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1. Are you saying that nursing women shouldn't take tests?
2. Are you saying that all pregnancies are planned?
3. Are you saying that if she had an unintended pregnancy that abortion should be her choice if she wants to continue in her career?
4. Are you saying that accomodations should never be given for any purpose whatsoever?
5. Are you saying that women who have unintended pregnancies and choose not to abort should just give up and take whatever crap life throws at them?
6. Are you saying that people should never try to overcome whatever crap fate hands them?
1) I am saying a nursing women can take a test but should get 0 special treatment.
2) Yes they are. We live in a world with 14 types of birth control and abortion.
3) Yes. This is not fantasy dream world where you can cook your cake and eat it too. It seems to take a lot of time and effort to be a good parent and to be a good doctor it requires a great deal of time and effort. If you don’t have the family support or the monetary means to pay someone to watch the child, you need to make the decision on what is more important. Unfortunately physics does not give a damn about your perverted upper-class feminism.
4) No, I am saying unreasonable accommodations should not be made and giving her two days and a hour break each of those days is unreasonable. A reasonable accommodation is giving a ramp to a wheel chair bound person.
5) First there is no such thing as an unintended pregnancy for this girl. Second, I am saying just because she is a mother does not mean she gets special treatment.
6) No, but you don’t get special treatment.
What are you talking about? Baseball became increasing more popular during the last decade. Fans just did not care or if anything approved of the results.
I have used Vista Home Premium since March and have had only a minor problem with a single driver that was fixed in a few days after I upgraded. This problem was not the fault of microsoft but AMD/ATI who did not have a stable driver though they had years to prepare for the release of Vista but what can MS do? They are in an ecosystem that gives me literally millions of different choices in software and hardware configs. Unlike Apple they are legally prohibitive of bundling many features into their OS to improve stability. I will take that choice any day.
While their is many reason that I will not use Apple products, such as their crappy code writing in the few products i have used, the fact it does not run the programs i want or need, that its media center sorry front row abilities are years behind MS, their misleading to downright false advertisement, but the single biggest reason i will not buy an apple product is the attitude of Mac users as seen by half the responses so far. The patronizing attitude because I don't worship all things apple is sickening and the constant and usually wrong bashing of MS is off putting. Not all Window users are as dumb as you guys seem to be, I have never had a virus on any of my computers and have only had one malware infestation which was my fault. My parents (who are not exactly computer savvy) had 1 adware problem.
I agree with much of what you said and agree if it is against the rules there needs to be punishment but the real question is why are they against the rules. But, i would add why is the punishment for these alleged performance drugs so much more severe than other forms of cheating? The moralizers in here keep bringing up aluminum bats but that is not a far comparison because if a player was somehow able to use that bat in a MLB game and was found out he is getting 15 game suspension while a person that tests positive for something on the mile long banned list gets suspended for at least 50 games. The illegal bat actually is a performance enhancement, has been shown in test after test to provide superior performance to a wooden bat while no such studies show that steroids improve baseball performance, in fact statistical analysis show the opposite that the "steroid era" has no unexpected numbers.
And to the people bitching about King not doing research or what ever, he does more research than most any other sports writer on this issue just check the archive, but to the specific line you are quoting, Dan Leotards just a week ago mentioned that it is next to impossible to get doctors to talk on record because of the hysteria around the issue.
Why do you link steroids to the short life span of wrestlers? When there are more likely suspects such as no off season for recovery and the big elephant in the room pain killers. Pain Killers have known effects on the heart while none of the steroids since oral testosterone was used has shown issues with the heart. Wrestlers as a whole have higher levels of meth, coke, herion, and booze use. Wrestlers have more high impact injuries than even football players.
Lasik does improve vision to 20/15 to 20/10. Hell many players have gone though several treatments when the first does not give them 20/15. Dozens of MLB players have gone though this "artificial performance enhancement" to get better than there birth eyesight. Pictures after Tommy Johns have gained velocity on a regular basis.
I don't understand why these corporations spend 3 mil for 30 seconds and probably another 3 to 5 mil actually producing the spot and for the most part the ads don't mention the product and are only there to show either how clever the ad agency is or show how "cute" babies and animals are. Even the best commercials usually fail the client that spent 5 mil for brand awareness.