Yep.

Eye of the beholder, irrelevant to the question.

Sure.

Impossible. The Republican-led has made the decision to obstruct and chastise the president for every decision made. If he would propose a budget that had been secretly worked on by the Heritage foundation, Republican leaders would still blame it for putting the US on the road to socialism. See only commentaries made by House leadership on his decisions to visit Germany and what to do with Libya. In both situations, Republican leaders displayed remarkable cases of amnesia about what they had asked him to do previously. Nifty because in the case of visits to Germany, he was chastised when he went, and then chastised when he didn't go. In the case of Libya, he was first chastised for not acting, then chastised for acting. It was hilarious to see McCain twist when told that he was criticizing the President for doing what McCain himself had asked the President to do just earlier.

Absolutely. Question: what's a sensible budget? Trick question: the country is far too divided to come up with an answer that will please everybody. I'll settle for "a balanced budget."

Finally, I'm just wondering: do you judge every president by whether he has presented a timely budget? Feel free to check out this list here if you have trouble answering that question: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43163.pdf

I think you two are missing each other's point. Yes, the universe doesn't care what some particular think tanks puts out. However, a certain subgroup of the Great Apes family cares a great deal.

You can't just put out propaganda - at some point, the universe is just going to shit stomp everything. You can't just put out our best understanding of the universe - at some point, a certain subset of great apes with a lot of reptilian brain matter left over are going to have to be moved to action.

Unfortunately, to actually advance - and in this case, save - civilization, you need to be both right and a great orator. I know few people who are (and don't count myself among them).

Darn that lousy Tibor!

You're confusing a paid business service with a free ad-supported personal service.

To some extent. They're going to disappear in small mom and pop shops, but they're going to grow in the service providers.

What you're seeing is a shift in the type of tools being maintained in companies, the types of skills needed to maintain them, and the companies where specific skills are needed. It's not going to be IT staff anymore, it's going to be tool admins and maintainers. It's not going to be IT helpdesk anymore, it's going to be department help desk. It's not going to be Woolworth IT anymore, it's going to be Google IT.

As always, if you're in IT, keep your skills up-to-date, stay up-to-date on business trends, and be ready to adapt at the drop of a hat. Or look for a job in a different field.

Dates of presidential budget submissions: http://www.bbg.gov/about-the-agency/research-reports/budget-submissions/

Furthermore, from your own link: "When newly elected President Richard Nixon began to refuse to spend funds that the Congress had allocated, Congress adopted a more formal means by which to challenge him. The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 created the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and directed more control of the budget to it and away from the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB). "

The submission by the president of a budget to Congress has become much less important than what Congress decides to do with the budget.

In the meantime, I'll take my own advice and shut the fuck up about the budget process until I've read more.

It used to be that it was blatantly obvious that Apple was making ridiculous profits on smartphones, and everyone else was trying to figure out how they do it. Don't mistake a point in time with a trend.

Convenient use of a record high as your starting point. Care to redo your calculations with any other window? Maybe, say, a 20 year window? Or even a 10 year window? What about a 12 year window?

[Citation needed] and [Confusing a rebound from a historic low to slightly less historic lows with an increase over average].

[Confusing weather with climate] and [Lack of understanding of ice formation]

[Cherry-picking specific regional ice data points] and [Mistaking surface for volume].

[More reading needed]. See also http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n3/abs/ngeo1068.html

... which has nothing to do with the problem of CO2 trapping IR, or with why the atmosphere is heating up.

Water vapor cannot drive long-term heating. A single cold-spell will remove water vapor from the air, which will reduce temperatures, which will remove more water from the air.... Water vapor is the result of warming, not a forcing.

The global economy was working in overdrive until 2000-2001, and again from 2005 to 2008. Your own data calls you a liar.

I'm glad you'll find that all kinds of scientists, but especially marine biologists and oceanographers would love your help in spreading message. Care to sign up maybe with an organization like NOAA or the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute?

Says the guy who mistakes anecdotes for data, cherry-picks his time frames, misunderstands the overall and problem and thinks that he has a better understanding of physics than Physicists.

Tell you what, write a paper about your insights, and if you're right, the Nobel prize in a few areas is yours. How is that for an incentive to go show up all the AGW believers? You'll be right up there with Galileo, Kopernicus, Pasteur, and a few other up-enders of the consensus.

Holy crap - are you truly that ignorant? The president can never originate a budget. It HAS to come from the House. Yes, he can suggest budgets, but he can't actually submit them.

Seriously, if you can't be bothered to understand how the country you work functions, you have three options:
1) Shut the fuck up.
2) Shut the fuck up.
3) Leave.

And pretty much every poll that asks questions about provisions in Obamacare instead of just whether people like Obamacare shows that people love the provisions in Obamacare. Yes, people are that stupid.

You have absolutely no idea what happens when a budget doesn't get approved in time, do you? Here's some education for you: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/absolutely-everything-you-need-to-know-about-how-the-government-shutdown-will-work/

Again, I'm not talking about basic call-center staff that isn't allowed to deviate from a script. I'm talking actual tech support, where people are supposed to have some technical expertise, some coding experience, and are able to follow reproduction steps. I don't know how much they make, but I'm fairly sure they make more than $300 an month . This is primarily based on the fact that if they made that little, they would get snapped up by any of the consulting gigs like Wipro and Tata.

Call center - no. But tech support - oh hell yes. 2-3 qualified people making about 2-3 times what the fresh off the street people in India make can resolve about 5 times the cases with better customer satisfaction. Not to mention all the money saved with the lack of escalations and hand-holding.

I need to move to Norway. For some reason, it seems to be the only sensible country on earth. Now if we could just tilt the rotational axis of the earth a little farther up, and we'd solve it's only problem: eternal days and eternal nights.