Showing posts with label quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quality. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2009

A radical international relations idea..

What if we made it mandatory that all students of international relations complete a minimum of one sexual experience with a man/woman from all 190 or so different countries that exist in our world? A 4 year degree takes 1460 days to complete which allows, on average, 7 days to enjoy a close and intimate relationship with a foreign partner.

I think people tend to be more sympathetic and open to other people's problems if they had (good) sex with them (sex usually is good and fun to have). By adding this requirement, we enhance the quality and real-life experience of our diplomatic corps and foreign policy experts. Actually students of any discipline that adopts this requirement can become better international relations experts.

Multinational student exchange programs will become more popular and with the aid of the internet, students will be left to freely choose the foreign partner they prefer. Those who can't find one can join group study :D:D:D

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Is small more beautiful?

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 23 March 2008 by member dave.alam

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I had this debate with a friend of mine who comes from a little town. The argument was that in a small place where everyone knows each other word of mouth spreads very fast. Thus if a business wants to survive, they can't offer crap quality. While this doesn't mean you end up with world-class quality in small towns, at least the bottom crap gets eliminated.

On the other hand it is only in a big city you will find world-class and better quality because of more competition. The counter-argument was that while it's true you will get more competition in a big city, you get it at all levels including at the bottom crap level. In other words, big size will allow some businesses to offer bad quality services or products AND survive.

I had to admit he had a point. So is size and not the degree of competition the ultimate factor behind eliminating bad quality? What do you think?