Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: mrtravel on 29 Jul 2006 23:34 Tchiowa wrote: > Dave Frightens Me wrote: > >>On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:51:56 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >> >>>mrtravel writes: >> >>>>So, if you think that deaths due to weather happen more due to weather >>>>in the summer. Does it matter if the location is in the northern or >>>>southern hemisphere? >>> >>>What matters is heat. >> >>What matters is education. Educated people don't die from heat. > > > Is that why so many French died of heat a couple of years ago? > > (Sorry, I couldn't help that one.) > How many educated French people died?
From: Dave Frightens Me on 30 Jul 2006 01:35 On 29 Jul 2006 20:19:34 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> On 27 Jul 2006 17:19:02 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >Again you demonstrate a basic lack of understanding. Capitalism didn't >> >"beat" Communism. Communism/Socialism failed all by itself. Socialism >> >is a fatally flawed theory and any attempt to implement it will always >> >fail over time. That has been proven over and over again. >> >> The opposite is currently being demonstrated in the PRC. > >Excuse me?????? The PRC is growing quite rapidly now. But there are >apparently 2 things you are unaware of. 'quite rapidly'??? They can barely control it! >The first is that the Chinese government has allowed private ownership >of industry and it is those businesses that are driving the growth. >That's called "Capitalism". It's the only freedom the people have. >The second is that if the growth continues then eventually the people >will rise up and throw out the last of the Communists and Socialism >will end. If not, then they will reach a point where the economy >plateaus and it will be "way" below the level of the West. Yeah, yeah, sure. I've heard the same said about the USA, but the other way round. When it happens I'll come back here and give you credit for predicting it. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 30 Jul 2006 01:40 On 29 Jul 2006 20:14:53 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >The Reid wrote: >> sigh, more playing with words. Capitalism was successful. >> Communism wasn't. so the communist countries eventually collapsed >> and opted for capitalism. You object to "beat", fine. Was it worth saying >> anymore than the bollox about "have you heard of ice ages"? > >By saying that "Capitalism beat Socialism" you imply that if it wasn't >for Capitalism then Socialism may have succeeded. Mike was implying precisely nothing of the sort, and you know it. > My very simple point >is that Socialism cannot succeed. Ever. Any circumstance. It is a >doomed philosophy. Yeah, blah blah blah... You seem to continually ignore that it's working just fine in a large number of very affluent countries. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 30 Jul 2006 01:43 On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:34:54 GMT, mrtravel <mrtravel(a)bcglobal.net> wrote: >Tchiowa wrote: > >> Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:51:56 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>> >>>>mrtravel writes: >>> >>>>>So, if you think that deaths due to weather happen more due to weather >>>>>in the summer. Does it matter if the location is in the northern or >>>>>southern hemisphere? >>>> >>>>What matters is heat. >>> >>>What matters is education. Educated people don't die from heat. >> >> >> Is that why so many French died of heat a couple of years ago? >> >> (Sorry, I couldn't help that one.) >> > >How many educated French people died? Indeed, if they had been properly educated about how to deal with the heat, they needn't have died from it. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 30 Jul 2006 01:47
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:44:32 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Miguel Cruz writes: > >> Because the bodies of more frail people cannot so easily handle extremes >> of heat and cold (and shock and pressure and a great many other things). > >Are you sure? He is of course correct. He is stating the bloody obvious after all. >> How about pneumonia and flu? > >What about them? Ah, it appears you have resorted to you playing-with-words strategy. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |