Защита детей

[birdwatcher]

Sitting down for a personal meeting with Bill Gates this week, 10-year-old [Certified Microsoft Professional] Arfa Karim Randhawa asked the Microsoft founder why the company doesn't hire people her age.

Comments

[-kk.livejournal.com]

Poor kid. She was denied the happy childhood every child is entitled to.

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

В смысле, устроиться в Майкрософт и разбогатеть? Вот и я о том же.

[-kk.livejournal.com]

Yep. Just remembered my attempt to start a discussion with some nice people who urged everyone to boycott goods made by Third World children. I tried to tell them the kids may starve if the sweatshops are closed. Their response I quoted above. End of discussion.

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

:)

[averros.livejournal.com]

My father made me an official employee of his Design Bureau when I was 10... so I provided a lot of entertaintment to his engineers :) By 12, I made my first invention (a method of clock recovery in data modems), by 14 left home for school #18, by 22 got the State Award for work on DEMOS. Heh.

He is way way smarter than Bill G. - merely was unlucky to be born in the wrong country.

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

А в школу до четырнадцати вообще не ходили, что ли?

[(Anonymous)]

Ходили, но делать там было абсолютно нечего... до сих пор вспоминаю как тоскливое отсиживание срока. В восемнадцатой по крайней мере было с кем поговорить. В любом случае, идея, что детям не нужно на работу до пока они не стали вполне сознательными взрослыми тупицами - по-моему глубоко порочна.