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At least it's better than "forced arbitration" by a company that the giant corp gets to pick for you! You know, like being eaten alive by a bear is better than being killed by a pack of dash hounds... because you die far quicker via the bear. Either way your still dead though.

4 out of 5 Oklahoma kids can't read an analog clock
One in seven Britons can't read the time unless it's digital
80% of kids can't read an analog clock
I personally know 'youngins' who believe that analog electronics are completely obsolete and that you can't do anything useful unless you have at least a microcontroller to work with. Imagine their faces when I show them a crystal radio receiver, doesn't even use a battery, how does it even work??? xD
Also realize that anyone born in the 90's or later can't imagine a world without the Internet and smartphones. They've likely never been to a public library and think that books only come from Amazon. They wonder how people communicated before 'social media'. If they had to call someone on a rotary-dial phone they'd be totally lost, and hearing the clicking in the receiver, they might be convinced it's broken. For that matter they might try to unplug it from the wall, certain that's just to 'charge' it, then maybe think the battery is bad when it doesn't work.
They don't think that anyone listens to broadcast radio anymore, and has no idea that that metal thing on someone's roof is a TV antenna, or that you can actually watch TV for free in the first place.
It's not a matter of 'stupid' so much as it is a matter of 'no experience with these things'. Some of them are stupid, however, because they were raised with so many modern conveniences that they didn't have to learn to take care of themselves as much with their own two hands and their own brain. Why learn things when you have the Internet on your smartphone? Why learn to drive a car when you can just call a ridesharing service to pick you up? Why bother to learn to cook when you can just pick something up somewhere? Why learn how things actually work, or learn how to build things from raw materials when you can buy just about anything you could imagine (and you've been convinced that if you can't buy it, you don't need it anyway)?
I don't know if you're young or old, but (You) are not talking like you're very smart at all, friend AC.

How can we stop sex trafficking?

We arrest the perpetrators, like the Trump campaign manager in Oklahoma who just got arrested for fucking an underage boy in a motel. The police didn't need any geo-tagged photos to catch him, either.

There's a very real danger that a Republican wearing Google Glass could go into the restroom with your child. We know all too well what Republicans do with children. I don't want some sicko with video camera glasses in the restroom with my kids.

Because it never happens?

If you have a dick, use the men's toilet.

I thought Libs were all for science. Where is the science in pretending a dude, with a dick and male chromosomes, is a woman?

Not quite certain what your point is, Your supposed liberal result of allowing transgenders in womens room is a pervy male, who identifies as male, Not a transgender.

Pervy males have done this kind of pervy stuff for years and years.

http://wkrn.com/2016/03/10/pol...

http://www.marshfieldnewsheral...

http://komonews.com/archive/po...

Here's a good one - a man hiding in a septic tank so he could watch women do their thing. Jeebuz! http://kfor.com/2013/07/08/man...

Point is you are using the conept of people only going into restrooms to have sex. Stop that! A transgender woman is almost certainly just going into the restroom, and just using it. And if she is going into the bathroom to look to have sex - what of lesbians? They are probably more interested in the other people's lady parts.

And if you check out the dates, these perv guys were dressing as women to work their pervy magic a while back, before even supreme court rulings on gay marriage or gender equity. Anyhow, would you force this person to use a mens room? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-... http://www4.pictures.zimbio.co...

And she's probably going to just do her business and leave. If she wanted to engage in sexy time in a bathroom (yuk) she'd probably go in the men's room.

psst - I think she likes guys.

ahmed was trying to do something constructive, in the STEM area. the usa is trying to focus on STEM education. and here's a kid who goes out of his way to do something on his own initiative in the area, and he gets treated like a criminal because of his race/ religion. that's why it is so egregious

the other overreactions by school for stupid things happens too, and are fucking stupid and the school admins should be punished. but they don't merit an invite to the white house because they are a different topic

like this:

http://kfor.com/2014/08/21/stu...

the kid wrote a short story about shooting a neighbor's pet dinosaur *as requested by his teacher*. and he gets treated like a criminal and suspended for a week

that's obviously fucking stupid. the school admins should be punished, the kid should be apologized to

but there's no anti-muslim hysteria angle, and there's no STEM angle. so it doesn't pique people's interests above the local area

the usa is trying to encourage STEM education. and the usa has a problem with anti-muslim bigots. therefore ahmed's case rises to national attention

ahmed's case is simply not the same as the other cases you mention

Sorry, but that's not true.

http://kfor.com/2012/11/26/missing-kangaroo-on-the-lamb/

that's awsome

How about straight line winds, I recorded this from my truck;
http://community.kfor.com/_Straight-line-wind-blowing-over-a-trailer/video/1623296/96408.html
I was in the earthquake also in OK. My first.

That's not quite true. The video can be accessed with WMP if you open this URL (watch for /. adding spaces)

http://www.kfor.com/Global/Video/WorldnowASX.asp?o s=&vt=v&clipid=734082

I watched the video in WMP 6.4 on Win2000, and no version of WMP higher than 6.4 has ever been installed... so I feel this video will probably be viewable in MPlayer, for example (i.e. this stream isn't DRM'd up).

Seems even the Tulsa NBC affiliate picked up the story. They've got a video online at http://www.kfor.com/global/category.asp?c=9667, it's the Tuesday 10pm news story. The CentOS bit starts at around 4 minutes 13 seconds, and is around 3 minutes long.

I'm not linking directly to it, because we've already crushed their bandwith enough for one week, but feel free to check it out.
It's not at all flattering to the City Manager...

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?s=3390503

Was reading about how this guy gets 120MPG. Was going to submit it to /. but didn't get around to it.

Is the cost of a hybrid versus other ideas worth it? Anyone look into this freezing method?

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=2767106 Korea Preparing for War with the US.

You might be able to sometime soon, if this gets put on the ballot. Doesn't seem like too bad an idea, pay for better roads (with funds that should be coming from the federal govt., but are not because OK pays more in gas taxes than it receives in hwy funds) with an additional gas tax. Reduce the number of accidents, be nicer on cars, and make walking a more attractive alternative for all the lardos in the state.

This may not be the evolutionary step that we took it for.

just because it's a monkey doesn't mean it's any more meaningful then if a A dog started doing it, and no-one suggests that we evolved from dogs, or that dogs are going to start walking around on two legs