Comment But the bond measure required profitability (Score 1) 709
The measure was sold to voters as requiring profitability of every segment before another was built. Basically, the whole endeavor is fraud.
The measure was sold to voters as requiring profitability of every segment before another was built. Basically, the whole endeavor is fraud.
I really don't know how Muller got tagged as a skeptic of GW. He's criticized two pieces of bad science:
- the hockey stick that turned out to not be real, and
- the "hide the decline" part of the climate emails
In the second criticism he explicitly said the data show warming, and so scratched his head as to why people did the data hiding in the first place. His statement at the time was simple: "You can't do this in science."
This current stuff about the press release vs. proper review is annoying, but I respect Muller as a scientist enough that I'll take what he says seriously, even though I don't believe in AGW (or even GW for that matter).
Oh blah. I didn't realize I wasn't signed in for the above post. Anyone with mod points, I hope you'll read it and consider it for a +1 or two.
Yep, same for me. This will end reader for me as well. I guess I'll have to start moving over to a different aggregator. Sigh.
This is the problem with vigilantism. It starts out with a target many agree with, and then just starts looking for targets.
Anonymous, you're now just another garden-variety thug. Proud of yourselves? Time for a new group to shut you down.
Funny, I've been thinking the same thing lately. And I've been dependent on Google and Android for a while now.
Why. Google plus was the last subtle thing to set it off.
I've used Google Apps for all of my email on my domain since it came out. Works great. I've had my domain for 15 years, and it's me. I depend on Android and my Google interconnects. I use Chrome on all my boxes. Everything works well.
Plus doesn't like Google Apps for your Domain. You've got to create a new gmail account for that. Something that's not me. Something that nobody knows me as. And Chrome/Google account switching will force that to be the default account.
Multiple account switching has also changed around, and it makes this gmail account your primary account, and I've got to keep using my password to get to my regular Google Apps email in Chrome. Now, the email I've depended on for 10 years multiple times a day requires me to keep switching back to my (now) non-default domain account, if I check Google plus also.
It sound petty, but it's made me stand back and say, "Wow, I'm _really_ dependent on Google, and this can get ugly". Being an open-source kind-of-guy, that makes me nervous.
--Lance
Actually, I've always thought there should be one more common operator - "===". In floating-point context, it would be "approximately equal to", returning true if the arguments are within 10 times the smallest representable value. That would reduce problems with floating-point comparison.
Thus exposing your ignorance of how to use floating point numbers. Thank you for handing me a new question for my interview list to highlight weaknesses of potential candidates. The "problems" with floating point are well-known, and if you use them correctly they do a fine job. If you're so ignorant that you blindly do a simple comparison test like this, it means you probably shouldn't be writing software that uses floating point.
Hardcoding an operator to perform this specific test (which is one particular way to compare for equivalency) is idiotic, and would encourage even more "programming by guessing" than we already have.
Yah, I had the same WTF moment when they started using mSv all the time. Apparently they're also using it to weight different types of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma). First time I've seen it used like that.
Imagine how well you'd model this using monte-carlo techniques / ray tracing.
Sadly, that's not the only part of the equation. Will regulation make it better and/or safer?
Because in my experience (10+ years of software medical device work) FDA regulation of medical devices has reached a point where the cure is now worse than the disease. Innovation is swamped under paperwork that prevents many solutions from coming out that would make medical devices safer or better, but which would cost too much for a company to implement because of FDA rules.
Too often, medical device errors (radiation burns, etc.) are because of human error which could be corrected with a strict checklist, rather than more FDA regulation.
The most likely result of regulating wireless networking in a hospital will be the removal of the wireless network. People will likely schlep data around on USB drives, which are unmarked and untracked, etc. (I've seen that happen before when devices don't have networking capability). In such a scenario are patients protected or endangered?
You do know that your sig is wildly deceptive right? The statement in context is here, and is quite different from (say) Congressman Phil Hare saying he didn't care about the constitution.
Immelt is also on Obama's economic recovery committee, GE has been given $25 million in stimulus money and MSNBC hosts are openly shills for the administration (at least as much as people like Hannity were for the last one).
So GE gets millions of free money from the government, then turns around and spends millions on cars from the government. All at taxpayer expense.
Remember, the only way to look at the government is down. Following the money still works, even if the politicians are on "your side."
Wait, you trust MMA as a partisan organization which responds to partisans of the other side. And they commit just as much fraud in selective quoting and editing as they claim to point out on the other side.
Why do you trust this partisan organization over other partisan organizations? Just because they're on your side?
...After years of receiving money through Soros organizations. This is the first time Soros name is on the check without the cash flow being laundered first.
Yes, I've read that paper, but Menne appears to not be an honest broker. Not only did he use the data that Watts stopped updating publicly (to avoid ad hoc analysis) but he apparently deliberately excluded Watts from the article process.
The fact that I saw a false premise in the first paragraph of the paper (reviewing it again just now) didn't improve my opinion of Menne et al.
I believe the "adjustment" process is fatally flawed (hence my "make stuff up" link in my prior post). Smearing the data around doesn't make it better (side note: my background includes physics simulations of rigorously tested data, so I have at least some experience with data quality like this), and when there simply isn't any data, fiddling with the gaussian isn't going to make the data appear.
On top of all this, NOAA and NCDC appear to have colluded to hammer out talking points regarding Watts' "Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable?"
Climate scientists simply cannot be trusted until all data and methodology are public and can be replicated by statisticians outside of the field.
No, they haven't moved them. Fully 90% of surface sensors are badly sited. That's the point of http://www.surfacestations.org/, to document the quality of the sensors.
Satellites take temperature measurements as well, but they have other issues. Well-sited surface sensors would be the best data we can get, and yet we don't even make the effort to site them properly.
Which makes me suspect a lot of the AGW scare. Another being what happens when they have no data and just make stuff up.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
