Tenure would do nothing to stop this, and would in fact make it worse. Without tenure, you're free to go work somewhere else if you find the current environment too oppressive. Anyone working in IT knows the importance of being able to switch jobs. You can't plan on working in one place forever. If there were tenure, you would be unable to switch jobs without starting on the bottom at the new place. Good luck escaping a bad work environment under that system! Imagine the horrible political environment that would result from management trying to force out a tenured employee that they couldn't fire, so the only way is to make the environment so miserable the person quits.

That's very very unlikely to happen. The school board and parents would come down hard on any administrator who was that dumb.

Should we give IT workers tenure too? What if the boss threatened to fire everyone who doesn't want to program in VB6? See I too can come up with completely ridiculous examples to prove non-existent points.

The $150k is in "government numbers", ie total fantasy.

What are these ads you speak of? Chrome with AdBlock makes for a beautiful (not to mention useable) internet.

It sure as shit does not. Urban property taxes are many times higher than rural.

Pedants are far more annoying. At least dipshits are fun to make fun of.

This lawsuit makes no business sense whatsoever. Why the hell don't Apple and Samsung settle with a cross-licensing agreement?

This suit is making a bunch of lawyers very rich, which in this case I'm OK with. If the two companies don't come to their senses and settle, I will enjoy seeing them get milked by their lawyers.

Shit dude, just pay the extra $62 a month and move out of the ghetto. Or just stop paying the extra $38. I bet nothing happens. Especially if your management tolerates the antics of Section 8 freeloaders.

How can Cox get away with this? Disney is famous for saying "carry all of our channels or none". That means that all of the ESPN channels, Disney channels, ABC, and every other channel that Disney owns must be included with all of a cable company's packages (and charged accordingly) or Disney will refuse to deal with that cable company at all. How can Cox (whoever they are) get away with a deal that no other cable or satellite provider has managed to get?

The money was almost certainly sent via Western Union, gift cards, or some other non-electronic-trail means. Good luck tracing that.

It's military pricing. Nothing costs less than $100k. Hell, it costs the vendor $10k just to process the required government paperwork.

Lets just call this what it really is: Make Al Gore even richer!

In the case of your ex-father in law, the police did the right thing. The money would have been untraceable, and they weren't about to waste time on crime that essentially only victimizes the stupid.

In the United States, Police (and schools for that matter) have huge budgets, but too little of that money makes it to the front lines. Administrators soak most of it up, and any further funding increases go straight to the top. Only the bare minimum flows to the bottom where it's needed most. This is the problem with the "more money for police" and "more money for education" crowd.

Google should just get the hell out of France.I can't imagine its profitable to put up with the French government bullshit. Besides, French citizens could still use Google services. No way would the French government be able to figure out how to block them.