Why should oil companies have any responsibilities? They aren't the ones burning the oil. I love to see all these lefties railing against those evil companies, whilst driving around in their oil-powered cars and using products which have been transported by oil.
How about Al Gore makes a film about the hypocricy of environmentalists?
You have a multi-billion dollar cartel suing unemployed people, disabled people, housewives, single mothers, home healthcare aids
This may sound harsh, but how does being any of these things affect whether you should be allowed to infringe copyright? Argue against the copyright system all you want, but don't play the 'little old granny' card: being disabled, single or unemployed doesn't give you a right to piracy.
The rest of the world has 20 times as many people as America, yet only 40% of the 50" plasma TV demand. This means America has over 46 times the demand than outside America. I'd say that counts as virtually nothing.
The illegal recourse is to find and kill the Chinese pirate engineers. The operation should follow the rules of the Korean Special Forces and should leave no trails or traces.
Two years military service doesn't teach you to be an assassin who can kill and leave no trace. It teaches you to run around like a bitch and do pressups like a bitch, but not much else.
There are very few organisations in the world which can kill someone and leave no trace, and Samsung ain't one of them.
What, better than the British? I rather doubt that, mate.
The American documentaries are better in terms of number of commercials, overblown narration, and background music etc. In terms of actual informative content, maybe not.
Wow, I've seen karma whoring by people copying articles, but karma whoring by copy and pasting the previous post? You're taking it to a whole new level.
I can not imagine NOT taking 2-3 weeks off each quarter for a real vacation. What prevents people from doing that?
Not have 12 weeks off a year, never mind the money to go on all those holidays?
What is so important that a vacation would create a risk/reward ratio that is out of whack?
I find that by not going missing for 12 weeks a year I can have this thing called a 'job', which means I can live in a house rather than on the streets, and can eat fresh food rather than out of a dumpster.
Oh and by not spending thousands every year on going away, I can then afford things such as mortgage payments, electricity, clothes, and running water.
Presumably you're in the top 1% of earners and can afford all this, and have a job which allows you all this time off. For 99.9% of the world, it isn't like that. Your post is the modern equivalent of 'let them eat cake'.
$20 won't buy you much anywhere these days, that's not a very good example. Even at average restaurants you're going to pay more than $20 for a decent meal.
Banning such videos from youtube, and electronic devices as whole from schools, is a broad handed tyrannical gesture and an affront to student rights and free speech.
The problem with modern (state funded) schools is that students are considered to have rights. Schooling is far more effective when the only right the students have is to do as they're told.
It may sound harsh but this politically-correct liberal experiment has been a massive failure. You know that old adage that the liberals spout that physically punishing a child teaches it to be violent? Completely untrue in reality.
Why else do you think parents fight to get their kids in religious schools with strict discipline, whereas the soft, coddling schools with no discipline and where the teachers can't even look at the children in the eye without getting sued, are like ghettos?
How about kids actually knowing their place and recognising the authority of the teacher, so the teachers have no reason to yell at them in the first place?
No wonder there's so much anti-social behaviour in society today, kids have grown up with no discipline. The parents won't control them, teachers aren't allowed to control them, and any attempt to discipline them is met with a whining chorus of liberal idiots.
And how many times did you ever go home and tell a parent about how a teacher treated you, and get ignored or dismissed with "They wouldn't do that."
There was a time when you wouldn't dare tell your parents what a teacher did to you, because then your parents would punish you as well. But that was in an era when there was such a thing as 'discipline' and schools were not filled with drugs and violence.
Unfortuanately these days, disciplining children is politically incorrect. After all if you punish the dear things it just teaches them to be violent or some other such bullshit that the hand-wringing liberals like to spout.
I'm amused that someone is so scared of how he could be portrayed by an objective viewfinder
It is not objective when it is edited to remove all context.
but there's no good reason why a teacher should be yelling and carrying on to the point where it looks good on video. There's other more effective ways to reach people, and if you can't figure one of them out then there are other career paths.
Yeah, no reason at all to shout at children. The next time one of the dear little brats is vandalising the desks, swearing at teachers etc, just give him a pat on the head, and recommend him for councilling or some other bullshit, then let him carry on with what he was doing. You wouldn't want to infringe his rights would you?
DAB radio is in much the same boat. The complaints about getting a signal and low quality would go away if DAB could crank it up, spread out a bit and not worry about overriding FM transmitters.
No, the main complains are that they're bulky and expensive. I got a tiny pocket analogue radio years ago for a few pounds. Can you do that with a digital radio? No, the cheapest sell for something like £50 and it's huge.
- Should an employee take a pay cut for something that makes them more productive?
That depends on whether the increased productivity is worth more than the cost of renting and furnishing enough space to put everyone in an office. Bear in mind that a facility with hundreds of private offices will cost a lot more to rent than a plain open space.
Then compare the increased productivity to the reduced productivity of spending five hours a day reading Slashdot because there's a sense of privacy.
At the end of the day, the sort of people who whine that working in a cube hurts their productivity will only find something else to whine about when they get their office. I.e. the view's not interesting enough, it's too cold/warm/dry/humid, there's not enough/too much sunlight, not enough power outlets/they're in the wrong place, it's too far from the toilets etc.
Now how do you explain to the workers the spacial impossibilities of converting a cubes into seperate offices? Perhaps some sort of tardis-style technology?
Using an outdated system or technology to keep people in jobs is Luddism at its worst. Do you have all your cotton spun by hand to keep the cotton spinners in work?
Or if you're buying alcohol (which requires age verification), for example.
Age verification is instant and seamless, someone just presses a button or something. I race through these self-checkouts whilst all the lazy retards stand in lines!
If you are a simple automaton in your job, then *perhaps* you might be able to get away with something like modafinil for short periods of time, but if your job requires thought and the use of memory and higher cognitive function, then you are doing yourself a disservice by taking these drugs.
I am an automaton in a factory. My job is completely mindless and I work with people who should probably be classified as retarded due to decades of doing said mindless work and heavy alcohol consumption. Due to the shift-working nature of my job which destroys my bodyclock, I often suffer from lack of sleep and spend all my waking hours struggling to stay awake.
Err... on the flip side, if you fail to provide an immediate real world use for a concept that has many such, then you are a poor teacher.
A teacher is there to teach things, not to teach things and say where they can be used. Many things don't have any direct real world uses, that doesn't mean they are not worth learning. The job of a student is to absorb information, not to question its value.
Why should a teacher have to stop the lesson every ten minutes to explain to Johnny Retard how a particular equation or law is useful in the real world? It's just holding up the decent students who are there to learn not to be awkward.
Are you really arguing that a "good student" is one who immediately understands all information, regardless of how it's presented?
Let's say someone tells you a + b = c. A good student would learn that and that would be the end of it. If a student failed to learn it, and could only learn it when finding out how a + b = c relates to the real world, then the latter student is a poor student, and probably has learning difficulties.
Education fails when classes are slowed down to cater to the lazy and the stupid.
* forced attendance -- by forcing people to attend, there is no motivation to make the most out of it. There is no real opportunity cost to being in the classroom, making a high percentage of people there unmotivated to learn.
You'll find that in countries with more successful high school systems, they all have forced attendances as well. How do you explain that?
Or can you point me to this utopic country with a brilliant high school system where kids can sit at home playing video games all day if they want?
* lack of content applicability -- most lessons in high school are useless and disconnected from real world applications. They are abstracted and meaningless for students who dont experience how to apply what they learn.
Completely irrelevant. If you fail to learn something because you can't find an immediate real world use for it, then you are a poor student.
The second time they tased him, I would've gotten as many students as I could to slap the idiot about the face and shout 'what are you playing you fucking idiot?', then drag him up and throw him out the building.
It's obviously this guy just wanted martyrdom, and people like you are just giving him the attention he wants. He's like a grown-up version of the kid who screams on the supermarket floor because he can't have a chocolate bar.
For some awkward people, brutality is the only thing which will make them see sense. If the coppers had been all kind and understanding, the Iranian would still be lying on the floor now screaming.
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Why should oil companies have any responsibilities? They aren't the ones burning the oil. I love to see all these lefties railing against those evil companies, whilst driving around in their oil-powered cars and using products which have been transported by oil.
How about Al Gore makes a film about the hypocricy of environmentalists?
This may sound harsh, but how does being any of these things affect whether you should be allowed to infringe copyright? Argue against the copyright system all you want, but don't play the 'little old granny' card: being disabled, single or unemployed doesn't give you a right to piracy.
The rest of the world has 20 times as many people as America, yet only 40% of the 50" plasma TV demand. This means America has over 46 times the demand than outside America. I'd say that counts as virtually nothing.
Two years military service doesn't teach you to be an assassin who can kill and leave no trace. It teaches you to run around like a bitch and do pressups like a bitch, but not much else.
There are very few organisations in the world which can kill someone and leave no trace, and Samsung ain't one of them.
No, imprisonment for tax evasion is the next logical step.
The American documentaries are better in terms of number of commercials, overblown narration, and background music etc. In terms of actual informative content, maybe not.
4% of people who drive cars don't die in accidents.
Wow, I've seen karma whoring by people copying articles, but karma whoring by copy and pasting the previous post? You're taking it to a whole new level.
If a computer can't play it then it's not much use for the 80 year old disabled gamer is it?
I find that by not going missing for 12 weeks a year I can have this thing called a 'job', which means I can live in a house rather than on the streets, and can eat fresh food rather than out of a dumpster.
Oh and by not spending thousands every year on going away, I can then afford things such as mortgage payments, electricity, clothes, and running water.
Presumably you're in the top 1% of earners and can afford all this, and have a job which allows you all this time off. For 99.9% of the world, it isn't like that. Your post is the modern equivalent of 'let them eat cake'.
$20 won't buy you much anywhere these days, that's not a very good example. Even at average restaurants you're going to pay more than $20 for a decent meal.
The problem with modern (state funded) schools is that students are considered to have rights. Schooling is far more effective when the only right the students have is to do as they're told.
It may sound harsh but this politically-correct liberal experiment has been a massive failure. You know that old adage that the liberals spout that physically punishing a child teaches it to be violent? Completely untrue in reality.
Why else do you think parents fight to get their kids in religious schools with strict discipline, whereas the soft, coddling schools with no discipline and where the teachers can't even look at the children in the eye without getting sued, are like ghettos?
No wonder there's so much anti-social behaviour in society today, kids have grown up with no discipline. The parents won't control them, teachers aren't allowed to control them, and any attempt to discipline them is met with a whining chorus of liberal idiots.
Unfortuanately these days, disciplining children is politically incorrect. After all if you punish the dear things it just teaches them to be violent or some other such bullshit that the hand-wringing liberals like to spout.
It is not objective when it is edited to remove all context.
Yeah, no reason at all to shout at children. The next time one of the dear little brats is vandalising the desks, swearing at teachers etc, just give him a pat on the head, and recommend him for councilling or some other bullshit, then let him carry on with what he was doing. You wouldn't want to infringe his rights would you?
No, the main complains are that they're bulky and expensive. I got a tiny pocket analogue radio years ago for a few pounds. Can you do that with a digital radio? No, the cheapest sell for something like £50 and it's huge.
So when the light's broken and stuck on red, you just stay there forever?
That depends on whether the increased productivity is worth more than the cost of renting and furnishing enough space to put everyone in an office. Bear in mind that a facility with hundreds of private offices will cost a lot more to rent than a plain open space.
Then compare the increased productivity to the reduced productivity of spending five hours a day reading Slashdot because there's a sense of privacy.
At the end of the day, the sort of people who whine that working in a cube hurts their productivity will only find something else to whine about when they get their office. I.e. the view's not interesting enough, it's too cold/warm/dry/humid, there's not enough/too much sunlight, not enough power outlets/they're in the wrong place, it's too far from the toilets etc.
Now how do you explain to the workers the spacial impossibilities of converting a cubes into seperate offices? Perhaps some sort of tardis-style technology?
Using an outdated system or technology to keep people in jobs is Luddism at its worst. Do you have all your cotton spun by hand to keep the cotton spinners in work?
Age verification is instant and seamless, someone just presses a button or something. I race through these self-checkouts whilst all the lazy retards stand in lines!
I am an automaton in a factory. My job is completely mindless and I work with people who should probably be classified as retarded due to decades of doing said mindless work and heavy alcohol consumption. Due to the shift-working nature of my job which destroys my bodyclock, I often suffer from lack of sleep and spend all my waking hours struggling to stay awake.
All I can say about this drug is: bring it on.
A teacher is there to teach things, not to teach things and say where they can be used. Many things don't have any direct real world uses, that doesn't mean they are not worth learning. The job of a student is to absorb information, not to question its value.
Why should a teacher have to stop the lesson every ten minutes to explain to Johnny Retard how a particular equation or law is useful in the real world? It's just holding up the decent students who are there to learn not to be awkward.
Let's say someone tells you a + b = c. A good student would learn that and that would be the end of it. If a student failed to learn it, and could only learn it when finding out how a + b = c relates to the real world, then the latter student is a poor student, and probably has learning difficulties.
Education fails when classes are slowed down to cater to the lazy and the stupid.
You'll find that in countries with more successful high school systems, they all have forced attendances as well. How do you explain that?
Or can you point me to this utopic country with a brilliant high school system where kids can sit at home playing video games all day if they want?
Completely irrelevant. If you fail to learn something because you can't find an immediate real world use for it, then you are a poor student.
The second time they tased him, I would've gotten as many students as I could to slap the idiot about the face and shout 'what are you playing you fucking idiot?', then drag him up and throw him out the building.
It's obviously this guy just wanted martyrdom, and people like you are just giving him the attention he wants. He's like a grown-up version of the kid who screams on the supermarket floor because he can't have a chocolate bar.
For some awkward people, brutality is the only thing which will make them see sense. If the coppers had been all kind and understanding, the Iranian would still be lying on the floor now screaming.