Read my post again. You didn't understand it.

So you hand picked the few and extremely uncommon jobs that actually had real time constraints and think you are smart?
Nope, you need to get better at arguing.

Lets go through those cases one by one:

A) Fire men spend 90% of their time training - which they get all the extra time they need. Yes, in a real emergency they need to hustle, but even then they use the slow is smooth, smooth is fast technique. They do not rush because you make mistakes when you rush.

B) Catching criminals is a slow methodical process, not chasing them. Except in TV. In TV, it is all about the car chase. But in real life it it about waiting for the phone records, DNA tests, fingerprint searches, people to call you back.

C) CPR is not a rush. You need to start right away, but then take your time and do it consistently, not in a hurry.

D) Burgers cook at a consistent time. You cannot decide to do it in half the time. If you try to cut it short, that gives food poisoning. The act of prep and assembly should be done well, not fast. Trying to rush it causes mistakes. Or low quality.

E) Judges routinely grant extensions but as long as the lawyer started the work at the appropriate time, again, it is not a rush. Unless someone forgot about it and tries to do it quickly.

F) The fact that you are unemployed and useless is on you. Not relevant to the discussion of people doing real work. Nor do I want to hire the guy that desires to sit on the couch and smoke pot. That guy, I fire.

Last I checked Ruby execution was slow compared to Python. That, however, tells you where you shouldn't use it, not *that* you shouldn't use it. And Ruby can easily call C routines (with the usual caveats).

OTOH, in some task spaces, design in Ruby is fast compared to design in Python, and in almost all it's fast compared to design in C. (That said, I generally prefer to design in Python and then re-implement in C++.)

Whether it's serious or not depends on what you're doing. For me it fails only because I require Doxygen compatibility. (Mind you, I would rarely choose to use *only* ruby, but for some things it would be the superior choice.)

OTOH, Ruby is not a low level choice. It's a slightly higher level than Python. And I often design things in Python and then convert them to C++ (with, of course, minor rewrites).

So, "What do you mean by 'serious'?".

1) Why are tests timed at all? The smart people usually finish early. Is more time helpful to anyone - or just the kids having problems answering the questions. Why not double the time and let everyone spend 10 minutes obsessing over the questions they do not understand.

2) Should we encourage professors and bosses to just be more accommodating. There is no good reason to let them be assholes and put arbitrary time limits. Good bosses keep their good employees happy - shouldn't professors do the same? Give them comfortable chairs, etc.

3) Perhaps this is a real issue. Are people getting more mental issues because of chemicals/plastics in the environments. Or could these problems have always existed and we just have better diagnosis - particularly for people that can afford good health care.

4) Are smart people more prone to psychological issues? I have heard intelligence goes along with anxiety. More brains = caring/obsessing more.

5) Did they get more time in High School? Or does this only happen in college? Perhaps we just do not notice it in high school because each class has fewer college rated people.

6) OK, lets say what everyone is thinking - they did not have disabilities, this is just a way of cheating. Of all the ways asshole rich people could try to cheat the system this seems more acceptable. We will not be able to stop rich assholery entirely and I would rather they get more time instead outright bribery.

7) Finally and most importantly - do you really think the grades are that important? Schools are about education and networking as well as proving your knowledge via grades. Quite a few people go to school to learn or make new connections, not to get a job. Especially for the really rich people. If your father has 100 million, you are not concerned about where being #1 in the class. You want to learn stuff and meet people, not get good grades. Perhaps the solution is to eliminate the grades entirely.

FBI routinely hires people convicted of computer crimes and places them under extreme guidance.

As this is government work, I could see them wanting to hire someone that has proven hacking skills. But not as a subcontractor.

For what you ask?

For Christmas Presents to staff in my building, postman, etc.

All I need is their name. I can write it out ahead of time, put it in an envelope, write their name on the envelope and hand it to them in person. No one needs to know how much till they open the envelope. I can give out multiple ones to multiple people all privately.

But that is it. That is the only thing I do it for.

If my building were to set up a website to let me do this, I would probably stop writing checks. Give the postman cash.

They did ragebait on purpose. It worked on you. You engaged with it and got angry enough to leave a comment. That boosts posts.

It's literally what ragebait is meant to do.

Someone smarter than me can tell us if this is true literary irony or not. I never got the concept very well.

Censorship is the GOVERNMENT preventing information from being published.

Citizens cannot engage in censorship. Corporations cannot engage in censorship - but they can request the government do so (i.e. sue you for saying something and try to get the courts to censor you).

When people refuse to support your beliefs, that is their legal right to do and not censorship. When people call you out for lying, that is not censorship.

Not explicitly, but crash survivability regulations make Kei cars illegal in the USA.

Unless Trump pulls the US out of the treaty that he signed (USMCA), any small cars will be built in Mexico. If Trump pulls the US out of that treaty, many other prices will go up.

But this is really just another brain fart from Trump. It won't happen.

AOL was in a bubble. AOL stock would have been close to worthless as the Internet bubble crashed. Instead, AOL stockholders got something with real value for their shares.

And some of them make a habit of it.

What do you mean? That acquisition was great -- for AOL stockholders and insiders.

The real question is "Will they re-release the roadrunner cartoons?".

Do you really think fiction is a reasonable source of facts?