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by wodenokoto 1365 days ago
How is it cover-your-ass?

We had the recording but didn’t listen to it sounds worse than we can’t determine if that conversation actual took place on our vehicle.

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Oh, as long as they can show that they zealously reported people for talking about blowing up houses in Minecraft, they will be forgiven for not catching the people who talked about blowing up real houses. False positives can be a feature when what you're really after is displaying your zeal.
> False positives can be a feature when what you're really after is displaying your zeal.

Wow, that is an amazingly perfect description of so many things.

For another example: computer antivirus programs.