this seems much ado about nothing. If I choose not to go to work, I also don't get paid. I don't understand why this is so terrible. The company gave them an option. Come to work, and get paid for being at work, or don't come to work and don't get paid for the day... You know... Cause you didn't come to work.

If there was implication that your promotion prospects would go away, or terminated for not showing up, that's crazy. But I don't blame a company who decides to not pay employees that don't report to work.

I think the company was doing well to give them the option.

That it included no protesting... Hey, they are a private company and have restrictions on such expressions by their employees as part of their union contract. You can't come to work, embarrass your employer, and keep your job.

This article fascinated me. The descent into political back biting and stupid finger pointing on a topic with no political nexus, doesn't... But meh. It's the Retort.

Anyway. If the poles reversed tomorrow. What would happen? Would we all have a good laugh as our gps needed a quick calibration? Or would there be systemic and society crushing problems?

On the surface it seems like we would have a rough few weeks as software was updated to compensate for the shift. But would ie be more? Food doesn't get delivered, medicine can't arrive too end users, and now we have riots and looting all over the world?

Reading the article, I guess it would depend on how weak the magnetic field became. If it gets too weak, solar radiation is going to cook everyone anyway.

Just fascinated by these kinds of events.

Of applause?

Jesus. Just leave them alone. They aren't hurting you or anyone else. An event like this shouldn't need any kind of police presence, let alone a "heavy" one. Get over yourselves.

I heard this live, had to rewind and knew he was going to get crushed for it. The sad reality is much like the stupid "57 states"thing, this is nothing more than a normal occurrence for anyone that gives speeches. Losing your place in the speech, even if you are looking right at it, happens. I teach classes from 20 to 500 participants and I get my words turned around all the time. I am not the President, so he should be better than me or even this, but there is no chance this is anything more than giving a chronology of the Army and getting out of order. If you think he didn't know there weren't airports during the revolutionary war, that's crazy.

There is plenty to criticize him over, this isn't one.

#28 are those people in the country illegally? No? Then that would be government over reach. If they are? Then the government is within its purview to find, arrest, and process them for removal. I will never understand why this causes heartache. Why have laws if no one wants them enforced?

#3 didn't read the article. It says it's from holding your head forward looking down, forcing more weight to shift to the muscles supporting your head instead is carried natural and neutral on the spine... Causing the bone to grow, so the muscles can attach better.