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04-23-2010, 10:33 AM
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We should have known.  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...-crisis/39414/
The above headline might seem like a joke. It isn't. Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were surfing Internet pornography when they should have been policing the financial system. A deeply disturbing SEC memo to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) exposing this problem was reported Thursday night by ABC News. Here are some highlights via the Associated Press: |
04-23-2010, 10:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Figures. I'd be a lot more productive if the internet were so full of naked people.
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04-23-2010, 10:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Iowa | | | "When on the verge of the most major economic crisis in around 80 years, they were watching porn instead of the financial system."
actually, i probly would be too.
don't worry, chuck is the man. he will clean this up.
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04-23-2010, 10:40 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | Sorry, I missed that, I was bewb-ooglin'.
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04-23-2010, 10:41 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | | Also, bewbs caused the recent earthquakes.
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04-23-2010, 10:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Iowa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PSPookie Also, bewbs caused the recent earthquakes. | no dude, that was deepak chopra.
or does he have a nice rack? i guess i haven't noticed....
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04-23-2010, 10:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | How the eff does a government agency not have firewalls up to block people from going to those sites on the clock? I would think that's just a given.
We are simply getting what we deserve by lowering our standards, not being more critical of our government and refusing to hold anyone accountable for anything. |
04-23-2010, 10:47 AM
|  | I hate. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The state of denial. | | | Maybe they were just confused, and were under the impression that they were supposed to keep tabs on their spank banks.
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04-23-2010, 10:48 AM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: new hampshire | | | Wow. Sixteen people surf for porn and the whole economy implodes? Excuse me, I think that's my reality check buzzer going off.... |
04-23-2010, 10:53 AM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | | The headline is more than a little sensational--the SEC has 3800 employees, after all. But this is certainly embarrassing and disappointing for them.
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04-23-2010, 10:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas | | Where I work, the IT group scans company PCs for inappropriate files. If porn is found on your PC it's cause for immediate termination. (That would be a difficult conversation with your spouse.) Maybe only 16 documented incidents but seeing how things played out it might have just been the tip of the iceberg; poor accountability in government...
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04-23-2010, 10:58 AM
| | | Wonder which site distracted the guy charged with watching Madoff?  |
04-23-2010, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas | | | Maybe Madoff sent him the link? |
04-23-2010, 11:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EBodious "When on the verge of the most major economic crisis in around 80 years, they were watching porn instead of the financial system." | I definitely am not a regulator, then. I was the verge. Should I blame my GF?
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04-23-2010, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by 5StringPocket Maybe Madoff sent him the link? | Even Madoff said he could not understand how the SEC didn't catch him, guess we know now. |
04-23-2010, 11:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | This story is obviously bogus. Everyone knows there's no porn on the internet.
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04-23-2010, 11:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | ^ you must have very restricted access
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04-23-2010, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | It does put a whole new spin on the term, "money shot". |
04-23-2010, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by jaywa It does put a whole new spin on the term, "money shot". | 
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04-23-2010, 12:09 PM
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