Sorry, but the professional engineering licensing/certifying organizations do not have a trademark on the word engineer, and the word has been around longer then the said organizations. Software engineers don't call themselves Certified/Licensed Professional Engineers, so I don't see the problem. Certified/Licensed Professional Engineer != engineer and engineer != Certified/Licensed Professional Engineer.

Unless Moses was Akhenaten.

The words and the meanings of engineer and engineering predate these certifying engineering bodies you are referring too. These certifying engineering bodies you are referring to do not have trademark on the word engineer or engineering. Software/system engineers are not claiming to be be certified these engineering bodies you are referring too.

...and make 'them' turn it back on. Who is 'they' anyway? Just want some names and addresses so I know where take the case of whoop ass when 'they' turn off the internet.

Deductions only apply to one of the three federal taxes on wages. The social security and medicare taxes have no deductions. If you've ever been self-employed then your are very aware of the 15% bite those two federal taxes take out of your income, but even if you are not self-employed those two take still nearly an 8% bite out of your paycheck (not to mention that if the employer didn't have to pay their half, they could just pay it to you instead).

Call it the tyranny of the majority, but it is the will of the majority.

It's only the will of the majority if was passed as proposition that actually have >50% of eligible voters vote in favor of it. Anything else is the will a minority, and usually a very, very small minority since most states only have a few hundred law makers.

It was created to protect the corporate officers from liability and maximize profit.

Actually they were created to protect the corporate owners from liability. While it is true that in some jurisdictions, such as Nevada (even there is isn't a complete liability shield for corporate officers), corporate officers are also protected from liability, this is not true of all jurisdictions. What is true in all jurisdictions, which I am aware of, is that the corporate owners have no liability beyond their share in the corporation.

Employers have their own processes for screening candidates. GPAs and transcripts are crappy predictor for how well someone will do in a given job. A candidate who, while partying, developed a extensive network of valuable contacts, may well be of more benefit to an employer then one who worked hard at an endeavor that is of no value to the employer.

you got to classify them somehow by ability

Why exactly is that?

During the nine years I spent as MS, I regularly imbibed company purchased beer. When I first started there, every Friday afternoon we were provided beer and apps. Over time and moral budget cuts the frequency decreased, but beer and apps were still provided fairly regularly. This seems like a case of some one being disconnected from culture of the product development groups.

Gotta agree with this. The environmental movement seems to have been subverted by people wanting to regulate CO2 emissions (likely for their own enrichment), such that the issues being caused by the numerous pollutants that are most definitely attributable to human activity aren't really getting much mindshare anymore.

Computer modeling is only useful if the model can be tested for correctness. If it can't all it is a hypothesis in software form. Core sampling is not a test of climate theory, its a way to gather data upon which to create a theory. Average global temperature analysis and prediction very closely resembles finical price movement analysis and prediction. In both field there is lots of historical data and there are attempts to create models that will predict what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past. There is a ton of money to made from a model that can consistently and accurately predict were prices will go and as a result there has been a huge investment in attempts to create such models, but has anyone yet managed to create one that is consistently and accurately predict were prices will go? Not that I'm aware of; I see no reason why a field (climatology) that is significantly less well funded would produce a more accurate and consistent model.

There is a third possiblity: groupthink Just because group of people believe something that isn't actually correct and true doesn't mean they are consciously doing so and conscious choice is require for a conspiracy. The problem with so-called climate science is that it isn't science at all, as it isn't possible to get any further through the scientific method then forming a hypothesis. In order to test a hypothesis, it is necessary to repeatedly do controlled experiments and compare the results for consistency. The problem with so called climate science is that we can't do any controlled experiments to test the hypothesis, so there is no way to prove any of the hypothesis regrading the climate to be correct. If the scientific method can not be fully utilized in a field of study, then it isn't science at all.

Also up for debate is that an increase in average global temperature is problem in need of solution.

Smog is not caused by CO2. If there was no CO2 in the air there would be no plants. I'd guess your not even aware that you are exhaling CO2, as is every other animal on this planet, but rather you've just repeating the CO2 is bad mantra without having the slightest understanding of the role CO2 plays in the ecosystem.