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On March 02 2018 07:12 Plansix wrote:

On March 02 2018 07:42 Biff The Understudy wrote:

I personally like to hide until everyone has killed each other, but then again I’m french and I don’t like to fight. Also my aiming is rubbish.

So i guess I can keep playing.

On March 02 2018 07:50 Plansix wrote:

That is training to go to school in the US, so PUBG is clearly a public service.

On March 02 2018 08:00 a_flayer wrote:
Could this spell the return of Jack Thompson?

The move will not directly hit China that hard, with data showing that Canada supplies 16 percent of U.S. demand versus China’s 2 percent and is by far the largest steel exporter followed by Brazil and South Korea.

On March 02 2018 08:10 Plansix wrote:


I strongly recommend people read up on the Jack being disbarred.

https://kotaku.com/5054772/jack-thompson-disbarred

This is a good starter with the court order. But you gotta dig into when the court issued an order preventing him from defending himself at the hearing. Preview: He started drafting his pleadings in crayon so the Justices could better understand them.

The whole thing is a wild ride and a good window in the wild time that was the 1990-2000s.

President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested using the death penalty on drug dealers to address the opioid epidemic, equating providing lethal drugs with murder.

"We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people," Trump said at a White House summit on opioid abuse. "If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These people can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them."

Trump said countries that impose the death penalty on drug dealers have a better record than the United States in combating substance abuse.

"Some countries have a very, very tough penalty — the ultimate penalty — and by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do," he said.

“The ESA and our member companies have not received an invitation to meet with President Trump,” ESA media relations boss Dan Hewitt told GamesBeat.

ESA member companies include Capcom, Epic Game, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Nintendo, and Microsoft. The ESA is also the primary point of contact between corporate game makers and Washington D.C. If the White House has not invited any of the companies in that group, then who did it invite?

On March 02 2018 09:16 Plansix wrote:
So do we get to execute the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies? I’m just checking for a friend.

On March 02 2018 09:17 Womwomwom wrote:
https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/01/the-esa-white-house-has-not-invited-it-or-any-member-company-to-meet-trump/



Which is about what I expect from this administration. 90% of the time they do fuck all and just float trial balloons.

On March 02 2018 09:39 micronesia wrote:
The "National Day of Action" for gun violence has been selected. It is 4/20. They should have run that date past a few people before choosing it...

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/april20actionsagainstgunviolence?source=LilysBB

On March 02 2018 09:39 micronesia wrote:
The "National Day of Action" for gun violence has been selected. It is 4/20. They should have run that date past a few people before choosing it...

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/april20actionsagainstgunviolence?source=LilysBB

YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says

YouTube last year stopped hiring white and Asian males for technical positions because they didn’t help the world’s largest video site achieve its goals for improving diversity, according to a civil lawsuit filed by a former employee.

The lawsuit, filed by Arne Wilberg, a white male who worked at Google for nine years, including four years as a recruiter at YouTube, alleges the division of Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -2.94% Google set quotas for hiring minorities. Last spring, YouTube recruiters were allegedly instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and to “purge entirely” the applications of people who didn’t fit those categories, the lawsuit claims.

A Google spokeswoman said the company will vigorously defend itself in the lawsuit. “We have a clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity,” she said in a statement. “At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse pool of qualified candidates for open roles, as this helps us hire the best people, improve our culture, and build better products.”

People familiar with YouTube’s and Google’s hiring practices in interviews corroborated some of the lawsuit’s allegations, including the hiring freeze of white and Asian technical employees, and YouTube’s use of quotas.

Mr. Wilberg’s lawsuit, filed in January in California’s San Mateo County Superior Court, alleges that Google discriminated against him for his sex and race, retaliated by firing him when he complained, and in the process violated antidiscrimination laws. Mr. Wilberg declined to comment through his attorney.

The lawsuit highlights the tension facing the technology industry as it tries to boost minority hiring, a stated goal of many large companies, including Google. It also threatens to ignite simmering controversy about Silicon Valley’s politics and whether its predominantly liberal ideology is affecting how companies operate.
Google in particular has found itself in the middle of the gender debate following dueling lawsuits in January, one that alleged the company discriminated against women, the other claiming discrimination against conservative white men. The latter suit was filed by plaintiff James Damore, an engineer who was fired from the company last year for distributing a memo that suggested men were better suited to certain tech jobs than women. Google has said it disagrees with the allegations in those suits.

Mr. Wilberg, 40, alleges he complained to multiple managers at YouTube about its hiring practices over the past two years, and elevated those complaints to Google managers before he was ultimately fired last November.

Employers are allowed to undertake initiatives to promote diversity hiring, employment lawyers say. But under Title VII, the federal antidiscrimination law, employers aren’t allowed to make hiring decisions based on race and gender among other protected classes. That means they can’t employ practices like hiring quotas based on race or only hiring one type of minority candidate, attorneys say. Such practices would also run afoul of California laws.

—Yoree Koh contributed to this article.

On March 02 2018 10:18 mozoku wrote:
Source

Pour some out for James Damore....

As a personal anecdote, I applied to YouTube during that time period as a white male for a technical position that is historically by white and Asian men and was not interviewed. During the same round of applications, I interviewed at Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix and ended up accepting an offer from one of them. Pretty funny in retrospect.