There, fixed that for you.

Principals have no patients for smart arse kids.

The problem is, it isn't the 16 yr old civics student getting expelled. Its the 16 yr old jock who thinks that they're protected from the consequences of being a complete arsehole. This guy is after a sports schollarship (which need to die), so he's less worried about an academic black mark.

However the problem isn't the arsehole jock, it's the jocks arsehole parents (your guess on whether raising an arsehole crotchspawn is genetic or environmental is as good as mine). If their precious little Johnny gets suspended for bullying his high and mighty parents will be barrelling down to the principals office to demand their perfect snowflake is immediately reinstated and this accusation be striken from their record.

The onus of proof that little Johnny did wrong is on the school, schools would like nothing better than to come down hard on bullies, they make life hard for students, teachers and administrators but when the parents come armed to the teeth with lawyers they cant do a thing. The problem they have with this is that any evidence that their precious snowflake did anything wrong will be instantly dismissed with legal threats that a school does not have the money or time to fight. Parents of bullies never want to know, let alone admit they raised a sociopath and an arsehole.

If a principal were to show evidence from another students facebook page, the parents will instantly dismiss it as a fake. The cognitive dissonance amongst bad parent is extremely powerful, so schools are left with no choice but to start demanding passwords from the bullies as no other level of evidence will be enough to convince the parents. There are few other options left open to schools these days because parents are given too much power.

You know restaurants are well within their legal rights to prevent members of the public from entering. In fact if you walked around with a handy cam videoing everything regardless of it was your business or not you will be thrown out. Hell, even in Australia businesses have the right to refuse service with very few exceptions. BTW, you need to look up the meaning of public space, it is not defined by the ability to restrict entrance.

A restaurant is not a public place. Its a private business that has permitted your entrance. The street is a public place and (at least in my country) recording is permitted within limits (those limits being stalking).

So basically, the only way you can prove your point is to ignore all the facts and question completely out of context.

That's exactly how deniers work, well played sir, well played.

Whoosh... ;)

That's bullshit.

Wait times are much longer in the US if you're not rich. The median time for a hip replacement in Australia is 100 days, for someone who hasn't got a high income in the US its over 12 months, if you haven't got insurance you're pretty much expected to die with the bad hip.

The US like to cherry pick its wait times by deliberately excluding patients under a certain income level.

You've got zero idea how the health care systems work in France, the UK or any other country because you rely on propaganda rather than facts.

You can keep your high cost/long wait industry, however you cant call it superior in any way.

Erm,

Countries with socialised and single payer systems cover these things and manage to do it for significantly less than the US.

The difference between these systems and the US system is that systems in Canada, the UK and Australia have patient care at the core motive whilst the system in the US has profit as the core motive. A doctor in Australia wont send you for unnecessary tests, wont give you a long drug based treatment plan when a change in lifestyle will do, there are fewer middlemen demanding a cut and the government enforces a price ceiling to ensure that patient aren't being used as a piggy bank.

The problem in the US isn't that the government cant do anything, the govt could do something about the cost of health care in short order, the problem is it wont. Several other highly developed countries have shown you exactly how to improve your health care system, the problem is that half the government is in the pockets of the health care industry (and in the US it's an industry, not a system) and that half the people of the US are deluded about modern health care systems in other countries.

"Why? Well, a couple of reasons. First, if you're like me, your hand will be on the mouse a lot causing it to be warm. Second, mice get abused and break too easily."
I think you're doing it wrong.
Stop abusing your "mouse" and it won't get warm and break.

The only way is by taking the hot hatch approach. To make compromises until you get a mix of features. A hot hatch handles better and is faster than an ordinary hatch, but still pretty far from a real sports car. They've got more space and seats than a sports car, but not quite as much as most hatchbacks. The big compromise you make is that most hot hatches look like a bag of arseholes.

Microsoft cant really take this approach as they have to cut too much functionality that people will miss from the full blown version of Windows in order to make it functional on phones and tablets with the same code base... So instead their adding the mobile code base to Windows which is the equivalent of trying to make a hot hatch by putting a Corolla body onto a prime mover.

Touch pad is perfect for those turn based games like that.

Said no gamer ever.

Sorry, but if you think touch is good for Turn Based Strategy games you haven't tried to play a touchscreen game for 3 hours and for a good TBS game, 3 hours is a short session.

Communication is a two way street.

In my experience with Autistic people, you can easily overcome the difficulties they have with talking by being a good listener. Having an Autistic person in your team can be a boon, as long as you can communicate with them (especially if you work in IT).

But being a good team is more than just communication (which is talking and listening, people to talk but dont listen are terrible communicators, even worse than an autistic person) but organisational skills. A team needs to organise itself into an effective unit and avoid petty squabbles.

Personality matters a lot, teams benefit from large numbers of assertive personalities (I win, you win) but suffer from aggressive (I win, you lose), Passive (I lose, you win) and passive aggressive (I lose, you lose) personalities. Basically the majority of the team members have to be committed to seeing every team member win. People committed to seeing themselves or another lose sabotage team efforts (whether consciously or unconsciously).

Its been bad since Civ V.

Civ IV: Beyond the Sword was the high point of the Civ series, it's now in decline thanks to Firaxis chasing the casual dollar. The fact this new game is coming out for Ipads is a clear warning it's going to be seriously gimped. I dont think Sid Maier has much, if any input on the current games that carry his name, a lot like Tom Clancy.

I took a pass on Beyond Earth because Civ V was so horrible. In fact I'm still playing Civ IV BTS over Civ V.