Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:30:13 -0400, NotNow penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
| Jack wrote:
| On Jul 26, 2:07 pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
| for the Global Warming whack jobs that is.
|
| http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/200...JD011637.shtml
|
| Oh - Mr. Science? This is a peer reviewed study - from real
| scientists - you know, like you aren't?
|
| I want to know why the GW activists are denying science? Are they
| crazy?
|
| No, they are power hungry and won't "let a good crisis go to waste"...
| Even if they have to make it up...
|
|I'm certainly glad that us engineers don't cling on to one person's
|ideas because it fits our agendas and ignore the rest of the imperical data.

Wow! You mean I really *didn't* just waste half the morning with two
contractors, an architect, a project expediter, and an engineer
because the mechanical engineer unilaterally decided to create some
ultra complex timer driven interface of an exhaust fan and the HVAC
system...... when all we really wanted was a wall switch?

.....engineers don't cling on to one person's ideas..... R-i-g-h-t....


I have to reference any number of resources on a daily basis. I have to
design to a certain code, and not pick one that meets my agenda. Then I
have to design by guidelines of many others. For instance, let's say I'm
designing foundations and slabs for a project. There's three or four ACI
publications that I have to adhere to. Those are all by committee. The
list goes on and on. Did you ever stop to think that the engineer's (if
he really is an engineer) hand might just be tied by a whole GROUP of
people's rules? Did you check all applicable codes, etc. to see if the
guy was blowing smoke or that by code it actually needed to be done the
way he's suggesting? I run into this crap with architects and project
managers all of the time. Because we have to follow rules they think
we're idiots.