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Friend of Sacagawea would certainly be better than an entire administration populated with the Friends of Sergei, but I can't say this heavy-handed proclamation compels blind allegiance.

Most serious of all is the underlying equation of false equivalence: that just because these companies are all humongous (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft) means they all deserve the same regulatory scrutiny—and the same remedy.

Besides, unless we regain net neutrality, their pie is doomed to shrink, anyway.

Would sure be nice if this was couched in terms of principles, instead of merely pointing fingers at all the towering suspects.

* Revlon Redskin

Lewis and Clark got one look of the ultimate warpaint, hostilities erupted, and the next day she had to cut off her pony tails in self-defense.

as a step toward someday preventing inherited diseases

"the hope is that the approach could help blind people carrying the mutation have genetically related children whose vision is normal"

Very surprisingly to me, this is generally NOT an immediate accepted topic / action / result. IT'S GONE NOW -- I read it and was shocked. I immediately thought of Ender's Game book 3? where the ?antagonist? -- who had to start and follow wood grain lines until the gods were satisfied -- didn't want to be cured, but also couldn't disrespect her father, so was cured against her will.

There was an article (actually, an opinion piece) that was (not any more!) at: https://www.pluralist.com/post....

It said: A prominent disabilities activist spoke against the use of genetic editing to eliminate diseases from birth because it would be tantamount to a "genocide" against the culture of the disabled.

Link. Other link Discussion

We're talking about removal of diseases," she said. "That's forever. That's a change -- a modification -- that will be passed on to future generations. So that's actually genocide. It's a form of eugenics where certain lived experiences are seen as undesirable and unimaginable."

... argued that disabled people are a community unto themselves and that eliminating their conditions means erasing the potential future of their culture. She asked, "Where is the line between what society perceives to be a horrible genetic mutation and someone's culture?"

The Eye of the Beholder

I'm like: DO IT. And do it AGAIN just to make sure. And if you're bored, check to see if you need to do it AGAIN. If you want to be deaf, you can always stick bananas in your ears. Or your eyes. Or any other random orifices.

Couldn't you manufacture cheaply in Vietnam, Bangladesh or Africa, or Latin America as well?

1. all these countries also violate intellectual properties left and right. All developing countries, including the USA itself, violate intellectual propertiesen mass during the early days of its industrialization. (And they will all become patent trolls once they become developed.)
2. like the US, China has entered an era post low-end manufacturing and therefore boost its intellectual property protection as a way to move up the economic food chain. This is the real reason the US is so afraid of China now: once China plays the same IP games, the US will lose its competitive advantages.
3. many of those other countries, including those "democratic" ones, are more corrupted than the "communist" China.

You don't hear much about IP violations, or corruption, or human rights violation in those other countries or the US itself simply because China is currently the main arch-rival of the US and the West world.

Couldn't you manufacture cheaply in Vietnam, Bangladesh or Africa, or Latin America as well?

1. all these countries also violate intellectual properties left and right. All developing countries, including the USA itself, violate intellectual propertiesen mass during the early days of its industrialization. (And they will all become patent trolls once they become developed.)
2. like the US, China has entered an era post low-end manufacturing and therefore boost its intellectual property protection as a way to move up the economic food chain. This is the real reason the US is so afraid of China now: once China plays the same IP games, the US will lose its competitive advantages.
3. many of those other countries, including those "democratic" ones, are more corrupted than the "communist" China.

You don't hear much about IP violations, or corruption, or human rights violation in those other countries or the US itself simply because China is currently the main arch-rival of the US and the West world.

At the moment he's been loaning them money to set himself up as the primary creditor so he gets paid when they liquidate.

All the good stuff is gone. The assets of Sears that are left will barely cover the costs of bankruptcy. What *is* worth money are various tax credits that Sears holds. Lampert can use those to cover tax liabilities in other areas, but not if the company is liquidated.

https://webcache.googleusercon...

The other common attribute of the SJW is that they are powerful

Nobody thinks SJWs are powerful. SJWs power comes exclusively from leveraging fear of being publically attacked and smeared to coerce others into going along with their bullshit. It's a form of terrorism. Follow our political doctrine or we will destroy your career.

capable of taking down even the rich and famous who are normally above the law

They are only capable of taking down the rich and famous precisely because they are the most vulnerable to this type of attack. No name nobodies have no public profile to defend or lose.

If you really want to see a SJW in action try this link. These type of people who weaponized the precept of equality and pervert it as a vehicle for spreading intolerance and hatred are the true face of SJWism.

http://webcache.googleusercont...

The sad part is that SJWs are retarding social progress by weaponizing politics and creating an evolution between tribes that doesn't need to exist.

Normal people (Not yourself AmiMoJo you are not normal) you are incapable of understanding read this shit, see the aftermath of public figures they've long known been smeared to death without commensurate supporting evidence and they tune it all out as noise and take steps to act against what they see is an attack. Not just SJWs but the underlying issues and causes of equality everything remotely connected to it. So now we have an evolution between people that is entirely meritless and entirely instigated by the media for profit to maintain perpetual outrage and crazy people with mental disorders. (SJWs)

SJWism isn't helpful or constructive to society. It isn't a badge of honor it isn't a good thing. It is entirely destructive in nature.

Still works for me. Here's a Google cache link:

https://webcache.googleusercon...

which was at the center of a controversy this week after it was caught sending users' browsing histories to a server located in Germany.

The AddOn's description and privacy policy are very clear.... It's a cloud-based security AddOn that queries a realtime database on somebody else's server to help decide if a URL is malicious, therefore the addon naturally has to send a request to the server with the URL.

Whoever is describing the Add-On as "Spying" because of functioning as it is documented to function is being extremely disengenuous (IMO) --- Perhaps they work for another antivirus or security company and would prefer more users be infected to bolster sales?

2. Non-personally identifiable information that is collected automatically by Creative Software Solutions GmbH:

When the user opens the pages, used by Web Security, the following information gets processed to assure the successful operation of Web Security: the web pages that the user opens or the operating web server, the name of the internet service provider of the user and the website from which the user came from and the sub-pages the user opened. Otherwise, the user might not be warned of harmful sites. No personal information is collected by Creative Software Solutions GmbH automatically. The date and duration of the individual page visits will be stored by Creative Software Solutions GmbH in an anonymous form and checked against a database operated by Creative Software Solutions GmbH to alert the user about malicious sites, so that the purpose of the contract is fulfilled.

Instead of ignoring Russian cyberattacks and election meddling like Obama did?

Susan Rice reportedly told the White House cyber team to 'knock it off' when they floated options to combat Russian meddling

In the summer of 2016, while the US intelligence community was just beginning to grasp the magnitude of Russia's attack on the 2016 election, Obama administration officials were torn over how to respond.

According to investigative reporters Michael Isikoff's and David Corn's new book, "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump," the White House director of cybersecurity, Michael Daniel, was particularly concerned when he learned in June that Russian actors had infiltrated critical election infrastructure in several US states.

The attacks began occurring so often, an excerpt from the book on Yahoo News said, that a National Security Council staffer began regularly updating Daniel about them.

"Michael, five more states got popped," the staffer once said, according to the book. At one point, Daniel reportedly replied to the staffer, "It's starting to look like every single state has been targeted."

Obama administration officials did not believe the Russians had the technological savvy to manipulate the vote count. Rather, they were more concerned hackers could alter voter rolls, registration files, or other processes that could sow doubt about the legitimacy of the election as a whole.

Bloomberg reported last June that election systems in as many as 39 states could have been attacked, though voting tallies were not believed to have been altered or manipulated in any way.

"In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data," Bloomberg said. "The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database."

As evidence of Russian cyberactivity targeting the US election emerged, Daniel and Celeste Wallander, the top Russia analyst on the National Security Council, pushed for the US to strike back at Russia, and hard.

"I wanted to send a signal that we would not tolerate disruptions to our electoral process," Daniel said, according to the book. "The Russians are going to push as hard as they can until we start pushing back."

Daniel and Wallander then laid out a number of aggressive options, including targeting the Russian intelligence community and Russia-linked actors through a string of NSA-backed cyberattacks; leaking classified intelligence revealing the financial activities of Putin and his family members; and announcing a joint US-NATO "cyber exercise" to make clear to Russia that the US and the West was capable of crippling the entire country.

But when then-national security adviser Susan Rice learned of Daniel's plans, she called him into her office and told him to cease his operations.

"Don't get ahead of us," Rice reportedly said, and added that the cyber response team needed to stand down and "knock it off."

Gotta let the Russians attack, just in case you need a Russia! Russia! Russia! narrative as an "insurance policy" against Trump winning...

While the cache is still up, look at it. In game purchases for Pepe, Putin, and something Russian, developed by who knows who, and only $.50? There are a lot of great, cheap, indie games on Steam, but I've always suspected there were some fishy ones out there too around the fringes. Caveat emptor.

Congrats car & driver, you only had 2 years to implement GDPR, and it really isn't hard at all unless you are doing pretty screwed up things. I could read the google cache at least in order to discover the utter ridiculousness of $700 license plates with a $7 monthly fee! I guess you pay all that for the privilege of the state tracking you. I wonder who makes these plates, that's some serious state gov connections to get it going even at the pilot level.
Even without the tracking aspect, digital plates are the worst idea - a fender bender becomes expensive and/or could leave you with a non working plate, plates in general will certainly be harder to read and can potentially stop working, etc etc...

It doesn't seem to have caused the problems you describe.

Actually, a 2013 study of the very same Talinn experiment argued that walkers taking public transport was exactly what was happening, and furthermore, there was no decrease in the share of car travel.

... The research, published in PLOS Biology, was done in a lab, with samples containing scalp hair follicles from more than 40 male hair-transplant patients...

The stuff got research attention because the patient population includes, or is primarily compose of, guys. Like erectile dysfunction. For that we've got at least 14 drugs. Coincidentally, all the doctors listed on the paper appear to be men. If it had been for uterine cancer, endometriosis, IBS, fibromyalgia or any of a host of female-specific afflictions or where the majority of patients were women, the sponsor Giuliani Pharma (website down; Google cache) would have said "Nice work, but doesn't pay the bills. Find something to give me a giant hardon, and let me fuck all night. Then you get money. All those women-problems things are just in their poor little heads anyway."

You don't make billions of dollars by sitting on your ass and playing safe either.

No, you make it by choosing your parents well.

There is a theory that "sitting on your ass and playing safe" is actually a good thing to do for some people.

At the projected rate of delivery, those 500K will receive their vehicles over the next 3 years. I am sure lots of those pre-buyers will be happy to finally receive their vehicle after 5 years; how many will ask for a refund? 63K had asked for one as of last August, and I am sure the number has increased.

As far as that "demand", Ford will sell about 5X that number F series trucks during the time, and Toyota will sell about 1.5X the number of Prius' as the Model 3. Worldwide, there are around 80MM cars sold annually, so those 500K do, in fact, show there is minimal if any consumer demand right now. Consumers prefer light trucks and hybrids by large margins over the Model 3.

As far as profitability, can you point to a quarter where Tesla actually made profit? Looking at the data they did it exactly once in the last 5 years, when they booked all that model 3 pre-revenue. They have never been a profitable company, unless you consider a 20% loss (spend $5 to make $4) a profit?

About the bond ratings? Tesla is a solid B - junk bond rating. Now, Tesla Finance LLC gets the good rating, but that's based upon the credit worthiness of the people using Tesla financing - not Tesla itself. It's YOUR credit rating used for the bond rating, not Tesla. Facts do not support your claims - which is why you posted nothing to support your claims.

Consumers are moving a lot slower than you demand,

The half-million-long waiting list for the Model 3 says otherwise. That's equivalent to 2/3rds of a year of Ford F-series sales (not a specific F-series, but the whole series combined), sitting on a waiting list just to get one. To say nothing of those waiting for the Model Y. It has nothing at all to do with "consumers moving too slow", it has exclusively to do with the rate of production scaleup.

- losing money on every unit they sell

No matter how many times you write that, it won't make it true.

junk-bond ratings

Tesla isn't a bond. You're referring to a specific bond offering, not even their last one. Their last bond offering got ratings as high as Aaa(sf) (prime, the highest ratings category). Orders on some of their bonds were over 14 times what the company wanted to issue.

Accumulated Cyclone Energy is falling - exactly opposite of what you claim, and exactly opposite of what is predicted by global warming. Perhaps it's the ever-falling quality of data collected (and further massaged) to build a message, rather than the actual climate.

Aww troll, you have to do better than that! I posted this link back in December, I believe, and it confirms that crypto exchanges were banned in China. No way to use them - including Bitcoins. And now they're going after overseas use as well. Sucks to be you, troll! See, I have actual facts on my side, you have "trollishness".

Check out this cached story from Time:
Alleged Gunman Nikolas Cruz Was in White Supremacist Group

Now compare with the current version:
Alleged Gunman Nikolas Cruz Was in White Supremacist Group

Apparently, all of this started out as a prank from 4Chan, and it was covered by a wide number of news outlets.

The news outlets will often do retractions (as in the case of Time), but those are almost never publicized as widely as the original stories, and the damage is done. I understand that mistakes happen, but how many people are still under the impression that Cruz was a member of the ROF? If anything, retractions should be more publicized than the original stories.

And how much sooner would you have bought those new phones if your old ones randomly turned themselves off.

A lot of folks seem to miss that point.

Lithium Polymer batteries have a lifespan between 300-500 cycles. A consumer who bought an iPhone 7 in Sept 2016 can easily be reach the end of his battery's life when the iPhone 8 comes out in Sept 2017. It's coincidence, but the peanut gallery screams "planned obsolescence!" Why does my phone suddenly crash all the time now that the iPhone 8 is out?!?

The same problem rears its head were Apple to tell you to replace the battery when it starts to go -- it just happens to be around the time the new phone comes out.

Downclocking and other forms of power conservation are one way to mitigate the issue, though it shouldn't have been done without presenting the user an option to disable it, and definitely shouldn't have been done without notifying the user.

This is a big deal, in the longer term, but not because it stirs up a hornet's nest of kompromat as usual.

When every rumour is true, no rumour is true.

Slowly, but surely, this will ultimately devalue prurience.

Still, it will be pretty embarrassing to be caught doing your homework, not with Natalie Portman 2.0 (hey, dude, bump my phone), but the sweet young thing who sits beside you in English class baring her soul implausibly, while perfecting her special calligraphy.

The other directions this could go is society bans possession of prurient imagery of actual human beings altogether.

Facebook already has a pretty good algorithm for sniffing out actual human likeness.

Besides, you can just upload all the IRL chicks that hit your buttons, have an advanced ML algorithm map out your dark side, then synthesize your ultimate dark fantasy, which/who pushes all your buttons simultaneously.

Recently, I had to brush up on all this Jungian crap because Jordan Peterson. It's both interesting and creepy.

How to Contact, Get to Know, and Integrate Your Dark Side

If you're paying close attention, you can train yourself to notice your shadow when you witness strong negative emotional responses to others.

As Jung is often quoted saying:

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

But we rarely have time to work with those emotions on the spot.

Never fear, soon there will be a handy app for our budding Andy Capp.

The Dossier?
Appears solid
Seems Steele merely confirmed FBI info from inside the Trump campaign so not random speculation

Except that online ads are reaching fewer people and there is evidence that online marketing is failing. It's why big companies are cutting digital advertising. Ads have become so pervasive on the Internet that most consumers just tune them out. Advertisers spend more and more trying to chase fewer and fewer people...

Exactly. What is interesting is that Intel apparently got to CERT and made them change their solution from "replace the hardware" to "apply updates". Look at the difference between the two notifications:

Original CERT notification:
https://webcache.googleusercon...

Replaced CERT notification:
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/i...

Here is your executive summary: your Intel chip has a flaw that allows any program to read memory it isn't supposed to. As CERT said, the only fix is to replace the hardware:

https://webcache.googleusercon...

Here's the actual figure he tweeted out with his useful statistics for anyone who missed it.

-gnick

You can read it without logging in here: http://webcache.googleusercont...

Her response here: http://webcache.googleusercont...

I don't think we can draw any conclusions from this. She offers no details and no-one else has come forward with similar experiences or corroboration. Since she has chosen to not take the matter up with any authority and Tempkin has decided not to sue, we will likely never get any investigation or facts.

This is why it is so important that those in authority are approachable, that they believe those who come to them, and that they handle the matter properly. Otherwise this is what we get, court of the internet trials with literally zero evidence.

You can read it without logging in here: http://webcache.googleusercont...

Her response here: http://webcache.googleusercont...

I don't think we can draw any conclusions from this. She offers no details and no-one else has come forward with similar experiences or corroboration. Since she has chosen to not take the matter up with any authority and Tempkin has decided not to sue, we will likely never get any investigation or facts.

This is why it is so important that those in authority are approachable, that they believe those who come to them, and that they handle the matter properly. Otherwise this is what we get, court of the internet trials with literally zero evidence.

More people die to automobiles then guns. [investors.com] /sarcasm Ban automobiles in the name of safety!

Why do idiots like you harp in with bad statistical analysis? Try comparing the amount of exposure to automobiles in use versus firearms instead.

Banning a (common) tool just because a few idiots mis-use it is idiotic. i.e. My use case is not your use case.

Regulating a common tool is however, reasonable, responsible, and necessary, but what's that got to do with the price of bacon? You do realize the OP wasn't going the direction you think, right?

> a) Harming a person,

So the police / armed guard / army / etc. aren't supposed to use them to shoot back at the people who use them illegally and immorally?

That's the problem, isn't it? What about when they use them illegally and immorally?

Either everyone has the right or no one does.

Nope!

> b) Harming an animal, or

You DO realize that self defense against an animal that wants to kill you is valid, right?

You do realize that very few animals want to kill you, think about killing you, or will bother killing you, in fact, the animals that are most likely to kill a human being are ones against a gun would be very ill-chosen as a tool.

That's a foolish assertion. What's up with that? Are you trying to make yourself, and by extension, the whole gun-rights brigade look stupid? At least Devil's Advocate as a competent.

> A gun's only purpose is to do damage.

That's an incomplete and myopic POV.

That is true ONLY when fired.

A gun that can't fire is no use at all. Or a gun that is useful, when not fired, is replaceable with a hunk of carved soap.

You are selectively looking at the reactive consequences and blindly ignoring the pro-active ones.

You are being selective as well. What's up with that?

Gun ownership _also_ functions as a prevention tactic. When guns are banned crime goes up because the criminals know that "ordinary" citizens won't fight back.

Interesting...

Likewise we see the exact opposite. Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet

That you don't cite the other. Just this one. Of course, the problems with that statistical analysis are manifold, but then you've known that since learning about how messed up the Kleck and Gertz survey was.

Banning guns is a lame attempt to treat the symptom and ignore the cause. You could ban all the guns in the world and it wouldn't make a dam difference.

Evidence from other countries indicate that's untrue as assertions go.

You need to to go the heart and soul of the issue instead of focusing on banning a single tool that is a symptom of a much larger disease.

That said, do I own an gun? No, because a) I don't need one to kill a person, and b) violence is the final action in a failed relationship -- you've already failed, gun violence is just sealing the deal.

Nope. Violence is never the final action, you shouldn't think that at all. It's merely one step that leads to more things happening.

> There are few other devices or tools in existence that can make that claim.

That's completely irrelevant to the discussion.

Which discussion? You haven't narrowed it down, you're just randomly blathering.

> a) Harming a person,

So the police / armed guard / army / etc. aren't supposed to use them to shoot back at the people who use them illegally and immorally? Either everyone has the right or no one does.

> b) Harming an animal, or

You DO realize that self defense against an animal that wants to kill you is valid, right?

> A gun's only purpose is to do damage.

That's an incomplete and myopic POV.

That is true ONLY when fired. You are selectively looking at the reactive consequences and blindly ignoring the pro-active ones.

Gun ownership _also_ functions as a prevention tactic. When guns are banned crime goes up because the criminals know that "ordinary" citizens won't fight back.

Likewise we see the exact opposite. Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet

Banning guns is a lame attempt to treat the symptom and ignore the cause. You could ban all the guns in the world and it wouldn't make a dam difference. You need to to go the heart and soul of the issue instead of focusing on banning a single tool that is a symptom of a much larger disease.

That said, do I own an gun? No, because a) I don't need one to kill a person, and b) violence is the final action in a failed relationship -- you've already failed, gun violence is just sealing the deal.

> There are few other devices or tools in existence that can make that claim.

That's completely irrelevant to the discussion.

The EA kiss of death is well documented by Forbes and Wikipoodia

1. Kesmai (2001)
2. Bullfrog Productions (2001)
3. Westwood Studios (2003)
4. Maxis. (2004)
5. Origin Systems (2004)
6. Pandemic Studios (2009)
7. Phenomic (2013)
8. DreamWorks Interactive (2013)
9. Black Box Games (2013)
10. Mythic Entertainment (2014)
11. Visceral Games (2017)

I'm trying to figure out how this was possible. I'll post more when I learn a bit more. Till then this will make you smile (devops199 chat) https://lh3.googleusercontent....

http://webcache.googleusercont...

Nazis are the ones who give nazi salutes and get arrested for attempted murder and being felons in possession of firearms.

Antifa are the ones who fight said nazis with just batons and courage.

If you can't tell them apart, you're probably a nazi.

The summary for this article contains a dead link labeled "discovered".

Yesterday, Slashdot had these two articles:
First at 11:21 AM, this first article.
Then at 12:39 PM, this second article.

Apparently Slashdot removed the second of those two articles, since the second one was pretty much a duplicate of the first. But Google cached it, and the cached article is here.

So now you know where to look, to read the "discovered" article that the summary references.

All is not lost.

Zero lameness filter
One lameness filter
Two lameness filter
Three lameness filter

Bert appeared on an osama bin laden poster

The Muppets are joining the jihadists? No one is safe!

Here you go. Live video.

> HP typically destroys every company they acquire.

LOL, yup. Reminds me of that old joke:

Q. How do you know when a company is worthless?
A. When HP buys it !

*Zing!*

/Oblg. How Hewlett-Packard And Dell Destroyed Their PC Advantage ... Piece-By-Piece/ --- cached copy because "Fuck you Forbes for your Anti-Ad-Blocker"

Bloomberg had a nice article on this a while back:

(Apparently they paywalled it so Im posting the google cache version)

https://webcache.googleusercon...

Also, searching for the "hottest housing markets", Seattle isn't close to the top in any of the searches I looked at...

http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...

http://webcache.googleusercont...

You made I to #15 here...
https://www.nationalmortgagene...

If this had been HanAssholSolo's only reprobate comments, I would agree. However, even a cursory glance at his comment history on Reddit makes it seem like there is more to his trolling than a single CNN trump video... https://webcache.googleusercon... For example, he responded to a video of a 3 year old falling out a window and dying with the comment "Allahu Splatbar" because the video was from Turkey.

Also, according to the magazine supervised by the US Department of Defense, the quietness of the Soviet submarines improved after 1979, which is before the export of machine tools. Richard Armitage , who was then Assistant Secretary of Defense at the time, in a letter addressed to the House of Representatives military chairman of the House of Representatives, the Soviet nuclear submarine was equipped with a silent screw already three years before the incident, He said that he was opposed to sanctions against Toshiba. Furthermore, the quietness of submarines is not limited to the molding technology of screws but also to nuclear reactors and motor technology.

Also it's coincided with the incidents in 80's, 90's, Japan rose as the most potential competitor to the U.S (which was predicted to be surpassed U.S in 90's), which called "Japan Bashing":

During the 1980s, Japan Bashing reached a boiling point. Riding the late 1970s energy crisis, competition from Japanese car companies offering cheaper, fuel efficient cars became heated. Japan, however, was not interested in buying large American automobiles with steering wheels on the wrong side. The country was labeled as "protectionist", and protesters burned Japanese cars and flags, and the term "Japan Bashing" was coined.

I was checking it on wayback and Google cache and it is a funny site. https://web.archive.org/web/20... or http://webcache.googleusercont...

• Catholic Answers, "The Trouble With Yoga" https://www.catholic.com/magaz...
• Alternet, "Fear the Dark Art of Yoga! Why Conservative Christians Are Freaking Out After Yoga “Miracle”" http://www.alternet.org/belief...
• Christian Assemblies International, "The Spiritual Deception of Yoga", https://webcache.googleusercon...
• Christianity Today, "Should Yoga be Banned from Public Schools as a Religious Activity?", http://www.christianitytoday.c...

Re-check the law.

Then prove it, asshole.

Any whatever the law says, any employee can sue

Anybody can sue for anything, doesn't mean they'll win.

and juries are the final arbitrator of the facts

No, they're not. If there's no legal basis for a lawsuit (i.e. if you're not suing under a specific law,) the judge can dismiss it (summary dismissal) long before a jury would ever get the chance to see it.

If they decide that in fact the employer over-stretched, then the law gets changed

You're talking about establishing case law, and no, that's false. In fact, case law specifically favors allowing employers to request a doctor's note:

http://www.lexology.com/librar...

Furthermore, employers have a well established right to ask for doctor's notes:

https://webcache.googleusercon...

I tried making a witty Japanese response, but slashdot kills my unicode.

I'd have said you should try Slashdot Japan instead, but it's no longer known by that name. (#)

Never mind, they've got a fantastic story on "How did the boob disappear from the terrestrial TV in Japan" which informs us that

According to the article, the boobs gradually began to be purged from the golden time since 2000, and the last "tits" in the terrestrial wave of Tokyo was seen on TV Asahi of January 7, 2012

Good to know, I'd been wondering that myself.

(#) Apparently it's still owned by OSDN, which sold the main Slashdot site several years ago- maybe they no longer have the rights to the name?

Wired's anti-blocking software blocks the site.

Google cache:
https://webcache.googleusercon...

It is a good time to recall Trump's "100 days contract with the American People". Tip: it didn't really went well.

Some details of Google's IT security setup are public:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44860.pdf

Here