think of my critique as being "PC outrage" but... your little wank-fantasy.
No outrage there at all, no sir. As it happens, I'm not wedded to the idea that fewer women desire to work the long hours. It might even be different in your country than mine. You might be right on that aspect, or we could just be arguing over words. I show men work longer hours, and you claim tat is not a "choice", but culture pushes them into the role of domestic labour and childcare. You may well be correct on that. Though again, that is averages and the extremes probably still differ.
The thing is, I believe it would be a pointless argument, like trying to convince a moon-landing conspiracy theorist. Because your mind is already made up on the ideological basis that men and women are the same in all ways. There is ample evidence that this is absurd.
I'm the woolly-minded liberal
I'm liberal too, even from your viewpoint, in that I share the ideals of your country's liberal culture. Equality, fairness, individualism. I'll side with you on your left-right hot button issues. So don't make this about partisan politics. I just do not let ideals colour my empirical observations.
there's not a shred of evidence to demonstrate it.
Please stop pretending your PC outrage is based on disagreement on interpretation of the data, and not pure ideology. Do you allow for any innate differences between men and women? Does biology stop at the neck?
Please note that I was not even talking about average men vs average women, but about the extremes. Were you are aware there are more men at the opposite end too? Far more men in prisons and homeless. No doubt you can find a way to blame men for that too.
There are fewer women on boards not becuse women are less intelligent
It may well be that at the tail end of the bell-curve, there are fewer women than men. There are very few females in the top ranks of genius. But you don't need an IQ of 180 to be a board member. In the desired IQ range for boards, women may only be slightly outnumbered. The real difference is in the different choices the genders make. Women do not like confrontation, or long hours. Neither do I. Neither do most men. The rare few people who have the combination of drive, ruthless ambition and ability to get to the top are mostly men.
Who knows? Setting quotas for women might actually help. But why stop there? A company could assess the aptitude, experience and performance of its employees, and then randomly select senior management and board from the top 5% or whatever. This would bring genuine diversity, not some PC tokenism, and reduce cronyism. It would be an interesting experiment.
Actually, now that you mention it, there has been a lot of publicity over crime by large gatherings of South Sudanese refugee youths. Not nearly as bad as the refugee sex assaults in Europe, but still very scary . They use social media to organise. That fear could be used to drive public acceptance for the laws.
And Sydney is pretty much Australia's financial capital,
Maybe now, but not in the 1960s.
A horse-drawn cart in the 1960s!? It must have been to be more quiet while people were still sleeping. In the UK they used electric milk trucks back then.
But there will be many dead men turning over in their graves before the US succumbs to such a law.
The US does not need laws to spy on its people. The NSA director committed perjury in front of congress, denying the surveillance program, and nothing happened. And given the weak public reaction to the Snowden revelations, few people care.
I was under the impression that forest fires are natural in a healthy forest,...
Is this a California thing?
It depends which forest. In places where lightning is frequent, or humans have been burning the forest for long enough e.g. Australia or California, the forest has become dominated by fire-tolerant trees, and ones which germinate after a fire to take advantage of the sunlight reaching the ground.
But in many coniferous forests, such as in Sweden and Canada, fires are rare and can completely obliterate a forest when they happen. So you can do frequent controlled burns to limit the build-up of flammable material, but you are going to have a very different kind of forest.
Hey, how about they just make them LABEL these new and exciting foods for being gene-edited, and let the consumer decide?
Because consumers are stupid, and adding irrelevant information will not help them make better decisions. In the case of the new soybean oil, the relevant difference is the amount of trans-fat, which will be reflected in current nutritional labelling.
99% of the population have no clue as to how genes naturally change, and how food genes have been artificially changed for thousands of years. But a lot of us are aware of the legitimate concern over trans-fat.
There are plenty of bad things than Monsanto have done. And I'd like to see reform on GM patents.
But your story is a myth. Only a small number of farmers were sued, and Monsanto won each case because those few farmers had deliberately (re)used Monsanto seed without paying.
Actually, for a textbook case of invasive species, take a look at H. Sapiens - No balance forthcoming and mass extinction projected at 98%+.
Ironically, H Sapiens is heading for population balance or decline just about everywhere it is "invasive", but exploding in it's native sub-Saharan Africa.
Plasma, not gas. Density is a trillionth that of the solar surface, which itself is a trillionth the density of water. So yeah, I guess you might call it thin.
Calculating... a volume of corona the size of the Earth might weigh on the order of a kilogram. (or a gram or a ton? not much anyway)
A move to wireless charging would be a big backward step in the drive to improved efficiency.
I do miss the days of external contact pads, so I could just drop my phone in a cradle to charge. The Nexus-7 tablet was the last place I saw those, but I don't think it was used much.
Laughable. The Soviet Union ended up dirt poor... What definition of "workable" is that?
Read some history. Or even just the Wikipedia page. While it ended up a mess, the Soviet had impressive economic success at first.
Beginning in 1928, the course of the Soviet Union's economy was guided by a series of five-year plans. By the 1950s, during the preceding few decades the Soviet Union had rapidly evolved from a mainly agrarian society into a major industrial power.[15] Its transformative capacity—what the White House National Security Council of the United States described as a "proven ability to carry backward countries speedily through the crisis of modernization and industrialization"—meant communism consistently appealed to the intellectuals of developing countries in Asia.[16] Impressive growth rates during the first three five-year plans (1928–1940) are particularly notable given that this period is nearly congruent with the Great Depression.[17] During this period, the Soviet Union encountered a rapid industrial growth while other regions were suffering from crisis.[18]
Doesn't "minus half of any income he or she earned" replicate the biggest problem with existing welfare programs, and defeat any purpose of the trial? This is not basic income.
50% marginal tax rate for a minimum-wage worker is a massive disincentive for formal work. It is a huge incentive for cash-in-hand work. Or for using your time for non-taxable work. Minimum wage in Ontario is only $14/hour, so this drops it to $7.
Do you work for $7/hr, or use that time to find clothes in thrift stores, do all your own repairs and maintenance, etc. ? You can save a lot of money buying quality second hand goods, and DIY, at the expense of time.
And smartphones and social media are one of the primary methods now used by students to bully each other.
Cellphones don't bully. People do.
It's not that we want to ban phones. They are useful tools, a heck of a lot of fun, and can save you in an emergency. Along with the benefits, we should recognise the harm done by phones. Sure, they are far from the biggest killer, but somehow our country seems to have a unique problem with them, at least among civilised nations. Thousands of deaths are not to be ignored just because it is less deadly than cancer or road transport.
So how can we continue to get the benefits, while reducing the harm? Surely there must be some measures that cellphone users can accept, even though it limits their freedom? Nobody wants to allow cellphone use in cinemas. Can we all agree on that? And nobody wants to ban cellphones. So we are really only debating over the degree of restriction.
How can we maximise the benefits, including entertainment, while curtailing the deaths a little? I love Angry Birds, but I don't want to risk leaving my screen unlocked so my toddler might find it when I'm not watching.
The two changes made immediately after 9/11... (b) changing airline passenger awareness on how to respond to a terrorist--from one of being a passive passenger during a hijacking to actively resisting the terrorist.
After? More like during. Flight 93 crashed after fighting in the cockpit an hour after 2 WTC was hit. The creation of the TSA was one of the terrorists greatest successes, after of course the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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And, this kid will be making big bucks using his skills for Apple or some other tech giant.
Or locked in a small flat in Knightsbridge, like that other famous Melbourne schoolboy hacker, Mendax.
My Commodore 64 replaced my electric typewriter on my desk.
Electric? Luxury!
We had to set type by hand whenever we wanted to send a letter.
At this point I'd like to call for volunteers ... Anyone, it doesn't matter.
Ah Jeez - you you you just Cronenberged Los Angeles.
Or was it already like that?
think of my critique as being "PC outrage" but ... your little wank-fantasy.
No outrage there at all, no sir.
As it happens, I'm not wedded to the idea that fewer women desire to work the long hours. It might even be different in your country than mine. You might be right on that aspect, or we could just be arguing over words. I show men work longer hours, and you claim tat is not a "choice", but culture pushes them into the role of domestic labour and childcare. You may well be correct on that. Though again, that is averages and the extremes probably still differ.
The thing is, I believe it would be a pointless argument, like trying to convince a moon-landing conspiracy theorist. Because your mind is already made up on the ideological basis that men and women are the same in all ways. There is ample evidence that this is absurd.
I'm the woolly-minded liberal
I'm liberal too, even from your viewpoint, in that I share the ideals of your country's liberal culture. Equality, fairness, individualism. I'll side with you on your left-right hot button issues. So don't make this about partisan politics. I just do not let ideals colour my empirical observations.
How is that any friendlier than one which boots straight into Kodi?
Android has the advantage of Netflix, but it is low-res (SD) and made for a touchscreen interface.
there's not a shred of evidence to demonstrate it.
Please stop pretending your PC outrage is based on disagreement on interpretation of the data, and not pure ideology.
Do you allow for any innate differences between men and women? Does biology stop at the neck?
Please note that I was not even talking about average men vs average women, but about the extremes.
Were you are aware there are more men at the opposite end too? Far more men in prisons and homeless. No doubt you can find a way to blame men for that too.
There are fewer women on boards not becuse women are less intelligent
It may well be that at the tail end of the bell-curve, there are fewer women than men. There are very few females in the top ranks of genius.
But you don't need an IQ of 180 to be a board member. In the desired IQ range for boards, women may only be slightly outnumbered.
The real difference is in the different choices the genders make.
Women do not like confrontation, or long hours. Neither do I. Neither do most men. The rare few people who have the combination of drive, ruthless ambition and ability to get to the top are mostly men.
Who knows? Setting quotas for women might actually help. But why stop there? A company could assess the aptitude, experience and performance of its employees, and then randomly select senior management and board from the top 5% or whatever. This would bring genuine diversity, not some PC tokenism, and reduce cronyism. It would be an interesting experiment.
Actually, now that you mention it, there has been a lot of publicity over crime by large gatherings of South Sudanese refugee youths.
Not nearly as bad as the refugee sex assaults in Europe, but still very scary .
They use social media to organise. That fear could be used to drive public acceptance for the laws.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/b...
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
And Sydney is pretty much Australia's financial capital,
Maybe now, but not in the 1960s.
A horse-drawn cart in the 1960s!? It must have been to be more quiet while people were still sleeping.
In the UK they used electric milk trucks back then.
And Melbourne still had trams back then? Amazing.
Cheap little boxes that run Android
Why is it they are all sold running Android, when KODI works better under a more minimal Linux?
It is very easy to install LibreElec on a supported KODI box, and get a number of advantages.
https://libreelec.tv/
Or is it just relying on rural voters who either don't understand or don't care?
Australia is one of the most urbanised countries on earth, after Japan. We rely on city voters who either don't understand or don't care.
But there will be many dead men turning over in their graves before the US succumbs to such a law.
The US does not need laws to spy on its people. The NSA director committed perjury in front of congress, denying the surveillance program, and nothing happened.
And given the weak public reaction to the Snowden revelations, few people care.
I've seen where the trees are mostly dead, and have to re-grow from scratch, as if it was clear-felled.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno...
I was under the impression that forest fires are natural in a healthy forest, ...
Is this a California thing?
It depends which forest. In places where lightning is frequent, or humans have been burning the forest for long enough e.g. Australia or California, the forest has become dominated by fire-tolerant trees, and ones which germinate after a fire to take advantage of the sunlight reaching the ground.
But in many coniferous forests, such as in Sweden and Canada, fires are rare and can completely obliterate a forest when they happen.
So you can do frequent controlled burns to limit the build-up of flammable material, but you are going to have a very different kind of forest.
Hey, how about they just make them LABEL these new and exciting foods for being gene-edited, and let the consumer decide?
Because consumers are stupid, and adding irrelevant information will not help them make better decisions. In the case of the new soybean oil, the relevant difference is the amount of trans-fat, which will be reflected in current nutritional labelling.
99% of the population have no clue as to how genes naturally change, and how food genes have been artificially changed for thousands of years. But a lot of us are aware of the legitimate concern over trans-fat.
There are plenty of bad things than Monsanto have done. And I'd like to see reform on GM patents.
But your story is a myth. Only a small number of farmers were sued, and Monsanto won each case because those few farmers had deliberately (re)used Monsanto seed without paying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Actually, for a textbook case of invasive species, take a look at H. Sapiens - No balance forthcoming and mass extinction projected at 98%+.
Ironically, H Sapiens is heading for population balance or decline just about everywhere it is "invasive", but exploding in it's native sub-Saharan Africa.
Such a pity they called it "Parker".
Was "Icarus" already taken?
I bet the corona is an extremly thin gas.
Plasma, not gas. Density is a trillionth that of the solar surface, which itself is a trillionth the density of water. So yeah, I guess you might call it thin.
Calculating ... a volume of corona the size of the Earth might weigh on the order of a kilogram. (or a gram or a ton? not much anyway)
Maybe the 5V on the USB isn't enough soon and we'll see higher voltages. 12V next?
We've had that for years on popular mid to high end phones with Qualcomm quick charge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And now there is an official standard USB Power Delivery.
http://www.usb.org/developers/...
A move to wireless charging would be a big backward step in the drive to improved efficiency.
I do miss the days of external contact pads, so I could just drop my phone in a cradle to charge. The Nexus-7 tablet was the last place I saw those, but I don't think it was used much.
Laughable. The Soviet Union ended up dirt poor ... What definition of "workable" is that?
Read some history. Or even just the Wikipedia page. While it ended up a mess, the Soviet had impressive economic success at first.
Beginning in 1928, the course of the Soviet Union's economy was guided by a series of five-year plans. By the 1950s, during the preceding few decades the Soviet Union had rapidly evolved from a mainly agrarian society into a major industrial power.[15] Its transformative capacity—what the White House National Security Council of the United States described as a "proven ability to carry backward countries speedily through the crisis of modernization and industrialization"—meant communism consistently appealed to the intellectuals of developing countries in Asia.[16] Impressive growth rates during the first three five-year plans (1928–1940) are particularly notable given that this period is nearly congruent with the Great Depression.[17] During this period, the Soviet Union encountered a rapid industrial growth while other regions were suffering from crisis.[18]
Doesn't "minus half of any income he or she earned" replicate the biggest problem with existing welfare programs, and defeat any purpose of the trial?
This is not basic income.
50% marginal tax rate for a minimum-wage worker is a massive disincentive for formal work.
It is a huge incentive for cash-in-hand work. Or for using your time for non-taxable work.
Minimum wage in Ontario is only $14/hour, so this drops it to $7.
Do you work for $7/hr, or use that time to find clothes in thrift stores, do all your own repairs and maintenance, etc. ?
You can save a lot of money buying quality second hand goods, and DIY, at the expense of time.
And smartphones and social media are one of the primary methods now used by students to bully each other.
Cellphones don't bully. People do.
It's not that we want to ban phones. They are useful tools, a heck of a lot of fun, and can save you in an emergency.
Along with the benefits, we should recognise the harm done by phones. Sure, they are far from the biggest killer, but somehow our country seems to have a unique problem with them, at least among civilised nations. Thousands of deaths are not to be ignored just because it is less deadly than cancer or road transport.
So how can we continue to get the benefits, while reducing the harm? Surely there must be some measures that cellphone users can accept, even though it limits their freedom? Nobody wants to allow cellphone use in cinemas. Can we all agree on that? And nobody wants to ban cellphones. So we are really only debating over the degree of restriction.
How can we maximise the benefits, including entertainment, while curtailing the deaths a little? I love Angry Birds, but I don't want to risk leaving my screen unlocked so my toddler might find it when I'm not watching.
Why Germany of course!
Oh. Silly me, I assumed the article was about Finland. In hindsight, $3.5b does seem a bit much to link Helsinki and a bunch of igloos.
The two changes made immediately after 9/11 ... (b) changing airline passenger awareness on how to respond to a terrorist--from one of being a passive passenger during a hijacking to actively resisting the terrorist.
After? More like during. Flight 93 crashed after fighting in the cockpit an hour after 2 WTC was hit.
The creation of the TSA was one of the terrorists greatest successes, after of course the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.