I would get rid of all the people who think they're morally superior to others, and try to dictate/legislate/guilt others into living the way those people think they should. Most folks have enough problems living their own lives anyway.
Modular teaching. Okay it is not strictly a 21st century invention but so what. Sue me. Students now go through their whole learning career with their knowledge and skills trapped in little compartments, and many are unable to transfer these to different modules. We have students who are taught a particular statistical technique in a module, but when they are asked in another module if they know of this technique they invariably unaware of it until they are reminded.
its hard to say looking forward. looking back at the 20th century it would be easy to say Socialists regimes. getting rid of them we remove the National Socialists in Germany, the USSR in Russia, Peoples Republics and tones of other bloody socialist states. These regimes contributed to most of the dead by genocide in the 20th century and left their citizens in poverty. maybe some other ideologies would have taken hold to still create similar blood shed. looking forward its hard to pin down the next worst thing. maybe its religious extremism, or something else. Cancer just seems like a good safe answer
I only do target archery as even shooting at the animal decoys isn't only kind of sad but very tricky. But I did tape a picture of Charlie Sheen's face to a big piece of cardboard and used that as a target one day.
@Duchess-Yukine-Suoh, I don't like Charlie Sheen either (and Kat just said he's gross). Archery is cool. I've tried it only once when Kat's maid of honor took us to the range as a part of our joint bachelor / bachelorette party. It's just hell expensive around here. Oh, and the targets I shoot are either simple cardboard targets not shaped like anything or they're shaped like humans, which are my favorite since that increases the tactical element of the sport (you know, more points from headshots, a bit less from COM hits, and the least from limbs etc). Poppers (steel plates shaped like lollipops that fall down when you hit them) are cool too 'cause you get visual confirmation from a good hit (and from bad ones since the target won't fall from them). I find it ridiculous that some people here actually complain about the human-shape targets. I mean, how PC can you get? It's cardboard.
Thank you, I think. I think that complaining about the human shape targets is kind of odd. It's not like red water shoots out or something.
We are slowly taking the humanity out of the equation. Expecting humans to work like robots--I'm thinking about Amazon here who look to be replacing human workers in their warehouses with robots. Technology can progress humanity--we are living longer because of it but what sort of life is technology leaving us with? To answer the question I'd slow down the progression of technology.
It's not the progression of technology, it's the application. Machines are replacing low-paid unskilled labour (supermarket tills and the like) and pushing people out of work. Now, you could argue that it's also opening up jobs for maintenance, but the people who are being pushed out aren't going to be retrained with the skills necessary to do that (unless they've graduated with an engineering degree, which isn't all that unlikely).
every bad idea has its subscribers, sometimes they end up in charge. you look at what people did for work 100 years ago versus today. their are a lot less people working on farms and some jobs have complacently diapered. they use to have someone print, copy and distribute the equivalent of morning star reports every morning before the market opened. instead we gain jobs in sectors and areas not previously imagined, silicon valley and the tec boom comes to mind,. i just dont understand peoples paranoia, its a great new globalized world we can have this discussion with members from around the world lets embrace it.
Omigod. I totally agree with you. Even though the NHS has been underfunded for years (since the Thatcher government started attempting to privatise everything) it's still functioning. It's still free at point of care (with a few exceptions, like minor charges for dentistry and eyeglasses for those people who can afford to pay) and it's so fantastic to have it. People worry about getting well, not about how to pay for their illnesses. I've lived under both the American and British systems, and am currently in Scotland with the NHS. Would I go back to the USA, and unaffordable health insurance. Not a chance. It really does make a huge difference to people. And hey, British people have houses, cars, TVs, computers, nice clothing, overseas holidays. They aren't paying all their money out in taxes! It's simpler than that, really. Either you pay for the healthcare itself, or you pay for the healthcare PLUS corporate profits! I sure know which one is cheaper.
