5) Never - ever use an acronym you'd use with your normal ISP (IP address), this WILL unmask you.
ASAP, scuba, laser, Nabisco, Esso, ISP, HTTP, USB, PDF, CYA... Who knew acronyms were so dangerous?
Mr O'Leary told the Sun: "Hotels around the world have it, so why wouldn't we?"
Because an airline seat isn't a private hotel room? If I worked at Ryanair, I'd be a little concerned that Mr. O'Leary doesn't seem to understand some of the fundamental distinctions between airplanes and hotel rooms...
I think we should make a distinction between GE, the company hosting the site, and Stephen McCandless, the rather famous data visualization specialist who created the figures.
Yes, the latter was hired to produce the misleading figures, and the former selected, hired and paid for that work. Why exactly does this exonerate GE of responsibility for the images it commissioned and hosts on its site?
I'd really like to hear more about what you meant when you wrote that you "personally believe that racial bias is a natural part of the human psyche".
"Natural" suggests something that isn't contingent upon personal, social, or historical conditions. Yet the entire concept of 'race' emerged under very particular historical and social conditions. So how can a psychological awareness and reaction to racial distinctions be natural if the concept of race itself is demonstrably artificial and historically contingent?
To be clear, I'm not saying that race doesn't exist -- just that it's no more 'natural' than other socially contingent realities like, say, governments and laws. There may very well be a natural human psychological response to the recognition of difference, but it's by no means natural to identify a set of differences as racial rather than simply physical or cultural or national or anything else.
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