Re: Seattle PD on new marijuana law

2012-12-06 Thread Judah McAuley
Employers can fire employees for all sorts of behavior that is otherwise perfectly legal. That's because we've pretty much done away with private sector unions. The categories of things that employers can't fire you for is very very small indeed. And, yes, it is still illegal federally. States pu

Re: Seattle PD on new marijuana law

2012-12-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
Isn't this legalization just a smoke and mirrors move? That is, can't employers still test employees for marijuana and fire them if they have positive results? Also, it's still a federal crime. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger P

Re: Could it be ...

2012-12-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Anecdotal evidence." Huh? Anecdotal evidence for what? My badge does not track my movements. All this proves is that there is at least one employer who has id badges who does not track employees. "This type of ID Badge was certainly not invented just for this one school. It almost certain in

Re: Seattle PD on new marijuana law

2012-12-06 Thread LRS Scout
Their first press release was pretty damned funny too. On Dec 6, 2012 11:51 AM, "Cameron Childress" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > "The police department believes that, under state law, you may > responsibly > > get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a

Re: CNET: Tim Cook: Apple to pour $100M into U.S. Mac production

2012-12-06 Thread Ray Champagne
There have been lots of reports about small and large manufacturing coming back to America as it makes economic sense to do so. In fact, the rate of that is increasing. Of course, I am sitting here on a conference call and don't have the bandwidth to provide proof, but it is out there. I know I

Re: CNET: Tim Cook: Apple to pour $100M into U.S. Mac production

2012-12-06 Thread GMoney
I agree that I think this is the early beginnings of a modest trend, for the reasons that Cam mentioned. I've read several stories in this same vein over the last few months. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > >

Re: CNET: Tim Cook: Apple to pour $100M into U.S. Mac production

2012-12-06 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > I realize that this article mentions that Apple is only going to produce a > specific Mac, but I wonder if this is a sign that companies are taking a > renewed look at returning manufacturing back to the U.S.? Wishful thinking > I guess Real

CNET: Tim Cook: Apple to pour $100M into U.S. Mac production

2012-12-06 Thread Bruce Sorge
I realize that this article mentions that Apple is only going to produce a specific Mac, but I wonder if this is a sign that companies are taking a renewed look at returning manufacturing back to the U.S.? Wishful thinking I guess b Tim Cook: Apple to pour $100M into U.S. Mac production: http

Re: Could it be ...

2012-12-06 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > Also, my badge does not track me. It tracks doors that have been opened > with said ID. At some point in the future, this will probably change . . > . Anecdotal evidence. This type of ID Badge was certainly not invented just for this one

Re: Seattle PD on new marijuana law

2012-12-06 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > "The police department believes that, under state law, you may responsibly > get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a 'Lord of the Rings' marathon in > the privacy of your own home, if you want to." I'm waiting for the massive wave of ter

Re: Seattle PD on new marijuana law

2012-12-06 Thread GMoney
Just got done reading that article. I also like the other quote he had: "The Dude abides. Just keep it inside." I'm still not a proponent of legalization per se, but I'm all for cops leaving people alone who aren't hurting anyone. (Eventually they will start writing tickets for use in public). S

Re: Public funding of private schools that teach creationism ruled unconstitutional

2012-12-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Especially odd when you consider that Jefferson commissioned championed religious mission schools among native American, looking as it as essential to understanding western civilization, even if you remove the thocracy and talk only about the philosophy." The New Englad Primer was used in public

Seattle PD on new marijuana law

2012-12-06 Thread Judah McAuley
"The police department believes that, under state law, you may responsibly get baked, order some pizzas and enjoy a 'Lord of the Rings' marathon in the privacy of your own home, if you want to." http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Seattle-police-address-new-Wash-marijuana-law-4095252.php#

Re: Public funding of private schools that teach creationism ruled unconstitutional

2012-12-06 Thread LRS Scout
I think it depends on whose and when. Not every one of these interactions was evil and wrong. Many of even the best intended ideas turned out equally as bad, but I digress. Yes, there have been some incredible evils done to Native Americans throughout our history here. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at

Re: Public funding of private schools that teach creationism ruled unconstitutional

2012-12-06 Thread Judah McAuley
Religious mission schools amongst the native tribes was meant to subdue the savage red hordes. It wasn't really about enlightenment philosophy. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > Yeah that's kind of out of left field. > > Especially odd when you consider that Jefferson commis

Re: Public funding of private schools that teach creationism ruled unconstitutional

2012-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
the use of state money in promoting a specific religion should be completely banned. That's essentially what private religious schools do, promote a religion. I cannot see a reason to justify public money being given to a private religious school. That said, Creatinism, sorry Creationism, and its