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Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 398

I did not say the government was on the side of the "disadvantaged". I said that the government makes life difficult for businesses when they hire the "disadvantaged". (I use quotes because the groups in question may or may not actually be disadvantaged. That fact does not actually enter into the government's calculations). The fact of the matter is that the government is never on an individual's side (it may under some circumstances be on a particular group's side, but that is rare). As a general rule, individuals get chewed up a destroyed when the government is involved.

Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 398

I worked at a place where we needed to fire someone because they were misusing company resources.They had been verbally warned about it, repeated the action, and their manager was in the process of writing them up for it when they did it again. At which point they were fired. They went to the state Human Relations Committee and claimed they were fired because they were pregnant. The only evidence they were required to present was the fact that they were pregnant. When the company could not produce documentation of written warnings the company was ordered to pay the person two years salary in compensation. The person in question was not a minority, but she was a member of a "disadvantaged" group.
I have heard similar stories regarding persons from other "disadvantaged" groups at other companies, where the company found it less expensive to pay the penalty than challenge the process in the courts.

Comment Re:FUD (Score 1) 398

There is no evidence to support that it is hard to fire minority employees.

Except of course for the fact that if you fire someone who belongs to a "disadvantaged" group (not just minorities), in most states they can bring you before a Human Relations Committee which will require you to prove that you did not fire them because they belonged to that group. They do not have to present any evidence that that was the reason they were fired.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 5, Insightful) 398

You make a valid point. They also care about the fact that if they hire an incompetent Asian or White guy, they can fire him with no repercussions. However, if they hire an incompetent who is a member of one of the "disadvantaged" groups, firing them is potentially a legal nightmare. It is easier to not hire them in the first place unless they are clearly able to do the job.

Comment Re:In Other Words... (Score 4, Insightful) 432

I just happen to know where Hillary comes from politically: Heavy handed government control and cronyism. I don't trust her, and I don't understand how anyone else can (except the insane who support her only because of her genitalia).

Don't forget those who support her because they profit from her brand of heavy handed government control and cronyism.

Comment Re:All possible languages? (Score 1) 293

You still missed it. They said that they have bought the faceglory domain in "all possible languages", not with all possible TLDs, nor did they say that they have all of those domains active (although I am not sure why they would not have them active...possibly because they do not want people navigating to them until they have a webpage in the appropriate language).

Comment Re: i'm going with 98% of the scientific community (Score 1) 278

Actually, the oil industry IS paying for the global warming alarmists.

I would suggest that you learn something about science. You do not do science by consensus. You do science by facts. The facts are that, so far, all of the AGW models have FAILED to accurately predict future temperature changes and most of them have even failed to predict what has actually happened with temperatures when started with the data of a point in the past.

Comment Re:i'm going with 98% of the scientific community (Score 2) 278

In other words, you don't know what you are talking about, but you heard this really neat meme, that, if it were true, would be a slam dunk for the opinion you hold. The problem of course is that the "98% of the scientific community" claim is not supported by any actual studies. The actual study said that 97% of papers on climatology published in peer reviewed journals supported anthropogenic global warming. The thing is that the study counted any paper on climatology which did not explicitly express the the position that anthropogenic global warming was NOT true as supporting the theory, even when the subject of the paper was not connected to that theory in any way.

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