>>"the law sucked and the cost was higher than the so-called problem it was solving."

I didn't offer it as a solution. I offered it as a option. You'd think from the responses, that there *was no alternative*. And that's just silly. People get poached all the time when the employee 1) really wants to go and 2) they have something of value to offer.

>None of that has any relevance to the statement.

Unless you lived there and paid the price. In which case, the law sucked and the cost was higher than the so-called problem it was solving.

(This comment applies to most respondents to this thread, not just you - nothing personal.)

Yup, you got the right of it. "Backwater" thinking always reminds me of why I sometimes have to call the Roto Rooter dude. Clogged thinking about what's real. Over prescription of antibiotics (including animal husbandry and the same concepts that apply to agriculture with super weeds) can only end badly.

India just has more going [people] going on, catalyzing the changes faster.

That, plus the notion that there's always some simplistic reason someone should do something like fighting/not fighting without truly understanding the situation seems to be a national past time for many western countries.

I'm thinking that if we looked at that statement of yours really carefully, we'd find all kinds of rats in the closet of why people beg for that.

Hardly. It's a past tense/present tense, interpretative clarification explanatory missive. Though, it *is* still awesome, cause when I think of "the author responded to *my* comment?", I get the chills, myself.

I bow to your superior knowledge. *nods*

I got told that doubling the floss when doing it the old style way "disorganizes" the bacteria to higher degree than a single thread of floss. Using tape, it seems to work better for some reason. I like it.

November 1973 was the first one?

That (with non-promotion disclosure.) Or, alternatively, just explain how an anti-PPACL stance reconciles the 45,000 people that die every year from no medical coverage, without an alternative. Oh, and and don't forget to include why we spend 16% of GDP covering 3/4 (2/3) of the population and other developed…

And have this.

I don't like those worker's conditions, but I also realize that I'm not going to change the system (and it IS a system) overnight. The only value of that system is monetary - every other value is immaterial to the behavior, ending up with getting away with whatever you can, legally. I pretty sure I don't need to…

I think the sentiment is good, and the other posters have outlined the problems. But there is a solution. Corporate responsibility. When the big dog in electronics manufacture decides to make things different, they get different. Period. Might cost a little more, but creating a better environment in the supplier…

I'll agree that this is overkill. It matches perfectly the "take your conveniences that you have inside, with you outside" mindset that a lot of outdoor product sales companies try to promote.

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Std. Corporation: "I want you to cost reduce this by 30% but meet the constraint criteria."