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Answers: 1)
VW's CEO was shocked to learn they'd been caught. 2) The renegade
low-level coder responsible will be fired. 3) The CEO will be
spending more time with his family. And 4) No one will go to jail.
Calling
Ms. Nightingale:
The Seattle Children's Hospital has told 12,000
families that their
children need blood tests to see if the hospital managed to infect
them with HIV, Hep B & C or lesser infections. Seems that
“procedures for sterilizing surgical instruments were
not always followed.”
Vengeance:
The SEC has successfully
concluded its case against two former Fannie Mae executives who,
behind their bosses' carefully turned backs, committed
multiple instances of criminal fraud
“misled investors” about $100 billion in sub-prime loans. The
culprits will be fined $35,000... and not go to jail. They also
charged then CEO (who got the job when his predecessor was caught
fiddling the books) and
the two
underlings have
agreed
to
rat out their
former boss,
Chief Executive Daniel
Mudd..
A similar suit against folks at Freddie Mac netted a fine of
$310,000.
Money
Matters: Men
at the bottom 20% of the income scale who turned 50 in 1980 had a 27%
chance of living to 85, as did those born 30 years later. But the
odds for those in the top 20% of the income scale jumped from 45% to
66%.
Conform:
A pre-school teacher in the Okemah, OK public school system was
forcing a naturally left-handed 4 year old to write with his right
hand because “being left-handed is evil”.
Porn
O'Graph: Homes
Alone.
2 comments:
Re homeownership chart. It occurred to me that declining rate could be a good thing. Inasmuch as homeownership is increasingly a debt trap, a job flexibility trap, and a liquidity trap, along with a means to subject captive "owners" to a variety of fee extraction schemes...
Not that renting your dwelling from a hedge fund is any great shakes either....
It's the era of simulacra. Wherein hospitals are places you go to get sickened or made more sick than you were when you came in. And the best choice for overall health may be to stay away from the medical/pharmaceutical system as much as possible. People in the future may someday look back on this period with a combination of horror and fascination, just as we do towards the period before ours.
Re crapification of VW. A strange sort of era are face indeed, where storied brands willfully undercut their core competency, and put their entire reputation and positioning at risk, alienate their customer base, and do so on a massive scale, over long periods of time. First Toyota, then GM stagger with revelations of short-cuts, incompetence and cover-ups. Who's next? Simulacra again. Cars that are celebrated and sought as environmentally-friendly turn out to be the opposite: highly polluting deliberate frauds. We might also wonder how these companies manage to cover these frauds up for so long, despite the obvious involvement of large numbers of staff and oversight of regulators.
The comparison is not so much to the Queen and a horse race, as it is to Chinese baby formula manufacturers, who added a toxin in order to spoof the protein content. The Chinese, to their credit, put two people to death for that.
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