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Comment Grey Ecology (Score 1) 175

Comment Lawyers are not firefighters... (Score 1) 735

"Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse, cooking, sleeping, or whatever" Bunk. When I was with the fire service when at the fire hall we were not 'on call'. The guys who were at home with a pager - and who only came in if the resources on duty were stressed, were on call and they were paid a percentage of their wage for those hours and had some restrictions placed on their time (i.e, they were not allowed to drink or to travel outside the city). Our service had two 12 hour shifts, one for day, one for night. The 'on call' shift was the day shift at night; and the night shift at day. There were four shifts in total. So, work a week - a duty shift and an on call shift, then get a week off. Welcome to the world of the white collar proletariat. On call without compensation 24/7 - get *&^&*Y*(&^!

Comment ever use a fountain pen? (Score 1) 921

When you lift the nib off the paper and put it back down again (as in printing) a fountain pen tends to leave a sometimes large drop of ink. But cursive writing does not have the pen leave the page for each and every letter or for that matter the independent strokes for each letter. Hence cursive writing's purpose. Since people rarely use fountain pens or quill pens but rather use ball point pens (which are supposed to control the flow of ink and prevent the drops from forming when pressing and lifting the pen from the page) there is little reason for cursive writing save for the pedants who confuse the appearance of style with substance.

Comment bad metaphysics does not good science make... (Score 1) 683

The universe means 'all that there is'. So nothing can be outside of it; and there cannot be more than one. This whole theory is bad metaphysics with some equations to distract people from the fact that its bad metaphysics. Modal logic's possible world semantics does not imply the existence of other worlds or universes even if we can make meaningful statements about them. They are nothing more than useful fictions without ontological status. Not all grammatical subjects have objects (e.g., 'the present king of France is bald' is not true, but not because he has hair).

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