That's why I don't get this "he hit someone, and done". Even if so, there's very probably enough provocation on the failing there by the Producer alone.
You hit someone in the office, you get sacked. Gross misconduct. Gone.
You hit someone while working in a highly unionised organisation, while on a final warning, you really expect to not get sacked?
Provocation may be a defence against a legal assault charge, but not against gross misconduct. "Here's a perfectly edible meal freshly prepared and ready for you" is not fucking provocation.
I loved Top Gear, I had no issues with Jeremy Clarkson's lack of PC but don't go pretending that he didn't fuck up massively on this occasion, or that the BBC had no real choice but to reduce their income by around £50m/year and get rid of him.
Which is why companies provide tax engines, that take on the complex calculations and that can be updated by the company providing the engine rather than the many thousands of retailers that use it.
It's not a single central database, it's one per vendor, and the tax jurisdictions don't update them, the vendors do, but otherwise it's the solution you're suggesting.
The downside of course is that those vendors want paying for this service...
Ok, could you list the tax rates and rules across a range of goods in each country within the European Economic Area please?
Oh, and provide an update ahead of any changes, so that I can assure I stay current?
Incidentally, while you're at it, could you build the business logic and rules into my website so that it correctly calculates that tax, and reports it in a compliant fashion to each relevant jurisdiction?
Would it be too much to ask that you make this a robust repeatable process, that it's invisible to customers, that it doesn't cost me anything to operate, that it's secure against fraud or tampering, and that it doesn't rely on external services that might be unavailable?
Is it so hard to implement the different tax rates for different countries?
when it orders people to endorse/support homosexuality it IS ordering them to violate their religion
Baking a cake does not endorse homosexuality. It does not support homosexuality. It endorses the tastiness of cakes and supports giving people sweet yummy food.
Anyway, the religion is full of shit anyway and people should be fucking ashamed of believing in that crap.
Thanks for confirming that you're a prejudiced idiot.
Most people I know that have been diagnosed with Aspergers are married, usually with kids. Nobody I know lives in a basement. Nobody I know has hygiene problems.
You're just a blinkered fuckwit. Now go take your bigoted views elsewhere.
If I'm in a foreign country and can't make myself understood in a shop or restaurant, I'm not going to get upset when the proprietor suggests through non-violent physical cues that perhaps another establishment may better suit my needs.
Why would I expect the US to have a different approach?
Just get out of the closet and admit it - it's a choice to "be gay".
Stop being such a cunt.
I'm straight. I could choose to have sex with a man, there's a chance I could enjoy it, it might be nice. But I'm not attracted to men, I'm attracted to women.
That's not a choice, that's not something I made a conscious decision about. I make conscious decisions about whether to kiss someone, to hold them, to tie them up and tickle them with a furry cat toy.
So being straight isn't a lifestyle choice for me. Acting straight is. Why would being gay be any different?
No. They're welcome and allowed to hate anybody they like. They're just not allowed to use that hatred to treat people differently based on involuntary characteristics such as gender, race or sexuality.
You miss the point that people whose brains work in a specific way are more likely to enjoy and want to programming computers.
The person you were trying to mock highlighted that men are far more likely to have a brain that works that way.
As it happens that particular learning disability doesn't stop intelligent people working effectively with computers, only with people. So your other point that programming must be easier if mentally disabled people can do it is misplaced, flawed, ignorant and inflammatory.
The terrible statistics show that people can't be trusted to drive correctly and safely.
That's strange. The statistics suggest that deaths are in the range of 6 car occupants dying per billion miles driven in the UK. At 60mph that means you'll average 200 years driving before you die.
I'd say that's pretty fucking extraordinarily safe, and if you want to prove otherwise I can only challenge you to you living for 200 years doing any other activity.
Neither autism nor any of the particular metaphysical assumptions you offer are relevant to the topic.
They are. A lot of people get into programming because computers are easy to understand, follow simple straightforward rules and provide consistent responses when given consistent prompts.
People do not. This makes them hard to understand, hard to interact with and (at a young age) a source of aggression, stress and harassment.
Now consider the average man, four times more likely to have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) than the average woman. That means he's more likely to be scared, confused and illtreated by the people around him, and therefore far more attracted to working with the calm, sensible, understandable computer.
Unlike the woman, who has greater social skills and very likely enjoys the social interaction much more than working on a cold impersonal machine.
So yes, it is relevant.
many mentally handicapped men, as you point out, opt for a career in programming.
What makes you think any white male programmer is scared?
Here's a clue: They're programmers. It means they operate logically, they're above average intelligence, they think about things and they act with reason.
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That's why I don't get this "he hit someone, and done". Even if so, there's very probably enough provocation on the failing there by the Producer alone.
You hit someone in the office, you get sacked. Gross misconduct. Gone.
You hit someone while working in a highly unionised organisation, while on a final warning, you really expect to not get sacked?
Provocation may be a defence against a legal assault charge, but not against gross misconduct. "Here's a perfectly edible meal freshly prepared and ready for you" is not fucking provocation.
I loved Top Gear, I had no issues with Jeremy Clarkson's lack of PC but don't go pretending that he didn't fuck up massively on this occasion, or that the BBC had no real choice but to reduce their income by around £50m/year and get rid of him.
Crikey. You made the points I was about to respond with, except you managed to be constructive and polite and not swear. Thank you.
Nah. I'd guess maybe 4 were innocent, if that.
But seriously: What the fuck does living with his parents have to do with shit?
It's an expensive world, people live with their parents.
Which is why companies provide tax engines, that take on the complex calculations and that can be updated by the company providing the engine rather than the many thousands of retailers that use it.
It's not a single central database, it's one per vendor, and the tax jurisdictions don't update them, the vendors do, but otherwise it's the solution you're suggesting.
The downside of course is that those vendors want paying for this service...
Ok, could you list the tax rates and rules across a range of goods in each country within the European Economic Area please?
Oh, and provide an update ahead of any changes, so that I can assure I stay current?
Incidentally, while you're at it, could you build the business logic and rules into my website so that it correctly calculates that tax, and reports it in a compliant fashion to each relevant jurisdiction?
Would it be too much to ask that you make this a robust repeatable process, that it's invisible to customers, that it doesn't cost me anything to operate, that it's secure against fraud or tampering, and that it doesn't rely on external services that might be unavailable?
Is it so hard to implement the different tax rates for different countries?
Yes, it fucking is.
when it orders people to endorse/support homosexuality it IS ordering them to violate their religion
Baking a cake does not endorse homosexuality. It does not support homosexuality. It endorses the tastiness of cakes and supports giving people sweet yummy food.
Anyway, the religion is full of shit anyway and people should be fucking ashamed of believing in that crap.
I'm fairly sure the courts would support the photographer declining to photograph that event.
That's very different to the photographer refusing to take a family portrait of someone because they happen to be white and not a Jew.
Thanks for confirming that you're a prejudiced idiot.
Most people I know that have been diagnosed with Aspergers are married, usually with kids.
Nobody I know lives in a basement.
Nobody I know has hygiene problems.
You're just a blinkered fuckwit. Now go take your bigoted views elsewhere.
So.. what's a woman? And what's a man?
Gender isn't binary, you ignorant bigoted twat.
If I'm in a foreign country and can't make myself understood in a shop or restaurant, I'm not going to get upset when the proprietor suggests through non-violent physical cues that perhaps another establishment may better suit my needs.
Why would I expect the US to have a different approach?
Your entire post is predicated on false assumptions and idiocy. Forgive us if we think you're a bigoted twat.
Just get out of the closet and admit it - it's a choice to "be gay".
Stop being such a cunt.
I'm straight. I could choose to have sex with a man, there's a chance I could enjoy it, it might be nice. But I'm not attracted to men, I'm attracted to women.
That's not a choice, that's not something I made a conscious decision about. I make conscious decisions about whether to kiss someone, to hold them, to tie them up and tickle them with a furry cat toy.
So being straight isn't a lifestyle choice for me. Acting straight is. Why would being gay be any different?
Is that so hard to understand?
"Nice fancy dress. Mind, you should be careful in these parts - someone might mistake you for an ignorant bigoted twat"
Heh, yeah - print the wrong date.
Who tattooed it there? Why is it there? What's your issue with a Hindu symbol of auspiciousness?
No. They're welcome and allowed to hate anybody they like.
They're just not allowed to use that hatred to treat people differently based on involuntary characteristics such as gender, race or sexuality.
You miss the point that people whose brains work in a specific way are more likely to enjoy and want to programming computers.
The person you were trying to mock highlighted that men are far more likely to have a brain that works that way.
As it happens that particular learning disability doesn't stop intelligent people working effectively with computers, only with people. So your other point that programming must be easier if mentally disabled people can do it is misplaced, flawed, ignorant and inflammatory.
I bought a new car in December and found out I was doing 10-15mph faster almost everywhere without a lot of conscious checking and attention.
Didn't feel any faster, but it was.
Acclimatised now, but there was definitely a period in which my honed instincts were horribly wrong.
The terrible statistics show that people can't be trusted to drive correctly and safely.
That's strange. The statistics suggest that deaths are in the range of 6 car occupants dying per billion miles driven in the UK. At 60mph that means you'll average 200 years driving before you die.
I'd say that's pretty fucking extraordinarily safe, and if you want to prove otherwise I can only challenge you to you living for 200 years doing any other activity.
So pen the remake, Twelve Angry Women.
It's probably due to be recycled anyway..
They're doing project management, business analysis or testing?
Confirm how many white males are in programming.
Not very fucking many around here. It's all Indian outsourcers.
Neither autism nor any of the particular metaphysical assumptions you offer are relevant to the topic.
They are. A lot of people get into programming because computers are easy to understand, follow simple straightforward rules and provide consistent responses when given consistent prompts.
People do not. This makes them hard to understand, hard to interact with and (at a young age) a source of aggression, stress and harassment.
Now consider the average man, four times more likely to have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) than the average woman. That means he's more likely to be scared, confused and illtreated by the people around him, and therefore far more attracted to working with the calm, sensible, understandable computer.
Unlike the woman, who has greater social skills and very likely enjoys the social interaction much more than working on a cold impersonal machine.
So yes, it is relevant.
many mentally handicapped men, as you point out, opt for a career in programming.
So it is relevant then. Hmm.
What makes you think any white male programmer is scared?
Here's a clue: They're programmers. It means they operate logically, they're above average intelligence, they think about things and they act with reason.
Unlike you.
I'm pissed off because I see a small subset of society demanding special privileges and demanding that another section of society suffers as a result.
If you want to be a programmer, write some fucking code. It's not exactly hard.