The cops did not know what was going on, and they should have known that they did not know what was going on. They should have all been trained how to assess the situation. They did not know who answered the door, it could have been a hostage sent out to present demands to the police for all they knew.
I think even if the hostage situation was real, the police didn't handle it properly. A better assessment of what was going on should have been step one, as they could have shot a hostage by mistake instead.
Training needs to be improved all around. Sure, smaller cities won't be trained in hostage situations, but any city, large or small or rural, needs to be trained in how to not shoot first.
Now, is this a new phenomena where these sorts of shootings are common, or is it because this used to happen all the time only now it's widely reported?
He did move his hands towards his waist, as was reported but not in the summary. Not that this should give police cause to shoot, except that they are all trained to protect cops first and the public second.
It's a bubble. People listen only to the news they want to hear. They deliberately block out information that is contrary to their expectations. Ie, my mom immediately switches on Fox as her news (despite it being 50% editorializing), reads World Net Daily, etc. I know others that gobble up every word of Huffington Post as if it were genuine.
Just like your financial portfolio, it's good to have some news diversity as well.
It's not just including non-Christians. It's including New Years. It's called "Happy Holidays" because there are many holidays within a short period of time. We said both Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas in my small town growing up that was predominately Christian. In a greeting card it's fine to be wordy and say "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", but as a greeting it's a bit unwieldy.
This is an exaggerated story with details added that aren't there. The bell ringer was indeed beaten. There is no evidence whatsoever that he was beaten for saying "Merry Christmas", and no evidence that the beaten would have been averted if he had said "Happy Holidays".
Nobody really cares that much over this issue, and we've been saying Merry Christmas long before Trump claimed he was leading the charge.
Except that almost none of the people being asked can actually remember 1967.
50 years ago, my parents insisted I go to bed at 8pm. Today, I can stay up as late as I like, watch TV as much as I want, eat as much ice cream as I like, I don't have to do any homework, and my allowance is amazing!
Even today, with all volunteer army, the forces are overwhelmingly populated by the poor and lower middle class. That's because military service is a reasonable job, and has good lifetime benefits, assuming you don't get killed or disabled during the time there. It's essentially the number 1 jobs program in hte US. The rich or upper middle class in general avoid military service when there's not a family history of service.
If you were white male middle class, then certainly 50 years ago things were better. Having a reasonable retirement was expected, only one spouse needed to work, medical care wasn't as good but was much more accessible. We were still in the age of every generation doing better than the prior one.
However if you were female you have many more freedoms today. If you were black and in the south, you most certainly are better off today than 50 years ago. Let me amend that, if you were black and anywhere in the US, you are better off today. If you are Jewish, then 50 years ago it was common practice to have neighborhoods you could not move into either to own or rent.
Hoover had influence far beyond the FBI manpower. It is alleged that he had files on every sitting president of his time and used that to increase his influence.
Historically, liberal vs conservatism meant approaches to government. Conservative meant sticking to the old ways, liberalism meant shaking things up. Or sometimes it means traditional versus new. As for freedom, it's a grab bag today as both American stances favor both liberty in some areas and restrictions in other areas; ie, economic liberalism combined with social conservatism is a big faction of the Republican party. Neither stance is chiefly authoritarian (though sometimes there is a political view of federal authoritarianism versus local authoritarianism).
The authoritarianism in some college campuses is not really liberalism at all. in every political stance, there are some people who are intolerant of other viewpoints. In fact, I'd say being intolerant of other viewpoints is the key motivating factor to lead people to create political parties in the first place.
Authoritarianism in government is not the same as some poeple insisting that their views are correct or having speech codes, etc. There are certainly plenty of conservative college and universities with some very strict rules. Some make religious observances mandatory, many have moral codes of conduct, some require living on campus, etc. For the most authoritarian college of all, it's probably West Point;-)
Oh stop joining the troll crowd. Did you complain that other movies in the past treat women merely as background decorations, or that they always seem to need rescuing? Remember that the original Star Wars had a princess that could hold her own and wasn't the stereotypical damsel in distress so popular at the times.
If these things are what you focus on when watching a movie you need to lighten up.
Why are you supporting such dumb ideas? Is there some sort of infatuation with every startup idea no matter how stupid? Anyone who has enough money to support such a business model would prefer using their own auto instead, and likely has little time to spare for these stops when they're late for work, late for dinner, late for whatever. The only people willing to put up with this are people desparate for a free ride (to the doctor, to the job agency, etc).
Sure, get millions of people using a very inexpensive service, then ads can help pay for it (but don't forget all the free email services that collapsed). The support costs for a million people using email is vastly less than the cost of a million people riding in driverless cars. A penny per email will make money, whereas a penny per ride will bankrupt the idiots who try this dumb idea.
This means the parking is subsidized by the neighboring businesses. This is a long term business plan. If the cost of parking is $10 and the restaurant you go do validates your parking, the restaurant absolutely does not reimburse the parking lot for a whole $10.
Now imagine a driverless car costing $50,000 or so. Is it going to pay for itself by stopping in front of McDonald's? No way.
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I think the problem is that they are not being trained, or not being trained properly.
Would this have happened in 1950? I doubt it. Something has changed in the decades since then.
The cops did not know what was going on, and they should have known that they did not know what was going on. They should have all been trained how to assess the situation. They did not know who answered the door, it could have been a hostage sent out to present demands to the police for all they knew.
I think even if the hostage situation was real, the police didn't handle it properly. A better assessment of what was going on should have been step one, as they could have shot a hostage by mistake instead.
Training needs to be improved all around. Sure, smaller cities won't be trained in hostage situations, but any city, large or small or rural, needs to be trained in how to not shoot first.
Now, is this a new phenomena where these sorts of shootings are common, or is it because this used to happen all the time only now it's widely reported?
He did move his hands towards his waist, as was reported but not in the summary.
Not that this should give police cause to shoot, except that they are all trained to protect cops first and the public second.
It's a bubble. People listen only to the news they want to hear. They deliberately block out information that is contrary to their expectations. Ie, my mom immediately switches on Fox as her news (despite it being 50% editorializing), reads World Net Daily, etc. I know others that gobble up every word of Huffington Post as if it were genuine.
Just like your financial portfolio, it's good to have some news diversity as well.
Employees double swipe credit cards too.
The purpose of the cash register is to reduce or catch employee theft.
If someone says "Merry Christmas" in order to present themselves are holier than you are, then that's a very un-Christian greeting.
It's not just including non-Christians. It's including New Years. It's called "Happy Holidays" because there are many holidays within a short period of time. We said both Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas in my small town growing up that was predominately Christian. In a greeting card it's fine to be wordy and say "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", but as a greeting it's a bit unwieldy.
This is an exaggerated story with details added that aren't there. The bell ringer was indeed beaten. There is no evidence whatsoever that he was beaten for saying "Merry Christmas", and no evidence that the beaten would have been averted if he had said "Happy Holidays".
Nobody really cares that much over this issue, and we've been saying Merry Christmas long before Trump claimed he was leading the charge.
Except that almost none of the people being asked can actually remember 1967.
50 years ago, my parents insisted I go to bed at 8pm. Today, I can stay up as late as I like, watch TV as much as I want, eat as much ice cream as I like, I don't have to do any homework, and my allowance is amazing!
Even today, with all volunteer army, the forces are overwhelmingly populated by the poor and lower middle class. That's because military service is a reasonable job, and has good lifetime benefits, assuming you don't get killed or disabled during the time there. It's essentially the number 1 jobs program in hte US. The rich or upper middle class in general avoid military service when there's not a family history of service.
If you were white male middle class, then certainly 50 years ago things were better. Having a reasonable retirement was expected, only one spouse needed to work, medical care wasn't as good but was much more accessible. We were still in the age of every generation doing better than the prior one.
However if you were female you have many more freedoms today. If you were black and in the south, you most certainly are better off today than 50 years ago. Let me amend that, if you were black and anywhere in the US, you are better off today. If you are Jewish, then 50 years ago it was common practice to have neighborhoods you could not move into either to own or rent.
Hoover had influence far beyond the FBI manpower. It is alleged that he had files on every sitting president of his time and used that to increase his influence.
Historically, liberal vs conservatism meant approaches to government. Conservative meant sticking to the old ways, liberalism meant shaking things up. Or sometimes it means traditional versus new. As for freedom, it's a grab bag today as both American stances favor both liberty in some areas and restrictions in other areas; ie, economic liberalism combined with social conservatism is a big faction of the Republican party. Neither stance is chiefly authoritarian (though sometimes there is a political view of federal authoritarianism versus local authoritarianism).
The authoritarianism in some college campuses is not really liberalism at all. in every political stance, there are some people who are intolerant of other viewpoints. In fact, I'd say being intolerant of other viewpoints is the key motivating factor to lead people to create political parties in the first place.
Authoritarianism in government is not the same as some poeple insisting that their views are correct or having speech codes, etc. There are certainly plenty of conservative college and universities with some very strict rules. Some make religious observances mandatory, many have moral codes of conduct, some require living on campus, etc. For the most authoritarian college of all, it's probably West Point ;-)
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Oh stop joining the troll crowd. Did you complain that other movies in the past treat women merely as background decorations, or that they always seem to need rescuing? Remember that the original Star Wars had a princess that could hold her own and wasn't the stereotypical damsel in distress so popular at the times.
If these things are what you focus on when watching a movie you need to lighten up.
I liked the plot with Luke, nothing wrong with it. Luke is not a 17 year old kid anymore.
It was a great Star Wars. Better than the awful prequel trilogy. It was certainly better than Return of the Jedi.
Ads still wouldn't pay enough to cover the cost of the car. Unlike youtube videos, you can't share the same car with a million riders.
Why are you supporting such dumb ideas? Is there some sort of infatuation with every startup idea no matter how stupid? Anyone who has enough money to support such a business model would prefer using their own auto instead, and likely has little time to spare for these stops when they're late for work, late for dinner, late for whatever. The only people willing to put up with this are people desparate for a free ride (to the doctor, to the job agency, etc).
Sure, get millions of people using a very inexpensive service, then ads can help pay for it (but don't forget all the free email services that collapsed). The support costs for a million people using email is vastly less than the cost of a million people riding in driverless cars. A penny per email will make money, whereas a penny per ride will bankrupt the idiots who try this dumb idea.
This means the parking is subsidized by the neighboring businesses. This is a long term business plan. If the cost of parking is $10 and the restaurant you go do validates your parking, the restaurant absolutely does not reimburse the parking lot for a whole $10.
Now imagine a driverless car costing $50,000 or so. Is it going to pay for itself by stopping in front of McDonald's? No way.
Maybe that's what we get for encouraging entrepreneurship starting in kindergarten.