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White men who work out at least seven-and-a-half hours a week are nearly twice as likely to suffer from heart disease than those who do a moderate amount, a new study shows. But the study may have a non-factored bias in that white men who work out too much may be trying to relieve stress from jobs, eat unhealthy at fancy restaurants and are trying to work the fat off, and so on. Men who exercised a more moderate amount did not share the 27% increase in risk to their artery system.

 

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Roy Price resigns as Amazon Studios chief following sexual harassment allegation

From article: While Weinstein’s scandal involves more than 30 women who have accused him of harassment and assault, Price faced one accusation of harassment. But Price also faced larger questions from actress Rose McGowan, who accused the studio head on Thursday of ignoring her claims that she had been raped by Weinstein.

The following is opinion:

Here is a clue.  When you are raped, call 911.  You don’t call a studio head hoping to get a big check or get someone fired so your friend can get the job.  And no, just because actors and actresses think they are important does not mean that they are or that they can bypass the demeaning experience of proving allegations the same as poor people.  Just saying “I am proof” does not make it so.

That said:

From article:

Under California and federal law, companies are required to investigate claims of workplace harassment.

But note, accusations of rape go way beyond workplace harassment and should be reported to the law by the victim or their advocate.  Never assume the company where you work is your advocate.  How a company investigates workplace harassment or worse depends on the company and the remedy varies and may or may not be transparent since the job of a company is to get work out of employees and not to baby sit them or keep crap stirred up.

Although acting is a peculiar situation, the way companies once tried to deal with general employee situations was to simply say workers may not date or engage in sex with one another unless married.  If employees were caught dating they were both fired.  The understanding prevented some of the current situations but of course many considered the ban draconian.  Still, it was more even handed and more fair to all employees.

Just as big of a problem in the workplace is not sexual harassment but employees attempting to use sex to gain an advantage with the boss over other employees.  The rule also helped to try to prevent that unfairness.

In Hollywood that casting couch has not just been used by those in charge of casting to take advantage of people.  Perhaps just as often it has been used by people who want to get a job they would not otherwise have gotten so that too often the better actor did not get the part.  Whether fair or not, the reaction of many unemployed actors listening to the various actors aggrandize  over how they were “abused” is “yeah, we know, that is how you got the job to become rich and famous and meanwhile I am working at fast food because I am not a whore.  I would have shot his dick off and he damned well knew it.”

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Windows 10 is beginning a new cycle of update hell when some of us could not update the previous version because they wanted us to do a flash upgrade on our computers.  Although some flash updates can go off without a hitch, many of us know that is not always the case.  And here is a clue Microsoft, we buy computers to actually do stuff that we need to do, not to have our bandwidth wasted and our time wasted with endless cycles of updates.  Some of us have sucky dsl and the updates are ridiculously time consuming and then they won’t even install.  Put an OS on a computer and leave it alone until we decide to buy a new computer which given the crap being sold needs to be purchased every few years anyway.

Some websites–I guess paid to promote the crapware–pretend to be all excited about the new update even though they admit part of the new OS actually degrades some previous features and apps.  The new system will support–I guess–new virtual reality headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens.  But will the average computer that isn’t a gaming computer actually support the feature in a meaningful way?  I don’t know.

Like I said, I haven’t even been able to install the last update to Windows 10 on this HP computer that was supposed to be a good one.  And thankfully I stuck with Windows 8.1 on my older Dell Computer which I hate just as much as this HP.  On my older Dell with Windows 8.1, at times, I actually lose the hard drive until I turn my DSL off.  I know it is some kind of IRQ conflict that develops because of something happening with the DSL but still it is WEIRD.

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Fox News Poll: Roy Moore, Doug Jones neck-and-neck in Alabama Senate race

Part of it may be the endless deep state propaganda against Trump or the fact Trump didn’t support Moore. Part of it may be that while the average person in the South still has religious beliefs, those beliefs do not translate into hate. Certain issues that once might have gotten Republicans votes, such as opposition to gay marriage, now raises eyebrows. Even Moore’s wording on immigration raises flags to some Trump voters. “Use our military to protect border.” “If the wall has to be built…” And again, Trump didn’t support Moore. But as an article I read pointed out the Alabama election may not be so much about who people are voting for but who they are voting against. And to some degree, Obama and then Trump won in part because people turned out in large enough numbers to vote against Hillary.