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  1. Re:Female programmers on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Biggest boobs I've ever seen on a programmer were moobs.

  2. Re:Meth Capitol of Southeast on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    The new welfare is SS disability.

    Sense 'welfare reform' SS disability has been growing by 1 million/year.

    Does anybody believe their are another million actually disabled people every year? Obvious nonsense, scammers.

  3. Re:It's common in trucking I know on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, they will get better at cheating the new test and the rate will drop back to 1 in 20.

  4. Re:Only $9B valuation... on Theranos Withdraws Two Years of Blood Test Results (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Clinton. Holding my nose. But gridlock must continue.

    Could change if it looked like they would also get the Senate. Then Vermin Supreme.

    In the edge case that they would also get the house, It's Trump.

  5. Re:Only $9B valuation... on Theranos Withdraws Two Years of Blood Test Results (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Clinton owned the first .com bubble and collapse. As much as politicians can own economics.

  6. Re:Only $9B valuation... on Theranos Withdraws Two Years of Blood Test Results (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In hindsight, no.

    The nations that spent like you suggest are currently having a much slower recoveries.

    Granting the data is very noisy and cases are not equal. Not enough nations spent like the USA to draw a definitive conclusion. SOP for economics. Everybody sees the same data and comes to their usual conclusion.

  7. Re:Bomb or missile on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Proximity fuse changed that.

  8. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    If you never had a dismissal, the druggies knew exactly how to beat the test. The 'goo' looks exactly like a sports drink. Get the call, drink the drink, refill bottle with water and drink, twice. Pee before taking test, drink more water after peeing. Guaranteed negative test.

    False negatives are easy, spend a little time Googling as though you were trying to 'study' for a drug test.

    Unless the employer breaks bread and goes straight to the hair test, it's theater for the workers comp rates/contract requirements. Workers comp cost deltas don't cover hair testing, so basically only paranoid Vegas casinos do that. Even there, special shampoo.

    The basic problem is cheap drug tests don't catch the drugs that really make people untrustworthy.

    As for me, I was sitting in a meeting: Big cheese says to a Phd applied mathematician, 'Fix it by the end of the week or we're sending you to Amsterdam to explain to the client why it doesn't work'. Me: 'What can I screw up to get sent to Amsterdam? Say the word and it's as good as broken.'

    This was years ago. If the big cheese had know I wanted seeds, he would have wanted some medicine himself.

  9. Re:OMG! 5% on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    That's about right. 1 in 20 hasn't yet learned how to cheat on the the test.

    Where did you find 20 known drug users to test?

  10. Re:What a load of BS on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    No one has ever failed. In other words, it's very easy to cheat on the test.

  11. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    I've worked with some very smart Indians. But the elitist Indians (Brahmen) are air thieves, every one. Useless, non workers who will try to 'assign' all their duties to co-workers the first day on the job.

    Never hire Brahmen. The trick is finding the lower caste 'assistant' the Brahmen had at IIT. He's the one who took all the tests and did all the work, hire him.

  12. Re: I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy.

    Nobody produces bug free code. Which is why you don't just compile, link and ship.

    The worst code I've seen has been produced by sober morons. One kept trying to change the subject from his crap code to 'my relationship with Jebus'. He didn't last long, bet he blames it on religious discrimination.

  13. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Of course it's drug testing theater. That theater has been going on for decades. Everybody knows how it's played. The boss needs a 'drug free workplace' cert to save money on workers comp.

  14. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    'Look the other way' is not the same as 'not having the budget and unable to find juries that will convict'.

  15. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    How many students smoke Adderall?

    Dose matters.

  16. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    At that level, the tests are always the easy to defeat kind.

    All the employees in the trades know the game. Even the few sober ones. There would be no paint crews staffed if drug tests worked, let's not even talk about the low level 'crete crews.

  17. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 2

    The first test is also ridiculously easy to produce a false negative on.

    That's why they did the phone call thing. Until they did that, they were likely catching too many people. Have to give them time to drink the goo and a half gallon of water (study for the drug test).

    There are whole industries that could not have stayed staffed (anytime in the last 40+ years) if 'drug tests' actually worked.

    It took them more than 20 years before they started checking the pH of the pee. The tests don't work outside a fairly narrow range.

    It took them another 20 years before they started checking for dilution by superhydration and diuretics.

    They don't want the test to work.

  18. Re:Lol... on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Jump up and down until, at least, one of your balls drops.

    Learn to say 'thanks for letting me know, I'll be on it first thing .' Then hangup. Better still, just turn your ringer off, at least for the PHB.

  19. Re:Lol... on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    In the US a sober alcoholic is protected. A drunk one is no more protected than a normal drunk.

    Drinking with your immediate supervisor is your best bet.

  20. Re:Lol... on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 2

    Read the article.

    If HR ever gives you an apparently meaningless 'follow the bouncing ball' test, sandbag or drink some beers before your baseline test. You want to be just a little over your Ballmer peak, like you would be coming back from lunch and ready to kick ass.

  21. Re:And this will change nobody's minds.. on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's in the nature of a F1 plant hybrid ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). The children won't be like the hybrid was, they will each be a different combination of the original two plants crossed to make the hybrid. Some almost like one or the other, some in between. Rarely economical as a whole.

  22. Re:a painting is not an image on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:I just wish notifications would work on iOS on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    On Android, unless you have the status bar widget activated the Skype app just swaps out after a couple of hours and never gets any CPU time.

    They recently changed the default to 'don't show status'.

    MS doesn't care. The only help on the support forums is other uses with the same problem.

    Even with the widget enabled, it's very flaky.

  24. Same thing that happens when you run it to the front of the car park, just with shorter wire runs.

    They need dedicated service anyhow. The service comes in from the street, not the building.

  25. Re:Slave Labor Built This Country. on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Slaves are lousy workers. That's just a historic fact.

    The part of the country that had slavery was the poor part. They lost because their industry sucked.

    If you think minimum wage is slavery, there is no basis for a reasonable discussion. You're just too stupid.