Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Mxsmanic on 28 Jul 2006 01:07 mrtravel writes: > Can you cite this? > I am in California, and I seemed to have missed this on the local news. Read the Associated Press: http://us.cnn.com/2006/US/07/27/heatwave.ap.ap/index.html -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Carole Allen on 28 Jul 2006 00:54 On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:02:59 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >There aren't many places left with a colder climate. > North Slope of Alaska?
From: Tchiowa on 28 Jul 2006 03:51 mrtravel wrote: > Mxsmanic wrote: > > > Dave Frightens Me writes: > > > > > >>No it is not. Hypothermia is a much greater risk that hyperthermia. > > > > > > Right now officials in California are complaining that they don't have > > enough space to contain all the dead bodies from the heat wave. You > > don't often hear that in winter, even when the cold is very extreme. > > > > Can you cite this? > I am in California, and I seemed to have missed this on the local news. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/27/state/n171540D17.DTL 98 dead so far. Kind of like France a couple of years ago.
From: Padraig Breathnach on 28 Jul 2006 04:19 "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Padraig Breathnach wrote: >> Bollocks. States "own" armies and navies. By such a definition, they >> would be instances of socialism. > >And you were under the impression that armies are a "business"???? > You missed my point, even though it wasn't particularly subtle. I am not surprised. I'll spell it out for you: there is more to healthcare than being a business opportunity; it's a public policy issue, a social provision matter. Like roads, police services, things like that. >> That is not a profound definition, but still does not come anywhere >> near supporting your claim. > >It *exactly* supports my claim. > Wrong. Assertion does not make it right. >> A trivial definition which tells us almost nothing. > >"State ownership" doesn't mean anything??? It's what causes the system >to fail. > It's trivial argument. >> But it's not worth my while. Your approach to argument is (to put it >> mildly) unsatisfactory. > >Particularly since it proved you wrong. You obviously find that quite >"unsatisfactory". > Go away and play with little people who might be impressed with slogans and assertions as forms of argument. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/
From: The Reid on 28 Jul 2006 05:12
Following up to Mxsmanic >> You could move to a place with a colder climate and not risk vacuum >> cleaning in the nude. > >There aren't many places left with a colder climate. my last holiday was in Shetland, you would like the climate, nice and cool. -- Mike Reid. Shetland pics:- Puffin pics "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/puffinpics.htm" Seabird shots "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/shetlandbirds.htm" Lensed landscape "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/skyepics.htm#shetland |