Recent content by DRobert

Plainly incorrect. Unless I've read something wrong, they haven't come into his house and physically taken the game from him. That would be theft. What they have done here is refuse to continue to provide a service to him. And it appears that they have done so within the terms of the service...

Don't know anymore than you do. In fact, you don't even know what you are claiming to know. The cops have not confirmed many details at all. They have not said that the bomb is around her neck. They have not said that it was affixed to her by an intruder. They have not said that attempting to...

The fact that a law was broken (anti-discrimination laws) was the whole point of the article! As for the uncanny valley effect, are you aware that you just made that up? There was quite literally nothing in the article that even suggested that. Seriously, quote me the words from the article on...

Again, you are assuming facts. You can't have a go at me for reading something into the facts and then do the same yourself. No, your t-shirt comment is a trivialisation of a serious issue. A request to wear what you want to work is a world apart from requesting to be treated as the gender...

I don't know which offends me more; the joke or the unnecessary apostrophe. Actually, I do. It's the motherflippin' apostrophe. Also, you are taking one example and using it to make a very broad statement. As I understand, it's less than 10% of people with autism that are also savaunts. So...

Last time I got socked in the nads, it didn't last for five hours plus. It also didn't involve pushing something the size of a watermellon out of a hole the size of a lemon. Also, I would imagine that, across history, a few more people have died in agony in child birth than after getting hit...

Which is why it is good that the employer can always fall back on "I get that you don't like transgendered people but it's the goddamn law". But I do understand that it can be hard for employers, no doubt about it. But difficulty doesn't justify discrimination and doesn't justify breaking the...

Firstly, there is no such thing as reverse racism. It's just racism. Secondly, I get that it can be difficult for employers but that doesn't justify discrimination. As I said above, we shouldn't go about kowtowing to bigots. You can't simply say "group A doesn't like transexuals, employee B...

Who in government? Plenty in the opposition but none that I've heard from in the government (at least, not federal). What I don't get is why people fail to see the benefit of transitioning away from fossil fuels aside from preventing global warming. Surely people realise that non-renewables...

One is constructively dismissed when one isn't told "you are fired" but put in the position where one is compelled to quit. On the original point, good for her. I realise that for some clients it might be difficult to deal with a transgender person, but for some people dealing with an ethnic...

You are plainly making things up. The lyrics have not be changed. And how would they be changed? Is there a "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep Act 2011 (Cth)" out there? The "Political Correctness Regulations 2011 (Cth)" introduced by the honourable Peter Garrett mp? Is there now a part of the school...

Male, 22, cycling.

Regarding the first of the contradictions; one could consider personal drug use harmful to others. For example, second hand smoke. Or possibly less direct harm to others. For example, drug use is addictive, which can ruin families over time. Also, even disregarding the above, the two...

You are using loaded language to imply motives that I have explicitly denied. I have explicitly stated that I am not 'rewarding' her because she is deserving of the scholarship; I am giving her the scholarship because I take the view that this will result in a social gain. I am not looking to...

I am not judging her on something other than her merits. I am, in fact, not judging her at all (or, if I am, I am not factoring that judgment into my decision making). I am making a decision regarding the institution of the program based not on who is worthy to receive its benefits but on the...