bleh wrote:

traderdave wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/us-may-soon-become-worlds-top-oil-producer-173753430--finance.html

Yeah, but the debates, and...14%, and...ah, forget it.

Does this mean we'll start a war against ourself?

Werthless wrote:A report from the American Association of University Women shows that women are paid 7% less than men when controlling for major, job and hours.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/23/pf/coll ... ?iid=HP_LN

mozartpc27 wrote:

Werthless wrote:A report from the American Association of University Women shows that women are paid 7% less than men when controlling for major, job and hours.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/23/pf/coll ... ?iid=HP_LN

7% = still too much.

traderdave wrote:

bleh wrote:

traderdave wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/us-may-soon-become-worlds-top-oil-producer-173753430--finance.html

Yeah, but the debates, and...14%, and...ah, forget it.

Does this mean we'll start a war against ourself?

How can we? We don't have any ships or planes.

In 1916, the US controlled roughly 11% of the world’s naval power. This is an impressive number that ranks the US third in naval strength behind the UK (34%) and Germany (19%), and just ahead of France (10%). What about the US navy in 2011? In 2011, the US controlled roughly 50% of the world’s naval power putting it in a comfortable lead in naval power ahead of Russia (11%).

pacino wrote:omg would gary johnson destroy obama


and i wish this was the debate to run our country, not yesterday's

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

pacino wrote:omg would gary johnson destroy obama


and i wish this was the debate to run our country, not yesterday's

it's nice that he's very reasonable and has a good take on social issues, but his economic policies are still to just funnel everything to the top

mozartpc27 wrote:

Werthless wrote:A report from the American Association of University Women shows that women are paid 7% less than men when controlling for major, job and hours.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/23/pf/coll ... ?iid=HP_LN

7% = still too much.

phatj wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:

Werthless wrote:A report from the American Association of University Women shows that women are paid 7% less than men when controlling for major, job and hours.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/23/pf/coll ... ?iid=HP_LN

7% = still too much.

Of course it is, but how do you fix it?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I agree with j. all that would come out of that bill is a ton of litigation, imo

A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press.

Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bangladeshi descent who has now denounced his work as an informant, said police told him to embrace a strategy called "create and capture." He said it involved creating a conversation about jihad or terrorism, then capturing the response to send to the NYPD. For his work, he earned as much as $1,000 a month and goodwill from the police after a string of minor marijuana arrests.

The AP corroborated Rahman's account through arrest records and weeks of text messages between Rahman and his police handler. The AP also reviewed the photos Rahman sent to police. Friends confirmed Rahman was at certain events when he said he was there, and former NYPD officials, while not personally familiar with Rahman, said the tactics he described were used by informants.

Informants like Rahman are a central component of the NYPD's wide-ranging programs to monitor life in Muslim neighborhoods since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Police officers have eavesdropped inside Muslim businesses, trained video cameras on mosques and collected license plates of worshippers. Informants who trawl the mosques — known informally as "mosque crawlers" — tell police what the imam says at sermons and provide police lists of attendees, even when there's no evidence they committed a crime

Rahman, who was born in Queens, said he never witnessed any criminal activity or saw anybody do anything wrong.
He said he sometimes intentionally misinterpreted what people had said. For example, Rahman said he would ask people what they thought about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, knowing the subject was inflammatory. It was easy to take statements out of context, he said. He said wanted to please his NYPD handler, whom he trusted and liked.

"I was trying to get money," Rahman said. "I was playing the game."

phatj wrote:Sure. But gender pay discrimination strikes me as generally unproveable, except in cases of extreme idiocy. Particularly when the gap isn't very large. There are too many subjective factors in pay offered to new hires as well as raises.

Soren wrote:yea the NYPD has done a pretty good job shitting all over themselves