Comment Re:Bring rope, lots of rope. (Score 1) 373
Also, beware of shooting bystanders. This can sometimes lose you points.
Also, beware of shooting bystanders. This can sometimes lose you points.
In reading my sibling comments, I'm deafened by the sound of *whooosh*
Whether the number of children I have is a natural number depends on your preference. I personally prefer the definition which does not include the cardinality of my offspring set.
I'm not necessarily saying you're not right, but I do have several comments. You seem to think that multiple medical conditions are being falsely diagnosed. If you are right, then I have nothing else to say. On the other hand, what evidence do you have to support your argument? That more children are being diagnosed than were when you were growing up? That's certainly not evidence. You may claim that none of this happened in your day, and everybody got on just fine. But do you actually know if they got on just fine? It's perfectly possible that undiagnosed children from your generation looked like they were doing fine, but were seriously struggling with life.
Having said all this, I do tend to agree that a lot of children are being overly pampered, but I also think we should be careful not to ignore real issues just because we did in the past.
I'm tired of the government mandated bullshit where everyone ELSE has to accommodate, bend over for, and kiss the ass of the one.
I've not RTFA (this is
The point is, sometimes it's perfectly possible to cater for the disabled at only a minor inconvenience to everyone else. In such cases, I feel a good attempt should be made to cater for the disabled (it really sucks being disabled, and so able-bodied people should at least be accommodating to them), when practical.
In the case in question, it seems perfectly reasonable to have a small fraction of seats marked as a disable-friendly zone. Such a zone would then be minorly customised for the passenger, and the other passengers in that small fraction would work on a greatest-common-divisor-basis. So, for example, the seats would be more spacious (to accommodate people in wheel chairs, or who are tall enough that sitting in normal seats would cause non-trivial discomfort), they would be located close to the stewards' quarters, and they would have braille notices for the blind, and written copies of instructions for the deaf. In the special case discussed in the article, people in this section would be asked not to eat nuts, and perhaps a curtain would be put up.
The main point is, the solution outlined above is easy. Normally the section would not require any extra attention than standard first-class seating. Do you think all people with disabilities should be excluded from everything just because they're a slight inconvenience?
which means that if you can't do it now, you'll probably be able to do it on your cell phone in 10 years.
I can't solve the TSP for 1000 cities on my desktop computer today, but I suspect in 10 years time I'll be able to solve it on my mobile phone.
I hate it when I make a joke and I get modded "+5 insightful". Mod the stupid comments "funny", not "insightful", pleas
Moderators, please note: he's not being funny --- he's being insightful.
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