Or possibly in some cases this may have the desirable effect of forcing substitution with better technology. My local area is blighted by the presence of hundreds of HGVs trucking limestone and cemen… (View Post)

Looking at that another way around for a moment. Imagine Mr X. Mr X has job at Morgan Stanley. He is happy with the job, the company is happy with his work. Mr X works at home throughout the pandemic… (View Post)

I once worked for a short bloke with a particularly bad case of angry short bloke syndrome. It was a rather difficult relationship, because he was attempting to manage something he didn't understand,… (View Post)

But with both climate and covid, the models have been marched out in front of the decision makers with suitably scary shaped graphs, and presented as predictions of the future, along with grim warnin… (View Post)

Interesting thought of the evening. One of the main things that this pandemic has revealed is that "scientific" modelers are basically useless in this sort of field. They can't predict with… (View Post)