Exactly. And now there are two women owned firms, whereas before there was only one. After the lucrative contracts, both women will be heads of successful companies. From the point of these laws, which is to encourage the growth of women (and minority) owned businesses, these would be success stories, driving the intended behavior via regulations and economic incentives.

From the points of view of the economy, of fair trade, of fair competition, and of pure capitalism, it may not be seen as a good thing, but the law was not written to further encourage those behaviors, as they're already plenty successful. The law would be working as designed.

so then banks did not loan any money to people 15 years ago when I could file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and cancel all debts legally and NOT have to return the car and house.

Damn, I did not know that banks and lending did not exist before 1997.

Funny thing is I have proof that it existed, as I went through it in the early 90's Kept the Car and the house, told the bank to shove it up their butt with the signature of a Judge. Their fault for lending money to a person working for a unstable company called General Motors.

"But the reality is that if there were no bailiffs to repossess property bought on credit when you didn't pay up, then no-one would loan money."

So you support that big business should not have ANY risk then? the RISK for loaning money is that you loaned money to someone that cant pay it back, hello that is a risk of business, and problem is the credit industry has the responsibility to VET who they loan to.

If there were no baillifs or if we returned to where I could file for bankruptcy and tell the bank to stuff it in their ass. The banks would lend money smarter.

What I get from your example is that we need to remove all risk for companies, and this is completely and utterly a very dumb thing. Patents should expire quickly so that scumbag companies dont just sit on them.

The White House will not TAX Intellectual Property, there is no way in hell they will tip the scales in the patent lawsuit nuttyness.

Their backers are the IP holders. All politicians care more about the money than the little guy.

The curvature is relative to other points, hence the name "relativity".

What we're talking about was the reply to the comment " gravity ain't zero at the space station" , that said "Gravity aint 0 anywhere in the universe." You say it is some places. I say it ain't.

The writer does 90% of the work, yet the publisher gets most of the profit.

Sounds like you have never written and had published a book before.

from a publisher? yes.

from a writer? no.

most authors wold KILL to get $2.00 per book sold. everything else goes to the publisher that is whoring the writers

Yes, I'm much more interested in the story of how his dad taught him so well and effectively than I am in the solution itself.

And while I'm sorry you had such a crappy experience in public school, you might be heartened to know that not all public schools are equally horseshit as the ones you were unfortunate enough to attend. We have some absolutely stellar schools around us here, with teachers that actually care, and they try hard to challenge the kids to reach above their "expected potential". Not every school, mind you, but many of the ones in our district are excellent. I think it helps to have schools large enough to have multiple classes per grade level, which means they can offer a whole class or two of remedial addition to the kids who need that, several classes of algebra and trig to the majority of students, and a class of calc 1 and calc 2 to the kids who want that challenge.

Sadly, I know that your story is far too common. I have a friend who grew up in California public schools, then due to family circumstances had to take his senior year of high school in a Kentucky school. He went from an 11th grade pre-calc class to basic math in 12th grade, complete with scarily stupid students and teachers. (I don't know where in Kentucky he was.) With no challenges in school, (and suddenly being dropped into a foster family situation,) he found himself in the classic teenage rebellion scenario, and discovered plenty of ways to get into trouble. It was fortunate for him that he had only one year to suffer through the bad school before he got into a college, which certainly helped him get his life back on track.

Private schools aren't always the answer either, by the way. There are some well known parochial schools around here that deliver some pretty mediocre educations.

So my advice is don't judge all public schools based solely on your own experience. Like most other things in life there are good ones and bad ones out there, and any responsible parent needs to be very selective where their kids go.

Funny, I find anything on a Macro Scale to be boring and predictable.

I have evidence to the contrary. As I posted above, I had a dog that would watch me throw a ball onto a sloped roof, where it left her sight. It then rolled along the slope of the roof in an arc and returned to sight a few seconds later, further down the roofline. She became quite good at positioning herself under the spot where the ball would eventually reemerge and drop to her.

It obviously doesn't mean she understood the calculus or formal proofs. It does demonstrate that mammalian brains are capable of taking in some facts of movement and making predictions based on them. It's not all that surprising in a dog. They are descended from animals that hunt cooperatively in packs, where they learn that some of the pack will drive prey out, and others know to run ahead to where the prey will likely flee to, even though they aren't always following them with their eyes.