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thinking and decision-making, how we come to our conclusions, how we decide things. I'm passionate about feeling and experience, past and present, and how we'll create our future.

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your beat of life. Tell me why you do what you chose. Talk to me about joy, not happiness - joy, and how you achieve it. Tell me what hurt you so much you changed.

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Science is everything, except for everything else.

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• A comment on Conversation: If humanity is going to continue on like it is, then it should probably take things to a new level.

  3 hours ago: Yup, let's think big: Wise leadership that demonstrates active concern for citizens and the environment, eliminating the wasted $trillions and human capital in welfare, social services, unions, humanitarian efforts, and environmental activism - won't need those anymore. Economic systems that incentivise the above and penalize exploitation, apathy, prejudice. Rehabilitation combined with excellent education for all so instead of 2mil incarcerated fellow citizens, we have 2mil reformed and/or not-needed-to-be-reformed productive societal contributors (read: taxpayers). Bio-engineered products, buildings, everything so we work in tandem with the living earth and beyond. But unfortunately, what could happen first is tech far surpasses social constructs in productivity resulting in massive unemployment and class division. People keep multiplying and 10bil fight for fewer real jobs while 'leadership' sells improvement. The wealthy throw money at 'programs' but the boards of directors can't justify the expense or the competition. Apathy, disenfranchisement, and criminality become a generational psychosis and we discuss how to minimize 'that population'. Someone discovers another kind of bomb and we all wait for it to be over. Now, about that 600 yd par 4 - Never! ;)

• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  16 hours ago: Alright, but 'puchasing insurance' is buying a product, not earning a livelyhood, and therefore carries different 'weight' and a different level of consideration. I do not deny, as is implied n the 'at will' comment in the debate explanation, that employers bave a right to state conditions of employment in offer agreements. I'm merely argueing that using my personal conduct - especially off the job - as evidence of dismissal should not be one of them, and that its in violation of my civil rights to deny me the right to earn a living via my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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  A comment on Conversation: Is this adult life?

  18 hours ago: Now we're talkin'! I would agree wholeheartedly with challenging students to evaluate, costructively and rationally, viewpoints that may be inconsistant with their own. As far as 'bleakness' goes, high schoolers can get pregnant, enlist in the armed forces (seniors), and get killed in cars, etc. The world is not all roses and fun. It can be 'in your face' sometimes. ;)

• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  19 hours ago: That's the rub, isn't it? Since employment is 'at will', we have 'a choice'. Our choice is not to work for large successful profitable companies because they can exercise their right to, effectively, control my personal life. So if I am qualified to get, and want, a great job, I potentially could lose civil liberties. And that's my 'choice', to have my livelihood threatened at the expense of civil liberty. Shouldn't that be against the law?

• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  20 hours ago: Hi Pat, please see response to Salim above and see if that clarify's.

• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  20 hours ago: Ah, there we go. 'Big boy pants', employment as a privileged, and realities of life. Now I get it. I should be 'grateful' that those companies want me to do something for them because I'm the best skilled candidate, so grateful that I relinquish my personal freedom, because it's a 'privileged' to have invested in my education and talents and be able to lay them 'at the altar' of my omnipotent employer, who claims control over my personal living, because this is the reality. And I am 'selfish, self-centered, and feel entitlement' because I wish to demand my freedom. Guilty as charged. I guess I'm fired, huh? I'm sure you'll have some excellent candidates who will live exactly as you prescribe - sir. "Yes sir, I'll do that at home sir. No, you're right sir, I won't do that at home sir.Thank you, sir. Thank you sir..."

• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  21 hours ago: HI Frank, thanks for responding. please see response to Chris...
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  A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  21 hours ago: Alright. Thanks for responding. I absolutely take responsibility for my actions. And that's just it, they're my actions. How does exercising my privacy and personal freedom, that so many have died to protect, equal 'not taking responsibility'? A contract of employment is only that too - an agreement to perform a task for a certain return. My personal life is not beholden to the other party, nor does it have anything to do with our contractual relationship. So I take it you prefer that 'someone else' dictate your personal life. No whining now...

• A reply on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  21 hours ago: Thanks for responding. I would respond by saying proprietary corporate data has nothing to do with civil rights. What is the interpretation of 'conduct'? Whatever the company wants to determine it is. Who I associate with, what groups I choose to join, what public protests I choose to participate in, what sexual proclivities I may have, whether or not I'm arrested for civil disobedience, what I say on 'Facebook' type private social networks, etc. Civil rights, my 'conduct' - especially on my personal time (it is not 'free' time, by the way. I'm always 'free') - is my business and has nothing to do with job performance. The 'UN Global Compact' are 'human' rights issues, not civil. in my opinion.

• A reply on Conversation: Is this adult life?

  21 hours ago: Sorry Fritzie, It seems I've misread the question. I saw it as a question of whether or not the high school student should have been exposed, and this woman's perspective of 'young people...better than all those average people' had merit, not whether or not I agreed with DFW's message. I'll withdraw.