Nurses nurse. Engineers engineer. Teachers teach. Etc. If one doesn't have an aptitude or strong desire for something, then what's left to pursue? 'Focused more on the climb than the ladder, perhaps.

I had a hardware failure in a dual-boot MacBook Pro, and after repair the Windows 7 partition wants to re-activate on-line (but can't for some reason)--I wonder if that's related.

Doesn't Windows figure out that the drive is new and require activation?

I'd guess that it takes too long...each teaching segment is rather short. Usually they don't even teach "the alphabet" in a segment; that is, an entire episode is devoted to a single letter.

I still have some old machines that have no network card. They might still have dial-up modems. Does a drive failure then "destroy" those machines from being what they were. I want to keep them exactly as they are (they are backed up)--I don't want to put Linux on them, for example.

I watched a LOT of "Sesame Street" growing up (1970s), I don't recall them teaching the complicated lesson of clock-reading in their short segments.

But there are plenty of speed boat tickets available...

I've only seen the opposite here in the US, but I don't know everything. My friend got replaced, twice, each time by an Indian import, for example. The evidence of its illegality is that he had to train the replacements in each case before he was let go. Even if I never saw the fraud, I would assume its presence because one only has to follow the logic and the money--it pays companies big time to flout the unenforced rules.

This could easily be fixed by tying the minimum salary to the median wage times 3 or 4 or 100. If these people are that important then it should be no problem to do so. If they are just here to save the company's money, the complaints will be loud and many.

Nice. But also ask the Canadian who is about to be replaced how he feels about it.

Your good point warms my cockles and my planet.

Making new designs of anything comes with added environmental impacts, versus manufacturing more of the same.

Adding electronics to vehicles clearly reduced tailpipe emissions. But "electronics", probably more so than any other vehicle aspect, comes with its own hefty impact which I think has been completely ignored over time. That industry, and all the industries required to support it, are huge. (For brevity below, I will use the word "energy" but also mean that its consumption often incurs pollution.)

I imagine all the raw elements required to make the thousands of electronic components in a modern vehicle's power-train and emission system, times millions of vehicles. Producing those raw elements requires energy. They also require global transportation and processing, each step drawing energy along the way, if not causing environmental harm themselves or through their processing. And of course the component manufacturing and global transportation and storage takes energy.

I think of the millions of people who commute to work every step along the way to make these parts (and software!), and their impact. What about all the efforts to sell and market these parts? 'Every brochure, website, email, spam, catalog, seminar, exhibition and corporate classroom...

And once in the new vehicle design, all of the components draw electrical power, for the life of the vehicle. (And they and their wiring have mass which is carted around, meaning slightly lower fuel efficiency, for the life of the vehicle.)

As the vehicle ages, its complexity makes it more difficult to troubleshoot and repair (man, do I have stories)--and more expensive to do so. And these expenses make a vehicle more likely to NOT be repaired and junked instead.

Also, in our state, we have to drive each vehicle to have its emissions tested, too. (And the requisite paperwork, mailings, staffed testing centers where the employees drove in, each building using its own energy, etc.)

I'm just saying there's more than the tailpipe to consider and I don't think anyone has.

It's spelled "Melania"...

Then we wouldn't have Jurassic Park. Do you want dinosaurs roaming all over the place, because this is how we get dinosaurs roaming all over the place.

Windows 10, good? What's AI smoking? All I hear here are complaints about it... At the very least, more of 'moving features around for the fun of it'. Not to mention the simply evil way they tricked unsuspecting users into installing it. If someone came to my house and did that, we wouldn't be friends, and I might call the police.

-4.0 to +4.0, duh.