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I think it's more than that, though. Don't ever friend your coworkers or check it at work or whatever and expect it not to be seen or remembered by someone. - joey

Filed under Darwinism at work. - sean808080

I am a big believer than you shouldn't trash talk your employer period. - Nicholas Kreidberg

Agreed, Nicholas. I can be cranky all I want at my employer, but I best keep it to myself. Nothing tackier than shitting where you sleep. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Nicholas, good point. I think that venting to friends and family (privately) can be a healthy way to relieve stress or get ideas for resolutions to difficult situations, but yes outright trash talking is rude, unprofessional and stupid. - joey

My company actually has a policy that says you're not to discuss the company on the Internet. Pretty obvious. - Brian Baggett

Brian, that would be too restrictive for me. I value having the ability to exercise my own judgment and there may be situations where there is a very good reason for discussing something. - joey

Brian I wonder how much lawyers are paid to circumvent freedom of speech... :) - A.T.

Brian, what company do you work for? I'm curious who has that policy. - Rochelle

Dell has/had similar restrictions, they only want community managers discussing the company. - Andrizzle Gizzle

My company doesn't mind if we talk about them online or anywhere else for that matter, but it's within reason. We can't share internal information, and we definitely are discouraged from trash-talking or speaking in a manner that would sound like it was on behalf of the company. We're actually sent to training classes to learn how to discuss the company in a public forum, just in case. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

My company banned Twitter, but they are in the process of considering putting the company on Twitter. Go figure. - Jackye Chan

The same people that DIDNT learn the "dont send private or personal email lesson" while using Company PC's and Company Emails are the same ones that probably wont learn the Dont Trash Your Company while on a Company PC - johnpiercy

My firehall is part of a large City Network , with very strict useage guidelines and policys with regards to personal use ,, hence I bring my Mac to work .. :) - johnpiercy

I don't know...I still want four. Now I feel selfish - Shevonne

aww ..But if i may play Devil's advocate for a second. So the extreme green thing to do would be just to have none at all, are those people doing the world a favor? - Tate DA FF MVP

Also, the size of the footprint isn't limited to the children one makes, but it grows for generations (for each child they make and their childs etc). - Jemm

If the USA would contract back to the places where there's resources and stop out-stripping the resources of the places they're choosing to live (AZ and California come to mind, these people need to move to Montana and Wyoming) My guess is that this country would be at or very near it's carrying capacity. We have lots and lots of space, giving the illusion that we aren't outstripping... more... - Matthew DeVries

Let's just take this a step farther. If you're really serious about going green...kill yourself....immediately :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

@Matthew How about our footprint affecting other countries? One person in the US consumes tons more than one person in another country. - Shevonne

@Rah =O haha - Shevonne

MALTHUSIANISM FTW! - Joe Silence

>:) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

One step at a time Shevone. Let first coral all these damn cats into a manageable area, then I can put up a big white board and start teaching them more efficiently. (the whole water rationing thing really bugs me, being from the Great Lakes. I know in my life time these self-important fucks who think California is so great are going to lobby the feds and start taking our water, to pipe to places where there isn't supposed to be water, that is going to be the next civil war) - Matthew DeVries

Before overpopulation is taken as a serious problem in every country and culture, I don't really care about other "green" things. It's problem for those who reproduce. This globe will hold for my lifetime, anyway. - Jemm

@Matthew You are probably right, but do you think it's also companies fault because people are usually where the jobs are? - Shevonne

Well I botched that one... Rahsheen - I love your comment. - Robert Freeze

Right, but the California "industries" beyond agriculture, don't need to be in California. Nerds can code in states with capacity to spare, like Montana et al, just as well as they can in California. In fact wasting micro-climates on server farms and cubicle zoos is agricultural waste. Movies can be made anywhere. - Matthew DeVries

What an awful headline and article. - Trish R

How is than an awful headline and article Trish? It's not exactly untrue. Unpleasant, perhaps. But not untrue. - tiffany

Shevonne, adopt! - Eivind

@Eivind I plan to adopt, and that would have been #5. =D - Shevonne

Maybe you can by a quota from someone else then (like we do with carbon dioxide) :) - Eivind

=D - Shevonne

This can't work if it's voluntary. Generation 1: Ten people care about the environment and each have 1 child. Ten people don't and each have four children. Generation 2: Now how many people care about the environment? On the other hand, education and prosperity tend to make people have fewer children. If we can create an educated and prosperous world, population will control itself naturally. - Bruce Lewis

This article promotes idiocracy, as Bruce outlines. If you truly care about the environment, you should have lots of kids, then raise and teach them how to live enviro-friendly. It demo-shifts the next generation in a direction in line with your values. - Trent Hamm from iPod

...but by the time our great-grandkids are old enough, we'll be living on Mars, and altough it's smaller in size it has more land mass so many more people can live there and procreate like minks. All we have to do is get Schwarzeneggar, er, Quaid, to start the reactor that turns the ice core into air. Come on Cohaagen, give deese people da air!!! ;) - .LAG liked that

What about having no/few children, and teaching all children about the environment. I plan on teaching my young cousins, nieces, and my bf's nephew about the environment. But I rather adopt then push out a kid of my own. Why do you have to have a herd of your own to teach them Trent? Plus, having a lot of kids, in my opinion, is hypocritical. I don't understand the defensiveness around procreation. - Heather

Because just preaching to a niece or a nephew has little impact if they're raised in the typical disposable American household. I know this firsthand. - Trent Hamm

I don't really agree with that. There are a huge number of school programs on recycling and other eco things that result in children influencing their parents to change. Plus, I don't just preach I teach and show. :) - Heather

Having less children is supposed to lessen the carbon footprint? That is bunk. Just a quick read of the article shows: "Each Chinese Child Has One-Fifth the Impact as US Child For sake of comparison, researchers found that the long-term impact of a child born in China has only one-fifth the environmental impact as a baby born in the United States." -- me thinks the actual number of... more... - Andrea Schmitz

I heard a snippet on the radio that noted that a stable marriage typically results in a smaller overall environmental impact than one that divorces and creates two households. (one moderate household vs two smaller households, but with a larger combined footprint). They can find a green spin on anything, you know. - Heather Solos

Just a wild guess - Octomom didn't write this article did she?? ;-) - Jannifer @wordsforliving

At last, someone is getting it. It has and will always be about resources and a climbing world population is hardly going to help. - Kevin J Hatton

@Kevin: Exactly. No kid causes less footprint than a kid with all the possible green upbringing - no matter how it is measured. - Jemm

"... Eric Stoltz ..." - Ken Sheppardson

LOL - "Eric Stoltz" - Ciaoenrico