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Oddly enough, we actually DID do a LEO model years back, which was actually pretty effective, but it encouraged things like community outreach and police/citizen interaction which worked really well for officers on the ground but pissed off lawmakers and 'police unions', so it was largely dropped.

For several years I lived in walking distance between a police station and a neighborhood responsible for the vast majority of the police calls in the area. I could see the police station from my house, and the troubled neighborhood was a 10 minute walk behind me. I never, not once in five+ years, saw a cop on foot in my neighborhood.

For cops to be effective, they actually need to be part of the community. They can't just be a faceless, quasi-criminal organization which is not accountable to the citizens around them, and who those citizens don't know. Given their abuses and utter lack of engagement, I developed a healthy disdain for the police, and a fair bit of distrust for them. If that's where a white, middle-class attitude ends up, I can't imagine how poorly they were viewed by the folks who they actually came into contact with viewed them.

We don't need algorithms. We need police willing to be part of a community who are trusted to be fair and respected for being helpful, and not police viewed with fear and disrespect for being unaccountable murderous thugs and criminals who think they're better than everyone else. While Cracked isn't exactly an authoritative source, they had a very interesting interview with a brittish bobby at one point. What was really eye-opening is how much training they got to deal with people, and how "The one lesson that everyone who ever became a half-decent copper did take on board was that the most important piece of officer safety equipment we ever had was talk." It's a really different story when cops are asked to be good for a community and when they don't have quotas and metrics and all sorts of things they can arrest people for.

GP is greatly exaggerating (probably because he's a racist), but there was an interview where employees at these companies admitted to trolling racists by fudging the results with trace heritage to the ethnicity the racist didn't like, which is hilarious, awesome, and valuable:

http://www.cracked.com/persona...

In case you have forgotten, last year there was a big scandal about 23andme employees adding african ancestry to test results to "screw with the racists": http://www.cracked.com/persona...

(Different AC) Yep, I guess so. Some people think a snarky line beats everything. Also because the current TV/News atmosphere is so conductive to happy stories.

  I'm sad for them, but read about the Monkey Sphere. I'm sorry for their loss and think Amazon needs to double-check (but not necessarily change!) the policy.

GLWT

All we've done is created developmentally delayed individuals who are only starting to grow into adults when they go to college and get the hell away from their overprotective parents.

If you trap kids inside all day, it shouldn't be any surprise that they turn to screens to give them something to do. Allow kids the opportunity to play outside and I suspect that many of them will naturally use screens a lot less frequently.

I doubt it's entirely the parents' fault. I imagine parents are keeping their kids indoors in order to keep them away from Child Overprotective Services.

• "5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested)" by Chan Teik Onn
• "5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today)" by C. Coville
• "Neighbor calls cops, child services on Texas mom for letting son play outside" by Philip Caulfield
• "Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail"
• "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS" by Katherine Martinko

All we've done is created developmentally delayed individuals who are only starting to grow into adults when they go to college and get the hell away from their overprotective parents.

If you trap kids inside all day, it shouldn't be any surprise that they turn to screens to give them something to do. Allow kids the opportunity to play outside and I suspect that many of them will naturally use screens a lot less frequently.

I doubt it's entirely the parents' fault. I imagine parents are keeping their kids indoors in order to keep them away from Child Overprotective Services.

• "5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested)" by Chan Teik Onn
• "5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today)" by C. Coville
• "Neighbor calls cops, child services on Texas mom for letting son play outside" by Philip Caulfield
• "Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail"
• "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS" by Katherine Martinko

Where is Cracked spouting RF alarmism? I thought that even for an infotainment site, Cracked was better than that. So let's first get on the same page as to which article we're looking at.

(searches the web for site:cracked.com cell phone radiation)
Are you referring to "5 Terrifying Realities Of My Job As A Cell Tower Climber" by Ryan Menezes? It mentions RF burn, falling, beehives and bird nests, urination, and dropped tools.

I thought the radio stations on San Andreas and Vice City were the best parts of the game. GTA V, in comparison, has bland, generic tunes, and the talk radio is woefully unfunny and boring.

SeanBaby is much more interesting than I am:

  SeanBaby

In real life, unless you're one of those dudes getting shot in the head or perfectly in the heart, you're probably going to make it if you can get medical attention. According to one doctor who has a little experience with these things, as long as your heart is still beating once they wheel you into the hospital, there is a 95 percent chance of survival.

Every few years, someone comes out with a social thing for forum thing or whatever, and they insist that using "real" names will make people better-behaved. Every time they are proven wrong. People we well-behaved in small groups, people are not well-behaved in large groups. Full stop.

Welcome to the Monkeysphere

I gather it has to do with the size of the group.

Welcome to the Monkeysphere

Pretty much describes the life cycle of every large country and corporation, from its idealized conception to its fall into the corrupt and greedy abyss.

FTFY. And it's an important distinction because there are a lot of small countries and corporations that are neither corrupt nor greedy. Norway, Finland, Denmark New Zealand etc all do well in the quality of life/low corruption indexes and they each only have population around 5 million. Maybe the solution is a physical hard limit to the amount of people any one organisation/country can grow to?

Someone smarter than me describes the problem here: http://www.cracked.com/article...

There have been small hippie communes that were communist but not authoritarian.

How many of these hippie communes survived for long once the population surpassed 150, the size of one monkeysphere?

Eh. When you know as many people as the Clinton's have, the chances of a number of them having crazy deaths is pretty high. Kind of like the list of Power Ranger actors that have died at young ages from accidents, illnesses or even landed in prison for murder. There isn't a "curse" on the show, just a natural effect of a huge number of people being involved in a long running franchise.

That said, Russiagaters everywhere need to have this, Vince Foster, and the alleged heroin smuggling operation the Clintons ran thrown in their faces on a daily basis. They keep bringing out the "where there's smoke, there's fire" line on Russian collusion, but the Clintons have more smoke than Trump does.

Admitting that Trump is a stopped clock which is right twice a day is a huge step forward. I mean, gargantuan. You mean Hitler is right twice a day?

Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Christine Todd Whitman: Donald Trump Muslim comments like Hitler's But Trump's most recent comments have drawn comparisons to Hitler, including a front page Tuesday on the Philadelphia Daily News showing Trump with his hand raised looking like a Nazi salute and the headline "The New Furor."

5 Ways Donald Trump Perfectly Mirrors Hitler's Rise To Power

The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler' - sex offender Louis CK

Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's

After Trump asked people at his rallies to raise their hands to swear to vote for him, the press compared it to the "Heil Hitler" salute from Nazi Germany.

Veritas means truth. In that context, it is worth keeping in mind that this is James O'Keefe who runs it, a man who has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to edit videos and take anything out of context http://www.cracked.com/article_20369_5-major-news-stories-that-forgot-to-tell-you-best-part.html https://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134525412/Segments-Of-NPR-Gotcha-Video-Taken-Out-Of-Context are two detailed examples. This is a man who literally lied about who he was as part of an attempt to bug a US Senator's phone http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html. Pretty much anything he says should be assigned zero credibility. It may well be that Twitter employees are reading direct messages routinely, or even doing so for political aims, but anything by Project Veritas should not be taken as serious evidence for such a claim.

It's the Reptilians. They have a penchant for pederasty.

I didn't get a pedo vibe from Chris Bucholz's interview with Mr. Malok.

I was half-joking...but I was serious that you may get an interview from the Secret Service specifically, as one of their duties is to protect the President. It's been done over milder statements.

Err....go outside and play with their friends?

That's dangerous...

for the parents. Local law enforcement in many places seems to consider playing outside to imply parental neglect. See, for example, "Children spend less time outside than prison inmates", "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS", "#1. Mom Arrested for Letting Children Play Outside", and "#5. Letting Kids Walk Places Alone".

Still, what between sunset and bedtime?

Err....go outside and play with their friends?

That's dangerous...

for the parents. Local law enforcement in many places seems to consider playing outside to imply parental neglect. See, for example, "Children spend less time outside than prison inmates", "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS", "#1. Mom Arrested for Letting Children Play Outside", and "#5. Letting Kids Walk Places Alone".

Still, what between sunset and bedtime?

It's the item numbered 2: article_19896_the-6-creepiest-lies-food-industry-feeding-you. Have you been to Japan or Macau?

Probably the best explanation I've seen on this is from Cracked.com of all places, shortly after the release of the last shitty Indiana Jones sequel. Why Hollywood doesn't give geeks what they want gives the Internet acclaim, the studio response, and box office of then-current geek-favorite properties like Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim, Serenity.

Ha, so that 'miracle' played itself out quite a bit when the Pilgrims tried building their Communism and then almost died from hunger because that's what Communism (any collectivism actually) does, it removes personal responsibility together with personal ownership and then everybody suffers.

You seem to be confusing inexperience with the mechanisms of survival in an unfamiliar place with the methodology of organization.

Most likely, a deliberate choice, meant to advance your ideological cause under a cloak of altered reality.

It wasn't until the people become selfish that USA succeeded.

What are you talking about? Plenty of selfish people existed in the USA, they didn't miraculously find success. Many of them tried and failed, without the benefit of anyone like say, Squanto.

You can read lots of articles about the subject.

Of course, you won't, but that's hardly surprising.

IKEA Humor:

  Ikea Humor

Police in some parts of the United States do in fact "have bigger problems going on" with respect to their pursuit of free-range children on trumped-up charges of neglect.

• 5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested) by Chan Teik Onn
• 5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today) by C. Coville
• Neighbor calls cops, child services on Texas mom for letting son play outside by Philip Caulfield
• Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
• When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS by Katherine Martinko

In fact, it took a federal law in January 2016 to keep local authorities from harassing parents of children who walk to school.

Police in some parts of the United States do in fact "have bigger problems going on" with respect to their pursuit of free-range children on trumped-up charges of neglect.

• 5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested) by Chan Teik Onn
• 5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today) by C. Coville
• Neighbor calls cops, child services on Texas mom for letting son play outside by Philip Caulfield
• Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
• When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS by Katherine Martinko

In fact, it took a federal law in January 2016 to keep local authorities from harassing parents of children who walk to school.

Countries with real threats seem to make it work.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-...

I already knew this about chickens, thanks to my uncle's chicken house.
One thing not mentioned is that roosters either hate children or consider them to be a large hen that needed to be serviced. I dunno which, I always managed to outrun them.
I had to run the rooster gauntlet everytime to visit my granny and grampa because they lived in on the other side.
My older relatives would yell "don't let him catch you!" and "For heavens sake, don't trip!". There may have been laughter.

Here's the facts:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-...

That doesn't bother me much. I'm becoming kind of a fan of Trump these days.

or too nice,
lol, nice!

Nice is the minimum standard, bro. You don't get a trophy for meeting the minimum standard, you don't get sent off the pitch, that's all.

Unless of course by "nice" you mean hanging round doing her favours, pretending to be her friend while trying to get a shag. That's not actually nice, it's deceptive and unpleasant.

they'll run off with the other guy.

Or you know, maybe it's that you don't seem to respect their agency, or perhaps the "other guy" has something to offer that you don't. Like, e.g. being more than merely "nice".

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-...

Considering the patent/copyright holders' insanity, everything is possible. http://www.cracked.com/article...

Never gonna happen.

Trump can do it! Behold this documentary on his impending success!

http://www.cracked.com/video_2...

Someone needs to tell Google these things...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Oreo+knockoff
You are right, Oreo is the late comer to the party. I have still always liked the Oreo flavor better...
http://www.cracked.com/article_20025_5-world-famous-products-that-are-shameless-rip-offs.html
Thanks for the heads up.
Now, do we need to get the cookies into the stratosphere or just leave open packages laying near methane sources?

The answer is, unfortunately, that the left and center has to start over and argue from very basic principles on why the terrible things that the far-right is interested in are bad. "No-platforming" is an attempt to catch the horse in the barn door as it has already started to bolt. Unfortunately this horse seems to have squeezed out so we now have to go back and argue out why racism, homophobia, mysogyny, and every other form of bigotry is bad, at best so that we can once again eliminate those until-recently-unacceptable ideas from civil discourse and marginalize those who espouse them, or at worst as the beginning of an ongoing effort since that may not be possible anymore.

Here's a good article on this very subject, more from a parent's perspective but quite relevant nonetheless:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-...

"B-b-b-b-but they're RAAACISTS!!!"

Really? That crap AGAIN?!?!

Did you REALLY respond like that?

In response to

However, for the most part, the party/ideology from the left in the US that promotes itself as the party of diversity and tolerance, is ONLY tolerant of viewpoints they hold and not only will put you down for what you think (overusing terms like racist, etc) but will try to actively prevent you espousing your viewpoints at all in public (see recent colleges shutting down speakers coming to campus).

and

I would really like to see someone reply to this with a realistic solution. I don't have an answer to that problem and the only response I seem to be hearing is "Their (read: republicans) viewpoints aren't reasonable or worthy of consideration", which shuts down any kind of dialogue before it starts.

your response is

B-b-b-b-but they're HORRIBLE RAAACISTS and need to SHUT UP?!?!?!

WTF?!?!

Talk about being in a bubble.

A thought-free name-calling bubble.

Oh, yeah. GP's point?

Q.E.D.

And you did the demonstrating.

The same can be said of non drug induced endeavors, but there have been some that were spectacular.

The answer is, unfortunately, that the left and center has to start over and argue from very basic principles on why the terrible things that the far-right is interested in are bad. "No-platforming" is an attempt to catch the horse in the barn door as it has already started to bolt. Unfortunately this horse seems to have squeezed out so we now have to go back and argue out why racism, homophobia, mysogyny, and every other form of bigotry is bad, at best so that we can once again eliminate those until-recently-unacceptable ideas from civil discourse and marginalize those who espouse them, or at worst as the beginning of an ongoing effort since that may not be possible anymore.

Here's a good article on this very subject, more from a parent's perspective but quite relevant nonetheless:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-...

Hey now, many of them do suck cocks:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-...

why would you need all of them since it's double content.

They're not always "double content", as you claim, as many series are exclusive to one service. A recent article by Mark Hill used the following example:

I'm going to name eight television shows. They're all popular, critically acclaimed, or hotly anticipated, and I'd like you to guess what makes this group unique. [...]

Game Of Thrones, The Handmaid's Tale, BoJack Horseman, The Man In The High Castle, Twin Peaks (the revival), American Gods, Star Trek: Discovery, and My Brother, My Brother And Me.

[Answer:] each is exclusive to a different subscription service: HBO, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, Starz, CBS All Access, and Seeso, respectively. If you want to legally watch all of them, it will cost you 69 (nice) dollars a month.

> Libertarian isn't just economic freedom
I know it's not supposed to be. But the reality is -that this is what it is. I've never seen a libertarian willing to sacrifice a tiny bit of economic freedom to secure greater civil liberties. If libertarianism was really about more than economics - then that trade-off would be an absolute no-brainer.

>Pinochet was a military dictator who ruled with an iron fist
But it was limited government - the government basically consisted of defense and police - the only things that libertarians think it should be.

> Learn your political science.
Learn to distinguish theory from practice. It's impossible to GET libertarian economics WITHOUT a dictator. That's exactly what Thatcher told Hayek, it's what libertarians constantly discover. Because if you give people power over the government - they always end up demanding the government help the homeless because they are sick and tired of all the people down-on-their-luck crapping on their porch. There is a reason rural people tend to be conservative and urban people tend to be liberal. It's because urban people deal with problems that only happen when you have millions of people in the same city - problems that can really only be solved by liberal ideas because thats the only set of ideals that even considers them. Libertarianism - as the far end of conservative thought keeps running into the problem that the vast majority of people are urban -to get them to accept a politics that ignores most of the day-to-day things they have to deal with - you have to force it on them, because they'll never voluntarily do so. When you're rural living, the government has neither much need nor ability to affect your life. The nearest government services are usually so far away that relying on them is insane. But when you live in a city, with so many people close together - that kind of self-reliance is utterly impossible. You HAVE to be interdependent to make the whole damn thing have any chance of working. Government is merely the means by which you, as a group, deal with those things that cannot be efficiently done by private individuals. Government becomes a vital aspect of your very ability to survive. If government wasn't running the sewage system - every cholera infection would be an outbreak that kills millions of people. You can't trust private industry to do it either because private industry wants to make a profit but your OWN safety depends on EVERYBODY - even those with NO money who CANNOT buy the service having ACCESS to the service. Libertarianism and conservative thought simply doesn't WORK in a city. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-...

Secretary Clinton, Governor Johnson, and Dr. Stein didn't have quite as obvious parallels with Hitler's rise to power, as explained in articles by Adam Tod Brown and Robert Evans.

Secretary Clinton, Governor Johnson, and Dr. Stein didn't have quite as obvious parallels with Hitler's rise to power, as explained in articles by Adam Tod Brown and Robert Evans.

Exaggeration, hyperbole, and confusing a personal opinion with a law of nature... Man, you hit the trifecta there.

Uh... exaggeration and hyperbole are the same thing. How exactly can they make up two parts of a trifecta?

Anyhow, this is far from merely a "personal opinion." Monopoly has been criticized ever since it was originally rejected by Parker Brothers for game play that grew too long and tedious. They only picked it up after it became a minor "craze" in the mid-30s. It certainly had novel elements that made it appealing, but that doesn't mean it also didn't have serious flaws.

Anyone who has played a lot of Monopoly knows a number of the major flaws for family gaming. But don't listen to me on this. Here's just one post which sums up a lot of the major issues:

It suffers from problems that most game designers nowadays try to avoid. First, players can be eliminated. This is no fun -- unless, of course, the eliminated player finds something better to do than play Monopoly -- and games are meant to be fun. Second, there is often a runaway leader. Someone can snap up a juicy monopoly early on, and that quickly becomes that. The rest of the game is pro forma and boring. And games aren't meant to be boring. Third, there is what's known to game designers as a kingmaking problem. A losing player can often choose, typically via a lopsided trade of properties, who wins the game. This is also no fun and negates whatever skill was required to begin with.

Oh, and it also takes a really long time to play.

This is hardly the only criticism of the game. See for example here or here. And if you want some more criticism along with recommendations for better, more engaging games, see here.

None of this means a given person can't or shouldn't like Monopoly. It just means that most people who spend a lot of time playing a variety of board games tend to think Monopoly has serious flaws. And if you're trying to meet certain common goals of family gameplay (e.g., long-term engagement for most people, avoiding long drawn-out concluding play between a minority of players that is exceptionally unlikely to actually change the outcome, etc.), Monopoly has only one advantage -- it's well-known. If you're willing to try out "new things," there are a lot of really good options out there.

I can not see where your joke is headed.

The only problem with your story is that if it is true, you know that the tropes of having a can-do attitude and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are bullshit, because you lived it first hand.

When I started my first job, I moved hundreds of miles from a small Oklahoma town to Houston, with everything I owned inside my small, old car.

And how long did you have to live in that car before finding a job and saving up money for first months rent plus deposit? Did you have to add on extra time to pay off a previous landlord before a new one would rent to you?

I had no savings and no liquid funds, just a willingness to work, and a willingness to move where there were jobs to be had.

And how did that willingness work out for you when your car broke down and you had a choice between fixing it (to keep your job), making next months rent, or visiting a payday loan shark to make rent and hope you were able to pay them back. Because being working poor means trying to climb out of a dick pit but the ladder is also made of dicks. Which you would know first hand if it happened to you.

The (U.S.) National Weather Service and other weather forecasting agencies do update their forecasts every several hours when they re-run their models based on new conditions read by sensors. And a forecast past five days is a crapshoot.

You're misrepresenting the opinion. The opinion is not "Oh, let's go back to the incremental value added by the patented technology as the yardstick for profitability", it's "Let's recognize that this device is made up of separate parts ("articles of manufacture"), and only one part violates the patent. The profits that need to be turned over to Apple are those applying to that component."

What's the difference?

In the carpet's case, 100% of the carpet violates the patent, regardless of whether you compare it to a beige carpet or not. In the phone's case, the phone has a case, a screen, electronics, and so on. Only the case, for example, violates the rounded corners patent.

Reading the opinion, they're not just making up that criterion. The "article of manufacture" concept is long standing in the patent world, and it would certainly mean a complete shake up of patents if patents ceased to apply to components, and only to the whole of a completed product. (Whether that's a good or bad thing I'll leave to the lawyers.)

This hopefully explains why 8 justices who rarely agree on anything outside of which branch of Applebees to have lunch at all agreed with one another this time.

my Mother-in-law streaming Hulu

She should be watching television

And spending $800[1] to time-shift over-the-air television.

my kids gaming while playing Youtube videos

make them go outside and play

For one thing, I have no idea how to make the weather suitable for that on any given day. For another, stranger danger hysteria has increased since you grew up, to the point of parents getting arrested for letting their kids walk to and from the park.[2]

the telephone works just great for talking to people

Yeah, at $6 an hour for long distance on a landline. A better suggestion might have been to downgrade from video to voice over IP, which is billed at a much lower rate than POTS long distance.

[1] Estimated price of a TiVo DVR with an All-In subscription.
[2] See "5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested) by Chan Teik Onn, "5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today)" by C. Coville, "Cops called on Texas mom for son playing outside" by Philip Caulfield, "Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail" by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, and "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS" by Katherine Martinko.

my Mother-in-law streaming Hulu

She should be watching television

And spending $800[1] to time-shift over-the-air television.

my kids gaming while playing Youtube videos

make them go outside and play

For one thing, I have no idea how to make the weather suitable for that on any given day. For another, stranger danger hysteria has increased since you grew up, to the point of parents getting arrested for letting their kids walk to and from the park.[2]

the telephone works just great for talking to people

Yeah, at $6 an hour for long distance on a landline. A better suggestion might have been to downgrade from video to voice over IP, which is billed at a much lower rate than POTS long distance.

[1] Estimated price of a TiVo DVR with an All-In subscription.
[2] See "5 Things Everyone Did Growing Up (That Now Get You Arrested) by Chan Teik Onn, "5 Things Your Parents Did (They'd Be Arrested For Today)" by C. Coville, "Cops called on Texas mom for son playing outside" by Philip Caulfield, "Mom Lets 4-Year-Old Play Outside, Faces Jail" by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, and "When 'Stranger Danger' is actually the police and CPS" by Katherine Martinko.