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Re:And for good reason by l0n3s0m3phr34k · 2016-05-16 08:46 · Score: 1 · on Are US Courts 'Going Dark'? (justsecurity.org)

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.

Re:And for good reason by l0n3s0m3phr34k · 2016-05-16 08:46 · Score: 1 · on Are US Courts 'Going Dark'? (justsecurity.org)

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.

Oklahoma unemployment site by l0n3s0m3phr34k · 2016-01-06 06:33 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 Reach End-of-Life Next Week (thenextweb.com)

This cracks me up, since the unemployment claims website says "This site is compatible with the Internet Explorer browser versions 5-9 only". Makes me wonder what they are running under the hood, and just how vulnerable the system is. Netcraft says IIS 6.0 on win2k3.

Re:interesting by danbert8 · 2013-09-19 08:55 · Score: 5, Informative · on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide

I listened to the NPR piece by Diane Rehm and it is SOOOO horribly biased. She only asks the one not very official spokesperson for fracking loaded questions and then cuts him off and lets the director of GasLand (and sequel) pretty much give a sales pitch on his movie. I'm not saying there aren't environmental consequences from fracking, but when the director of the documentary is saying the EPA, USGS, and other government studies showing the fracking isn't to blame can't be believed, then who DO you believe?

http://www.iogcc.state.ok.us/Websites/iogcc/Images/2009StateRegulatoryStatementsonHydraulic%20Fracturing.pdf
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3489

Now I'm not saying oil and gas extraction can't pollute the water supply. It can and frequently does. But even if there is contamination around fracking sites, it isn't due to the fracking itself, but poor environmental controls in the supporting operation. The key here is not to fight fracking, but to fight to keep all the processes associated with well drilling within the rules of existing environmental regulations.

Blaming fracking for well contamination is equivalent to blaming GM because your gas tank leaks. (Obligatory Slashdot car analogy)

Re:Depends on... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-18 04:33 · Score: 1 · on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail

There's certainly something in what you say. This map shows Louisiana and Oklahoma with more prisoners per capita than any other states, and half of Oklahoma's private prisons have no oklahomans in them.. However, New York and Illinois have outlawed them, but both are almost in the middle (slightly lower than 50th percentile) of the list of incarcerations per capita (see map).

Personally, I don't think private prisons should exist.

Less than impressive... by Sooner+Boomer · 2011-08-19 19:31 · Score: 4, Informative · on New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business

I mean, if you want a "Spaceport", why not go to where the facilities are the best? The Okla. Spaceport in Burns Flat has longer, wider runways (13,503' x 300' w/1000 overruns versus only 10,000' x 200'), better access to major transportation and major population centers, 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility with loading docks adjacent to main line rail spur, and a golf course on site. BTW, it's where Armadillo Aerospace goes to play

Re:Just as much right? by BarefootClown · 2010-06-18 10:05 · Score: 4, Informative · on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers

Oooh, can I play jailhouse lawyer too?

Let's start with links. You opened with Wikipedia; I'll see your Wikipedia and raise you Oklahoma's Legislative Service Bureau, http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/. Click the nifty underlined bit and it'll take you to the text of the entire body of Oklahoma statutes (I picked Oklahoma because it's a noted hotbed of tornado activity). "Reckless endangerment," by name or concept, didn't exist under Title 21, Crimes and Punishments, but Title 47, Motor Vehicles, contains "reckless driving:"

47 11 901. Reckless driving.
A. It shall be deemed reckless driving for any person to drive a motor vehicle in a careless or wanton manner without regard for the safety of persons or property or in violation of the conditions outlined in Section 11 801 of this title.
B. Every person convicted of reckless driving shall be punished upon a first conviction by imprisonment for a period of not less than five (5) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment; on a second or subsequent conviction, punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than ten (10) days nor more than six (6) months, or by a fine of not less than One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Now, that makes true reckless driving a misdemeanor. However, you're arguing that driving in a place where one has every legal right to be becomes reckless driving simply because of inclement weather. The courts disagree. To wit:

Athey v. Bingham, 823 P.2d 347 (Okla. 1991). "Snow and sleet were falling on the ice-covered road. . . . The fact that a motor vehicle collision occurred does not necessarily raise the presumption that the defendant was following too closely, driving too fast to bring the car to a stop, or driving too fast for highway conditions." The Court did not even consider the idea that the driver shouldn't have been out in the weather at all.
Wade v. Reimer, 359 P.2d 1071 (Okla. 1961). "Shortly after they left [the city of] Yale it started raining hard and puddles of water began to accumulate on the surface of the highway. Defendant, driving at a speed estimated variously from 50 to 65 miles per hour, steered the vehicle so as to avoid these puddles. As they approached a point approximately 10 miles west of Yale, the two right wheels of the pick-up suddenly came off the pavement to the right shoulder of the road. The vehicle slid ‘sideways' back across the entire concrete width of the highway and then through the adjoining bar ditch crashing into a tree. . . . Before a driver may be found guilty of [reckless driving], the triers must necessarily conclude first that his actions amounted to ordinary common law negligence." The court held that even a guilty plea to reckless driving does not establish negligence per se; the jury still has to decide whether the specific actions were negligent. The jury did not find the defendant negligent. Again, the idea that "you shouldn't have been out in this weather" was never even considered, let alone seriously entertained by the Court.
Green v. Thompson, 344 P.2d 272 (Okla. 1959). Holding that the fact that an accident occurred does not necessarily mean anybody was negligent; citations to Taylor v. Ray, 56 P.2d 376 (Okla 1936) and National Tank Co. v. Scott, 130 P.2d 316 (Okla. 1942) and Kraft Foods Co. v. Chadwell, 249 P.2d 1002 (Okla. 1952), all of which also held that the mere fact of an accident doesn't prove negligence or recklessness.

So, if you'll bother to read the provided cases, I think you'll find that chasing tornadoes does not ipso factor constitute "reckless endangerment" (or even the actual crime of reckless driving), nor the tort of negligence. The specific circumstances of the case may give rise to an action in either, but it's not "the literal definition."

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Re:It's Worse Than You think! by mweather · 2010-01-15 06:12 · Score: 1 · on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project

I've been hearing this thrown around a lot lately...where exactly are these 'for-profit prisons' and jails?

Here is a map. It doesn't show the actual locations, but it gives number and percentage of prisoners in private prisons by state.

Re:Phoenix has done screwed up. by Q-Hack! · 2009-04-04 08:36 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department

Does anyone deserve to be menaced by a gun?

Yes, there are plenty of reasons that would cause me to "menace" you with a gun...

Re:Pleeeese! by Anonymous Coward · 2008-04-15 07:54 · Score: 1, Interesting · on Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers

"Real action" is a joke.
They removed the link to the page and blocked off a page.
Google cache reveals the truth, and a link from there even allows searches. I can't be bothered to go SQL-injection hunting today, but I'm betting they're there from one look at the old problems at TheDailyWTF.
http://docapp8.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&_pageid=426

Re:Three questions. by Zymergy · 2008-03-20 11:46 · Score: 1 · on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents

Thanks. I should have said the word "Fluorescent".
Here is a link about Mercury contained in FLUORESCENT lights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Environmental_issues
When anyone must rely on the comparison between the "benefits" of a particular "better" lighting source over the Toxic Heavy Metals (Mercury) it releases into the environment and to further claim that it is "better" because a coal-fired electric-power plant's Mercury exhaust releases over the bulb's lifetime are "less".
Hell, there is an alert on eating Mercury contaminated fish in my state: http://www.deq.state.ok.us/factsheets/land/fishmerc.pdf (PDF Warning)
Gimme a break. I need to put on some taller boots...

LEDs are the ONLY environmental alternative and they blow away incandescent and fluorescent lighting all of the environmental issues. (Plus they last MUCH longer than any other single current lighting technology). Please read on: http://www.creelighting.com/products.htm

NOTE: CO2 is reabsorbed into the environment and therefore it is *removed* by nature, Mercury is in the water and food and soil nearly forever (on human time scales) and can only be *diluted*.

Re:Big Brother, nothing we can do? by nadamsieee · 2006-04-11 07:42 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Helps Write Oklahoma's Anti-Spyware Law

If you can understand weasle-ese, the actual law might help to answer your question.

Re:Who mod'ed that "troll"? by johndiii · 2006-04-11 07:31 · Score: 3, Informative · on Microsoft Helps Write Oklahoma's Anti-Spyware Law

One would think that people would oppose it (text of the bill (RTF document)). But... It has passed, or is under consideration, in other states. Microsoft is not the sole originator, but a group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. It supposedly "...advances the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and individual liberty...", but actually seems more interested in making corporate policy into state law.

The Microsoft campaign contributions mentioned in the article (a slightly more readable version) are also worth noting.

Re:Ignoring the Facts: defining "authoritarian" by Thangodin · 2006-01-26 08:29 · Score: 1 · on Both Parties Ignore the Facts

The very fact that the time of the event is chosen by the criminal and not you is what makes the difference. He knows that trouble is about to happen, because he is the one initiating it. You don't. And in the absence of "safer targets"--which is what you will have if everyone is armed--the criminals will gear up, as they do in L.A. when they fight each other.

I wouldn't brag about the crime rates in Texas, by the way. Violent crime in Texas is one of the highest of any State (6th), and in fact, one of the highest in the Western World. Drops in the crime rate have happened in all states, due to changes in demographics, as the number of young males ages 17 to 30 have declined as a percentage of the population. This is not because of gun policy, which has not really changed in Texas. The consistently high rate of violent crime is more indicative of the results of the gun policy there.

Why bother building a spaceport? by wcrowe · 2005-12-14 06:14 · Score: 1 · on Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico

A spaceport already exists today in Oklahoma.

(I am not making this up)

Re:Ok I'll bite... by Renegrade · 2005-04-10 16:56 · Score: 1 · on Space Elevator Update

Well, if risk of death is a good reason to avoid things, perhaps we should totally ban cars from any usage. They kill about 40,000 people a year down south in the States. (a random googled reference, find your own if you doubt the number)

Obviously caution is warrented in any such project, but let's not get worked up over some dock workers who -might- be at risk if a major catastrophe occurred. Hell, they would have been killed the next week in an auto accident anyways.

Re:Quick reminder by MouseR · 2004-12-01 13:44 · Score: 1 · on HIV Vaccine

Oh, and before I'm trolled -1 for totally ignoring other countries, I did consult the World Heath Organization web site.

Worldwide, according to WHO, 8000 people die of AIDS every day. That's 2.9 million people (2,920,000). That's.

Nearly 1 million people die of hearth diseases in the US alone. Yearly.

live crash test dummies by morcheeba · 2004-11-30 05:29 · Score: 1 · on Things To Do Before You Die

Apparently there was a program in Germany where, if you were convicted of a DUI and were facing some heavy jail time, you could volunteer to be a crash-test dummy and reduce your sentence. Not semi vs. volkswagen tests, but still without a seatbelt. A teacher friend of mine would show these films to his physics class.

a reference to GERMAN CRASH FILM - Impactive film using real people to portray the effectiveness of safety belt protection in actual crash situations - 12 minutes

Fuck the Fuckin' South by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-12 12:02 · Score: 0, Troll · on Outsourcing To Rural America

Fuck the south. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years dickheads. Fuck off.

Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. Let the Spanish keep it, it's a shithole, we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

The next dickwad who says, It's your money, not the government's money is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least ... can you guess? Go on, guess. That's right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It's too easy, asshole, they're blue states. It's not your money, assholes, it's fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

Let's talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It's fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of t

I love Apple, but fuck the south! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-12 11:19 · Score: -1, Troll · on NeXTSTEP To Mac OS X

Fuck the South. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years dickheads. Fuck off.

Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. Let the Spanish keep it, it's a shithole, we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

The next dickwad who says, It's your money, not the government's money is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That's right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It's too easy, asshole, they're blue states. It's not your money, assholes, it's fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

Let's talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It's fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marria

I care you insensitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-11 20:12 · Score: -1, Troll · on Siemens Sells Skype Adapters For Wireless Phones