All of this rests on the aforementioned War Powers Resolution of 1973, which has never to my knowledge faced a Constitutional challenge. It is not as clearly established as one might think. All Presidents since its passing have used it when it suited them and ignored it when it did not--usually the expiration and reporting clauses.
I find the concept of a multifront over-when-we-say-so-but-could-take-years-so-just-k eep-supporting-us war to be quite horrifying, myself. We should have limited, clearly defined objectives against limited, clearly defined enemies. "All terrorists and their friends" is not a clearly defined enemy, particularly in light of the ludicrous recent attempts to define terrorism.
Hate to break it to you, but in a lot of places, if you can't play politics, it won't matter how good your work is, because no one will ever know about it. I agree that business would be better if people could concentrate on productivity rather than the CYA mentality, but you have to play by the rules of the game you're in. In a lot of places, that means keeping one eye on your work, one eye on your boss, and your back to a wall.
If you think that university needs to teach all those other subjects in first year, then you must be from a country with sub-standard secondary education.
Yeah, the United States of America. I saw truly horrifying ignorance and functional illiteracy from graduating seniors at my 4-year state university--one which has a solid reputation for its teaching program, I might add.
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I find the concept of a multifront over-when-we-say-so-but-could-take-years-so-just-k eep-supporting-us war to be quite horrifying, myself. We should have limited, clearly defined objectives against limited, clearly defined enemies. "All terrorists and their friends" is not a clearly defined enemy, particularly in light of the ludicrous recent attempts to define terrorism.
Hate to break it to you, but in a lot of places, if you can't play politics, it won't matter how good your work is, because no one will ever know about it. I agree that business would be better if people could concentrate on productivity rather than the CYA mentality, but you have to play by the rules of the game you're in. In a lot of places, that means keeping one eye on your work, one eye on your boss, and your back to a wall.
If you think that university needs to teach all those other subjects in first year, then you must be from a country with sub-standard secondary education.
Yeah, the United States of America. I saw truly horrifying ignorance and functional illiteracy from graduating seniors at my 4-year state university--one which has a solid reputation for its teaching program, I might add.
I don't think you can get a hell of a lot more dumbed down than "Professor" Kevin Warwick.
...for the IE problem in the usual places. The linked article says it's not ready, but if you go to the update site, it's there.