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.'"
Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around You (Score:4, Insightful)
... government employees responsible for keeping an eye on the economy were instead obsessed with surfing porn ...
So when they were studying boobs online they should have been studying the boobs that were busy running/ruining our financial and housing industries? Understandable how those orders could get confused.
About 16 percent of men with Internet access at work admit to looking at online porn while at the office, according to a 2006 survey by Websense Inc.
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. One of them is surfing porn at work.*
* Unless it's you. And if it is you, how stupid are you? Seriously? Seriously you'd jeopardize your job for that?
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Insightful)
Any non-work internet activity is risking ones job.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
keeping abreast on technology news
I see what you did there...
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Insightful)
I personally warned the rest of the company about the McAfee problem earlier this week because I was goofing off on Slashdot.
Saved countless hours of problems.
Besides, the IT department just wants the good porn to go into the shared collection and for the job to be done. If I am waiting for a long-ass process to happen and would otherwise be left picking my nose or jabbering at someone who is trying to work, a bit of down time with a browser is not a big deal.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Informative)
Kind of like reading /. at work?
I work for a government agency, and we're allowed to use the internet for non-work purposes. In fact, Slashdot was specifically mentioned as an acceptable site to visit on our government-owned computers. The general guidelines are:
-Don't visit porn sites (an automatic firing offense, unless it was truly inadvertent)
-Don't do anything for personal profit (checking an eBay auction is okay, running an eBay-based business isn't)
-Don't behave unprofessionally
-Don't use excessive bandwidth
-Don't spend too much time online for non-work reasons (i.e. get your work done)
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Insightful)
What a surprisingly reasonable policy.
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I don't know. Does any non-work phone use risking your job?
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dial a sex line and find out...
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Depends on how much an ass your boss is. And which phone you're using.
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Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Interesting)
Something tells me the network admins for that government department must have been doing the same thing, or were incompetent, or playing WoW (or maybe some hellish combination).
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.
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I mean, the full HDD lawyer's job is probably to prosecute people that the SEC examiners have found evidence against...So as far as I can tell, he was doing his job since they had failed to actually find anybody to prosecute before everything fell apart.
Also..SEC...the X key is surprisingly close to the C key
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When I was interning at the VA I noticed that one of the public computers for the vets to use had spyware on it. IT was contacted, ran their one program, but the spyware was still there. They said that's all they can do. Government IT people don't go crazy by not realizing that their marching orders are insane. Also have no undergrad at all probably doesn't help.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah this is shocking given the typical government network is locked down to the Nth degree. When I contracted on site for the Dept. of Health they actually cut me off from the network because I used torrent to download a Linux ISO. I violated policy and it cut off soon after the download started, and the jack went dead. It wasn't just "you can't surf the internet anymore". It was "VIOLATER! KILL HIM!" and I got dressed down soon after. So they closely monitored it.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:4, Insightful)
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No in companies, surfing porn can and often gets you fired. In Government doing the same just gets you transferred to the next site/department.
It is just too f'n hard to fire people in government.
See the difference?
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or the guy had enough bureaucratic weight that it would flatten anyone that spoke up about it...
heck, sometimes i suspect the office rats that do not get replaced during a election cycle either collect stuff they can leak on a "temporary" boss in case he becomes to uppity, or just wait the term out and then go back to business as usual if said boss got voted out of office.
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I'm pretty sure these aren't the kinds of positions that get replaced every election. I'm sure they get to keep their jobs for life, if they were so inclined.
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It's sort of like medicare fraud. Private insurers struggle with insurance fraud all the time too, but people feel like money one or two steps away from the taxes they paid is actually still theirs, so they are more attached to it.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Insightful)
I guarantee you that any competant IT department would not only be fully aware of what was going on, but also smart enough not to stir a pot that big.
If I came in tomorrow and the entire sales team was found to be mass downloading pron, what could we do? Get the entire team fired? Who is going to pick up the slack from that? Can't just replace people just like that. We could filter their content, but how long before that becomes a headache when they can't reach legit sites. We can throttle them but then there are complaints that they can't get any work done while they are chewing through bandwidth on a bit-torrent.
IT's job is to make sure that everyone is up and running. Its the managers job to make sure that people are doing their work. When people start treating IT like a police force, then something is seriously wrong, and you need to look at the power structure and layout of your company. We can be eyes and ears, we can inform managers, but its definately NOT our job to go and get people fired.
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Private office or not, he had a government IT department.
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Funny)
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This puritan interpretation is just dumb.
Porn did not kill the economy, the SEC has way more than 30 employees. C'mon.... If porn was such a baaaad thing, no company would be doing anything and the economy wouldve.... oh wait!
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:5, Insightful)
The SEC's job was to go after fraud and general theft; they didn't do their job. The fact that a lot of them were caught surfing for pron isn't the point; the point is that they were not doing their jobs and the consequences were for the most part, felt by other people.
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Are you surfing Slashdot at work?
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Yeah, surely this isn't news to anyone here. How about a story about the ONE guy at the SEC that DIDN'T surf pr0n?
Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y (Score:4, Interesting)
Wrong. One of them *has* surfed porn at work at some point. They are not doing it necessarily right now. Times were different a few years ago when internet traffic was not routinely monitored and we had offices where no one could see our monitors.
Hell, I worked in a small office where the owner routinely mailed porn to everyone who worked there. I was asked about how I felt about porn when I interviewed there (in '96).
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Sad isn't it?
Anti economic reform FUD (Score:5, Informative)
FTFA:
Anyone want to bet that certain right-wing news outlets are furiously trying to figure out a way to blame this on President Obama?
A certain right wing news outlet? How about Slashdot? Where in the summary does it mention that this happened under Bush? Nowhere, it says 'recent.' This is meant to spread FUD about the SEC, in order to turn people against the idea of financial reform and regulation. "Why, if these fools are constantly surfing porn, how can we trust them to regulate Wall Street?" But they aren't anymore: the fellow appointed by this administration cracked down and stopped it.
Re:Anti economic reform FUD (Score:4, Interesting)
yes, it's Bush's fault.
After all, he would have personally hired all of these people.
Oh wait,
These aren't appointed people, these are people hired by the SEC itself which has an HR department which is run by people who AREN'T appointed either.
stop trying to blame everything on one person.
regardless of who it is.
Just in case it wasn't crystal clear (Score:3, Insightful)
Bush was absolutely and without a doubt the worst president this country has ever had. He will be remembered as such forever. Everyone who voted for him should feel mortified by their choices, if they have any decency, patriotism, or respect for the office of president.
If Bush had wanted a functional SEC, he could have created one. He obviously either did not care, or was not competent enough to do it, because Obama sure as hell did.
Important take away from this: the SEC under Bush was incompetent. Obama fi
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Oh there's plenty of room for debate on that. People love shouting the "Bush is the worst ever" hyperbole because he's just the worst during their lifetime.
My own vote for worst president ever is Andrew Johnson. Did a complete 180 on Lincoln's policies, vindictively screwing over the South in the process. Took decades for state economies to recover. Guy was pretty much an all-around dick too.
You don't like Bush. Fine. But come on, at least try to be intelligent about it. Lunatic ranting doesn't really do mu
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Granted she isn't quite old enough to have seen every American president, but Helen Thomas [youtube.com] has seen quite a few. She also thought Bush to be the "worst ever."
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I think in the past 18 months, the Bush voters have proven how much respect they have for the "office of the presidency".
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Oh, but Obama is a Muslin Kenyam, so he isn't really our president, dont'cha know.
Re:Just in case it wasn't crystal clear (Score:5, Insightful)
Wrong. Good government helps people. It's why we have government. It protects the weak from the strong. If we have bad government, that is not the fault of government, but of We, The People.
As for your ludicrously misinformed points:
Obama has agreed to pull out by 2011. The military says that his plan to pull 45,000 troops out by August is on track.
As for Bagram, I bet you used to use "When will we close Guantanamo?" until we, uh, closed it. Sure, this is a problem, but Obama's record is good in this regard: he will not allow the US to torture prisoners.
The Fed is NOT still handing out free money to Banks. That was Bush's idea, remember? Obama continued it for a while, but now that his policies have gotten the economy into recovery mode, not only is he not handing out more cash, not only did he make AIG execs give back their bonuses, his SEC is suing the bastards.
Spending isn't skyrocketing. I don't know where you even get that. Remember, this is a depression we are in. As FDR proved, we need to spend to get out of it. But skyrocketing? LOL. That's what Republicans do. Look at the surplus over the years, Dems build up a surplus and cut spending, Republicans borrow and spend more, on more ridiculous things. At least Dems spend the money on useful things.
So, the premise that 'they are all the same' is totally false. I don't like Obama because he is a centrist and not the socialist some people claim he is. I wish! But no, he's another Bill Clinton.
Politicians on both sides may have faults. The Dems aren't perfect. But the Republicans are orders of magnitude more evil, selfish, and dishonest.
Re:Anti economic reform FUD (Score:5, Interesting)
He didn't have to personally hire them but whatever happened to "the buck stops here" mentality. Is Bush personally responsible? No, but it happened under his administration and as head of the administration he has take that responsibility. Katrina wasn't Bush's fault personally but the guy he let run FEMA certainly screwed up majorly. Over the last 2 administrations (including Clinton), businesses have persuaded the government to give them more free reign and less oversight. I believe that has led us into the situation that exists now.
After the Great Depression a number of regulations were put into place to prevent this kinda of meltdown like banks could only be banks and not investment firms. One of the reasons that some banks failed in the 1929 crash was that they were lending and speculating against the Stock Market instead of being a repository of their customer's money. Under Clinton, this restriction was lifted (Glass-Steagall).
In the 90s and 00s, the economy was great. Alan Greenspan and the free market could do no wrong. The free markets would police themselves. As early as 1993, a lone regulator named Brooksley Born warned that secretive, unregulated derivatives would bring down the market. She was the head an obscure agency named the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which was in charge of overseeing derivatives. For her, it wasn't so much that these derivatives were unregulated but they that fought all attempts at any disclosure. That piqued her curiosity.
But her ideas about regulation clashed with Greenspan, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, and former Assistant Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. She was a Washington outsider and she was a female in a world dominated by men. Together with their banking allies, they worked to remove any power her agency had by having Congress strip her tiny agency of its function.
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They covered all their bases by contributing to everyone. But yes, Obama is a corporate centrist and will likely pass a toothless, watered down financial reform bill.
Funny, you say that a president can't do anything about the departments that are under his direct control. Bill Clinton certainly did a good job policing his departments, that's how he managed to build up a surplus, by cutting the fat in the departments.
There have been presidencies where the SEC was a real tiger, going after the crooks on Wall
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Liar. Clinton cut fat, he was famous for it. Google 'clinton budget cuts.' Of course, Republicans won't admit he was a better fiscal conservative than any of them ever were.
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.
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I can only hope (Score:2)
that in the case of the attorney, an ethics complaint is filed with the state bar. This is unconscionable behavior for an attorney and should result in disbarment.
Not news (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yeah, this is a manufactured controversy issue by the GOP. They are attacking the SEC because its attacking Goldman Sachs and trying to regulate the industry that almost took the economy down. Republicans have no shame.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOvd2ZHpLgAEKjwU87acksA24EDQD9F8SEUO0 [google.com]
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I don't blame Bush, I don't blame Obama - neither of them were showing up in these guys' offices with a tube of Intensive Care lotion saying, "Here, let me help you with that so you don't get chafed."
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I know! How dare he try to regulate the people who tried to influence him! Doesn't he know a politician's role is to be bought and stay bought?
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Same fraction of congressmen/women/senators/presidents are found each year cheating on their spouses, having wide stances at restrooms, paying for escort services, etc. I don't see why there is such a big deal, unless there is some political motive behind this.
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"Private-time" sexual behavior is one thing - surfing porn, cheating, "wide stances", and even (arguably) paying for escort services on your own time, and on your own dime, is one thing. Doing it when you're being paid to do a job is unacceptable, no matter who you work for, and who sits in the oval office.
"Porn" isn't the problem, it's just goofing off. (Score:5, Interesting)
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that's true, and sad. Surfing for porn is just a form of escapism. They could be powerless, overwhelmed or drowning in the bureaucracy. Porn is the same thing as Facebook, doing your email or hanging out on Slashdot.
which reminds me... I should re-enable my Slashdot parental controls adn get back to work :-)
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This sounds very erudite and post-contemporary, but it's also nonsensical cruft.
Playing Tetris is slacking off. Browsing porn at work is a sign of really, really questionable, almost "flaming out" judgment.
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Guilty as charged....
Dangers of Regulatory Capture (Score:2)
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what? that less then 1% of a ork force was misusung work equipment? yeah, that's a clear indicator~
So, had they NOT been surfing for porn... (Score:5, Insightful)
Would the economy be OK now? Just asking.....
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Would the economy be OK now? Just asking.....
We should take the next logical step and blame the pornographers for the economic failure. What's scary is that such a move may actually end up getting traction...
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?
When do you look at history? (Score:2)
I'm really curious as to when it's acceptable to look at someone’s history for productivity. I mean, Do you do regular checks of employees? Or do you wait until there is a problem and then use web history as another good reason as to why the employee shouldn't be working there?
Just from a union and fairness point of view, it seems a bit off to only check one person’s history. If one person gets regularly checked, so should everybody else... Right?
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And here I am posting this at work. Man would it would by ironic if i got fired for posting this
(DISCLAIMER: I'm on break)
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I'm really curious as to when it's acceptable to look at someone’s history for productivity. I mean, Do you do regular checks of employees? Or do you wait until there is a problem and then use web history as another good reason as to why the employee shouldn't be working there?
Just from a union and fairness point of view, it seems a bit off to only check one person’s history. If one person gets regularly checked, so should everybody else... Right?
Why check unless there is a problem? If somebody is goofing off for 8 hours a day, but somehow still manages to get the work done, what is the problem? Of course, in PHB logic, imagine all the work that person could do if they weren't goofing off 8 hours a day! That could probably eliminate 5 redundancies!
What about the diligent workers that spend 6 hours a day chasing their tails on problems that goof-off guy would have fixed in 10 minutes?
(DISCLAIMER: waiting for an install to finish/code to compile)
Yet none were fired (Score:5, Insightful)
As far as anyone can tell, not one of these people were fired for both not doing their job and for using work equipment in a HIGHLY non-work related manner.
Then again, we have the same thing around here. We know for a fact and have documented at least two people repeatedly, for over half an hour each day for months on end, trying to access porn and porn-related sites. Yet, like the SEC, none have been canned.
To use a tired comment, there used to be a time when one could work hard, get recognized and advance ones career through such work. No longer. Apparently failure is the new success.
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I have found the same thing in my network logs a couple of times. In each case I have messed with our proxy server to point those requests to https://www.pokemon.com/ [pokemon.com]
Same thing right?
The story submission is worded (Score:5, Insightful)
like a troll.
A) DO you think people watch the economy by looking out a window? no. It's worded like the think the economy is in a box and people are just watching in case it finds a way out.
B) They have no way of knowing what's going on in every board room in the financial industry
c) IT's a large organization, of course some people where surfing porn. People are people.
D) None of this excuse what they did. I'm only pointing out that just because it's "the government" doesn't mean the people running it aren't people.
Tip of the iceberg? (Score:2)
And, of course, who watches the watchers? 8 hours a day watchin
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.
Think before you condemn (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Think before you condemn (Score:4, Insightful)
To be fair... I am taking a break and posting this while at work, although technically I am salaried, so as long as I put in at least 8-10 hours a day at work and keep delivering the code and properly managing the systems I think I am doing just fine.
However.... Let's give credit where credit is truly due...
One of those guys was surfing porn 8 hours a day, filling up his hard drive, and then burning it and keeping it in fucking boxes of burned CDs. That's fucking dedication. That was not taking a break. Porn was a full time job for that man, and his job performance was fucking excellent.
I am not even upset that a considerable portion of our taxes went to Kleenex and hand lotion. That is at least something I am okay with providing. Better that than military helicopters killing innocent civilians in Iraq.
All that said however, it is just sensationalism from the Republican party to be pushing it this hard and I doubt that man is unique, or representative of all of the SEC, and I am sure ~1% of every organization has a man (or woman possibly - that's hot btw) super dedicated to porn.
Wrong Spin (Score:2)
An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.
SEC employees of all walks of life and genders are united in their quest for superior porn while at work!
so what you're saying ... (Score:5, Funny)
... is that they wanted to diddle while rome burned?
One wonders... (Score:4, Interesting)
In this case, was the SEC basically just incompetent, or was their incompetence tolerated, abetted, nurtured by those who really didn't want them to find anything?
After all, in retrospect, it is fairly obvious that much of the apparent prosperity of the last decade or so was a bubble. Consumer spending based on imaginary wealth provided by homes appraised for large numbers, GDP numbers based on rampant construction of housing stock that nobody could actually afford to live in, various quite sophisticated flavors of financial chicanery and shell-gaming on Wall Street. Now, if you suspect that you are in a bubble, you have the option of trying to pop it before it gets any bigger, which provides the best long term outcome; but generally involves having it burst in your face, or riding it, and hoping that you can make it out of office/retire/move to a new job/cash out a big stack/etc. before it bursts. If you aren't excessively burdened in the ethics department, the latter is pretty sensible.
In situations where you cannot, for political reasons, eliminate a regulatory body outright, there are various ways of quietly gutting it. Just cutting its budget usually helps, appointing an incompetent crony to mismanage it also works pretty well(and rewards a crony), I suspect that allowing incompetence to fester probably works to.
Did the SEC manage to fuck up on its own, or was it permitted and tacitly encouraged to, since an SEC was needed; but nobody really wanted it to find anything?
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.
Fixed that for ya.... (Score:5, Funny)
"Economy Tanked while the Government Wanked."
~Sticky
//No Karma, cause I stoled it.
one funny thing (Score:2)
The one funny thing about it is that SEC consists of mainly lawyers. That's right, not accountants, not economists, not inspectors but lawyers. This is on purpose, because they are just another captured/corrupt government organization that does not do its job. Example of them not doing its job is the story from Harry Markopolos [huffingtonpost.com], who by chance figured out the scheme Madoff was running and brought it to SEC's attention with all the evidence [wikipedia.org] but they never did anything about it.
So they are incompetent peopl
Dont' Worry (Score:2)
Bush Administration (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, they sure took the Bush agenda seriously.
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Toro
So the obvious solution is... (Score:2)
Here's an idea: contract out the regulatory oversight to a private company, and let them earn a sh
And what they were going to do instead ? (Score:4, Insightful)
should they have, god forbid, attempted to * gasp * regulate wall street while wall street was doing all those scams ?
all in a country, and a political environment which have been brainwashed to the core by decades of yelps of "deregulation - you'll cost americans jobs !!" ?
and all the while having a right wing, 'hands off business' administration looming over their head ?
how many of you would dare attempt do actually, god forbid, do your job and try to question wall street in such an environment, and lose all future career options, even if not directly your job ? note that you would probably lose your job, had it been under bush administration, flat out.
even the most left wing politicians were not able to dare speak against wall street, and this 'deregulation - hands off' business, until it became as clear as day that wall street actually perpetrated scams. EVEN during the period wall street was dragging all the world down, there were still 'experts', 'pundits' who were coming up in news channels and delivering opinion on how this was not a crisis and no regulation was needed and attacking whomever dare talked about any regulation. remember how peter schiff was ridiculed right 2-3 months after crisis, despite all the stuff he has said has come to pass and he was right.
leave it aside, there are STILL some totally out of touch right wingers coming up in senate or house floor, and saying 'deregulation', even after it came out that goldman sachs actually perpetrated not 1, but 5 different kinds of scam in one mortgage backed hedge fund.
so, tell me, what would you do in such an environment, if you were them ?
you would watch porn. or play games. because, noone who put you there, wanted you to do your job.
And then the sudden realization hit (Score:4, Funny)
that "Fanny May" was not a porn star.
Distraction (Score:5, Insightful)
Sheila Bair hasn't enforced the (non-discretionary) Prompt Corrective Action [market-ticker.org] law on any of the largest TBTF banks.
Henry Paulson lobbied for the repeal of the last vestiges of Glass-Steagall while he worked for Goldman Sachs and then committed extortion by threatening Congress with martial law [youtube.com] unless they handed over $700 billion to a group of unapprehended felons.
The FBI warned about about an epidemic of mortgage fraud back in 2004 [cnn.com] yet the last two administrations have not indicted a single major player in the industry.
But by all means, ignore them and pay attention to the small fry browsing porn.
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.
It's all about timing (Score:5, Insightful)
Sounds like there certainly was (is?) a porn problem at SEC. Convenient that is was such a non-story, until needed [propublica.org].
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That's why they are studying them.
Haha...Get it?
(It's a penis joke)
Re:Can somebody explain to me... (Score:4, Insightful)
I cant believe people fill up their hardrives with the stuff. I mean porn is fine and all, but how much do you need. Are you ever going to go back and look at your archived porn. I mean, I can understand having some archived that particularly turns you on, or downloading some that you might look at later and then delete, but archiving hundreds of gigs of porn?
I just don't get it. Its not like there is going to be a shortage all of a sudden.
I'll bite - here's your explanation (Score:2)
I think the key word here is "obsessed".
The characteristics you've ascribed to yourself are moderated, healthy behaviors. In contrast, true obsession is a psychological dysfunction.
That's the sense of it in a nutshell, no more or less than eating yourself to 600 pounds, owning 20 cats, or threatening murder over cartoons.
Re:I'll bite - here's your explanation (Score:5, Funny)
DEATH TO THE INFIDEL!!!!
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I save everything I watch, because hard drives are so cheap. Who knows when you'll want to go through anything? Might as well keep it.
And this way, your kids won't have to start from zero.
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!"