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Comment Re:multi-culturalism (Score 1) 305

First, as a descendant of Victoria, he would be a member of the House of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, since that is the House of all of Victoria's descendants because that was the House of her husband. Second, he would only be a member of that House if he was so descended on the male side. Finally, it is well established that in situations where royals need a surname, the answer I gave would be his surname. So, while as King, he does not have a surname, Glucksburg would be the surname of all of his children who do not have royal titles.
As a result any database in which he was entered that required a surname would list his surname as Glucksburg. However, as king there are few such databases in which he would be entered.

Comment Re:multi-culturalism (Score 1) 305

Well, a quick Google search for "current royalty of Europe" results in a link to this Wikipedia page, which tells us that Harald the Fifth of Norway is from the House of Glucksburg, which means that his last name is Glucksberg. So, as I said, just because you do not know it, does not mean that he doesn't have one.

Comment Re:The solution is project work (Score 1) 95

The real reason that teachers do not make "project" work a larger part of the grade is either because that is a lot more work for the teacher, or the subject is one which is really about acquiring a set of knowledge, not about acquiring a set of skills. I am sure there are schools which require that testing be a major component of the grade, but in every class I ever took, the teacher determined themselves how the grade was determined.

Comment Re:I'm sorry... (Score 1) 95

That can be fixed by the testing agency having its own rules as a condition of taking the test and as a condition of administering the test. They can even set those conditions in a rather draconian manner. If an organization which is administering a test is caught cheating on the test, all scores ever taken through that organization are thrown out and the organization can no longer administer the test. This rule would need to only apply to tests taken after it was implemented.Obviously any one who took the test who was caught cheating would have their score thrown out. If they were the one enabling others to improve their scores, they would never be allowed to take the test again.

Comment Re:What an asshole (Score 2) 305

I'm sorry, but "civil society" organizations have for years identified as hate speech any speech which disagrees with their view of what a "civil society" ought to be, identifying as "hate speech" statements made to the effect that "hate speech" laws and rules are an attempt to silence people you disagree with (even when those statements make no negative statement about any group--except possibly identifying groups which have used such tactics).

Comment Re:multi-culturalism (Score 1) 305

If they are part of Western culture, even those royals have family names just as the English royals do. Just because you do not know it, and the media don't use it, does not mean that it does not exist. I just went down the list of current sovereign monarchs of the world. The only ones which do not have family names associated with them are the monarchs of Andorra because that role is filled by the current President of France and the current Bishop of Urgell as co-Princes.
So, you are mistaken. It is harder to track down everyone with a noble title, but the same holds true there. Every noble family has a family name (that family name may derive from the territory they rule/used to rule, but it is a family name nonetheless).

Comment Re:People (Score 1) 481

Absent a belief in a God who has designated humans as a special creation, there are really only two arguments for not eating other humans. Neither of those arguments apply to any other creature that we have so far encountered. The first, which others have alluded to, is social contract, "I agree not to kill and eat other humans so that other humans will agree to not kill and eat me." The second you refer to in a manner, but seem to overlook its significance. There are proven health problems from eating other humans. As a matter of fact there are several diseases which seem to enter a society as a result of cannibalism, but which do not seem to be limited to the cannibals (there has not been a whole lot of in depth research on the health impact of cannibalism, largely because there are so few cannibals).

Comment Re:Umm, no (Score 1) 724

I'm sorry, but I saw some of what she wrote. It was worded so as to maximize outrage and make it difficult to have a rational debate about her points. She did not want to open a discussion and change things. She wanted to get people worked up and angry. So, no, it was not "debunked" that she acted in a manner that was calculated to stir up outrage.

Comment Umm, no (Score 4, Insightful) 724

I know that the submitter lifted this line from the article, "campaign to discredit prominent female games journalists", but I read the earlier articles on this subject. The attempt was not to "discredit prominent female games journalists." The attempt was to discredit specific female games journalists, at least one of whom acted in a manner which was calculated to stir up outrage and was possibly unethical (for those of you who want to argue about whether or not her behavior was unethical, I am not interested in spending the time looking at what she did in order to reach a conclusion).

Comment Re:Yawn... (Score 1) 534

Yet, you said that people should just do whatever it is that they think is right. Many of the people in the 20th Century thought it was right to kill millions of other people. You say that we should analyze the various ways of deciding what is right and choose the one that works for us. You are unable to give a standard by which to measure whether something is right or wrong, yet I am supposed to accept that you will do what is right (at least most of the time).

Comment Re:More Regulations, Please (Score 2) 240

Because if the government had not mandated EMR, the various EMR systems would have had to convince health care providers that what they were offering made their jobs easier or improved the care they gave their patients in order to get adopted. As problems like this cropped up, those health care providers would have pressured the vendors they dealt with to resolve it. There would have been one of two outcomes: everybody would have ended up using the same company, or everyone would have ended up using those companies who made it easiest to build a system that could talk to other EMR setups. If the Feds did their job enforcing Anti-trust laws, it would have been the latter.

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