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It has never been an issue for me as I don't partake, but anecdotally, I've worked at 5-10 mid range (100-200) firms in Virginia and Illinois and while I have been provided many free beers at work, if anyone suggested a drug testing program they would have been laughed out of the building.

I even worked for a company that ran drug testing programs for the government and they did not drug test.

I think you just proved his point.

http://cable.tmcnet.com/topics/cable/articles/2013/01/07/321...

"Out of 617 ratings on glassdoor.com, fully 246 called themselves “very dissatisfied.” The number of employees considering themselves “very satisfied” was just 48. Some comments even suggest that executive meddling may be involved in the “very satisfied” scores, with one commenter saying “Joe Clayton (CEO) put us up to upgrading our score.” Another commenter called their time with Dish “...like a prison sentence.”

Thank you! I didn't have the words to express it but that is it precisely. It is infantalizing in a way that makes ball pits and arcades in startup culture seem tame

How can you make the case that fraud happened without collecting any evidence?

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence...

Says the candidate who forgot to spend money on an analytics team...

I'm specifically talking about this: http://www.insidesources.com/trump-campaign-relied-on-data-f...

A large part of the job of an analytics outfit on a campaign is to provide data to the boiler room on election day which informs legal action taken by the campaign to contest potential fraud or intimidation.

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

We're still working out the kinks in the male vs. female nipple detection.

While not ready for retirement I'm getting up there and I am buying a house soon with between 1/4-1/2 acre piece of land attached. Its a reward and opportunity for me to experiment with a large "garden" for myself and my family and maybe enough for friends or to can/jar.

I get this impulse but I'm still plugged in enough to want to automate things. I'm looking at farmbot on kickstarter and thinking how I could build my own, program or automate various systems and sensors. I'm extremely excited about having one foot in both worlds.

I'm the grandson of an Italian immigrant tenement farmer and it would do my heart good if those loses could be dumped into raw milk artisinal products.

Let me know if you're in a CSA with a raw milk producer or a cheese maker. I'll donate time and effort to hook up producers.

its called "The Atlantic" and after Chris Hughes turned The New Republic into another huffle-puff-piece generator its the last leather wingback cigar smoking bastion of establishment insight you're likely to get.

You mean expensive lawsuits? That is true. Everyone in America is filing expensive lawsuits all the time especially if you own a business the first hire you must make is a good lawyer.

I don't see how this is related to discrimination specifically?

If your problem is too many lawsuits why don't you mention hot coffee at McDonalds? Or the problem with drivers causing accidents and suing in China?

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-arrests-7-faking-car-crashes-cl...

How do you believe they are flawed? I hear this most often from people who have heard rumor or trash news from America and they think American companies have Affirmative Action "quotas" where they have to hire a certain number of people of each ethnic background. This is false.

Though quotas have been outlawed in the United States, the European Union has had a recent push to punish companies whose boards aren't composed of at least 40% women. And India, Brazil and Malaysia, among other countries, have laws and policies that address affirmative action in schools and throughout society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/business/global/18iht-boar...

There are lots of anti-discrimination laws in the US. While affirmative action is usually spoken of in general terms, there is no singular policy or implementation of the ways in which affirmative action take shape in government organizations, colleges and corporations. It varies.

Court cases continue to refine interpretations of how race is used at the university level. Some schools have experimented with a variety of ways of non-race-based models, like the Top 10 model that the University of Texas employs, to ensure the racial diversity of students.

A 2005 study by Princeton sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang Y. Chung compared the effects of affirmative action on racial and special groups at three highly selective private research universities. The data from the study represent admissions disadvantage and advantage in terms of SAT points (on the old 1600-point scale):

Whites (non-recruited athlete/non-legacy status): 0 (control group) Blacks: +230 Hispanics: +185 Asians: –50 Recruited athletes: +200 Legacies (children of alumni): +160

In 2009, Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and researcher Alexandria Walton Radford, in their book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, examined data on students applying to college in 1997 and calculated that Asian-Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores of 1550 to have the same chance of being accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410 and African Americans who got 1100.

While the data and legal interpretation of Affirmative Action and anti-discrimination laws in the US are constantly changing today it has the largest real impact on Universities and Government.

Like eating too many, too few, or just the right amount of eggs high in good cholesterol, bad cholesterol, or just the right amount of morally ambiguous cholesterol.

Do you check your email?

I've talked about it before in lots of contexts and no one believes me anyway. Why bother?

I have personally witnessed Akamai use strongarm tactics to "prove" you need their, "protection" in such a ridiculously high profile instance I am sure they have no shame.

If this is a CloudFlare Vs Akamai attack Krebs isn't saying, but I would put dollars to doughnuts it is.

I admit I spoil the boy... Perhaps he is ready...

It may not be a conspiracy but it is certainly newsworthy. I've got a son who is getting to be about the age where a young man is ready for his spirit journey and will be sent to his room with an old laptop, his father's slackware disks, and a static IP and he will not be let out until www.youreamannow.com reads, "please bring me snacks."

I would hate to send him unprepared into the wild with a Lenovo.

I don't think anyone is saying they HAVE to support linux. Think of it like freedom of speech. Lenovo is free to put themselves out of business however they want and their consumers are free to call it a big ass mistake and call them idiots and not buy their blackbox crap.

I had a wonderful nostalgia trip when a friend shared this yesterday: http://www.ouverture-facile.com/start/

THIS is what the web USED to be...

I didn't even spell his name right. Still a good quote.

To quote a man who was actively surveilled by the US government for much of his later life and no one believed him...

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

-Earnest Hemingway

Bear in mind most Americans can't distinguish between Russia and Ukraine on a map... Unless its a board game.

Who made the decision within the company? That's way more important than the fact the decision was made. Do they have a new position we were previously unaware of that handles requests for heads of state? What if the request is for the opposite? Who censors things explicitly? Who handles media relations? When? Why? Over what threshold do they consider it to be an issue?

Why?

If you google "internet friendly supreme court justices" you get some results but its very clear why we're seeing harsher sentences for computer crimes than rape or murder in the US.

While google and facebook are courting the Obama administration on K street the general public is seeing precedent set in lower courts like, "Zuckerberg V. Im-not-touching-you" making headlines and setting the tone for international policy (fucking crazy)

While programs written by humans run roughshod over our rights we're arming them. We're driving them.

I still have the picture of my mother arm in arm with Sandra Day O'connor full of pride.

Where's our pride? Where is our classroom? Where is our law?

While Google aims to eradicate Flash from the internet it aught to memorialize Hypercard and the teachers that reached out to students who were more interested in stop motion animation or gaming than the details of a proprietary version of ECMA script. It aught to reach out to those children it yet has time to influence in every school and small town. Every Iowan, every Minneapolitan, every Fairfax and Mclean son of a nobody in a nobody town and replace the infection with inflection. It aught to remember how much money it spends on javascript testing.

If America were a year it would be out for all of December.

why?

A more apt analogy might be our phone networks for person to person communication.

The public thrives on the basis of such "dumb carriers" as the internet itself.

I can forsee either regulation or self imposed ubiquitous clear CATEGORIES of rights for speech from users on sites and applications similar to software licensing.

You would have a Facebook under the <Proprietary license> A Facebook under the <Academic Free License> A Facebook under the <GNU General Public License> A Facebook under the <MIT License>

either under a parent company or as distinct entity. Some are free, some cost money, some may receive tax benefit or government subsidy, all according to how they align with net neutrality regulations, are staffed and moderated.

> Government should have no say what a private entity can/can't do in their walled garden.

Except in matters of de-segregation, food and drug safety, safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women, a minimum wage, waste disposal and environmental protection, truth-in-advertising, Employment and Labor discrimination, privacy of employees and customers, and licensure of trades...