Comment Re:Too bad... (Score 1) 610
It's free 'cause government pays for it!
Comment Inanimate Carbon Rod (Score 1) 243
Has the inanimate carbon rod ever won anything?
Comment Re:The problem with double standards. (Score 1) 292
Damn the science, this is a headline/PR war!
Even the content of IPCC documents differ from the policymakers' summaries.
Even the content of IPCC documents differ from the policymakers' summaries.
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 488
Subsidies like "externalities"?
Comment Early Carbon Trading Market? (Score 1) 602
"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."
Comment Re:"Offshore" Engineering Expertise (Score 1) 200
Perhaps I should have written 'skills' or 'capabilities'.
Comment "Offshore" Engineering Expertise (Score 2) 200
"...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.
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.
Comment Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus (Score 1) 385
Too many of a group you don't like=any number greater than 0.
Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food 385
schwit1 writes The new rules would allow garbage collectors to inspect trash cans and ticket offending parties if food and compostable material makes up 10 percent or more of the trash. The fines will begin at $1 for residents and $50 for businesses and apartment buildings. "SPU doesn’t expect to collect many fines, says Tim Croll, the agency’s solid-waste director. The city outlawed recyclable items from the trash nine years ago, but SPU has collected less than $2,000 in fines since then, Croll says. 'The point isn’t to raise revenue,' he said. 'We care more about reminding people to separate their materials.'"
Comment Re:Not surprisingly the CRTC is made up of ... (Score 1) 184
For some people it's really difficult to resist taking a shot at Harper.
Comment Irrelevance of CRTC (Score 1) 184
Some good overview and a few comments here:
http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/...
http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/...
Comment Re:Audio Fingerprinting? (Score 1) 358
That's what I was thinking also.
Comment Re:Of course there is more ice in Antarctica. (Score 1) 635
I thought it was because all the gravity kept getting sucked out of the ozone hole.
Comment George Carlin (Score 1) 120
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.
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.
Comment Re:same junk as last time (Score 1) 444
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.
