Yep, I've been noticing that too. If you have a stock Android phone (as 99.9% of users do, figure freely pulled out of my ass) then you pretty much need to sign up for Google Everything in order to use any of it. Even if you specifically avoid the endless prompts to hand your soul to Google on initialisation, you quickly find that nothing much works (you can't install apps, can't get mail, etc) unless you let Google into your life, and then a week later you're off taking a dump and your phone bongs and it's a notification from Google that based on their tracking of your movements you need more fibre in your diet...

Ah, OK. I'm guessing it would also depend on the degree, since it's not black-and-white, someone with a score of 10-15 on the Hare Checklist (PCL-R) would probably be an effective (if perhaps not very popular, depending on how high-functioning they are) manager, but once you're getting into the 20+ range you're asking for trouble. Mind you that would also depend on the job, in the financial industry (banking, share trading) a 20-25 or more would probably just make you one of the gang, while a manager in the services industry with that score... shudder.

Why would you screen out non-psychopathy? Any company clueful enough to be aware of this problem certainly isn't going to want to hire managers with psychopathic (strictly speaking, antisocial personality disorder and related disorders) tendencies.

Deterring what, exactly? Bruce Forsythe, Cilla Black, Peaches Geldof, Jeremy Beadle, the entire cast of Geordie Shore, who needs nuclear weapons when you've got that as a deterrent.

You really need to distinguish between cases where this is endemic and where it's caused by certain individuals. The linked article 10 Sure Shot Ways to Lose Your Team describes at least some behavioural traits that would correspond to one of the group of personality disorders for which the people who exhibit them are popularly referred to as sociopaths, and in their more extreme forms, psychopaths (unfortunately Hollywood has pretty much mangled most people's understanding of what that really means). This is why some companies specifically screen any management-level interviewees for psychopathic tendencies, they may appear to be (that is, create the illusion of being) effective managers, but they're actually very destructive to the company in the long term.

My reaction to reading the abstract was "And this is news?". What's next, "Cat stuck up tree"? I suppose if it was "Cat with vaguely Apple logo-shaped patch on fur stuck up tree" it'd probably make it too.

I'm 1.95m (6'5" for Americans) and once had to fly Austrian Airlines transatlantic. They have 31 or even 30" seat spacing, the seats were so cramped I had to sit with my legs angled out sideways, and to shift them from the right to the left had to lift them up, move across, and drop them down again (bit hard to explain in text form). For eight hours.

Result: I've asked our travel people to never, ever book me on an Austrian flight again. Well, that and Hello Kitty Airways.

So they may have saved a few dollars by squashing in some extra seats, but they've permanently lost a passenger who does quite a bit of flying to Austria. I don't know how many others they've lost this way...

You call that a splitter? This is a splitter.

Well it is normal practice to not consider cleaning the toilet until the occupant has finished their paperwork.

It's certainly a something thing. Here's a conversation I had with a construction worker in NY:

I just assumed it was some kind of union thing, they're being paid to eat but not anything else, so if I want to ask whether I can grab a seat I have to do it during paid work hours.

From TFA

They actually use a variant of PMR that's based on magnetic monopoles. The reason why they're "shipping only to select enterprise clients" is because there's a limited supply of those, looted by the Red Army from a secret Nazi lab in 1945 and only recently rediscovered in former NKVD archives in a bunker outside Moscow.

Not a lot of people know that...

From TFA

What this backwards statement is actually saying is

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I expect the packaging to be a Windows 7 box with a "9" sticker strategically pasted over the "7".