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Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn
unixan writes "In a report by the SEC Inspector General that smacks of fiddling while Rome burns, 33 recent ethics investigations all showed that the government employees responsible for keeping an eye on the economy were instead obsessed with surfing porn — while the economy was tipping over. One cited example: 'A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office.'"
And we surf slashdot rather than doing our own jobs
Yep - watching people screwing, while the people they are supposed to be watching are screwing the public. Which makes the SEC like the glory hole in Wall Street.
The Invisible Hand of the Free Market is what punches workers in the nuts.
I'm sure IT was well aware of the situation by the time the hard drive was full.
Who watches the watchers? Ceiling cat does.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Kind of like reading /. at work?
"What is there a tank on the boat? WHY IS THERE A TANK ON THE BOAT?!?" L4D2
If this is that big a deal, I hope nobody finds out I've actually been having sex while the economy tanks.
Especially my wife.
... is that they wanted to diddle while rome burned?
the SEC is the host of our Strategic Porn Reserves. Then you'll thank that attorney's forward-thinking approach to preserving a domestic supply to reduce our vulnerability to the whims of foreign porn suppliers.
Surfed porn? Really. You couldnt find any better word that would rhyme with tanked. Sheesh.
That's why they are studying them.
Haha...Get it?
(It's a penis joke)
Unless you consider and can justify reading /. as part of your job (keeping abreast on technology news)...
"Economy Tanked while the Government Wanked."
~Sticky
//No Karma, cause I stoled it.
Would the economy be OK now? Just asking.....
Great question!
I waiting on the official word from Fox News as to where the blame lies - will it be over-regulating liberals or porn-surfing liberals?
At least they're not into bondage or diapers or pages or ........
Boy, they sure took the Bush agenda seriously.
--
Toro
are you at work right now, reading Slashdot?
No. Are you?
keeping abreast on technology news
I see what you did there...
Right. They can police themselves.
that "Fanny May" was not a porn star.
Well, porn is the most lucrative business on the internet... So basically, they were trying to figure out something out of it to help the economy.
DEATH TO THE INFIDEL!!!!
(sometime around 2025)
Attorney: "And to my son Jimmy, I leave my 750GB of porn."
Jimmy: "Only 750GB? My SDU optidrive is 100 times bigger than that!"
Mr. Lippman: It's come to my attention that you and the cleaning woman have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct?
George Costanza: Who said that?
Mr. Lippman: She did.
George Costanza: [pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
Mr. Lippman: You're fired!
George Costanza: Well, you didn't have to say it like that.
Look at the man in the cubicle across from you. Now look at the two men to the left of you. Now look at the two men to the right of you.
I'm on a horse.
Incidentally, it was Slashdot that keyed us into the source of our problems (McAfee) on Wednesday. If that's not justification for my constant screwing around^W^W research on Slashdot every day, I don't know what is.
Oh, but Obama is a Muslin Kenyam, so he isn't really our president, dont'cha know.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton