You said it yourself: "SFO would have allowed him to fly with no ID if he submitted to a search." That sounds like a stipulation to me. Perhaps that stipulation is in the "secret law," perhaps not, but "SFO would have allowed him to fly with no ID if he submitted to a search" is NOT equal to "SFO would have allowed him to fly without id," no matter how much you want to believe it is.
I would agree, if I found that _all_ SCO employees doing their jobs were morally reprehensible, which I do not.
I do, however, find that the actions of certain SCO employees are morally and ethically void, and that the argument "I am only doing my job," when presented by these employees, is nonsense.
I am loathe to pass moral and ethical judgment on the entire SCO workforce because of the actions of the few at the top. If that equates to me feeling that a file clerk in Germany in the 40's isn't responsible for the actions of Goering, then so be it.
There, believe it or not, is a difference between a war criminal and the secretary that the war criminal employs. If you don't see it that way, more power to you.
It's a shame that you need to equate SCO employees trying to feed their families to Nazis, seeing as I don't remember anyone at SCO killing 12 million people in concentration camps, or did I miss a history lesson?
Personally I don't see anything wrong with an employee remaining loyal to a company that allows him or her to put food on the table and a roof over his or her head. Not only is that admirable, but I would rather hire that person over one who decided to jump ship when times were tough.
Besides, since when did doing one's job, which DIDN'T include spreading any FUD at all, equate to Nazis "following orders"?
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Or, it was a hypothetical. I can't speak for him but the last two words in the paragraph above the one you referenced were "imagine this:"
That says, to me at least, that his scenario that you are attributing to him to be autobiographical is merely a hypothetical.
You said it yourself: "SFO would have allowed him to fly with no ID if he submitted to a search." That sounds like a stipulation to me. Perhaps that stipulation is in the "secret law," perhaps not, but "SFO would have allowed him to fly with no ID if he submitted to a search" is NOT equal to "SFO would have allowed him to fly without id," no matter how much you want to believe it is.
I would agree, if I found that _all_ SCO employees doing their jobs were morally reprehensible, which I do not.
I do, however, find that the actions of certain SCO employees are morally and ethically void, and that the argument "I am only doing my job," when presented by these employees, is nonsense.
I am loathe to pass moral and ethical judgment on the entire SCO workforce because of the actions of the few at the top. If that equates to me feeling that a file clerk in Germany in the 40's isn't responsible for the actions of Goering, then so be it.
There, believe it or not, is a difference between a war criminal and the secretary that the war criminal employs. If you don't see it that way, more power to you.
It's a shame that you need to equate SCO employees trying to feed their families to Nazis, seeing as I don't remember anyone at SCO killing 12 million people in concentration camps, or did I miss a history lesson?
Personally I don't see anything wrong with an employee remaining loyal to a company that allows him or her to put food on the table and a roof over his or her head. Not only is that admirable, but I would rather hire that person over one who decided to jump ship when times were tough.
Besides, since when did doing one's job, which DIDN'T include spreading any FUD at all, equate to Nazis "following orders"?
Mod me down if you like, I don't care anymore.
MS does charge for feature upgrades between major versions. However, they're called Plus! packs, and cost about 100 less than Apple's upgrades.
Personally, I'd rather pay 30 than 130. But that's just me.
"consumers" (i wish there was another word for that).
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End Users? might as well get those buzzwords in while you still can