According to the British Crime Survey (BCS), overall violent crime has decreased by 41% since a peak in 1995. Knives are used in about 8% of violent incidents, according to the BCS, a level that has largely remained the same during the past decade.
However:
But the BCS figures do not include under-16s, something which the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced this month would change.
I remember the picture of the guy with the knife, but a the time they called it millimeter wave? Didn't they like that buzzword? (sorry, I have no proof)
I like the concept, but, umm without the cover to protect the spinning CD (or you from it) that just seems like a HUGE design flaw. I guess the guys above never watched Johnny Mnemonic. Man that was cool back then.
"Hal, switch to manual transmission." "I can tell from your voice harmonics, Dave, that you're badly upset. Why don't you take a stress pill and get some rest?"
This is certainly true, a local newspaper reported only yesterday that this is the warmest winter in 7 years IIRC, and also had a list which--to the critical observer--showed that the winter 8 years ago(as it were) was even warmer...
What really frightens me is the quite incredibly polarized posts on slashdot.
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We call it Voight-Kampff for short.
I remember hearing about this on BBC's radio4...
A quick search later found this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7421534.stm
According to the British Crime Survey (BCS), overall violent crime has decreased by 41% since a peak in 1995.
Knives are used in about 8% of violent incidents, according to the BCS, a level that has largely remained the same during the past decade.
However:
But the BCS figures do not include under-16s, something which the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced this month would change.
It's a system devoid of leaky embarrassments.
Someone please tell me why this isn't in "ask slashdot" so I can filter it out?
Arthur C. Clarke, 3001.
Why vt420 amber on black of course.
And pwm and later ion has been there for a long time. I ran pwm when I still had a PC laptop, to my amusement when any of my friends tried to use it.
I remember the picture of the guy with the knife, but a the time they called it millimeter wave? Didn't they like that buzzword? (sorry, I have no proof)
Allah is in fact (the Christian) word for God in the Malay language. Source here.
Or the one that's been around for ages; xfrog
Yes indeed, binding the carbon into red tape is a way of removing it from the environment (for a while).
"Hal, switch to manual transmission."
"I can tell from your voice harmonics, Dave, that you're badly upset. Why don't you take a stress pill and get some rest?"
and so on
Holy semicolon, Batman! I'm out of breath after just a few words!
...which states in several places that for any remotely modern drive, a few random passes is just as good. duh?
Maybe I'm just being foreign, but what' the heck is an Ofer?
Anyone else bothered by the incorrect use of "hack" here?
Brake, clutch, now you just need enter for the gas pedal.
...Spock's home planet is Earth. His mother was a human and his father an ambassador to Earth named Sarek.
...that a trailing slash crept into the Mercury 10 link. Oops.
This is certainly true, a local newspaper reported only yesterday that this is the warmest winter in 7 years IIRC, and also had a list which--to the critical observer--showed that the winter 8 years ago(as it were) was even warmer...
What really frightens me is the quite incredibly polarized posts on slashdot.