Those were clearly put in place because it's cheaper to "pay" a machine to do a job like that than to pay (an increasingly expensive) person.

I know that some/many people have a problem regarding people and their labor as a product, but it's a simple fact of life that, in general, when the price of something goes up, people use less of it.

Because to be beaten by a woman would utterly destroy them.

If they can scare the women away, they can preserve their illusion of superiority (in a mythical competition in a mythical world).

As with an increase in the price of gas, most of the effects of raising the minimum wage (and thus the price of labor) will have their impact felt over the course of years, as employers have time to implement programs that will replace more expensive people with less expensive machines.

They thought decreasing numbers were due to birds dying, but they were actually due to birds changing breeding locations (for unknown reasons).

Basically, and contrary to the headline, the article says they don't know enough about penguin breeding behavior to draw any conclusions.

"Over five years in the late 1970s, the Southern Ocean warmed and at the same time the penguin colony at Pointe Géologie, declined by half (6,000 breeding pairs to 3,000 breeding pairs). The decline was thought to be due to decreased survival rates. In other words, researchers thought that the warming temperatures were negatively impacting the survival of the species...'It’s possible that birds have moved away from Pointe Géologie to these other spots and that means that maybe those banded birds didn’t die,' LaRue said. 'If we want to accurately conserve the species, we really need to know the basics. We’ve just learned something unexpected, and we should rethink how we interpret colony fluctuations.'”

P.S. Want to know why people are skeptical about climate change "science" and advocacy? It's because of blurbs like this one that say one thing in the headline and something else in the linked-to article.

Just because raising cattle in CA doesn't make sense, it doesn't mean it doesn't make sense to raise cattle anywhere else.

I LOL when I hear my kids get lectured about the need for water conservation in books that act like California and the midwest are equivalent biomes.

Beware of people whose only marketable skills are their loyalty and their ability to follow rules to the letter.

And the Medieval Warm Period...? And do you honestly believe that the sun is a totally static object that hasn't changed over time?

How did the world warm up and cool down before then? Perhaps that is relevant?

I could have told you that based on how they handle, or don't, the guys who go racing up and down the highway at 100+MPH and who obstruct highway traffic to do their tricks.

It's pathetic, not to mention a menace.

...would it have been as big of a deal?

You are out of touch with reality. It's awesome that your company is so enlightened, but I've worked as a consultant at many many places and I know what things look like in the trenches.

Oh, and I'm not dispensing security advice. I'm telling you what's going on in the real world. Whether you listen or not is your choice, but it doesn't change anything.

When in doubt, blame the user and not the system.

Pretty standard.

Because I am a normal human being, not a programmer, and I can only remember so many username and password combinations.

P.S. I am trying to distribute insight into how ordinary people think and work. Based on comments like yours, that is something that seems to be sorely needed.

Welcome to the real world where people can't remember different username and password combinations for different sites.
Deal with it.