Just in case you dont realise, the reason for that have absolutely NOTHING to do with technical or economic issues.

And if you think any similar issues are the main problem with tunneling through the core of the planet, may I suggest looking at a preschool picture of 'the inside of a planet'? you see that red stuff? ......

Yes, they are. They are being fired, because paranoid parents assume that all male teachers are rapists, and schools are doing nothing to prevent that perception.
(and of course ignoring the amount of female teachers committing rape, both statutory and direct).

Of course that is only part of the problem, the fact is that Male and Female teachers take different approaches, which is why having both is so important.
And the 'educationalists' have a large bias to the Female approach (mostly because most of them are female).

Pull your head out of the closet and have a look at the teacher gender split figures, they are, shall we say, enlightening.

This, exactly this, and not just in the US, in pretty much every westernised education system.

Add to that of course addressing the HUGE gender imbalance in teaching (where is the effort to get more male teachers? yeah right,
they are being actively removed...)

Schools have become comfortable little fiefdoms with a dirty mixture of self interest, paranoia, and financial incest. The system needs to be stripped open
and scrubbed clean.

Once upon a time we had a media who would do the hard yards to achieve such things. Once..

ROTFL, written like a good little consumer. The koolaid is strong in this one ;)

There is VERY little debate, it is often no more expensive to make something repairable, and thats not even the professors complain (or a good attempt at a strawman..), their complaint is that consumers are not bothering to even try and fix or have things fixed because they dont know how or that it is possible.

ie: they are well trained little consumers also.

Of course it is good for the companies selling items, but it is pretty damn stupid from ANY other point of view.

With a toaster it is almost certainly a simple mechanical or electrical connection issue, so its usually a 5 or 10 minute fix.

Or, you know, just dont bother and add it to the landfills, I know which path I wold prefer.

Actually the amplifier chips are usually easier to source and replace than they used to be, certainly a lot easier to diagnose.
The problem is people dont care, they consider the cost to be low enough they dont bother to try, and unless you try (and inevitably often fail)
you dont build up the skill set to be able to repair things.

In fact I would suggest that over half of modern electronics failures are bad capacitors, or power supply issues - even after the ones that are
purely mechanical (wires, switches, etc).

Dont forget the elephant in the corner, which is is OH so fashionable to ignore.

Who is teaching our children?

Really, especially in younger education, go and look at the male/female TEACHER ratio.

Any women claim they are unfairly treated in education? BS. They ARE education now, if they are unfairly treated it is by themselves.

It is boys that are getting hammered, by a even increasing demand of a feminised education system for them to conform to feminine standards.

Want equality? Show me the push for more men in teaching!

Stop showing off about how much better off you are than the masses!

Damn skite!

Think of the children! ( who may actually have to SEE this film!)

You missed which part was the stunt.

Sony got hacked and very embarrassing emails for leaked.
Sony's spin doctors went in to overdrive.. And devised that threats against a movie that was looking like a loser anyway could help..

And it has.. No one is talking about the emails any more.. The us govt is rushing to support Sony as are the us sheeple.

So basically a successful move by Sony.

Who cares of it causes an international incident... A few execs can get a little more bonus next year!

I am sorry, what data does it have?
Oh, you mean it has unsupported assertions that match your desired worldview?

Let me make my own suggestion:
Pre mid 90s, CS was a rather unpopular course, generally filled with people who had a true interest in it, and in quite low numbers.
Therefore it tended to have a moderately (more) balanced gender participation, although that does vary quite strongly depending on location.

During the later 90s, the 'tech boom' made it a much more popular course for a lot of people who through it could be a path to 'success', the
content was watered down, the attendance went through the roof, and more of a male bias was seem.

HOWEVER, what to know where the opposite happened? business courses, MBAs, Laywers, Doctors.
Thats right, women CHOSE to avoid tech because they saw a larger payout in other areas - and women in general are better at long term planning.
Women went for the established, known risk long term payout of those kinds of course (at least as viewed at the time), whereas Men tended to bias more
towards the 'excitement and risk' of tech, with a lower probable payout.

But history meant a few of the tech people ended up making it big - so not its 'unfair' that more women didnt choose that path, and its the mens fault.

Get real, CS, and other tech courses, were most certainly NOT sexy in the early-mid 90s, and women were not excluded - most people who took them
were looked down on by much of the rest of the faculty.

Or, should we perhaps look at the current gener in bio-research, and advanced medical? a HUGE bias to women - who is screaming out about fixing that
equality? yes? please? no one? thought not.

Its just more of the usual - if something does well, women want 'equality' inforced there, but if it doesnt, they are happy to ignore it.
Or should be be trying to fix the gender gap in trades and manual labour areas? more women working in mines and fabrication?

Thought not..

No, it appears that YOU know nothing about IT.
Or more, likely, the shill is strong in this one.

It is a pretty normal and well understood process these days of requesting user permission for a specific upload of information to a vendor (for exmaple 'this program has crashed, can we please send the crash report back for analysis'

Them being allowed to scrape anything they damn well feel from your computer without any direct permission is, as anyone with a functioning brain knows, a HUGE step beyond that.

So, you are saying that China and Japan rule?

So.. Tell me
How is the pay as a teachers union rep these days?

That's quite a good collection of complete rubbish.. But hey what ever you need to rationalize increasing teachers benefits and protections at the cost of children's education.. Right?

You have forgotten that the principle under your theory is looking after all the kids in the school.. They must be underpaid even more! And I just realized! Obama is in charge of the whole population right? My god that man needs a pay rise!

The fact is these days teaching has become more and more secure (bad teachers are not only not removed.. They are almost impossible to even identify any more). Schools are spending more and more on their internal staffing and management and facilities and teaching 'aids' ( most of which are designed to reduce teacher effort rather that increase quality of actual teaching) at the direct cost of actual education.

I truly feel sorry for the last few true teachers holding on in the system as they watch this show motion train wreck destroy what was one a highly respected profession.

Sad.. Bit that's the end game of the paranoid knee jerk media driven frenzy that modern American life has become.

Think of the children.. Start making teachers and schools actually responsible for their Poor performance.

You need to learn some basic comprehension I am afraid.

An Advocate is someone actively pushing for something.
Not being an advocate in NO way means you are apathetic to something or against something.
You can be a supporter without being an advocate.

However what you have done is demonstrated your actual bias by trying to tar anyone who is not a feminist as being against women, a common dirty trick.

Or do you really believe that you are against everything in this world that you dont actively work to support?
When was the last time you actively worked to support starving africans? homeless people? abused children? abused animals? male rape victims? (yes, they exist) the land rights of Austalian Aborigines?

See how it works? not being an advocate for something does not mean you dont support it.

Journalists are also in a position of power and trust, and as they are quite willing to dig in to the 'background' of others and public report it from that position of power, they should be willing to accept the same.

Neither party should enter in to any kind of smear campaign, or falsely report anything, or hopefully sensationalise anything, however there must be balance.

And part of that balance is that journalists should be willing to be held up to the same level of scrutiny as the people they report on.

From what I could tell there was no reported evidence that their private life was going to be investigated, just their background - and that IS entirely valid, in the
same way that it is valid for a journalist to investigate the background of those they report on. It is quite clear here that there are suspicions, quite possibly valid,
that certain people in the media are intentionally targeting a company - it is ENTIRELY valid for the company to put similar effort in to investigating those
journalists to see if there is an underlying reason for the targeting - of course hopefully they will find nothing.

It is rather precious for a journalists to cry foul about having their 'private lives' attacked when they are reporting comments that were made in a private context,
especially when the journalists in question have reported also on a number of details of the CEO in questions private life themselves.

All part of the poisonous angry world of distrust and low morals that is the public face of the US these days, I guess. Deal with it.