Comment Re:Hope and Change (Score 1) 242
Since your parent poster is probably a European where liberal means something different.
Since your parent poster is probably a European where liberal means something different.
The Confederacy was dedicated to the overthrow of the US Government and hundreds of thousands of them actually bore arms against that government, and they were less poorly treated than the "Communists" in the 1950s despite having been a far, far greater threat.
So yes, it was a witch hunt. Just because a handful of them existed doesn't mean the measures taken were reasonable or proportional to the threat (which was zilch).
just clench your buttocks at the right time
At least some polygraph operators use pressure-sensitive seat cushions to detect gluteal muscle movement during a polygraph since that episode of P&T. (source: brother who took a polygraph for employment).
This is a murky field. A polygraph does present useful information; it's just not necessarily whether the person is telling the truth. The major decision part of any polygraph system is the operator, and they need to have sp,e training in physical psychology to be predictably any good at using the equipment.
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.
I remember Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit getting a lot of hits when arguments got emotional. It doesn't happen so much anymore, because there's a large influx of people making highly emotive arguments but without much discipline in reasoned arguments
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.
and if he grabbed a man by the throat, what would've happened?
If the victim reported it, same thing (in any workplace I've ever entered). OR
what if she assaulted him?
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).
what then?
Unreported crimes generally go unpunished. That doesn't make them stop being crimes.
The only "special" insult they make to women is rape
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.
Half the time I don't think they even read the summary.
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:
Later that day, someone texted me my address — telling me they’d "See me when I least expected it."
This is waaaaaay beyond ITG.
Unfortunately, the summary doesn't really make ________ clear.
This should be the first post on EVERY
In the U.S. sexual harassment isn't a crime
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.
If you can't see this, you've been watching too much Fox News.
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.
Business does have the power to drop an enormous lawsuit on you and force you to wipe out your life savings trying to defend yourself, and if a judgment is obtained due their immense advantage in resources, they can attach your salary and assets for life.
You do know what a "judgement" is, right?
HINT: It's a government action, not a business one.
They also have the power to put false information of your credit history, which is virtually impossible to expunge, and thus ruin your ability to buy a home, or a car, or a loan for any other worthy purpose, or even rent an apartment and even to deny you a job (since prospective employers invariably run credit checks).
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.
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