"If any factory submitted bulbs lasting longer or shorter than the regulated life span for its type, the factory was obliged to pay a fine."

Perhaps I should have written 'skills' or 'capabilities'.

"...aerospace engineers are paid a median annual salary of $9,773 in India, and almost eight times more — $75,940 — in the United States."

I would have guessed that $75K figure would be higher.

At many (not software or computer hardware) engineering discussion boards you'll see technical questions coming in that seem to have easy or obvious answers. They are often from overseas engineers or tech people who are unfamiliar with rules of thumb or common methods/processes or have trouble with terminology/English language. It's not because of a lack of competence.

Too many of a group you don't like=any number greater than 0.

For some people it's really difficult to resist taking a shot at Harper.

Some good overview and a few comments here:
http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/...

That's what I was thinking also.

I thought it was because all the gravity kept getting sucked out of the ozone hole.

Old George Carlin joke:
Here’s a good example of practical humor, but you have to be in the right place. When a local television reporter is doing one of those on-the-street reports at the scene of a news story, usually you’ll see some onlookers in the background of the shot, waving and trying to be seen on television. Go over and stand with them but don’t wave. Just stand perfectly still and, without attracting attention, move your lips, forming the words, “I hope all you stupid fuckin’ lip-readers are watching. Why don’t you just blow me, you goofy deaf bastards.” The TV station will enjoy taking the many phone calls.

Often "artist's renderings" are generated from 3D plant design software models, it's trivially simple to do once you have the model completed to FEED-level design. Otherwise, I agree with your post.

It appeals to peoples' inner narcissism.

Liquid nitrogen piping was not insulated?

...disagreements with its client Teollisuuden Voima over the plant's automation system.

Could also be that technology changed or "improved" over the years that the plant has been in engineering. At one point in some of these type of projects you can get to where the client ends up very involved in the design process and that can blur lines of responsibility ("who does what", not accountability).

With 3D CAD plant modelling many more people can be involved in design review meetings, and sometimes that causes...issues. In the old days only those who could read technical drawings would be commenting.

...in the case of climate models, you have to get extremely general to be at all accurate.

Or just do 25 different model runs with different inputs and then pick the one that came closest to actual measurements. Then say, "See? Computer climate modelling is valid!".