"No proven link"

Your inability to understand how science is noted, and undermines every other thing you say.

And you have some evidence for this claim, right?

So you think liberty can magically make sea levels recede? I've heard some Americans mythologize, but I never knew they thought they had superpowers.

It's kind of irrelevant what the Florida government or the Koch Brothers Family of Astroturfers think. The insurance industry accepted the reality of AGW quite some time ago, and people living in coastal areas are already viewed as higher risks by actuaries. Surely there must be someone in government of the state of Florida that tracks this and is capable of understanding why it's going on.

Yes, I know. I always get tuttes about quantum superposition at work, ands don't get me started on the missives banning plate tectonics.

And yet engineers keep falling into the trap of thinking a. they're scientists and B. they have expertise and experience that give them some special insight into fields they really have no significant knowledge of.

It might be something if a chemical engineer with expertise in organic chemistry were to critique abiogenesis theories, but to have a guy with a degree in mechanical engineering and CS appealing to his own authority is precisely what the Salem Hypothesis speaks to.

It is dangerous enough when a scientist speaks to a field of research he has no expertise in, and some even brilliant career have ended on a sad note because of just that, but to have creationist engineers declaring that they have some special ability to declare a field of study wrongfooted is simply absurd.

I don't think the Salem Hypothesis asserts all engineers are Creationists, just that as a professional group, engineering seems to produce more than its fair of Creationists.

Gentlemen, I submit to you another shining example of the Salem Hypothesis.

This fake paper seems to have fooled you.

For those people, I give Excel...

My biggest fear is we're fostering the next generation of crap coders who leave behind a legacy of badly written crapola. My first professional work as a programmer was cleaning up VisualBASIC 4 code, and then a decade later, I was given the job of cleaning up PHP4 code, and the experiences were equally awful.

A lot of us older guys learned to code on first and second generation microcomputers, generally running BASIC variants. I suppose I learned plenty of bad habits in those old days, and the bit of 680x 8-bit assembly I dabbled in definitely did not help. But I remember the first proper computer science class I took in high school, and was introduced to TurboPascal. It was literally like I was basked in heavenly light and the harps, strings and voices of the Choir Eternal rained down upon me. I'm in my mid-40s now, and remember John Lennon being shot, saw the USSR fall and saw Hubble's first images of our incredible universe, but I tell you that that is the only paradigm shift I've experienced first hand, and quite frankly in that instant I dropped standard BASIC like a hot potato; switching to a structured BASIC dialect on my home computer (BASIC-09, which was essentially Pascal with BASIC-like syntax), and I never looked back. When I started working in OOP languages like Java, I found the transition much less hard, mainly I think because I had broken free of the chains of my first programming experiences. It's not that OOP doesn't have its own paradigms, it's just that once you learn a second language, particularly one so different from your first, you already are becoming a bit language agnostic.

That's my impression as well. I'm just a layman, but to my untrained eye this looks like word salad. I'm seeing phrases I have never read in a microbiology paper, book or article. My Spidey senses start tingling as soon as I see the word "quantum" outside of a physics article. It's not always true, but as a general rule of thumb that some throwing "quantum" into a biology discussion is usually talking crap. Add in words like "fractal" and the stinkometer just starts reading off the scale.

Anybody look up the researchers? Is it a prank or have the kooks snuck through the gate again.

I'm going to to be terribly pedantic here, but GST, like all VATs, does not work like that. It is not an expense (as in it does not effect profit and loss). Like all VATs, GST collected on sales is subtracted from GST spent on purchases, and if the remainder is positive, then you pay that to the government, and if it is negative the government sends you the difference. The point is to make a fairer sales tax, where goods and services are not taxed at multiple points. All these financial operations happen on the balance sheet as changes to assets and liabilities, and have nothing to do with expenses at all.

I guess the point has to be, what has VMWare bought to the game. They've essentially grabbed the Linux kernel, stacked their own kernel extensions on top of it and called it their own. I've never heard of them as major contributors to the Linux kernel itself.

We've seen enough corporate sociopathy to accurately answer that question.

Why didn't they just go with BSD?