While it's not a solution most people want to consider, pumping sulfuric acid into the atmosphere would counter act the green house effect. But it's sort of the "old lady who swallowed the fly" issue since we then would need to figure out what to do about all the acid rain.

But that would mean the people stealing phones where doing things that were illegal, and that would be BREAKING THE LAW!

Look at it this way. The HR person will have two stacks of resumes. One for people with a degree and one for people without. Odds are the only time they'll delve into the non-degree pile is if they find no one in main stack to fill the position. This isn't to say you MUST have a degree to get a job. I lack one and have been employed for a long time. But I'm realizing that as my age gets up there, it will be desirable to get one for my next job.

But seriously. It's barely considered a planet and now people want to point out its faults? Leave Pluto alone!!!

It's almost as if GNOME and Unity and all of that are like a precursor to Obamacare or something.

I don't know what KDE is like now, but I was seriously annoyed by KDE at first -- everything with a damned K in it and giant frikken icons that looked like they were designed by mechanical (excuse me, mekanikal) engineers. Maybe it's better now... who knows... I'm still kinda angry that GNOME betrayed the usership so badly.

There is simply no end to the complaining about the latest GNOME desktop. It is exactly as Linus Torvalds said it was. It's an unholy abomination and most people don't want it. They should have kept the old desktop and offered an alternative to see how people wanted to go. But no. They just had to annoy the hell out of so many people. I want to say "let them die" but then I wonder what would happen with the GNOME2 stuff... is MATE being actively developed? If so maybe the likes of RedHat will shift over to supporting and developing MATE/GNOME2 again.

Sorry if I'm not the first person to wonder about this question, but there are some eery and striking similarities in my mind with ebonics and common core. I know they have a problem with Turkish people there but I didn't realize it was that bad.

Well, looks like I didn't have to say any of what I have to say. So I'll say this instead.

Look to Louisville, KY for how bad things can get when we try to be desperately politically correct or try to sweep it all under the rug. The "teens" have formed a gang among three+ schools and have exceeded the capacity of the police there. Oddly, only a small number of arrests have been made and of those they do not fit the profile of the "teens." Meanwhile, among the terror and chaos, the mayor essentially says "shelter in place" and "be unarmed" after the police leadership came out to the people saying they could not manage this situation and could not protect the public. The FBI has come forward to open all of this up and the truth is far worse than any previous reporting.

It's beyond control and media and others are STILL trying to cover this up. This is not the sort of thing which can simply be ignored. At some point, this sort of problem will be visible from space and people are going to have to ask some serious questions about all of this.

It all leads to this: ignoring crime and crimina tendencies only leads to its growth and intensification. Remember Trayvon? Turns out, he would be alive if only the school police were allowed to do their job instead of suppressing information about black criminals in their schools. Had he been referred to the local police after being caught with stolen articles and "burglary tools" he might have been detailed instead of getting into a violent confrontation which resulted in his death.

People can cook up all sorts of ways to spin this and you could be on every side of the issue. Some people generally feel "who cares!? let them kill each other off and stop trying to slow it down!" There seems to be evidence that this is precisely what is happening though the question of intent remains unanswered. And while stats say black people are far worse to each other than they are to other people, there is clear evidence that they are a danger to everyone even if it's not everyone equally.

Smart black people generally try to make a living for themselves, raise families and do all the right things and, individually, they are great people. But somehow, in numbers, things always seem to deteriorate.

To be fair, IT security is usually more religion than science.

You mean like the poor white people who talk about accumulation of wealth and barriers of entry into the marketplace and stuff like that? I agree. It's not quite enough to explain it as "racial" or like that.

Why do women need anything more than men? Are they inferior?

Most people have been human their whole lives with an understanding of human nature which goes back as far as humans have existed. There are reasons for our body forms, our mental and emotional structures and patterns and more. Yet somehow, in a window of less than 50-60 years, all of that wisdom and understanding is to be challenged as completely false and that it is opportunity which is to blame for women not being involved in certain fields and occupations and discrimination against women which yields lower pay for women.

Study after study has shown that most of the occupational choice issues are just that -- choices. Women are born with careers in being female and most are practically obsessed with merely being female. (By comparison, how often do men go around seriously saying "because I'm a man!"? I haven't seen or heard anything like that in more than 20 years.) And even the POTUS who is supporting propaganda about an alleged "war on women" spouts out nonsense about 77 cents on the dollar and when challenged with that very "problem" in his own administration, they make excuses which sound REMARKABLY like the results of so many studies on the matter. And if what the POTUS says is true of his administration, how can they make claims of 77/100 with a straight face against the rest of the nation? It's completely disingenuous.

At the end of the day, women want what they want. I would personally prefer to see more geek girls out there giving me fewer awkward conversations with people I would otherwise have nothing in common. That's not the way it goes. And here's stark reality no one ever seems to talk about.

Women with careers are frequently torn between two careers where one is motherhood. Heaven help the woman who is accused of being an unfit mother. Does this seem at all reasonable or fair to you? What's the end-game? Population decrease among more intelligent people?

Are these issues being pushed to distract or to destroy? Both? We should all be at least a little skeptical of the motives behind all of this.

Yeah, me too... and uhm... when did that change for you? I'm in mid-40s and that still happens for me though I wouldn't say without thinking... there's almost always something I'm thinking about at the time.

Is a world without sound a handicap? Absolutely. Is a world without sound dangerous? ABSOLUTELY.

What gets me is the obvious duplicity. They often feel loud sounds which can get their attention (as we all do) and that's good. But is that enough? NO. It's not and it can't be.

And if there were an additional sense which would allow humans to detect against other dangers in life, I would consider the absense of that sense to be a disability as well... or perhaps, the presense as a super-power. The point is having senses are essential. Having them reduced or absent is an impairment. Being about to get through life happily with an impairment is wonderful. But it's still an impairment.

It's when an impairment becomes something which must be agressively defended that things have gone too far.