Louis Rossman on a Samsung scandal. Seems like another company with its priorities scrambled. Run by another Master of Bugger All no doubt.

Yesterday's attempted comment was lost. Second go...

tomo,
Microsoft and Boeing aren't the first companies to use their names to back up poor products, but they have to be amongst the biggest companies to do so. As you point out, share prices show them getting smaller.

The Boeing article talks a lot about addressing quality problems. IMO, that's the wrong way to think about it. Like the "pursuit of happiness", you can't chase quality directly, it results from other things you do. Safety is another indirect target (as in Mike Rowe's Safety Third dictum).

DaveS,
Many thanks for that pointer. Very good read. I was an avid reader of CA back then, so I was puzzled how I had missed it. A bit of head scratching and I realised that was when I would have returned from a Colorado ski trip newly acquainted with a US hospital. Reading *was* a bit less avid for a while.

Loved the comment contrasting Warren Buffett having to submit 9-foot-high piles of paperwork to back up his annual tax return against the IPCC having derisory due diligence standards for research upon which trillions of dollars of public funds depend.

As for EV sales, the case for buying has to be pretty weak if one comedian's opinion swings it.

Methinks their lordships are talking out of their proverbial

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/06/rowan-atkinson-blamed-for-poor-electric-car-sales-by-peers/

More Boeing b*ll*cks

https://youtu.be/INV37Z8-QcQ

@Robert Swan

See https://climateaudit.org/2007/03/28/accessing-hegerl-data/
for what I think is the backstory to the McIntyre-as-IPCC-reviewer situation.

tomo,
Not much sympathy for Microsoft's customers. The "cloud" was so obviously the new fad. CPU and storage are the cheapest they've ever been; what exactly did people think they were outsourcing? Could there be a better honeypot than a cloud storage data centre? Yes, their security may be tighter than mine, but there are a lot more people involved, and they are usually the weak link.

Putin has a pretty strong argument there. An even more compelling unbeliever is Xi. Yet here we are trying to change the weather by putting up windmills.

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If Musk favours truth in advertising he might move the campus from Texas to Georgia...

Mailman,

to ensure he never gets invited again to ever review any paper related to climate science.

The latest in the defamation trial certainly doesn't put Mann in a good light. Contrary to his name, he appears never to have escaped adolescence. A character-building trial might help. It's entertaining though, in the bigger picture, irrelevant. Even if he's cast aside (I won't be weeping for him) we'll continue to hear about "independently verified", etc. How do you stop a juggernaut?

Tomo,

The IPCC may not have the actual ability to directly control who can review papers BUUUUUT they most certainly have the gravitas within the Catastrophilia community to ensure he never gets invited again to ever review any paper related to climate science.