No shit.

If you've ever listened to NPR, they're further left than the rabid frothing Keith Olbermann.

That's what you get for your tax dollars, folks - something that's not even CLOSE to honest or middle of the road.

I'd trust this story a whole lot more if Slashdot had quoted the actual newspaper article rather than the frothing partisan political hackblogger's "report."

Additional: Regarding the Massachusetts case

It appears that the case is not about the "Libel" of the email itself, but the fact that Staples chose (in violation of Staples' own privacy agreements, not to mention plenty of legal precedence on things like negative employment references that are the reason most companies will only give "Name, Position, Term of Service" reference these days) to not just fire the employee, but theoretically subject them to public ridicule by the manner of the firing.

And NY does have a law on the books about this sort of thing, no doubt a result of someone(s) prior to 1902 (the date of the law being on the books) having done nasty enough things to an employee(s) that the NY legislature found it necessary to amend their law to protect employees from that sort of conduct in the future.

I think someone is confusing the ability to file a lawsuit with what is considered a defense.

Though this is a basic problem of the US legal system - big corporations (MafiAA) routinely get away with lawyer-hammering someone with illegitimate lawsuits that they never should win, merely because the defendant can't afford all the court/lawyer fees necessary to defend themselves.

GPP got "insightful", PP got "flamebait" - further proof Slashdot's modding system is just broken, abused, and worthless.

Reverse is also true: a large number of US workers are consistently being looked over for being "overqualified" after being dumped onto the market in favor of more and more H1-B's the past few years.

Consider the following: if you are married, if you have more than 5 years experience, you are more likely to (a) be fired and (b) be passed over for a "new grad" or H1-B.

Why? Benefits and pay grade. H1-B's at companies like Microsoft have been the latest in a series of BELL-like maneuvers (look up Continental Can Co. and the "Bell Plan" if you want to understand how insidious this kind of behavior is) by major US firms.

Up until they started announcing layoffs, Microsoft was pushing for more and more H1-B's. It's not that there weren't very qualified US workers applying for those jobs, but that they didn't want to pay the market wage for people with real experience when they could pay the H1-B's less AND get away with forcing the H1-B's to work 80-90 hour weeks because they wouldn't have family back home to complain about it.

Except neil armstrong would not step onto the moon and then start spamming the chat channels with "HOW I MINE FOR FISH? HOW I MINE FOR FISH?"

sustained - jury will disregard

ROFLMAO, if you think that a jury actually DOES disregard things like that, you're a loon.

What's the point of being consistent with a flawed methodology?

Al Gore. James Hansen. And all the other Climate Frauds who insist that (a) the sky is falling and (b) "man-made global climate change" is something we need to pay them a bunch of money to do nothing about.

Remember: Al Gore's supposed "carbon neutral businesses" are that way because he's in the business of selling so-called "carbon credits." Absent the "sky is falling" hype, as paraded by his faux documentary the Inconvenient Lie (which was actually LESS scientifically accurate than the movie The Day After Tomorrow, and we all know how accurate that was), nobody would pay money to Gore's little scam.

Using the new data would expose the fraud, which would screw the agenda of the kooks trying to use "global climate change" to scare us into paying them scam money and doing things that aren't necessary.

First:

- Bullshit, it was plain sharpie ink (you can tell by the smell). Shit takes forever to get out of your skin. There is nothing "super secret" about it. And they were using it for plenty of stamp varieties.

Second, this is not a "my friend had this happen" story. I was FUCKING THERE, you shithead.

Tell me, what's your job in the casino?

Go ahead Casino rejects... the truth will be told. You can't downmod insightful, truthful posts forever.

Have seen it happen, actually - we were on a vacation in Vegas and a friend of mine won 10 straight hands in a row at blackjack. He wasn't "card counting", he's not that smart - he was just lucky enough to be dealt 19+ every hand (he got three facecard+ace combos, the "upside" of the multi-deck shoe), and the dealer was getting to 17 and staying.

The pit bosses came down to the table with two bouncers, took his chips, dragged him to the office, "asked him questions" for an hour while the rest of us were wondering what to do and if we should call the cops. Then they pushed him out, marched him over, made him cash out his chips, and forced him to accept a "banned from blackjack" stamp on his hand before they'd let him go back to his room. Took a whole week and five good scrubbings with shop soap (the orange pumice stuff) for that mark to go away, his boss looked at him REALLY funny the first day back after vacation before hearing the story.

Really, wow - Casinos do cheat. The info on what they do (like stacking 10 decks to the 'shoe', rigging up the odds on the slot machines and dice games, etc) is available all over the net.

Gotta wonder, how many casino employees did it take logging in to find the mod points to call an honest and insightful post "flamebait"?

You actually found enough people gullible enough to buy Heavy Gear 2 so that you could make a LAN game out of it?

That's a sad waste of money.

I was. Tacvek is right, our local one is called "EZTag", though they keep talking about how they want to "link" the local system with other municipalities like Dallas.