People out in the real world?uziq wrote:
erm, who certifies and approves the qualifications of engineers?
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the book was a laughing stock for years.
how does someone 'in the real world' validate an electrical engineer? what's the professional body for engineers? who staffs it and runs it?Dilbert_X wrote:
People out in the real world?uziq wrote:
erm, who certifies and approves the qualifications of engineers?
oh, wow! boards and councils made up of ... qualified engineers and legal experts! colour me stunned! wait until you find out that lawyers administer the exams and marks of one another's work! and in a way that isn't totally scientifically verifiable! and the law is open to humanities-style interpretation! aargghh knowledge based on shifting sand! lawyers approving lawyers based on their own profession's made-up rules about judicial interpretation! it's a circle jerk!
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what does it have to do with humanities scholars, dilbert? or the professional ethics and conduct of academics? how often do bankers or people in finance 'look the other way' and poorly self-regulate? how often do engineers not follow every process to the letter and end up contributing to a grenfell tower and hundreds of people dying? the real world, as i said, is determined a lot by ambition, greed, lust for power -- and money. what the fuck does how humanities degrees are conferred/ratified have to do with this? you mad pillock. do you really think an engineer or scientist elected to government is immune from having their palm greased or of toeing a party line? that godbrain STEM graduates can't possess toxic political ideologies or subscribe to silly libertarian fundamentalist ideas? (cough, look at yourself and your own host of ideological idée fixes). again: marvel movie universe stuff.How many free passes do parlimentarians give each other?
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the IEA again. but the problem is the malign influence exercised on 50-year-old politicians by their undergraduate degrees!Kwasi Kwarteng’s longest public appearance at the Conservative party conference will not be on the main stage, where he spoke for 20 minutes on Monday, but at a fringe event hosted by two thinktanks on Tuesday afternoon.
For an hour, the “person responsible for the UK’s economic future”, as the event bills it, will outline his vision in a conversation with the TaxPayers’ Alliance and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). It will be longer than his 25-minute “mini-budget” speech and his “quarter of an hour – or maybe a bit longer” with party donors after the mini-budget.
Mark Littlewood, the director general of the IEA, will be one of Kwarteng’s interviewers, speaking to the man responsible for implementing “Trussonomics”.
The IEA has faced criticism over a lack of transparency over its donors, and a 2019 Guardian investigation found it had historically issued publications arguing climate change is either not significantly driven by human activity or will be positive.
great stuff, very happy that these unaccountable, unelected people with fringe libertarian ideas are so close to number 10/11 downing street. let's get angry at professional historians.A right-wing think tank has offered to set up meetings between US donors and British ministers, it emerged today. Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) director-general Mark Littlewood was filmed by an undercover reporter making a series of claims about his access, naming ministers including Michael Gove and Liam Fox. He said the think tank had helped two US visitors meet four peers and have lunch with five MPs while they were also speakers at a European Research Group event involving 50 Tory MPs.
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i'm sure he 'missed the gravy train', though.[...] son of Sir Raymond Geoffrey Monbiot, CBE, a businessman who headed the Conservative Party's trade and industry forum [...] his mother, Rosalie – the elder daughter of Conservative MP Roger Gresham Cooke – was a Conservative councillor who led South Oxfordshire District Council for a decade [...] his uncle, Canon Hereward Cooke, was the Liberal Democrat deputy leader of Norwich City Council between 2002 and 2006.
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Well they shouldn't have voted for them then.nobody wants far-right libertarian shock doctrines pumped into downing street by unaccountable loons at the IEA.
Thats how democracy works. Still, might be better than union grifters and the jewish lobby choosing the PM.but apparently a bunch of semi-retirees in the home counties, anglican bible bashers, and nonce army captains get to decide on the future of the country. that and the big donors and thinktanks, obviously.
erm the UA have already got dozens, if not hundreds, of tanks because of crews literally legging it and leaving them behind.SuperJail Warden wrote:
"Footage taken by Ukrainian Troops of a Russian BMP driving to a Designated Surrender point."
https://v.redd.it/95jwun09p0s91
Jesus Christ. A whole crew just gave up an APC.
they weren't elected based on policy or concrete solutions, though. the leadership contest was essentially a soundbite contest.Dilbert_X wrote:
No I mean Sunak and Mordaunt are plotting a power grab.Well they shouldn't have voted for them then.nobody wants far-right libertarian shock doctrines pumped into downing street by unaccountable loons at the IEA.Thats how democracy works. Still, might be better than union grifters and the jewish lobby choosing the PM.but apparently a bunch of semi-retirees in the home counties, anglican bible bashers, and nonce army captains get to decide on the future of the country. that and the big donors and thinktanks, obviously.
except the labour leadership selection process isn't like the conservatives', at all. it's how the sclerotic tory party works.Thats how democracy works.
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this is really where we’re at. lmao. the bankers are sucking their teeth at their tax cuts and the world’s richest corporations are asking to be taxed more.The CEO of Shell has called on the government to tax oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs.
being hostage to a zombie ideology that should have died a death in the 1990s is really something. 45 years after thatcher/reagan's sweeping changes, we're still waiting any day now for that sweet trickledown! let's just let the ambitious, genius individuals get on with it! prometheus unbound!Millions of households are facing a “stealth” tax raid under Liz Truss’s government despite her promise to support workers through the cost-of-living crisis by lowering their tax bills, Britain’s leading economic thinktank said on Wednesday.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has calculated that for every £1 given to workers by cutting headline tax rates, £2 was being taken away through a freeze on the level at which people begin paying tax on their earnings.
When taken with plans for benefits, the IFS said the poorest in Britain would see their incomes hit hardest over the next three years. While the richest 10% of households will benefit by £2,290 a year on average from cuts to national insurance and income tax, the poorest will benefit by just £13.
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Seems exactly the same TBH, plus they have to be anointed by a union.uziq wrote:
except the labour leadership selection process isn't like the conservatives', at all.
Are you talking about Truss or Corbyn?'they' are a small and self-selecting group of paid-up members. a very thin demographic slice of british society.
If the leader had been selected by MPs and not the party you'd be ranting about how undemocratic that was.'they' chose a leader who isn't even palatable or preferred by the parliamentary conservative party - by the rank and file of MPs.
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lmao the fucking irony of this. you who is daily full of piss and vinegar and will argue about anything. i link a video talking sense by an oxford toff turning his privileges to good use and you don't even watch it or acknowledge his points, only call him a 'failure in life'. you're childish, man.There seems to be no pleasing you.
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Still not sure why people can't just buy more efficient kettles.The CEO of Shell has called on the government to tax oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs.
