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Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement
mcmoodle writes "Bozeman, Montana has decided that they don't want applicant personal information after all, citing a worldwide backlash on the issue:
'"Effective at noon today the city of Bozeman permanently ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates' internet sites," said Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager. ... Kukulski says after a 90 minute staff meeting held earlier today, officials decided asking applicants to provide their passwords to sites such as Facebook or MySpace, "exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." Kukulski apologized for the negative impact the issue has generated from news organizations and blogs around the world.' I didn't have any doubt this would be immediately squashed. Now I'm just curious as to how many personal accounts they actually went through!"
If you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't worry about this. All this was designed to do was to allow a more thorough background check to be done for prospective candidates for government positions.
There was plenty of backlash when some of Obama's selections for cabinet posts were revealed to have a few skeletons in their closet. Unfortunately, because of people who are overly protective of privacy, it's practically impossible to do a thorough background check and find these skeletons early in the process.
Why would you be worried about a background check if you have nothing to hide? The excessive protection of privacy is doing more harm than good.
can really ask of you're told. It's Task. Research [antI-slash.org]
You can forget Valve ever removing niggers from their games. The coont, Alyx, in Half-Life 2 is the spawn of the unholy union of ape seed and a white woman. Then, later in the game, they pair her nigger daddy up with yet another white slut. Valve loves the thought of niggers fucking white women and I'm sure they stage make-believe zoological ape/human sexual orgies with their developer tools when the lights are out. It's disgusting.
Have to disagree with this "The executive cannot just "do whatever it wants" unless congress and the judiciary let it"..Yes, I agree that is the theory and the design and intent, The practice is, the executive branch controls all the guns and legions of unquestioning order followers. That's the reality on the ground. That's also the main reason the founders were so much against a permanent standing army, because they realized it would lead *inevitably* to an executive branch dictatorship.