Comment Bwahahaha! (Score 0) 64
Screw you, SourceForge!
Well, if that is how you define "coercion", then the term has nothing to do with slavery, forced labor, or injustice anymore.
Except that it does. When a choice is made of the least of the worst, force exists. It means that one is only able to mitigate an undesirable situation, not remove it.
In a big city like New York or Sydney there are "selective" high schools like Bronx Science or Stuyvesant or Sydney Girls High School where elementary school kids have to take a test to get in. Always the school ends up being 80% Asian, either because they're smart, or work hard, or their parents have strong test-prep culture which fits the test-based state school admission better than it fits selective college admission. Yet somehow white students don't complain that they don't have the advantage Asians do because they live in a neighborhood that's predominantly white and go to schools that are predominantly white and therefore shitty, so they lack the secondary education opportunities of Asians.
Sounds like a case for applying disparate impact to kill off the selectiveness.
Public schools, as done in the US, allow a wider amount of individuals to access education in ways not otherwise available.
They're not prizing education, but the ability to make certain tiers of education. It's a lighter, friendlier, less free system comparable to India's castes - as competence is tertiary to tiering and testing.
On the other hand, the United States allows all and does quite well. If one were to factor that in tests, that would put the US at/near the top. However, don't let a little statistics get in the way of your narrative.
Forcing diversity only makes the problem worse. Never mind that the survey also indicated a potential offset of citizens with non-citizens.
the transaction between landlord and tenant is "voluntary", coercion can be involved when another reasonable choice would be preferable, if made available.
FTFY for truth
When conditions exist that are technically "voluntary" but do not lead to meaningfully different/better choices, force exists in a subtle form.
"I have to give this book one star because I ordered it and it never arrived on time even though Amazon said it left the facility six days before it was supposed to get here!"
"This book is typical LIBTARD crap and if you buy it you're a stupid egghead."
"I haven't read a book in five years so when this book came out I decided to buy it. This isn't the book I thought I was ordering, this is crap written by a different guy with a similar name! Buyer beware!"
Is it really that hard to get a computer to pick these out?
Are you a subscriber to either Verizon Wireless or AT&T? They're about the only ones wanting to go that path - and remain on it.
On the other hand, Sprint and T-Mobile will at least offer non/very-lightly metered data plans. With them, sanity prevails.
If you want anything close to unlimited (without a legacy plan), Sprint and T-Mobile are your only options.
After letting the Chinese walk out with everything from Nortel, Huawei now exists a PRC government-backed entity.
When you cut corners with the very people responsible for your IT infrastructure, things like this will happen. Treat them well, even hire them directly, things like this tend not to happen.
Unfortunately, the UK is rife with this kind of corner-cutting.
How about recognizing that if a product isn't perfect, that criticism is valid? That handwave doesn't work.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
