At my company before a board or shareholder's meeting the exec committee, the financial guy, and others usually prepare documents for the meeting. A few years back they woudl out print lots of copies and hand them out, now they pdf them and email them out a day before the meeting. Anything that is intended to be confidential would not be shared at a board meeting because it is then part of the official record and is very discoverable.

So an underling of one of the board members get's cc'd all the board handouts. Later the underling sees a copy of the inflammatory memo, and being shocked at it's content quickly throws it on the scanner and makes a copy and then decides to release it and some supporting documentation.

See that's not too far fetched.

No I didn't. Increased use of helmets has reduced childhood head injuries significantly. Unfortunately there are lots of idiots out there that still don't put their kids in helmets and terrible head injuries are still too common. And tragically sometimes the hit is too strong for the helmet. But overwhelmingly if a kid is wearing a helmet he/she is radically more likely to come through it with only superficial injuries.

There is no liberty that is lost by requiring parents to put helmets on their kids during certain high risk activities. The kids still have a blast, and when reckless still get scraped up and learn their lessons. But the benefits are clear and proven. Helmets save lives, and helmets prevent debilitating injuries. Maybe not perfectly and maybe not every time, but nothing is perfect. That shouldn't prevent us from taking reasonable and sensible steps, to protect our children, and to require morons to protect their children.

So are you saying that if you have nothing to hide....

Imagine this easy to imagine scenario, you printed up fliers an Occupy rally and put them up all over town. Then during the rally some black bloc assholes set a cop car on fire. Now if the police can connect your printer to the fliers and you are a terrorist organizer. No one ever hears from you again, because you have been indefinitely detained without trial or hearing.

Remember that the hole they drill starts a ZERO feet underground and goes all the way down to your 10,000 feet. So this is not a process that is completely isolated at extreme depths.

Once you start hydraulic fracturing the rock, the permeability CHANGES doesn't it. That's the whole point.

If the engineers and idiots get it right 99% of the time, and a few hundred wells go into a new area, then goodby clean water table, hello cancer cluster.

Fracking does get us a cheap hydrocarbon fix just when supplies were getting tight. To me the widespread and completely unregulated adoption of the process proves that we are sick desperate petroleum junkies. We'll do anything to get our fix. We'll even lay waste to our home and ruin our water. It's so very sad to watch a junkie self-destruct. It's the worst tragedy ever when it happens to an entire species.

If all of the pro-fracking arguments are true, and it can be done safely, but there are sometimes mistakes, that is the best argument ever for REALLY STRICT REGULATION. Instead we have the opposite. The industry got an exemption from the clean water act during the Bush administration.

No. Duh. The solution is simple, put a helmet on kids when they ride bikes/skateboards/razor scooters/etc. so that when they fall and get hurt it is limited to scrapes, bruises, or maybe broken bones. Kids can recover from all of these things. A serious head injury can cause lifelong disability or death. Children are not old enough to make sound risk analyses so parents have a responsibility to do it for them. Unfortunately too many victims of childhood brain injuries are out there (like yourself I presume). These poor souls have impaired judgement even as adults and society has to force them to take basic steps to protect their children so that they do not become burdens for the taxpayers.

WRONG. It could also mean that the increased use of helmets is not yet universal and therefore pediatric head injuries still occur with tragic, but substantially reduced, frequency. It's funny I thought that a basic understanding of formal logic was a prerequisite for being a nerd. You know this is /. news for nerds, not news for dorks.

I picked "Medical" but that is only true if you include my employer's portion of the premium. I count it because I would get that extra money as income if it weren't spend on the insurance. Between my and my employer's portions of the premium it is nearly as expensive as my my two bedroom apartment rent. In addition to that there are the co-pays and deductibles which, even though I and my son are healthy push it WAY over my housing cost. I suspect that if others taking this poll figured in their employer's part of the medical insurance they'd find it is their largest expense as well.

Of course taxes aren't listed. They blow everything else away. We gotta pay for all that death and destruction that we visit upon the Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, occasionally Somalia, (not to mention Lebanon and the Palestinians through our proxy Israel), and next Iran. We also have to pay GE their multi-billion dollar subsidy, and bail out all the fat-cats who f#cked over the world economy etc.

Have you ever tried to switch from GoDaddy? I'm sure they're just having difficultly figuring out HOW to unregister from GoDaddy. It took me about 5 tries over the course of three months and I only had one domain to deal with.

I'm sorta new to this.

I got my first smartphone in mid-December. It's a T-mobile Galaxy S2. I was not aware that crashing was a problem with smartphones. Mine hasn't ever crashed or locked up. I do have one app that crashes sometimes, Waze. It's a little annoying but they fixed the main problem in the recent update. It's not like I'm not willing to try apps out. I think I have about 52 installed right now.

So I hate to seem smug, but the big news of this article to me was that apparently many smartphones have instability issues. I'm terribly sorry to hear that.

Both parties have voters that they regularly court and win. Republicans go after and get the social conservatives and the small government crowd. Democrats go after and get the liberals, several minority groups, women's rights, union, etc. BUT neither party actually represents the real interests of these groups. Each party in actuality represents different factions of corporate culture. The republicans represent the defense industry, rich individuals, and private equity. Democrats represent insurance, law firms, and hollywood/music publishing. Neither party acts in your interests. Neither party acts in my interests. When was the last time Republicans actually did something substantial about abortion? It's a huge issue for them nearly every election, and they win elections because of it, but if they actually banned abortion, they couldn't use it as an issue, so nothing happens. Democrats use the union's fear of republican anti-union policies to get union voters, but then consistently do things that are really damaging to worker's well being.

Listen carefully, boys and girls. The US is not a real democracy anymore. It is a reality-tv democracy. The democratic/representative elements are for show. Our so-called representatives are almost always pre-screened. If they are not acceptable to the corporate elite then they don't get campaign money which means they cannot compete in the media for attention. Once you get your final two candidates, it doesn't really matter who you choose. Of course there are some exceptions, occasionally a candidate actually does gather enough grass-roots support to get elected to congress. These people are usually dangerous demagogues, so even then we are screwed.