The Back Room

RobCroll wrote: This is capitalism at its best. We don't buy, they wont pollute. Capitalist companies will buy from whichever source helps them remain competitive. Otherwise their investors will have something to say about it. Similarly, as US and EU real incomes dwindle, how many are going to forgo their cheap goods just because the manufacturers (or the manufactures of x% of the components) of said goods are polluters? RobCroll wrote: It's not up to politicians, it's up to us. Don't recollect that working with US or UK pollution. Legislation was required in order to ensure that all companies complied. (Also ensuring that environmentally responsible companies were not placed at a disadvantage with respect to 'cowboy' competitors.) If people made the effort to read something three times before commenting, blogs would be much more useful places. - Anon.

mmmmm soylent Green nom nom nom You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Slacker007 wrote: Now go get me some coffee Or would you prefer a Taepodong[^]?

" ..Aaaand it looks like he's going to the CP back room! Wasting precious time! This could backfire later! Let's see if he can recover... " ;P

Most English people will, I think laugh at the result. I wonder what other nationalities repsonses would be? MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

Erudite_Eric wrote: The automation you speak of is merely the format of the data. True, which (unless truly automated) would require some form of data entry. Hence, susceptible to reductions in personnel, as are inaccessible (non-automated) stations. Erudite_Eric wrote: As for austerity, the station drop out started in the 1980s Hmmm. Erudite_Eric wrote: Over the last 20 years less and less stations are used to compose the data set, favouring lower altitude and lower lattitude stations and stations in urbanised environments, such as airports. 2011 - 20 = 1991, which would make you right (for once ;P ). From 1980 to 1991: Gentle decline. From 1992 to 1992: Precipitous drop. Erudite_Eric wrote: Well it would, asking the student to mark their own papers and all that. An inept analogy. The GISS data and processes can be run by those other than GISS, no point in cheating. Similar exercises have been undertaken on independently modelled versions of the GISS methodology. By splitting the GISS data into two sets - those stations continuing to report since 1992, and those that have not reported since 1992 - each produced their own GISSTemp plot. The open source Clear Climate Code[^] lot, modelled in Python. Zeke Hausfather[^], modelled in STATA (2nd Chart). Neither shows any warming effect arising from the dropout. Anyhow, Watts and D'Aleo changed their minds about altitudes and latitudes: SURFACE TEMPERATURE RECORDS: POLICY DRIVEN DECEPTION? SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS January, 2010: 5. There has been a severe bias towards removing higher-altitude, higher-latitude, and rural stations, leading to a further serious overstatement of warming. June 2010: 5. There has been a significant increase in the number of missing months with 40% of the GHCN stations reporting at least one missing month. This

I think there are two separate messages here. 1) The couple in Seattle are simply a case that there will always be some greedy fraudster out to screw systems set up to help those who are not as fortunate. 2) The second is that there are mentally unstable individuals out there with conditions that are truly unfortunate. Neither of these has to do with the gap between rich and poor, but it is troubling if the reports are accurate that the gap is widening. I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

I agree, but unfortunately not enough people (at least not those in power) do, so this madness continues..

wolfbinary wrote: I shouldn't have to tell someone what a CFL is now days. Why not? Why do you assume that in Europe we have the same acronyms as you in the US? In France NATO is called OTAN. The EU, the UE. So take your CFL and shove it. :) ============================== Nothing to say.

I saw this in the local news, yesterday. It is right/wrong/funny/unfunny...on so many levels. Thanks for posting. :) Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)

Bravo.

Of course it's the programmer! Who else? And what is a "progress bar", if it gives no indication whatsoever about the "progress"!?!

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Harold has it right, it all comes down to opinion which in this case is probably driven by PC and the media. Your peers and the people you listen to consider a racial slur more offensive than others! I recently found myself in the shit when asked how I had fixed a problem I claimed "White mans magic" - in Asia, I guess I should change that to "Old mans/grumps/curmudgeons/bastards magic" no one can argue with that! Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Erudite__Eric wrote: Here is some more on Hansen fudging data No, it's exactly the same data as the Watts post, same bloody graphs! I shall say this once more only, as I have a feeling that I am being wound up: The GISS data and processing are accessible and transparent. The NCDC data and processing are accessible and transparent. There is no 'manipulation' designed to increase warming. Erudite__Eric wrote: If an accountant did this to a companies books he would be locked up for fraud. Twaddle. The data and processing are constantly being 'audited' by skeptics and lukewarmers alike - people inside and outside the climate science community. While there is always disagreement as to how various biases and discontinuaties should be handled statistically, no-one has yet found 'manipulation' with fraudulent intent. BTW: Mann's 'Hockey Stick' was derived from Northern Hemisphere temperatures, which already showed a strong upward trend from 1970 to 1999. So the claim that "As of 1999, temperatures were going the wrong direction for 70 years, and something had to be done about it." is false. The US Temperatures to 1999 had little impact. Be dogmatic, not thoughtful. It's easier, and you get bumper stickers.- Anon.

Now you are talking the piss! ============================== Nothing to say.

UI development is probably the most difficult aspect of writing an application. The hardest part of UI development is conveying to the end user what your paradigm was during development. "Intuitive is in the eye of the beholder, and the best UI is the one that requires the least amount of prodding by the manufacturer to get the user on-board with the concept. I like UI stuff, but I lean so far into the developer side of things that I tend to do things that make the most sense to me - as a developer. And as I've often discovered, my idea of how a program should be presented to a user is often way to the left or right of center when you consider the opinions of others. ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997