The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

Mindy · 10-25-2019, 03:41 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRIEQVgRkMI

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Associated Press
Oct 25, 2019

Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue. Now it plans to pay them for news headlines — reportedly millions of dollars in some cases. (Oct. 25)

OccultHawk · 10-28-2019, 12:46 PM

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...ExfxX_B_cmmIPg

Wisconsin workers embedded with microchips

The Batlord · 10-28-2019, 04:58 PM

So if you quit do you have to take a knife to your hand to get it out?

OccultHawk · 10-28-2019, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

So if you quit do you have to take a knife to your hand to get it out?

It's a good question

The Batlord · 10-28-2019, 05:04 PM

I'd like to think those drones asked that question before they had chips put in them.

**Frownland** · 10-28-2019, 05:10 PM

Janet from HR cuts it out with a letter opener during the exit interview and gives you a bandaid with stars on it.

The Batlord · 10-28-2019, 05:15 PM

If you just walk the **** out and give them the finger can they go after you legally to get their property back? I'm sure they'd just rescind your clearance and forget about it but that does sound like something they could make a federal case out of.

OccultHawk · 10-28-2019, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Janet from HR cuts it out with a letter opener during the exit interview and gives you a bandaid with stars on it.

It’s seriously like a last task that would be hanging over your head.

Psy-Fi · 10-29-2019, 05:26 AM

Just in time for Halloween, kiddies...

Trial opens in lawsuit over ‘Frankenstein’ use of remains

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A retired FBI agent described a horrific raid of now-closed body donation facility Monday, recalling a table stacked with severed human legs, heads stuffed in a cooler, and torsos without heads and limbs.

Mark Cwynar testified on the opening day of a civil trial that one torso had its head removed and a smaller head sewn on, comparing the discovery to a character from Frankenstein.

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Company owner Stephen Douglas Gore pleaded guilty in October 2015 to a felony charge for his role in mishandling donated body parts.

Though Gore has denied the allegations in the lawsuit, he acknowledged when pleading guilty that his company provided vendors with human tissue that was contaminated and used the donations in ways that went against the wishes of the donors.

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Attorney David TeSelle, who represents the families who filed the lawsuit, told jurors the facility promised donor families their relatives’ remains would be used for medical research and treated with respect and dignity.

TeSelle said the families weren’t told the bodies would be cut up, sold to third parties for profit and used in ways that the families wouldn’t have approved of. He showed jurors the business’ price list, noting a torso without a head went for $4,000.

Chula Vista · 10-29-2019, 07:52 AM

Just had a flashback to 'that' scene in The Last King of Scotland.

*shudders*

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Just had a flashback to 'that' scene in The Last King of Scotland. shudders __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”