You should avoid dangling prepositions if you are speaking in Latin. Then again if you are speaking Latin, ALL dangling prepositions will intuitively sound so wrong that you'll never make them.
If you are speaking English, they are perfectly fine. Some people a long time ago decided Latin was the bee's knees and English grammar ought to mimic Latin grammar. This is nonsense.
But you can keep up the nonsense as a way to show off your education (superior social rank).
Well due-diligence seems to have been an issue in individual cases. But overall they seem to have missed two fundamental problems.
1. Manufacturing parts and then selling them throughout the life of the aircraft model has a high margin of profit. Assembling an aircraft form parts has the lowest margin of profit.
2. Outsourcing requires more coordination form HQ, not less.
It seems like those two were pretty big and important. Especially #1, what kind of an executive does not understand the value chain of the business he's in?
This is why I don't think CEO are stupid, but I do think they act economically rationally (perhaps not ethically) by increasing their compensation by pumping up the stock price in the short term.
In this case the CEO raised stock prices in the short term by appearing to create cost savings. His compensation goes up, he leaves the company, cost savings turn out to be costs, but the old CEO has already been paid and is gone, this is the new guy's problem.
one doesn't spend the kind of effort they've spent without a goal.
Never credit to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
I personally believe that pretty much all democratic governments are slipping towards fascism, not because any one or any group has that as a far vision, but because all have short term goals which create the emergent long term effect of a slow slide towards fascism.
Ever bigger law enforcement in the name of "Save the Children" is a prime example. I really do think the motivation here is primarily to help, not drive America towards fascism. The secondary effect is just not something the prime movers want to bother their minds with.
That is just what the evil, power-mongering scumbags want you to think. Just because it is (probably) true most of the time does NOT mean it is always true.
Life expectancy was only 35 because of infant mortality. Once you grew up, people tended to live almost as long as we do today.
And medical care is not by any means new. Cesarean section is named after Cesar, and it was a well established medical practice before he was born.
He sleeps on a mattress.
Well golly, call the patent office, tell them to shut down and go home, we can't possibly improve on this.
Honestly, where are all of you present defender coming from? Is the future too awesome for you? Sour grapes over the fact that you too get sick, age and can die?
> Life expectancy was only 35 because of infant mortality. Once you grew up, people tended to live almost as long as we do today.
Ok, so why we calculate it this way? Shouldn't we look at median instead of an average? Or average on data between lower and upper quartile? I thought that quartiles exist exactly for those kind of situations...
it does, but i probably should have provided more detail.
as a genre, sci-fi loves to explore immortality. i have a crappy memory for titles, so i can't give you specific books or stories to look for, but most of the big names have taken a look at the problem: Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, etc. None of them have viewed it in a positive light. we shouldn't take their word on it as final, of course, but like all sci-fi, they provide excellent food for thought.
tl;dr: we can't reliably distribute the limited resources we have now, while lifespans are also still limited. there's nothing to suggest that this problem will be solved by increasing lifespans, let alone increasing them indefinitely.
a fair point, but he also has it somewhat negatively in Childhood's End.
edit: having just looked it up, i'm actually not sure i've read the City and the Stars: i may be remembering a different story entirely. regardless, Childhood's End was rather bleak in that regard.
The rub for women in computer science is that the dominant computer science culture does not venerate balance or multiple interests. Instead, the singular and obsessive interest in computing that is common among men is assumed to be the road to success in computing.
I no way see this as men or cs specific. It is to me very specific to any extreme performance. Let me rephrase it:
The rub for new entrants in X is that the dominant X culture does not venerate balance or multiple interests. Instead, the singular and obsessive interest in X that is common among X practitioners is assumed to be the road to success in computing.
Extreme tennis players, think kids drilled from a young age to be champions, read Andre Agasi's bio, have exactly the same attitude.
As do piano prodigy's. Any group performing at an extreme has this, because it is TRUE! To be in the top 0.1% you have to devote your life to it, you won't have balance!
Do medical students, those headed towards surgery have balance in their lives? Incidentally, surgery is another one of those male dominated professions.
So please, stop making this about either men or cs, it is not.
You don't need to. By ignoring or laughing at their juvenile antics, and by not engaging them as adults, you win.
I have to disagree. You would win if your position was not absurd. But if you, like Scientology, or for that matter politics and most religion are yourself preaching something quite absurd, then ignoring them is not an effective defense.
If you are a naked king, and there's a crowd that keeps shouting LOL, you gots no clothes on, they are winning.
You should avoid dangling prepositions if you are speaking in Latin. Then again if you are speaking Latin, ALL dangling prepositions will intuitively sound so wrong that you'll never make them.
If you are speaking English, they are perfectly fine. Some people a long time ago decided Latin was the bee's knees and English grammar ought to mimic Latin grammar. This is nonsense.
But you can keep up the nonsense as a way to show off your education (superior social rank).