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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Trump's Decision to Withdraw From Paris Accord 'Was Wrong for Our Planet'
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"Public schools achieve the same or better mathematics results as private schools with demographically similar students" - And this right here is why I put my kids in a private school. The public school they would have been a minority and held back by all the kids who didn't want to be there to begin with, where as putting them in a private college preparatory school they were not, they were surrounded by other children who had similar aspirations and goals as them. Worth every penny to me.
If Trump cares at all about contracts. The implications if this withdrawal go way beyond the agreement. It drives the US into isolation. Like North Korea.
Actually no. More like the UK. The UK had an isolationist policy for centuries. They did not crumble. They only became stronger and stronger under it.
Unless you can live without 80% of the products you use, like Apple products. Consumers will pay the billions in higher costs of goods. Meanwhile the rest of the world will get better deals and pay less. Every one of Trump's so called savings will be paid by us consumers, even the wall, if we ever get back too it. Good news, the very rich will be even richer, now that will make us all feel better.Sure. Go ahead. You are still not getting our billions
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The world needs us, not the other way around. Well unless you're the tech industry, Muh H1B's, where shall I ever hire cheap slaves at?
The thing is, the US would have and likely still will meet any obligations we agreed to in the Paris accords. This really doesn't change anything at all so it's not worth getting so upset about. People are aware of the need to be cleaner with our environment and are making moves to go clean. Leaving this "deal" doesn't really matter.
You mean like private institutions like Harvard? Or maybe Stanford or Yale? What about MIT?
Clearly a private education can work. The question is why it doesn't work at the k-12 level.
The UK have been part of the EU and still are for a little while. I think you try to compare Apples and Oranges.
I didn't know Harvard and Stanford represented standard demographic profiles?
Products made in china with china polluting. Works for me
I was talking a long time ago, like before WW1 and also before the UK's empire of the 1800's. I think you need to freshen up on your British history knowledge.
Eh. It's only done now because it's cheap. If all of a sudden Apple (for example) had to make their products in the United States, they could build factories to do it.
The United States is one of the few countries on earth that can be largely self-sufficient. Not that I advocate that, but it seems to me as far as trade deals and global economics are concerned, the US has been getting screwed. Not sure who's "fault" that is, but it needs to be fixed.
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I wasn't under the impression that was relevant.
Maybe you should have gone to a better school, because this says the private/public school doesn't matter.
If your kids are the same demographic profile as other kids in private schools, they would perform the same as in public school.
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Thank you.
I am glad we all agree that Stanford and Harvard don't represent demographic profiles of the rest of the public.
If you read the article, the way they got the stats they presented was by adjusting for "socioeconomic status, race, and other demographic differences among students." Seems like voodoo to me.
No, it's not comparing opinions. I was calling out the fact that a lot of CEOs do lobby using their positions as a CEO. But thats besides the point if you're pursuing the legal aspects of this because if you're concerned about Tim sending an email to him employees, because as far as the US is concerned, that isn't considered lobbying.
I've read the entirety of your post that I partially quoted. But the relevant parts that I responded to were indeed a rehash of the same concern that you had - that Tim shouldn't have sent an email addressing his views to his employees. The rest of your post was regarding why you believed the Paris Accord doesn't work well. Omitting that is not cherry picking - it's simply not relevant and is separate to the above point.
So your fix, raise pollution levels in US to match. That will surely make us feel better.
So you're saying you'd rather buy a product made in the US, with it's lax environmental regulations that contribute to global pollution?
Nah. Only you agree. Doesn't surprise me
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My fix is not to give billions of us tax payer money to other countries
We have far more regulations than many of the countries in that accord