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Here're the Yahoo! blurb and the NZ Herald stories.

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Fun Google fact of the day. Some kiwis claim the have the oldest democracy

An article in New Zealand places the three orbiters in the Orbiter Processing Facility as of August 9th.

Additionally, it would have been Discovery, not Atlantis, hanging out in the VAB, which it is not currently doing. I was under the mistaken impression for some reason that the 114 were going to launch aboard Atlantis next year.

kulakovich

I underwent LASIK a few years ago and wrote a mini-howto that you may find useful.

A few tips, reaffirming many already stated:

1. Research your doctor. Local, traditional eye doctors are probably the best place to start because they are handling most referrals, pre-ops and post-ops for the LASIK doctor you are considering. Seek the latest technology (tracking etc.) and avoid those who believe everyone is a candidate for it (you may have too large a cornea for hardware they bought off eBay, resulting in halo hell etc.).

2. The damn goggles. Try swimming goggles! They keep the moisture in and you can sleep on your side while wearing them. Ignore the DEVO comments!

I was -10 and -9.5. I could focuse on my nose hairs and little else. I had one enhancement and -.25 remains in one eye because of their conservative approach. Wearing glasses would simply make things look different, not better. Being able to shop for/wear ordinary sunglasses rocks. All in all, I keep forgetting that I had LASIK.

Now let's all hope there is some truth to this study.

MD

Ok, IANAE (I am not an economist),
Imagine that. A person without economic background trying to tell policy makers what to do.

but from what I understand the "trickle down effect" just doesn't work the way people want it to.
There isn't any thing related to "trickle down" going. Behind the rhetoric is something called Supply-Side economics". It's a serious topic that academics and policy wonks debate.

Giving them even more isn't going to
It's not "giving" them more. It's adjusting everyone's rate equally. For example, if the top rate was 25%, another rate 16%, and the bottom rate 12%, a 50% tax cut would mean that rates were 12.5%, 8%, and 6%. A person making 20,000 year taxed at the bottom rate would go from paying 2400 to 1200, a savings of $1200. A person making 150,000 would go from paying $37,500 to $18,750. That means in political rhetoric terms "The rich were given 94% of the tax cut with the poor only getting 6%" is completely accurate.

big an impact as doing the same to a poorer person.
See, now, that is just silly. If you are trying to get capital back into the marketplace, would you rather send back $1200, or $18,750?

Secondly, the rich still only make up a small percentage of the world's
Yes, but what you don't realize is that the rich pay the VAST majority of income taxes. The top 50% of income earners pay 96% of all income taxes paid. (link).

And lastly, the money spent by a rich person doesn't really trickle down to the needy
Can you trace the history of a rich person from point a to the pocket of poor person b? Of course not. It's a complex system that takes *years* to fall into place. Again, it is way more complicated than I think you can grasp in this situation. Additionally though, it was claimed that the "rich" were going trickle down to the poor.

When they buy up-market products, the money will very quickly "leave" the local area since it's likely to be imported (no matter where they live).
Wrong. The total value of goods and services consumed in the US is 10.40 trillion for last year (link). The trade deficit totals about $200B (link) a year. That means we import more than export. Even if you figure the rich will tend to import more than your average person, it is not reasonable to assume that most of their spending will go overseas.

The money goes to some company, and executive pay is almost universally improportionate to the worker's pay.
This is a major issue: productivity and profitiability are way up, but so far wages are flat. This however has nothing to do with "trickle down". What does happen however is that employment increases. Which is what we have seen. So far this year it is estimated that 1.4 million jobs have been created (link). That is significant.

tax cut for the poor would have made a much better and longer lasting impact to many more people
Here is the little dirty secret that people who don't know what is going on don't realize. The poor in this country pay very, very, very little income tax. If you are literally poor, as in impoverished, you not only don't pay any income tax, you get a refund for taxes you never paid. Yes, that's right. It's an "Earned income tax credit". A tax refund for taxes you never paid (link).

People could pay off debts, get a better education, spend more time with the kids, start a small business, etc.

A German did, and Sony finaly admited it.

What do you suggest the government do instead or in addition to this?

Do about what? Do you seriously think that someone could successfully pull off another 9/11 style attack? The world changed a few minutes after it became common knowledge that hijacked planes could be used as missiles. Witness the UA flight 93, crashed by the hijackers when passengers learned about the WTC and Pentagon planes. Or how about this crazy?

So given how hard it's become hijack planes, what exactly is the point of this tracking system?

:w

The (willing-to-publish-without-fact-checking) media was told by Moore that Disney "recently told him" that they would not carry his movie just before it was scheduled to be released, when in fact he was informed a year ago that Disney would not carry a political movie that would be released so close to the elections. Moore admitted this, saying he made it up (as he frequently does) as a publicity stunt.

Fahrenheit Fact no. 8: Disney told Moore over a year ago that they would not distribute

New Zealand Herald - Michael Moore admits Disney 'ban' was a stunt

Congratulations, you are now a bona fide member of the unwashed, uninformed masses. The 'esteemed' Michael Moore made the whole Disney thing up.

Eisner never said he was worried about loosing tax benefits, what he said was he was upset that Miramax made the film, and that was over a year before the release date.

The same approach might be less effective against corporations, but I'd still love to see an attempt.

This is true and can be found at NZ herald story

But how much does it cost the telcos to provide a text message? Well below 1c, according to Sydney-based telecoms commentator Paul Budde.

But how much does it cost the telcos to provide a text message? Well below 1c, according to Sydney-based telecoms commentator Paul Budde.

The dust on Mars is statically charged.

Ok, that is known. The problem is, are people 'using' that right or are they too afraid to do so? (they have interest not to, or being characterized unamerican so on)

Of course they are using it, people here protest the war all the time. In Philadelphia, the mayor's office was even allowing protesters to lay in the streets and block traffic during rush hour. Do a google search and I am sure you will find numerous websites in the USA that are critical of the Bush Administration. Unless someone claims they are going to shoot the guy, it is perfectly legal to make such speech.

Of course, if other people want to think that protesters are anti-American scum, then that is their right as well. Freedom is a 2 way street you know. For example, I think the guy who wrote this is a total asshole, but being the USA, he has a right to be a total asshole and to be criticized for being such.

And his latest movie can not be distributed to US cinemas as far as i know.

Disney choosing to not distribute Moore's work is not censorship. The only reason Disney not distributing the film is that they are afraid that people who hate Michael Moore's guts will go ahead and boycott other Disney products in retaliation, which as free people we have the right to do. Miramax went ahead and bought back the rights and is currently seeking their own distributor. Even Moore himself admitted that he knew for over a year Disney wasn't going to distribute his film. But in the end, I am sure he will have no problems whatsoever finding a distributor. Mayhe he could do what Mel Gibson did with The Passion of The Christ and form his own company to distribute the film.

Check your facts. Christopher Tolkien didn't give anyone rights to LOTR.

Tolkien himself sold the movie rights for a pittance before his death.

quote:

"J. R. R. Tolkien signed away the film rights to The Lord of the Rings for just 10,000 in 1968, five years before his death at the age of 81."

source

we have a law which allows secret investigations and arrests, and prohibits the accused from telling anyone about what's being done to them

I've wondered, when someone receives a "National Security Letter" -- since it's illegal to reveal you've gotten one -- how does the recipient go about getting a lawyer?

"Law Offices."

"Uh, hi, I think I need a lawyer."

"What sort of legal services do you need sir?"

"Uh, I can't say."

"You can't say?"

"No, that's illegal, but I need a lawyer, to help me with this thing I can't talk about. You know, a secret lawyer for secret charges."

This is not the United States of America I learned about in school.

But then neither is sending Canadian Maher Arar to Syria to be tortured, or exposing an undercover CIA agent for petty personal revenge, or setting up secret U.S. prison camps for 10,000, or Military Intelligence encouraging torture in those prisons, or lying about the reasons for going to war.

Wake up -- this is the same administration that ignored warnings of 9/11. Why do we keep rewarding this secretive, authoritarian, and incompetent administration?

The NZ government has gone out of their way to try and destroy my life since I publicized the risks associated with home-built cruise missiles.

I still have my missile (largely due to the fact that a network of friends have stored it safely in such a way that I can honestly say "I have no idea where it is") and had considered taking it on a tour of the country so that people could actually see what I've been talking about.

My lawyer advises me however, that to do so would almost certainly result in a very severe prison term. After all, they've already broken the law in respect to the actions they've taken against me so they've proven that, as far as they're concerned, the ends justifies the means.

He's strongly of the opinion that the government is just itching for an excuse to throw me in jail on some trumped-up terrorism charge because I've become such a thorn in their side.

In this country It's not illegal to build a cruise missile, and it's not even illegal to own one, nor is it illegal to transport one -- but, as a criminal lawyer of long standing he made it quite clear to me that under the new anti-terrorism laws we now live in a police state and that the government can do whatever it wants to who-ever it wants to -- by simply accusing them of terrorist activities.

In the case of my tour, they'd likely accuse me of moving the missile as the precursor to a terrorist action.

It wouldn't matter whether they were able to win such a trumped-up case, because here in NZ (as in the USA), people accused of such things seem to spend inordinately long periods of time in jail just waiting for their case to come to court. We have a guy here who's been in prison for 16 months already and, even though our High Court ruled just the other day that the head of our Security Inteligence Service had shown bias against the guy and has had to resign -- the imprisoned "suspect" is still having to wait at least another 6 months for his day in court.

It makes no difference apparently, that I've always been totally open in my activities and the reasoning behind them, and was planning to have a media contingent on my little tour. I don't recall any *real* terrorists inviting the media along on one of their attacks or offering to share all their information with the government.

I don't know whether I should really angry that governments have used the war against terror to give themselves such draconian powers, or if I should feel sad that the public are allowing them to do this without even a whimper.

I suspect that we will eventually regard these days as a dark period in the world's history -- not because of terrorist activities, but because so many people gave up so many freedoms so easily.

P.T. Barnum was right I'm afraid :-(

According to NZHerald and independent.co.uk, some members of parliament are not happy with the EU's decisions.

"This ruling is yet another example of the EU assaulting a successful American industry and policies that support our economic growth," said US Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Microsoft's home state of Washington. She called on President George Bush to "engage" with Brussels on the case.

...another rexample of EU assaulting another a poor defendless honest american corporation? awww ..pfft!. it seems more like an example of how much control MS and any other big corp has over the American government.

A quick googling reveals this. Long-term domain name registration could conceivably be marketed to companies like Kongo Gumi, although I'm sure that in the real world this service will be abused.

some recent news/info: Here

This wouldn't be the same recently aquired army vehicle that was panned in the New Zealand press for lack of reliabilty would it? Oh, it is. What a surprise.

Vik :v)

Film records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month.

Film records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month

25.01.2004 12.00pm - By DAVID USBORNE
NEW YORK - Normally sane actors have been known to gain or lose huge amounts of weight for their art. Think of Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary. Directors, of course, never have to undergo such torture. Or so it used to be, until Morgan Spurlock had a bright idea for a film project.

The first clue to his particular misery comes in the title of his documentary, which has become the darling of this year's Sundance Film Festival. It is called Super Size Me: A Film of Epic Portions and it is a sometimes comic but serious look at America's addiction to fast food.

Spurlock, a tall New Yorker of usually cast-iron constitution, made himself the guinea pig in this dogged investigation into the effects of fast food on the body. He ate only at McDonald's for a month - three meals, every day - and took a camera crew along to record it. If a server offered to super-size his order, he was obliged to accept - and to ingest everything, gherkins and all.

Neither Spurlock, 33, nor the three doctors who agreed to monitor his health during the experiment were prepared for the degree of ruin it would wreak on his body. Within days, he was vomiting up his burgers and battling with headaches and depression. And his sex drive vanished.

When Spurlock had finished, his liver, overwhelmed by saturated fats, had virtually turned to pate. "The liver test was the most shocking thing," said Dr Daryl Isaacs, who joined the team to watch over him. "It became very, very abnormal."

Spurlock put on nearly 12kg over the period and his cholesterol level leapt from a respectable 165 to 230. He told the New York Post: "I got desperately ill. My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never had in my life ... It was amazing - and really frightening." And his girlfriend, a vegan chef? "She was completely disgusted by me," he said.

Making the film over several months last year, Spurlock travelled through 20 states, interviewing everyone from fast-food junkies to the US Surgeon General and a lobbyist for the industry. McDonald's, for whom the film can only be a public relations catastrophe, ignored his repeated entreaties for comment.

Spurlock had the idea for the film on Thanksgiving Day 2002, slumped on his mother's couch after eating far too much. He saw a news item about two teenage girls in New York suing McDonald's for making them obese. The company responded by saying their food was nutritious and good for people. Is that so, he wondered? To find out, he committed himself to his 30 days of Big Mac bingeing.

The film does not yet have a distributor and, given the advertising clout of McDonald's, that may prove problematic. But the critics at Sundance seem to have been captivated. Certainly, the film is blessed by good timing. Obesity has in recent months captured headlines as America's new health scourge. The humour of the approach - and Spurlock's own suffering - obviously helps.

At the festival in Park City, Utah, he has had teams handing out "Unhappy Meal" bags on the streets with a few "Fat Fun Facts". For instance, one in four Americans visits a fast-food restaurant every day. And did you know that McDonald's feeds more people around the world every day than the population of Spain? The makers have self-rated the film "F" - for "fat audiences".

McDonald's has finally been forced to comment. "Consumers can achieve balance in their daily dining decisions by choosing from our array of quality offerings and range of portion sizes to meet their taste and nutrition goals," it said in a statement last week.

Spurlock claims that the goal was not to attack McDonald's as such. Among t

I can't believe I see more than a hundred comments here but no one who realizes what's happening here.

"Government seeks discount deal with Microsoft". Headline sound familiar?

No, not the American government, the New Zealand government, where the patent was filed. New Zealand government and business have already started moving to OpenOffice. Just ask google. For Microsoft, this is a crapshoot, but if they can stall OpenOffice adoption, then they get to keep large government contracts. Besides, nothing stops them from adding an OOo file reader if it becomes an issue in the future.

It's still being discovered. There are only just over 1000 people there, probably not including many people with international marketing degrees.

This does not surprise me in the least. Where I work, we generally do computers at 17.5% margin, large parts (eg colour laser printers) at 20%, software at 25% and normal parts at 35%. Laptop accessories (specialized equipment) is typically done at 35%.

We get away with it, and have for just over 10 years. We are the only local manufacturer with English-speaking staff and good service, which probably helps.

All of our stuff is off-the-shelf componentry. Typically, a system will contain motherboards from Gigabyte, Seagate Hard Drives, AData RAM, Intel CPUS, Hyena or Enermax Power Supplies, Dynalink (Askey) or US Robotics Modems, Panasonic Floppy Drives, LG optical drives, LG, AOC or Viewsonic Monitors (depending on CRT/LCD), Genius or MS Keyboards/Mice, Genius, Altec Lansing or Creative Speakers... all pretty good stuff. Not necessarily top of the line or tweaked to perfection, but it works, and we have very few problems.

Stuff that we do have problems with is generally fixed within 2 days or so. The staff (well, mostly me, anyway) is knowledgable in most fields - be it Hardware or Software related. (Well, I do have some quips...)

(Those that live in NZ will roughly know the story of why NZ's LARGEST manufacturer went bust... check www.nzherald.co.nz and type PC Company in the search box... look for stories around September/October 2003...)

We keep a balance of good service by not supporting software to a great extent (like, we tell customers, nicely, to piss off if they ask us how to use Kazaa or Grokster or if they are having problems with that stuff on their systems... We can fix it, but we charge :)), and if something can't be solved in 10 minutes (over the phone), then we say that it's easier if you can bring your machine in...

Just my donation of 2c.

Hey, why use complex genetic engineering to control your carp population when you can have a hell of a lot more fun using medieval technology like the NZers do?

Also, he was scarcely stranded. He had been offered a ride back to NZ in an Air Force Hercules, and he could have arranged to have the plane shipped back later.

When he did get the fuel, it is telling that he did not continue on to Argentina as per his 'plan', but went straight back to NZ. I had no sympathy for this individual and applaud the stance of the NZ and US governments.

I am sick and tired of so-called 'adventurers' depending on other people to help when they almost invariably get into trouble (another adventurer recently got into trouble and had to be rescued by a NZ government ship at considerable taxpayer expense).

I think the boost in local NZ music by copying is not that surprising. There is a lot of very good New Zealand music, but a lot of it stays relatively unknown, even to the local market, as we tend to get swamped by the more affluent overseas marketing. A little exposure can take you a long way.

As to New Zealand copyright laws - that's an interesting one, as they are currently under review. I haven't checked recently (but made plenty of submissions while they were taking them) but I believe that while they aren't doing a DMCA (because enough people spoke up) they aren't doing the right thing either.

This article by the IT editor of one of the major NZ newspapers goes so far as to suggest that they ought to be trying to enshrine Copyleft and Creative Commons in the copyright laws, so there is a movement towards this at a reasonably public level - how much sway that actually has over politicians is hard to say.

All the New Zealanders reading this: Write in to your local MP and ask them for their stance on Copyright law, and explain the benefits of having Copyleft and Creative Commons as a firmly enshrined concept under law. The more they think people are paying attention, the better the chance thet something good will come in the copyright review.

Jedidiah.

Today Antarctica New Zealand told NZPA no one knew Mr Johanson was coming and he had done nothing about contingency plans for refuelling or emergency plans, including search and rescue had he been forced down.

...by nz herald reviewer not allowed to spill the beans until after the premiere.

Gollum's Cut -- NZ Herald interview

(A side note: Would it have been *that* hard to find someone (even just a competent fan) to improve this interview's quality of dialogue?)

Me thinks a number of "/.-ers" could use a good ass-raping...The humor in it escapes me...

Especially since the anal rape story is another lie perpetrated by the Pentagon. Her Walter Reed doctors are using her for propaganda again and she doesn't even know it.
Here's the scoop from the NZ Herald and from Wired.

I doubt that any progress will be made in fighting spam until Microsoft/Apple include authentication options in their default mail applications.

Unfortunately, authentication is unlikely to do much to stop spam unless people use it with a personal whitelist of permitted senders. It is currently straightforward to track a spam email (SpamCop can do this if you paste the email in with full header information) but nowadays it typically comes from a cable/DSL user whose machine has been hijacked.

Women in Technology general manager Tania Kearns says the group wants to show computing jobs aren't just for testosterone-fuelled propeller heads.
"It goes back to the schools. Boys cotton on to technology for games so they become very comfortable with it," Kearns says. "Girls don't want to be computer geeks, it doesn't appeal, but guys get hooked on playing games 24 hours a day.

"An astronaut friend told us about how the nuts out there seem to think that Mars is going to collide with the earth or the moon, or the gravitational forces are going to rip the earth apart or cause massive earthquakes."

Other related :

Vigilantes wage war on spam


Spammers hit below men's belts

Other related :

Vigilantes wage war on spam


Spammers hit below men's belts

Found a list of sites/reports about this guy, Peter Lynds. To prevent a slashdotting, I will just print them here. It was found at http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/course/phy2002/forum/me ssages/299.html (remember to remove the space in the link if you MUST go /. them) but you should use the links here to prevent swamping them.

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id= 827792003

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20 030801.utime0801/BNStory/International/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/icc -gwi072703.php

http://www.dagbladet.no/kunnskap/2003/07/31/374849 .html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?stor yID=3515588&thesection=news&thesubsection=gene ral

http://iblnews.com/noticias/08/83260.html

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2003/08/01/ciencia/1 059697327.html

http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/

http://www.elcorreogallego.es/periodico/20030801/u ltimahora/N205769.asp

http://actualidad.eresmas.com/articulos/704306.htm l

http://brightsurf.com/news/july_03/ICC_news_073103 .php

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/ 6440571.htm

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi /news/pa/2003/08/02/technology/amateurclaimssoluti ontotimepuzzle.html

http://www.diariodigital.pt/news.asp?section_id=60 &id_news=64588

Im posting at +2 to make sure they get seen, so modding them up isn't necessary (dont need the karma). There are some serious questions about the guy, both ways, according the googling _I_ did. Don't have an opinion yet...

Couple more links:

Retailers join forces to beat licence fee

Fight the Patent Homepage [fightthepatent.co.nz]

"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this."

Lumbering reaction to software patent claim

Patent threat to NZ e-tailers

InternetNZ puts up cash for patent opinion

Govt should act to save e-trade

"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this."

Lumbering reaction to software patent claim

Patent threat to NZ e-tailers

InternetNZ puts up cash for patent opinion

Govt should act to save e-trade

• "So why is Linux turning my head? Mainly I suppose because it's free." - Stallman 101: What ever he means by the word "free"?
• "Unlike Windows, you're free to make and give away as many copies as you like. - Steady on there partner, some dists contain non-free, closed-source, non-GPL'ed code (Eg: Crossover Plugin). You cannot distribute these (eg: Lindows, SuSE Pro, etc)

ref

I poked around on google news, and it seems that just recently some (literally) crazy aussi computer engineer tried to hijack a plane (with wooden stakes), but got his ass kicked, because he's not Buffy, and the flight crew weren't vamps... The guy is a committed (to a mental instituion:) Christian, and was raving about Armageddon.

Also, a woman wrote a threatening note to a flight attendant. She's crazy, too.

No sane people have hijacked planes lately, except in Israel. This guy didn't figure out the one-time-only thing with that kind of hijacking, so you've got to wonder about his sanity. He tried to rush the cockpit on an El Al flight, and got his ass kicked.

Oh, and I found this insane diatribe from Pravda. I wonder whether that's the same Pravda as during the Soviet era, because they're talking about the poor capitalists getting fucked over by the Earth Summit people, and how George Bush is saving the world from sustainable development, and how that's great...

Not to mention this site. Watch out for those Armenians...

A text message sent to a passenger is one theory for a crash that happened last Friday.

News link

I'm sure I read somewhere though that an airline was going to use wireless for flight attentents.

If you've stumbled across evidence of substantial and systematic bilking, theft, fraud, etc. in a corporate database on an utterly massive scale... remember, fish rots from the head down. Going up your chain of command is what you have to do, but do expect severe and immediate retaliation.

Just them knowing that you know what they've been up to, by your routine data QA, is enough to cause sudden complaints about your "behaviour." Remember, it takes two to tango, but only one to squirm . Their complaints are evidence that they're starting to squirm. You need a plan now.

When the going gets tough, the tough take notes . Keep copies of things. You you are going to need a well-planned and pre-established "exit strategy", because you will be punished for doing the right thing.

While "Retaliation for Opposition to An Unlawful Practice" is illegal, it will take you 3-5 years to prosecute your retaliation case, while also giving testimony in the civil and criminal cases the FBI or Serious Fraud Office is going to be bringing against them. You are going to need one heck of a safety net.

So your order of business is:

1. Detect Evidence
2. Discuss with Spouse, Family, Religious Leaders
3. Document Evidence
4. Find out whose the best lawyer in the State, if not the Land for handling your case
5. Copy Evidence,place under lock and key
6. Find another job, sell excess assets, cash in annuities
7. Report Evidence up Chain of Command
8. Enjoy Watching them Squirm!
9. Resign at the worst possible time for them
10. Provide Your Evidence to The Authorities
11. Going to the Press is a last resort

When you must report criminal wrongdoing expect to get canned--for "other reasons" of course. You will be surprised at how lame a case they'll be willing to make for those "other reasons." So will the judge.

Child pornography is criminal wrongdoing. Bilking legitimate shareholders of millions of dollars a month is criminal wrongdoing. A utility defrauding half a nation to the point that its factories are closing, its schools are cold and dark, and its hospitals have to turn away sick children is criminal wrongdoing.

If you've stumbled across evidence of substantial and systematic bilking, theft, fraud, etc. in a corporate database on an utterly massive scale... remember, fish rots from the head down. Going up your chain of command is what you have to do, but do expect severe and immediate retaliation.

Just them knowing that you know what they've been up to, by your routine data QA, is enough to cause sudden complaints about your "behaviour." Remember, it takes two to tango, but only one to squirm . Their complaints are evidence that they're starting to squirm. You need a plan now.

When the going gets tough, the tough take notes . Keep copies of things. You you are going to need a well-planned and pre-established "exit strategy", because you will be punished for doing the right thing.

While "Retaliation for Opposition to An Unlawful Practice" is illegal, it will take you 3-5 years to prosecute your retaliation case, while also giving testimony in the civil and criminal cases the FBI or Serious Fraud Office is going to be bringing against them. You are going to need one heck of a safety net.

So your order of business is:

1. Detect Evidence
2. Discuss with Spouse, Family, Religious Leaders
3. Document Evidence
4. Find out whose the best lawyer in the State, if not the Land for handling your case
5. Copy Evidence,place under lock and key
6. Find another job, sell excess assets, cash in annuities
7. Report Evidence up Chain of Command
8. Enjoy Watching them Squirm!
9. Resign at the worst possible time for them
10. Provide Your Evidence to The Authorities
11. Going to the Press is a last resort

When you must report criminal wrongdoing expect to get canned--for "other reasons" of course. You will be surprised at how lame a case they'll be willing to make for those "other reasons." So will the judge.

Child pornography is criminal wrongdoing. Bilking legitimate shareholders of millions of dollars a month is criminal wrongdoing. A utility defrauding half a nation to the point that its factories are closing, its schools are cold and dark, and its hospitals have to turn away sick children is criminal wrongdoing.

Get your picies here!

This link will take you to an article with a picture of the clawy tentacle.