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Japan "Running Out of Engineers"
bfwebster writes "A story in the New York Times reports that Japan, a country that rebuilt itself as a technological power after World War II, now faces an increasing shortage of college graduates with degrees in science and engineering. Says the article: 'By one ministry of internal affairs estimate, the digital technology industry here is already short almost half a million engineers.' The article goes on to point out that the overall trend of waning interest in science and technology has been going on for 'almost two decades' and that the shortage is made worse by the traditional reluctance of Japanese companies to hire and use foreign workers. The US has had a similar trend for quite some time: 'Undergraduate engineering enrollment declined through most of the 1980s and 1990s, rose from 2000 through 2003, and declined slightly in recent years.'"
Lol, you cant just go makin stetments lik that lol! Peple mite be ofended, and lik there r all sorts of multipl inteligencies and stuff yo!
I defer to the built in dictionary on my Mac: "censorship - the practice of officially examining books, music, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts". If a moderator is acting in an "official" capacity for /. and the moderator "examines" the post and the moderator "suppresses" it by modding it down (the definition did not say delete), then he has, by definition, censored it.
Quit making up definitions and presenting them as fact to make your point.
Just callin' it like I see it.
By that logic Slashdot shouldn't have any down moderation at all. It's censorship, after all. A saner interpretation is to consider all Slashdot moderation as just an opinion on the posting. That you are too lazy to read all low-modded postings is your problem...
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