Re: Runaway Global Warming Possible!

From: Ian St. John (istjohn_at_noemail.usa)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:02:43 -0500

Rand Simberg wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:09:29 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Ian St.
> John" <istjohn@noemail.usa> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
> such a way as to indicate that:
>
>
>> The apocryphal story about engineering is that of engineering the
>> British Canal system. The critical thing was to keep the water from
>> either leaking out or the lining from washing away. The engineer was
>> asked what his solution was. He walked over to a pile of clay and
>> sand and started mixing them together chopping them into each other
>> as you would lard for a pie shell. When asked why it worked, he
>> merely replied that he didn't know. The science was not yet
>> developed enough to determine how the rough protrusions of the sand
>> grains kept a thin boundary layer of still water that kept the clay
>> from being washed away.
>
> What does that have to do with modern engineers, and engineering?

I thought you might not understand engineering enough to get the point.

>
>> No science, but good engineering, and I'll bet he didn't have the
>> 'boys club' indoctrination that you seem to think is the sign of an
>> engineer.
>
> That's not engineering--it's simply a trade.

No. It is engineering, plain and simple.

>
>> The
>> fact is that you seem to be nothing more than a syncophant trying to
>> claim membership in engineering while apparently having nothing but
>> school courses to back it up. I know of at least one 'professional
>> engineer' with all the requried documentation that never managed to
>> get a single project to work in his entire well paid career. You
>> remind me of him.
>
> That's a pretty absurd comment, since you no absolutely nothing about
> my engineering career. But then, that doesn't stop you from
> commenting about anything else.

No. You cannot stop me from commenting on your pathetic misrepresentation of
engineering. You can only continue to dig yourself a hole by your 'caste
member' definition of what it is about. And the story I gave is perfectly
true. Nice guy and a whiz at gettting new well paid jobs before the previous
one craters, but still never able to put his abilites together enough to get
a working system together.

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