To your first point, many times its as simple as they can't take time off to go to interviews while working and can't afford to not work while that's happening.

Yes, because all corporations listen to and act on well reasoned and evidence backed arguments. That's how we got the food industry to stop putting rotted meat and hazardous chemicals into the food they sold.

I disagree with your statement that employees are not forced to continue working for a company. Not everyone can afford to walk away from a paying job, especially since we've idiotically decided to tie things like health insurance to employment status.

The corporation's assets ultimately get seized by the IRS. You seem to be unable to separate the penalties enforced against an individual verus a corporation. Corporations my have legal personhood, but they're not people.

Laws enacted to control businesses are enforced with financial penalties, not violence. What happened with Eric Garner was an issue of police behavior, not a fault with the law itself.

I found this through a comment on the Frederick News-Post's article: the first letter of every paragraph spells out Kirby Delauter

I have seen those bassinets, but only on a large plane when I was flying across the Pacific. I haven't seen anything on small planes, but I would hope they become more common. Or at least that planes could have a few seats that could be reconfigured for anyone with special circumstances.

That sounds like selectively enforced bureaucratic bullshit. And unfortunately I think it will take a child being seriously injured or killed for them to reevaluate that policy.

Why do airlines allow any child, with special needs or not, to fly unrestrained? Parents will not be able to hold on to a child in extreme turbulence and that risks injury to the child and other passengers. I could see requiring something like a baby björn for children who can't sit alone, but seriously.

What area of biology do you work in? I'm a microbiologist and in our lab we're required to wear lab coats all of the time and safety glasses most of the time.

The complete and utter inability to do basic tasks for themselves. Between the instructions on the back of the bottle and YouTube there is no reason anyone shouldn't be able to do their own laundry. Also cooking. I'm not asking for gourmet meals, but knowing how to boil pasta or bake a potato is a requirement.

I graduated five years ago with around $35k in debt, and next month it'll be under $10. I've been living as cheaply as possible since graduation, trying to live with roommates, cooking at home, taking public transit (my employer pays for a bus pass), buying almost everything second hand, etc. Before I had a decent…

If you cosigned the loan, it becomes yours if the primary debt holder dies. Spouses can be held liable for most debt, but children can't. If a parent dies with debt and they have an estate the government takes out any debt they're owed, then the private lenders get their cut and anything left goes to the heirs. If a…

I feel the need to defend New Zealand's pizza reputation with this amazing chain: http://hellpizza.com/nz/stores/menu… NZ Pizza Hut is crazy. Hell is crazy good.

Now I need to find a restaurant that serves cuisine from West Africa and eat there to make a point. This feels like the latest incarnation of fear of "dirty" foreigners. Considering you're more likely to catch any number of food borne illnesses from a restaurant before Ebola, the fear here is misplaced.

Both Ebola and HIV have the same transmission route, both require a only a small number of virus particles to cause infection, and while it requires a longer time to do it, untreated HIV kills almost 100% of those infected. HIV kills more people in a week than Ebola has killed in this entire outbreak. Yet no one is…

And yet you made the comparison between your mother's experience with SARS and Ebola quarantine. No, they're not the same, SARS is far more likely to become a global threat because of its method of transmission. If your mother had really wanted to protect the people around her, she'd have been wearing a respirator at…

Can you walk away from you daily responsibilities for 21 days? I don't know what this woman's life is like, but if she has children or pets she'll need to make immediate arrangements for their care. She had been working with Doctors Without Borders, but can they afford to have her gone for that amount of time? Are…

I've been doing cross fit for a year now, and that hasn't been my experience at all. I don't doubt that some trainers try to push you beyond your limits but every gym I've been to puts safety first. I've had trainers stop me in the middle of a workout to pull weights off of my bar and I still get called out when I…

Thank you for that. I've been doing cross fit for a year now, not because I'm a masochist, but because I'm a busy person and a short, high intensity workout lets me stay in shape and get on with my life.