"This is about RECRUITERS. They go out and find candidates."

This doesn't change what I said. In this case the recruiter is passing on qualified people just so they can hit a %20 quota. It's not like they have infinite candidates to begin with.....they may be limited to 100, or 50, or whatever. If there aren't enough qualified people to fill the candidate quota to begin with, they'll have to start reaching out to unqualified female candidates to fill that 20%.

And I did read the article thanks.

So if 100 people apply, and only 10 of them are women, I still have to exclude 10 male candidates that are more qualified than those 10 women.

"1) Push your technical recruiters to hit 20% thresholds for female candidates"

At the expense of the qualified candidates?

Have a look at Xojo. It used to go by the name REALbasic.

What's the matter Colonel Sanders? CHIIIIIICKEN?!?

Seems too risky. Non-lethal weapons aren't always reliable in these types of situations.
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If you wanted to hit someone with a "sleep dart" over 100 yards away, such a weapon would most certainly be no different than a bullet at closer range, making it potentially lethal anyways.

Not to mention that these guys were known to be heavily-armed, wore body armor, and had hostages. Better to take them out quickly than risk any more lives.

"Construction of the Banqiao dam began in April 1951 on the Ru River with the help of Soviet consultants as part of a project to control flooding and electrical power generation"

It's a bad idea to mock the source when you haven't read it.

I see this come up a lot, and one has to wonder.....would the Ayatollah still come to power if Mohammad Mosaddegh's government hadn't been overthrown? Given what's just happened in Egypt, I'd say it's possible.

"Because it isn't. It is shit. It always has dramatic environmental impact, which is precisely what we're arguing against with coal and oil."

Not to mention the safety record. People love to rail against nuclear because of Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, but none of those hold a candle to the amount of damage caused by hydro electric failures:

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Radio Shack. They'll be lucky to survive one year much less ten.

"Now think many of these same people with guns."

You've just explained the recent rash of police brutality incidents.

Not to mention that it was awarded to Arafat but not to Gandhi.

"No, but that's not the point"

So we should just ignore them and let them get on with it? I'd love to hear your non-violent solutions.

Look at how many innocent civilian casualties there were in Dresden, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Tokyo, London, Coventry, etc etc. The U.S. could easily do the same thing to Mecca, Riyadh, Kabul, etc etc. I think we've moved on from that.

Please mod this up.

Some people seem to have the idea that all of this is the fault of U.S. policies. Sure, maybe...but if we were suddenly stopped recognizing Israel, bombing Yemen/Iraq/Syria/Afganhistan, and left middle-east affairs completely, would ISIS/Al-Qaeda/Taliban call off their aggression? If you believe they would, then I have a bridge to sell you. These three organizations don't just hate America, they hate the entire western way of life, and has pretty much been their M.O. from the beginning. Look up their policies on women, religious tolerance, and free speech for more info. But hey, I guess we're supposed to tolerate intolerance.

I don't think torture should be a U.S. policy, but please don't try to make out ISIS/Al-Qaeda/Taliban out to be good guys fighting for a good cause. You know, those SS guys were just trying to spread their way of life through Europe because of the unjust Versailles treaty (Oh My Godwin!).