Fine: I own a restaurant and I don't want to serve black people. Or hispanics.
In Australia we have anti-discrimination laws that enumerate the categories against which private companies can not discriminate. I dare say many countries would have similar legislation.
I'm proud to say that, if you did that (own a restaurant and I don't want to serve black people) in my country (Portugal) you'd land in jail. I'm not so sure about that in the USA, though.
Yes, I do. I find stupid and ignorant people everywhere. But the numbers of ignorant people have been noticeably decaying, at least in my country. Could you have done better? Please step ahead, we'd all love to know how.
We seem to have done a pretty good job educating people in the last century or two. In most developed countries, most people are educated to the limits of human capacity.
All the innovative devices may have a role in education, but they should be considered carefully. Education systems are under attack right now. They're being pressured by the neoliberal shitheads to sharply lower costs and by corporations (usually the same guys) that want to make big money selling expensive toys to governments.
Blackboard and textbooks have worked for long, why such a rush to replace them? IMHO, the ability of a country to educate its population depends more in factors outside the school. like:
how families value education
how families stimulate critical thinking in kids
if kids are well fed, safe, happy
etc.
If a kid wants to learn and has a competent teacher, blackboard and textbook is more than enough.
I'd like to know how 60 metre tall wind turbines on top of mountains can do that. But hey, it's your dream, run it as you like.
And finally, none of them are actually answers. Solar and wind are not reliable enough and never will be with out level of technology, and that is unlikely to change soon. Hydro can only be built in some places and usually is not for the aforementioned reasons. Nuclear is the safest, cleanest, and cheapest option we have. We need to stop listening to fearmongers and figure out how to make it work right. Coal and oil are power until that happens. Solar and wind are pipedreams.
What a fucking naysayer. What happened to the bold Americans that conquered the West? Hiding under your bed crying and shitting your pants?
You'd be appalled to see how illiterate companies are regarding software licences, from the clueless developer that downloads source code for this and that, going through the administrations and lawyers that that don't know anything about it, ending in the dishonest middle manager or sales critter that thinks "no one will ever notice".
But don't you know??? They were Freedom-Hating, Baby-Eating Blood-Thirsty Commies!!!! They just HAD to go down! We're so much morally superior than them!
When the same guys who were in power during the Communist Terror took over the new Capitalist Heaven, they became Respectable Entrepreneurial Freedom Heroes. What would have happened if the same people had remained in power today? Oh, wait...
Oh why do you have freedom? Why do you hate America?
The MQ-9 Reaper uses a 900shp turboprop engine to cruise at 172-195mph with a max speed rating of 300mph. Wingspan 66ft. Max takeoff weight 10,500lbs. Operational altitude 25,000ft, service ceiling 50,000ft. Internal payload 800lbs, external payload 3,000lbs for a combined 3,800lbs payload.
The poor drug cartels are powerless, because they use the metric system. They can't shoot down something if they can't understand where it is, or how much it weighs.
It they win this suit, it's the end of IT industry as we know it. And construction and other industries, too. Who would have though of this, projects delivered in time and budget? OMFG, we're all going to diiiiiie!!!!
Why is it so terrible? It's just the electronic version of plastic mannequins. I believe they did it mainly to lower costs. This is just being stupidly blown out of proportion.
I think this is a great move on the part of the EU. Only democratic regimes should be allowed to illegally spy on its citizens, torture them in secret prisons and finally "disappear" them! I feel much safer now the vicious tyrants have their hands tied.
5 weeks paid vacation is mandatory here in Portugal (I believe in the rest of Europe, too). That doesn't prevent many companies to (illegally) put pressure on workers to reduce their vacation or not taking any at all.
Even in companies that wouldn't dream of doing that, there are some managers trying their chance.
I never caved in to that shit, but I know many people who do.
provide essential life skills, such as enhanced communication and multitasking
It's rather retarded that the summary calls multitasking an "essential life skill". In my opinion, multitasking is one the worse woes in today's work environment. Kills productivity and quality. Forces people to work longer hours to keep up with the mess, disables them to perform meticulous tasks, causes an immense load of errors, destroys team work because everybody is too busy to pay attention to other team members, and makes people miserable in the end.
The fact that so many bosses find it such an important quality is scaring.
With the huge shitload of money you guys have buried there, every Afghan should be living in a two-story family house with cable TV, barbecue, walled garden and a Hummer in the driveway.
But hey, you're paying. You tell where it's spent.
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Fine: I own a restaurant and I don't want to serve black people. Or hispanics.
In Australia we have anti-discrimination laws that enumerate the categories against which private companies can not discriminate. I dare say many countries would have similar legislation.
I'm proud to say that, if you did that (own a restaurant and I don't want to serve black people) in my country (Portugal) you'd land in jail. I'm not so sure about that in the USA, though.
So, in order to have an opinion, I must first choose which herd I belong too? So much for the critical thinking part...
I dont't think they have one, to begin with...
Maybe you should force the parents to attend school together with the children, then.
Yes, I do. I find stupid and ignorant people everywhere. But the numbers of ignorant people have been noticeably decaying, at least in my country. Could you have done better? Please step ahead, we'd all love to know how.
What the fuck are you talking about?
If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
We seem to have done a pretty good job educating people in the last century or two. In most developed countries, most people are educated to the limits of human capacity.
All the innovative devices may have a role in education, but they should be considered carefully. Education systems are under attack right now. They're being pressured by the neoliberal shitheads to sharply lower costs and by corporations (usually the same guys) that want to make big money selling expensive toys to governments.
Blackboard and textbooks have worked for long, why such a rush to replace them? IMHO, the ability of a country to educate its population depends more in factors outside the school. like:
If a kid wants to learn and has a competent teacher, blackboard and textbook is more than enough.
" Wind (...) makes large tracts of land unusable.
I'd like to know how 60 metre tall wind turbines on top of mountains can do that. But hey, it's your dream, run it as you like.
And finally, none of them are actually answers. Solar and wind are not reliable enough and never will be with out level of technology, and that is unlikely to change soon. Hydro can only be built in some places and usually is not for the aforementioned reasons. Nuclear is the safest, cleanest, and cheapest option we have. We need to stop listening to fearmongers and figure out how to make it work right. Coal and oil are power until that happens. Solar and wind are pipedreams.
What a fucking naysayer. What happened to the bold Americans that conquered the West? Hiding under your bed crying and shitting your pants?
You'd be appalled to see how illiterate companies are regarding software licences, from the clueless developer that downloads source code for this and that, going through the administrations and lawyers that that don't know anything about it, ending in the dishonest middle manager or sales critter that thinks "no one will ever notice".
But don't you know??? They were Freedom-Hating, Baby-Eating Blood-Thirsty Commies!!!! They just HAD to go down! We're so much morally superior than them!
When the same guys who were in power during the Communist Terror took over the new Capitalist Heaven, they became Respectable Entrepreneurial Freedom Heroes. What would have happened if the same people had remained in power today? Oh, wait...
Oh why do you have freedom? Why do you hate America?
The MQ-9 Reaper uses a 900shp turboprop engine to cruise at 172-195mph with a max speed rating of 300mph. Wingspan 66ft. Max takeoff weight 10,500lbs. Operational altitude 25,000ft, service ceiling 50,000ft. Internal payload 800lbs, external payload 3,000lbs for a combined 3,800lbs payload.
The poor drug cartels are powerless, because they use the metric system. They can't shoot down something if they can't understand where it is, or how much it weighs.
Hasn't F-22 production been shut down?
Great. So now all that money can instead be applied developing something useful that will make mankind better.
It they win this suit, it's the end of IT industry as we know it. And construction and other industries, too. Who would have though of this, projects delivered in time and budget? OMFG, we're all going to diiiiiie!!!!
The main problem is that they yield extremely expensive water.
They're already pumping carbon particles into the atmosphere. I mean, a huge shitload of them.
I think that, without X-ray vision, the drone would have a hard time spying on Iranians wives...
Unless they're Brazilian and have the bad luck of resembling some most-wanted Arab terrorist.
Why is it so terrible? It's just the electronic version of plastic mannequins. I believe they did it mainly to lower costs. This is just being stupidly blown out of proportion.
I think this is a great move on the part of the EU. Only democratic regimes should be allowed to illegally spy on its citizens, torture them in secret prisons and finally "disappear" them! I feel much safer now the vicious tyrants have their hands tied.
5 weeks paid vacation is mandatory here in Portugal (I believe in the rest of Europe, too). That doesn't prevent many companies to (illegally) put pressure on workers to reduce their vacation or not taking any at all.
Even in companies that wouldn't dream of doing that, there are some managers trying their chance.
I never caved in to that shit, but I know many people who do.
I don't need this. It's cold and gives no tactile feedback. I already have that, I'm married.
provide essential life skills, such as enhanced communication and multitasking
It's rather retarded that the summary calls multitasking an "essential life skill". In my opinion, multitasking is one the worse woes in today's work environment. Kills productivity and quality. Forces people to work longer hours to keep up with the mess, disables them to perform meticulous tasks, causes an immense load of errors, destroys team work because everybody is too busy to pay attention to other team members, and makes people miserable in the end.
The fact that so many bosses find it such an important quality is scaring.
With the huge shitload of money you guys have buried there, every Afghan should be living in a two-story family house with cable TV, barbecue, walled garden and a Hummer in the driveway.
But hey, you're paying. You tell where it's spent.
There are always funds available to things that matter: Killing people, specially a shitload of them. Fuck the economy.
It's great to see the universities spend the money they collect from excruciating tuition in things that really, really matter.