Well, it's nice to see an argument so well thought out. Just give books and paintings away for 'cost' and then promote the authors and artists so they can do... tours where people pay to watch them write and paint?
If you actually include some way of bolstering your assertion you'd have a point. As it is, you simply repeated what is happening; mention one glacier at a time and not mention the other thousands. His point stands.
He was not fired for being an addict. He was fired for his activities at work. If you're a junkie, shoot up at home. Otherwise, be a fry cook where they don't care. Same, same.
So, you think being a drunk is equivalent to having cancer? Those medical professionals who consider alcoholism as being a disease do not share your equation. Ask one.
A company is under no obligation to "assist the employee with treatment and support" for being an alcoholism. This is not a 'disease' (Webster's #3) that you can catch or occurs to you because of a defective protein.
"[Makes stiff-arm salute] Yes, sir! We must obey all company rules, sir!"
Well, chum, you don't mind taking their money, do you? Don't like the rules at my company, find another job. It's not like you're being prohibited from leaving such a restrictive environ.
"But if you are going to allow a little freedom to surf the net, read e-mails and suchlike, you have no moral right to fire them for discreetly looking at something you disagree with, be it political, religious, personal, sexual, or anything else."
Why, because you, someone with no company vestiture says so?
He says he's "an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal".
Sounds like he indeed visited during work hours or he wouldn't have had a reason at all to say this. It's IBM's system and rules. Tuff if you can't keep your hands (mental or physical) out of your pants at the job.
Right. And the people on the other side of the globe are decelerating. And, the people one fourth the way 'round are...?
There is a long filament with two masses balanced at the end. Put something near one and it is drawn measurably toward it. Explain please, using your fourth dimension.
Will you people spouting this crap take a moment and educate yourselves. You make yourself look pretty stupid when you don't even know the difference between a pesticide and an herbicide.
The plants are Roundup resistant so the herbicide can be used to kill competing vegetation.
Not only that, but Monsanto (Roundup) uses a gene already present in plants.
"Like some plants are being made Pesticide resistents. SO farmers can poor a lot of pesticides on the plants without it getting into the plant material."
Referring to Monsanto? If so, incorrect. They are making the plants specifically immune to their herbicide so that less can be used targetedly.
Provide some links to some relevant high-level studies you've read, please.
No. It's a stroke of luck at finding the one branch that produces seedless grapes and then grafting the hell out of it. You cannot breed for sterility. (Yeah, yeah, mules. Those are two species, not one.)
Give a link, chum. Try to provide a link to them being harmed by normally occurring levels of pollen instead of the super-saturated studies the UK did. You can kill someone by force-feeding them water too.
Uh, no. Just like attention deficit, autism is diagnosed more because there's money. Used to be, autism was debilitating, now, it's just a trait and many times hard to find unless you're looking (or want to).
Anyone ranking the US as second worst has apparently never been to Asia, Africa or SA.
You do realize the First Amendment was meant to cover speech, not yelling fire in a theater, slandering your neighbor, or cramming gratuitous violence down people's throats?
Maybe it the other subscribers who want the violence segregated, moron. And, just maybe, they outnumber the ilk of you. Most people in the world aren't dickweeds who don't give a damn about children.
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Please recall that Clinton said he'd "never legalize marijuana". Lot's of Repubs & other conservatives smoke pot. Don't be naieve.
Well, it's nice to see an argument so well thought out. Just give books and paintings away for 'cost' and then promote the authors and artists so they can do... tours where people pay to watch them write and paint?
The topic is a helluva lot more complicated to prove/disprove, what with millions of variables instead of three or four?
Scientific consensus is a meaningless term. It's been overturned many times in the past. Emperical evidence trumps all.
If you actually include some way of bolstering your assertion you'd have a point. As it is, you simply repeated what is happening; mention one glacier at a time and not mention the other thousands. His point stands.
He was not fired for being an addict. He was fired for his activities at work. If you're a junkie, shoot up at home. Otherwise, be a fry cook where they don't care. Same, same.
All of which will get you fired for other reasons and probably defending your ass in court on industrial espionage charges.
So, you think being a drunk is equivalent to having cancer? Those medical professionals who consider alcoholism as being a disease do not share your equation. Ask one.
A company is under no obligation to "assist the employee with treatment and support" for being an alcoholism. This is not a 'disease' (Webster's #3) that you can catch or occurs to you because of a defective protein.
This from the son of an alcoholic.
"[Makes stiff-arm salute] Yes, sir! We must obey all company rules, sir!"
Well, chum, you don't mind taking their money, do you? Don't like the rules at my company, find another job. It's not like you're being prohibited from leaving such a restrictive environ.
"But if you are going to allow a little freedom to surf the net, read e-mails and suchlike, you have no moral right to fire them for discreetly looking at something you disagree with, be it political, religious, personal, sexual, or anything else."
Why, because you, someone with no company vestiture says so?
Depends on the level. It's not like he was clipping his toenails.
As to your sig -- atheism has nothing at all to do with eugenics.
He says he's "an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal".
Sounds like he indeed visited during work hours or he wouldn't have had a reason at all to say this. It's IBM's system and rules. Tuff if you can't keep your hands (mental or physical) out of your pants at the job.
Right. And the people on the other side of the globe are decelerating. And, the people one fourth the way 'round are...?
There is a long filament with two masses balanced at the end. Put something near one and it is drawn measurably toward it. Explain please, using your fourth dimension.
And I have tiny wild strawberrys in my front yard that taste like styrofoam. Your point?
Bad example. Aside from seeing and being round, the structure is very different.
Will you people spouting this crap take a moment and educate yourselves. You make yourself look pretty stupid when you don't even know the difference between a pesticide and an herbicide.
The plants are Roundup resistant so the herbicide can be used to kill competing vegetation.
Not only that, but Monsanto (Roundup) uses a gene already present in plants.
Here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup -- read.
"Like some plants are being made Pesticide resistents. SO farmers can poor a lot of pesticides on the plants without it getting into the plant material."
Referring to Monsanto? If so, incorrect. They are making the plants specifically immune to their herbicide so that less can be used targetedly.
Provide some links to some relevant high-level studies you've read, please.
No. It's a stroke of luck at finding the one branch that produces seedless grapes and then grafting the hell out of it. You cannot breed for sterility. (Yeah, yeah, mules. Those are two species, not one.)
I've been reading the comments here for years. It's either the same or a poorer representation.
"this has been documented already"
Give a link, chum. Try to provide a link to them being harmed by normally occurring levels of pollen instead of the super-saturated studies the UK did. You can kill someone by force-feeding them water too.
Uh, no. Just like attention deficit, autism is diagnosed more because there's money. Used to be, autism was debilitating, now, it's just a trait and many times hard to find unless you're looking (or want to).
Anyone ranking the US as second worst has apparently never been to Asia, Africa or SA.
"But the common man doesn't understand 'efficiency gains' as something significant."
Yeah, they insulate their houses to save on energy bills just 'cause.
Yes, it's not like China has ever tried to steal our secrets before. Why presume such now?
You do realize the First Amendment was meant to cover speech, not yelling fire in a theater, slandering your neighbor, or cramming gratuitous violence down people's throats?
Maybe it the other subscribers who want the violence segregated, moron. And, just maybe, they outnumber the ilk of you. Most people in the world aren't dickweeds who don't give a damn about children.