I worked Comcast call center for a while in '09. No scripts at all, when I started work and asked for something to follow, to figure out what I was expected to say, I was told with a smile "we don't do any scripts here, good luck!".
The only guideline I had was "Get their name and phone number, don't trust the system to give you an accurate phone number."
Really? You have to live in housing that Apple charges you for? You have to buy your food from them? You have to send your children to their schools and get in debt every day to them?
No, you can work for another company and make money to pay for the tools to develop for the platform, Apple doesn't force debt bondage on you when you develop for the platform.
And if you stop developing or switch platforms, Apple won't send people into you beat you or kill you.
I'm a little twitchy when it comes to people comparing developing for iOS to debt bondage because my great-great grandparents were victims of debt bondage in the Russian Empire and I know a bit about the history of it.
Military Prisons are pretty much controlled environments. It's prison with the bonus of having military rules applied to it.
Rather than taking near minimum wage prison guards, military prison guards are hand picked from Military Police MOS from all the branches and have low guard to prisoner ratios, Navy Brigs are like 1 guard for every 1.75 prisoners, vs 1 guard for 250 prisoners in many state prisons.
He gave up the right to due process when he volunteered for the Army. Now he is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and trial by a military tribunal.
Want to keep your Constitutional Rights for when you break the law? Don't volunteer for the farking Army.
Remember what that song is about, coal mining, where people lived in company housing and had to buy from the company store so that by working they became more in debt to the mining company.
No matter what you think about the Apple App Store, Apple isn't forcing anyone to buy food and clothes from them, live in Apple owned houses and become in debt to the Apple company.
Actually, the gizmos in my car weren't made in sweatshops, they were all made in 1990-91 in US and Canadian Union shops by UAW workers with final assembly in Oshawa Ontario.
If LINUX had the applications, we'd use that, or Android, but the applications and developers for this genre of applications are going heavy into iOS, so thats the hardware we buy and recommend.
We've gone from two test devices in July to something like 20 agency wide with 5 loaners for schools and parents, I'll bet by fall of '11 we'll start replacing note taking laptops with iPads for field work.
You have a PO, who handles multiple felons. A google search finds that in 2010 average case load in Pennsylvania was 66 to 73 felons per Parole Officer.
So one PO could handle all 43 people in this pilot program and if it's rolled out to all 1,100 in the area, 16 POs could handle all of them. Same for the assistant, likely 1 assistant per PO, perhaps.5 assistants per PO.
So say a total staff of 12 monitors for full time coverage (this is a high number, I suspect the monitoring staff is also tasked with other accounts), 1 PO, 1 PO assistant, 12 tech/monitoring staff and you have 14 people for 43 tracked individuals or.32 staff per tracked parolee.
No where in the article does it state that four people are employed to track one parolee. If its like other tracking systems, I'd suspect that a small staff are tasked with this in addition to other duties.
So we can go the 1960s-2000 US route and life imprisonment, or the Soviet route and medicate and isolate?
I like this third route, track and monitor while letting them have some sort of freedom. It costs less to the tax payer, allows more freedom for the convicted. This program is a condition of their parole, so they've volunteered for this tracking rather than stay in prison.
We use a ton of them for disability support, some of the apps on iOS (iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone) are replacing $2-5,000 stand alone dedicated devices.
A netbook or a laptop are over kill and or too complex for autistic kids or the programs aren't supported well or are very complicated and expensive.
We are replacing old Windows applications that cost 800-1200 dollars with an iPad and an app.
So some users a keyboard and mouse aren't as good of an interface as a touch screen.
Some places were keen on getting a Federal detention center, I think it was eastern Montana that lobbied about it, but in the end the DoJ, President Obama and the Senate didn't have the stones to actually close it.
I don't really care what the rest of the world thinks, its not a popularity contest.
We do live in a nation of laws, look at what happened in Tucson after the Congresswoman was shot, the suspect showed up for a mugshot without any marks on his face, was arraigned in court, all the Judges in Arizona recused themselves because they knew one of the shooters victims.
The point of all that is, even when someone tries to kill a Congresswoman, kills a Federal Judge, the police did not retaliate, the suspect made it to court safely and none of the other Judges are out for his blood. Everything happened just like its supposed to.
The Democrats ran on the platform of closing Gitmo in '06 and '08 with Obama pledging to close it as soon as he became President. On 1-22-09 Obama signed 3 executive orders concerning Gitmo, one ordered it closed by 1-22-10, In '09 the realities of closing it became clear, there were no places to put known terrorists, suspected terrorists while the clearly non-terrorists were released to places like Bermuda. But where to put the rest of the prisoners while hearings and trials took place? The DoJ and DoD couldn't figure it out, Obama caved on the idea of closing Gitmo after the Democratic party controlled Senate voted to keep it open.
So there it remains, it has nothing to do with Wikileaks.
Last I looked there were close to 7 billion people, not the mandated 2 billion from BNW. No world command economy. No limits on natural reproduction vs artificial wombs Families are still a very important part of almost all societies and cultures Individuality and personal isolation are becoming more and more the norm rather than an aberration.
Really the world in BNW is very different than what exists in this reality.
If the US gets its hands on him, more likely he'll go into a Federal hole like Manning has rather than somewhere open to the Red Cross like Gitmo is.
I can think of a number of more inaccessible holes the Feds are more likely to put him in, most likely a military detention facility in the D.C area or Federal Court house detention.
I'm a Republican that met Dick Cheney in the Las Vegas airport bathroom, he didn't tap his foot or shoot me in the face with a quail gun.
I do own guns, and I'm more than happy to get my news from alternative sources and accept alternative views. Hell I lived on a Kibbutz for a year and support tax hikes on the wealthy. I also voted for the Democrat for the Governor of Alaska in '10 (he ran on more of a drilling and pipeline platform) and wrote in Murlowski in the race against the Tea Bagger.
The only thing I've gone on a rampage against is a shotgun vs a balky printer from work.
I guess where you missed the United States shipping millions of tons of raw materials and weapons to the United Kingdom and Commonwealth from September 1939 to June 1941, then come July 1941 the United States shipped millions of tons of raw materials and weapons to the United Kingdom, Commonwealth, Free Dutch, Free Norway Free French and Soviet Union every year till the fall of 1945.
No, the United States didn't sit back and say "meh, not our business", the United States took a side and started building up the military from the summer of '39 on. In the spring of 1941, even before the invasion of Russia, the United States repealed the Neutrality Act and started to openly coordinate with the United Kingdom.
The United States took over the occupation of Iceland on 16 June 1941 and occupied the country completely by 12 July 1941, well before Japan attacked.
Had the US declared war in September 1939 what would the 17th largest Army have accomplished? Nothing, the US needed time to build up the military and in the meantime they patrolled the western the Atlantic
The United States government never undertook a mass eradication policy when it came to American Indians.
There was a resettlement policy in the east and south east from 1800-1835, which is why theres not many Indian Reservations east of the Mississippi, but the United States never settled on a "final solution to the Indian problem" as it were.
As for advocating that position to American Indians, I'm fine with it and have. I'm a quarter, father is a full half, and I grew up on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation and lived a mile from the Tribal headquarters in Eagle Butte.
And hundreds of American civilians died in the wars as well.
Like the Sioux Uprising of 1862, and many more died during the American Revolution and War of 1812 when Indian nations took sides as proxies of the British.
The casualty rates I mention were of combatants, didn't talk about civilians, but say on the Northern Great Plains from 1860 to 1890, say about 1000-1400 white civilians and 1700-2500 American Indian civilians died at the hands of the other side, not sure now many inter-tribal casualties there were, but likely another 500-1000.
Because it wasn't the American Indian Wars, in combat the southeastern and plains Indians killed about 1 US soldier for ever 1.3 Indians lost. Compared to a small war like Vietnam, where the Viet Cong lost about 3 soldiers for every US soldier killed, the American Indian Wars were pretty even, the American Indians just didn't have the numbers or political unity to hold out.
And also remember that in places like the Northern Great Plains, there was as much inter-tribal violence as there was violence between the American Indians and United States.
And even now there are at least 2.5 million full blooded American Indian and Alaska Natives and 1.6 million tribal members who are mixed blood. The American Indian population of what is now the United States in 1800 was 3-4 million.
12 reservations are larger than Rhode Island, 9 are larger than Delaware.
Lets compare that to a modern genocide like Poland. In 1938 there were 3.1 million Jews in Poland, in 1946 there were 44,000.
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I worked Comcast call center for a while in '09. No scripts at all, when I started work and asked for something to follow, to figure out what I was expected to say, I was told with a smile "we don't do any scripts here, good luck!".
The only guideline I had was "Get their name and phone number, don't trust the system to give you an accurate phone number."
Really? You have to live in housing that Apple charges you for? You have to buy your food from them? You have to send your children to their schools and get in debt every day to them?
No, you can work for another company and make money to pay for the tools to develop for the platform, Apple doesn't force debt bondage on you when you develop for the platform.
And if you stop developing or switch platforms, Apple won't send people into you beat you or kill you.
I'm a little twitchy when it comes to people comparing developing for iOS to debt bondage because my great-great grandparents were victims of debt bondage in the Russian Empire and I know a bit about the history of it.
Military Prisons are pretty much controlled environments. It's prison with the bonus of having military rules applied to it.
Rather than taking near minimum wage prison guards, military prison guards are hand picked from Military Police MOS from all the branches and have low guard to prisoner ratios, Navy Brigs are like 1 guard for every 1.75 prisoners, vs 1 guard for 250 prisoners in many state prisons.
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/justicelawlegislation/a/leavenworth.htm
I had a buddy from High School who did a tour there as a guard, said they were the most squared away prisoners he'd ever seen.
He gave up the right to due process when he volunteered for the Army. Now he is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and trial by a military tribunal.
Want to keep your Constitutional Rights for when you break the law? Don't volunteer for the farking Army.
Remember what that song is about, coal mining, where people lived in company housing and had to buy from the company store so that by working they became more in debt to the mining company.
No matter what you think about the Apple App Store, Apple isn't forcing anyone to buy food and clothes from them, live in Apple owned houses and become in debt to the Apple company.
Actually, the gizmos in my car weren't made in sweatshops, they were all made in 1990-91 in US and Canadian Union shops by UAW workers with final assembly in Oshawa Ontario.
Low mile old truck for the win.
If LINUX had the applications, we'd use that, or Android, but the applications and developers for this genre of applications are going heavy into iOS, so thats the hardware we buy and recommend.
We've gone from two test devices in July to something like 20 agency wide with 5 loaners for schools and parents, I'll bet by fall of '11 we'll start replacing note taking laptops with iPads for field work.
You have a PO, who handles multiple felons. A google search finds that in 2010 average case load in Pennsylvania was 66 to 73 felons per Parole Officer.
So one PO could handle all 43 people in this pilot program and if it's rolled out to all 1,100 in the area, 16 POs could handle all of them. Same for the assistant, likely 1 assistant per PO, perhaps .5 assistants per PO.
So say a total staff of 12 monitors for full time coverage (this is a high number, I suspect the monitoring staff is also tasked with other accounts), 1 PO, 1 PO assistant, 12 tech/monitoring staff and you have 14 people for 43 tracked individuals or .32 staff per tracked parolee.
No where in the article does it state that four people are employed to track one parolee. If its like other tracking systems, I'd suspect that a small staff are tasked with this in addition to other duties.
Something happens then they contact local police.
Is this because too many crimes are considered sex crime?
So we can go the 1960s-2000 US route and life imprisonment, or the Soviet route and medicate and isolate?
I like this third route, track and monitor while letting them have some sort of freedom. It costs less to the tax payer, allows more freedom for the convicted. This program is a condition of their parole, so they've volunteered for this tracking rather than stay in prison.
We use a ton of them for disability support, some of the apps on iOS (iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone) are replacing $2-5,000 stand alone dedicated devices.
A netbook or a laptop are over kill and or too complex for autistic kids or the programs aren't supported well or are very complicated and expensive.
We are replacing old Windows applications that cost 800-1200 dollars with an iPad and an app.
So some users a keyboard and mouse aren't as good of an interface as a touch screen.
The Sheriff is a vocal and very liberal Democrat, so I think it is a crime there.
My very liberal sister lives in Arizona as well. Its not that conservative of a state.
Some places were keen on getting a Federal detention center, I think it was eastern Montana that lobbied about it, but in the end the DoJ, President Obama and the Senate didn't have the stones to actually close it.
I don't really care what the rest of the world thinks, its not a popularity contest.
We do live in a nation of laws, look at what happened in Tucson after the Congresswoman was shot, the suspect showed up for a mugshot without any marks on his face, was arraigned in court, all the Judges in Arizona recused themselves because they knew one of the shooters victims.
The point of all that is, even when someone tries to kill a Congresswoman, kills a Federal Judge, the police did not retaliate, the suspect made it to court safely and none of the other Judges are out for his blood. Everything happened just like its supposed to.
No, Gitmo's closing is not because of Wikileaks.
The Democrats ran on the platform of closing Gitmo in '06 and '08 with Obama pledging to close it as soon as he became President. On 1-22-09 Obama signed 3 executive orders concerning Gitmo, one ordered it closed by 1-22-10, In '09 the realities of closing it became clear, there were no places to put known terrorists, suspected terrorists while the clearly non-terrorists were released to places like Bermuda. But where to put the rest of the prisoners while hearings and trials took place? The DoJ and DoD couldn't figure it out, Obama caved on the idea of closing Gitmo after the Democratic party controlled Senate voted to keep it open.
So there it remains, it has nothing to do with Wikileaks.
Really? Brave New World is our current reality?
Last I looked there were close to 7 billion people, not the mandated 2 billion from BNW.
No world command economy.
No limits on natural reproduction vs artificial wombs
Families are still a very important part of almost all societies and cultures
Individuality and personal isolation are becoming more and more the norm rather than an aberration.
Really the world in BNW is very different than what exists in this reality.
If the US gets its hands on him, more likely he'll go into a Federal hole like Manning has rather than somewhere open to the Red Cross like Gitmo is.
I can think of a number of more inaccessible holes the Feds are more likely to put him in, most likely a military detention facility in the D.C area or Federal Court house detention.
I'm a Republican that met Dick Cheney in the Las Vegas airport bathroom, he didn't tap his foot or shoot me in the face with a quail gun.
I do own guns, and I'm more than happy to get my news from alternative sources and accept alternative views. Hell I lived on a Kibbutz for a year and support tax hikes on the wealthy. I also voted for the Democrat for the Governor of Alaska in '10 (he ran on more of a drilling and pipeline platform) and wrote in Murlowski in the race against the Tea Bagger.
The only thing I've gone on a rampage against is a shotgun vs a balky printer from work.
I guess where you missed the United States shipping millions of tons of raw materials and weapons to the United Kingdom and Commonwealth from September 1939 to June 1941, then come July 1941 the United States shipped millions of tons of raw materials and weapons to the United Kingdom, Commonwealth, Free Dutch, Free Norway Free French and Soviet Union every year till the fall of 1945.
No, the United States didn't sit back and say "meh, not our business", the United States took a side and started building up the military from the summer of '39 on. In the spring of 1941, even before the invasion of Russia, the United States repealed the Neutrality Act and started to openly coordinate with the United Kingdom.
The United States took over the occupation of Iceland on 16 June 1941 and occupied the country completely by 12 July 1941, well before Japan attacked.
Had the US declared war in September 1939 what would the 17th largest Army have accomplished? Nothing, the US needed time to build up the military and in the meantime they patrolled the western the Atlantic
Nor does Boulder do a good job of investigating child murders.
The United States government never undertook a mass eradication policy when it came to American Indians.
There was a resettlement policy in the east and south east from 1800-1835, which is why theres not many Indian Reservations east of the Mississippi, but the United States never settled on a "final solution to the Indian problem" as it were.
As for advocating that position to American Indians, I'm fine with it and have. I'm a quarter, father is a full half, and I grew up on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation and lived a mile from the Tribal headquarters in Eagle Butte.
And hundreds of American civilians died in the wars as well.
Like the Sioux Uprising of 1862, and many more died during the American Revolution and War of 1812 when Indian nations took sides as proxies of the British.
The casualty rates I mention were of combatants, didn't talk about civilians, but say on the Northern Great Plains from 1860 to 1890, say about 1000-1400 white civilians and 1700-2500 American Indian civilians died at the hands of the other side, not sure now many inter-tribal casualties there were, but likely another 500-1000.
What genocide is that?
Because it wasn't the American Indian Wars, in combat the southeastern and plains Indians killed about 1 US soldier for ever 1.3 Indians lost. Compared to a small war like Vietnam, where the Viet Cong lost about 3 soldiers for every US soldier killed, the American Indian Wars were pretty even, the American Indians just didn't have the numbers or political unity to hold out.
And also remember that in places like the Northern Great Plains, there was as much inter-tribal violence as there was violence between the American Indians and United States.
And even now there are at least 2.5 million full blooded American Indian and Alaska Natives and 1.6 million tribal members who are mixed blood. The American Indian population of what is now the United States in 1800 was 3-4 million.
12 reservations are larger than Rhode Island, 9 are larger than Delaware.
Lets compare that to a modern genocide like Poland. In 1938 there were 3.1 million Jews in Poland, in 1946 there were 44,000.
She was only the congresswoman to the people in Arizona's 8th district.