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The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a unanimous decision that security screenings after the work day, regardless of the amount of time they take to perform, do not qualify for remuneration. The decision focuses on the Portal-To-Portal Act of 1947 which defines a workday that specifically excludes those activities "incidental" to an employee's primary responsibilities.
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SCOTUS Finds in Favor of Amazon, No Pay for Mandatory Security Screenings
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Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would
wantonly inflict on someone else.
-- Clarence Darrow
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday December 11 2014, @05:37PM
As far as bread goes, most Americans still have enough food to eat. And that's incredibly important: The revolts in the Middle East all occurred in an environment where educated young people couldn't get enough food, which made attempting political revolution less risky (the education helps make organizations more effective).
Some circuses that are still around and functioning:
- As you point out, mass media is dying out, but it's still there, and it's still pretty ubiquitous.
- Sports viewership is also not small: about 20 million people tune in to watch them on TV, in addition to the fans actually at the games.
- The stupid inanities on social media, like cat pictures or viral videos.
- Advertising, which is all about "Your life won't suck once you buy this!"
- Religious institutions. Regardless of the benefits of religious charity and spiritual practices, churches can and often do distract people from problems in the here-and-now.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday December 11 2014, @09:07PM
of of the hidden goals of all major religions is: "pay now, receive later"
suffer in this life and 'the next one' will be your paradise.
of course, this is pure hogwash and no one with half a brain believes in the old fairytales anymore.
but it does convince the lower and middle classes to 'stay in your place' and not to rock the boat too much.
the upper classes all 'subscribe' to religion just for show. they want you to believe that they, too, believe it. but only the dumbest of the rich truly believe this bullshit. they know it for what it is: keeping them in power during this lifetime - the only lifetime we will ever get, btw.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday December 12 2014, @08:43PM
Religious belief has less to do with intelligence than indoctrination. Many quite intelligent people are religious, though they tend to have beliefs that in an earlier era would have earned the the label "heretic".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 13 2014, @10:27AM
This account [wikipedia.org] says otherwise in numerous places. Here are some of them: