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Originally posted by threaded View PostYeah, like all these ex-ministers get them nice cushy directorships and non-execs on merit, and high paying world speaking tours because people want to hear what they think, especially as it doesn't matter anyway as they're not in government any more.
If you care to look in a dictionary what immoral actually means, then you will find an immoral act generally described as being against accepted principles.
As this is an accepted principle it is therefore not immoral.
HTH
HTH
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostPerhaps they have redefined the meaning in the Dictionary then? You been in that time machine again?
That's cheating!!!
If you care to look in a dictionary what immoral actually means, then you will find an immoral act generally described as being against accepted principles.
As this is an accepted principle it is therefore not immoral.
HTH
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Originally posted by threaded View PostWhat is immoral about it? It is just business.
You have a company, tell politico they can have a nice juicy directorship in it when they leave office, show them you have the money to pay to keep them in the life they wish to become accustomed too.
Jobs a gud'un.
That's cheating!!!
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostAhh....got you. Much more pragmatic, if a sight more immoral.
You have a company, tell politico they can have a nice juicy directorship in it when they leave office, show them you have the money to pay to keep them in the life they wish to become accustomed too.
Jobs a gud'un.
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Originally posted by doodab View Postwe just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostAh well there you go then, we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostPretty much. My first job out of university was as a physics programmer. No training of any sort.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostBut you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?
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