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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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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday December 11 2014, @08:03PM
Burning Washington to the ground is hardly necessary. The system as a whole is much more vulnerable than that, to both human actions and nature.
Imagine, for example, somebody effectively shutting down the ports on the US West Coast or some major freight rail lines would cause all sorts of major problems. Or the drought problems [unl.edu] getting worse than they already are causing major disruptions to the food supply. Or if OPEC decides to play hardball and it's 1979 all over again. Or if Hurricane Sandy becomes a frequent event. Or if someone or something knocks out the Internet backbone cabling. Or if the USPS work force decided to go on strike (legally or not). Or if other nations decide to start a trade war with the US due to our atrocious human rights record.
The dirty little secret of the current system: The 0.1% who own most of this country's wealth depend entirely on the other 99.9% of us to keep doing something similar to what we're already doing. If we just stopped trying to get or keep the jobs that are part of institutions they control, that would leave them all in big trouble.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 11 2014, @09:23PM
The 0.1% who own most of this country's wealth depend entirely on the other 99.9% of us
General strike [wikipedia.org]
The Wobblies (IWW) are mentioned prominently farther down on the page.
#Industrial Workers of the World [wikipedia.org]
also interesting
#Notable general strikes [wikipedia.org]
Wildcat strike [wikipedia.org]
(The section on Vietnam is even more interesting than the part about USA.)
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Friday December 12 2014, @12:23AM
timely....
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday December 12 2014, @08:41PM
The fallacy of that is that the 99% is not a cohesive group. Neither, of course, is the 1%, but being a smaller group they have less internal divergence of interests. (Yes, that's oversimplified. But thinking of the groups as "the 1%" and "the 99%" is even more oversimplified.)
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 Friday December 12 2014, @09:35PM
As Stephen Colbert (and perhaps others) likes to point out, reality has a Liberal bias.
The majority of folks are egalitarian and in favor of mostly-unconstricted civil liberties.
(You might investigate Ralph Nader's Left-Right Alliance.
He has e.g. Grover Norquist onboard.)
If just -those- folks would suit up and show up, things could get better rapidly.
N.B. The turnout in November was 36 percent of registered voters (and only 70 percent of those eligible actually register).
Those folks will also have to stop consuming Lamestream Media and get their information ONLY from outlets that do NOT take money from corporations and/or billionaires.
Come to think of it, yeah, getting people off their couches surely does look like a pipe dream.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 13 2014, @01:59PM
When I say, "Burn Washington D.C. to the ground," it's short-hand for a much more complex set of actions, similar to how 1% vs. 99% is short-hand for a much more complex situation.
But I agree with you--there are many parts of this system now and if a significant number of us in any sector sharply change our behavior, the tipping point can be reached.
I was discussing all this with a fellow veteran of grassroots politics yesterday. The trouble the Powers That Be are creating for themselves is that in trying so hard to keep total control of the status quo, to disrupt the formation of consensus among the opposition through organs like the NSA and GCHQ, they are not making the underlying historical trends and realities go away. Rather, they are guaranteeing that when things do explode, they will come from nowhere and everywhere at once and there will be no ordered opposition for them to negotiate peace terms with. It will be bloodier than the French Revolution by far because there will be no Jacobeans to moderate the bloodlust of the crowds.
Washington DC delenda est.