I have in mind two (fiction) classics on the subject: An Enemy of the People (Ibsen) and The Winter of Our Discontent (Steinbeck). I would appreciate it if you could guide me to other valuable works on this issue.
posted by Basque13
on Apr 23, 2013 -
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We're thinking of travelling to
Tula for our honeymoon. How hard is it to travel in Russia these days, if you're not going to a usual travel destination?
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posted by small_ruminant
on Feb 23, 2013 -
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A friend of mine is having an issue with her USB flash drive. I'm gonna post what she sent here; can anyone help recover her files?
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posted by andrewcilento
on Nov 15, 2012 -
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I'm looking for examples of recent, extreme police corruption in rural or small-town America.
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posted by Bookhouse
on May 6, 2012 -
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I'm looking for good first-person non-fiction accounts of how people rationalize their descent into bad behavior. I'm particularly interested in business or organizational contexts in which unethical behavior or corrupt behavior has occurred. Anything come to mind? Thanks!
posted by langedon
on Mar 20, 2012 -
11 answers
After showing the 2010 Academy Award-winning documentary
Inside Job at a college, what questions would you ask a follow-on panel comprised of Occupy Wall Street activists, Ron Paul Republicans, economics/business professors, and business owners?
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posted by Roach
on Mar 3, 2012 -
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I'm currently interested in nonfiction books on conspiracies, organized crime, corruption, secrecy, diplomacy, government misbehavior, etc. and recently, I learned about Cointelpro on Hardcore History. Can you recommend interesting books on similar topics?
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posted by krautland
on Dec 15, 2011 -
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I am volunteering for a 501c(3). I have been given the task of writing checks to pay the bills. We are paying for the executive director's personal bills. Help!
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 11, 2011 -
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Hi, I need some help on two approaches to anti-corruption: the 1977 FCPA and the approach Bono is championing through his "Publish what you pay" campaign.
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posted by ruelle
on Dec 7, 2010 -
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Is there good examples of countries which have successfully fought corruption?
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posted by gkhan
on Oct 19, 2010 -
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I'm a contracted employee at a non-profit foundation. They seemed decent at first but now there are a lot of ethical/moral issues that are not okay. What organization/entity can I tell?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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I want to read a book about how profit motive... warps things. As in, I want to make money doing what I love, but I'm afraid that the need to pay the bills would "force" me to pander and water down my ideas.
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posted by zeek321
on Apr 9, 2010 -
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Is there any documentation out there showing that sometimes (memory) corruption can occur when servers are left running for 6+ months?
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posted by joecacti
on Nov 3, 2009 -
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I want to read investigative reports exposing corruption or scandal on a local or national level. Please provide me with links.
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posted by reenum
on Oct 20, 2009 -
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Is my data gone? Convoluted data storage question involving two Macs, a Drobo, and some file permission errors... Question on possible recovery options, and questions on how to stop it from happening again.
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posted by arniec
on Sep 23, 2009 -
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I have about 100 gigabytes of MP3 files on my iPod that have been passaged through several iPods and failing laptop hard drives, and about 10% of the tracks have become corrupted and have little audible glitches in them. That's really annoying. Does this kind of damage leave behind some kind of tell-tale signature that I could get my computer to search for and give me a list of tracks that need re-ripping? Is there some kind of Mac (or at a pinch other OS) program that can identify the dodgy tracks? Or do I just need to spend however many hundred hours listening with pen and paper at hand?
posted by nowonmai
on Aug 5, 2009 -
8 answers
My data backup procedure is in shambles. What is the best personal data backup scheme to protect my data?
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posted by burnfirewalls
on Mar 24, 2009 -
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With the current financial crisis highlighting corruption within the banking and auto industries, I'm starting to wonder about other industries that might be a little below the radar. What industries are generally corrupt?
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posted by roxegirl
on Mar 3, 2009 -
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I'm getting some weird artifacts/corruptions appearing on my macbookpro screen. Any explanations?
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posted by tanc
on Feb 1, 2009 -
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We have some file corruption on our network drive. Need to search through 1 TB worth of data.... How can I? Example insider.
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posted by bleucube
on Jan 28, 2009 -
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Are there uncommon ways to repair a corrupt MySQL table? I have a MySQL database that is experiencing some serious corruption. Using the
standard instructions, I have repaired all of the tables but one. No matter how many ways I try those instructions on the ornery table, in all cases either a) nothing happens or b) the data file is emptied, which is, obviously, not the result I want.
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posted by Mo Nickels
on Nov 15, 2008 -
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I have a legacy CDRW which shows up empty when mounted in either Linux or Windows. Extracting an iso image under linux via dd yields greppable strings which indicate files are hiding inside. How do I extract the files without knowing what format or filesystem they are in?
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posted by benzenedream
on Oct 1, 2008 -
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Are US high schools graduation rates for private, parochial, and target schools real?
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posted by MrMulan
on Oct 11, 2007 -
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Can anyone identity the source of this saying? "The young die young that they may avoid corruption. The old live long that they may repent."
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posted by Pater Aletheias
on Jul 30, 2007 -
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In light of a recent
mefi post, I'd like to ask a question I've been meaning to ask for a long time.
Where can I find the most thorough indictment of the Bush administration and its activities to date?
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posted by Lockeownzj00
on May 14, 2007 -
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A close relative was attacked, beaten and threatened at gunpoint, and the Sheriff and DA are protecting the attacker. How do we use litigation and/or publicity to force accountability?
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posted by univac
on Nov 21, 2006 -
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DV / Final Cut Pro question: We just upgraded cameras to a Panasonic DVX100B, largely for the ability to shoot in 24P. However, imported footage still appears interlaced in FCP, and it's unclear to me what our new configuration should be. How will we need to change our workflow in order to edit in 24P? (More specific inside.)
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posted by tweebiscuit
on Oct 1, 2006 -
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The 2x250Gb RAID1 array on my desktop system (WinXP) started throwing up 'Delayed write failure' errors and forcing mirroring on reboot. I unplugged the HDs and reinstalled Windows, but suspect a hardware failure. What's the best way to run diagnostics while minimising the risk of corrupted data being mirrored across? Plug in each drive separately, detach the array, or re-mirror and hope for the best?
posted by holgate
on Apr 5, 2005 -
1 answer
External USB Hard Drive FAT32 corruption via Mac OS 9! Help me Obi-Wan Kenobe! (More inside)
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posted by loquacious
on Dec 21, 2004 -
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