If you believe in evolution, then you also believe capitalism works.
Evolution is brutal though. It works by the weakest members of the population dying before they can reproduce. Okay, it's a bit more complicated but it's not a process that produces good outcomes for a lot of individuals.
That's why most capitalist societies also have regulation and welfare.
I suppose you could say that capitalism is the baseline, a system that works but which is not very desirable.
e.g. the EU mandating GSM
Actually a great counter example. We don't have the horrendous network lock-in that the US does. European phones are more compatible with the rest of the world. In the US capitalism found the best way to screw the customer and maximise profits, not the best technical solution.
If you want the best tech then Japan and South Korea are both heavily regulated but also way ahead of Europe and the US.
It means that Microsoft is willing to share data with the Chinese government, and to implement their filters (you can't turn safe search off). As you allude to, Microsoft knows that this information is used for oppression.
Google has a lot more to lose as well. All the Android phones in China have the Google services removed because they don't work, and replaced with local ones like Baidu. Microsoft's mobile OS is dead anyway.
You know that when you make an ad-hominem attack on a comedian who says unkind things about Mr. Trump you are basically signalling to the world that you've lost the argument and this is all you have left.
Oliver's new season started last night. Haven't seen it yet but I'm guessing you don't have any specific criticisms of its content.
Sweden agreed to take people from other EU countries, as part of an EU plan to lessen the burden on those countries that are geographically close to the problem by distributing the refugees.
If the EU didn't try to do this then the frontier countries would just hand those people visas and tell them to leave for other EU countries anyway, and it would be chaotic and create huge problems. It's not been perfect but it's been far better than it would have been if they had done nothing.
You're assuming that you can just take any particular person and turn them into a doctor, engineer, or other highly skilled profession.
No, quite the opposite. To create the most doctors and engineers we need to give everyone the opportunity to have a university level education, and not write them off too early if they happen to have a bad couple of years at school.
Subsidizing degrees in philosophy, art history, religious studies, etc. is not going to provide the taxpayer with a good return on their investment.
Only if you consider anything non-technical to be worthless. Personally I don't want to live in a cultureless, philistine society. And actually these days a large part of the UK economy is creative services. It's going to have to grow massively too because we are about to lose more manufacturing and financial services.
"Arts" in English refers to science and engineering too. That meaning is less common today but the RSA was founded in the 1750s. In fact it's full name is the "Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce."
They should be popular with the Slashdot crowd, having previously worked on projects like re-thinking intellectual property rights from first principals. Their membership includes Tim Berners-Lee and Steven Hawking.
They are a wood product manufacturing company. This model is quite common with Japanese companies too.
Set a high, long term goal and work towards it. The innovations and new ideas that come from the work keep the company at the forefront of the market. After all, there are plenty of other companies making wood products (or steel, or cars, or soft drinks or whatever) and overheads are low in China, so having a better product is the only way to compete.
The goal here is to produce new building materials out of wood that rival steel, concrete, plastics etc. Some already exist but more work is needed to commercialize them, get costs down and get architects and builders used to working with them.
short men are fine asking tall women out and that women are NOT OK with it
Is that true though? I know a few people who demonstrate otherwise, but of course that's not data. Is there any statistical evidence?
Being tall tends to give people an advantage in almost every aspect of life (except flying) so I do wonder if any observable trend is more related to that.
We need a lot of graduates. There are skills shortages. Okay, there are problems with employers not wanting to pay enough, but at the same time if the available supply is too expensive to make the business case for hiring... And especially in the UK we want to stop most of the immigration so can't rely on that.
We also can't expect children to make great life decisions at that age, and can't realistically expect them to dedicate years of their lives to subjects they have little interest in. That's not necessarily a problem if we recognize that a philosophy degree is valuable for the skills it teaches - writing, rhetoric, self study, time management, project management, self motivation. Being able to convey ideas and convince people of your arguments is a pretty useful skill in many businesses.
Education is a lot like infrastructure. Universal service is a good thing, we want everyone to be able to get post or have a phone or have access to a public road, within reason. If our society becomes about nothing more than the corporate bottom line it will be even more awful than it is already.
They need to accept that it takes six months after you hire someone for them to learn the company systems, full any gaps in their knowledge and become the employee that the company wants.
It's often just a scam to drive wages down. Ridiculous requirements that no candidate can meet, so they can advertise a good salary but offer you a much lower one.
If you are a junior dev you can just apply for the more senior stuff on this assumption. That's how I got started.
The problem is people not having enough opportunity to socialize. Online dating is a time saving measure, but it makes the effort required so low that we get the problems you describe.
As well as a lack of time, there is a lack of venues. Lots of places to drink, but that isn't really what you want for a serious relationship.
This is definitely a cultural problem. For example, in Japan it's going the other way, with some guys deciding they are happy without a girlfriend and women but being able to find a partner. They are trying nerd friendly social events as a solution, and women's magazines that explain nerd culture etc.
In my experience most companies have an idea of what a job is worth. How much value it adds to the company. To an extent you can negotiate and maybe offer them something extra that justifies more money, but if they need a front end web developer it doesn't matter how much experience you have they ain't gonna pay embedded developer salary.
What you are talking about seems to have no relation to anything in the CoC. Can you give a specific example of something in the CoC that might cause these issues?
If your biggest argument against not mis-gendering someone or using their dead name is that occasionally you have to learn a new word... I mean, are you arguing that language should never change or evolve, or do you just not like respecting someone's wishes about their identity?
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If you believe in evolution, then you also believe capitalism works.
Evolution is brutal though. It works by the weakest members of the population dying before they can reproduce. Okay, it's a bit more complicated but it's not a process that produces good outcomes for a lot of individuals.
That's why most capitalist societies also have regulation and welfare.
I suppose you could say that capitalism is the baseline, a system that works but which is not very desirable.
e.g. the EU mandating GSM
Actually a great counter example. We don't have the horrendous network lock-in that the US does. European phones are more compatible with the rest of the world. In the US capitalism found the best way to screw the customer and maximise profits, not the best technical solution.
If you want the best tech then Japan and South Korea are both heavily regulated but also way ahead of Europe and the US.
It means that Microsoft is willing to share data with the Chinese government, and to implement their filters (you can't turn safe search off). As you allude to, Microsoft knows that this information is used for oppression.
Google has a lot more to lose as well. All the Android phones in China have the Google services removed because they don't work, and replaced with local ones like Baidu. Microsoft's mobile OS is dead anyway.
You know that when you make an ad-hominem attack on a comedian who says unkind things about Mr. Trump you are basically signalling to the world that you've lost the argument and this is all you have left.
Oliver's new season started last night. Haven't seen it yet but I'm guessing you don't have any specific criticisms of its content.
Sweden agreed to take people from other EU countries, as part of an EU plan to lessen the burden on those countries that are geographically close to the problem by distributing the refugees.
If the EU didn't try to do this then the frontier countries would just hand those people visas and tell them to leave for other EU countries anyway, and it would be chaotic and create huge problems. It's not been perfect but it's been far better than it would have been if they had done nothing.
You're assuming that you can just take any particular person and turn them into a doctor, engineer, or other highly skilled profession.
No, quite the opposite. To create the most doctors and engineers we need to give everyone the opportunity to have a university level education, and not write them off too early if they happen to have a bad couple of years at school.
Subsidizing degrees in philosophy, art history, religious studies, etc. is not going to provide the taxpayer with a good return on their investment.
Only if you consider anything non-technical to be worthless. Personally I don't want to live in a cultureless, philistine society. And actually these days a large part of the UK economy is creative services. It's going to have to grow massively too because we are about to lose more manufacturing and financial services.
"Arts" in English refers to science and engineering too. That meaning is less common today but the RSA was founded in the 1750s. In fact it's full name is the "Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce."
They should be popular with the Slashdot crowd, having previously worked on projects like re-thinking intellectual property rights from first principals. Their membership includes Tim Berners-Lee and Steven Hawking.
They are a wood product manufacturing company. This model is quite common with Japanese companies too.
Set a high, long term goal and work towards it. The innovations and new ideas that come from the work keep the company at the forefront of the market. After all, there are plenty of other companies making wood products (or steel, or cars, or soft drinks or whatever) and overheads are low in China, so having a better product is the only way to compete.
The goal here is to produce new building materials out of wood that rival steel, concrete, plastics etc. Some already exist but more work is needed to commercialize them, get costs down and get architects and builders used to working with them.
Bing works in China. Google is blocked. That should tell you something.
If you want to de-google then it doesn't make much sense to run to someone just as bad. Try DuckDuckGo or similar perhaps.
That sounds seriously unpleasant.
It's a lot easier and less messy if you use a spoon.
short men are fine asking tall women out and that women are NOT OK with it
Is that true though? I know a few people who demonstrate otherwise, but of course that's not data. Is there any statistical evidence?
Being tall tends to give people an advantage in almost every aspect of life (except flying) so I do wonder if any observable trend is more related to that.
I don't see how sandbagging people with 10,000 lbs is going to help anyone.
Presumably the editors couldn't figure out how to type a £ symbol on Slashdot.
English citizens don't have guns. What are they going to do?
Same thing as American citizens are gonna do when their rifles come up against an A1 Abrams tank or an F35 dropped laser guided bomb.
I.e. realize that armed uprising hasn't been viable for at least 100 years.
We need a lot of graduates. There are skills shortages. Okay, there are problems with employers not wanting to pay enough, but at the same time if the available supply is too expensive to make the business case for hiring... And especially in the UK we want to stop most of the immigration so can't rely on that.
We also can't expect children to make great life decisions at that age, and can't realistically expect them to dedicate years of their lives to subjects they have little interest in. That's not necessarily a problem if we recognize that a philosophy degree is valuable for the skills it teaches - writing, rhetoric, self study, time management, project management, self motivation. Being able to convey ideas and convince people of your arguments is a pretty useful skill in many businesses.
Education is a lot like infrastructure. Universal service is a good thing, we want everyone to be able to get post or have a phone or have access to a public road, within reason. If our society becomes about nothing more than the corporate bottom line it will be even more awful than it is already.
Actually it's a very well respected organization that has done a lot to improve Britain over the centuries (it was founded in 1754).
They need to accept that it takes six months after you hire someone for them to learn the company systems, full any gaps in their knowledge and become the employee that the company wants.
It's often just a scam to drive wages down. Ridiculous requirements that no candidate can meet, so they can advertise a good salary but offer you a much lower one.
If you are a junior dev you can just apply for the more senior stuff on this assumption. That's how I got started.
The problem is people not having enough opportunity to socialize. Online dating is a time saving measure, but it makes the effort required so low that we get the problems you describe.
As well as a lack of time, there is a lack of venues. Lots of places to drink, but that isn't really what you want for a serious relationship.
This is definitely a cultural problem. For example, in Japan it's going the other way, with some guys deciding they are happy without a girlfriend and women but being able to find a partner. They are trying nerd friendly social events as a solution, and women's magazines that explain nerd culture etc.
I'm not going to an interview before we have at least a preliminary conversation about salary.
In my experience most companies have an idea of what a job is worth. How much value it adds to the company. To an extent you can negotiate and maybe offer them something extra that justifies more money, but if they need a front end web developer it doesn't matter how much experience you have they ain't gonna pay embedded developer salary.
So... Your are even more of an arsehole to people you know? You treat them worse than strangers... Do you have many friends?
What you are talking about seems to have no relation to anything in the CoC. Can you give a specific example of something in the CoC that might cause these issues?
Equal rights is a much better definition that covers the entire spectrum including ethnic issues regardless of gender.
That's what intersectional feminism is.
That's interesting. I shall do more research, thanks.
"intentionally"
"threatens"
"believe on reasonable grounds"
Sounds pretty subjective to me.
If your biggest argument against not mis-gendering someone or using their dead name is that occasionally you have to learn a new word... I mean, are you arguing that language should never change or evolve, or do you just not like respecting someone's wishes about their identity?