That's nice bullshit sandwich wrapped in pseudo-science bread you've got there.

Polygraphs only work in the way that swinging a five dollar wrench at someone works. It convinces them to tell you what you want to know on their own because their afraid of it. That's it.

The phrase "He failed/passed a polygraph" is the biggest load of shit in "law enforcement."

*counts Disney films with princess* *checks dates*

Um....you might want to try that again. This'd be more like the third such generation, if not the fourth.

An email that included her address in the text of the email.

It doesn't happen much any more because the demographics of the net have changed. There are (proportionally) far fewer people with science backgrounds who've read that book than there used to be.

If the victim reported it, same thing (in any workplace I've ever entered). OR ...

He probably wouldn't have reported it. Men don't usually report minor (in the sense of no visible physical injury) incidents of assault and battery unless they were looking for any ammunition they could use against someone (i.e. they really hate the attacker and want to get back at them).

Unreported crimes generally go unpunished. That doesn't make them stop being crimes.

Men get threatened with rape while playing/discussing video games all the time. It's one of the reasons I do not spend much time playing FPSs any more. Not because I was afraid of them making good on it, so much as I can think of dozens of things more fun to do than clicking buttons while some 14 year-old with his voice audibly cracking threatens to ram his genitals down my throat.

In all fairness, not reading the summary can only INCREASE your understanding of the article.

Did you RTFA? The very first case cited is arguably a felony:

This is waaaaaay beyond ITG.

This should be the first post on EVERY /. article.

Depends. "Sexual Harassment" is a large umbrella term that includes a wide range of behaviors some of which are crimes, some are torts, and some are merely bad behavior.

Since you think anyone who disagrees with you in the slightest must be a slobbering neocon you are not even worth responding to.

When you grow up and learn that not everyone who disagrees with you is the boogeyman, I'll be happy to continue this discussion more rationally.

You do know what a "judgement" is, right?

HINT: It's a government action, not a business one.

You do know where credit reporting comes from, right?

HINT: Legislation enacted by congress (particularly the Consumer Credit Protection Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act).

You do know where corporations come from, right?

HINT: Acts of government.

Government created business, not the other way around. They are two heads of the same hydra.

You overestimate the moral integrity and underestimate the greed of the average American.

Dante would not agree with you. Standing up to power IS betrayal--betrayal of your sovereign lord, which is one of the categories of betrayal Dante specifically listed.

You may disagree with that equivalence, but your parent is right. Standing up to power lands you in the deepest circle of hell, according to Dante.

Try telling that to Scientologists. Or Mormons. Or Seventh Day Adventists. Or, for that matter, Catholics. All of them were invented at one point in the recent (or not so recent as the case may be) past.

The only thing that makes a church "legitimate" is that it has enough "followers" to be politically influential. Anything else is just post-facto rationalization.