Underfunded? They have paramilitary gear. Some depts have armored transports. They could wage war against some small countries and win. Perhaps if they would spend wisely and not send the swat team around for minor drug busts, they could afford to do a little protecting and serving.
They need to accept that if they can't or won't go get a stolen cellphone when the owner has GPS coordinates for it, the owner WILL go get it. It's only a matter of time until there is a serious incident. Once that happens, don't expect people to just write off their phones from then on, expect them to go armed. Not "Death Wish", more like St. Valentine's Day.
So I suggest they go get the phones. They'll probably solve a lot of other crimes in the process. At least some of the phones will have been stolen by career criminals.
I know neither Germany nor Japan operate prisons the way the U.S. does. I suppose in the bizaro world in your head, nothing short of skinning litterers alive will do.
And you change your stance constantly and dodge the point.
Notably, Sweden's crime stats are distorted because some of the things taken quite seriously there are not even considered to rise to the level of crime in the U.S. For example, a simple spanking is a criminal assault in Sweden.
Given that the U.S. has a world leading rate of incarceration, it is clear that what we do here is a failure.
I wish I had mod points now. The DEA should have no say whatsoever over a highly useful and perfectly legal over the counter medication. I have never cooked meth and have never been found guilty of cooking meth. Therefor, as I am innocent until proven guilty, the proper assumption is that I am not going to cook meth with a box of decongestant.
Law enforcement is supposed to cause less harm than criminals.
And you none that the punitive approach works best. So I suggest defaulting to not treating people with needless cruelty, we're supposed to be civilized.
BTW, it seems that you are incorrect about Japan. They seem to have had a problem of prisoner abuse but also appear to be attempting to reform the reformers. I don't know how successfully.
The ad agencies are unwilling to accept the will of the users until explicitly stated.
In actuality, not even then. How many people sign up for the do not call list and still get called? Before that, how many were hung up on the instant it sounded like they were going to request not to be called again. How many were removed from the call list for a grand total of 2 seconds?
Advertisers were ignoring the do not track flag before IE made it a default. All IE did was give them one more excuse.
And note, this isn't a do not advertise flag, it's a do not track flag. Advertising got along just fine for a long time without stalking people.
Have you personally repeated every significant experiment in physics, or are you just accepting them on authority? (noting that some of the experiments would be quite expensive and illegal today).
We were able to read about the experiments and observations that lead to the atomic theory. We could watch some of the experiments being done on educational films (the ones where you could actually hear the '50s in the announcer's voice). We could do some experiments demonstrating scientific understanding (limited more by budget than capability).
Meanwhile, are you saying 6 year olds have no idea that kids look a lot like mommy and daddy?
You seem to have this idea that any level of understanding short of an adult mastery of the subject is worthless. If so, shouldn't school wait until adulthood when adult understanding is possible? Surely that's not workable. For one thing, the adult understanding is based on the prerequisite of having a child's grasp of the subject.
Moving back to the topic at hand, some people have a talent for adjusting their presentation of a subject to the level of the student, others do not. I have observed only a very lose correlation between that and having a degree in education.
As for number bases, the mindless mechanical conversion is indeed worthless. The understanding of number bases can be a bit of a revelation for kids somewhere around the 5th-7th grade. In particular, binary is relevant and not just because of computers.
We understood molecules and atoms in elementary school. Perhaps it's because our teachers weren't 'taught' that we couldn't understand atoms and molecules in elementary school.
The ins and outs of DNA are a bit much for 6 year olds, but they mostly do understand inherited traits to a degree and might as well know it;' because of this thing called DNA that they can learn more about later.
Actually, the Nordic countries (particularly Sweden) are considered almost luxurious by U.S. standards and include prisoners going to a 9-5 job and returning at night. Their recidivism rate is well below the U.S. rate. So there it is, a practical example.
It is also responsible for a bazillion infections. How can we teach people that running a program from an email is bad if the attachment (report.pdf.exe) doesn't LOOK like an executable? It's like they were trying to help the bad guys.
Just to make sure the user is helpless, the action for open this and run this is exactly the same.
But, in spite of all the billions in damage trojans and viruses have done, thank God they didn't confuse the user!
Well, let's see. I know it doesn't even attempt to be encrypted (that's fine), it's on/., it was posted today, and the title. The only part that isn't completely transparent is the SID.
If they don't know what a URL is, how have they managed to use a browser all this time?
Personally, I would rather see the URL and click on the far left if I want to see what the certificate says. Showing the cert all the time AND the URL is a decent enough compromise. What is it with designers getting in a circle jerk and stripping UIs of useful features and information in the name of some nebulous 'style'?
Let's say that a thousand people downloaded it (likely MUCH more). That is a direct loss of $32,000 to the content creator (without even needing to fabricate things, because that content was pay-per-view).
You can't assume that. Of those 1,000, how many saw the $32 pricetag on the PPV and decided they would rather do without? Or, put another way, for practically ANYTHING, how much more popular is it if it is free? How many own a Ferrari? Now compare to how many would accept a Ferrari if you gave them away with no strings attached. There are none in my neighborhood now, but there would be quite a few if they were giving them away.
Arguably, speeding is one thing, but speeding even when notified that children will be likely to be crossing the street adds an endangerment element. Thus, it's not just adding more deterrent, it's punishing a greater offense.
Pretty much any that engages the criminal with society under supervision and guidance rather than locking them away from it.It's not 100% effective, but arguably hard time and unpayable fines have a negative effectiveness.
You forgot that the plutonium is FUEL and should go into a reactor, not the ground. You forgot that DU is a toxic metal that can be bread into valuable fuel, but it is not a radiological hazard. Those shock pix you posted were a wide variety of birth defects caused by a wide variety of things.
Your posts have the ring of the nutter about them. You could easily verify each and every statement I have made but won't because that would gore your sacred cow. For example, do you dispute my claim that about 95% of 'spent fuel' is actually viable fuel if reprocessed? Look it up. If true, multiply the humongoud number in the article you linked by 0.05 and get the true figure. I will reply to no more of your messages. I have no doubt that you will somehow rationalize that into claiming victory in your own mind, but I don't care. I can't fix mental health issues like that over the net.
Sorry you feel that way. Hang on to your hate of the other N word, perhaps it will comfort you in the future when you don't have enough electricity to run the ever more important air conditioner.
I see no point in arguing with someone who can't remember what was said 2 posts back anyway.
The sad part is that it looks like there is enough there that he could have actually completed the deck, even if the quality wasn't really up to the hype it should have been good enough to stay out of legal trouble.
To be fair, if I had to rank the danger on a scale of 1 to 100, (lower number = greater danger), I'd place the drone at 100 and the tornado at 1. I'm undecided about air cows and the flying pigs, but they would fall somewhere in between:-)
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Good reminder! I'd better take some guns with me. This Uzi looks about right.
Underfunded? They have paramilitary gear. Some depts have armored transports. They could wage war against some small countries and win. Perhaps if they would spend wisely and not send the swat team around for minor drug busts, they could afford to do a little protecting and serving.
They need to accept that if they can't or won't go get a stolen cellphone when the owner has GPS coordinates for it, the owner WILL go get it. It's only a matter of time until there is a serious incident. Once that happens, don't expect people to just write off their phones from then on, expect them to go armed. Not "Death Wish", more like St. Valentine's Day.
So I suggest they go get the phones. They'll probably solve a lot of other crimes in the process. At least some of the phones will have been stolen by career criminals.
I know neither Germany nor Japan operate prisons the way the U.S. does. I suppose in the bizaro world in your head, nothing short of skinning litterers alive will do.
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Actually Sweden has a low murder rate which is why people started wondering why assaults would be higher.
There's no point in having a discussion if you're just going to make shit up.
And you change your stance constantly and dodge the point.
Notably, Sweden's crime stats are distorted because some of the things taken quite seriously there are not even considered to rise to the level of crime in the U.S. For example, a simple spanking is a criminal assault in Sweden.
Given that the U.S. has a world leading rate of incarceration, it is clear that what we do here is a failure.
I wish I had mod points now. The DEA should have no say whatsoever over a highly useful and perfectly legal over the counter medication. I have never cooked meth and have never been found guilty of cooking meth. Therefor, as I am innocent until proven guilty, the proper assumption is that I am not going to cook meth with a box of decongestant.
Law enforcement is supposed to cause less harm than criminals.
And you none that the punitive approach works best. So I suggest defaulting to not treating people with needless cruelty, we're supposed to be civilized.
BTW, it seems that you are incorrect about Japan. They seem to have had a problem of prisoner abuse but also appear to be attempting to reform the reformers. I don't know how successfully.
The ad agencies are unwilling to accept the will of the users until explicitly stated.
In actuality, not even then. How many people sign up for the do not call list and still get called? Before that, how many were hung up on the instant it sounded like they were going to request not to be called again. How many were removed from the call list for a grand total of 2 seconds?
Advertisers were ignoring the do not track flag before IE made it a default. All IE did was give them one more excuse.
And note, this isn't a do not advertise flag, it's a do not track flag. Advertising got along just fine for a long time without stalking people.
Have you personally repeated every significant experiment in physics, or are you just accepting them on authority? (noting that some of the experiments would be quite expensive and illegal today).
We were able to read about the experiments and observations that lead to the atomic theory. We could watch some of the experiments being done on educational films (the ones where you could actually hear the '50s in the announcer's voice). We could do some experiments demonstrating scientific understanding (limited more by budget than capability).
Meanwhile, are you saying 6 year olds have no idea that kids look a lot like mommy and daddy?
You seem to have this idea that any level of understanding short of an adult mastery of the subject is worthless. If so, shouldn't school wait until adulthood when adult understanding is possible? Surely that's not workable. For one thing, the adult understanding is based on the prerequisite of having a child's grasp of the subject.
Moving back to the topic at hand, some people have a talent for adjusting their presentation of a subject to the level of the student, others do not. I have observed only a very lose correlation between that and having a degree in education.
As for number bases, the mindless mechanical conversion is indeed worthless. The understanding of number bases can be a bit of a revelation for kids somewhere around the 5th-7th grade. In particular, binary is relevant and not just because of computers.
We understood molecules and atoms in elementary school. Perhaps it's because our teachers weren't 'taught' that we couldn't understand atoms and molecules in elementary school.
The ins and outs of DNA are a bit much for 6 year olds, but they mostly do understand inherited traits to a degree and might as well know it;' because of this thing called DNA that they can learn more about later.
Actually, the Nordic countries (particularly Sweden) are considered almost luxurious by U.S. standards and include prisoners going to a 9-5 job and returning at night. Their recidivism rate is well below the U.S. rate. So there it is, a practical example.
It is also responsible for a bazillion infections. How can we teach people that running a program from an email is bad if the attachment (report.pdf.exe) doesn't LOOK like an executable? It's like they were trying to help the bad guys.
Just to make sure the user is helpless, the action for open this and run this is exactly the same.
But, in spite of all the billions in damage trojans and viruses have done, thank God they didn't confuse the user!
Well, let's see. I know it doesn't even attempt to be encrypted (that's fine), it's on /., it was posted today, and the title. The only part that isn't completely transparent is the SID.
Nonsense. People who don't understand all of that are just told "it's technical stuff, just look at the first part and you'll be OK.
It works just fine even for drooling morons. Do we really need to simplify it for people who can't learn that the mouse isn't a foot pedal?
If they don't know what a URL is, how have they managed to use a browser all this time?
Personally, I would rather see the URL and click on the far left if I want to see what the certificate says. Showing the cert all the time AND the URL is a decent enough compromise. What is it with designers getting in a circle jerk and stripping UIs of useful features and information in the name of some nebulous 'style'?
It's time to build the arc.
Let's say that a thousand people downloaded it (likely MUCH more). That is a direct loss of $32,000 to the content creator (without even needing to fabricate things, because that content was pay-per-view).
You can't assume that. Of those 1,000, how many saw the $32 pricetag on the PPV and decided they would rather do without? Or, put another way, for practically ANYTHING, how much more popular is it if it is free? How many own a Ferrari? Now compare to how many would accept a Ferrari if you gave them away with no strings attached. There are none in my neighborhood now, but there would be quite a few if they were giving them away.
Arguably, speeding is one thing, but speeding even when notified that children will be likely to be crossing the street adds an endangerment element. Thus, it's not just adding more deterrent, it's punishing a greater offense.
Pretty much any that engages the criminal with society under supervision and guidance rather than locking them away from it.It's not 100% effective, but arguably hard time and unpayable fines have a negative effectiveness.
You forgot that the plutonium is FUEL and should go into a reactor, not the ground. You forgot that DU is a toxic metal that can be bread into valuable fuel, but it is not a radiological hazard. Those shock pix you posted were a wide variety of birth defects caused by a wide variety of things.
Your posts have the ring of the nutter about them. You could easily verify each and every statement I have made but won't because that would gore your sacred cow. For example, do you dispute my claim that about 95% of 'spent fuel' is actually viable fuel if reprocessed? Look it up. If true, multiply the humongoud number in the article you linked by 0.05 and get the true figure. I will reply to no more of your messages. I have no doubt that you will somehow rationalize that into claiming victory in your own mind, but I don't care. I can't fix mental health issues like that over the net.
Sorry you feel that way. Hang on to your hate of the other N word, perhaps it will comfort you in the future when you don't have enough electricity to run the ever more important air conditioner.
I see no point in arguing with someone who can't remember what was said 2 posts back anyway.
Sure, you can play the "investment" card,
Actually, this guy can't seem to come up with cards to play :-)
The sad part is that it looks like there is enough there that he could have actually completed the deck, even if the quality wasn't really up to the hype it should have been good enough to stay out of legal trouble.
If you're just using the disks to do weeklies, they won't be drawing power most of the time.
To be fair, if I had to rank the danger on a scale of 1 to 100, (lower number = greater danger), I'd place the drone at 100 and the tornado at 1. I'm undecided about air cows and the flying pigs, but they would fall somewhere in between :-)