No people's memories aren't that short, amimojo just doesn't like admitting s/he's wrong. Watch if they respond.

Quick question before I reply to the topic here. I noticed that you had a period placed where it shouldn't be. I have been having the same issue, and my autocomplete is turning into a real pain in the ass, even completing my sentences on occasion. And often deciding to put periods where they don't belong. Are you having the same problem?

Anyhow, the matter of what a trade is or isn't is kind of fluid. If you look at Wikipedia, they have a good definition, which is:

"A tradesperson or tradesman/tradeswoman is a skilled worker that specialises in a particular trade. Tradespeople (tradesmen/women) usually gain their skills through work experience, on-the-job training, an apprenticeship program or formal education."

Okay so far, I'd think we would agree.

The contrast that with Professionals "from professionals in that the professionals require more education and have a higher duty of care and routinely make decisions "on the basis of expertise and ability in complex situations where there may be no, or little, previous history"

I'm a professional. But unlike many, I consider tradespeople my equal. But that's an aside.

Now the Wikipedia page I was at didn't have IT as a trade. But it isn't a comprehensive list either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Now Joe Dragon or I consider IT and coding a trade. Hope I'm not putting words in your mouth Joe! But we aren't the only ones. https://www.bestcollegereviews...

Might you be conflating trades with manual labor? Definitely a different category.

Do you have the numbers to assert your assertion? Citations please.

Sounds exactly like a trade to me. In today's world, people with trades are looked at as mentally deficient. When in fact, many of us have great respect for tradespeople, who despite the narrative, are not subnormals. But the strange thing about your statement - your hypothetical person who self trained and exhibits proficiency might never have stepped on a campus, nor earned that degree that signifies they are an Übermenchen.

So they have a trade, not a college degree. And your hypothetical is almost certainly much smarter than the presumed Übermenchen, because he had to perform, not major in taking tests.

TIFO that wherever you go, that's where you are at!

Threw needs to be a DoD level investigation, and if classified data has been compromised, there needs to be arrests and trials, and if convicted, jail time. And in that event, Microsoft must be blocked from ever having access to sensitive data again. Microsoft might just be sitting on the biggest classified information handover since forever.

Then we just lose money on other things. Either way, the money leaves.

Fscking autocorrect! He strikes me as a pretty smart person.

(shrug) incompetent management tends to manage all parts... Incompetently.

That said, the early assertion was that "the cloud" would be safer because of redundancies. What wasn't highlighted was that from another perspective, it was concentrating points of failure/vulnerability.

Is one giant cloud service run for everyone by a professional data team more or less vulnerable collectively than a vast array of local networks/servers run by a bell curve of IT expertise from "really skilled" down to "I think Bill's nephew knows something about computers? He can configure it probably?"

Why? If the math is terrifying, maybe you should go into another field?

You know, the ESAs space program works entirely in metric and their record isn't exactly perfect, yeah?

Maybe just get over the irrelevant side bias?

I thought it was GLOBAL warming, not just ATLANTIC warming?

https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/sta...
No change in frequency globally.
No change in intensity globally.

Longer span? Sure. How about 174y of FL data?
https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/sta...

Didn't James Hanson speculate the West Side Highway would be inundated by now?

Dude, your claim that I am poorly uneducated is silly. Yes, Celsius is an SI unit. So is Kelvin. Did you see anywhere I posted either wasn't? A degree Centigrade up or down is is the same as a degree Kelvin up or down, just with added increments for Kelvin. You'll see if you looked, I noted that you can convert Kelvin to Centigrade by adding 273 degrees to it in other posts. (273.15+.01 to be more precise.) There are actually some more precise measurements based on the triple point of water, but all I wrote so far is close enough for this exampleI have used it all the time in the past, because if you are doing High temperature or Low temperature research, you use Kelvin. You'd be laughed at if you tried that in cryogenics research - sometimes it is converted to C for people who can't grok that. Psst - that would apparently be you. Claiming I am uneducated while you show without a doubt that you are not is priceless. Now gimme a hug you big old brute.

Now make my day by posting more insulting and stupid stuff while trying to appear intelligent. Entertain me.

I'm all for its use in diabetics who use low therapeutic doses. But the people using that stuff to lose weight are playing a game with Pancreatitis, and muscle mass loss along with the fat. Including one's heart. https://www.sciencealert.com/d....

We do also have some claims semaglutide might cause pancreatic cancer. The standard answer is that Researchers say that it doesn't, but further studies are needed to find the long term effects. I'm not feeling warm and fuzzy about that one. All this people taking large amounts in order to lose weight quickly are unknowingly providing that research.

I'll stick with proper diet and excise I think!

Growing up in the Midwest, we were very much aware that nuclear war could end humanity's existence with scarcely more than a half hour of warning. Climate change is positively tame by comparison.

What these researchers misunderstand is that most people are not so privileged that climate change even makes the list of their concerns. It's not that they don't care, but that they just don't have the time or money to do anything effective.

The average person cannot afford an electric car.

The average person doesn't own a home, but if they did would still be unable to afford solar panels.

The average person can't work from home, because their employer insists they come into the office.

The average person can't live without a car, because America was designed and zoned for car traffic. If every American decided to use public transportation tomorrow, there wouldn't be enough trains or busses for everyone.

The average person can't grow their own food, because they don't own (enough) land. Even if they did, modern agriculture - from fertilizers to harvesting and transportation - depends on diesel fuel.

Given that most governments are owned by the fossil fuel companies, it is rather naive to expect governments to do anything more than token measures to address climate change.

It strikes me as a bit odd that people who are rather astute at predicting climate 50 to 100 years into the future can't predict that, in spite of their polemics, nothing meaningful will be done about climate change. Individuals lack the power, and governments lack the incentive. It seems to me that the old joke about consulting rings true for climate science: if you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem.