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This was actually the worst ruling the private sector could get. Now it is explicit that a corporation cannot rely on its employees to in any way report errors or criminal activity by other employees to get in front of an SEC violation. Think that through for a moment. There is now a disincentive for internal reporting. If I was an owner or board member of any kind of financial institution, I would be pissed! Why it's bad for workers seems obvious.

This cuts both ways.

An employee cannot leave a company and *say* that the company is in violation, they have to back it up with actual charges.

There's been too many "guilt by accusation" cases recently, and while many accused admitted to the crime, some did not.

Take for example [White House Aide] Rob Porter accused of domestic abuse, which he denies. His wife posted a photo of herself with a black eye to the newspapers, but didn't go to the police. A black eye should be a slam-dunk for domestic abuse and restraining order and yet... she didn't do that at the time with photographic evidence?

Take also for example Senator Al Franken, who used to be a professional comedian and was accused of making women feel "uncomfortable", but whose image was clearly a staged comedic incident completely in line with what many other comedians do. And making someone "feel uncomfortable" is not the same as assault, battery, or rape.

A third example is Judge Roy Moore: after the election, his accusers seem to have vanished like footprints in the sand.

We shouldn't have "mere accusations" lead us to pronounce someone guilty, because if we do that the process will be abused.

This ruling is completely responsible, because it can respond to abuse with false report charges.

Competent police would seek to contain the situation until they worked out what was going on, get a negotiator, trained snipers etc.

Sure, no argument here - the police should definitely have handled this better. But then you wrote...

Of course the guy in the door was black so never let a chance go by.

This guy looks black to you?

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Yes.
Supercomputers usually have front and back doors. It's needed for maintenance.
So yes, they are alwas backdoored.
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Here is the problem. ANTIFA are Nazis. They look like Nazis and act like Nazis. They just do not know what a Nazi is.

Naw, man. It's easy to tell the Nazis from Antifa. The Nazis are the ones with swastikas, throwing up the Hitler salute and talking about a "white ethnostate".

You can also tell the Nazis because they are the ones getting punched while everyone (except the Nazis) cheers. Nazis are also the ones saying, "Antifa are the real Nazis". Don't try to change history.

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The reason that your federal taxes won't go down is that Trump's cuts are balanced out by his increases in spending on the military, even though that spending is already larger than military spending by China, Russia, UK, Japan, France, Saudia Arabia, India and Germany combined.

So state governments cannot pick up the slack without raising taxes. Thanks Trump!

Of course, when it comes to climate change, local action isn't really good enough. The US emits more CO2 than any other country except China, and these cities pledging their support for Paris represent not much more than 10% of the U.S. population.

Very minor correction (Sorry, a pet pev of mine)

The internet was a revolution, starting with a few networked government buildings.

The Arpanet started off primarily as a few higher education campuses and public research think tanks mainly, with only a couple government buildings.

This is a network map of the Arpanet in 12/1970 when the network was already about a year old:
http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_11/247291/arpanet_73f49ce811ef66b6824923c4ef5fc847.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

At this point in time there are just under 10 universities, 1 research center, and 2 government buildings.

While the technology was undeniably created and founded by the government (DARPA), it was mainly the universities that ran with it providing both the first test-bed networks as well as additions to the protocol that led from the Arpanets IPv1 up to the Internets IPv4 today (and v6 for what that's worth)

Sorry again for that. But so far as your overall point, I do agree 100%

Never Happens

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/09/22/cbs4-investigation-finds-dead-voters-casting-ballots-in-colorado/

That's clearly a right-wing, biased publication, no?

Broerman said after their deaths, the Sosas remained on active voter rolls and mail ballots were still sent to their home because they did not meet the criteria to have their names deleted from eligible voter rolls.

Notice how mail-in ballots, the one voting method where voter fraud is actually very easy to commit, is never a target of GOP efforts to combat voter fraud?

I wonder why?

I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.

I have some bad news for you.

That image made me wonder if there were any figures for expenditure vs. GNP and found the source, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
(Direct link to SIPRI Military Expenditure Database)

Unfortunately, there aren't any reliable figures for North Korea.

I refuse to support the N. Korean regime at any level. Any growth in their GDP will be redirected to their military. Purchasing the Manbang it tantamount to putting a down payment on a noose; one thread at a time.

I have some bad news for you.

women don't seem to feel the need to go trash-talk shows that are designed to appeal to men.

HAHAHA oh wow.

Yeah no, they go a lot further than just that.

A man walking into a woman's restroom is doing just that.

Yes, except I'm not a man. Do you agree, then, with the NC law that will force this guy to use the ladies' room? Oh? You forgot there are female-to-male trans people?

who said Nuts!

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George S. Patton said something to the effect, "their taking our bodily fluids".

According to THIS [washingtonpost.com], it's well-educated engineer types who are most likely to embrace terrorism.

Yeah, about that:

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They claimed it was a bomb hoax to try to cover their stupid cracker asses.

What a stupid cracker may look like.

By all means though, this story doesn't have nearly enough racism. Please continue to add more.

I think it's more an effect of the people we see pictures of most, celebrities, put a lot of work into appearing young, so we don't expect people in the public eye to age as quickly. Tom Cruise ages slowly because his career demands it, Barak Obama on the other hand probably looks more serious the older he looks, so there's less reason to make himself appear young.

Even compare to Jon Stewart in 2008 vs now. There doesn't seem to be a huge difference, until you realize the gallon of makeup applied to Jon Stewart's face, it's hard to appeal to GenXers and Millenials looking like you're over 50.

I'd actually be curious to see how this algorithm does with celebrity photos.

In 2010 I visited a small town in Iwate where a high tsunami wall had been built 40 years before. In March 2011, the town has been completely devastated by the tsunami. Will the new wall be high and solid enough? That's an interesting question, but we won't probably know the answer (fortunately) before another few hundred years.

Really? That's good to know.

A Hallmark greeting card with a heart-shaped solar flare overlaying an "X" obviously meaning "love and kisses". It reads: "To Earth, with love. -- Sun"

Because in Egypt the military was using aircraft and snipers to shoot protesters. So it's common there now to "lase" aircraft to point them out to other people so they know to take cover.

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Notice there are hundreds of lasers on these things... yet there's a a surprising lack of blind pilots or aircraft crashing into crowds.

Yes, it's technically possible this could hard the pilot. But practically? Not very likely. These pilots circled the crowds for hours every night for months with hundreds of lasers trained on them the entire time without incident.

The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.

I realize you've been using that sig for quite some time now, but the changes to Facebook's data policy mean you no longer own it. All your sig are belong to fb, as evidenced by Moped Zuckerberg spotted in Rome. Details in the next update to Facebook's data policy, which will be at 11.

naked and petrified!

You mean the paleolithic version of the three body problem?