She and her colleagues have "X" number of contract days for which they must report to work.
However of late, the practice has begun of additional "nonmandatory" meetings, training sessions, and general workdays. You know, "for the children." This has grown to the point where she is probably present "at work" during about 12 to 15 days of her summer vacation. None of this time is compensated in any way; in fact, with gasoline costs as they are, you may readily say SHE is paying for this privilege.
Oh, it's "not mandatory," but it is "expected" by the administrators, who like to boast to their peers about the amount of "donated time" they're getting out of their teachers. "Failure to cooperate" can lead to subtle retaliation.
My point is that this isn't "slavery" but it is d*mned inconsiderate. If you want to climb the "ladder of success," don't do it on the backs of your "underlings."
...you should see what miracles occur when you're not oppressed by an onerous "single-payer" socialist-welfare-state "health" care system like the NHS.
Look at the effect of ANY "hate crime law" anywhere in the U.S. or abroad, and you will see a stark "chilling effect" on free speech.
But that's okay, of course, because the Left thought of it, and they love everyone (except producers who have anything left over after paying taxes, of course).
When you are out with a "lady of the evening," and pay by credit card (up front, of course), it will have a sticker on it, with the logo showing either a posh condo interior with pink decor, or with blue.
In fact, there are all SORTS of preferences related to transactions with "women of negotiable affection" that could be applied to such credit-card stickers.
He tells us in his latest radio ad that we have "only two years before they change the Internet, and you won't be able to make money like I did any more."
We'd probably better get to his website and sign up, before it's too late!
Every time a Japanese spacecraft gets involved, it ends up bringing back space-spores that grow unnoticed behind the repair shed and then turn into those stop-action monster-thingies that level whole cities.
Unless we hire and train a Space Patrol before the thing ever takes off, I think we should nix the whole idea.
Okay, so you appear to be saying that the "little Liddell" is totally spurious, and any word found in it is immediately rejected as to usage.
Did I read you right?
(Yeah, I know you said a lot of other things, but frankly I couldn't decipher much of it. Something set you off. That's about the extent of my understanding. Sorry.)
"Rhetoric" was once a subject taught routinely in school, and encompassed the spoken as well as the written word. It was the study, essentially, of cogent argument without resorting to the silly ad hominem that people like you have apparently decided to substitute instead.
Again, what I wrote was factual, whether you agree with the morphology of my ancient Greek or not. We used to teach "rhetoric" as the art of discussion. Now the term means "sound and fury signifying nothing."
Ironic, isn't it, that your diatribe is such a particular example of the modern usage.
The word appears in my copy of "Greek-English Lexicon" by Liddell and Scott, Ninth Edition (Abridged).
Perhaps you are unaware that there are varying forms of many (even "most") words in ancient Greek, depending upon the era and the part of the Greek world you're considering.
The word "rheteros" I transliterated from the above source. And my point stands, whether you take it or not.
The study of "rhetoric" was once a feature of a classical Western education, which has since degraded until students cannot even understand their OWN language, much less that of ancient Rome or the Hellenic world.
Nowadays, it seems "one-upmanship" is far more important than scholarship. Your reply is Q.E.D.
...it makes no sense for Mozilla, Opera, or Microsoft to encourage the use of unaccountable certificates.
Well, then O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y you're in favor of evil "monopolies like Verisign," of which there are, of course, several (which means they're not "monopolies" at all, then, but since we just want to say "they're mean and charge too much money," why quibble?)
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She and her colleagues have "X" number of contract days for which they must report to work.
However of late, the practice has begun of additional "nonmandatory" meetings, training sessions, and general workdays. You know, "for the children." This has grown to the point where she is probably present "at work" during about 12 to 15 days of her summer vacation. None of this time is compensated in any way; in fact, with gasoline costs as they are, you may readily say SHE is paying for this privilege.
Oh, it's "not mandatory," but it is "expected" by the administrators, who like to boast to their peers about the amount of "donated time" they're getting out of their teachers. "Failure to cooperate" can lead to subtle retaliation.
My point is that this isn't "slavery" but it is d*mned inconsiderate. If you want to climb the "ladder of success," don't do it on the backs of your "underlings."
...you should see what miracles occur when you're not oppressed by an onerous "single-payer" socialist-welfare-state "health" care system like the NHS.
Look at the effect of ANY "hate crime law" anywhere in the U.S. or abroad, and you will see a stark "chilling effect" on free speech.
But that's okay, of course, because the Left thought of it, and they love everyone (except producers who have anything left over after paying taxes, of course).
..."Your place or mine?"
When you are out with a "lady of the evening," and pay by credit card (up front, of course), it will have a sticker on it, with the logo showing either a posh condo interior with pink decor, or with blue.
In fact, there are all SORTS of preferences related to transactions with "women of negotiable affection" that could be applied to such credit-card stickers.
...electronic versions of the Rose Law Firm billing records.
Here's a BUNCH of 'em!
...Couldn't the guy have just MARRIED the computer system, then claimed that it couldn't testify against him under Spousal Privilege?
Is there any way we can look through a telescope from Earth and see the flag on the moon?
Well, our esteemed Houston (Democrat) Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee suggested that the Mars Pathfinder could do that for us.
But I guess then they'd claim Pathfinder was fake.
I don't see a man in there.
After Soviet Russia, suspicion is hard to allay.
Ah, d*mmit! Beat me to it!
F' Shizzle?
You know, the "beach-bum from Hawaii that made a pile of cash on the Internet?"
He tells us in his latest radio ad that we have "only two years before they change the Internet, and you won't be able to make money like I did any more."
We'd probably better get to his website and sign up, before it's too late!
I mean, would a beach-bum from Hawaii steer you wrong?
..."Dad, I wish I could just access your bank account without having to actually call you to ask for money..."
Well, we tried that, but all the Japanese ambassador would say is "That's not going to happen."
Every time a Japanese spacecraft gets involved, it ends up bringing back space-spores that grow unnoticed behind the repair shed and then turn into those stop-action monster-thingies that level whole cities.
Unless we hire and train a Space Patrol before the thing ever takes off, I think we should nix the whole idea.
..."ATALAS SHRUGGED." It was very good, but not quite on par with his first novel, "THE FOUNTAINAHEAD."
...that I'm "very Brad Pitt-like" in my online dating profile, even if I'm actually "five times as massive?"
I mean, otherwise we are VERY, VERY, VERY, similar, right down to the molecular level!
...is an example of "scientific misconduct" masquerading as mass hysteria.
Okay, so you appear to be saying that the "little Liddell" is totally spurious, and any word found in it is immediately rejected as to usage.
Did I read you right?
(Yeah, I know you said a lot of other things, but frankly I couldn't decipher much of it. Something set you off. That's about the extent of my understanding. Sorry.)
"Rhetoric" was once a subject taught routinely in school, and encompassed the spoken as well as the written word. It was the study, essentially, of cogent argument without resorting to the silly ad hominem that people like you have apparently decided to substitute instead.
Again, what I wrote was factual, whether you agree with the morphology of my ancient Greek or not. We used to teach "rhetoric" as the art of discussion. Now the term means "sound and fury signifying nothing."
Ironic, isn't it, that your diatribe is such a particular example of the modern usage.
...is my butt really that fat?
You were the one brought up Microsoft, not I.
These companies exploit a captive market with inflated prices.
EVERY company, indeed every entity, exploits a captive market with "inflated" (by what standard, I wonder?) prices.
This is sheer demagoguery. The capitalist market might be "greedy," but it is better by far than any other option you can think of.
I always wonder why a company can be "greedy," but if you sell your house and try to get the highest price possible for it, you're NOT greedy.
And since "companies" aren't human beings and therefore aren't possessed of human motives, it increases my puzzlement.
The word appears in my copy of "Greek-English Lexicon" by Liddell and Scott, Ninth Edition (Abridged).
Perhaps you are unaware that there are varying forms of many (even "most") words in ancient Greek, depending upon the era and the part of the Greek world you're considering.
The word "rheteros" I transliterated from the above source. And my point stands, whether you take it or not.
The study of "rhetoric" was once a feature of a classical Western education, which has since degraded until students cannot even understand their OWN language, much less that of ancient Rome or the Hellenic world.
Nowadays, it seems "one-upmanship" is far more important than scholarship. Your reply is Q.E.D.
Microsoft ISN'T a monopoly, since you can readily obtain products with identical function to theirs.
It would be impossible to have a "software monopoly." How do you corner the market on software?
Well, then O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y you're in favor of evil "monopolies like Verisign," of which there are, of course, several (which means they're not "monopolies" at all, then, but since we just want to say "they're mean and charge too much money," why quibble?)