Thank you very effin much!
PS: Yes, I know there isn't such a thing as VAIDS yet, but considering what's going on, there should be.
]]>Not much change is happing it seems. Carbon seemingly has no effect.
]]>What are they hiding?
]]>0-19 / 99.997%
20-49 / 99.98%
50-69 / 99.5%
70+ / 94.6%
Between ages 0-69 —if infected— your chance of dying is 0.05%, that 2 in 10,000!
Is something as dangerous as a strong flu worth destroying the economy over?
Time to stop the panic and the fear-mongering.
]]>In 80 years there has been zero net ice loss.
This correlates with personal experience. We're not seeing much warming around here.
]]>• High labour cost via high minimum wage
• Plenty of regulations
• Generous welfare disincentives low skill labour
Canada have them all
]]>The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have brought huge attention to the challenges women face at work, but a new survey finds that 60% of male managers say they’re uncomfortable participating in regular work activities with women, including mentoring, working one-on-one or socializing.
Layman explanation(LE): Men are now very afraid of being skewered by ambitious unscrupulous women aiming for their positions.
According to the survey, released by LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey, that’s a 33% increase from last year.
LE: Women have more power than ever.
Though some have argued that the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have had a negative impact on relationships between men and women at work,
Duh!
Sandberg disagrees.
Of course she does. She wants more unchecked power.
She says the movements have had an “overwhelmingly positive” impact on the workplace, especially in spotlighting the problem of sexual harassment against women.
Positive for whom?
Rachel Thomas, president of LeanIn.org, tells CNBC Make It that “sexual harassment is a lot of things, and it’s a really complicated issue, but a big piece of it is power dynamics.”
Absolutely. It is all about power. But the #MeToo movement is about taking power from men and handing it to women.
“We need more women in positions of leadership, more people of color and more LGBTQ people,” she says. “We need to change what leadership looks like in our organizations because we know that will lead to more safer and stronger workplaces.”
What we need is more competence and less identity politics. Every job should be done by the most qualified person to do it. If the most qualified person is a black gay woman so be it, black man, so be it, white man too.
How come these women leaders never argue for more representation in garbage collection or mining operation or roofing? Those are all men, how come women don’t want a piece of that lucrative pie?
Identity politics is all about grabbing unearned and undeserved power.
]]>A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds.
I'm sure they'll find a way to blame this on global warming.
]]>Not holding my breath.
This correlates with my personal observation. In the last thirty years in eastern Canada, it hasn't gotten any warmer in any personally detectable manner.
]]>A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder -- which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe headaches -- has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant.
This is so cool.
]]>This is Washington D.C., the way to go about this is to hire lobbyists and flood Washington with money. That's what all the smart high tech companies are doing.
Apple spent a paltry $2 millions in 2012 and about $4 millions in 2013. Google spent $18 millions in 2012 and it's not really having any legal problems with DOJ despite their various violations.
That's one place that Apple can really, really learn from Google.
Amazon, the real source of this lawsuit for Apple, spent $2.5m in 2012 and more than $3.5m in 2013 on lobbying.
Apple can easily afford $50m to spend per year on lobbying and all its legal troubles with the DOJ would go away.
]]>And they say iPads are for consumption only. Hah!
]]>A federal court in New York has come down hard on Apple in a closely watched case over ebook pricing. In a ruling issued Tuesday morning, US District Judge Denise Cote ruled that the company "brilliantly" organized a conspiracy to raise prices and thwart competition.
In a 160-page ruling, Cote points to phone calls, emails and the words of Apple founder Steve Jobs to conclude that the company orchestrated an illegal "scheme" in which five major publishers changed their pricing practices. The court said that the prime target of the conspiracy was Amazon, whose Kindle tablet competes with Apple's iPad, and whose pricing practices infuriated publishers.
And everybody, except Amazon, loses in the long run. Even the consumers that the DOJ are allegedly trying to protect.
Hopefully, Apple wins on appeal.
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