I was thinking more along the lines of the Vikings or the Greeks. Water, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Trireme Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new lands, to seek out and conquer new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Tiberius: I need more power. Scotsman: I'm beating the drum as fast as I can, but the slaves canna' take any more!
Star trek doesn't need to go backwards, they need to do what they have always been good at, movies for action, and series for science and ethics they keep to that motto and they will get somewhere, they also need to stop playing with the timeline that is established as cannon, and just add on to it rather than confuse it
I think the problem is that Star Trek hasn't gone backwards enough. The Star Wars prequels sucked because among other things, they were too close to OT, and ended up having numerous inconsistancies with the original movies. My solution, Star Trek needs to go back a few thousand years like KOTOR did to have some room to be creative. =)
No doubt about it! =) Although I did brave five summers in San Francisco.
I live in Phoenix, guess I need to agree with the GP and say *pussy* =P Although I agree with you, climate is also on my list of priorities, gotta get out of hell, unfortunately I haven't found a good place to move to that has both affordability and a nice climate.
The criteria for the list is flawed. Looking at the number of AP tests students take doesn't indicate the quality of education, just that kids are encouraged to take AP exams. Look at the E & E% score of the #2 school. Even though the school averaged almost 10 test taken/senior, only 50% of seniors passed a single test!
My biggest issue is how the scoring ignores the truly best schools. From the FAQ: "The Challenge Index is designed to honor schools that have done the best job in persuading average students to take college-level courses and tests. It does not work with schools that have no, or almost no, average students." When I looked at the list I was surprised I didn't see my old high school on the list, then I went through the FAQ and saw schools with average SAT scores over 1300 were excluded (I thought the list was for the top schools?). Even with that I think my school would have been artificially low on the list, since many students skipped some AP exams simply because they would not receive credit (eg MIT does not give credit for AP Chem or CompSci)
I do agree with some of the reasoning behind the list: "Studies by U.S. Department of Education senior researcher Clifford Adelman in 1999 and 2005 showed that the best predictor of college graduation was not good high-school grades or test scores but whether or not a student had an intense academic experience in high school. "; but there has to be better criteria.
You might as well write an essay on how Pluto has the highest salaries because there's no competition for real estate on Pluto.
Pluto is great, it's just the commute that kills you. For those of you who say work from home, neither Comcast nor AT&T have decided to roll out high-speed internet yet.
When is this a new thing? I predict the oil companies will be sued in a few years time for activities they are doing now, that the US Federal Government is not noticing. Nobody ever gets their money back.
Nobody has ever pointed out to me exactly what the oil companies are doing wrong, other than making a lot of money. Record profits and revenue don't necessarily indicate they are gouging on prices. Compare Exxon's profit margin (11.3%) vs Citigroup (31%), Cisco (20%). Yahoo! (21%).
By this metric, GW Bush is a winner and may be our best President ever. He has accomplished a great many of his goals. And those historians who compare him to the other Presidents and say that he may be our worst President ever...losers. Sorry, no sale.
Let's compare what he has done to some of the great presidents: 1. Gotten us into an unpopular war - Lincoln 2. Violated the rights of American citizens - Lincoln, FDR 3. Racked up a huge national debt - FDR 4. Pursued an expansionist policy - Jefferson
I'm not saying Bush is a great president (personally I strongly disagree with his policies), but you can't judge the historical significance of people and events during their time.
Retail - Analysis of purchasing habits. You don't need to have a marketing background to understand what people like or don't like. You'll find it out more accurately through analysis of purchasing data. Fast food - model what areas the company should expand into. Science - help design statistically meaningful experiments Industry - Help create failure models Financial - Actuary etc.
Pretty much the running theme is that as a mathematician you will be expected to analyze data and create models. Most often in a support role helping those with first hand knowledge of how the industry works.
It was never the resposibility of the US government to bail out poor countries. The UN can decide to do this if they want to, but it's not the responsibility of the US.
You argue how terrible it is that the rich don't help the poor, but then you say it's not the US's responsibility to help poor countries. There is moral responsibility, and the US does respond to such responsibility in the form of food, medical, and economic aid to the tune of several billion dollars per year.
You are so damn naive. Actually the person who is running for President and who will likely be elected in the Congo is American with a degree from Harvard. Harvard Doctor, the future of Congo. Please do your research BEFORE you post about the Congo.
He's a candidate not because he is black, but because he is actually from Congo. I don't see how you relate him to blacks from the inner city that we don't listen to, Kashala was foreign born, well educated, and financially well off (hes thrown over 100k of his own money towards hid bid). I actually do research, maybe you should realize the difference between race and national background.
Martin Luther King was a PREACHER, theres no way in hell he came from a rich or even a middle class family as a PREACHER in the south. Ghandi, he wasnt rich either. I don't know how you can call these people rich, Martin Luther King was the on the lowest economic ladder in America, during a time when there was segregation and everything else
Even if you do not agree with what Martin Luther King stood for or what he did, you must admit he had balls, he was brave.
I believe in what he stood for. Not only did he believe in Civil Rights and peace, he believed in something more. The idea of non-violence is based on the assumption that people are moral. That when you act non-violently, when faced with the wrath of those you try to change, the reflection of their actions will appeal to theiir sense of morality. This will force them to realize the horrors which they cause, and accept change for the betterment of humanity. That is one of the points I've been making. The rich, the powerful, are moral too. Sometimes the fear of change overrules this sense of morality. For example, before the Civil War though Lincoln opposed slavery, but outwardly he only expressed the view of the free west for political reasons.
There are africans speaking up all the time, don't you listen to any rap music? Don't you read books? There are many many writers, artists, musicians,who have no money and who are literally starving, but who do speak up. We might not agree with what they have to say, but you have to admit that most artists arent rich, they are poor. The people in Africa who are starving have voices if you care to listen, but most people don't really want to hear it. There are movies about Rwanda, there are many people speaking abuot genocide in Darfur, and you are telling me that no ones speaking up?
Books, movies, music, are almost always backed by a company or rich individual; distribution is not free. The quiet desperate pleas of poor are heard only through the megaphone of mass media.
The reason there arent any third world revolutionaries today is because, it's not the third worlds turn. After a few Martin Luther Kings and Ghandi's get shot and killed, that ends whatever revolutio
Also since when did the UN, NATO or the US have a responsibility to do anything for the Congo? The African Union has that responsibility.
I see, so human rights is jurisdictional. Hmm guess we shouldn't have sent relief supplies to Indonesia after the tsunamis, since that is of course the responsibility of Asian countries. The US is responsible, because it is rich. Columbia isn't singled out about not doing enough in the Congo. That is the no-win situation, do nothing and the US looks arrogant and unhelpful on human rights, try to do something and it's meddling in the affairs of other nations.
Secondly, we have plenty of blacks in America who know exactly what to do about the Congo, but no one really listens and does anything about ghettos in America so why would the Congo matter?
Yes because all black people, understand the political climate of Congo... doesn't matter if they grew up in Texas, they are black, so they should know. US policy continues to be, ask nicely, and cry about thing at the UN.
This is equal to saying that Bono did more for human rights than Martin Luther King or Ghandi. I don't understand your point. Jesus Christ was not rich either, he was poor. The founders of this country who created the bill of rights, the constitution, the declaration of independence were not rich, and were not kings in Europe. I just do not see where in history, did the rich stand up to defend the poor, I'd love to see you cite some records, but as far as I've seen things, women, gays, blacks, citizens in general, always stood up for themselves. No one was ever given anything, not even the right to vote was guarenteed until people fought to win those rights.
Maybe I wasn't clear. When I said those most impacted, I was referring to the hopelessly poor and desperate, who don't stand up. Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Che Guevara were all from relatively prosperous familites (middle or upper-middle class), John Hancock made his money tea smuggling, Ben Franklin was famous in France which helped him secure aid for the revolution. The trait almost all revolutionary leaders share was they were well educated, notice how protests are often led by college students. As you said, changes don't just happen, they require organization, influence, and bankrolling (education, fame, & fortune).
People being sold into slavery, or the ones with no food aren't the ones broadcasting to the world what's going on. It's the media coverage which highlights the failures of the powerful nations, and moves them to take action.
And 3) is part the explanation that childhod has become shorter: Just think about all the boys and girls bands that become the big hit, and kids want to be like them. Say, Britney Spears? (there are certainly others, I'm just not young enough any longer to catch interest).
It's not the emulation of famous people that shortens childhood, its that technology enables them to do a pretty good job at it. Kids today have access to high quality tools (Garage Band, Maya, Photoshop) that they can play around with; they also have internet resources that teach and guide them. Why use plastic blocks to be creative when you can use a professional software.
Hopefully, the engineer who designed this hybrid drive has, at a minimum, integrated an LCD counter and a tiny speaker into the drive. The counter shall display the running total of the number of writes to the flash memory. The tiny speaker shall beep like crazy when the total exceeds 99900.
It was in the original engineering design, but the lawyers said it would be cheaper to just include a warning in the fine print of the warranty.
As to the illegals versus legals and so on, it's a crapshoot. I have worked on jobs with illegals that were a menace,totally incompetent and dangerous to be around, hired merely because it was a body to throw at a job for cheap pay obviously. A few have been quite good from recollection, most are pretty common, some skills, but a lot of enthusiasm. They come from a culture of lower resources, recycling old junk more, cob jobbing as normal, etc. I think it is just too large a variable to really be able to quantify it adequately.
It's always a crapshoot, that's why its important for companies to assess their workers skills. There are educated workers who lack practical skills, there are workers with no education who have sufficient skills, there are workers who have done the same thing for so long they aren't flexible enough to get new skills. My point was this isn't an illegal vs. legal worker issue. It's an issue with cost cutting impacting service and quality.
If your new garage roof sags and leaks after a few years because you hired the local cut rate guy with his "crew" of casual pickups from the home depot parking lot..well, it's no big deal to anyone but you and not a major threat. Something like the big dig is a totally different situation.
I agree. But the problem was lack of oversight and accountability during the project, not with the workers... who are just looking for a paycheck to survive.
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Too much public MASSIVE DAMAGE? It pretty much provided a focus point for the interweb community (aka early adopters) to turn against them. Maybe they don't want anymore showcases where they have to say words like "six hundred and ninety nine united states dollars" to the world anymore - when a press release would be nicer.
Or they will just focus on the Tokyo Game Show, which provides a similar spotlight, but on friendlier turf.
So you are right, the world believes there are human rights. Does the average CEO? Does the average leader?
Yes and Yes. CEOs and national leaders are people too.
CEOs are typically oblivious to the day-to-day workings of what goes on. Do you think Steve Jobs sat in the boardroom and said "We need to find an abusive factory to make iPods?" Of course not. Further, the social standards are not the same everywhere in the world. What may seem like impossibly low wages and dificult working conditions in one part of the world, may in fact be above average in another part. Heck, the US has relatively horrible conditions considering European countries are required to give their workers ~1 month paid vacation and provide universal healthcare, along with much more job security. What we are seeing with industrialization by 3rd world countries is similar growing pains that modernized countries went through in the early 20th century. However, the influence of more modern countries accelerates the development of labor rights.
National leaders also work towards moving human rights forward. But its also difficult to navigate the political landscape, and are often powerless to do anything. What should the UN, Europe, and the US do about Congo? Trade embargos end up hurting the poorest as those in power ensure they have enough for themselves first. Sending food & medicine rarely helps as those items get diverted by those fighting to help fund their efforts. Peacekeeping troops end up just adding another player to the conflict. Doing nothing draws the ire of human rights activists. Pretty much all they can do is ask nicely. As for the problems in the Middle East, it just highlights that modernized countries are holding their leaders to higher standards. A few dozen civilians die and it becomes newsworthy, where in previous wars it was accepted that thousands of civilians would die in a single raid.
We are the workers, we go to work, we pay taxes, but we don't make decisions of this sort.
We make those decisions everyday. We decide through voting who is in power. We decide if human rights is more or less important than having a cool pair of shoes. Sometimes we play dumb and keep our eyes closed to what's going on, but in the end we are the ones who make those decisions.
So it's not that the world is immoral right now, I see a lot of people standing up for human rights, more than any other time in history, but it's a matter of which people are standing up? I'm seeing mostly the victims standing up. I'm not seeing important, powerful, or rich people in mass standing up to defend human rights. You can have a billion poor people stand up for human rights and it changes nothing. You could have 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion, all stand up and it changes nothing.
Typically it isn't the victims who stand up, those most impacted by human rights vilations, are more worried about survival than getting the message out. The media, celebrities, and the rich are in fact the ones who spread the message about human rights abuses. Unfortunately, we tend to focus on the few negatives, than the overall positives.
The masses always have the power, they just do not always realize it.
On any project that involves public safety, an English-speaking, literate, educated worker is much more preferable than a non-English-speaking, illiterate, uneducated worker.
You create a false dichotomy, because there are many American construction workers who can't read the instructions for assembly. Quality isn't an illegal immigration issue. Doesn't matter if it's a Mexican illegal or American just off the farm, if they don't have the skills its the problem with the construction company. They didn't do a sufficient job of ensuring their laborers had the skills and ensure the quality of work. Illegal immigrants are just a pool of labor, the impact they have is on the value of labor in certain industries. Those who make hiring decisions are the ones responsible for sacrificing service and quality for price.
It's simple, if you have a low ethical IQ, and you are irrational/very emotional, then there can be conflicts. Look at people around you, who are the most violent and dangerous types? The emotional irrational unethical types, right?
The most dangerous are the rational people who can control the irrational nature of others.
So here is the question for you, if we live in a world filled with people who like to increase world misery, who like to be irrational, and who don't care about the future, what can you do? People in this world WANT more misery, thats why there is more. People in this world WANT pain, poverty, misery, inequality, etc. Why? Because they crave these things, for whatever irrational reason, but this is what people want. Do all people want this? No, there are always a few who don't, but those few arent in a position to make decisions or do anything about it. So we get what we want in the end, it's Democracy.
Why do you think we live in a world with more misery than before? Overall global morality has improved, that is why the problems in the world are highlighted. Modern human rights violations only exist because recently there is general consensus there are human rights.
but if yahoo started advertising as a 'google engine' it wouldn't matter much would it? only one company gets traffic from going to google.com
It does matter if "googling" is not longer associated with google.com. If the brand has widespread disassociated use, it could be deemed generic like "Raisin Bran." Do you think most people would know that Yahoo's "Google Search" service was different than Google.com? That's why companies have lawyers who write letters to TV networks and newspapers, about improper use of their brands. It's also why Google sent in the lawyers against the dictionary publishers. The dictionary definition directly refers to the Google search engine, to appease the lawyers, although in common use is for any online search.
I think it's a pretty strong indication of brand value when the name of your company becomes a commonly used verb in the english language.
Actually common use decreases brand value. Once people stop associating the word with the product, the value is lost. For example, when somebody mentions aspirin, do you immediately think of is as the aspirin brand, or the generic term for acetylsalicylic acid?
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Nope, sports are organized in such a way that you keep playing until you lose. In the Little League World Series, only about twenty kids in the entire world get to feel like their sport is "easy." In individual sports like tennis, you get inserted into a state ranking system, and if you're too good for that, a national system
That's competing, not teaching. The actual teaching and practice of baseball in little league is horribly boring - how to call and catch a pop-fly, what base to throw to. It's designed just like school, to be inclusive and to ensure all kids get rudimentry skills. The Little League World Series is an All-Star competition; the kids who needed coaching during the intra-league season, are most likely not part of those teams. Academic parallels to the Little League example are Science Olympiad or AcDec. The kids who win the competition are those who are self-motivated; those that only know what they get from school, are usually not good enough to compete.
Yeah, like computer programming. Or solving problems a few chapters ahead in the math book. Hah.
Then don't take programming in school, and try your hand at something new, you just might like it (I've found metal shop has more application than calculus in the real world). Even core classes can offer alternatives: if a student doesn't want to write a book report on "The Cat in the Hat," they can ask to write it on "The Scarlett Letter," in math take the next highest level available (eg if you are supposed to take pre-algebra in 7th grade, enroll in the 8th grade algebra class). At my old high school, there was a kid who excelled at math, to the point where he completed all the school's AP Calculus classes a year early. So he worked with the school to let him take Vector calc at the nearby college. Since then several students have done the same thing, and it's a situation where everybody wins, just takes a little administrative work.
That's the kind of mentality that public school drilled into me. Basically, for the first eighteen years of my life, I never saw anyone struggle with anything academic who wasn't a complete retard. So now I feel stupid and ashamed every time I have to think hard about anything. On a bad day, I even feel ashamed to work a full eight-hour day, because obviously (to my warped mind) if I'm good at what I do, I should be able to knock off all my work during the last half of study hall.
I always found that everybody struggled with something in school. Probably the greatest equalizer in terms of seeing people struggle was foreign languages.
The bottom line is, by providing a fairly uniform challenge to kids with wildly divergent capabilities, schools inadvertently teach kids that talent and success are inversely related to effort and dedication.
I agree. At the same time, there is no perfect system, they all have positive and negative implications from a social, economic, and academic standpoint. Since there it is impossible to have a single system that works for every individual, tweak the system at the individual level. Which can be done through exceptions made by the school, individualized learning, or through extra-curricular activities.
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The irony is that science still maintains the possibility that it is.
Convinced = belief based on evidence.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Vikings or the Greeks.
Water, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Trireme Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new lands, to seek out and conquer new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Tiberius: I need more power.
Scotsman: I'm beating the drum as fast as I can, but the slaves canna' take any more!
I think the problem is that Star Trek hasn't gone backwards enough. The Star Wars prequels sucked because among other things, they were too close to OT, and ended up having numerous inconsistancies with the original movies.
My solution, Star Trek needs to go back a few thousand years like KOTOR did to have some room to be creative. =)
Kirk: Spock any readings on the enemy vessel?
Spock: Whoa!
I live in Phoenix, guess I need to agree with the GP and say *pussy* =P
Although I agree with you, climate is also on my list of priorities, gotta get out of hell, unfortunately I haven't found a good place to move to that has both affordability and a nice climate.
The criteria for the list is flawed. Looking at the number of AP tests students take doesn't indicate the quality of education, just that kids are encouraged to take AP exams. Look at the E & E% score of the #2 school. Even though the school averaged almost 10 test taken/senior, only 50% of seniors passed a single test!
My biggest issue is how the scoring ignores the truly best schools. From the FAQ: "The Challenge Index is designed to honor schools that have done the best job in persuading average students to take college-level courses and tests. It does not work with schools that have no, or almost no, average students."
When I looked at the list I was surprised I didn't see my old high school on the list, then I went through the FAQ and saw schools with average SAT scores over 1300 were excluded (I thought the list was for the top schools?). Even with that I think my school would have been artificially low on the list, since many students skipped some AP exams simply because they would not receive credit (eg MIT does not give credit for AP Chem or CompSci)
I do agree with some of the reasoning behind the list: "Studies by U.S. Department of Education senior researcher Clifford Adelman in 1999 and 2005 showed that the best predictor of college graduation was not good high-school grades or test scores but whether or not a student had an intense academic experience in high school. "; but there has to be better criteria.
Why is it ineptitude, maybe it's just different tastes.
Pluto is great, it's just the commute that kills you. For those of you who say work from home, neither Comcast nor AT&T have decided to roll out high-speed internet yet.
Nobody has ever pointed out to me exactly what the oil companies are doing wrong, other than making a lot of money.
Record profits and revenue don't necessarily indicate they are gouging on prices. Compare Exxon's profit margin (11.3%) vs Citigroup (31%), Cisco (20%). Yahoo! (21%).
Let's compare what he has done to some of the great presidents:
1. Gotten us into an unpopular war - Lincoln
2. Violated the rights of American citizens - Lincoln, FDR
3. Racked up a huge national debt - FDR
4. Pursued an expansionist policy - Jefferson
I'm not saying Bush is a great president (personally I strongly disagree with his policies), but you can't judge the historical significance of people and events during their time.
Retail - Analysis of purchasing habits. You don't need to have a marketing background to understand what people like or don't like. You'll find it out more accurately through analysis of purchasing data.
Fast food - model what areas the company should expand into.
Science - help design statistically meaningful experiments
Industry - Help create failure models
Financial - Actuary
etc.
Pretty much the running theme is that as a mathematician you will be expected to analyze data and create models. Most often in a support role helping those with first hand knowledge of how the industry works.
You argue how terrible it is that the rich don't help the poor, but then you say it's not the US's responsibility to help poor countries. There is moral responsibility, and the US does respond to such responsibility in the form of food, medical, and economic aid to the tune of several billion dollars per year.
He's a candidate not because he is black, but because he is actually from Congo. I don't see how you relate him to blacks from the inner city that we don't listen to, Kashala was foreign born, well educated, and financially well off (hes thrown over 100k of his own money towards hid bid). I actually do research, maybe you should realize the difference between race and national background.
"King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern black ministry:"
Gandhi was the son of a provincial minister, also with a middle-class background.
These were both people who suffered, but were not the hardest hit. They had opportunities, they had education. There are those in this world who do not have those things, that is why Gandhi and MLK stood up for them.
I believe in what he stood for. Not only did he believe in Civil Rights and peace, he believed in something more. The idea of non-violence is based on the assumption that people are moral. That when you act non-violently, when faced with the wrath of those you try to change, the reflection of their actions will appeal to theiir sense of morality. This will force them to realize the horrors which they cause, and accept change for the betterment of humanity.
That is one of the points I've been making. The rich, the powerful, are moral too. Sometimes the fear of change overrules this sense of morality. For example, before the Civil War though Lincoln opposed slavery, but outwardly he only expressed the view of the free west for political reasons.
Books, movies, music, are almost always backed by a company or rich individual; distribution is not free. The quiet desperate pleas of poor are heard only through the megaphone of mass media.
I see, so human rights is jurisdictional. Hmm guess we shouldn't have sent relief supplies to Indonesia after the tsunamis, since that is of course the responsibility of Asian countries. The US is responsible, because it is rich. Columbia isn't singled out about not doing enough in the Congo. That is the no-win situation, do nothing and the US looks arrogant and unhelpful on human rights, try to do something and it's meddling in the affairs of other nations.
Yes because all black people, understand the political climate of Congo... doesn't matter if they grew up in Texas, they are black, so they should know.
US policy continues to be, ask nicely, and cry about thing at the UN.
Maybe I wasn't clear. When I said those most impacted, I was referring to the hopelessly poor and desperate, who don't stand up. Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Che Guevara were all from relatively prosperous familites (middle or upper-middle class), John Hancock made his money tea smuggling, Ben Franklin was famous in France which helped him secure aid for the revolution. The trait almost all revolutionary leaders share was they were well educated, notice how protests are often led by college students.
As you said, changes don't just happen, they require organization, influence, and bankrolling (education, fame, & fortune).
People being sold into slavery, or the ones with no food aren't the ones broadcasting to the world what's going on. It's the media coverage which highlights the failures of the powerful nations, and moves them to take action.
It's not the emulation of famous people that shortens childhood, its that technology enables them to do a pretty good job at it. Kids today have access to high quality tools (Garage Band, Maya, Photoshop) that they can play around with; they also have internet resources that teach and guide them. Why use plastic blocks to be creative when you can use a professional software.
It was in the original engineering design, but the lawyers said it would be cheaper to just include a warning in the fine print of the warranty.
It's always a crapshoot, that's why its important for companies to assess their workers skills. There are educated workers who lack practical skills, there are workers with no education who have sufficient skills, there are workers who have done the same thing for so long they aren't flexible enough to get new skills.
My point was this isn't an illegal vs. legal worker issue. It's an issue with cost cutting impacting service and quality.
I agree. But the problem was lack of oversight and accountability during the project, not with the workers... who are just looking for a paycheck to survive.
Or they will just focus on the Tokyo Game Show, which provides a similar spotlight, but on friendlier turf.
Yes and Yes. CEOs and national leaders are people too.
CEOs are typically oblivious to the day-to-day workings of what goes on. Do you think Steve Jobs sat in the boardroom and said "We need to find an abusive factory to make iPods?" Of course not. Further, the social standards are not the same everywhere in the world. What may seem like impossibly low wages and dificult working conditions in one part of the world, may in fact be above average in another part. Heck, the US has relatively horrible conditions considering European countries are required to give their workers ~1 month paid vacation and provide universal healthcare, along with much more job security.
What we are seeing with industrialization by 3rd world countries is similar growing pains that modernized countries went through in the early 20th century. However, the influence of more modern countries accelerates the development of labor rights.
National leaders also work towards moving human rights forward. But its also difficult to navigate the political landscape, and are often powerless to do anything. What should the UN, Europe, and the US do about Congo? Trade embargos end up hurting the poorest as those in power ensure they have enough for themselves first. Sending food & medicine rarely helps as those items get diverted by those fighting to help fund their efforts. Peacekeeping troops end up just adding another player to the conflict. Doing nothing draws the ire of human rights activists. Pretty much all they can do is ask nicely.
As for the problems in the Middle East, it just highlights that modernized countries are holding their leaders to higher standards. A few dozen civilians die and it becomes newsworthy, where in previous wars it was accepted that thousands of civilians would die in a single raid.
We make those decisions everyday. We decide through voting who is in power. We decide if human rights is more or less important than having a cool pair of shoes. Sometimes we play dumb and keep our eyes closed to what's going on, but in the end we are the ones who make those decisions.
Typically it isn't the victims who stand up, those most impacted by human rights vilations, are more worried about survival than getting the message out. The media, celebrities, and the rich are in fact the ones who spread the message about human rights abuses. Unfortunately, we tend to focus on the few negatives, than the overall positives.
The masses always have the power, they just do not always realize it.
You create a false dichotomy, because there are many American construction workers who can't read the instructions for assembly.
Quality isn't an illegal immigration issue. Doesn't matter if it's a Mexican illegal or American just off the farm, if they don't have the skills its the problem with the construction company. They didn't do a sufficient job of ensuring their laborers had the skills and ensure the quality of work. Illegal immigrants are just a pool of labor, the impact they have is on the value of labor in certain industries. Those who make hiring decisions are the ones responsible for sacrificing service and quality for price.
The most dangerous are the rational people who can control the irrational nature of others.
Why do you think we live in a world with more misery than before? Overall global morality has improved, that is why the problems in the world are highlighted. Modern human rights violations only exist because recently there is general consensus there are human rights.
That's why companies have lawyers who write letters to TV networks and newspapers, about improper use of their brands. It's also why Google sent in the lawyers against the dictionary publishers. The dictionary definition directly refers to the Google search engine, to appease the lawyers, although in common use is for any online search.
Actually common use decreases brand value. Once people stop associating the word with the product, the value is lost. For example, when somebody mentions aspirin, do you immediately think of is as the aspirin brand, or the generic term for acetylsalicylic acid?
Why doesn't my cola can open?
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Why must I agree to a EULA before opening my drink?
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My drink is coming out of holes in the can other than the one for drinking
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MS Cola went up my nose when I was laughing, and it hurts
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I purchased a 12 pack, can my kids drink some of the soda?
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When will CMC be available
Crystal Microsoft Cola is scheduled to be part of the Vista launch event.
That's competing, not teaching.
The actual teaching and practice of baseball in little league is horribly boring - how to call and catch a pop-fly, what base to throw to. It's designed just like school, to be inclusive and to ensure all kids get rudimentry skills. The Little League World Series is an All-Star competition; the kids who needed coaching during the intra-league season, are most likely not part of those teams.
Academic parallels to the Little League example are Science Olympiad or AcDec. The kids who win the competition are those who are self-motivated; those that only know what they get from school, are usually not good enough to compete.
Then don't take programming in school, and try your hand at something new, you just might like it (I've found metal shop has more application than calculus in the real world). Even core classes can offer alternatives: if a student doesn't want to write a book report on "The Cat in the Hat," they can ask to write it on "The Scarlett Letter," in math take the next highest level available (eg if you are supposed to take pre-algebra in 7th grade, enroll in the 8th grade algebra class). At my old high school, there was a kid who excelled at math, to the point where he completed all the school's AP Calculus classes a year early. So he worked with the school to let him take Vector calc at the nearby college. Since then several students have done the same thing, and it's a situation where everybody wins, just takes a little administrative work.
I always found that everybody struggled with something in school. Probably the greatest equalizer in terms of seeing people struggle was foreign languages.
I agree. At the same time, there is no perfect system, they all have positive and negative implications from a social, economic, and academic standpoint. Since there it is impossible to have a single system that works for every individual, tweak the system at the individual level. Which can be done through exceptions made by the school, individualized learning, or through extra-curricular activities.