. . . . so if I'm not in that room, I don't hear it.

No Family or Friends to threaten, then no go.... Is this what they mean by "properly motivated"?

Where is the child support from the father of the child? Let's not stereo type the girl too fast. For every pregnant girl there is a baby daddy.

I don't necessarily agree with the welfare system, it rewards some laziness and irresponsibility. There are good and honest people who go to it as a last resort, but once on it, it is extremely difficult to get back off of it. Ask anyone who has tried. You're practically punished for trying to be free of it.

Key thing is "Implied".

But then again how is this any different then the "Black Box" in the car?

Don't get me wrong, I disagree with the Black Box and the GPS tracking. I think that we, as a nation, haven't screamed loud enough at our leadership to tell them to get out of our lives.

Hell, as a nation, we've elected these bastards who have basically told us to Bend over and Take it.

So which company is reporting to whom about who did what on Cyber Monday or Black Friday, or any F---'in day? Is this how much every aspect of our lives is being tracked that in merely a few days we know this statistic at all, regardless of accuracy?

Augh....

... because he's not that smart.

OK, so you write code for a living and only reach out to people when you need an answer to a question.

Sounds like you might need a daily blog / journal. I've seen co-workers post a daily summary of what tasks / actions were worked on and the journal is injected with a few humorous lines of the individual's personal views. This is a form of communication that may suit your style better.
    * It provides team members the opportunity to know what your working on, and may encourage them to share ideas or come to you for fresh ideas.
    * It allows management the ability to keep apprised of the work your doing without having to bug you while you're in the middle of a train of thought.
    * For some colleagues, it will give them an insight in to your personality without you having to hang out by the water cooler.
    * It helps you remember what you did so that one day when you have to produce a weekly status report, you've already captured your tasks current and completed.

Communication does not always mean you'll be caught up in political BS at work.
Communication builds trust with colleagues.
Communication is not a needless skill, but it is a dying art.

You know you're a great communicator when you can basically tell someone to "go to hell" in such a way that they think the idea is theirs and look forward to the trip.

Good luck.

...US Congressman, Senator, House of Representative, White House personnel...then you'll hear the outcry against it.

Nothing good will come of this, nothing.

I'm all for the headphones at work.

When I see someone wearing them, I assume that they are heads down solving a problem and because of the intensity of the problem they need privacy. The headphones is a unobtrusive way to make that point.

When companies have the Future at Work scenario or cubicles with no private offices sometimes there is just way too much distracting noise. Many people do work well in that environment, but for others the headsets allow one to dampen the white noise, or change it to a white noise that is more suitable fhttp://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl#or one's purpose. And honestly, if it increase productivity in the workplace, then I would encourage it for more people.

.... has returned to someone in the Judicial system.

It's ridiculous that the government bitches about getting a warrant. GPS is more invasive in my opinion. Because if you are a person of interest and the Govt, feels that you should be tracked, then they slap that GPS unit on your vehicle and they will step onto your property to do it in many cases. So in the event that they're not parked outside your house watching your every move, they don't always know who's driving that vehicle. So in essence, if you lent your car to someone that is NOT a person of interest the government is now tracking the wrong person and violating his/her rights.

As least with a warrant, the request is on papers and the government could back up their tracking with that warrant should the 'person not of interest' have balls big enough to go after the government.

In days long past, humans would go to public executions and would take their children. Beheading are a European tradition if you've ever read anything about history.

As a Society, we bitch and moan, "Oh no, spare the children....". I'm very tired of the buffer the children from real life syndrome. We've raised children who are so buffered that they don't ever see the real world and then when they start to test the waters, there are never any significant consequences.

I'm not saying have a beheading channel on the TV that runs 24/7. But holy hells bells people the world is an ugly place and our morals are all messed up these days. When schools with STUPID zero tolerance policies suspend / expel a student for helping drunk friend to NOT Drink and drive, then the sober one gets the punishment, what message are we sending? I've even heard of kids who skip school to do a little B and E, and the cops won't arrest them, because the act is so minor. Again, what message are we sending?

Today we have flash mob mentality running amok and in part it's because those individual who are on the brink of doing something that they know is wrong judge whether they can get away with it, and if caught, what are the consequences? You've created your slap on the wrist society, by hiding real consequences for real actions (regardless of reasons). When the children see the horrors of the world, most of them don't want that for themselves or the ones that they love, so they may quickly choose not to follow that path.

Next, ladies and gentlemen, it is YOUR responsibility to police YOUR offspring, not a company. And if YOUR child is under the age of 13 then its YOUR fault if they see something they shouldn't on Facebook.

No, you're right, they can't cure the syndrome called "Stereotyping". That's a self-made cure.

Well. . . based on your expert opinion of "your ignorance is astounding" clearly, there is no point in having a healthy debate. One is not allow to see things from a perspective not your own without being insulted.

Have a nice day.

Um, by the ages that these two girls are I'm sure that there has been at least one product in their entire life with eggs in it and if neither has had an " allergic reaction to say the egg the virus was grown" by those ages they will more than likely NEVER have a reaction.

Now lets consider for one moment all the people that these two could infect if they contracted any of those viruses. And what if one of their victims dies from that said virus that is EASILY preventable? How is that fair?

It's one thing to be allergic to something and know it will kill you, but an egg virus is rare and these aren't babies who are fresh out of the womb.

All I've said is that with making a decision and standing firmly behind it, there may be repercussions, and they (mother and daughters) should be ready to face those and accept responsibility for that decision they made.

I was once an employee of CGI, and honestly I think they outright steal good income from the people they employee as contractors, but that being said, working on government contracts is ALWAYS a nightmare.

Anyone, and I mean anyone who has ever had a contract position with a company for any project for the US government knows quite well how the US government will ask for the sky but will only pay for a twin engine prop from the 1950s to get the sky.

The US government has never learned how to handle business life-cycles on projects. They start out with vague scopes and extremely intense schedules, they talk in circles and never say what they really want and then once development has started the creep of scope begins and it's not like a snail slowing moving the requirements around, they add thousands and then when the possibility exists that the original schedule will slip, contractors who are project managers are literally crucified for saying a project is at risk.

I speak from direct experience.

I remember when I received a PM role as a contractor on a Government project that was already in dire straits. I asked my manager how I would succeed where he couldn't and he simply laughed and said you won't. I said, "So if I fail I succeed?" and his response was "yes". Well I managed to make a doomed project succeed, but was kicked off the project 1 month before it was completed simply because I communicated that there was a risk that one part of the project would not be implemented from a lack of US Government decision at such a late date in the project. I was crucified for saying that, but only after there was a big meeting and I was asked what needed to be decided on to succeed. I provided 3 options and explained the amount of work. They chose the cheapest in time and workmanship, and then kicked me from the project. It was only because I put my concerns for the project in writing that we succeeded, but in the end my reputation was crushed by the those that feared the US Government.

Today, on my resume, I can in good consciousness say I managed a project to completion, on time and under budget. But given the opportunity to help the US Government again as a contractor, I'd turn down the $ and walk away.

Businesses can't afford to be blamed for the US Government's inability to get its Shit together.