So you think you should potentially lose your company for making an unwanted catcall or advance 35 years ago the same as you would had you done it today?
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Gino A. Villarini <g...@aeronetpr.com> wrote: > Time should not determine if something is right or wrong. Its a binary > thing. You can’t be half pregnant. > > Acceptable, tolerable or not spoken about does not equal correctness or > right > > It has long been know that powerful men prey on woman on Hollywood…. > > From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com > > > Reply-To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> > Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 12:38 PM > To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political > > I watched Dustin Hoffman get ambushed on a news show the other day. The > guy doing the questioning was grilling him on stuff that supposedly > happened 40 years ago. > > Who is the same person they were 40 years ago? > Is there to be any allowance for increased wisdom, growing up, learning, > changes of attitudes? > Is there to be any allowance for the era or environment in which the > offense happened? > > *From:* Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Thursday, December 7, 2017 9:09 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political > > Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode called "Nosedive" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive > It's available on Netflix. > > Basically, scoring on social media gets used for everything. The prices > you pay for services, whether you're allowed into a condo, whether you get > to have and keep a job, how the police treat you. I get the impression > that it's not codified as law, just a fact of the presence of social media > and ubiquitous access to it. Basically the Facebook distopia. It's a good > episode....and a good series in general. > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: ch...@wbmfg.com > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: 12/7/2017 10:56:23 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political > > > Maybe they could start with China’s citizenship score essentially ranking > everyone’s behavior. > > *From:* Nate Burke > *Sent:* Thursday, December 7, 2017 8:54 AM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political > > Facebook and Google already have all the data of your > likes/dislikes/beliefs (even one's you are not sure of). Seems like the > next logical step would be a compatibility matrix. You are only allowed to > interact with a potential date if you have >90% compatibility. Otherwise > your advances would be moot, and therefore unwanted. Proximity devices > would allow you to go into a club, and see all potential matches nearby. > As you approach, their name badge would either turn green or red. If you > get too close to a Red, it will start flashing, thereby alerting all close > by to be on the lookout for potential harassing behavior. > > On 12/7/2017 9:46 AM, Bill Prince wrote: > > Yeah. Parse these two statements, and how they might come across verbally. > > Don't! Stop! > > Don't stop! > > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > On 12/7/2017 7:44 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > All young men trying to get a date could be classified as a predator. > There is the prey and the predator. It is a matter degree. Unwanted > attention, unwanted proximity, unwanted touching. Until the girl decided > the kid is OK then the playing hard to get games morphs into no=yes and so > forth. > > Is a kid screwing up his courage to go in for a kiss at the end of a date > risking becoming a criminal? > > Hitting a good looking woman is now considered sexual predation. > > NPR had a good example. Good looking woman at a party. George Clooney > and Steve Buscemi both hit on her at different times. Both use the exact > same words. Perhaps different deliveries but the exact same words. The > woman is mesmerized by the attention by George and feels harassed by > Buscemi. > > How can you codify how people are supposed to behave? > > *From:* Jaime Solorza > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:29 PM > *To:* Animal Farm > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political > > All sexual predators...from Top to bottom, regardless of party, should be > pecked to death...I have four daughters. That Alabama pedophile would have > disappeared. End of story. > > Jaime Solorza > > On Dec 6, 2017 8:26 PM, "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I feel bad for that guy. hes about to get his rectum widened and not so >> much as mcdouble with cheese for dinner >> >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Craig House <cr...@totalhighspeed.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Al Franken = injured chicken LOL >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> >>> *To: *af@afmug.com >>> *Sent: *Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:15:10 PM >>> *Subject: *[AFMUG] OT slightly political >>> >>> >>> One of my aunts married a guy that had a small factory farm. He raised >>> fryers. Those chickens you get at KFC. They were allowed to run around in >>> a very large room. Thousands of them per room, maybe tens of thousands. >>> He had lots of buildings with rooms like that. >>> There was this tiny conveyer of chicken feed (maybe 3 inches wide) that >>> snaked round the room so they were never farther than a dozen steps from >>> food. I think it took 6 or 8 weeks from hatching before they were ready >>> for market. >>> >>> Toward the end of their existence they would get so heavy they would >>> just park and the conveyer and not really move. I don’t recall >>> how they got water (this was 50 years ago). >>> >>> If one got injured somehow, perhaps getting something caught in the >>> conveyer or whatever, if there was a single spot of blood, the other >>> chickens would notice and in short order peck the injured chicken to >>> death. Even a dot of red ink was enough. They would pile on and do them >>> in. >>> >>> I see some parallels. Humans are chickens sometimes. >>> >>> >> >> > > >
