Comment Re:H1B-er here: my opinion on the subject. (Score 1) 636
"(e.g. Germany, France, Finland)."
So how is this situation handled in the countries you mentioned? Do they have an H1-B/Green Card equivalent for non-Europeans?
"(e.g. Germany, France, Finland)."
So how is this situation handled in the countries you mentioned? Do they have an H1-B/Green Card equivalent for non-Europeans?
Sounds like you need to find a new wife while you're at it
"He cannot force her to give them up any more than he could force her to abort the fetus or give the child up for adoption"
So can she not force him to pay child support if it's her decision to keep them?
"mostly spent on the military."
Although military spending is a nice chunk of the federal budget, most of it is spent on Social Security and Medicare:
LOL (seriously, I did)
"If you're a Type I diabetic like myself"
Ditto. I love coffee (and caffeine by extension), but don't like it unsweetened. I usually use Splenda when available.
I'd be interested in Stevia, but there really doesn't seem to be much effort behind producing ready-made drinks with it. I did see Coca-Cola with Stevia in the market the other day, but it was 50% Stevia with the rest sugar, which wouldn't do us much good.
I'm a type 1 diabetic you insensitive clod! I have no insulin to respond with!
"Should your data usage exceed 15GB in a 30 day period and your usage affect other network users, we reserve the right to limit your Service."
http://www.three.ie/terms-cond...
It may not be a cap, but I'd definitely not call that "unlimited". Take it for what it's worth.
"well-regulated = well-trained"
I know what you're aiming for here, but that doesn't guarantee any more level of safety against incidents like this from happening. The pilot in this situation was well-trained, and I'm sure went through a psych-eval during his career. Nidal Malik Hasan was also well-trained and vetted, and a member of the military (the people you WANT to have guns), and that didn't stop what happened at Fort Hood.
"Initially, a recommended 20% of the PEPFAR budget was to be spent on prevention, with the remaining 80% going to care and treatment, laboratory support, antiretroviral drugs, TB/HIV services, support for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), infrastructure, training, and other related services. Of the 20% spent on prevention, one third, or 6.7% of the total, was to be spent on abstinence-until-marriage programs in fiscal years 2006 through 2008, a controversial requirement "
So yes, some of it was devoted to abstinence-only programs (which are proven not to work), but:
"To slow the spread of the epidemic, PEPFAR supports a variety of prevention programs: the ABC approach (Abstain, Be faithful, and correct and consistent use of Condoms); prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) interventions; and programs focusing on blood safety, injection safety, secondary prevention ("prevention with positives"), counseling and education."
I know Wikipedia isn't the gospel truth, but somehow I doubt mcclatchydc.com is either. Feel free to update Wikipedia with the claim that the groups were "prohibited from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs".
Since it's paywalled, I guess we'll never know.
The program mentioned in the article (PEPFAR) did devote money to programs that promoted abstinence, which is definitely somewhat misguided, but still spent two-thirds of its funding on programs which supported the use of condoms. Wikipedia makes no mention of an "insistence" or requirement that the aid money be devoted to abstinence-only methods.
The link you provided confirms it...the U.S. gets less than 5% of it's oil from Iraq. I guess when I said "gets very little" of it's oil from Iraq, I should have been more specific.
"besides insisting foreign aid be tied to no contraception?"
Where on Earth is this official U.S. government policy? I know there are a lot of crackpots in the U.S., some of them in government even, but you'll be hard pressed to find any official documentation to verify this.
And 20 years is too long ago? What about 10 years? 4 months?
Yeah, they sure did utterly fail to act and ignore what was happening in Africa because of the lack of oil. How did that work out for them?
The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong -- until the next person quits or is fired.