Exactly, if you refuse to learn the language you will be at a significant disadvantage. Languages aren't secret, anyone can learn. If you live in a country you should learn the primary language spoken there as well as you can, so you can communicate on a native level without misunderstanding.
Same with culture, if you reject the local culture you will be at a severe disadvantage because you'll be far less able to socialise and you'll cast yourself as an outsider.
This isn't discrimination, it's people choosing to isolate themselves and then wondering why they don't get included and end up falling behind.
If you join in and socialise you'll be included and get to know people, you'll discover opportunities to learn and better yourself as well as make useful contacts. People will get to know and like you, they'll learn your strengths and recommend your work to others, they'll talk with you about their experience which you can learn from, you can share tips and tricks of the trade. This is all extremely important in most areas of employment, it helps you improve your craft, learn from your peers and gain friends in the industry.
If you keep to yourself, you won't benefit from any of this and you'll fall behind.
Western countries have a significantly different culture and history to asian countries, and yet asians are able to adapt and flourish.
Irrespective of your reason for being in a country, you should take advantage of whatever opportunities that country offers. If you choose to reject these opportunities and sulk about it then that's your own fault and you deserve no sympathy.
History is just that, what's important is the present and the future.
If your culture prevents you from taking advantage of opportunities available to you then it's destructive and needs to be changed, but the problem is with you not with the country.
In many cases people move to western countries to achieve a better quality of life and gain access to better opportunities. A big part of the reason why such opportunities are available is because of the culture, if you want to change these countries to be more like the one you came from then you're also destroying the reasons why you came in the first place.
Yes, while the costs are high manufacturers are usually unscrupulous and the motivations are tilted towards profit and away from actually helping anyone, so research is aimed at more profitable drugs (ie someone has to keep taking it rather than providing a cure)...
So have research done by government and charity, with pharmaceutical companies only allowed to perform the physical manufacturing. You could also encourage more collaboration so research could be pooled rather than wasteful parallel research conducted by competing companies.
Profit seeking and healthcare are not really compatible, and without regulation you end up with the illegal drug market where the goal is to get people addicted.
because our community is vigilant and engaged so much so that threat actors aren't enticed to even attack us."
Real hackers will see a vigilant and engaged target as more of a challenge...
Criminals won't care so long as there's still some kind of payoff. If you want to be less attractive to criminals, turn canada into a poor third world country. Criminals won't bother to attack someone who hasn't got any money, bandwidth or processing power.
Pharmaceutical patents often result in death and suffering where patients who could have benefitted from a treatment are unable to afford it, but would have been able to afford a generic version sold for a much lower price.
Sure it does.. If discrimination against non whites was the primary cause of non whites being less successful, then this same effect would also occur against asians as they are also not white.
The fact is asians are often more successful than whites, therefore discrimination against non-whites cannot be a significant factor.
Those shows by definition are showing the people who got caught, who are therefore the most stupid of criminals, or people who are just stupid (ie they weren't actually intending to do anything illegal)...
Illegal drugs are widely available in AU/NZ, so clearly criminals are getting them into the country and doing so without being detected. The vast majority of criminals are not stupid, and are not getting caught.
But trying to smuggle a physical item is very different from carrying a device containing digital data. There's absolutely no need to carry data over the border, you can carry a clean device across the border and then download anything you want later.
All this does is disrupt legitimate travellers who have genuine need to carry such devices.
Any serious criminal is going to be prepared for this... they will travel with devices containing nothing but a fresh install and download any data they want over an encrypted channel using the first internet connection they gain access to.
Also, what assurances do you have that the government will be able to keep your data secure and not leak it somehow?
The difference is that sons have been brought up from a young age to take on these hereditary roles, whereas daughters typically have not. If you want to change this then you have to do it while the daughters are still young so they can have years preparing, otherwise they will be less well prepared than the sons.
Given that women generally don't aim for certain kinds of roles, don't study for them and don't generally apply for them, this could very well result in someone incompetent being hired.
The law says you *MUST* hire a woman, if there are no competent women available then you still have to hire one, thus you will end up with an incompetent one.
Cause and effect... Any non trivial job requires education and training, if a majority of the people who have undertaken such education and training relevant for a given position happen to be straight white dudes then those straight white dudes will be objectively superior to anyone else (including other straight white dudes) who have not undertaken the same education.
If you want others to be qualified then you can't take shortcuts, they have to undergo the same education as the current straight white dudes have - assuming they even want to.
But how about a counter example, various sports such as athletics are dominated by black dudes (sexual preference not known). They are objectively superior at those sports, are you saying that the rules of these sports should be changed to enforce equality in sports?
Men in general are also usually superior at sports, and women usually compete separately from men because they are physically unable to compete directly against men.
Asians are more likely to enroll at college, and more likely to succeed there. Asians are a minority in the US and other western countries, and yet they are highly successful.
The success of asians shows that there is no inherent discrimination by whites against minorities, if that were the case then asians wouldn't be doing well either. The fact is opportunities are there for everyone, and it is these other minority groups which are failing to grasp them - in many cases because their culture and attitude is self destructive.
The same can be said of the world in general. While many white countries are leading world powers either economically or militarily, several asian countries are up there too but there are no african countries of any great significant on the world stage. There are also many small and insignificant white countries.
Laws such as this not only don't eliminate discrimination, they directly cause it. Companies will now be forced to appoint women to the board even if there are no qualified women available, and they will have to do this by discriminating against any qualified men who were available. If there are qualified women available then they would have been appointed anyway:
A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards
Even without being forced to do so, it seems these companies already appoint women to their boards if female candidates are available and suitably qualified.
Only the workplace will rarely reflect the diversity in the wider community... Different jobs attract different people, and it has a lot to do with how people were raised. Those who had an interest in technology when growing up will probably work in technology related fields for instance.
The fact is, part of the diversity of a community is that different people do different jobs.
No we're saying that the best candidates *should* be chosen... The best candidates are often not being chosen currently, and still won't be chosen under these new laws.
For devices such as these there is no health risk of using them, and thus you are free to use them for personal use despite them not being certified. What they won't do is use the resulting data as part of a medical diagnosis.
Sure! Linux is free if your time is free. Or did you mean Free As In Beer? Perhaps you meant Free As In Freedom? Well now we've opened the can of worms for sure, haven't we?
The exact same can be said of windows... If you don't have the skills or the time to invest, then the end result will be unstable and massively insecure. Getting a windows environment running decently and keeping it that way requires a significant investment.
Linux isn't any different, but unlike windows it doesn't pretend to be.
The idea that "linux is free" applies mostly to very large tech companies like amazon and google, they do have the skills to implement linux or windows, yet they choose linux because it scales better both technically and financially.
And, of course, you can script literally anything in Linux. You can't in Windows.
After years of advocating against the CLI, and having products squarely aimed at gui use (even the name windows implies a gui), they are now focusing on powershell - a cli - for their server offerings
Are you advocating that classified information should only be held by native americans? Because everyone else is descended from naturalized immigrants at some point...
Once they're no longer at risk of starvation, the motivation to do anything goes away... You give freebies and people will become lazy, not bother to learn anything and just wait for more freebies.
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Exactly, if you refuse to learn the language you will be at a significant disadvantage. Languages aren't secret, anyone can learn. If you live in a country you should learn the primary language spoken there as well as you can, so you can communicate on a native level without misunderstanding.
Same with culture, if you reject the local culture you will be at a severe disadvantage because you'll be far less able to socialise and you'll cast yourself as an outsider.
This isn't discrimination, it's people choosing to isolate themselves and then wondering why they don't get included and end up falling behind.
If you join in and socialise you'll be included and get to know people, you'll discover opportunities to learn and better yourself as well as make useful contacts. People will get to know and like you, they'll learn your strengths and recommend your work to others, they'll talk with you about their experience which you can learn from, you can share tips and tricks of the trade.
This is all extremely important in most areas of employment, it helps you improve your craft, learn from your peers and gain friends in the industry.
If you keep to yourself, you won't benefit from any of this and you'll fall behind.
No that's exactly the point...
Western countries have a significantly different culture and history to asian countries, and yet asians are able to adapt and flourish.
Irrespective of your reason for being in a country, you should take advantage of whatever opportunities that country offers. If you choose to reject these opportunities and sulk about it then that's your own fault and you deserve no sympathy.
History is just that, what's important is the present and the future.
If your culture prevents you from taking advantage of opportunities available to you then it's destructive and needs to be changed, but the problem is with you not with the country.
In many cases people move to western countries to achieve a better quality of life and gain access to better opportunities. A big part of the reason why such opportunities are available is because of the culture, if you want to change these countries to be more like the one you came from then you're also destroying the reasons why you came in the first place.
Yes, while the costs are high manufacturers are usually unscrupulous and the motivations are tilted towards profit and away from actually helping anyone, so research is aimed at more profitable drugs (ie someone has to keep taking it rather than providing a cure)...
So have research done by government and charity, with pharmaceutical companies only allowed to perform the physical manufacturing. You could also encourage more collaboration so research could be pooled rather than wasteful parallel research conducted by competing companies.
Profit seeking and healthcare are not really compatible, and without regulation you end up with the illegal drug market where the goal is to get people addicted.
because our community is vigilant and engaged so much so that threat actors aren't enticed to even attack us."
Real hackers will see a vigilant and engaged target as more of a challenge...
Criminals won't care so long as there's still some kind of payoff. If you want to be less attractive to criminals, turn canada into a poor third world country. Criminals won't bother to attack someone who hasn't got any money, bandwidth or processing power.
Pharmaceutical patents often result in death and suffering where patients who could have benefitted from a treatment are unable to afford it, but would have been able to afford a generic version sold for a much lower price.
Sure it does..
If discrimination against non whites was the primary cause of non whites being less successful, then this same effect would also occur against asians as they are also not white.
The fact is asians are often more successful than whites, therefore discrimination against non-whites cannot be a significant factor.
Yes, the european powers colonised africa...
They also colonised both north and south america, australia and most of asia and yet these regions seem to be doing much better.
Those shows by definition are showing the people who got caught, who are therefore the most stupid of criminals, or people who are just stupid (ie they weren't actually intending to do anything illegal)...
Illegal drugs are widely available in AU/NZ, so clearly criminals are getting them into the country and doing so without being detected. The vast majority of criminals are not stupid, and are not getting caught.
But trying to smuggle a physical item is very different from carrying a device containing digital data. There's absolutely no need to carry data over the border, you can carry a clean device across the border and then download anything you want later.
Inconvenience for law abiding citizens, extra cost or hassle to wipe when you go and restore a backup once you return.
For criminals, using burner phones is already a standard part of their operation so it's of little or no consequence to them.
All this does is disrupt legitimate travellers who have genuine need to carry such devices.
Any serious criminal is going to be prepared for this... they will travel with devices containing nothing but a fresh install and download any data they want over an encrypted channel using the first internet connection they gain access to.
Also, what assurances do you have that the government will be able to keep your data secure and not leak it somehow?
MacOS doesn't have these services by default, you have to explicitly turn them on...
The difference is that sons have been brought up from a young age to take on these hereditary roles, whereas daughters typically have not. If you want to change this then you have to do it while the daughters are still young so they can have years preparing, otherwise they will be less well prepared than the sons.
Given that women generally don't aim for certain kinds of roles, don't study for them and don't generally apply for them, this could very well result in someone incompetent being hired.
The law says you *MUST* hire a woman, if there are no competent women available then you still have to hire one, thus you will end up with an incompetent one.
Cause and effect...
Any non trivial job requires education and training, if a majority of the people who have undertaken such education and training relevant for a given position happen to be straight white dudes then those straight white dudes will be objectively superior to anyone else (including other straight white dudes) who have not undertaken the same education.
If you want others to be qualified then you can't take shortcuts, they have to undergo the same education as the current straight white dudes have - assuming they even want to.
But how about a counter example, various sports such as athletics are dominated by black dudes (sexual preference not known). They are objectively superior at those sports, are you saying that the rules of these sports should be changed to enforce equality in sports?
Men in general are also usually superior at sports, and women usually compete separately from men because they are physically unable to compete directly against men.
Asians are more likely to enroll at college, and more likely to succeed there.
Asians are a minority in the US and other western countries, and yet they are highly successful.
The success of asians shows that there is no inherent discrimination by whites against minorities, if that were the case then asians wouldn't be doing well either. The fact is opportunities are there for everyone, and it is these other minority groups which are failing to grasp them - in many cases because their culture and attitude is self destructive.
The same can be said of the world in general. While many white countries are leading world powers either economically or militarily, several asian countries are up there too but there are no african countries of any great significant on the world stage. There are also many small and insignificant white countries.
Laws such as this not only don't eliminate discrimination, they directly cause it.
Companies will now be forced to appoint women to the board even if there are no qualified women available, and they will have to do this by discriminating against any qualified men who were available.
If there are qualified women available then they would have been appointed anyway:
A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards
Even without being forced to do so, it seems these companies already appoint women to their boards if female candidates are available and suitably qualified.
Only the workplace will rarely reflect the diversity in the wider community...
Different jobs attract different people, and it has a lot to do with how people were raised. Those who had an interest in technology when growing up will probably work in technology related fields for instance.
The fact is, part of the diversity of a community is that different people do different jobs.
No we're saying that the best candidates *should* be chosen...
The best candidates are often not being chosen currently, and still won't be chosen under these new laws.
For devices such as these there is no health risk of using them, and thus you are free to use them for personal use despite them not being certified. What they won't do is use the resulting data as part of a medical diagnosis.
Sure! Linux is free if your time is free. Or did you mean Free As In Beer? Perhaps you meant Free As In Freedom? Well now we've opened the can of worms for sure, haven't we?
The exact same can be said of windows...
If you don't have the skills or the time to invest, then the end result will be unstable and massively insecure. Getting a windows environment running decently and keeping it that way requires a significant investment.
Linux isn't any different, but unlike windows it doesn't pretend to be.
The idea that "linux is free" applies mostly to very large tech companies like amazon and google, they do have the skills to implement linux or windows, yet they choose linux because it scales better both technically and financially.
And, of course, you can script literally anything in Linux. You can't in Windows.
After years of advocating against the CLI, and having products squarely aimed at gui use (even the name windows implies a gui), they are now focusing on powershell - a cli - for their server offerings
No reason they couldn't improve linux...
Many "bugs" in commercial software are actually just features which serve the purposes of the vendor and are contrary to the needs of the user.
Associating your enemies with a greater common enemy has always been a tactic, the nazis themselves did that too.
Now you have a group of people who are demonising those who simply want to get on with their work, who is the real villain?
Are you advocating that classified information should only be held by native americans? Because everyone else is descended from naturalized immigrants at some point...
Once they're no longer at risk of starvation, the motivation to do anything goes away...
You give freebies and people will become lazy, not bother to learn anything and just wait for more freebies.