Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Mxsmanic on 30 Jul 2006 05:15 Tchiowa writes: > If people know what they are doing they can protect themselves from the > cold quite easily. A well insulated shelter will do that. But you can't > protect yourself from heat that way. Cold is more dangerous but can be > defended against. Long term heat is less dangerous but you can't > protect yourself against it without something like air conditioning. Yes, although long-term heat is quite dangerous if it is extreme (just like short-term heat). -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 30 Jul 2006 05:15 Tchiowa writes: > Is that why so many French died of heat a couple of years ago? They died mainly because there was no air conditioning. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 30 Jul 2006 05:17 Dave Frightens Me writes: > Indeed, if they had been properly educated about how to deal with the > heat, they needn't have died from it. An education would not have helped without the actual tools, such as air conditioning. Even now, the government is recommending that people spend at least a few hours a day in an air-conditioned room. Unfortunately, they don't explain where people are supposed to find air-conditioned rooms. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 30 Jul 2006 05:26 mrtravel writes: > What follows is an example of the same test I did it high school. > I wasn't referring to the common toilet/sink draining rhetoric Yes, you were. Then you googled, hoping to find that you were right and I was wrong. Then you discovered that you were wrong, but you tried to extract anything you could from the page you mention that would allow you to save face somehow. You could have saved yourself the embarrassment by doing research in advance. The only arguably unkind thing I did was to let you crash and burn, although it would have been hard to avoid, since I knew that you'd argue with anything rather than look it up, just as you are doing now after the fact. Too many people here are more concerned with attacking me than they are with finding out the truth. They are like schoolboys on a playground, ready to rumble but without a clue. Look it up _first_, then speak only if I've clearly made a mistake (which is rare). You see, I _do_ look things up. Read that page carefully. Proving a Coriolis effect in a body of water the size of a sink is incredibly difficult; the page explains why, and explains what must be done to see it. You will never see the Coriolis effect in a sink or toilet. It's a longstanding urban legend, which you repeated without investigation. > Exacty my point. The previous poster (you?) referred to the season at > which most deaths occur in the Northenn Hemisphere. My point was that it > would seem that the deaths in the South would follow the same seasonal > pattern. What seasonal pattern? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 30 Jul 2006 06:53
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:17:00 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> Indeed, if they had been properly educated about how to deal with the >> heat, they needn't have died from it. > >An education would not have helped without the actual tools, such as >air conditioning. Yes it would have. Examine the cases where people people died, and invariably they neglected to do something well within their power. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |