I stopped using Citibank online when they stopped supporting Linux a couple of years ago.
I decided that logging in with Linux (Knoppix) was more secure at that time than Windows.
Citibank had a pretty good online system. (Not perfect, but if you were committed to digital, as I am, and you were willing to read the instructions carefully, do some trial and error, work with them, and call up their tech support number occasionally, it worked well.)
I also decided that I had to use paper and digital in parallel, until I was convinced that the digital was working well and doing everything that paper did. (It's stupid to quit the old system before the new system is working well, right?)
I kept getting paper statements, but I could download PDFs of my bank statements every year, which was convenient for a few forms I had to file with my bank statements, or to get checking and credit card account activity to import into spreadsheets.
Then one day I couldn't log in any more. At tech support, I first spoke to an asshole who tried to blame me and my computer for not connecting properly. Second try I got to a guy who understood what was going on and told me they had stopped supporting Linux. Win/Mac only.
Imagine working all night to file tax forms or some other financial documents by a deadline, and then find out at 2am that you suddenly can't log in any more.
Since then, I logged on in Windows a few times, but it was more trouble than it was worth. I could scan my printed statements, after all. And when I want real security, I go to the teller machine in the branch on the corner, where I have to go anyway to get cash.
I'm really surprised that Citibank, which made such a commitment to online banking, doesn't support Linux. (If anybody knows otherwise, let me know.) They must support Android phones, don't they?
This raises another problem with online banking. What if you're using a system that they suddenly stop supporting?
Anyway, when you've got your act together, Citibank, let me know.
Donald Trump to Foreign Workers for Florida Club: You're Hired By CHARLES V. BAGLI and MEGAN TWOHEY New York Times FEB. 25, 2016
Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., describes itself as "one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world," and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.
Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers there. But according to federal records, only 17 have been hired.
In all but a handful of cases, Mar-a-Lago sought to fill the jobs with hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries.
In his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Trump has stoked his crowds by promising to bring back jobs that have been snatched by illegal immigrants or outsourced by corporations, and voters worried about immigration have been his strongest backers.
But he has also pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago since 2010, according to the United States Department of Labor, while hundreds of domestic applicants failed to get the same jobs....
http://www.nydailynews.com/new... Marco Rubio brings up Donald Trump's Polish history, noting undocumented Polish immigrants helped build signature Trump Tower BY Ginger Adams Otis, Denis Slattery NEW YORK DAILY NEWS February 26, 2016
Now he wants a wall -- but 30 years ago, Donald Trump didnâ(TM)t worry about having illegal immigrants build his signature tower on Fifth Ave.
Confronted about his checkered past by GOP presidential rival Marco Rubio, Trump dismissed it as ancient history.
"He brings up something from 30 years ago," Trump whined. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy."...
That's especially true in small groups, where people interact over long periods of time -- and small groups are more egalitarian and democratic.
In other words, in most of evolution, we evolved to cooperate altruistically and suppress greed. That's the human condition.
Even today, in the Scandiavian countries, there are social norms that discourage stigmatize a display of wealth -- just as much as they would discourage and stigmatize someone who is lazy and takes advantage of the welfare system not to work.
Totally agree. All I can do is add some supporting citations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08... Germany Backtracks on Tuition By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE Published: August 25, 2013 (German colleges are now free again, like the Scandinavian countries. Under the German constitution, the 16 state governments control finance and education. A 2005 federal court decision allowed them to charge tuition. 8 states, in former West Germany, did, but it was unpopular and they reversed their policy. Lower Saxony charged €1,000 ($1,300)/year. An economist estimated that tuition caused 20,000 potential students (6.8% of all students) to forgo enrollment in 2007. Denmark, Norway and Sweden have free tuition, although Germany, with 2.5 million students, is the largest. Britain raised its tuition caps to £9,000 ($14,000). In France, most public universities charge a few hundred euros per year, though the grandes écoles are more expensive.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... 7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free) By Rick Noack October 29 2014 Since 1985, U.S. college costs have surged by about 500 percent, and tuition fees keep rising. In Germany, they've done the opposite. The country's universities have been tuition-free since the beginning of October, when Lower Saxony became the last state to scrap the fees. Tuition rates were always low in Germany, but now the German government fully funds the education of its citizens -- and even of foreigners. Explaining the change, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a senator in the northern city of Hamburg, said tuition fees "discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany." What might interest potential university students in the United States is that Germany offers some programs in English -- and it's not the only country. Let's take a look at the surprising -- and very cheap -- alternatives to pricey American college degrees. Germany's higher education landscape primarily consists of internationally well-ranked public universities, some of which receive special funding because the government deems them "excellent institutions." What's more, Americans can earn a German undergraduate or graduate degree without speaking a word of German and without having to pay a single dollar of tuition fees: About 900 undergraduate or graduate degrees are offered exclusively in English, with courses ranging from engineering to social sciences. For some German degrees, you don't even have to formally apply. In fact, the German government would be happy if you decided to make use of its higher education system. The vast degree offerings in English are intended to prepare German students to communicate in a foreign language, but also to attract foreign students, because the country needs more skilled workers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... How US students get a university degree for free in Germany By Franz Strasser BBC News, Germany 3 June 2015 While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international students alike. An increasing number of Americans are taking advantage and saving tens of thousands of dollars to get their degrees. More than 4,600 US students are fully enrolled at Germany universities, an increase of 20% over three years. At the same time, the total student debt in the US has reached $1.3 trillion (£850 billion). (Hunter Bliss, South Carolina.) Each semester, Hunter pays a
It's one thing to go into CVS and take a bottle of aspirin off a shelf next to all the other OTC remedies.
It's something else again to go into a hospital pharmacy and take a bottle of aspirin off a shelf next to a lot of drugs that could kill you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03... At my own hospital, in 2013 we gave a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic. The initial glitch was innocent enough: A doctor failed to recognize that a screen was set on âoemilligrams per kilogramâ rather than just âoemilligrams.â But the jaw-dropping part of the error involved alerts that were ignored by both physician and pharmacist. The error caused a grand mal seizure that sent the boy to the I.C.U. and nearly killed him.
Hospitals have systems in place to prevent those 1-in-a-million accidents. In fact, since they dispense more than a million pills, they have systems in place to prevent 1-in-100 million accidents. Even so, they keep making rare mistakes. It's a constant battle. And it's expensive -- they use bar codes, the pharmacist has to check the prescription, the nurse has to check the prescription, and if there are dangerous drugs around, like in cancer treatment, another nurse has to check the first nurse, etc. It's a pretty expensive process. It's worth a lot, because otherwise they would kill more people.
There was a recent British report that evaluated the reason why a cancer patient got an injection into the spine of the wrong, fatal drug, which killed him. It went into great detail about the error-prevention methods, and why they failed. Here's a news story about it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
So when you get an aspirin in a hospital, it has to go through an expensive process. They can't just go next door to CVS and buy a bottle.
The cases where Polish people harm Jews were rare.
Much as I would like to believe that, because I grew up with a lot of Polish friends, it doesn't seem to be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My response is, let the historians figure out what happened, when they do let's face the truth, and move on to forgiveness and reconciliation. http://forward.com/news/world/...
tldr: they reviewed everything science had to say about human conflict -- anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, etc. They came to 2 conclusions:
1. Throughout all of human evolution, groups of people have had conflicts with other groups, and even extermination.
2. Throughout all of human evolution, humans have followed conflict with reconciliation. Their prime example was South Africa.
My reading of the history http://www.abebooks.com/Notes-... of the time is that it's difficult to separate categories of people like "Jews," "Poles," "Germans," or even "Nazis" as all good or all bad.
It seems that like most nationalities at the time, a minority of Poles helped the Jews, a minority of Poles killed the Jews, and the majority in the middle went where they were led. A lot of them formed alliances of convenience, with the Soviets or Polish nationalists, and a lot of them collaborated with the Nazis, based on cold calculations of what gave them the best chances of surviving the war.
Ringelblum said that the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto hated the collaborators, Kohn and Heller, even more than the Germans.
There was definitely a history of anti-Semitism and pogroms in Poland. There were also periods of uneasy tolerance and even acceptance. During the good times, the Polish Jews were quite successful.
Even after WWII, there were some Jews who were quite influential in Polish society, like Marek Edelman and Helena WoliÅska-Brus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So tell me whether those Polish Jews themselves who survived the war were all good or all bad.
I used to try to figure out which nations were good and which were bad. Now I realize that it's a complicated mixture, and I think that's a more satisfying answer.
they twist it into "the state" or "the prosecutor" somehow being responsible for what Swartz voluntarily to himself
A prosecutor has the power to really fuck up somebody's life. A criminal defense costs so much that families mortgage their homes -- just to stay out of jail. The defendant has this threat hanging over them for years.
And a prosecutor has complete discretion about whether or not to bring a case. Sometimes they weasel out of it by saying, "I'm simply following the law." Sometimes they admit it and say, "I'm using the law creatively."
America, as you've probably heard, has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and arguably the most punitive "tough on sentencing" system. We send people to jail for 10 and 20 years for minor crimes that used to be misdemeanors before the war on crime.
This is one you can blame on the Democrats and Republicans. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both led the country in tough-on-crime rhetoric, although most incarceration is on the state level.
So yeah, if the cops arrest someone for some bullshit like making a turn without signaling far enough in advance, and the prosecutor decides to prosecute that person for it, and the person gets so depressed in jail that he kills himself -- I think the cop and the prosecutor are directly responsible for that death.
Adam Swartz seemed to be a situation like that. A sadistic prosecutor who just wants to put someone in jail to get notches on her bed.
If you think "all companies that do this are run by Republicans," you really need to think "the few Republican-run companies that do this are joining the long list of Democrat-run ones."
Silicon Valley has the highest H-1B use in the US, and they're primarily left-wingers out there.
I'd like to use that claim to bash the Democrats. Got any evidence to back it up? I'd be particularly interested in companies run by Democratic executives who are big campaign contributors.
Evolving interpretations of Title IX have also played a part, in particular a 2011 letter released by the Office for Civil Rights reminding educational institutions of their obligations to both prevent and respond to sexual misconduct, including sexual violence. "Title IX makes it very clear that a beautiful 19-year-old female wearing a halter top and a miniskirt can go check on her fruit flies at night without being touched or made uncomfortable by her professor," Harvard's Johnson says.
If you're the kind of person who will be psychologically traumatized by having your professor acknowledge your sexual attractiveness, I would think that you would be better off wearing something more professional than a halter top and miniskirt to the lab at night. Maybe you should learn something from those fruit flies.
If this is a problem, then you should have a dress code for female employees.
Actually, I used to work at the American Foundation for [deleted], and we had a temp employee come in wearing a halter top and a bare midriff. She made quite an impression, some of it favorable (on her boss) and some of it unfavorable (on the other women in the office). Somebody talked to her about it, and she covered it up, to some disappointment by the men in the office.
If anybody claims that women never dress in revealing clothes to be sexually attractive, they're denying reality.
Did anybody else think that in the illustration accompanying that story, Rebecca Ackermann had a pretty low neckline?
I know there have been studies of cleavage in women's photos on dating sites, but this seems to be somewhat revealing for a professional setting. Especially for someone who wants to de-emphasize sexuality in academia.
Maybe it's because I went to school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but I'm remembering a lot of women who made their career by having an affair with their professors.
In one case, a friend of mine was the first woman to major in a male-dominated field at a big university. All the guys in my circle of friends really looked up to her for that.
Then she once casually mentioned that she was having an affair with her (married) professor.
People have a right to have sex with anybody they want, but I hated it because it confirmed a stereotype that I hated - - "Women will use sex to advance their career."
Last I heard, she didn't go into the field at all, but got a job as a programmer.
I wonder if anybody else here has seen things like that.
Sexually assault is a criminal matter, why not make a formal complaint on the night instead of months later in a roof top bar.
Because if anyone made a criminal complaint that started out with her getting so drunk she doesn't know what happened next, the prosecutors would realize that it would be impossible to prove a case like that in court, file it away and forget it.
And because if the crime consisted of his lying on top of her and groping her under her skirt, the prosecutors would realize that this isn't a real crime and they have more important things to worry about.
It means "put his arm around me, and plunged his hand down the back of my skirt all the way to my thighs, and forcefully grabbed my posterior,".
If you gave the whole quote, it would mean something else:
This witness, who admits that she was "properly drunk," wrote that she put her hand around Richmond's waist while he "continued to fondle my bottom." Shortly afterwards, she related, Richmond "pulled me away from the circle" and "kissed me quite passionately," asking her to go to a more remote spot and have sex with him. But she was not interested and declined, slipping away to her friends.
They were standing around a bonfire, they were drinking, she was drinking a lot, he made a pass at her, she responded favorably, he continued, she declined, and he left her alone.
This is normal sexual behavior in modern western cultures.
These are fucking anthropologists. They're supposed to understand mating rituals.
If it happened as the woman stated then yes, it absolutely is sexual harassment.
The way the woman stated it, they went out drinking, she got "way too drunk," she couldn't find her way back to her Air B&B, she doesn't remember anything after that until they wound up in bed together with Richmond kissing her and groping under her skirt.
There's a lot of things that could have happened between the time her memory blanked out and the time it started again. Like she could have made advances at him.
When she goes to a man's hotel room, it may not imply consent to have sex, but she should be prepared for him to make an advance to find out if she is consenting.
He might be one of those guys who would make an advance at a woman if they wound up in a hotel room together. There are an awful lot of guys like that.
She's supposed to be an anthropologist, for crying out loud. Didn't she ever learn about sage grouse leks?
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Thanks, I'll try again.
My mother was a bookkeeper.
She said she never caught the banks in a mistake until the computers came in.
Oh great. Once you have a problem and need access to your records, your access to your records disappears.
Which is like saying all your records disappear.
I think he means "snail."
And I think he's either British or an English graduate student.
I stopped using Citibank online when they stopped supporting Linux a couple of years ago.
I decided that logging in with Linux (Knoppix) was more secure at that time than Windows.
Citibank had a pretty good online system. (Not perfect, but if you were committed to digital, as I am, and you were willing to read the instructions carefully, do some trial and error, work with them, and call up their tech support number occasionally, it worked well.)
I also decided that I had to use paper and digital in parallel, until I was convinced that the digital was working well and doing everything that paper did. (It's stupid to quit the old system before the new system is working well, right?)
I kept getting paper statements, but I could download PDFs of my bank statements every year, which was convenient for a few forms I had to file with my bank statements, or to get checking and credit card account activity to import into spreadsheets.
Then one day I couldn't log in any more. At tech support, I first spoke to an asshole who tried to blame me and my computer for not connecting properly. Second try I got to a guy who understood what was going on and told me they had stopped supporting Linux. Win/Mac only.
Imagine working all night to file tax forms or some other financial documents by a deadline, and then find out at 2am that you suddenly can't log in any more.
Since then, I logged on in Windows a few times, but it was more trouble than it was worth. I could scan my printed statements, after all. And when I want real security, I go to the teller machine in the branch on the corner, where I have to go anyway to get cash.
I'm really surprised that Citibank, which made such a commitment to online banking, doesn't support Linux. (If anybody knows otherwise, let me know.) They must support Android phones, don't they?
This raises another problem with online banking. What if you're using a system that they suddenly stop supporting?
Anyway, when you've got your act together, Citibank, let me know.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...
Donald Trump to Foreign Workers for Florida Club: You're Hired
By CHARLES V. BAGLI and MEGAN TWOHEY
New York Times
FEB. 25, 2016
Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., describes itself as "one of the most highly regarded private clubs in the world," and it is not just the very-well-to-do who want to get in.
Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers there. But according to federal records, only 17 have been hired.
In all but a handful of cases, Mar-a-Lago sought to fill the jobs with hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries.
In his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, Mr. Trump has stoked his crowds by promising to bring back jobs that have been snatched by illegal immigrants or outsourced by corporations, and voters worried about immigration have been his strongest backers.
But he has also pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago since 2010, according to the United States Department of Labor, while hundreds of domestic applicants failed to get the same jobs....
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
Marco Rubio brings up Donald Trump's Polish history, noting undocumented Polish immigrants helped build signature Trump Tower
BY Ginger Adams Otis, Denis Slattery
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
February 26, 2016
Now he wants a wall -- but 30 years ago, Donald Trump didnâ(TM)t worry about having illegal immigrants build his signature tower on Fifth Ave.
Confronted about his checkered past by GOP presidential rival Marco Rubio, Trump dismissed it as ancient history.
"He brings up something from 30 years ago," Trump whined. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy." ...
If we can't eliminate greed, we can at least reduce it.
One of the surprising findings of behavioral economics is that people will often choose fairness over money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's especially true in small groups, where people interact over long periods of time -- and small groups are more egalitarian and democratic.
In other words, in most of evolution, we evolved to cooperate altruistically and suppress greed. That's the human condition.
Even today, in the Scandiavian countries, there are social norms that discourage stigmatize a display of wealth -- just as much as they would discourage and stigmatize someone who is lazy and takes advantage of the welfare system not to work.
Totally agree. All I can do is add some supporting citations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08...
Germany Backtracks on Tuition
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
Published: August 25, 2013
(German colleges are now free again, like the Scandinavian countries. Under the German constitution, the 16 state governments control finance and education. A 2005 federal court decision allowed them to charge tuition. 8 states, in former West Germany, did, but it was unpopular and they reversed their policy. Lower Saxony charged €1,000 ($1,300)/year. An economist estimated that tuition caused 20,000 potential students (6.8% of all students) to forgo enrollment in 2007. Denmark, Norway and Sweden have free tuition, although Germany, with 2.5 million students, is the largest. Britain raised its tuition caps to £9,000 ($14,000). In France, most public universities charge a few hundred euros per year, though the grandes écoles are more expensive.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free)
By Rick Noack
October 29 2014
Since 1985, U.S. college costs have surged by about 500 percent, and tuition fees keep rising. In Germany, they've done the opposite.
The country's universities have been tuition-free since the beginning of October, when Lower Saxony became the last state to scrap the fees. Tuition rates were always low in Germany, but now the German government fully funds the education of its citizens -- and even of foreigners.
Explaining the change, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a senator in the northern city of Hamburg, said tuition fees "discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany."
What might interest potential university students in the United States is that Germany offers some programs in English -- and it's not the only country. Let's take a look at the surprising -- and very cheap -- alternatives to pricey American college degrees.
Germany's higher education landscape primarily consists of internationally well-ranked public universities, some of which receive special funding because the government deems them "excellent institutions." What's more, Americans can earn a German undergraduate or graduate degree without speaking a word of German and without having to pay a single dollar of tuition fees: About 900 undergraduate or graduate degrees are offered exclusively in English, with courses ranging from engineering to social sciences. For some German degrees, you don't even have to formally apply.
In fact, the German government would be happy if you decided to make use of its higher education system. The vast degree offerings in English are intended to prepare German students to communicate in a foreign language, but also to attract foreign students, because the country needs more skilled workers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
How US students get a university degree for free in Germany
By Franz Strasser BBC News, Germany
3 June 2015
While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international students alike. An increasing number of Americans are taking advantage and saving tens of thousands of dollars to get their degrees.
More than 4,600 US students are fully enrolled at Germany universities, an increase of 20% over three years. At the same time, the total student debt in the US has reached $1.3 trillion (£850 billion).
(Hunter Bliss, South Carolina.)
Each semester, Hunter pays a
Selling arms to dictatorships is just one of those things we have to put up with in life.
http://sciencenordic.com/unite...
The United States arms most dictatorships
January 1, 2012 - 07:00
You'll have to come up with a better reason than that to shut down anonymous networks.
Like, "Because we want to control which dictatorships get arms."
It's one thing to go into CVS and take a bottle of aspirin off a shelf next to all the other OTC remedies.
It's something else again to go into a hospital pharmacy and take a bottle of aspirin off a shelf next to a lot of drugs that could kill you.
Hospitals have systems in place to prevent those 1-in-a-million accidents. In fact, since they dispense more than a million pills, they have systems in place to prevent 1-in-100 million accidents. Even so, they keep making rare mistakes. It's a constant battle. And it's expensive -- they use bar codes, the pharmacist has to check the prescription, the nurse has to check the prescription, and if there are dangerous drugs around, like in cancer treatment, another nurse has to check the first nurse, etc. It's a pretty expensive process. It's worth a lot, because otherwise they would kill more people.
There was a recent British report that evaluated the reason why a cancer patient got an injection into the spine of the wrong, fatal drug, which killed him. It went into great detail about the error-prevention methods, and why they failed. Here's a news story about it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
So when you get an aspirin in a hospital, it has to go through an expensive process. They can't just go next door to CVS and buy a bottle.
Just one more thing. Science magazine had a special issue on human conflict.
http://www.sciencemag.org/site...
tldr: they reviewed everything science had to say about human conflict -- anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, etc. They came to 2 conclusions:
1. Throughout all of human evolution, groups of people have had conflicts with other groups, and even extermination.
2. Throughout all of human evolution, humans have followed conflict with reconciliation. Their prime example was South Africa.
Finally somebody has the explanation.
Your parents should be praised for their efforts at Jewish-Polish reconciliation.
My reading of the history http://www.abebooks.com/Notes-... of the time is that it's difficult to separate categories of people like "Jews," "Poles," "Germans," or even "Nazis" as all good or all bad.
It seems that like most nationalities at the time, a minority of Poles helped the Jews, a minority of Poles killed the Jews, and the majority in the middle went where they were led. A lot of them formed alliances of convenience, with the Soviets or Polish nationalists, and a lot of them collaborated with the Nazis, based on cold calculations of what gave them the best chances of surviving the war.
Ringelblum said that the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto hated the collaborators, Kohn and Heller, even more than the Germans.
There was definitely a history of anti-Semitism and pogroms in Poland. There were also periods of uneasy tolerance and even acceptance. During the good times, the Polish Jews were quite successful.
Even after WWII, there were some Jews who were quite influential in Polish society, like Marek Edelman and Helena WoliÅska-Brus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So tell me whether those Polish Jews themselves who survived the war were all good or all bad.
I used to try to figure out which nations were good and which were bad. Now I realize that it's a complicated mixture, and I think that's a more satisfying answer.
Reasonable Republican = null set
Not quite. Nothing in that link specifically says that those billionaires hire H1-Bs.
A prosecutor has the power to really fuck up somebody's life. A criminal defense costs so much that families mortgage their homes -- just to stay out of jail. The defendant has this threat hanging over them for years.
And a prosecutor has complete discretion about whether or not to bring a case. Sometimes they weasel out of it by saying, "I'm simply following the law." Sometimes they admit it and say, "I'm using the law creatively."
America, as you've probably heard, has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and arguably the most punitive "tough on sentencing" system. We send people to jail for 10 and 20 years for minor crimes that used to be misdemeanors before the war on crime.
This is one you can blame on the Democrats and Republicans. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both led the country in tough-on-crime rhetoric, although most incarceration is on the state level.
So yeah, if the cops arrest someone for some bullshit like making a turn without signaling far enough in advance, and the prosecutor decides to prosecute that person for it, and the person gets so depressed in jail that he kills himself -- I think the cop and the prosecutor are directly responsible for that death.
Adam Swartz seemed to be a situation like that. A sadistic prosecutor who just wants to put someone in jail to get notches on her bed.
I'd like to use that claim to bash the Democrats. Got any evidence to back it up? I'd be particularly interested in companies run by Democratic executives who are big campaign contributors.
From TFA:
If you're the kind of person who will be psychologically traumatized by having your professor acknowledge your sexual attractiveness, I would think that you would be better off wearing something more professional than a halter top and miniskirt to the lab at night. Maybe you should learn something from those fruit flies.
If this is a problem, then you should have a dress code for female employees.
Actually, I used to work at the American Foundation for [deleted], and we had a temp employee come in wearing a halter top and a bare midriff. She made quite an impression, some of it favorable (on her boss) and some of it unfavorable (on the other women in the office). Somebody talked to her about it, and she covered it up, to some disappointment by the men in the office.
If anybody claims that women never dress in revealing clothes to be sexually attractive, they're denying reality.
Did anybody else think that in the illustration accompanying that story, Rebecca Ackermann had a pretty low neckline?
I know there have been studies of cleavage in women's photos on dating sites, but this seems to be somewhat revealing for a professional setting. Especially for someone who wants to de-emphasize sexuality in academia.
Maybe it's because I went to school in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but I'm remembering a lot of women who made their career by having an affair with their professors.
In one case, a friend of mine was the first woman to major in a male-dominated field at a big university. All the guys in my circle of friends really looked up to her for that.
Then she once casually mentioned that she was having an affair with her (married) professor.
People have a right to have sex with anybody they want, but I hated it because it confirmed a stereotype that I hated - - "Women will use sex to advance their career."
Last I heard, she didn't go into the field at all, but got a job as a programmer.
I wonder if anybody else here has seen things like that.
Because if anyone made a criminal complaint that started out with her getting so drunk she doesn't know what happened next, the prosecutors would realize that it would be impossible to prove a case like that in court, file it away and forget it.
And because if the crime consisted of his lying on top of her and groping her under her skirt, the prosecutors would realize that this isn't a real crime and they have more important things to worry about.
If you gave the whole quote, it would mean something else:
They were standing around a bonfire, they were drinking, she was drinking a lot, he made a pass at her, she responded favorably, he continued, she declined, and he left her alone.
This is normal sexual behavior in modern western cultures.
These are fucking anthropologists. They're supposed to understand mating rituals.
The way the woman stated it, they went out drinking, she got "way too drunk," she couldn't find her way back to her Air B&B, she doesn't remember anything after that until they wound up in bed together with Richmond kissing her and groping under her skirt.
There's a lot of things that could have happened between the time her memory blanked out and the time it started again. Like she could have made advances at him.
When she goes to a man's hotel room, it may not imply consent to have sex, but she should be prepared for him to make an advance to find out if she is consenting.
He might be one of those guys who would make an advance at a woman if they wound up in a hotel room together. There are an awful lot of guys like that.
She's supposed to be an anthropologist, for crying out loud. Didn't she ever learn about sage grouse leks?