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As for frits' comment, on occasion a long string of comments will start, where someone starts a joke, then a mass of unregistered comments posted under registered usernames follows, each adding to the same lame joke (unable to add a reference here, since the mods typically delete them). The comments are in rapid succession, and are obviously the same idiot or small circle of idiots repeatedly posting under different names. I believe this is what frits was referring to in his comment.
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Tell that to the Guatemalan family I bought my second kid from.
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That last one is an all-too common thing to me living in Florida. There are LOT of people like that here (many of whom I've interviewed with) who sound exactly like "Joe".
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And a new cup of coffee.
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Hmm, so not only do you physically assault people because they disagree with you on social issues, but you physically assault people based on your unsubstantiated speculation about what they might really believe which you acquired by wild extrapolation from what they actually said?
I guess in your world this is called "practicing tolerance".
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Probably more like "practicing anarchy".
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Does it inevitably follow that someone who has committed a crime in the past will commit more crimes in the future? Of course not. But surely it doesn't take a genius to figure out that he's more likely to.
Is everyone who has ever been sent to prison guilty? Of course not. For that matter, is everyone who has never been sent to prison innocent? Of course not. But an employer has to use the information he has available. I'm sure there are people who got through college by cheating and there are prople who never went to college who know more than any college grad. That doesn't make it irrational to use a college degree as a criterion in hiring. I'm sure that every possible hiring criterion has some flaw, some way that a person not meeting that criterion could still be a better candidate. So what do you conclude from that? That we do the best we can with what information we have? Or that we pick the candidate to hire at random?
I'll bet there are many employers in the U.S. who would be willing to give an ex-con a second chance, except for one thing: The employer is legally responsible for the actions of his employees. If you hire an ex-con and he embezzles money from a client or rapes a co-worker, you, the employer, are legally liable.
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"I guess the moral of the story is, if you owe child support, man up and pay it, especially if your trade is IT." Wow. That's pretty heartless and ignorant. Our child support laws are draconion, our family courts are clandestine, and the entire process is grossly unfair to fathers. In the U.S., we have abolished debtors prison...with the exception of child support debts. We order fathers to pay support based upon potential income, with no regard to their actual income and no adjustments for when they lose their jobs through no fault of their own. The fact is, an unmarried non-custodial fathers pay more support (adjusted for income) than non-custodial mothers, and non-custodial mothers are considerably less likely to pay the support they owe than are fathers. And at the same time, our courts do absolutely NOTHING to ensure that mothers comply with visitation orders. The Deadbeat Dad is a myth, and we as a society desperately need to start addressing the real problems and coming up with real, equitable solutions.
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You even state yourself that the Normands settled and lived in France for generations. What, did you think they weren't tapping the local talent?
What about the later centuries of allegiance and warfare, with the French and English constantly beating, killing, trading and fucking each other into a bizarre normalization (the Dutch)? With the state of the history, I could have made just about any lineage claim I wanted regarding any region of Europe. As it turns out, people have been fucking there for THOUSANDS OF YEARS!!! :D
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Following that lmgtfy was worth it to see this: [image]
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Alright, alright, you're right, I should have Googled.
This was the most interesting read I found as a result of that link.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1572
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"When an IT guy screws up there is a lot less risk..."
Yo, man, did you ever hear of SCADA? Yo, man, did you ever hear of HIPAA? Yo, man, did you ever hear of customer databases, with credit card numbers, SSN?
I'm sure you're trolling...
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I prefer "cowboy up."
captcha -> incassum thing happens
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It's bad enough people get pressure from family and friends on getting married and having kids, but the CFO?? That's just too much.
And yes, it is illegal to ask those questions.
captcha -> nulla
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People in jail/prison are often not allowed access to computers, typewriters, pens, or other complex writing instruments. A friend of mine spent a month in jail, and the inmates weren't even allowed to have full-length pencils. They were given extremely short pencils with points that were deliberately dull, to limit their use as improvised weapons.
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We really should reise above these silly jokes
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Huh? I though was what they said in the showers in jail...
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That's a lawsuit you would never win unless someone in the company's HR department ratted them out, complete with internal documentation that stated flat out "Applicant X was doing great until they answered X to (illegal question) so we're not gonna hire them because of that". Short of that the company's lawyer would simply say, "The question may have been...inappropriate...but was not a factor in the hiring decision" and you'd be out of luck. You'd still owe your lawyer a bundle, of course... Moral of story: if a company asks questions like that, be glad you don't work there.
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It is actually legal to ask about nationality -- or, more accurately, to ask whether the person is a US citizen. And it's certainly legal (and in fact technically mandatory) to ask if they can legally work in the US.
In some industries, citizenship may be significant beyond just whether or not they are legally able to work. If your product is controlled under ITAR (export restricted), then you can't let foreign nationals see it, because that constitutes an export. But I think all that's relevant is the person's citizenship, not the nationality of their birth.
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totally agree that people should take care of their kids; however, I have seen more parents who are together and involved screw up their kids because they are more concerned about themselves than taking care of their kids. I am talking about people taking 4 kids (all less than 8 years old) to a rated R movie at 10:00 pm. Or when I have seen parents let their 4 year old out-weigh a 10 year old. You do not have to fail supplying a check to be a bad parent. And before you jump to conclusions, I am a father of 3, where I take care of my kids.
Maybe if men and women took responsibility and put their children first then we would have fewer screwed up kids. Maybe if people stopped having children before they were ready we would have fewer screwed up kids. and maybe if women stopped sleeping with idiotic, douchebag, jerks, we would have fewer screwed up kids.
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Quite true. And it's not like "the French" are really a single people -- any more than the British are. The Bretons still have a distinct language, for goodness sakes.
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Yeah. The last thing you want is a welder on work release. Construction site thefts are a huge problem in the industry.
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"Having a family means - most of the time - you can handle long term compromises and responsibility, and actually need the job."
You are right. As a single man, I can confirm that my landlord doesn't ask me to pay rent, and food just arrives in my kitchen without me paying anything!
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There are only two types of people in the world: those who broke the law and served time and those who never got caught.
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re CV length
nope keep it to 2 or 3 at max is the normal advice
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The Family Friendly Company sounds identical to an interview in the movie Secretary.
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FTFY
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Sorry, I've seen it (even one which explicitly stated "charged, even if not convicted").
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He was probably thrown in jail for being late with his child support...
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Hey, dickhead, it IS OK to hate faggots - most of us do, but we don't say so because we are tired of listening to asshats like you - go suck a goat.
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The next time someone is complaining impotently about an insignificant expression, I'm going to be all "hey man, shut up!"
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Old, but I was trolling through the comments out of boredom and saw this inaccuracy.
We order fathers to pay support based upon potential income, with no regard to their actual income and no adjustments for when they lose their jobs through no fault of their own.
This is not true. While laws on child support vary from state to state, support is based on one of three mathematical models: 1) the Incomes Shares model, (2) the Percentage of Income model, or (3) the Melson Formula model. While these models vary on complexity, they are remarkably fair in apportionment.
If you lose your job, have your attorney file for an adjustment with the court. The court will then recalculate and issue a new order with changed amounts according to the formula.
In none of these formulas is support based on "potential" income. It's based on current income and, if financial data is required, past income via tax return information.
The fact is, an unmarried non-custodial fathers pay more support (adjusted for income) than non-custodial mothers, and non-custodial mothers are considerably less likely to pay the support they owe than are fathers.
Independent studies on this have actually shown this is false, as all current basis for support in the USA is determined solely by income without consideration of custodianship.
And at the same time, our courts do absolutely NOTHING to ensure that mothers comply with visitation orders.
This is because visitation is a completely separate issue from maintenance and neither has any bearing on the other. If a mother is not complying with a visitation order, then you need to file a complaint with the court on that issue and have them compel compliance with the visitation order. The court does not monitor that for you. Support and maintenance are irrelevant to visitation issues in a legal sense.
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The two of you have just proven that you know that that employer is indeed your true superior. When you find a person whose allegiance is to something other than the culture of the times, you threaten them with violence. That is the way of the coward.