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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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Google's code of conduct is pretty clear.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-c ... nduct.html

Under US employment laws, sending that memo was the equivalent of mooning the CEO. They can afford to pick and choose their employees, so a quick clean kill sets the example clearly for the others .

I love the bits in the code of conduct about cats and weapons (two separate bits BTW) :lol:
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^
I do like their dog policy :D ..although as you can imagine its going to bring them a sh!t load of trouble with certain minorities who must never be offended....perhaps HR hasn't quite got to it yet.....
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^ pfft shite dog policy!!

Obviously a dog of a company! :P
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Next door was auctioned this morning. Sold for $839k. It's a small 2 bedroom unit. :shock:

The property market is crazy. Makes me wonder how our kids will ever get into it.
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stui magpie wrote:Google's code of conduct is pretty clear.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-c ... nduct.html

Under US employment laws, sending that memo was the equivalent of mooning the CEO. They can afford to pick and choose their employees, so a quick clean kill sets the example clearly for the others .

I love the bits in the code of conduct about cats and weapons (two separate bits BTW) :lol:
Does it strike anyone else as odd that their motto is "don't be evil"? Like, is it a challenge for them not to be? :P
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David wrote:
stui magpie wrote:Google's code of conduct is pretty clear.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-c ... nduct.html



I love the bits in the code of conduct about cats and weapons (two separate bits BTW) :lol:
Does it strike anyone else as odd that their motto is "don't be evil"? Like, is it a challenge for them not to be? :P
They encourage dobbing but don't like you pashing the person in the next cubicle. Thw whole thing is worse than the Australian Public Service code of conduct. The ethics department looks like it has become a self licking icecream.
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mandy wrote:Next door was auctioned this morning. Sold for $839k. It's a small 2 bedroom unit. :shock:

The property market is crazy. Makes me wonder how our kids will ever get into it.
crap thats just crazy. because its close to the city?
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Maybe, I don't know. I guess it's close to the city, but is that even an appeal these days? Everything seems close now. My sister bought a 2 storey, 5 bedroom house in Blackburn for much lass than that 2 years ago. And it's only 10 minutes further east.

It certainly is crazy.
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It's happened again.

Buggered if I know how.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-21/u ... ip/8826298
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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swoop42 wrote:It's happened again.

Buggered if I know how.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-21/u ... ip/8826298
Yeah said the same thing when I saw that on the news, how the hell do they not see each other from miles away!
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Fly into Singapore and you see heaps of ships.
The US Navy tend to bully other ships and who knows the make up of the crew of the Liberian critter.
Whatever happens the Captain of the US ship will be big trouble.At best he can expect to get sent to Washington to write navigational safety manuals.
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Amazing how common this kind of thing is in more traditional societies. I saw a Vice documentary on it some time ago.
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