They [the EPA] certainly aren't trying to _actually_ clean up the air, since worse offenders than the USA already exist
Um, the USA is the 2nd largest emitter of CO2 in the world, behind China. And China has a over billion more people, about four times more than the USA. In light of that, the EPA's attempts to legislate reduced CO2 emissions do not seem all that unreasonable to me.
I call BS on a study that looks at test scores, (seemingly) for high school students, and says that the more women are in the 99% percentile so it's cultural.
So let me get this straight: you're saying that it's not significant that nations with greater gender equality have more women scoring above the 99th percentile in mathematics?
Methinks someone failed Logic 101.
Certainly, scoring in the 99th percentile is by no means an indication of math genius-ness. But that's missing the point entirely—what matters is that there are strong cultural factors that are pushing many capable women away from mathematics, leaving any mathematical ability unidentified, genius or not.
So, they intend to showcase an open standard by publishing something that only works on a single "optimized" platform??
While I understand the pragmatism, it still seems odd.
That the standard is open does not mean that every browser implements the standard properly yet. If you intend to showcase an emerging standard, you want to actually showcase the emerging standard. As this is such a showcase, it's perfectly reasonable to restrict presentation to those browsers capable of displaying the page as intended.
As I quoted earlier FTFA:
We would be happy to work more closely with developers from Webkit and Opera.
Based on that, I expect that we'll see similar demos running on those and other HTML5-capable browsers in the near future.
I call bullshit.
From TFA:
In both cases, countries with as many or more girls at the upper extreme tend to be those with the greatest gender equality, such as Germany and the Netherlands. . . . If the differences were innate, they should show up in every culture.
Do other browsers support this HTML tag? Yes, but our code works best on Firefox 3.5 beta and is not yet optimized for other browsers. We would be happy to work more closely with developers from Webkit and Opera.
Considering that the demo is intended to show what an emerging standard can do better than current ones, it's understandable that they want it to look the best it can, which means they're going to want people to watch it using the optimized platform and not something that's barely going to run their demo.
One that has been approved by the UN security council in accordance with chapter 7 of the UN charter. For example, the war in Afghanistan is a legal war. The 2003 Iraqi war was not.
Actually, neither of those two wars are legally wars under the US Constitution. Because, of course, they're not "wars" if Congress doesn't declare them to be wars... you know, the same way that no one dies if you don't declare them to be dead...
It's pretty messed up.
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