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This is an excellent idea. I remember seeing a similar attempt years ago from the guys at IBM - although it was a PHP app.

The guys could drag a data source on to a widget and automatically configure it. It was amazing.

Your site is a work in progress but so far so good! :)


It is extremely provocative for TheKorean to equate judging a culture with judging someone by their genetics. His goal all along was to persuade you to feel guilt in doing so even when it is warranted.

TheKorean understands the tricks of rhetoric. He wrote an essay on it on his blog. He did not write this article in an attempt to consider an issue in the spirit of open minded inquiry. He did it to discourage you from making judgements of other cultures in all cases.

This is the same person who said it was perfectly ok in Korea for a woman to walk up to a girl on the subway and _slap_ her because the woman believed the girl was disrespectful.

Why was it ok? According to TheKorean, because by the cultural standards in Korea say it is ok. He is wrong.

He is not a rational open minded thinker. He is using rhetorical tricks (appealing to your skepticism to convince you that judging cultures is wrong) in an attempt to protect his own people.

This board has smart, rational people. Let's look at motives and not just arguments.


Cultural explanations when the group of people make up a statistically small portion of the incidents == bad.

Cultural explanations when the group of people make up a statistically significant portion of the incidents == good.

The question as I see it is : Do Koreans make up a statistically significant portion of near misses and accidents?

From what I have read from various aviation professionals, the answer is yes. What have you guys heard?


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