I was living in Canada when the new law on child porno was passed. If I recall correctly isn't the age of consent much lower in Canada then most of the US. Something like 13 or 14, at least it was 5 years ago.
So it was my understanding when this law passed, that I as a 40 something could legally have sexual relations with a 14 or 15 year old, but couldn't record this fact say in my diary.
Maybe the judge saw this incosistency in the case before him. The depiction of sex with a minor is illegal, but the act itself is legal.
In my 20 work years I have worked with 2 black women who should have been fired within 6 months of hire. They were totally incompetent, but thought they knew everything. What they knew was how to yell discrimination whenever things didn't go their way.
I've worked with many more blacks (men and women) who were good solid engineers. But those two loud mouthed black women stuck out. They used affirmitive action to keep their jobs and to get promotions. Believe me bigots will focus on them and ignore the good solid workers. They will use it to justify their beliefs that blacks are inferior ignoring the evidence that the majority of black engineers (few that they are) are just as competant as non-blacks.
You know AA can be used by a bigot to prove their point.
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Actually there are two important factors for Asians excelling in the Tech industry. First, many learn English as a 2nd language, even 2nd and 3rd generation Asians. I've worked with many of them and they all said the same thing, it is easy to be a Math Major versus a History Major. You can learn and understand mathematics with very little English comprehension and with weak writting skills. Second, many 2nd and 3rd generation Asians still have a strong sense of Confucious (sp?) sensibility, that strong sense of family identity versus individual.
Also this race stuff is a bunch of bullshit!!! There ain't no such beast. We all be the same species with variations in appearance. Many of us come from different cultures and happen to look more alike, but there just ain't no genetic bias that says blacks are better athletes and whites are better engineers.
I've worked with an engineer that believed dark eyes meant you were full of shit (he had dark brown eyes and white skin) and was following some cult to lighten his eye color. He examined his eyes each day to measure how much shit he had eliminated. Yet he was still a good programmer (and we both would agree he was full of shit).
My point being we, humans that is, believe lots of stupid ideas. Some are benign (dark eyes = full of shit) and others can be brutal (blacks = inferior race). Both are controlled by genetics and make us look different but don't cause us to be better or worse at anything.
What happens if they don't patent and someone does. I keep hearing horror stories of obvious ideas being patented. How hard is it to get a patent, once issued, revoked? How expensive? Is it cheaper to patent instead of fighting off patents.
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So it was my understanding when this law passed, that I as a 40 something could legally have sexual relations with a 14 or 15 year old, but couldn't record this fact say in my diary.
Maybe the judge saw this incosistency in the case before him. The depiction of sex with a minor is illegal, but the act itself is legal.
I've worked with many more blacks (men and women) who were good solid engineers. But those two loud mouthed black women stuck out. They used affirmitive action to keep their jobs and to get promotions. Believe me bigots will focus on them and ignore the good solid workers. They will use it to justify their beliefs that blacks are inferior ignoring the evidence that the majority of black engineers (few that they are) are just as competant as non-blacks.
You know AA can be used by a bigot to prove their point.
Actually there are two important factors for Asians excelling in the Tech industry. First, many learn English as a 2nd language, even 2nd and 3rd generation Asians. I've worked with many of them and they all said the same thing, it is easy to be a Math Major versus a History Major. You can learn and understand mathematics with very little English comprehension and with weak writting skills. Second, many 2nd and 3rd generation Asians still have a strong sense of Confucious (sp?) sensibility, that strong sense of family identity versus individual. Also this race stuff is a bunch of bullshit!!! There ain't no such beast. We all be the same species with variations in appearance. Many of us come from different cultures and happen to look more alike, but there just ain't no genetic bias that says blacks are better athletes and whites are better engineers. I've worked with an engineer that believed dark eyes meant you were full of shit (he had dark brown eyes and white skin) and was following some cult to lighten his eye color. He examined his eyes each day to measure how much shit he had eliminated. Yet he was still a good programmer (and we both would agree he was full of shit). My point being we, humans that is, believe lots of stupid ideas. Some are benign (dark eyes = full of shit) and others can be brutal (blacks = inferior race). Both are controlled by genetics and make us look different but don't cause us to be better or worse at anything.
What happens if they don't patent and someone does. I keep hearing horror stories of obvious ideas being patented. How hard is it to get a patent, once issued, revoked? How expensive? Is it cheaper to patent instead of fighting off patents.