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Arrested IBM Exec Goes MIA On the Web
theodp writes "Among those charged in the largest hedge-fund insider trading case in US history was IBM Sr. VP Robert W. Moffat, the heir apparent to IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and the guy behind Big Blue's 'workforce rebalancing' and the sale of IBM's PC unit to Lenovo. IBM's not talking about the incident, but it's interesting that Moffat's bio is MIA at IBM.com ('Biography you tried to access does not exist.'), and his Smarter Planet video can no longer be found ('This video has been removed by the user.') at IBM's YouTube Channel. Do you need approval from the Feds before tidying up after someone who's under investigation? BTW, if stories and comments appearing in the Times Herald-Record and Poughkeepsie Journal are any indication, Moffat may want to avoid a local jury trial. 'I have talked to a few IBMers today, and there seems to be a lot of cheering in the halls of IBM over his arrest,' said Lee Conrad of Alliance@IBM."
And there's nothing wrong with joking about any of that.
It's all part of the free software model. According to Stallman, those laid off highly skilled engineers should now be selling support services helping others install Linux, configure Linux config files, and so on.
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Look, if it upsets you that much, post your address and I'll be glad to mail you a hankie. A nice pink one to go with your politics.
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
You already live in a police state. Those CHUDs you speak of are often harmless people who were imprisoned for not being white enough, or not being conservative enough.
Oppressivists like Joe Arpaio are not making your country safer. They are profiting off the dismissal and suppression of social elements they personally dislike. Spending 5 years in jail with a pink jumpsuit, just because you were caught selling hash to stoners who are also harmless, that's not justice and it sure as shit isn't security. It's abuse.
The US has a high prison population because there are too many arbitrary laws to break, too many cops to feed, and too many profitable taboos to exploit. For every psychopathic, dangerous detainee there are 10 harmless ones that are being made examples of. Jails are profitable, contracted businesses, and that is several degrees of fucked up right there. High prison population is not the side-effect of proper crime fighting, it is a symptom of a dysfunctional society.
-Billco, Fnarg.com