Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn 405
unixan writes "In a report by the SEC Inspector General that smacks of fiddling while Rome burns, 33 recent ethics investigations all showed that the government employees responsible for keeping an eye on the economy were instead obsessed with surfing porn — while the economy was tipping over. One cited example: 'A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office.'"
And we... (Score:2, Funny)
And we surf slashdot rather than doing our own jobs
Re:And we... (Score:5, Funny)
Some of us do both. /. and porn that is.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure IT was well aware of the situation by the time the hard drive was full.
Who watches the watchers? Ceiling cat does.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
Sheesh. (Score:5, Funny)
If this is that big a deal, I hope nobody finds out I've actually been having sex while the economy tanks.
Especially my wife.
so what you're saying ... (Score:5, Funny)
... is that they wanted to diddle while rome burned?
You laugh, but we'll see who's laughing when... (Score:5, Funny)
the SEC is the host of our Strategic Porn Reserves. Then you'll thank that attorney's forward-thinking approach to preserving a domestic supply to reduce our vulnerability to the whims of foreign porn suppliers.
it doesnt rhyme (Score:3, Funny)
Surfed porn? Really. You couldnt find any better word that would rhyme with tanked. Sheesh.
Re:The SEC needs a bigger staff (Score:3, Funny)
That's why they are studying them.
Haha...Get it?
(It's a penis joke)
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:4, Funny)
Fixed that for ya.... (Score:5, Funny)
"Economy Tanked while the Government Wanked."
~Sticky
//No Karma, cause I stoled it.
Re:So, had they NOT been surfing for porn... (Score:4, Funny)
Would the economy be OK now? Just asking.....
Great question!
I waiting on the official word from Fox News as to where the blame lies - will it be over-regulating liberals or porn-surfing liberals?
Re:Not news (Score:1, Funny)
At least they're not into bondage or diapers or pages or ........
Bush Administration (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, they sure took the Bush agenda seriously.
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Toro
Re:Think before you condemn (Score:1, Funny)
are you at work right now, reading Slashdot?
No. Are you?
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
keeping abreast on technology news
I see what you did there...
who watches the watcher? (Score:1, Funny)
Right. They can police themselves.
And then the sudden realization hit (Score:4, Funny)
that "Fanny May" was not a porn star.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll bite - here's your explanation (Score:5, Funny)
DEATH TO THE INFIDEL!!!!
Re:Can somebody explain to me... (Score:4, Funny)
(sometime around 2025)
Attorney: "And to my son Jimmy, I leave my 750GB of porn."
Jimmy: "Only 750GB? My SDU optidrive is 100 times bigger than that!"
Obligatory Seinfeld Quote (Score:3, Funny)
Mr. Lippman: It's come to my attention that you and the cleaning woman have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct?
George Costanza: Who said that?
Mr. Lippman: She did.
George Costanza: [pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
Mr. Lippman: You're fired!
George Costanza: Well, you didn't have to say it like that.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:2, Funny)
Look at the man in the cubicle across from you. Now look at the two men to the left of you. Now look at the two men to the right of you.
I'm on a horse.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just in case it wasn't crystal clear (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, but Obama is a Muslin Kenyam, so he isn't really our president, dont'cha know.