Seems that you need to find a better society to work within - no company I work for has ever colluded with another company over workers. And yet I still find it trivial to find a job paying six figures a year, even when saying "no" a lot of the time. Perhaps you need to find a company that values you rather than you just chase a paycheck.
No company I have worked for has ever tested for drugs.
Seems like this is a problem in your country...
To answer some of your points - yes, a church should be able to sack someone for not adhering to the faith of the church, yes, a company should be able to fire you for posting negative comments about them, I don't have an opinion on the other matters.
Quantum computers is to computing what digital computers are to abacuses.
Theres no major breaking-the-laws-of-physics going on, its just a different way to carry out computations, one that has taken us a while to create - but it took us thousands of years to go from abacuses to digital computers, so give us time.
Your view of quantum computers is exactly what I would expect to hear from an Egyptian accountant back in 500BC experiencing a hand held calculator for the first time. Doesn't make a hand held calculator impossible tho...
The US gets sick leave, it's called "personal days". Get your facts right. The UK also has no sick pay if you're part time, or have nothing but zero hour contracts. In the US you can see a medical specialist very soon, likewise with scans such as MRIs, ultrasound, et al, unlike the UK were you have to wait weeks and that's likely to be nowhere near where you live.
Hah, what bullshit - the level of employment you have has no bearing on your statutory sick pay entitlement, its all based on how much NI contributions you have made in that reporting period as to how much prorated sick pay you are entitled to.
How many "personal days" do you get? Is it at all comparable to my 4 weeks a year?
I'm also not sure where you get your view of the NHS from - if I need an MRI or ultrasound, I get it and I get it in a timely manner which depends on the severity of my condition. What I do not get is unneeded tests, which the US health system is plagued with and where many of the costs come from.
If I really wanted to get treatment quicker or closer to home, I can go private - and guess what? Last time I worked it out, I could pay my taxes (which covers the NHS) and buy a private healthcare plan (for private treatment) and still pay out no more than my US counterpart in the same job.
Draw the line wherever you like, you don't have to work for them. I don't work for companies that want to pay me less than I want to be paid - it doesn't take any laws or rules for that to work.
This is why the US system sucks - in the UK I get 4 weeks fully paid sick leave from my employer, and after that a further year of statutory sick pay from the Government. I also get 5 weeks paid holiday against which my sick leave does not count. In addition, I get reasonable accommodation to go see the doctor, dentist, optician, hospital etc etc.
Why is the "land of the free" not similar?
So its not a free choice to accept employment with a company because there is a big "do your work or else..." attached to that employment?
Sounds like you feel entitled to that job...
Innocent until proven guilty is for specific parts of the legal system only - the police and prosecutors have to believe you are guilty to bring a case against you, so its obvious it doesn't apply to everyone, everywhere, for all things. So a company doesn't have to assume you are innocent at all, as neither does your friends, family or random person in the street.
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You seem to have replied to the wrong poster there...
They have always had a subscription model (Open Value Subscription) for corporations alongside full license purchase, Office 365 never changed that in the slightest - many companies out there prefer capital cost to subscription, as subscriptions cannot go on the books as assets while purchased licenses can.
Office 365 is more orientated toward the smaller business or home user that cannot afford or want to defer capital costs while using the software they want in the mean time. Anything above a few dozen users will probably go with a Microsoft licensing reseller and sign on to a VL agreement (MS allows you to have one single license on a VL, it has no bottom end in reality but it has benefits such as Software Assurance et al.
An attribution to Douglas Adams would be good
Its what the Slashdot group think wants to happen - which we all know is fair and balanced...
Does it? Do they get to vote differently to different parts of the bill?
If the climate change rider was an entirely standalone bill, I would agree with you - but what about those that strongly believe the pipeline is a benefit worth having, but having differing opinions on various riders? In the end, the climate change rider doesn't force anyones hand, so its probably not something that would jeopardise a vote for the entire bill.
The rider really needed to be its own bill if we are to attach any meaning at all to votes cast.
Clinton avoided the use of the word "genocide" in relation to Rwanda's "civil war" in 1997, precisely because defining it as genocide would have legally required him to do something about it. So yes, weasel actions can have particular effects.
Vote that ISIS isn't real means you can blisfully ignore the humanitarian crisis going on in the region, because it can't possibly be happening as the cause doesn't exist.
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff." -- Dave Enyeart
