Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada. Biggest industry is farming, so if anyone is affected by daylight it would be them. And they do not practice DST. Biggest argument I've heard against it yet...
In many places they have water and they used to have farms. Then the US (and other countries) dumped produce on their market below the true cost (subsidized) such that local farmers could not compete. So the local farmers were undercut, couldn't pay their taxes and are now unemployed and homeless. It isn't that they don't know how to farm. It is that they can't make enough money farming to get by. They might be able to compete despite the unfair price of imported food if they could use modern practices, but they don't have the industrial infrastructure needed to make the heavy equipment and fertilizers and irrigation systems and they don't have the capital to buy it. The money needed to fund such a project would be way, way, way more than what is spent on the OLPC project. Could you link to a source for that? I believe that bad local politics (to say nothing of war) is a large reason for African poverty. Despotism in Zimbabwe, genocide in Sudan, war in Kenya...
LinkedIn has interesting phrases such as "only people you trust". In theory this is to prevent such abuse, but in reality it is socially unacceptable in many situations (like the workplace) to not add people to your network if you know them in person. What are you supposed to do when you see these people everyday? Even a polite turning away might turn them into an enemy.
But most people know this problem with LinkedIn, so if you have a large network, the network does not serve to reflect those you trust, but how many people want to be in your network. They want to be in your network for a reason, so it becomes a positive reflection on your worth. Just treat recommendations as the real measure of trust.
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Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada. Biggest industry is farming, so if anyone is affected by daylight it would be them. And they do not practice DST. Biggest argument I've heard against it yet...
Very nice. So where can I get the original high resolution images of these?
It's a video without even the video. Why not just stream an MP3? Nothing to see here, move along.
LinkedIn has interesting phrases such as "only people you trust". In theory this is to prevent such abuse, but in reality it is socially unacceptable in many situations (like the workplace) to not add people to your network if you know them in person. What are you supposed to do when you see these people everyday? Even a polite turning away might turn them into an enemy. But most people know this problem with LinkedIn, so if you have a large network, the network does not serve to reflect those you trust, but how many people want to be in your network. They want to be in your network for a reason, so it becomes a positive reflection on your worth. Just treat recommendations as the real measure of trust.