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- imbecile2
Baby born on Paris suburban train gets free rides until 25
- utopian4
- Fa fa fa fake news...robotron3k
- ^MAGALMFAO
- Fake how?monospaced
- Fake = I don't like ityuekit
- Source?jmckinno
- https://www.cnn.com/…utopian
- http://thehill.com/l…utopian
- https://www.vox.com/…utopian
- Fake outrage by leftist media...robotron3k
- the outrage is real, and if this doesn't bother you, you're just a bigoted racist piece of fucking moronic shitmonospaced
- Gnash1
The Southern Poverty Law Center apologized and agreed Monday to a settlement of $3.375 million to Maajid Nawaz
- They'll be even more impoverished now...detritus
- https://discourse-cd…Gnash
- https://images-na.ss…detritus
- tank021
Bunch o creeps
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/…- considering that there are countries on the council that still practice beheadings, not sure how meaningful membership is.Gnash
- Lol, gnash is right some backwards countries are members...robotron3k
- US human rights also heading that way by the looks of things.fadein11
- oh wait... :)fadein11
- Bluejam0
'Tone deaf!': state department offers poorly-timed tips on traveling with kids
"While Kim seemed totally unperturbed by the poor timing of the livestream, Carl appeared to be affected by the constant comments about children being taken from their parents. By the end of the session, his every other word was “um” and he kept repeating the fact he was “potentially driving across the border” into Canada for a family vacation soon."
- shapesalad-2
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
Japanese company makes TV apology on behalf of worker who left his desk for just THREE MINUTES each day to buy his lunch - as the country's grueling work culture is called into question
A 64-year-old male worker at the Kobe City Waterworks Bureau took the breakHe took a total of 26 three-minute trips to a nearby store over seven months.
Representatives at the company apologised to customers over the 'scandal'.
They also docked the worker a half-day's pay for wasting the company's time.
According to his superiors the man was leaving the office for a 'change of pace'.
- so fuckedmonospaced
- news in and out of japan is a bit messed up. There is a lot of geopolitical play going on. Same with everywhere! So I dont know how much I would put into this.mugwart
- Most Japanese I know wouldn't give to fucks about this.mugwart
- It's also the daily mail so they probably translated it incorrectly ;-)mugwart
- what they fail to mention, the store was actually 30 miles away and he traveled on the tops of trees like crouching tiger, hidden dragon.kona
- lol konafadein11
- was in guardian and legit. And not hard to imagine given the tales my Nihon-jin friends have told.shapesalad
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Flying Hot Dog Launched At Baseball Game Leaves Woman With Black Eye
- Gardener1
- Her face alone could annihilate the White Walkers and the Night King.utopian
- https://hips.hearsta… hehe!OBBTKN
- good for them. World needs a good old fashioned and honest wedding!mugwart
- fucked up the hotdog hat trick thoughsarahfailin
- I know, I was going to mention that earlier, but though utopian or robotron might say "yeah, but she's a bit of a dog" or something, so didn't.detritus
- Not to mention, she has no dragons.CyBrainX
- genuine smiles, traditional wedding. love 'em both. good luck fellas, cheerio!********
- Him?! really?! HIM?!pango
- I do not find her attractive in any way.ArmandoEstrada
- imbecile1
This 1966 Article About 'Computer Danger' Predicted a Bleak Future of Bank Crimes and Info Leaks
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/…
It had to happen sooner or later in this age of industrial espionage, but it is still disquieting to learn that spies already are at work pick­ing the brains of electronic compu­ters.
This revelation came from a meeting on computer privacy spon­sored by the Federal Bar Associa­tion in Washington. One instance cited was a computer expert who programmed his firm’s computer to provide himself with thousands of dollars in free communications services. His embezzlement by computer was not discovered until a friend tipped the firm.
Sufficient numbers of other cases have been uncovered to cause concern that the revolution in infor­mation storage has opened new vis­tas for the unscrupulous. The com­puter age is in its infancy. By the time it is in full bloom a few years from now, most written records will have been replaced by central banks which can divulge the inner­most secrets of an individual or a firm literally at the push of a but­ton.
Banks have never been able to completely safeguard against rob­bery or embezzlement, but they protect their customers with insur­ance. What insurance can compen­sate a person whose life’s secrets have been spilled to a blackmailer, or a firm whose secret processes or customer list have been sold to a competitor?
Many persons are concerned by the assault on personal privacy by electronic listening devices. These instruments are child’s play com­pared to the possibilities in compu­ter espionage.
The Internal Revenue Service, which has a questionable history of divulging its records to many feder­al and state agencies anyway, now has 68 million tax returns stored in one computer operated by a 30-man team. The IRS has found certain of its confidential tax information being passed to private investiga­tors.
Every man, it is said, has his price. That goes double for compu­ters controlled by men.
- shapesalad2
What an amazing story:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-a…
Found, but now they have to learn to five to get out!
- dive, not five!shapesalad
- I heard they were favouring spending 2 days pumping the water out rather than have them dive out.Hayzilla
- detritus1
Unintended consequences..
"SIM swiped from slain stork's GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill"
- shapesalad0
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/a…
"The corporate world pushes extroversion on people"
I remember my first ad agency job: we were in little rooms, max 4 people to each room. Bosses had their own rooms. It was good. Could focus and it was fun having a visitor/visiting others. Agency pulled down the walls and made it open plan. Became a really miserable place to work.
- My impression is there's been an increasing amount of push back against open plan workspaces in tech circles over recent years.detritus
- Whomever thought the open workspace idea was good for people other than google employees was an idiot.monospaced
- They pulled this shit at our corporate offices and now there are a hundred marketing people having phone conversations on the floor at once. It’s chaos.monospaced
- Creatives can maybe put on headphones, but it’s totally non productive as an environment. Collaboration is worse when people stop showing up.monospaced
- Of course they almost encourage flexibility, aka work from home, which is just more extroversion. People just don’t come in anymore. We need walls back!monospaced
- Surely working from home is introversion?robthelad
- right, that's what I meant :)monospaced
- basically, my point is that it's failing to encourage extroversionmonospaced
- detritus5
Much-reviled EU web copyright law doesn't pass.
So votes, much typo.
- https://memegenerato…Bluejam
- Good news!OBBTKN
- Now if only we can get them to clarify some of the aspects of GDPR so that I can view recipes from American sites, a sector apparently paranoid about it...detritus
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