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At some point, Bee, the gender-based salary issues become blurred with the idea that a small-business entrepreneur cannot afford the legal staff required to track full compliance with regulations that are not enforceable at that level anyway. And too many regulations = dead business. We have...

Bee, I've known about the problem for some time, though not related to salary issues. I actually have a pretty strong sense of fairness. My point is that the owner of a small business who doesn't have NLRB regulations to follow has a different viewpoint. Statistically, that is a "he" so...

Regarding "the wages thing" For contractors with the federal government, overtime is ALWAYS enumerated precisely in increments of 1/2 hour. There IS no "voluntary overtime" in the sense of "unpaid." To require a federal contractor to "voluntarily" (in the sense of "for free") work overtime is...

Regarding I - Empowerment: A more concise way of saying it is this: To empower someone is to take steps to allow the person to do things said person was not previously able to do before. It is expressly immaterial to this definition as to whether the previous inability was physical, mental...

It appears that the distinction comes about when you talk about the Trinity. Muslims, because they do not consider Jesus as anything but a prophet, cannot accept the beliefs steeped in the Trinity. But there are differences that originate from the New Testament. Apparently, the OT God and in...

You can find my exchange with Aziz in the appropriate thread about six or seven pages back from the last page. Post was in the upper 5900s.

Jon, the last several "Crop Circle" cases have been investigated enough to reveal they were hoaxes by high-spirited teens and young adults. And enough of them have been discredited that the odds of ANY of them being real are pretty much in the "slim to no chance at all" category.

I can only suggest that most of the reports we get on this subject are of questionable credibility and veracity. I remain skeptical.

Actually, Uncle G, they are not different. Worship of Allah and the Islamic faith are descended from one of the tribes of Israel. I believe it was the sons of Ham. Based on a long dialog, I recall from the Access World forum that the Muslims recognize Jesus. Not as a savior but as a prophet...

I will honor your request to wait for your fuller response, Bee. But based on what you DID say, you and I don't actually disagree at base. It is a cultural thing as to who manages the kids.

The ancient Greeks thought there were only something like seven stories possible, and that everything else was simple variation on a theme. If you look at modern country-western music, perhaps no more than three or four different chord patterns covers 95%+ of modern ballads and rock. If you...

And to George Orwell, all animals are equal. But some are more equal than others.

Neither communism nor capitalism are evil. It is the way they are managed (or unmanaged).

One point that you made, Jon, is worthy of immediate examination. You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT about one thing: You are never paid what you think you are worth. You are ALWAYS paid what the boss thinks your job is worth. Therefore, the comparison between the business owner and the cosmeticians...

Sounds like "The Argument Clinic" sketch from Monty Python.

Understood. And, in fact, part of the problem is often discovering that there IS a perspective alternative for the given subject.

Not familiar with de Bono, but I have read (and thoroughly enjoyed, and learned a lot from) The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (think I got the name right). It is a book about perspectives told from three different viewpoints besides his own: Goedel, Escher, and Bach. Their work...

Ah, but infinity is not ONLY inclusive of 0 (as in, there are an infinite number of integers) - but it is SIMULTANEOUSLY inclusive of zero and EVERY OTHER number AT THE SAME TIME. Since infinity is not a scalar number, but rather is an ambiguous concept that has a (literally infinite) number of...

Yes, conceptually. No, technically, since infinity is a number for which ordinary math operators really don't apply. In the Access World forum, we have a similar issue having to do with properties in the scope of set theory. Null - 1 is still null. So is null + 1 and null times 2 and null...

Looks like you have an advertising bot who wants to sell some stuff, Jon. The time tags make it look like a single burst. For what it is worth, I've seen some posts like this on another forum totally unrelated to this one. However, this mess seems different than the almost random messages in...