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10-20-2015 , 09:00 PM

#601

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by [Phill]

Everyone knows women hold all the power. It's why they earn less money for the exact same work, get no legally guaranteed maternal leave despite being 100% of the pregnant people, hold less than 5% of ceo jobs in the S&P 500 and have been president zero times.

Everyone knows men hold all the power. It's why they earn less money for the first 3 decades of their life, make up 90% of the imprisoned population despite being 50 percent of the population, and are less likely to graduate high school or college.

10-20-2015 , 09:02 PM

#602

Roonil Wazlib

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Ryan throws his hat in the speakership ring, but only if everyone is super dooper nice to him, for reals.

10-20-2015 , 09:09 PM

#603

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Was good speech by Ryan. He's the class of the GOP. Still a wacko Randian.

10-20-2015 , 09:09 PM

#604

MrWookie

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not a bad costume idea, really.

10-21-2015 , 12:21 AM

#605

DudeImBetter

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You ever notice it's the bigots who refer to racism and sexism exclusively as "racial/gender based discrimination"? It's like the word makes them so uncomfortable that they can't even spell it out.

10-21-2015 , 02:42 AM

#606

Double Eagle

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

Was good speech by Ryan. He's the class of the GOP. Still a wacko Randian.

We just adopted a new puppy, his resemblence to the Speaker to Be is kind of freaking me out.

10-21-2015 , 02:59 AM

#607

simplicitus

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Cute dog. I'd put Ryan's odds at a little under 50%.

10-21-2015 , 03:48 AM

#608

Dutch101

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Do they do Swarte Piet in Sweden?

Looks like Zwarte Piet won't even make an appearance in Holland this year. Guess my countrymen finally realized that a tradition can be extremely insensitive even if it was not intended as racist.

10-21-2015 , 05:07 AM

#609

[Phill]

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Originally Posted by ikestoys

LOL, so this week you want to compare dislike with dislike?

Last time we did this you wanted to discuss like with like as narrowly as possible to show how women don't really earn 26% less.

10-21-2015 , 06:24 AM

#610

Money2Burn

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When does Krampus come out? Is is Halloween or Christmas, or is he always lurking waiting to snatch your children at a moment's notice?

10-21-2015 , 08:17 AM

#611

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Originally Posted by Double Eagle

Jeffrey Combs as Weyoun from DS9 is still the perfect fit imo:

10-21-2015 , 09:13 AM

#612

Roonil Wazlib

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No widows peak

10-21-2015 , 09:18 AM

#613

BigPoppa

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Krampus attacks children in early December.

10-21-2015 , 09:50 AM

#614

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by [Phill]

LOL, so this week you want to compare dislike with dislike?

Last time we did this you wanted to discuss like with like as narrowly as possible to show how women don't really earn 26% less.

They don't of course, and no serious person thinks so. However, I don't see much point in trying to logic someone out of a position they didn't use logic to get to

10-21-2015 , 04:28 PM

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Wikileaks has published part of John Brennan's private email account. Apparently John Brennan has forwarded secret info to his AOL account.

https://wikileaks.org/cia-emails/

Last edited by Brons; 10-21-2015 at 04:47 PM.

10-21-2015 , 04:42 PM

#616

Trolly McTrollson

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...but was it marked Classified?!?

10-21-2015 , 04:46 PM

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Roonil Wazlib

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

...but was it falsely marked Classified by his political opponents?!?

fyp

10-21-2015 , 04:47 PM

#618

ikestoys

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why am i not surprised that data security seems to be completely unimportant in the federal government? Probably because no one cares in hospitals either... :cough: not that I would ever do something like that.

10-21-2015 , 04:49 PM

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Data protection is taken pretty seriously by most govt ppl, just not the *******s at the top.

But anyway, Colin Powell also mishandled email and besides that is his personal email so we have no business looking through it and basically this is the IT dept's fault for not givig him a .gov email.

10-21-2015 , 04:49 PM

#620

Roonil Wazlib

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it's not just docs and potential docs doing a poor job of securely handling patient info, it's every part of the system as a whole.

Have millions of dollars to throw at security? Just buy the biggest piece of **** you can afford, regardless of how effective it is. Problem solved.

10-21-2015 , 04:51 PM

#621

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Data protection is taken pretty seriously by most govt ppl, just not the *******s at the top.

how would you know this? I've seen nothing but the opposite.

10-21-2015 , 04:57 PM

#622

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Brons

his AOL account.

this is the most scandalous part of the story. It's 2015 dude, I didn't even know AOL still existed.

10-21-2015 , 05:02 PM

#623

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by pvn

this is the most scandalous part of the story. It's 2015 dude, I didn't even know AOL still existed.

I only recently got my mom to get off AOL, I was pretty proud of that.

10-21-2015 , 05:04 PM

#624

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Originally Posted by pvn

this is the most scandalous part of the story. It's 2015 dude, I didn't even know AOL still existed.

Yeah the reaction to the story where I work (IT company) was "AOL? What is this, 1996?"

10-21-2015 , 05:19 PM

#625

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

I only recently got my mom to get off AOL, I was pretty proud of that.

My mom still has a compuserve email address.

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