In todays news...

[irie]

The thing that puzzles me is that if Djokovic was on a flight to Dubai wouldn't he have to show a certificate of his vaccinations just to be allowed to board the plane? After all, he's been deported from Oz for not having one, and his "exemption" has been ruled to be invalid.

[Horse]

Djokovic was on a flight to Dubai wouldn't he have to show a certificate of his vaccinations just to be allowed to board the plane? After all, he's been deported from Oz for not having one, and his "exemption" has been ruled to be invalid.

Djokovic, who had flown in from Spain via Dubai, had declared to Australian authorities that he had not travelled anywhere else in the 14 days prior. But posts showed that he had been in Serbia during that period.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59890943

[Saga Lout]

Well here's a surprise. I've just received an email from Amazon:

The expected change regarding the use of Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk will no longer take place on January 19. We are working closely with Visa on a potential solution that will enable customers to continue using their Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk. 

Who expected that?

[Mussels]

Whoopsie, but it's ok as they are already working out what weighting to apply to get the right result.
BBC News - Climate-related deaths fall in England and Wales - ONS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60024156

[Yorick]

If I hadn't read this, I wouldn't believe it


https://www.bbc.com/news/59870550

[slowsider]

If I hadn't read this, I wouldn't believe it


https://www.bbc.com/news/59870550

It's a natural consequence of the agitating over Brexit: from 'no foreign law', to 'no domestic law', to 'no bugger's gonna tell me what I can't do'.

[DefTrap]

If I hadn't read this, I wouldn't believe it


https://www.bbc.com/news/59870550

It's free speech. They're wrong but it's better to have them openly showing what divs they are.

[Horse]

If I hadn't read this, I wouldn't believe it


https://www.bbc.com/news/59870550

It's free speech. They're wrong but it's better to have them openly showing what divs they are.

Not quite free speech when they take patients out of a hospital.

In December, two Covid patients were taken out of hospitals in Liverpool and Milton Keynes, against the advice of doctors and nurses.

Video of the incident in Liverpool's Aintree University Hospital shows activists boasting of their presumed legal jurisdiction as "common law constables". They told staff and police they were under "open arrest". A man was later arrested in connection with the incident.

There was a similar incident last year in Ireland when an elderly Covid patient was removed from a hospital and taken home by a man citing a combination of anti-vaccine and sovereign citizen beliefs. The patient was returned to hospital two days later, and eventually died.

[Mussels]

For years I've seen people want IT jobs because they think the streets are paved with gold, shit like this just perpetuates the myth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59045771
I decided to learn Python at Christmas as it seems to be the popular choice, it is really easy and nobody is going to pay loads of money for that skill. It can be worth a lot when combined with other skills but these articles always gloss over that part.

Cypher Coders boss, Elizabeth Tweedale, goes even further. She believes that men and women often have different learning styles and coding education needs to reflect that.

She says men often follow a linear approach of going from A to Z when solving problems, while women often start from the problem and work backwards.

"We need to reinvent technology and coding environments [with] user interfaces to draw women in," she says.

That'll be why female carpenters screw the cabinet together before cutting the pieces out.

[Pirahna]

For years I've seen people want IT jobs because they think the streets are paved with gold, shit like this just perpetuates the myth.

For every IT worker earning a truck load of cash there's thousands just making ends meet.

[JackyJoll]

If I hadn't read this, I wouldn't believe it


https://www.bbc.com/news/59870550

Look like roaring bumders to me.

[Mr. Dazzle]

For years I've seen people want IT jobs because they think the streets are paved with gold, shit like this just perpetuates the myth.

For every IT worker earning a truck load of cash there's thousands just making ends meet.

I suspect it's just 'cause IT is well established now. My 'rents both did pretty well out of careers in IT but they also both started in the late 70s/early 80s when IT was a nascent field. The industry exploded over the next few decades and their jobs went with it. I think the image of a hot new field paved with gold still lingers on a bit, but reality has moved on.

[Saga Lout]

For years I've seen people want IT jobs because they think the streets are paved with gold, shit like this just perpetuates the myth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59045771
I decided to learn Python at Christmas as it seems to be the popular choice, it is really easy and nobody is going to pay loads of money for that skill. It can be worth a lot when combined with other skills but these articles always gloss over that part.

Cypher Coders boss, Elizabeth Tweedale, goes even further. She believes that men and women often have different learning styles and coding education needs to reflect that.

She says men often follow a linear approach of going from A to Z when solving problems, while women often start from the problem and work backwards.

"We need to reinvent technology and coding environments [with] user interfaces to draw women in," she says.

That'll be why female carpenters screw the cabinet together before cutting the pieces out.

Female carpenters? Don't be daft, carpentry's a man's job.

By the way, how come Elizabeth Tweedale gets away with saying men and women are different but James Damore gets himself fired from Google for saying men and women are different?

[Yambo]

By the way, how come Elizabeth Tweedale gets away with saying men and women are different but James Damore gets himself fired from Google for saying men and women are different?

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Because men and women are different?

[Cousin Jack]

Same way that pulling down a statue of Colston is ok, but pulling down a statue of Nelson Mandela is a heinous crime.

[Yorick]

How stupid is this????

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996

[Mussels]

Millionaires say they should pay more tax, I'm feeing cynical about this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60053919

[Bike Breaker]

Cypher Coders boss, Elizabeth Tweedale, goes even further. She believes that men and women often have different learning styles and coding education needs to reflect that.

She says men often follow a linear approach of going from A to Z when solving problems, while women often start from the problem and work backwards.

I think she's right. Women look at all the bits that need screwing together (ie, the problem, Z) then go back to the box and read the instructions. ( ie, the beginning A)

Note: there may be some stereotyping in the above statement.

[Cousin Jack]

Cypher Coders boss, Elizabeth Tweedale, goes even further. She believes that men and women often have different learning styles and coding education needs to reflect that.

She says men often follow a linear approach of going from A to Z when solving problems, while women often start from the problem and work backwards.

I think she's right. Women look at all the bits that need screwing together (ie, the problem, Z) then go back to the box and read the instructions. ( ie, the beginning A)

Note: there may be some stereotyping in the above statement.

Whereas men ALWAYS read the instructions first. NOT!

[Yorick]

Cypher Coders boss, Elizabeth Tweedale, goes even further. She believes that men and women often have different learning styles and coding education needs to reflect that.

She says men often follow a linear approach of going from A to Z when solving problems, while women often start from the problem and work backwards.

I think she's right. Women look at all the bits that need screwing together (ie, the problem, Z) then go back to the box and read the instructions.

Then they get a fella in