My suspicion is there isn't enough work for a good RF engineer to keep him busy; cell phone antennae are pretty well understood and it's a lot to ask someone just to sit around a desk and sign off a design every year or two.
The number of children who require expensive long term medical treatment are very small (in comparison to insured populations). After the complications arising from parturition, childhood is the safest part of your life - out of a 100,000 starting population at birth, about a thousand die by age 18, and half of those within the first year (and most of those very early in life). By age ten, it's about 11 or 12 deaths a year. Most die due to accidents, and children who require long term intensive medical care on an ongoing basis are pretty rare.
In short, yes, supporting such care would be expensive and non-profitable for insurers; however it wouldn't drive them out of business.
You're ducking the question and attempting to confuse the issue by bringing up things such as female genital mutilation. However...would you care to offer any evidence that specific groups are inherently disadvantaged in some meaningful way? Or is it just a cultural legacy? As for Japanese society, I invite you to try being a white girl who has been raped in Japan and see how you get on.
Again, I don't disagree with you on positive discrimination; I just want to know whether you think there is an issue to be addressed and what you think should be done about it?
I only got routine access to the world of PCs when I went to uni, aged 18. It doesn't take long to learn to be a functional user of a computer. Academic training on the fundamentals helps, as well as a sense of what kind of tasks can and should be accomplished with a computer, but I don't think anyone is seriously disadvantaged in life by leaving computers alone until well into their teens.
You are rather misrepresenting the liberal position on positive discrimination. The point is not that one group is *inherently* smarter than another; it is that the entrenched disparity due to socio-economic factors is such that simple equality of treatment will not erode the differences between these groups over any meaningful timescale. Personally, I would prefer to see other solutions than simply applying skewed tests, but I do believe it is a problem that ought to be addressed in some way. What has your party done to deal with it?
There is no such principle, at least not in general. The purpose of a voting system is to map the expressed desires of the electorate onto a small number of representatives. There are several different methods of deciding whether such a mapping is a "good" one, and each of these criterion is to some extent mutually incompatible.
Don't joke. Electric recording was invented in 1926, and resulted in reasonable sound which we would consider "not awful" today, but this recording has far superior sound quality to 78 records of that era.
Yeah, nothing like a burst eardrum from a football smack in the ear:) Even if that could be fixed, it wouldn't help much as radio doesn't carry directional cues, and without them the brain will invent its own, which would lead to some amusing howlers.
The ho-hum matches are pretty much down to the fact the players can't hear each other on the pitch. Brazil should have blown a comically inexperienced North Korea out of the water but ended up being run ragged with a Stalingrad style defence.
Slave labour is not the same thing as cheap labour. Cheap labour are consumers in their own right, whereas slaves are (essentially) not. You cannot build a closed economy on slave labour.
Jesus, wake the fucking hell up. You're saying you're quite happy for the state to control and censor the national news agenda? Are you completely fucking batshit insane? I might not care about Lindsey Lohan's antics but it's my choice to watch, not the government's to decide what I can see.
Freedom of speech much? Hugo Chavez would have a field day with your system. After all, criticising the government is clearly not news, so I'll have your licence back, thank you.
A sound knowledge of language? No, I can't think of any use for that. There was also a time when children were expected to routinely memorise large chunks of poetry. The waste.
That has more to do with entry routes. Europeans are likely to come to America on the basis of family relationships or wealth. The only real entry route for many Indians is to be well educated.
There is a strong divide between (very generally) Western and Asian cultures. In the West we tend to believe that talent and ability is innate, and that your success in life will be down to the use of your gifts. Contrarily, Asian cultures believe that success is directly proportional to the effort the person puts into it. The psychological evidence is they are essentially correct.
The North Sea has a depth of a few hundred feet. This well is four *thousand* feet down and the pressure down there creates a completely different set of challenges to a normal blow-out.
Partly. The Nordic countries in general have exceptional institutions and the lowest levels of corruption in the world. It's not unreasonable that you trust your government to administer such a scheme, because it is in general run for the better. Unlike you, I don't trust my government's ability to not misuse data and in any case I don't really see the problem with the systems we have evolved to deal with ID in Britain.
No, you're the one who missed the whooshing sound. A companies fundamentals don't change, but in order to value a future cashflow, you need a discount rate - and that discount rate is affected by just about everything under the sun[1]. I *do* agree that companies are wrong to focus on their stock price at the expense of maximising long term shareholder value, but until the market figures out why this is wrong, it won't change and Warren Buffet will carry on coining it on everyone else's mess.
Consider the maths: a perpetuity paying 1 per time period at an effective interest rate i per time period is worth 1/i now. Some simple calculation shows that quite small swings in i result in significant price changes compared to normal stock market volatility.
The reason price fluctuates throughout the day is not internal to the company, but external. The price at any moment is fixed by supply and demand, and the demand for a particular stock is driven by any number of things: commodities prices, a presidential election in Brazil, long term weather forecasts, portfolio rebalancing, performance of a related stock, etc. All of these things take place within a network, where A affects B affects C affects D affects A.
Slashdot Mirror
My suspicion is there isn't enough work for a good RF engineer to keep him busy; cell phone antennae are pretty well understood and it's a lot to ask someone just to sit around a desk and sign off a design every year or two.
In short, yes, supporting such care would be expensive and non-profitable for insurers; however it wouldn't drive them out of business.
Again, I don't disagree with you on positive discrimination; I just want to know whether you think there is an issue to be addressed and what you think should be done about it?
I only got routine access to the world of PCs when I went to uni, aged 18. It doesn't take long to learn to be a functional user of a computer. Academic training on the fundamentals helps, as well as a sense of what kind of tasks can and should be accomplished with a computer, but I don't think anyone is seriously disadvantaged in life by leaving computers alone until well into their teens.
Can you prove it doesn't?
You are rather misrepresenting the liberal position on positive discrimination. The point is not that one group is *inherently* smarter than another; it is that the entrenched disparity due to socio-economic factors is such that simple equality of treatment will not erode the differences between these groups over any meaningful timescale. Personally, I would prefer to see other solutions than simply applying skewed tests, but I do believe it is a problem that ought to be addressed in some way. What has your party done to deal with it?
There is no such principle, at least not in general. The purpose of a voting system is to map the expressed desires of the electorate onto a small number of representatives. There are several different methods of deciding whether such a mapping is a "good" one, and each of these criterion is to some extent mutually incompatible.
Don't joke. Electric recording was invented in 1926, and resulted in reasonable sound which we would consider "not awful" today, but this recording has far superior sound quality to 78 records of that era.
Alternatively, you might not have anybody with any sense to run them....
Yeah, nothing like a burst eardrum from a football smack in the ear :) Even if that could be fixed, it wouldn't help much as radio doesn't carry directional cues, and without them the brain will invent its own, which would lead to some amusing howlers.
Age-old solution: watch on TV, turn down sound, turn on radio.
The ho-hum matches are pretty much down to the fact the players can't hear each other on the pitch. Brazil should have blown a comically inexperienced North Korea out of the water but ended up being run ragged with a Stalingrad style defence.
There is a suggestion that notching out the noise will cause serious problems for the commentary, as various vowel sounds coincide with it.
Slave labour is not the same thing as cheap labour. Cheap labour are consumers in their own right, whereas slaves are (essentially) not. You cannot build a closed economy on slave labour.
Jesus, wake the fucking hell up. You're saying you're quite happy for the state to control and censor the national news agenda? Are you completely fucking batshit insane? I might not care about Lindsey Lohan's antics but it's my choice to watch, not the government's to decide what I can see.
Freedom of speech much? Hugo Chavez would have a field day with your system. After all, criticising the government is clearly not news, so I'll have your licence back, thank you.
Heh. At least that was spelling. I was punished for believing in the first law of thermodynamics.
A sound knowledge of language? No, I can't think of any use for that. There was also a time when children were expected to routinely memorise large chunks of poetry. The waste.
That has more to do with entry routes. Europeans are likely to come to America on the basis of family relationships or wealth. The only real entry route for many Indians is to be well educated.
There is a strong divide between (very generally) Western and Asian cultures. In the West we tend to believe that talent and ability is innate, and that your success in life will be down to the use of your gifts. Contrarily, Asian cultures believe that success is directly proportional to the effort the person puts into it. The psychological evidence is they are essentially correct.
So, uh, you behaved like a dick and when people reacted badly, you were surprised? Gosh.
The North Sea has a depth of a few hundred feet. This well is four *thousand* feet down and the pressure down there creates a completely different set of challenges to a normal blow-out.
Partly. The Nordic countries in general have exceptional institutions and the lowest levels of corruption in the world. It's not unreasonable that you trust your government to administer such a scheme, because it is in general run for the better. Unlike you, I don't trust my government's ability to not misuse data and in any case I don't really see the problem with the systems we have evolved to deal with ID in Britain.
Consider the maths: a perpetuity paying 1 per time period at an effective interest rate i per time period is worth 1/i now. Some simple calculation shows that quite small swings in i result in significant price changes compared to normal stock market volatility.
The reason price fluctuates throughout the day is not internal to the company, but external. The price at any moment is fixed by supply and demand, and the demand for a particular stock is driven by any number of things: commodities prices, a presidential election in Brazil, long term weather forecasts, portfolio rebalancing, performance of a related stock, etc. All of these things take place within a network, where A affects B affects C affects D affects A.