Anti-harassment wasn't the reason. That group is there to administer the code of conduct as well as deal with harassment.
Weren't you just saying that code of conduct, and the witch hunting against developers by CoC's wouldn't happen? Pretty sure you did, not less then 7mo ago. Ah yes, the modern SJW. If you like tits, you're a misogynist. Also if you don't like tits or words with similar meanings, you're a women hater and a misogynist. Yes, brilliant. So offended not only will they go out of their way to change something, but toss the authoritarian hat into the arena and try to force what you're doing to change as well.
Very funny. Coming from the same company that has been hit repeatedly for anti-competitive behavior, price fixing, and anti-trust actions against a competitor(AMD) and lost every case.
Gets worse, in most provinces the company can apply for a permit to work you over 40hrs/week and preemptively pay a fine at a lower rate. BC and Ontario were the two provinces that led the way on this.
Do the RCMP have detectives and people who fill out all their paperwork for them while they smoke a pipe and mumble at evidence?
No the RCMP doesn't have detectives, they have inspectors. Same with other police services and forces in Canada. Paperwork though accounts for between 40-70% of your job as a cop these days in Canada though.
Yeah just watch out for things like firefighting and policing, which is where this brainwave is currently heading as well. Every police service that I know of in Ontario that's tried it, has had massive screwups, jumps in complaints, more gun-draw incidents, and so on. The brain only handles working for so long before you start screwing up rather hard. Luckily, most realize how bad of a screwup it really is. Sadly a friend of mine who's currently in Division E(BC) is stuck in a 4x12(3.5 off) rotation for a year because of a lack of available mounties(RCMP). He's better off then some people who get remote locations and their RCMP jail is also in their house.
Well I'm fairly certain Canada only has about 100 people, all of whom live either in Vancouver or Toronto - and Vancouver is also in the Pacific Northwest.
It's really closer to 1000, I should know. I run the largest dairy up here, gotta tell you though it's a real bitch shipping milk in plastic bags from Ontario to British Columbia, then putting them into plastic and paper cartons.
You sure you don't live in Canada? 'Cause that's pretty normal around here for pretty much any type of spectacle like this. Northern Lights as far down south as the central US? Overcast Canada. Comet's and shooting stars? Overcast. Stargazing on a hot summer night? Sorry it's muggy, and the approaching front will cause it to piss down rain. Oh, and snow. The only time I remember it not being like that, is when they said Haley's Comet was going to be this great gigantic spectacle and would glow like the heavens(still got the Time magazine article on that one). Barely a blip in the sky.
Yeah bullshit. There is nothing advertiser unfriendly about This Old Tony, ABom79 and so on.
You should let youtube know, obviously your understanding of what's "advertiser friendly" is far more reaching.
The ones that are advertiser unfriendly are not because of the shop stuff, it's because of what they say. In fact it seems a good guess that AvE intantionally says things to demonetise his videos given what he's said about in the past.
So how about clive's channel? Oh...right, it must be because he's critical of shitty product design right, and the companies file copyright strikes against him.
So take your endless stream of paranoid drivel elsewhere.
Maybe it's time for you simply to grow up, and stop jamming your head into your ass?
Liks Alex Jones, that wll known centrist.
You mean like Styxhexenhammer666? Or Razorfist? Or Tim Pool? Chris Ray Gun? Mans1ay3r? Kadokawa? Laci Green?
Yes, I think it is time for you to take your head out of your ass.
Would be nice if they included some really cool and interesting stuff, like some of the more niche channels. Show us some wood/metalworking stuff instead of 50 different Fortnight clips.
Those metal and woodworking is advertiser unfriendly so those channels got demonitized beside channels for gear heads, hobby shooters(of everything from BB guns to high power pistols and rifles), center and right wing political commentators first and so on.
Smartphones didn't either. PC's still carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, it's only the small and trivial things that are carried by smaller devices. In many cases, they've also replaced ye olde remote for *insert media device here.* And no, you won't be able to play Doom Eternal or Assassins Creed Odyssey on your phone, but you might be able to play Diablo, providing of course it doesn't milk you for your credit card in the first 18 seconds.
Ever hear of Desura? Yeah, they offered basically the same 90/10 split. They don't exist anymore, and were supposedly the big up and comer and whatnot. In JP game markets, the opposite applies, it's 10/90 for titles under $5. Which dissuades fly-by-night and shitty developers from making a game that operates at the bare minimum.
I keep wondering if it is marketing that makes these cycles or some new guy gets eureka moment - "VR that is the future!"
Both. It's the same thing with stereoscopic movies, then 3D movies in various lens colours and so on. The whole big VR craze just smelled like the stuff back in the 90's, with all the same talking points. "It's the future, it's great, you'll love it." Followed by the various shilling of it and attacking detractors because of the continuing flaws.
So what are YOU doing to negate the affects of supposed man-made climate change?
The same thing that any rational person who believes in the betterment of civilization believes. Demand more nuclear power plants, improvements in nuclear energy, and promotion of a global grid of HVDC power transfer. Unfortunately, the environuts, NIMBY's, anti-development idiots have been protesting against that for the last 40 years.
Have you given up your modern super-consumer-consumption-of-everyting-plastic 2018 lifestyle to live a more sustainable life like people did in the 1950s or earlier?
LOL. Holy fuck, buddy, friend, pal, guy. People prior to the 1950's didn't live a sustainable lifestyle. When resources were expended to the point that it was no longer sustainable we either packed up and moved(or cities/towns died), or we started mass importing them as much as possible. I mean it's fun to pretend that the world prior to the 1950's was this eco-harmony of bullshit or whatever, but there's a reason cedar trees were mass-cut down in Lebanon. Why there's gigantic swaths of forest that haven't recovered from the big ship building era ~500 years ago either. Funny enough it was that era of shipbuilding that enabled some of the greatest leaps in sustainable forestry.
Anyway, I'm not disagreeing with your point. Most people who engage in this environmental fervor aren't any different then the people who loved the olde opiate of the masses(state religion(s)). They've simply replaced one for the other, believe that they can absolve their sins by throwing money at a cause and/or telling people that they need to follow the examples of xyz 5600BC culture that has a maximum size of 183 people. Doesn't matter if you're assholes like Al Gore, David Suzuki or Bono(who don't follow what they preach) acting as the great priests and gospels of the new religion. Your actions can be forgiven as long as you promote the ideology and dogma.
That's the problem with the majority of climate change proponents. They are all talk and no action. They loudly scream and yell how climate change affects must be mitigated, but refuse to do anything about it because don't want to give up their cushy modern lifestyle. At least the adamant deniers aren't being hypocrites.
Well I believe that the "danger" is vastly overstated, that of course is because of ~50 years of 'the sky is falling' bullshit, and that's likely where a lot of other people come in. And I shouldn't forget that I live in a place where they keep screeching that "everything will be worse!" and "doom doom doom doom dooooooooooommmmmmm" everything will die! And the reality on the ground is actually different, not counting parts where humans were the result of various things being killed off or nearly killed off in the first place. You know like Monarch butterflies, which everyone screeches that their numbers are so low because of herbicides, pesticides and what not. When the actual answer is far simpler, governments introduced laws mandating the destruction of milkweed because it's poisonous and was declared a 'noxious weed' and even telling people to cut it down/pull it up to stop it from spreading. Ontario was really good at this, ~15 years of declaring it a weed effectively wiped out 90% of the population by our own actions - despite people stating this was a really fucking dumb move.
To be realistic, if you want to make a truly fundamental impact on the world time to dust off your hands because that means a bunch of shit that'll be nasty. Everything from 3rd world intervention and uplifting large swaths of the planet to the same standards, to mass education, development plans and the crushing or full rewrite of cultures that hold expendability as a sign of success. I have no interest in giving up my cushy modern lifestyle though, dusting off a history book and reading 'and jimmy tilled the 10 acres fields with his hand plow for 3 weeks before planting while the ground was partially frozen' leaves me with no interest in that. Especially when you can do 300 acres in a couple of days with modern equipment.
Oh but it does. It prevents Western governments and corporations from stripping away absolutely all the labor rights acquired in the nineteen century, and that allowed a middle class to grow; which is the way that communism has always worked.
Well that sure explains why all of those leftwing groups that promote it, are going out of their way to bring everyone down to the same level of misery.
Computer hardware was still scary back then. We could have bought a 3.3V 486 (DX/4 100, DX/4 120) and put it in the 5V motherboard, to great prejudice. Not that I knew. Someone DID this, not in the same decade so he had fun watching it burn. It still worked after putting the original CPU back anyhow.
Yep, remember a lot of that. I also remember the "volt down" period in the mid-to-late 90's when things went from 5v dimm slots to 3.3v, and in some really screwed up cases 4v. I didn't find computer hardware scary, more that there was so many requirements to "get it to work" I'd line it up with the first cars in terms of complexity. When it worked, it worked well. Hell, when was the last time you needed to use jumpers, dips witches, or break out cross-board jumper wires in order to make hardware work. Nowadays, if a $50k rack dies, I pull it out and slap a new one in. The software does everything to bring it back online and nobody even notices that something happened. ~30 years ago, someone bumping the table could cause a HDD to 'skip' and lose it's seek and would bring down every term-PS/2 hooked up to it. 20 years ago, a 200Mhz IBM server with 64MB of ECC ram, was over $7000 and the hot-swapable SCSI drives were $3500/pop.
I'm continuously amazed at just how far things have come since even the days of the Vic 20's, recording data on cassette tapes, and $7600 10MB HDD's.
Actually worse then that. Nearly all "local" newspapers are owned by the same gigantic media company, not only are local stories near to non-existent, but you can buy your local paper, and the major newspaper in another city 30km or 400km away. And they'll both have the same articles in it. The news media became a self-fulfilling failure because of two things, they cut the hell out of local reporters and relied heavily on wire services for the news, because they believed that international news was more important then what's going on in your own backyard. Didn't hear about the pyromaniac, or their description, or where they were burning shit in your own town/city/etc? Not a surprise wasn't in the paper, wasn't on the radio, wasn't on TV either. But it was in some shitty little local blog, that someone runs as a hobby because they ran into the same problem, and decided to do something about it.
If I want to find out what's actually going on, listening to the town/cities radio station will be more helpful but not always. It's far worse with say broadcast media. Growing up, I used to watch CTV-CKCO(Kitchener, Ontario), lot of the big names that ended up in national news service for the 11pm CTV National got their start there. Now? It might have 3 minutes of local news, 28 minutes of wire stories, 5 minutes for the weather and the rest is either commercials or national sports(NHL/CFL/etc), and not even local leagues like the OHL(Ontario regional hockey) anymore. And they keep pushing more of it, more national and less local. And wonder why 95% of their viewership has disappeared in the last 20 years.
Yep, it was the novell ipx driver. Got a 3.5" disk with that critter downstairs. Remember all those hours you spent trying to cram basic drivers below the 640KB line and then force other things into high memory, but still reserving enough space to play the game? 4MB of memory...what a shit show. Now we worry about computers that don't have 8GB or 16GB as standard for simple desktop, and games that are 50GB-100GB in size.
The professional programmers wanted the difficulty level reduced. Because they didn't have the time to study for the tests or work on the projects. You can only do that so many times, before the tests become totally meaningless.
I've heard something similar from one of my law professors, when a student asked the same question. His answer basically boiled down to two points, if you're any good at your job you can write a question that both those of basic knowledge(i.e. starters) and those who are coming back for recert/course preliminaries are able to answer. This of course requires two things, you know your students and you have an understanding of their level of knowledge allowing you to mark the answers accordingly. If however the university/tech school/etc has 250 people in a lecture hall or 100 people in a classroom, your ability to properly mark people by their answers is drastically diminished.
He pointed out that this is one of the big problems with modern education and "jamming so many warm bodies through" that only either the worst, or brightest students stand out in your mind.
You're not fooling anybody. You can invent all the "critical thinking" hypotheticals you want Mashiki, but white boys shouting "Jews will not replace us" and murdering people aren't "two people peacefully discussing racism" as you keep crying about.
Don't worry, when you're arrested and charged for using the wrong gender pronouns, you'll be wondering where your free speech went.
Standardized testing in nearly all cases is simply the regurgitating of information to see if you remember what you've been told. I've been back to university in the last 6 years for law, psychiatry and various legal courses. The only tests that I came across that required "understanding and thinking" were the courses in law which required you to reference, understand, and be able to explain your answer.(eg, a man is walking down the street and encounters two men in a discussion in a public place. He calls the police, and claims that the two people are using hate speech and targeting minorities. You're sent to investigate the crime, and find that it's two people peacefully arguing racism, various methods racist groups have used to target others, statements by people who've been found guilty of various 'CHRA rulings' and so on. Is this "public incitement of hate speech per CC 219(1)). Short answer is no, as the discussion of a topic even in public, is not incitement to hate per CC 219(3)(b). Open book exams are probably some of the most difficult if the course requires lateral and abstract thinking to solve an issue. But anyone can pass a 400 page multiple choice test if they showed up and were a warm body in a chair.
It reminded me of two things. First my apprenticeship when I got my gas engine and diesel certs at the same time. It was learned knowledge plus the application of experience, and given diagnostic information to determine the problem - then fix it. The other was the applied mathematics courses in university which required you to "know your shit" to give an answer. Repeating memorized formulas will only get you so far if you fail to understand what you're trying to do. A friend of my sisters is a pharmacist(they have to go back to school every few years for re-certification), it was all memorization and no abstract thinking on drug interactions for instance. However, her original pharmacist certification required more then rote memorization to get you through the testing, as you have to understand how various drugs interact and so on.
A 4.0 GPA in many places is worth absolutely zero. True in the US as it is in Canada. There's a big problem where "high GPA's" are used as incentives for schools to get more funding, so they shave the odds to make more kids get to that level. Reality is, education is very close to a diploma mill status from high school through to university. Which is why there's been an upswing in companies hiring kids clean out of high school, seeing if they're a good fit, and training them for the job(and sending them to technical colleges that have hands-on training and so on) and allowing upward motion through the company. You know like how companies used to work prior to the outsourcing garbage in IT, and blue collar work in the 80's and 90's.
I wouldn't be surprised if some taxi companies have arbitration clauses, but they may not need them because of other dodges common in the industry.
This is a US-centric thing of course, and not all of the US.
Have you ever wondered what your insurance coverage is as a taxi passenger? Chances are, very little
Varies by state, province, etc. In North America most require a minimum of 500k in liability per-passenger carried in the vehicle, there's a few states where it's as low as $100k.
Given that kind of structure, it's not hard to shift profits away from the corporation that owns the taxi you're riding in, so that there are no assets to cover any kind of compensatory award against them.
This is called evasion of liability, and doesn't really happen anymore - mainly because it's illegal in nearly every US state. Funny enough this started out in the trucking industry with big fleets, it was the taxi companies that followed it. You're actually more likely to be monumentally fucked if you head to a convention, and have half the building fall on you. Now there's a spot where the laws haven't caught up yet.
Make it illegal to avoid class action suits in contracts.
Outside of the US it's already illegal. The real question you should be asking is why various states allow the waiving of rights and options in a contract.
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Anti-harassment wasn't the reason. That group is there to administer the code of conduct as well as deal with harassment.
Weren't you just saying that code of conduct, and the witch hunting against developers by CoC's wouldn't happen? Pretty sure you did, not less then 7mo ago. Ah yes, the modern SJW. If you like tits, you're a misogynist. Also if you don't like tits or words with similar meanings, you're a women hater and a misogynist. Yes, brilliant. So offended not only will they go out of their way to change something, but toss the authoritarian hat into the arena and try to force what you're doing to change as well.
On the other hand, it does fit perfectly with the "takes one to know one" theory...
Or the old 'every center of power creates it's own monster that fuels it's demise' to paraphrase.
Very funny. Coming from the same company that has been hit repeatedly for anti-competitive behavior, price fixing, and anti-trust actions against a competitor(AMD) and lost every case.
Gets worse, in most provinces the company can apply for a permit to work you over 40hrs/week and preemptively pay a fine at a lower rate. BC and Ontario were the two provinces that led the way on this.
Do the RCMP have detectives and people who fill out all their paperwork for them while they smoke a pipe and mumble at evidence?
No the RCMP doesn't have detectives, they have inspectors. Same with other police services and forces in Canada. Paperwork though accounts for between 40-70% of your job as a cop these days in Canada though.
Yeah just watch out for things like firefighting and policing, which is where this brainwave is currently heading as well. Every police service that I know of in Ontario that's tried it, has had massive screwups, jumps in complaints, more gun-draw incidents, and so on. The brain only handles working for so long before you start screwing up rather hard. Luckily, most realize how bad of a screwup it really is. Sadly a friend of mine who's currently in Division E(BC) is stuck in a 4x12(3.5 off) rotation for a year because of a lack of available mounties(RCMP). He's better off then some people who get remote locations and their RCMP jail is also in their house.
Well I'm fairly certain Canada only has about 100 people, all of whom live either in Vancouver or Toronto - and Vancouver is also in the Pacific Northwest.
It's really closer to 1000, I should know. I run the largest dairy up here, gotta tell you though it's a real bitch shipping milk in plastic bags from Ontario to British Columbia, then putting them into plastic and paper cartons.
You sure you don't live in Canada? 'Cause that's pretty normal around here for pretty much any type of spectacle like this. Northern Lights as far down south as the central US? Overcast Canada. Comet's and shooting stars? Overcast. Stargazing on a hot summer night? Sorry it's muggy, and the approaching front will cause it to piss down rain. Oh, and snow. The only time I remember it not being like that, is when they said Haley's Comet was going to be this great gigantic spectacle and would glow like the heavens(still got the Time magazine article on that one). Barely a blip in the sky.
Yeah bullshit. There is nothing advertiser unfriendly about This Old Tony, ABom79 and so on.
You should let youtube know, obviously your understanding of what's "advertiser friendly" is far more reaching.
The ones that are advertiser unfriendly are not because of the shop stuff, it's because of what they say. In fact it seems a good guess that AvE intantionally says things to demonetise his videos given what he's said about in the past.
So how about clive's channel? Oh...right, it must be because he's critical of shitty product design right, and the companies file copyright strikes against him.
So take your endless stream of paranoid drivel elsewhere.
Maybe it's time for you simply to grow up, and stop jamming your head into your ass?
Liks Alex Jones, that wll known centrist.
You mean like Styxhexenhammer666? Or Razorfist? Or Tim Pool? Chris Ray Gun? Mans1ay3r? Kadokawa? Laci Green?
Yes, I think it is time for you to take your head out of your ass.
I'll bet in 20 years, people will still be using the remote for their tv.
I'll bet in 5 years, your TV will automatically sync and install their app for you to your cellphone for you.
Would be nice if they included some really cool and interesting stuff, like some of the more niche channels. Show us some wood/metalworking stuff instead of 50 different Fortnight clips.
Those metal and woodworking is advertiser unfriendly so those channels got demonitized beside channels for gear heads, hobby shooters(of everything from BB guns to high power pistols and rifles), center and right wing political commentators first and so on.
So you'll take your fortnight clips and like it.
Ah...Alexa start the Matrix and kill all humans.
Tablets did not replace the PC. Smartphones did.
Smartphones didn't either. PC's still carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, it's only the small and trivial things that are carried by smaller devices. In many cases, they've also replaced ye olde remote for *insert media device here.* And no, you won't be able to play Doom Eternal or Assassins Creed Odyssey on your phone, but you might be able to play Diablo, providing of course it doesn't milk you for your credit card in the first 18 seconds.
Ever hear of Desura? Yeah, they offered basically the same 90/10 split. They don't exist anymore, and were supposedly the big up and comer and whatnot. In JP game markets, the opposite applies, it's 10/90 for titles under $5. Which dissuades fly-by-night and shitty developers from making a game that operates at the bare minimum.
I keep wondering if it is marketing that makes these cycles or some new guy gets eureka moment - "VR that is the future!"
Both. It's the same thing with stereoscopic movies, then 3D movies in various lens colours and so on. The whole big VR craze just smelled like the stuff back in the 90's, with all the same talking points. "It's the future, it's great, you'll love it." Followed by the various shilling of it and attacking detractors because of the continuing flaws.
So what are YOU doing to negate the affects of supposed man-made climate change?
The same thing that any rational person who believes in the betterment of civilization believes. Demand more nuclear power plants, improvements in nuclear energy, and promotion of a global grid of HVDC power transfer. Unfortunately, the environuts, NIMBY's, anti-development idiots have been protesting against that for the last 40 years.
Have you given up your modern super-consumer-consumption-of-everyting-plastic 2018 lifestyle to live a more sustainable life like people did in the 1950s or earlier?
LOL. Holy fuck, buddy, friend, pal, guy. People prior to the 1950's didn't live a sustainable lifestyle. When resources were expended to the point that it was no longer sustainable we either packed up and moved(or cities/towns died), or we started mass importing them as much as possible. I mean it's fun to pretend that the world prior to the 1950's was this eco-harmony of bullshit or whatever, but there's a reason cedar trees were mass-cut down in Lebanon. Why there's gigantic swaths of forest that haven't recovered from the big ship building era ~500 years ago either. Funny enough it was that era of shipbuilding that enabled some of the greatest leaps in sustainable forestry.
Anyway, I'm not disagreeing with your point. Most people who engage in this environmental fervor aren't any different then the people who loved the olde opiate of the masses(state religion(s)). They've simply replaced one for the other, believe that they can absolve their sins by throwing money at a cause and/or telling people that they need to follow the examples of xyz 5600BC culture that has a maximum size of 183 people. Doesn't matter if you're assholes like Al Gore, David Suzuki or Bono(who don't follow what they preach) acting as the great priests and gospels of the new religion. Your actions can be forgiven as long as you promote the ideology and dogma.
That's the problem with the majority of climate change proponents. They are all talk and no action. They loudly scream and yell how climate change affects must be mitigated, but refuse to do anything about it because don't want to give up their cushy modern lifestyle. At least the adamant deniers aren't being hypocrites.
Well I believe that the "danger" is vastly overstated, that of course is because of ~50 years of 'the sky is falling' bullshit, and that's likely where a lot of other people come in. And I shouldn't forget that I live in a place where they keep screeching that "everything will be worse!" and "doom doom doom doom dooooooooooommmmmmm" everything will die! And the reality on the ground is actually different, not counting parts where humans were the result of various things being killed off or nearly killed off in the first place. You know like Monarch butterflies, which everyone screeches that their numbers are so low because of herbicides, pesticides and what not. When the actual answer is far simpler, governments introduced laws mandating the destruction of milkweed because it's poisonous and was declared a 'noxious weed' and even telling people to cut it down/pull it up to stop it from spreading. Ontario was really good at this, ~15 years of declaring it a weed effectively wiped out 90% of the population by our own actions - despite people stating this was a really fucking dumb move.
To be realistic, if you want to make a truly fundamental impact on the world time to dust off your hands because that means a bunch of shit that'll be nasty. Everything from 3rd world intervention and uplifting large swaths of the planet to the same standards, to mass education, development plans and the crushing or full rewrite of cultures that hold expendability as a sign of success. I have no interest in giving up my cushy modern lifestyle though, dusting off a history book and reading 'and jimmy tilled the 10 acres fields with his hand plow for 3 weeks before planting while the ground was partially frozen' leaves me with no interest in that. Especially when you can do 300 acres in a couple of days with modern equipment.
Oh but it does. It prevents Western governments and corporations from stripping away absolutely all the labor rights acquired in the nineteen century, and that allowed a middle class to grow; which is the way that communism has always worked.
Well that sure explains why all of those leftwing groups that promote it, are going out of their way to bring everyone down to the same level of misery.
Computer hardware was still scary back then. We could have bought a 3.3V 486 (DX/4 100, DX/4 120) and put it in the 5V motherboard, to great prejudice. Not that I knew. Someone DID this, not in the same decade so he had fun watching it burn. It still worked after putting the original CPU back anyhow.
Yep, remember a lot of that. I also remember the "volt down" period in the mid-to-late 90's when things went from 5v dimm slots to 3.3v, and in some really screwed up cases 4v. I didn't find computer hardware scary, more that there was so many requirements to "get it to work" I'd line it up with the first cars in terms of complexity. When it worked, it worked well. Hell, when was the last time you needed to use jumpers, dips witches, or break out cross-board jumper wires in order to make hardware work. Nowadays, if a $50k rack dies, I pull it out and slap a new one in. The software does everything to bring it back online and nobody even notices that something happened. ~30 years ago, someone bumping the table could cause a HDD to 'skip' and lose it's seek and would bring down every term-PS/2 hooked up to it. 20 years ago, a 200Mhz IBM server with 64MB of ECC ram, was over $7000 and the hot-swapable SCSI drives were $3500/pop.
I'm continuously amazed at just how far things have come since even the days of the Vic 20's, recording data on cassette tapes, and $7600 10MB HDD's.
Actually worse then that. Nearly all "local" newspapers are owned by the same gigantic media company, not only are local stories near to non-existent, but you can buy your local paper, and the major newspaper in another city 30km or 400km away. And they'll both have the same articles in it. The news media became a self-fulfilling failure because of two things, they cut the hell out of local reporters and relied heavily on wire services for the news, because they believed that international news was more important then what's going on in your own backyard. Didn't hear about the pyromaniac, or their description, or where they were burning shit in your own town/city/etc? Not a surprise wasn't in the paper, wasn't on the radio, wasn't on TV either. But it was in some shitty little local blog, that someone runs as a hobby because they ran into the same problem, and decided to do something about it.
If I want to find out what's actually going on, listening to the town/cities radio station will be more helpful but not always. It's far worse with say broadcast media. Growing up, I used to watch CTV-CKCO(Kitchener, Ontario), lot of the big names that ended up in national news service for the 11pm CTV National got their start there. Now? It might have 3 minutes of local news, 28 minutes of wire stories, 5 minutes for the weather and the rest is either commercials or national sports(NHL/CFL/etc), and not even local leagues like the OHL(Ontario regional hockey) anymore. And they keep pushing more of it, more national and less local. And wonder why 95% of their viewership has disappeared in the last 20 years.
Yep, it was the novell ipx driver. Got a 3.5" disk with that critter downstairs. Remember all those hours you spent trying to cram basic drivers below the 640KB line and then force other things into high memory, but still reserving enough space to play the game? 4MB of memory...what a shit show. Now we worry about computers that don't have 8GB or 16GB as standard for simple desktop, and games that are 50GB-100GB in size.
The professional programmers wanted the difficulty level reduced. Because they didn't have the time to study for the tests or work on the projects. You can only do that so many times, before the tests become totally meaningless.
I've heard something similar from one of my law professors, when a student asked the same question. His answer basically boiled down to two points, if you're any good at your job you can write a question that both those of basic knowledge(i.e. starters) and those who are coming back for recert/course preliminaries are able to answer. This of course requires two things, you know your students and you have an understanding of their level of knowledge allowing you to mark the answers accordingly. If however the university/tech school/etc has 250 people in a lecture hall or 100 people in a classroom, your ability to properly mark people by their answers is drastically diminished.
He pointed out that this is one of the big problems with modern education and "jamming so many warm bodies through" that only either the worst, or brightest students stand out in your mind.
You're not fooling anybody. You can invent all the "critical thinking" hypotheticals you want Mashiki, but white boys shouting "Jews will not replace us" and murdering people aren't "two people peacefully discussing racism" as you keep crying about.
Don't worry, when you're arrested and charged for using the wrong gender pronouns, you'll be wondering where your free speech went.
That's why standardized testing exists.
Standardized testing in nearly all cases is simply the regurgitating of information to see if you remember what you've been told. I've been back to university in the last 6 years for law, psychiatry and various legal courses. The only tests that I came across that required "understanding and thinking" were the courses in law which required you to reference, understand, and be able to explain your answer.(eg, a man is walking down the street and encounters two men in a discussion in a public place. He calls the police, and claims that the two people are using hate speech and targeting minorities. You're sent to investigate the crime, and find that it's two people peacefully arguing racism, various methods racist groups have used to target others, statements by people who've been found guilty of various 'CHRA rulings' and so on. Is this "public incitement of hate speech per CC 219(1)). Short answer is no, as the discussion of a topic even in public, is not incitement to hate per CC 219(3)(b). Open book exams are probably some of the most difficult if the course requires lateral and abstract thinking to solve an issue. But anyone can pass a 400 page multiple choice test if they showed up and were a warm body in a chair.
It reminded me of two things. First my apprenticeship when I got my gas engine and diesel certs at the same time. It was learned knowledge plus the application of experience, and given diagnostic information to determine the problem - then fix it. The other was the applied mathematics courses in university which required you to "know your shit" to give an answer. Repeating memorized formulas will only get you so far if you fail to understand what you're trying to do. A friend of my sisters is a pharmacist(they have to go back to school every few years for re-certification), it was all memorization and no abstract thinking on drug interactions for instance. However, her original pharmacist certification required more then rote memorization to get you through the testing, as you have to understand how various drugs interact and so on.
A 4.0 GPA in many places is worth absolutely zero. True in the US as it is in Canada. There's a big problem where "high GPA's" are used as incentives for schools to get more funding, so they shave the odds to make more kids get to that level. Reality is, education is very close to a diploma mill status from high school through to university. Which is why there's been an upswing in companies hiring kids clean out of high school, seeing if they're a good fit, and training them for the job(and sending them to technical colleges that have hands-on training and so on) and allowing upward motion through the company. You know like how companies used to work prior to the outsourcing garbage in IT, and blue collar work in the 80's and 90's.
I wouldn't be surprised if some taxi companies have arbitration clauses, but they may not need them because of other dodges common in the industry.
This is a US-centric thing of course, and not all of the US.
Have you ever wondered what your insurance coverage is as a taxi passenger? Chances are, very little
Varies by state, province, etc. In North America most require a minimum of 500k in liability per-passenger carried in the vehicle, there's a few states where it's as low as $100k.
Given that kind of structure, it's not hard to shift profits away from the corporation that owns the taxi you're riding in, so that there are no assets to cover any kind of compensatory award against them.
This is called evasion of liability, and doesn't really happen anymore - mainly because it's illegal in nearly every US state. Funny enough this started out in the trucking industry with big fleets, it was the taxi companies that followed it. You're actually more likely to be monumentally fucked if you head to a convention, and have half the building fall on you. Now there's a spot where the laws haven't caught up yet.
Make it illegal to avoid class action suits in contracts.
Outside of the US it's already illegal. The real question you should be asking is why various states allow the waiving of rights and options in a contract.