these days the plurality of people are independents and not actually democrats or republicans. A fact that both parties like to ignore.
Not even close. The majority of people are fairly consistent in voting either Democrat or Republican. The concept of gerrymandering wouldn't exist and wouldn't work if most people were actually independent and voted along anything other than party lines.
Hobbies are associated with better qualify of life and studies have found that seniors who stay active with hobbies tend to live longer than those who don't. This particular guy's hobby is collecting Star Trek memorabilia and he happens to have enough money to be able to do so on a larger scale.
You think you're better off than someone who can afford to blow $1.5 million creating a play room in his $35 million house?
The Dunning-Kruger effect is apparently relevant to poor people's view of how well they're doing. Which, come to think of it, explains a lot about people like Joe the Plumber supporting tax breaks for the wealthy.
"Bell's eight-bedroom, 27,000-square-foot home was listed at $35 million in 2014."
Yeah... keep telling yourself that he's a pathetic, basement-dwelling geek who lives with his parents as you cry yourself to sleep after a dinner of ramen in your one bedroom efficiency that you can barely afford.
Wow... so much incorrect information in such a small space.
First, CJD is caused by prions which can come from several sources including your own body if you're unlucky enough to have the wrong genetic mutation.
Second, the prion that causes Bovine spongiform encephalopathy cannot be destroyed by any level of pasteurization that would leave cattle feed in an edible state. It remains viable at temperatures below 600 degrees C. Trying to pasteurize cattle feed at that temperature would incinerate it and leave you with prion-laden ashes. Changes to regulations on the pasteurization of cattle feed would have no effect whatsoever on this.
Third, the outbreaks of BSE were caused by cattle feed containing the remains of sick cattle and sheep. At the time, it was seen as a way to minimize lost profits while disposing of sick animals, so it rapidly became a wide-spread practice which resulted in the huge outbreaks of the dease.
Irradiation degrades the flavor of milk more than heat pasteurization does. Milk, as it turns out, is very sensitive to radiation and develops an off flavor very quickly with exposure.
In the US, at least, the FDA has also not approved irradiation as a treatment for milk. Because of the issues with flavor, it's also very doubtful that manufacturers will go to the expense of lobbying for approval.
You might say that technology is new... but is it really? Technology is just a different way of doing the same old things like communicating with each other and building communities.
If you're going to get ridiculously reductive, then nothing new has shown up since the time very shortly after the big bang when the different forces separated and the laws of physics as we know them took hold (assuming those theories are even close to correct). Everything since then has just been different ways of combining the same old subatomic particles.
But ten thousand people using a phrase one way while only one person clings to using it the old way does make them right. Language evolves and popular usage becomes the correct usage over time.
1) AC asked who the current chess champion is. I gave the correct answer and explained his misunderstanding.
2) I made no claims about computers not being able to outsmart humans in my post, so bringing that up is a bit stupid and strawman-ish.
3) Any idiot on a motorcycle could win the Olympic cycling events, but it doesn't make the idiot a better athlete. Competitions are divided into categories and the rules limit the competitors order to create fair and interesting competitions. Only a dumbass wouldn't recognize why this is done and insist that everyone and everything should be allowed in every competition.
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First, you've conflated a false positive with a false negative and suggested that a false positive causes both effects. This is literally impossible. Who gets incarcerated and who gets to go free is not a zero sum game. We don't release one prisoner for every prisoner we put in jail.
Second, the program in TFA gives some very useful statistics: Over the past 5 years, Miami-Dade police have responded to nearly 50,000 calls for service for people in mental-health crises, but have made only 109 arrests, diverting more than 10,000 people to services or safely stabilizing situations without arrest.The jail population fell from over 7,000 to just over 4,700, and the county was able to close an entire jail facility, saving nearly $12 million a year.
Throwing more than 10,000 mentally ill people into jail, then dumping them on the streets with no treatment when their sentence was done, would NOT have reduced the prison population. In fact, it would have almost guaranteed that those people wound up back in prison again.
Our entire legal system has always been based on the presumption of innocence despite greedy people launching a never-ending series attempts to change that to a presumption of guilt in order to profit. If 1 harmful person goes free so that 10,000 people who need help can get it, then I say let that guilty fucker go free.
A false positive from the program in the article here would result in offering assistance to someone who doesn't need it. Offering help to someone who doesn't need it does not harm them.
A false positive from the program you linked causes someone to be given a harsher punishment. Increasing the punishment of someone who doesn't deserve it does harm them.
1) Use one of the many freely available utilities to overwrite the entire drive
2) Use a script to fill the drive with randomly named copies of goatse, tubgirl and other such wonderful images. Throw some of them into other document formats as well, just to keep things interesting. For added fun, make sure all the MS office documents are infected with macro viruses. Bonus points if the random names are made using a list of enticing words like "password", "private", "taxes", "accounts", etc.
3) Delete all the files and sell the drive.
Anyone who recovers the files and looks at them will immediately regret it.
I wasted about 20 hrs trying to prevent that crap from destroying my business. At $200/hr, can I sue?
Of course you can. In the US, you can sue anyone for any reason. If you can't find a lawyer to take up your case, you can always go pro se and represent yourself.
Whether you'll prevail and get any sort of a settlement is an entirely different question.
The trick is to get kids to understand that history isnt just a series of rote dates to remember (In fact knowing the exact date napoleon was born or whatever is pretty uninteresting to historians) , but a big story with processes that motored it along that we can learn from.
Yeah, no. The trick is to get TEACHERS to understand that history isn't just a series of rote dates and names to remember. The bulk of most history tests is exactly that, so any kid that doesn't do the rote memorization and regurgitation will fail.
A company is trying to eek out a bit more profit from a six year old product that's at the end of it's sales life by remaking it as an educational product.
This is just a press release from that company. It's not a policy or endorsement from the Department of Education. It's not something that anyone is doing today. It's just a company hoping that someone will buy their product.
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these days the plurality of people are independents and not actually democrats or republicans. A fact that both parties like to ignore.
Not even close. The majority of people are fairly consistent in voting either Democrat or Republican. The concept of gerrymandering wouldn't exist and wouldn't work if most people were actually independent and voted along anything other than party lines.
Someone working with a ransomware scammer might not be the most trustworthy source of information.
And the implied takeaway is completely wrong.
Hobbies are associated with better qualify of life and studies have found that seniors who stay active with hobbies tend to live longer than those who don't. This particular guy's hobby is collecting Star Trek memorabilia and he happens to have enough money to be able to do so on a larger scale.
You think you're better off than someone who can afford to blow $1.5 million creating a play room in his $35 million house?
The Dunning-Kruger effect is apparently relevant to poor people's view of how well they're doing. Which, come to think of it, explains a lot about people like Joe the Plumber supporting tax breaks for the wealthy.
Sure, but it's just a sausage with no bun, condiments, napkins or utensils. You're pretty much stuck just holding it in your bare hands.
"Bell's eight-bedroom, 27,000-square-foot home was listed at $35 million in 2014."
Yeah... keep telling yourself that he's a pathetic, basement-dwelling geek who lives with his parents as you cry yourself to sleep after a dinner of ramen in your one bedroom efficiency that you can barely afford.
Wow... so much incorrect information in such a small space.
First, CJD is caused by prions which can come from several sources including your own body if you're unlucky enough to have the wrong genetic mutation.
Second, the prion that causes Bovine spongiform encephalopathy cannot be destroyed by any level of pasteurization that would leave cattle feed in an edible state. It remains viable at temperatures below 600 degrees C. Trying to pasteurize cattle feed at that temperature would incinerate it and leave you with prion-laden ashes. Changes to regulations on the pasteurization of cattle feed would have no effect whatsoever on this.
Third, the outbreaks of BSE were caused by cattle feed containing the remains of sick cattle and sheep. At the time, it was seen as a way to minimize lost profits while disposing of sick animals, so it rapidly became a wide-spread practice which resulted in the huge outbreaks of the dease.
Irradiation degrades the flavor of milk more than heat pasteurization does. Milk, as it turns out, is very sensitive to radiation and develops an off flavor very quickly with exposure.
In the US, at least, the FDA has also not approved irradiation as a treatment for milk. Because of the issues with flavor, it's also very doubtful that manufacturers will go to the expense of lobbying for approval.
Just give them one of the many rejection line numbers. It's probably the most suitable use those numbers will ever get.
You might say that technology is new... but is it really? Technology is just a different way of doing the same old things like communicating with each other and building communities.
If you're going to get ridiculously reductive, then nothing new has shown up since the time very shortly after the big bang when the different forces separated and the laws of physics as we know them took hold (assuming those theories are even close to correct). Everything since then has just been different ways of combining the same old subatomic particles.
But ten thousand people using a phrase one way while only one person clings to using it the old way does make them right. Language evolves and popular usage becomes the correct usage over time.
1) AC asked who the current chess champion is. I gave the correct answer and explained his misunderstanding.
2) I made no claims about computers not being able to outsmart humans in my post, so bringing that up is a bit stupid and strawman-ish.
3) Any idiot on a motorcycle could win the Olympic cycling events, but it doesn't make the idiot a better athlete. Competitions are divided into categories and the rules limit the competitors order to create fair and interesting competitions. Only a dumbass wouldn't recognize why this is done and insist that everyone and everything should be allowed in every competition.
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You've confused exhibition games with actual championship competitions.
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First, you've conflated a false positive with a false negative and suggested that a false positive causes both effects. This is literally impossible. Who gets incarcerated and who gets to go free is not a zero sum game. We don't release one prisoner for every prisoner we put in jail.
Second, the program in TFA gives some very useful statistics:
Over the past 5 years, Miami-Dade police have responded to nearly 50,000 calls for service for people in mental-health crises, but have made only 109 arrests, diverting more than 10,000 people to services or safely stabilizing situations without arrest.The jail population fell from over 7,000 to just over 4,700, and the county was able to close an entire jail facility, saving nearly $12 million a year.
Throwing more than 10,000 mentally ill people into jail, then dumping them on the streets with no treatment when their sentence was done, would NOT have reduced the prison population. In fact, it would have almost guaranteed that those people wound up back in prison again.
Our entire legal system has always been based on the presumption of innocence despite greedy people launching a never-ending series attempts to change that to a presumption of guilt in order to profit. If 1 harmful person goes free so that 10,000 people who need help can get it, then I say let that guilty fucker go free.
A false positive from the program in the article here would result in offering assistance to someone who doesn't need it. Offering help to someone who doesn't need it does not harm them.
A false positive from the program you linked causes someone to be given a harsher punishment. Increasing the punishment of someone who doesn't deserve it does harm them.
These are not the same.
Here's some unrelated news for you.
The reboot is so horrible they can't survive any real competition.
The thing is... it's not competition.
It's not like people have to choose to see one or the other. Most Trek fans would happily watch both and more.
This pretty much explains it.
That's not right either. This is how it really happened.
1) Use one of the many freely available utilities to overwrite the entire drive
2) Use a script to fill the drive with randomly named copies of goatse, tubgirl and other such wonderful images. Throw some of them into other document formats as well, just to keep things interesting. For added fun, make sure all the MS office documents are infected with macro viruses. Bonus points if the random names are made using a list of enticing words like "password", "private", "taxes", "accounts", etc.
3) Delete all the files and sell the drive.
Anyone who recovers the files and looks at them will immediately regret it.
That's a lot of work to go through just to view shitty reposted images. I think I'll stick with my current plan of just not going to Pintrest.
I wasted about 20 hrs trying to prevent that crap from destroying my business. At $200/hr, can I sue?
Of course you can. In the US, you can sue anyone for any reason. If you can't find a lawyer to take up your case, you can always go pro se and represent yourself.
Whether you'll prevail and get any sort of a settlement is an entirely different question.
The trick is to get kids to understand that history isnt just a series of rote dates to remember (In fact knowing the exact date napoleon was born or whatever is pretty uninteresting to historians) , but a big story with processes that motored it along that we can learn from.
Yeah, no. The trick is to get TEACHERS to understand that history isn't just a series of rote dates and names to remember. The bulk of most history tests is exactly that, so any kid that doesn't do the rote memorization and regurgitation will fail.
What's happening?
A company is trying to eek out a bit more profit from a six year old product that's at the end of it's sales life by remaking it as an educational product.
This is just a press release from that company. It's not a policy or endorsement from the Department of Education. It's not something that anyone is doing today. It's just a company hoping that someone will buy their product.
Chill out already.