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This stat always rubs me the wrong way. It paints the image of a parent watching their child drown, but I imagine it's pretty easy to be within 25 yards of the pool and have no visibility to the pool.
Whether or not Canada has an arms industry is irrelevant to the question of whether or not it's unethical to build weapons.
Having an ethical obligation and acting on it are two different things. People can argue about the philosophy around the ethics of creating weapons. It could be argued that every engineer working on creating weapons is violating the ethical requirements of being an engineer.
That's also a requirement in Canada (Ontario at least). Work experience has to be completed while working under a P.Eng.
From [1]: Becoming licensed gives you the right to use “P.Eng.” after your name and “engineer” in your job title. Under the Professional Engineers Act, you may only use “engineer” in your job title if you hold a P.Eng. licence.
So yes, I'd agree that companies shouldn't be using engineer in the job title unless they're hiring a P.Eng, but that doesn't absolve the employee of liability.
[1]http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php?ci_id=2075&la_id=1#whypeng
[1] http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php?ci_id=2075&la_id=1#whypeng [2] http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php?ci_id=2075&la_id=1#aftergrad [3] https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p28#BK36
In Canada the term 'engineer' is regulated at the provincial level, and a person can be prosecuted for labeling themselves as an engineer if they are not registered and licensed with their province's engineering association. For example in Ontario in order to join Professional Engineers Ontario and call yourself an engineer you must meet strict academic and work experience requirements[1], pass an ethics exam, and pay a yearly membership fee. Everyone who graduates from an accredited engineering program in Canada has to take an ethics course and has these rules drilled into their heads. I know I did.
But then I graduated and half the people I run in to at hackathons and conferences did a two week bootcamp and have "Software Engineer" in their job title, and proudly introduce themselves as such.
I call myself a software developer because although I have a software engineering degree I'm not registered with the PEO and it wouldn't benefit me if I was.
Imagine my surprise when my father-in-law took us to see the open pit mines and drive through the towns, entire towns, that had been moved to make way for coal excavation.
That's brilliant. I couldn't find anything about this episode on google, but I'm interested to know how the hosts reacted to that.
So in that case it had only been 38 years since the war of 1812.
It detected that a truck was backing into it's path, and stopped in an attempt to prevent a collision. The truck driver didn't properly check his mirrors and continue backing up which resulted in the truck 'grazing' the front bumper of the car.
What exactly is a human supposed to do differently in that situation? Attempt to continue driving straight and potentially end up being t-boned by the truck instead?
Also, this vehicle looks super weird already. If the truck driver didn't see it, a 'placard' isn't going to make it more noticeable.
This is a great idea.
I'm thinking of a sentence like:
> Bill said "I prefer American style."
Would the British write it as follows?
> Bill said "I prefer American style.".
> American style places commas and periods inside the quotation marks, even if they are not in the original material. British style (more sensibly) places unquoted periods and commas outside the quotation marks.
Turns out that you (and I) prefer the British style.
"I love you" is 3 words. 3 * 32.333333 = 97
This is wonderful advice. I've been using the same concept for the last month or so. When I get home from work I walk the dogs and then sit down and commit to putting in a little work on whatever personal project I'm working on. More often than not my 15 minute commitment turns into an hour or more of progress.
The problem is that through traffic often drives above the speed limit.