small percentage of that peak on average, and you're not going to want to invest $billions since you're income won't substantially increase, but would rather give back some of that would-be capital cost to get people to use less during the peak load, instead
How many businesses do you know that can just stop using power during peak hours? Office building ACs, for example, during the middle of the day?
No business I know completely stops using power, but dozens I have dealt with, for example, shuts down equipment, including A/C, during the middle of the day, A few have even considered using emergency generators in order to take advantage of an electric company's offer of cheaper rates if they are allowed to disconnect the business from the grid whenever the electric company has too much demand.
As early as the '80s (my knowledge only goes back that far) we were specifying cost saving control strategies including time shifting - such as making ice at night to use for cooling in the day; duty cycling.- turning off fans, A/C units, and other equipment for several minutes an hour in a rotating cycle; daylighting - turning off lights near windows whenever sunlight is sensed; and load shedding - selectively turning off the least immediately important systems, including A/C systems. This is a direct result of the energy companies' rate structures that included higher rates per kWh during the typical business hours and demand charges for the peak usage in a month that cost 10's of $'s for each kW.
Three to four years should break you even, since pretty much 100% of the power input for a spinning disk drive is turned into heat which must be removed by costly air conditioning.
Even fairly inefficient air conditioning removes 2 to 3 watts of heat for every watt input to the A/C. And decent air conditioining can be much more efficient in cooler weather.
So, if you're not talking about the capital costs of installing more A/C, it won't add that much to the operating costs.
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Clinton did NOT balance the budget -- he did an accounting trick to appear to balance the budget.
That trick? He took the income from Social Security payments (the ones going into the supposed "lockbox") and moved that income to the general funding of government.
You say that as if Clinton started that accounting practice. He didn't.
Also, even if you exclude the income from SSI taxes, the deficit, though not reaching 0, went down under Clinton.
All evidence points to it [national health care system] being of a significantly lower quality [than the US system].
Actually, all the evidence points to the fact that the US has near the highest healthcare costs in the developed world with outcomes at the bottom of the list.
So, let me see if I can get this straight you want to compare one of our political parties to the KKK
Actually, the GP did not compare one of our political parties to the KKK, The analogy was to the irrationality of certain groups' support of parties against their own interest.
Value is whatever someone will pay in the free market.
:I'm sick of this meme. The value of something is not necessarily the same as its' market valuation. To think otherwise is to imply that the market is infallible. Equating value to "whatever someone will pay in the free market" is an irrational religious faith, not an observed fact.
OK, so I didn't read the link that you didn't provide. But, sales taxes? That doesn't say anything to me. Exxon Mobil, at least in the USA, doesn't pay sales taxes; they collect sales taxes from the consumer and pass them on to the governments.
You're partly right, but Clinton did fight against the Republican congress to push through a tax hike, and without that, we would have never gotten to surplus. The Internet bubble helped revenue, but the deficits would have gone down even without it.
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In my experience, a PE license is a license to hire non-PEs to do all the engineering, under the PE's "direct supervision and responsibility" (supervision usually amounts to glancing at the work and asking when it will be finished, and responsibility is often figuring out how to wriggle out of trouble when things go wrong).
Except for those just starting out with no experience, this is true in all industries.
If you're a company trying to tighten your belt in a recession, you are not going to lay off the people with enough experience to do the job, who are young enough to be ambitious and energetic, and who have relatively lower salaries. You are going to lay off those who are older and slower (let's face it, once you get into your 40's, and especially beyond them, you slow down), who have a lot of knowledge and experience (the bosses always figure they have the greater knowledge and experience, anyway), but who are larger compensation relative to the less experienced.
When I was laid off my (non-IT) job at the height of the recession, a couple of the vice presidents semi-joked that all that would be left of the company would be the partners and young kids, none of them particularly good at doing the day-to-day work.
Regardless of whether or not dinosaurs are birds, dinosaurs are not reptiles.
I've been involved in the design and construction of several call centers for a major financial company, all of them in the US, almost all of the employees having English as their first language. These probably added up to over 10,000 employees (though, of course, not all of them take customer calls).
I notice that "suck" is not in the list, When I was a kid, you could get your mouth washed out with soap for saying "that sucks" because everyone knew that was short for "that sucks dick" (unless you were talking about a straw or vacuum, which is another issue - a simple match list isn't enough, the context is what gives the letters their meaning). Somehow, "suck" has gradually lost association with its' original derivation and in common use the word's derogatory implications has ended up as its' meaning.
But the point of TFA is that after a few years of companies making decisions to manufacture in cheap labor countries, the manufacturing facilities in the expensive labor markets are shut down, and once you do that, you no longer have the capacity to manufacture those items in places like the US.
My son does have a serious allergy to aspirin, you insensitive clod.
There are more than 2 people involved in HFT trades, there are people who have investments whose prices are manipulated by the speculation. Also, there may be a distinct lack of coming to a meeting of the minds among the parties. One of the successful HFT strategies is to rapidly offer buys and sells at different prices just to see if there is a response, and these offers are usually retracted as quickly as they are offered; there was never a good faith offer. Finally, the rapidity of the trading can destabilize feedback loops and cause wild swings in prices that have nothing to do with the intrinsic value of the stock or commodity.
Oftentimes feedback loops are unstable when the corrections are too quick.
I suggest you RTFA, which is about non-temperature-related issues, such as wind, currents, etc., that have a large effect on the extent of Arctic ice but are not being taken into account in the climate models.
That is just wrong. Water expands as it cools only near its' freezing temperature. Above 4C, it expands with rising temperatures and contracts as it cools. Salt water may behave slightly differently, I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader, but it still generally contracts as it cools.
YMMV
My Windows 7 work computer boots to a usable desktop in under a minute, though I usually only log off (required by IT to log off or reboot and leave on overnight), and logging back on only takes about 15 or twenty seconds.
On the other hand, there have been plenty of times when I've left my desk long enough for the computer to go to sleep and had it take several minutes to get back to a usable state on waking.
Quite annoying for waking up to take longer than rebooting.
That inflection point just so happens to be when the economy started tanking, reducing tax income, increasing spending on safety nets, increasing the deficit at the same time the GDP went down, decreasing the basis of the percentage.
No, there are already peak on off-peak rates, among other rate intracies. This is different. This is controlling the demand in real time in response to inputs, rather than creating a schedule that everyone knows ahead of time. As the article states (if you read past the headline), it is really a common, fairly well-understood control problem about how to make sure a feedback loop is stable.
Come to think of it, someone should put in place some dampening for high frequency trading, too.
Historically, here in Illinois, the power company monopolies were allowed a percentage of capital investment as yearly profit. So they would have loved to build more capacity. Still, there comes a point when you're considering building for a peak load, but only using a small percentage of that peak on average, and you're not going to want to invest $billions since you're income won't substantially increase, but would rather give back some of that would-be capital cost to get people to use less during the peak load, instead
No business I know completely stops using power, but dozens I have dealt with, for example, shuts down equipment, including A/C, during the middle of the day, A few have even considered using emergency generators in order to take advantage of an electric company's offer of cheaper rates if they are allowed to disconnect the business from the grid whenever the electric company has too much demand.
As early as the '80s (my knowledge only goes back that far) we were specifying cost saving control strategies including time shifting - such as making ice at night to use for cooling in the day; duty cycling.- turning off fans, A/C units, and other equipment for several minutes an hour in a rotating cycle; daylighting - turning off lights near windows whenever sunlight is sensed; and load shedding - selectively turning off the least immediately important systems, including A/C systems. This is a direct result of the energy companies' rate structures that included higher rates per kWh during the typical business hours and demand charges for the peak usage in a month that cost 10's of $'s for each kW.
No, but ice has long been used in cooling systems to reduce the peak demand and take advantage of lower night-time temperatures.
Ice is a phhase change material that has been in use for a long time.
Even fairly inefficient air conditioning removes 2 to 3 watts of heat for every watt input to the A/C. And decent air conditioining can be much more efficient in cooler weather.
So, if you're not talking about the capital costs of installing more A/C, it won't add that much to the operating costs.
You say that as if Clinton started that accounting practice. He didn't.
Also, even if you exclude the income from SSI taxes, the deficit, though not reaching 0, went down under Clinton.
Actually, all the evidence points to the fact that the US has near the highest healthcare costs in the developed world with outcomes at the bottom of the list.
Actually, the GP did not compare one of our political parties to the KKK, The analogy was to the irrationality of certain groups' support of parties against their own interest.
OK, so I didn't read the link that you didn't provide. But, sales taxes? That doesn't say anything to me. Exxon Mobil, at least in the USA, doesn't pay sales taxes; they collect sales taxes from the consumer and pass them on to the governments.
You're partly right, but Clinton did fight against the Republican congress to push through a tax hike, and without that, we would have never gotten to surplus. The Internet bubble helped revenue, but the deficits would have gone down even without it.