In other news today...
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@Fox instead of hand-waving, let's look at some actual settlement amounts for real religious discrimination suits, how about.
Here's a list from the EEOC of their recent cases that yielded settlements. Most of them look, at least to me, like they were fairly well justified suits.
Of those 18 cases, per person (some involved more than one charging party; except where specified otherwise, in these cases I'm assuming the settlement was split equally), the total amount was $1,202,000, and there were 21 total claiming parties. The average (mean) settlement was $57,238. The median and mode were $50,000. The standard deviation was $30,451.
In fact, only two of the 18 cases listed had settlements larger than $100,000, and one of those involved two charging parties. The single case that had a larger settlement per person was this one:
Charging Party, a Nigerian immigrant and a Seventh-day Adventist, worked for Maita as a car salesman ... Maita persistently scheduled Charging Party to work shifts during his Sabbath despite numerous requests from him and his pastor for an accommodation due to his religious practices and beliefs. ... Charging Party was harassed, denied work on Sundays, and ultimately disciplined and discharged for taking leave to observe his Sabbath. Maita agreed to pay $158,000 to settle the case ...
And that one is an outlier, as it's about 3.3 standard deviations above the average.
If this scientist received a settlement of $111,000, that is about 1.8 standard deviations higher than the average settlement amount out of all the cases listed there.
edit: numbers have been updated, as I failed to correctly account for multiple people splitting settlements when I originally did the calculations. The numbers didn't change a whole lot; the mean and standard deviation went down by around 4%, and the calculations for number of standard deviations above average also went up accordingly.
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@anotherusername How many of those cases involved a university? Oh, right, none of them. A problem like this would almost certainly cost more for a university to deal with than a business. Even if you just look at how much it would cost them to actually be involved in the lawsuit at all, when you take into account that any and all paperwork involved in the case would take at least two more people and thrice as long as a business would take to review, fill out, and approve it, the cost suddenly went up a few tens of thousands of dollars, minimum.
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
A problem like this would almost certainly cost more for a university to deal with than a business.
Why? Apparently you think businesses don't have their own red tape to deal with?
Just more handwaving. Look, you're not even trying. You're just grasping at straws to explain away what I've posted. Come up with something legitimate and/or support it with actual facts, not just "it'd cost them more because they're a university and everyone knows they waste tons of money".
I mean... I'd almost -- almost -- allow it, if we were talking about the government. But we're not.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Why? Apparently you think businesses don't have their own red tape to deal with?
No, I know that universities have way more red tape than businesses.
Basically a university has all of the red tape of a business plus all of the red tape of government.
Because a university is both a business and a public institution.
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@bb36e Can't be much of a complaint if it fits in 140 characters…
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Jesus fucking christ
http://www.12news.com/news/nation-now/texas-boy-set-on-fire-by-other-children/329312567
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@Fox the kid's 10 years old. The fuck.
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
Jesus fucking christ
That's an entirely correct and rational response to that. Someone there is a real nasty type in formation.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Humm, the patent's filing date is 2013/11/25, but I think WinPhone has used this design to set time in their alarm clock and dates in the calendar since many years ago.
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This is from last month, but I hadn't seen it before today...
Daily Mail is referring to the culprit as the "Binary Bandit".
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The pair were discovered at the teacher’s home in Fairfax County with stolen beer and narcotics, authorities said.
Obviously they didn't come at the right time.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.rt.com/viral/362054-naked-motorcyclists-police-chase
Why are there never any reports of naked women driving?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Why are there never any reports of naked women driving?
I posted one recently of a topless woman.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Why are there never any reports of naked women driving?
I posted one recently of a topless woman.
Well, shit. Nobody interpret my forgetfulness as indicator of my sexuality!
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@Fox That's already been jeffed into the Trolleybus Garage once, and you post it here again?
Edit: Something weird just happened; I'm not sure what.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Fox That's already been jeffed into the Trolleybus Garage once, and you post it here again?
Edit: Something weird just happened; I'm not sure what.
Now @boomzilla's hiding evidence of his mod abuse instead of shuffling it into the troll garbage bin.
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@HardwareGeek Nah, I saw it as well. I'm guessing it was re-jeffed or just straight out deleted.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Why are there never any reports of naked women driving?
If there was one, and she was from the same place as this guy, they'd be perfect for one another. But it would be bad if they actually hooked up, because that would make them...
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Czech mates.
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
Now @boomzilla's hiding evidence of his mod abuse instead of shuffling it into the troll garbage bin.
LIBEL!
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
I liked that song, didn't know there was a music video for it (though I'm not surprised). Will have to watch later.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Well, I'm glad the blame finally got put in the right place.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I posted one recently of a topless woman.
Either she wasn't wearing a seat belt or ouch.
Or she didn't have much boobs, I guess is also an option.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Either she wasn't wearing a seat belt or ouch.
She was on a bicycle:
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@boomzilla So she wasn't wearing a seat belt!
I knew it all along.
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This just typifies what I "like" about the UK, on so many levels: It's click bait" for the UK society / culture individuals.
Please note the "...exempted from one-way systems..."
TL;DR: Cannot be arsed to figure out a summery - it is full of typical wild ideas and speculation with a complete absence of any form of "joined up" thinking. Especially this:
A Defra spokeswoman said: "It may be that in a one-way system they have an extra lane in which electric vehicles can go against the traffic or that they have filter lanes at traffic lights."
- DFRA is the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs i.e. that bit of Government that "deals" with those things.
- For good or bad one-way, systems exist for raisins: improved traffic flow, physical limitations, safety etc. So you introduce and additional lane for opposite flow traffic... it is no longer a one-way system Ok, I hear you say, there won't be that many "opposite" cars. So, when everybody has electric cars? - and let's face it, the tone and attitude of the whole thing is to encourage, intimidate or otherwise panic people into converting to electric cars.
- "...filter lanes at traffic lights..." I'm sorry. I need to figure if I am going piss myself, roll on the floor or die.
Long rant short: Urban traffic is shite as it is because we have "bus lanes" and "cycle lanes" and "sharing lanes" and "fucking this lanes" and fucking that lanes". Not to mention taxi lanes. All of which are fighting for access on a road system that was designed for single or dual carriage ways. (The standard solution is to have all of these lanes in parallel right up to 100 or so yards short of the junction etc; so that nicely filtered traffic causing no trouble for anybody has to fight for tarmac'd real estate at a time and place you definitely don't need it.)
The sad thing is that people get onboard because they want a piece of the "dream" despite their full awareness of the reality of the situation (Severe cases of Fuck you! I'm Ok all round).
Have they forgotten the chaos caused by the introduction of bus lanes and the resultant over enthusiastic take up - having them everywhere except bus stations?
Filed under: Official Good Government Idea
Filed Under: Just Plain Bad
Filed Under: Have Your Say
Filed Under: Any of these - CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK
Filed Under: It is. It really is...
Filed Under: ad infinitum ad nauseum, ad libitum
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@loose DEFRA exists because someone has to make the Home Office look competent.
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Oh the irony...
For a long as I can remember (and that's a lot of onions hanging off of my belt) people and society in general have been bemoaning that coppers walking the beat have been replaced by squad cars and how it's made thing so much worse...
TL;DR: Some police officers requested assistance in making an arrest - they had the perps cornered but they were putting up a fight. "...Two police officers who were on foot patrol answered the call and began to run the 1.2 miles to reach their colleagues. While running they attempted to flag down passing cars..."
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@Boner see, it IS how you fix it! Now I'll be right back, I've got this friend who claims to be a lesbian...
Filed under: the views presented here do not in any way represent my own
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@Boner how dare they assume his sexual identity!
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@bb36e Bisexual erasure!
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@loose said in In other news today...:
Long rant short: Urban traffic is shite as it is because we have "bus lanes" and "cycle lanes" and "sharing lanes" and "fucking this lanes" and fucking that lanes".
And traffic lights. On roundabouts. Where they shouldn't be.
@loose said in In other news today...:
Oh the irony...
Officer McWilliams joked: "Yeah, our response is going to be about six hours."
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Yeah, our response is going to be about six hours
Probably slightly better than Devon and Cornwall Police
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@PJH Jesus, is a Massachusetts accent THAT close to a Devonshire accent or Received Pronunciation?
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
I'm kind of surprised that doesn't happen to him more often. It took him a while to figure out what was going on.
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@PJH Jesus, is a Massachusetts accent THAT close to a Devonshire accent or Received Pronunciation?
While accent can sometimes reveal where a person has spent large portions of their life, it isn't always an accurate predictor of what continent they are on currently...
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
They were separated last month by zoo officials who said they needed to reproduce because African penguins are an endangered species.
And we wonder why the species is endangered?
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The onebox is actually a bit underwhelming. They were originally just trying to come up with a brain-machine interface for a robotic exoskeleton which would allow them to walk, but they found that with practice in VR with the exoskeleton, the patients were actually regaining some limited motion, feeling, and control over bodily functions (urinating, defecating). Their brains were retrained to recognize some of the nerves and muscles that had been lost entirely.
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@anotherusername Best. Onebox. EVAR.
Lemme try my hand at doing one better.
WikiLeaks poisons Hillary's relationship with left - POLITICO
After learning how Clinton feels about them, liberals vow to push back against her agenda and appointments.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Best. Onebox. EVAR.
For posterity, in case it accidentally gets fixed:
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Best. Onebox. EVAR
Doesn't look too different to a lot of them that I see