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College Fires IT Admin, Loses Access To Google Email, Successfully Sues IT Admin For $250K (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Shortly after the American College of Education (ACE) in Indiana fired IT administrator Triano Williams in April, 2016, it found that it no longer had any employees with admin access to the Google email service used by the school. In a lawsuit [PDF] filed against Williams in July, 2016, the school alleges that it asked Williams to return his work laptop, which was supposed to have the password saved. But when Williams did so in May that year, the complaint says, the computer was returned wiped, with a new operating system, and damaged to the point it could no longer be used. ACE claimed that its students could not access their Google-hosted ACE email accounts or their online coursework. The school appealed to Google, but Google at the time refused to help because the ACE administrator account had been linked to William's personal email address. "By setting up the administrator account under a non-ACE work email address, Mr Williams violated ACE's standard protocol with respect to administrator accounts," the school's complaint states. "ACE was unaware that Mr Williams' administrator account was not linked to his work address until after his employment ended." According to the school's court filing, Williams, through his attorney, said he would help the school reinstate its Google administrator account, provided the school paid $200,000 to settle his dispute over the termination of his employment. That amount is less than half the estimated $500,000 in harm the school says it has suffered due to its inability to access its Google account, according to a letter from William's attorney in Illinois, Calvita J Frederick. Frederick's letter claims that another employee set up the Google account and made Williams an administrator, but not the controlling administrator. It says the school locked itself out of the admin account through too many failed password attempts. Williams, in a counter-suit [PDF] filed last month, claims his termination followed from a pattern of unlawful discrimination by the school in the wake of a change in management. Pointing to the complaint she filed with the court in Illinois, Frederick said Williams wrote a letter [PDF] to a supervisor complaining about the poor race relations at the school and, as a result of that letter, he was told he had to relocate to Indianapolis.
>What would have happened if he'd been hit by a bus?
To answer your question I set up an experiment in which over 3000 people were hit by a bus under laboratory conditions. I carefully monitored the outcomes in all cases and can report my preliminary findings. With 99% probability, when a human being is hit by a bus, that human dies. The full paper will be submitted to NATURE for peer review and publication later this year after dealing with some anomalies in the test data (in one case... the bus died).
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Eeeeehhh WRONG !
At every point in history, no matter how bad society looks to us, there are voices sounding LIKE us. For every past evil there were people speaking out against it AS IT HAPPENED. So there was NEVER a time it was OKAY to do those things and there were ALWAYS people saying it's not.
Columbus set up a slave trade and committed several mass slaughters as soon as he met native Americans. The death toll from his actions is estimated at 5 million people in 50 years.
BUT At exactly the SAME time that was happening: Bartolome De Las Casas was out there saving their lives. Politically advocating for them to have equal rights, calling for an end to slavery.
No, these things were always evil, and there were ALWAYS people saying so. All that changed is that it took decades (or centuries) for the majority to listen to them.
But being the ones who are following in the spirit of those who demanded better of mankind, and demanding better of our own peers now... no my friend, we will NOT be looked at the same way. Homophobes and Transphobes will. We will be looked at like I look at Las Casas.
When it comes to how you treat other people there IS a clear morally superior and morally inferior line - and that line is clearly defined and has been for 3000 years. You're just standing on the wrong side of it and you imagine everybody else does too.
You think there were no whites in America in the 1940's and 1950s who were utterly disgusted with the behaviour you're describing ? You think there weren't some white people on the busses with the freedom riders, standing in solidarity with them, getting beaten up with them ?
They are always there. A few months ago in South Africa when black student protestors marched on parliament to protest fee increases - a row of white volunteers walked at the front of the march, not because they were in charge: but so if the police got brutal there would be white people between them, they were there as voluntary human shields.
So - go fuck yourself telling me this generation isn't capable and prepared to fight, not prepared to face severe violence from deadly armed enemies (that same policemen, remember, were the ones who brutally massacred 34 strking miners just brief while before). This generation is happy to be human shields to protect those without a voice so they can speak up. To put their lives on the line so that others can get a chance to be heard.
There has never been a generation MORE like the greatest generation than this one. The babyboomers were a disgraceful bunch of fat slobs who were extremely happy to use every government handout they could get (or invent) to raise their own lives up, and then dismantled those very same systems so that the next generation wouldn't have them (because once they didn't need them anymore, they didn't want ot fund them anymore). Now considering that they only got to use these things in the first place because the greatest generation WAS funding it - they were the exact opposite of that generation.
The only thing that changed - is what they consider worth fighting for, the world is different. They don't want to kill Muslims because they know you're an idiot to be afraid of Muslims. They don't want to bash gays, and they don't care if their friend has a penis under her dress. They do care about you not making her difficult life harder and they WILL fight to protect her.
And if need be - they will stand in front of her so you have to shoot them first.
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>You mean the generation who literally, in the truest sense of the word, would attack a black guy if he was talking to a white woman?
Not everyone back then was a Democrat, dude.
Yesterday's Democrat (or Republican) is not anything like today's.
THE SOFTWARE, IT NO WORKY!!!