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Unless they are comfortable with lying.

In the 1980's Southland corporation gave up using lie detection as a pre-screening tool in selecting employees. They were actually selecting better liars, not excluding the dishonest.

Back then the majority of minimum wage jobs were performed by teenagers (like I was at the time). Funny thing about teens is that they aren't grown up yet. Teens don't have a great deal of life experience. That includes failure, and having their integrity questioned. When you question the integrity of a confident, experienced adult, they can handle it. Question a kid, and you make them uncomfortable, nervous, twitchy. They don't have the experience and confidence to handle it.

Unless they are already accomplished liars and are comfortable and experienced at having their integrity and motives questioned.

TL;DR, southland actually had an increase in employee theft thanks to their use of lie detectors as a employment tool. https://newsok.com/article/203... https://www.cia.gov/library/re...

Anybody taking money from the tech giants are in a conflict of interest and so need discounted.

The tech giants have a monopoly. Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, If they aren't going to be broken up, then Bell telephone and GM both need to sue the government because they were broken up and they were smaller and less controlling than the tech giants of today.

Ever look at the the market capitalization of the companies that were formed from the breakup of AT&T?

Going even further back, when John D. Rockefeller was asked for advice about Standard Oil being broken up, his reply was, "Buy Standard Oil stock."

When you look at the market capitalization for the multitude of companies Standard Oil was broken into, you're not going to get many shareholders wanting to go back.

Same with AT&T.

The only reason breakups are opposed is control - AKA egomania for guys like Fuckerburg.

A majority of graduates from Oklahoma's public colleges and universities are working in the state five years after earning that degree, a new report shows.

https://newsok.com/article/5444406/most-state-college-graduates-work-in-oklahoma-report-finds

Say chump, what's it feel like to be a moron? Have you come to terms with it? Gotten used to all looks of pity from people after you make a fool of yourself, have you? Sad!

You have to cross the border to claim asylum. What made up process are you imaging exists where you can claim asylum outside the US? No nation on earth allows you to claim asylum from outside the borders. NONE

Nope, you're wrong. You go to the border at a port of entry and present yourself as an asylum seeker. That's the correct process, the legal one, and the one that will keep your family together. But the lines have gotten really long, and yes, they wait outside the border. Those arrested are trying to break the line, even when being told not to do that.

If the FBI will knowing groom mentally disabled people into carrying out acts of terrorism, like they did with Jeremy Drake Varnell it also has to be considered if they allow acts to be carried out, or created a situation in which they lost control of.

It is difficult to have faith in congressional oversight, when partisanship is always the ultimate concern.

You know what the difference between today and the 1980's were? That the attack in San Bernardino and Pulse Nightclub both could have been stopped. What happened?

Omar got reported, and yet the authorities ended up doing nothing.

But then, the same goes for others.

I suppose we could live in the Draconian Police State you want, but I suspect you'd hate that.

And how about more in the UK, with those girls raped and being sold as sex slaves(just a fyi it's happening in the US too).

Yes, yes, West Texas is full of it.

And the muslims trying to take over schools to turn them into extremist breeding grounds(see trojan horse scandal).

No, that's Christians.

Well what do you know? In those dozens of cases it was all the same thing too.

I think we've got a problem. You know what it is? People are too politically correct and afraid of being labeled racist/islamophobe/etc.

Nope, it's the other way around. People are obsessively racist, islamophobic, and otherwise unable to see the problems are all over.

So afraid that they'll turn a blind eye to people preparing to carry out a terrorist attack. Until that changes this isn't going to change either. We could, avoid the whole "implement internet agenda thing." The answer is in this paragraph. And you know as well as I do that the left has a very long history the last decade of going after people for daring to say "that muslim looks like they're going to blow people up."

Yeah, that's because you say it so much, then you attack some Sikhs.

After all, that's what happened in Rotterdam and why 1000+ girls were raped and used as sex toys after all....for over a decade.

Clean your own closet first.

You don't really care though, that's why you won't even bat an eye at the stuff in your own backyard.

You'll do nothing but scream and pout in a tantrum.

Apparently you are, not only that you're an idiot to boot. The "line that I'm pushing" is people are afraid of doing something and being labeled racist for doing it.

To make it very simple for you: They're willing to look the other way because of fear, and they're willing to look so hard in the other direction that people are dying because of it.

Yes, the FBI is unable to investigate right-wing terrorism because of that attitude.

Some of

On its tax form, OBI describes one of its key programs as managing the blood donations from more than 209,000 people each year. The blood is tested and processed by OBI, then distributed “to patients across the states we serve,” a task that cost $65 million but generated $75 million in the 2012 tax year.

I know that if I donated my blood thinking it was going to save a life, and it was instead sold for profit, I'd be a little disturbed.

Do you honestly think blood isn't already sold for profit to hospitals?

Unless bricks actually can fly 30m high and in a 50m radius.

43m, sounds about right :)

Randomly digging through the earth can in fact be quite destructive. Just ask anyone who's ever done just that without calling the utilities first, and opened a Natural Gas main. Or anybody living in north-central Fracklahoma

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

This is Oklahoma. And today's Oklahoma is a Right wing Christian state, run by socil conservatives. And they are in a metric fuckton of financial trouble. Seems that the modern day pseudo conservative one side only stuff isn't working out that well:

http://www.stwnewspress.com/ne...

http://oklahomawatch.org/2013/...

http://newsok.com/article/5456...

And the juicy fun awesome part is there are hardly any liberals to blame everthing on. House, senate, Governor all in lockstep and idealogically pure. Must be one Liberal with awesome powers that can make all those problems..

THe point? I suspect the two situations are related. Since you can't tax people, you have to outright steal it from them in Oklahoma.

Here's some background for you: State Rep. Sally Kern files three bills targeting gays"

rejecting AP History for speeches like "the sermon known as"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God""

OK Reps using their authority in attempting to ban "anti-Biblical plays"

The 10 Commandments monument was directly against the OK Constitution, so now their attempting to change it. Highly ironic seeing the divorce rate of many of their members.

Counter this with our courts saying Forced sodomy isn't illegal if she's unconscious.

Don't want to get raped by a OK cop? Well, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain George Brown main suggestion is First and foremost: Do your part, and do what it takes to obey the traffic laws and not get stopped

Don't forget the attempt to mandate Creationism being taught in public schools,

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure someone who really wants to could find far more examples, these are just the more recent ones. These attempted laws are quite diversion, and are going down the path of ISIS.

Here's some background for you: State Rep. Sally Kern files three bills targeting gays"

rejecting AP History for speeches like "the sermon known as"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God""

OK Reps using their authority in attempting to ban "anti-Biblical plays"

The 10 Commandments monument was directly against the OK Constitution, so now their attempting to change it. Highly ironic seeing the divorce rate of many of their members.

Counter this with our courts saying Forced sodomy isn't illegal if she's unconscious.

Don't want to get raped by a OK cop? Well, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain George Brown main suggestion is First and foremost: Do your part, and do what it takes to obey the traffic laws and not get stopped

Don't forget the attempt to mandate Creationism being taught in public schools,

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure someone who really wants to could find far more examples, these are just the more recent ones. These attempted laws are quite diversion, and are going down the path of ISIS.

You are the one spreading FUD. Earthquake swarms like the one OK is having now have occurred many times in the past, long before gas well drilling started. There's no reason other than FUD to associate the tremors with human activity.

Lies. Damn Lies. Statistics.

You are the one spreading FUD. Earthquake swarms like the one OK is having now have occurred many times in the past, long before gas well drilling started. There's no reason other than FUD to associate the tremors with human activity.

Seven Year Old San Francisco Girl Struck and Killed By Uber Driver; Uber Denies Responsibility http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

Boston Uber Driver Charged with indecent Assault and Battery http://www.bostonglobe.com/met...

Off-Duty LA Uber Driver Accused of Sexual Assault http://www.bizjournals.com/los...

Chicago Uber Driver With Felony Conviction Charged With Battery For Allegedly Hitting Passenger http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Writer and Activist Reports Being Choked in DC; Uber Denies The Event and Responsibility http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping http://www.washingtoncitypaper...

San Francisco Uber Customer Claims Abuse and Assault by Uber Driver (Pando) http://pando.com/2013/11/25/ub...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver Pulls Gun on Valet in Atlanta http://pando.com/2014/09/08/at...

Uber Driver Punches Passenger in Oklahoma http://newsok.com/oklahoma-cit...

Lyft Driver Attacks Pedestrian in San Francisco http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...

Lyft Driver Brandishes Knife in Los Angeles http://www.laweekly.com/2013-0...

Uber Customer Sues for $2M over Alleged Driver Stabbing in DC http://dcinno.streetwise.co/20...

DC Uber Driver Allegedly Rapes Customer http://betabeat.com/2013/03/ub...

Uber Driver Charged with Fondling Passenger in Chicago http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...

DC Uber Driver Arrested for Alleged Rape But Not Charged Despite Strong Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Another DC Uber Driver Accused of Molesting Uber Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/an...

Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...

Uber Driver in India Accused of Rape http://www.bbc.c

Oklahoma is discussing doing exactly that, http://newsok.com/support-for-death-penalty-remains-bipartisan-in-oklahoma/article/5399877/?page=1.

You don't need a gun at your nightstand, it's never going to be a matter of seconds that saves you.

You do realize that when you make a statement like that, it takes only a single counterexample to prove you wrong?

Like this: The mother tells 7 Action News she "didn't have time to get scared." When she heard the door to her home on Woodrow Wilson being kicked in, she immediately warned the three teenage intruders and then opened fire.

Or this: "Apparently the homeowner has been the victim of burglary recently so he was on alert, he was on edge, and as soon as he heard glass breaking he armed himself to protect himself and his 11-year-old child who was in the home."

Or this: "Police said Henry broke into the house and began to attack Moreno until her daughter, Jayda Milsap, 11, shot Henry twice with a handgun." Now there's a story about kids and guns you probably didn't see on the news. If this mom had kept her gun locked so her daughter couldn't get to it, they both might be dead now.

So I'm sorry to inform you of this, but when it comes to violent crime the world does not work the way you think that it does. When an armed person is suddenly and without prior warning in your home, you are in a combat situation. And in a combat situation, seconds matter.

Whether the risk of being prepared for such a situation does or does not outweigh the risks of having an unlocked gun around depends on your risk of home invasion, who lives in the house, who visits the house, and so on. A universal assessment is impossible. But in making the choice you need to be aware that there is a tremendous selection bias in the stories that are covered in the media: defensive firearms use does not receive nearly the coverage that the accidental shooting of a kid does, but is orders of magnitude more common.

He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:

And I am sure our wonderful District Attorney Prater is already on his way to file life in prison charges against the owner of the company who saved countless lives by shooting and killing this maniac. But that's modern liberal life in Oklahoma. Kill a gun wielding thief, go to jail for life. Kill a couple of unarmed innocents, go to jail for maybe 10 years, out in 5.

He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:

According to the state corrections department, Nolen was convicted in January 2011 of multiple felony drug offenses, assault and battery on a police officer and escape from detention. He was released from prison in March 2013. Neither woman had any relationship with Nolen.

This guy will plead to criminal mischief or something, do 18 months and return to commit more non-terrorist crimes.

And here in Oklahoma, our electric utilities have decreed that "“When customers have the opportunity to reduce their use of a product or find another provider of such service, utility earnings growth is threatened," so now we have extra taxes on anyone who tries to generate their own electric and send their excess back to the grid.

Personally, if I had a "non utility" power source, at this point I'd just say "well, screw you then" and not even bother trying to distribute back to the grid. Use the extra power to run a huge neon sign saying something like "THIS ELECTRICITY COULD BE YOUR IF NOT FOR PSO"...wouldn't be the first time a consumer has actively advertised against Oklahoma utility companies!

Nope, just the regular ones. Oklahoma doesn't get enough snow to make snow tires worth it, just enough that we're not all total noobs when some happens to fall.

You might be correct but not because of snow depths or frequency.
            http://downloads.newsok.com/kn...
However it is clear that chains or cable chains are worth the
investment. Snow tires are near worthless in an ice storm
and a great rain tire can work just as well.

Minnesota snow at 10F and colder is almost a dusting of light sand.
However in the temp range of 30-34F things can get slippery to
a degree that is just difficult.

Winter.... some days are simply chess and checkers walk over to the
neighbor weather.

I agree with most of your points but there's still the issue of public data sets that the governments either provide for a fee or are required to provide open access to by law. For example in most states when you buy a car, your state's department of motor vehicles will sell that information to anybody willing to pay for it. Oklahoma and Ohio ando other states for example sells residents personal data, along with your birth dates etc. to pretty much anyone to generate revenue. In most cases you can't opt out. Now if you take one of those anonymized data sets, like the census which includes economic and other demographic data it's pretty easy to tag somebody by name, what your home is worth, how much you make and so on. That's not conspiracy theory it's a fact and companies like Spokeo and Intelius make a lot of money mining public information that anybody can access for a nominal fee. Another area of big concern are license plate scanners which effectively catch every license plate they can, not just scofflaws with parking tickets or criminals and the data collected on your movements. Since it's local government agencies keeping that data, they know who you are. If you carry a cell phone along with that I could take that anonymous data and correlate your position from what the GPS tracked license plate scanner says and come up with a very, very close approximation of your location and what you do day in and day out. The problem is most of these enabling technologies are both a blessing and a curse and where your data privacy is concerned it' as you point out, like living in a small town where everybody knows your business. The problem is you don't know who's doing the talking behind your back or what they're talking about where you're concerned. Marketing is one thing but having my government track me just because I'm going about my daily, lawful routine is only 1 degree of separation from a totalitarian state. Cheap access to data and better and better mining techniques and algorithms are making this all possible, it's just that our legislators have either not kept up with it or have ignored our privacy in lieu of padding the coffers of the state or in the Federal governments case the "War on Terror" which also now means "The War on Drugs" ... and "The War on you."

The only way to stop it is to start enacting a privacy bill of rights and start to hold the assholes in the Federal and State Governments accountable for keeping your private data truly private. The NSA needs to be abolished, completely; there is no level of public trust that can be re-attained by an agency of guys thinking that they're James T. Kirk.

Everyone has a vice for coping with a hard, painful world. Sometimes it is drinking. Sometimes it is smoking. Sometimes it is cheating on their partner. Porn. Hard drugs; and some would dare to argue that prescribed psyche medication is the same thing but more legal. Escapism to the fantasy of books/movies/games. The excitement of gambling. In the absence of these things people will do absolutely absurd things to get out of their skull such as strangling themselves or "i-dosing". Don't forget about suicide. Many brilliant minds belong to someone addicted to something or depressed and looking for a way out. While I don't smoke or use any drugs myself I won't judge anybody who does too hard.

It amazes me when people are treated like criminals or animals and they don't become infuriated, or even react.

Who says that? You're marketing fodder, something that can be collected and used as data for monetary gain. Are you that Naive to assume that everybody out there wants to be your friend and just give you stuff for free? Free Services, step right up, get your Free Services, get your Free software right here. Yes, there are a *few* who have good intentions however there's a lot of folks out there making a buck on every click, every preference and every search you do. You use a credit card, the banks, the vendor, the credit card company are all tracking you. You buy an airline ticket, the same thing happens + the airline + the government and anybody else they'll sell your information to.

http://www.budgettravel.com/blog/a-rare-peek-at-homeland-securitys-files-on-travelers,10313/
http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/06/pf/banks_sell_shopping_data/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

Do you drive a car? If so your government is probably selling your information to dealerships, insurance companies and others.

http://blog.newsok.com/politics/2010/04/05/oklahoma-brings-in-millions-by-selling-personal-data/

Did you download that free app on your phone? It's tracking you.

http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16530607-a-shock-in-the-dark-flashlight-app-tracks-your-location?lite

If you think that's treating you like a criminal then we're all criminals.

That has what to do with this?

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/creepy-graph-searchers/

Now you can have pedophiles stalk your kids all with the neat, new graph search!

The point is, you don't get something for nothing. Not in this day and age when every innocuous thing you do is tracked, mined and analyzed 100 different ways. In the case of Ubuntu, they're just following the crowd.

Would you rather be tased (unpleasant, effects wear off shortly, no lasting damage)...

Right, because no one has ever been killed by a taser.

http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/pages/home.php

That area of Oklahoma is not a big natural gas location or oil producing area that I know of. The quake was approximately 30 miles from Cushing, Oklahoma. The "Pipeline Crossroads of the world", a major hub in pipelines that connect the gulf coast to the interior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushing,_Oklahoma No reported damage that I know of there.

It was extremely amazing for someone who's never felt an earthquake like that. A slow rumbling to start, felt like a big truck passing outside, then building up, and starting to shake the house more, then significant vibrations going on for some time. Very different from the last big earthquake that hit closer to Oklahoma City last Oct 2010. That one had a short sharp type vibration that didnt last very long at all. http://newsok.com/oklahoma-earthquake-small-to-moderate-quake-rattles-nerves/article/3504094

It wasn't until it was over that I gave any thought to trying to get out of the house or anything.

The writer of the article -- which despite Slashdot's implication, is not in The Daily Oklahoman but in the University of Oklahoma student newspaper -- makes several valid points, and I fully agree with his conclusion. But he couldn't hide his bias:

We should be concerned with the 12.7 percent of Americans who live below the poverty line, or the 7.9 million people who die worldwide because of cancer, or the 9,000 innocent Afghani civilians we've killed fighting an unjustified war...

I know I'm going to anger my fellow Green Party members with this, but a little bit of history is relevant. We were attacked from Afghanistan. They made themselves a target. The fact that President Bush was to afflicted by his ADHD to focus on one war at a time, causing massive failure in Afghanistan, doesn't negate the fact that we had the right (and even international support of that right) to invade the country.

Sure, it's not fair to paint the entire article by this one off-putting statement. But it diminishes the argument greatly -- it's a Godwin effect. If I were to, say, repost it on Facebook, its effect would be negated by a reply saying "This loser thinks we shouldn't have fought the terrorists in the first place".

It sounds like the student has been in a debate class at some point. He should have known better.

You don't seem to understand this newfangled "burden of proof" concept.

It would've mattered in court. In our argument it is not as important, because it is not, what my point hinges on. The one-hour minimum overtime was just an example of a possible absurd rule.

If you actually support the claim, sure, then it stops being BS.

Are you, actually, denying, that the gross abuses in the Union-contracts exist? More like are simply trying to bog me down with this meaningless nit-picking... Here are some overtime-related examples for you:

• Up until this year, employees of Wall Street Journal had a 5-hour minimum overtime pay. That's gone now, but only in exchange for other concessions.
• If the employee works more than one-half of an extra consecutive shift, the time worked for the entire extra shift shall be paid at time and one-half of pay. Yep, round it up — AFL-CIO are proud of this one, they quote it, even if without the full text.
• Firefighters received overtime pay regardless of whether they worked more than scheduled because their union contract guarantees regularly scheduled overtime (emphasis mine).
• The union contract for Muni operators prevents the SFMTA from hiring part-time drivers, meaning overtime must be paid overtime

The last two, in particular, blow up your entire argument about employees "not caring" for employees, and "forcing" to work overtime... The examples show, how the unions consider the overtime rules as a "benefit".

Of course, you know, my example was valid. BS here is produced by you — at least, the bulls produce it through proper orifices...

Dissent isn't un-American. What Pelosi said was that drowning out the other side so that there cannot be any debate is un-American. I agree. The town hall protesters are not interested in a debate. They are showing up, and walking up within a few feet of the speaker to yell at them in a physically-threatening manner.

Mr. Gingrinch opines that Obama's health care plan has spectres of Nazism. Protesters promptly paint swastikas onto the door of politicians who support the plan and waive signs calling Obama a Nazi. A black politician received death threats, and references to himself and Obama as "niggers". They are standing outside of town hall meetings with guns strapped to their legs with a sign saying it's time to water the tree of liberty.

The protesters don't even have anything intelligent to say other than, "YOU'RE LYING TO ME!" and "YOU'RE A BUNCH OF SOCIALISTS." That's not debate. That's a hateful mob trying to rule by intimidation. Look up videos of these confrontations. It's freaking terrifying. Tell me that's American.

For more fun, look up how Republicans and conservatives freely called Democrats un-American or anti-American. For fuck's sake, a few months ago, Republican Senator Inhofe called Obama "un-American" for opposing the war in Iraq. A speech is un-American but showing up threatening physical force and painting swastikas is not?

So in conclusion, you don't know what you're talking about.

Sounds more like you don't.

Europe: 3.5m pounds paid out in vaccine damages

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4356027.stm

more than $916 MILLION dollars have been paid to people injured by vaccines, not just those claiming autism, because every single case there has been dismissed.

Source: http://newsok.com/high-court-should-reject-vaccine-suits/article/3321176

My in-laws' cattle get one scoop of corn a day in the winter, every other day in the summer. The scoop's an old Folger's coffee can, so call it two pounds. The rest of the time, they're eating grass or hay. I've never followed them around, but I'm told that a 1,200 lb cow eats 28 lbs of hay/day.

Not knowing the stats I googled for them and came across TFA "Film 'King Corn' goes to roots of food system problems". It says "80 million acres of corn are grown each year to feed cows". There's even a genetically engineered corn that's isn't approved for human consumption but is for cows, Starlink. According to an article in the "New York Times" "Most cattle feed is yellow corn, while white corn is grown almost exclusively for food."

The water that the cattle drink all comes from stream-fed ponds. Climate change might be a problem, but historically this area was forest, so the only well is for the house, not the livestock.

So they've got enough water then, but if they have a lot of cattle I wonder what all that manure does to the water quality.

Down in the flatlands, however, the rice farmers are complaining about the water table dropping, and they're sitting next to major rivers.

In the Klamath Basin of Oregon?

A similar venture was funded in my home state in 2001; it just got it's NASA funding pulled without a single martini served in orbit, far's I can tell. You'd think it was independent contractors with the lowest bid that built the shuttle, sheesh...

The Tuttle Times, with its hacked, misconfigured server, is too stupid, but try telling it to The Oklahoman of Oklaholma City. Tuttle is just a suburb of OK City.

That's a crazy story, although believable. However, the recent news in the case indicates that although there's probably something going on in that sheriff's race, the candidate doesn't face charges, and the original charges have been dropped. Even the statement that they'll be refiled isn't conclusive. And the arrests cited in your Free Republic post (needless to say, wildly biased in their reporting on alleged Democratic shenanigans) were on the word of an unnamed "informant", in a rural Oklahoma county's sheriff race, involving drug trades. Hardly a clear comparison to dropping eVotes when they conflict with a Republican winning the Miami mayor's office. Or any support for your hearsay about the Oklahoma legislature.

That said, it's clear that the actual infrastructure of voting in America is inadequate to represent the "people's choice" in representation. Why the sheriff, or any other justice official, is chosen by some of the people over whom they must administer impartial justice, especially including campaign bribery, is an example of the broken system. Some of those problems are flaws in old techniques dealing with old technologies. And some are problems demonstrated by our centuries of experience with our largely successful experiment in democracy. Let's fix them, now that we know how they go so wrong.

They are distributing the payoff (whoops, I meant settlement) to the local libraries here in Oklahoma

Not a bad use in my opinion but maybe they should make the libraries buy 2nd hand cd's and allow people to check them out. That might get the RIAA's attention. Payback can be such a bitch.