What you fail to note is that it also means that the people in Kentucky will have a lower price. The end result is that the product can be made affordable to diverse peoples while maintaining some level of profitability to the company. This is not necessarily bad.
The problem arises when that regionality also reduces competition (e.g. airline situation) and there is no impetous to offer decent prices in each locale.
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careful. what do you mean by less qualified? if a team's requirements include a few programmers, a few engineers, a few doctors, and a few decent writers, who is the most qualified? I'm sure not going to trust the programmer to tell me that some particular configuration of the medical equipment is most likely to cure/kill the patient.
The leader needs to be sufficiently grounded in all of the necessary specialities so that he understands how they all go together. He needs to be able to negotiate with the specialists (who often think that their part of the problem is the most important), and he needs to recognize when he is being given good advice from team members who know more than he does in a specific field.
The team members also have a responsibility, though. They must respect the leader even if he cant't whip up a killer app in 10 hours, because he does know things that they don't. (hopefully)
Sounds like a perfect application for a centralized GPS-based control system. Take off at an authorized vert takeoff point, jack into the local aircar control system, and sit back. Much easier to do in free flight, I would guess, than trying to do the same in a land based transportation system.
Hmmm, better not run the system on a win based system -- computer crashes take on a whole new dimension...
It also sounds like the same old crap about how middle-class white kids can't possibly have problems because they are part of the alleged white male conspiracy against all minorities and women.
I've seen comments akin to this one several times in the course of this discussion and they really bother me. There is the implicit assumption that the oppression which was the subject of Jon Katz's article was directed only at white men. How patently false. It may be hard to be a smart sensitive non-jock male, but the repercussions of being the same and being female are just as horrifying. After all, we are supposed to be dumb, 15 pounds underweight, well-dressed, perfectly coiffed and made-up. Strike out on all of these (as I certainly did) and you become the subject of the most hateful epithets and nasty treatment. (and not always from the popular kids)
My point is not to start a war about who suffered more in high school -- that is a truly self-defeating path, but to note that the treatment these poor boys went through is not just their experience. They simply get the attention because they responded the most visibly. This points to how we teach our young men and women to deal with the crises in their lives. Our culture tells young men that they have to fight back. It tells young women to grin and bear it.
We can decry the treatment that non-mainstream students get in the schools, and that is a good thing as long as we don't limit ourselves to the most visible cases. However, we must also face the fact that part of the problem which results in events like Littleton is the manner in which we teach our youth to confront adversity.
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What you fail to note is that it also means that the people in Kentucky will have a lower price. The end result is that the product can be made affordable to diverse peoples while maintaining some level of profitability to the company. This is not necessarily bad.
The problem arises when that regionality also reduces competition (e.g. airline situation) and there is no impetous to offer decent prices in each locale.
careful. what do you mean by less qualified? if a team's requirements include a few programmers, a few engineers, a few doctors, and a few decent writers, who is the most qualified? I'm sure not going to trust the programmer to tell me that some particular configuration of the medical equipment is most likely to cure/kill the patient.
The leader needs to be sufficiently grounded in all of the necessary specialities so that he understands how they all go together. He needs to be able to negotiate with the specialists (who often think that their part of the problem is the most important), and he needs to recognize when he is being given good advice from team members who know more than he does in a specific field.
The team members also have a responsibility, though. They must respect the leader even if he cant't whip up a killer app in 10 hours, because he does know things that they don't. (hopefully)
Sounds like a perfect application for a centralized GPS-based control system. Take off at an authorized vert takeoff point, jack into the local aircar control system, and sit back. Much easier to do in free flight, I would guess, than trying to do the same in a land based transportation system.
Hmmm, better not run the system on a win based system -- computer crashes take on a whole new dimension...
It also sounds like the same old crap about how middle-class white kids can't
possibly have problems because they are part of the alleged white male conspiracy
against all minorities and women.
I've seen comments akin to this one several times in the course of this discussion and they really bother me. There is the implicit assumption that the oppression which was the subject of Jon Katz's article was directed only at white men. How patently false. It may be hard to be a smart sensitive non-jock male, but the repercussions of being the same and being female are just as horrifying. After all, we are supposed to be dumb, 15 pounds underweight, well-dressed, perfectly coiffed and made-up. Strike out on all of these (as I certainly did) and you become the subject of the most hateful epithets and nasty treatment. (and not always from the popular kids)
My point is not to start a war about who suffered more in high school -- that is a truly self-defeating path, but to note that the treatment these poor boys went through is not just their experience. They simply get the attention because they responded the most visibly. This points to how we teach our young men and women to deal with the crises in their lives. Our culture tells young men that they have to fight back. It tells young women to grin and bear it.
We can decry the treatment that non-mainstream students get in the schools, and that is a good thing as long as we don't limit ourselves to the most visible cases. However, we must also face the fact that part of the problem which results in events like Littleton is the manner in which we teach our youth to confront adversity.