if someone has cancer, and is exhausted and nauseous after receiving their chemotherapy, you should fire him too?

Of course not. You send them home on long-term disability and replace them. Companies have an obligation to be sympathetic, but not outright charitable. There's no reasonable expectation for a company to continue paying someone a full salary and receiving nothing in return, simply because the person has a crippling illness. That's what insurance is for. Salary is payment in exchange for work.

Most medical professionals consider alcoholism a disease.

Provably false and thus unworthy of further comment.

Use without knowledge or consent (2) For the purpose of clause 4.3 of Schedule 1, and despite the note that accompanies that clause, an organization may, without the knowledge or consent of the individual, use personal information only if * (a) in the course of its activities, the organization becomes aware of information that it has reasonable grounds to believe could be useful in the investigation of a contravention of the laws of Canada, a province or a foreign jurisdiction that has been, is being or is about to be committed, and the information is used for the purpose of investigating that contravention; ...

They can. And they will.

Note To play DVDs, you must have a DVD-ROM drive and a software or hardware DVD decoder installed on your computer.

Enough said.

Maybe Overly Critical Guy is using better hardware than you?

Trust me, you do not need a software codec if you have a hardware one installed. (Creative DXR3, Canopus ADVC-100, RealMagic)