I think the idea is that punishment may act as a deterrent to others. If somebody is willing and ready to do something truly abhorrent, they may very well have no fear of death but may fear other forms of punishment. Of course, this does nothing for people that simply cannot process that their actions may have consequences. How this has any advantage over just inducing a coma for a period of time, telling the public that the criminal is experiencing horrible torture, and then killing them I can't even speculate.
I hold a Master's in EE specializing in Information Theory. That seems to sound like a "data scientist", but I've never met anyone that presented themselves as one.
Maybe I should modify my resume to include my years of experience as a "nocturnal ergonomics specialist" or "cinematic purveyor".
According to a recent documentary I saw, apparently the DNA of pretty much the whole race is stored in one Kryptonian. I dozed off about half-way through, but if I understand correctly, we just need to give him a call by shining a bat-shaped spot-light into the sky.
I have it on very good authority that you used a keyboard, monitor, and/or tablet to modify that post. You'll be hearing from my attorney. Better call Saul.
I've actually heard that a very small amount isn't a bad idea for long-term storage of emergency water. But it just seems too weird. Like burning out a chest cold w/ cigars or flushing through a stomach virus with Drano.
Only a few hundred? Great! I'll get them delivered. Just set up a small box down-town with a charging socket on a post and a sign that says, "Free for the first 2 months - Leaf and Volt owners only!" That way my delivery people know that they're bringing you the wire for free. They'll drive the wire to your collection station and attach them to let you know they're ready to be harvested. I'll throw in some batteries too if you're willing to invest in a pry-bar.
As far as the delivery of the cow... I'm willing to take it piece-by-piece as long as the remaining balance stays refrigerated.
Seriously though, my state has quite a few trees, but driving out to them kind of defeats the purpose of going "green". It's more recreational. Planting them close-by is just unfeasible. A potted cactus maybe, but certainly not a proper tree.
Finding a place to pull over doesn't necessarily mean the side of the freeway. And, from my experience in CA having lived in the Bay Area for ~6 years, I'd feel safer walking through Oakland wearing a KKK robe/hood than sitting at the side of the freeway. Thank the gods for BART.
Have you checked the price of tree-worthy ground lately? Or materials to provide nutrients and hydration to said ground? I started digging a nursery on Broadway, but the local traffickers got all bent out of shape. Do you have a cow? Because I have a pocket full of very young trees I'd like to trade you.
We can never let that happen. As a member of PETP, I demand to know whether the trees were properly anesthetized prior to being bled alive, used without consent as subjects for scientific testing, and mutilated. If these trees were young, were their parents consulted? Color me outraged.
I don't know about state laws, but you'd better be "hands-free" in Santa Fe. Personally, I find someplace to pull over should I need to talk because I find myself distracted but am safer looking at a GPS-focused map than craning my neck to figure where the hell I'm going. My wife's just the opposite - She talks on the phone just fine while driving, but looking at a GPS unit could endanger herself and others.
I started going to college for my math, physics, and chem as a high-school sophomore mostly for that reason (plus if you're still in high school, most states will pay for college classes if they have no courses to offer you in the public schools). Anybody with sufficient motivation and intellect could go to public grade school, ask "you want me to just memorize this?" and then pass the final the next week (probably forgetting that useless garbage on their way out the door.) In college, even in state schools, you're limited more by professors than courses and seeking out and impressing yourself on worthy professors isn't a huge hurdle.
That said, if you just need enough math to make change, calculate tips, possibly book reservations, and work a register, there's a very large sociological niche for that too. And, if you're good at relating to people, you stand a good chance of excelling in that niche. Different strokes, you know?
...attempt to make this the standard for devices sold to home users.
How hard would it be for a competitor to come forward with a marketing campaign like, "This phone won't commit suicide if it falls off the bed"? It seems like that would draw a bigger customer base than "This phone will self-destruct."
I'm educated in Math FAR beyond the point that I think I'll ever need to be. In fact, far beyond the point that anyone outside academia needs to be. And I enjoyed very little of it, but was exceptionally good at it. As far as I'm concerned, studying it wasn't to gain knowledge or mathematical skills, it was more of an exercise in mental flexibility. And, despite what I thought at the time, I don't think that studying literature, history, or religious ed., were complete wastes either.
If you try to hide it from everyone, the only people able to access it are the people who want to exploit it and the few who are dedicated enough to stopping it to stray out of bounds to do so. Make it available to everyone who wants access and you'll also get the people who want to stop it without stepping out of bounds.
(I'm one of the lucky few who went WAY out of bounds and never got caught, but learned enough to make a career out of it.)
Smoking? Choice. Drinking? Choice. Eating crappy foods? Mostly choice. Genetics? You're pretty much stuck with what you have. Unless you're proposing some 'final solution', some people just have it rough.
"Next" policy update? This year my company-provided insurance demanded full physicals for me and my wife (not the kids) including 3 vials of blood. That goes for EVERYONE in the company (~3000 in our branch, millions world-wide).
That said, we are insured in spite of the fact that my (very blunt) doctors told me I would likely never leave the hospital. And, if I did, I wouldn't live more than 4 months without a $300k transplant - And it would take 6 months just to get me on the waiting list. That was a year ago last November and at this point they're saying a transplant would be unnecessarily dangerous compared to its benefits. Suffice it to say, the test results may have been accurate and properly interpreted, but the predictions indicated didn't play out as planned.
I never meant to imply that it was OK for somebody to object, just that it shouldn't come as a shock if some people do. This is new enough that people who are vaguely familiar with it are uncomfortable. And pulling out your cell phone to make a call looks pretty innocuous to a bystander. Wearing Google Glass and facing a person could be interpreted (for better or worse) like taking out your cell phone/camera and aiming it at somebody. Probably innocent, not illegal, but possibly awkward.
Imagine chatting with somebody about sports/weather/whatever when you notice a mic sticking out of the top of their shirt. "Wait, are you wearing a wire???" "Yeah, but it's off and I wear it all the time because it comes in handy and I think it's neat." It's OK, but a little weird. Google Glass is even beyond that - Instead of just a wire, it's like having a shoulder-mounted camera pointed at you. Still "fine", but even weirder.
If you're in a bar and you walk up to somebody and shove a camera in their face, even if you tell them it's off, expect some of them to object. In a bar, maybe even overreact.
My thought - Some hungover dude I knew in college and dropped by to sleep one off on my couch can not grant cops the authority to enter and search my home.
"Hi Mittens. My name is Officer Sausage-nose. Just 'meow' and sit there looking confused if it's OK if we come in and take a look around." "Meow?" "C'mon boys, the cat says we're fine."
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I think the idea is that punishment may act as a deterrent to others. If somebody is willing and ready to do something truly abhorrent, they may very well have no fear of death but may fear other forms of punishment. Of course, this does nothing for people that simply cannot process that their actions may have consequences. How this has any advantage over just inducing a coma for a period of time, telling the public that the criminal is experiencing horrible torture, and then killing them I can't even speculate.
I haven't heard of any bug zapper deaths, though I have faith that the crowd here at Slashdot will find an example.
My brother's girlfriend's nephew's cousin swallowed one whole. As soon as he plugged it in, game over.
For the time being, doing math takes a human. Doing arithmetic takes a calculator. The two are largely dissimilar.
I hold a Master's in EE specializing in Information Theory. That seems to sound like a "data scientist", but I've never met anyone that presented themselves as one.
Maybe I should modify my resume to include my years of experience as a "nocturnal ergonomics specialist" or "cinematic purveyor".
According to a recent documentary I saw, apparently the DNA of pretty much the whole race is stored in one Kryptonian. I dozed off about half-way through, but if I understand correctly, we just need to give him a call by shining a bat-shaped spot-light into the sky.
I prefer hilarity, but hey - I'm open minded. I can swing both ways. =)
If a mouse was involved, I'm calling PETA too.
I have it on very good authority that you used a keyboard, monitor, and/or tablet to modify that post. You'll be hearing from my attorney. Better call Saul.
I've actually heard that a very small amount isn't a bad idea for long-term storage of emergency water. But it just seems too weird. Like burning out a chest cold w/ cigars or flushing through a stomach virus with Drano.
Only a few hundred? Great! I'll get them delivered. Just set up a small box down-town with a charging socket on a post and a sign that says, "Free for the first 2 months - Leaf and Volt owners only!" That way my delivery people know that they're bringing you the wire for free. They'll drive the wire to your collection station and attach them to let you know they're ready to be harvested. I'll throw in some batteries too if you're willing to invest in a pry-bar.
As far as the delivery of the cow... I'm willing to take it piece-by-piece as long as the remaining balance stays refrigerated.
Seriously though, my state has quite a few trees, but driving out to them kind of defeats the purpose of going "green". It's more recreational. Planting them close-by is just unfeasible. A potted cactus maybe, but certainly not a proper tree.
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Finding a place to pull over doesn't necessarily mean the side of the freeway. And, from my experience in CA having lived in the Bay Area for ~6 years, I'd feel safer walking through Oakland wearing a KKK robe/hood than sitting at the side of the freeway. Thank the gods for BART.
...stick a seed in the ground...
Have you checked the price of tree-worthy ground lately? Or materials to provide nutrients and hydration to said ground? I started digging a nursery on Broadway, but the local traffickers got all bent out of shape. Do you have a cow? Because I have a pocket full of very young trees I'd like to trade you.
Maybe so, but do you blend bleach into all of your drinking water?
We can never let that happen. As a member of PETP, I demand to know whether the trees were properly anesthetized prior to being bled alive, used without consent as subjects for scientific testing, and mutilated. If these trees were young, were their parents consulted? Color me outraged.
I don't know about state laws, but you'd better be "hands-free" in Santa Fe. Personally, I find someplace to pull over should I need to talk because I find myself distracted but am safer looking at a GPS-focused map than craning my neck to figure where the hell I'm going. My wife's just the opposite - She talks on the phone just fine while driving, but looking at a GPS unit could endanger herself and others.
I started going to college for my math, physics, and chem as a high-school sophomore mostly for that reason (plus if you're still in high school, most states will pay for college classes if they have no courses to offer you in the public schools). Anybody with sufficient motivation and intellect could go to public grade school, ask "you want me to just memorize this?" and then pass the final the next week (probably forgetting that useless garbage on their way out the door.) In college, even in state schools, you're limited more by professors than courses and seeking out and impressing yourself on worthy professors isn't a huge hurdle.
That said, if you just need enough math to make change, calculate tips, possibly book reservations, and work a register, there's a very large sociological niche for that too. And, if you're good at relating to people, you stand a good chance of excelling in that niche. Different strokes, you know?
...attempt to make this the standard for devices sold to home users.
How hard would it be for a competitor to come forward with a marketing campaign like, "This phone won't commit suicide if it falls off the bed"? It seems like that would draw a bigger customer base than "This phone will self-destruct."
I'm educated in Math FAR beyond the point that I think I'll ever need to be. In fact, far beyond the point that anyone outside academia needs to be. And I enjoyed very little of it, but was exceptionally good at it. As far as I'm concerned, studying it wasn't to gain knowledge or mathematical skills, it was more of an exercise in mental flexibility. And, despite what I thought at the time, I don't think that studying literature, history, or religious ed., were complete wastes either.
If you try to hide it from everyone, the only people able to access it are the people who want to exploit it and the few who are dedicated enough to stopping it to stray out of bounds to do so. Make it available to everyone who wants access and you'll also get the people who want to stop it without stepping out of bounds.
(I'm one of the lucky few who went WAY out of bounds and never got caught, but learned enough to make a career out of it.)
Smoking? Choice. Drinking? Choice. Eating crappy foods? Mostly choice. Genetics? You're pretty much stuck with what you have. Unless you're proposing some 'final solution', some people just have it rough.
"Next" policy update? This year my company-provided insurance demanded full physicals for me and my wife (not the kids) including 3 vials of blood. That goes for EVERYONE in the company (~3000 in our branch, millions world-wide).
That said, we are insured in spite of the fact that my (very blunt) doctors told me I would likely never leave the hospital. And, if I did, I wouldn't live more than 4 months without a $300k transplant - And it would take 6 months just to get me on the waiting list. That was a year ago last November and at this point they're saying a transplant would be unnecessarily dangerous compared to its benefits. Suffice it to say, the test results may have been accurate and properly interpreted, but the predictions indicated didn't play out as planned.
I never meant to imply that it was OK for somebody to object, just that it shouldn't come as a shock if some people do. This is new enough that people who are vaguely familiar with it are uncomfortable. And pulling out your cell phone to make a call looks pretty innocuous to a bystander. Wearing Google Glass and facing a person could be interpreted (for better or worse) like taking out your cell phone/camera and aiming it at somebody. Probably innocent, not illegal, but possibly awkward.
Imagine chatting with somebody about sports/weather/whatever when you notice a mic sticking out of the top of their shirt. "Wait, are you wearing a wire???" "Yeah, but it's off and I wear it all the time because it comes in handy and I think it's neat." It's OK, but a little weird. Google Glass is even beyond that - Instead of just a wire, it's like having a shoulder-mounted camera pointed at you. Still "fine", but even weirder.
If you're in a bar and you walk up to somebody and shove a camera in their face, even if you tell them it's off, expect some of them to object. In a bar, maybe even overreact.
My thought - Some hungover dude I knew in college and dropped by to sleep one off on my couch can not grant cops the authority to enter and search my home.
"Hi Mittens. My name is Officer Sausage-nose. Just 'meow' and sit there looking confused if it's OK if we come in and take a look around." "Meow?" "C'mon boys, the cat says we're fine."