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Re:Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them by coldcode on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:33PM (#13001030)
Except what I remember is something about finding a scapegoat at the bottom, and all the higher ups seem to have never been involved, and you blame the goat, and everyone else goes home happy but the goat. The military thrives on goatism.
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Re:Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them by madaxe_again on Sunday November 20, 2016 @03:43PM (#13001087)
Actually, you just bounce it between goats and brass until everybody who had skin in the game is dead or dead bored.

The problem with always deferring culpability upwards is that it usually leads to no culpability.

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