Because getting flooded every few years is an even bigger hassle? Because they live near to the good crop land which they also have to go to and from every day? Because having all the people and their animals near is makes the water not clean? Because real estate is more expensive near the water?
The goal of prohibition was to reduce domestic violence. It did, it reduced it to almost 0%. It was repealed to make up for the loss in taxes from the great depression, not because it didn't accomplish it's goals. AS a side benefit, suicides were cut in half. This is all trivial too look up.
You are right it is trivial to look up. Suicide rates for the time of prohibition, 1920 - 1933: 1920: 10.2 1921: 12.4 1922: 11.7 1923: 11.5 1924: 11.9 1925: 12.0 1926: 12.6 1927: 13.2 1928: 13.5 1929: 13.9 1930: 15.6 1931: 16.8 1932: 17.4 1933: 15.9
So I guess before prohibition you are claiming suicide rates were in the 20 - 35 range, so let's look at a few years of them: 1919: 11.5 1918: 12.3 1917: 13.0 1916: 13.7 1915: 16.2 1914: 16.1 1913: 15.4 1912: 15.6 1911: 16.0 1910: 15.3
Mmmm, nothing like double what it was in the time of prohibition. So you lied. About something you even stated was trivial to look up.
In fact prohibition seems to coincide with an end of a dramatic trend down in suicide rates replacing it with an upward trend.
My source is the "Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940. Vital statistics rates in the United States, 1900-1940" from 1943. Relevant table runs from page 210 through to 242.
Given you clearly just made stuff up about the thing you said as "trivial too look up" why would anyone bother even reading any of your other claims?
Where should all slashdot posts be sent so that you can check them for words you happen not to know so they can be replaced with words you do happen to know?
Sure, media buzz meant people blamed their errors on that. However, that doesn't mean there wasn't also a problem. That Toyota lost that particular court case seems a reasonable indication there was in fact a problem.
Though she has managed to manipulate the inevitable* death threats far better than he ever did.
* It's the internet. You'll get death threats from "Christians" if you argue on the internet about evolution v creation. You'll get death threats from American Football fans if you argue that soccer is a better sport. You'll get death threats if you argue that New York pizza is better than Chicago pizza. Who would have thunk you'd get them if you pick a topic close to the heart of teenage boys.
Launder money for drug cartels, sanctioned states, and terrorists for years, ignore multiple "stop doing that" orders for regulators and when caught red handed you get a fined a few weeks profits and told you are too rich and powerful for the government to bother with the slam dunk criminal case.
Which is fine, since I can control those minor violations and they are by definition minor. Whereas a police officer having a bad day and deciding to falsely charge me with something not minor, like say resist arrest and assault police, is completely outside of my control.
And of course using warnings is part of police procedure anyway and not something to be afraid of being audited about. Though if it makes the police officer think twice about giving all the white guys warnings while charging all the black guys for the same thing, that sounds like a plus.
They wouldn't. You might notice that the two cases you reference made national (and international) headlines because they were unexpected, unusual, and considered abhorrent to everyone else. Again, there are crazy people but they don't define what society as whole is.
Oh and yes I'm sure people made jokes at the time. "What color were Christa McAuliffe eyes? Blue - one blue this way and one blue that way" also didn't mean there was a culture of wanting space shuttles to blow up in the 80s
Assuming those numbers haven't varied too much then, yes if homes have average existence of 20 years (the one I'm in right now is older than that) 1 in 5 will be burglarized in their "entire existance".
And of course you are using unreported sexual assaults in your numbers. There are also unreported burglaries that aren't in the burglary numbers - if you don't have insurance there's no reason to report after all. If it was your stash of drugs that were stolen you aren't going to call the police. When your child broke in and pawned off some of your stuff you are probably not going to report the crime. And so on.
Rap songs have also glorified murdering people, murder culture?
Right. there are more rapes than burglaries! Inside prisons I'll buy that, in the rest of America not a chance.
No one* is teaching boys it's ok to harass and rape. Just like no one says "you didn't lock your doors enough" when a house is burgled.
* Well OK I'm sure there is someone. Just like there is someone teaching boys that jews are evil incarnate and somone teaching boys that violence is a good first resort. I'm assuming we are talking about "normal" people.
You are claiming that in say the last 10,000 years nowhere on the planet has ever managed to get just 5C higher than what was measured in an arbitrary few year window?
Don't they all do that already - at least the 911 part. Every cell phone I've ever owned of the dumb and smart variety have all allowed calling 911 while locked. I'm pretty sure it's a legal requirement that they call 911 when they are locked and when they have no sim card.
On my samsung you can add numbers to the emergency contact group and they'll be callable from the emergency call button that shows up on the lock screen as well as 911. Given it's a samsung there is a 0% chance that they didn't copy that from elsewhere and hence iphone's must do the same thing (and probably all the other smart phones too).
In fact people keep complaining about it - apparently it's easier to butt dial 911 when the phone is locked then when it isn't:)
I took you advice and drove a little below the posted limit, while driving straight through all the red lights. I now have a dozen tickets for going through those red lights!
Your specific example is not irrational. It's the same situation as my eating berries example. At least until people keep dieing even after not going to said facilities. Assuming causation is what rational people do. It's the people who grab the hot pot, yell "ouch" and drop it and then proceed to grab it and yell "ouch" and drop it over and over again because they refuse to assume causation are the ones being irrational.
That we "know" it's an incorrect hypothesis doesn't change that it's a rational first attempt for people without all the information that you have.
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Because getting flooded every few years is an even bigger hassle? Because they live near to the good crop land which they also have to go to and from every day? Because having all the people and their animals near is makes the water not clean? Because real estate is more expensive near the water?
I have no idea. But I'm sure there's a reason...
Right, and do you think America has control of Iran? Or are you arguing against your own point?
You are right it is trivial to look up. Suicide rates for the time of prohibition, 1920 - 1933:
1920: 10.2
1921: 12.4
1922: 11.7
1923: 11.5
1924: 11.9
1925: 12.0
1926: 12.6
1927: 13.2
1928: 13.5
1929: 13.9
1930: 15.6
1931: 16.8
1932: 17.4
1933: 15.9
So I guess before prohibition you are claiming suicide rates were in the 20 - 35 range, so let's look at a few years of them:
1919: 11.5
1918: 12.3
1917: 13.0
1916: 13.7
1915: 16.2
1914: 16.1
1913: 15.4
1912: 15.6
1911: 16.0
1910: 15.3
Mmmm, nothing like double what it was in the time of prohibition. So you lied. About something you even stated was trivial to look up.
In fact prohibition seems to coincide with an end of a dramatic trend down in suicide rates replacing it with an upward trend.
My source is the "Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940. Vital statistics rates in the United States, 1900-1940" from 1943. Relevant table runs from page 210 through to 242.
Given you clearly just made stuff up about the thing you said as "trivial too look up" why would anyone bother even reading any of your other claims?
Where should all slashdot posts be sent so that you can check them for words you happen not to know so they can be replaced with words you do happen to know?
Astronomy graduates don't always make the best telescope lens grinders.
Microbiology graduates don't always make the best microscope builders.
None, since they did everything they could to lose the OJ trial to avoid them.
Sure, media buzz meant people blamed their errors on that. However, that doesn't mean there wasn't also a problem. That Toyota lost that particular court case seems a reasonable indication there was in fact a problem.
Some cases were due to people pressing the wrong pedals. But some were also due to a the software screwing up - http://www.sddt.com/Commentary...
Though she has managed to manipulate the inevitable* death threats far better than he ever did.
* It's the internet. You'll get death threats from "Christians" if you argue on the internet about evolution v creation. You'll get death threats from American Football fans if you argue that soccer is a better sport. You'll get death threats if you argue that New York pizza is better than Chicago pizza. Who would have thunk you'd get them if you pick a topic close to the heart of teenage boys.
Sure.
Launder money for drug cartels, sanctioned states, and terrorists for years, ignore multiple "stop doing that" orders for regulators and when caught red handed you get a fined a few weeks profits and told you are too rich and powerful for the government to bother with the slam dunk criminal case.
Very severe!
There's no "compared to".
Perfect isn't a comparison - something is not "more perfect" than something else. Something is either perfect or it is not.
Remove malaria from the Earth and it would be a better place for humans to live - hence it is not "prefect for us".
You have a strange definition of perfect.
Which is fine, since I can control those minor violations and they are by definition minor. Whereas a police officer having a bad day and deciding to falsely charge me with something not minor, like say resist arrest and assault police, is completely outside of my control.
And of course using warnings is part of police procedure anyway and not something to be afraid of being audited about. Though if it makes the police officer think twice about giving all the white guys warnings while charging all the black guys for the same thing, that sounds like a plus.
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So not a rape culture? A violent crime culture and of course rape is a subset of violent crime?
They wouldn't. You might notice that the two cases you reference made national (and international) headlines because they were unexpected, unusual, and considered abhorrent to everyone else. Again, there are crazy people but they don't define what society as whole is.
Oh and yes I'm sure people made jokes at the time. "What color were Christa McAuliffe eyes? Blue - one blue this way and one blue that way" also didn't mean there was a culture of wanting space shuttles to blow up in the 80s
There were 132,802,859 homes in the US in 2013 - http://quickfacts.census.gov/q... - which counts individual rooms rented out as a "home".
There were1,393,152 burglaries of home in 2009 - https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2...
Assuming those numbers haven't varied too much then, yes if homes have average existence of 20 years (the one I'm in right now is older than that) 1 in 5 will be burglarized in their "entire existance".
And of course you are using unreported sexual assaults in your numbers. There are also unreported burglaries that aren't in the burglary numbers - if you don't have insurance there's no reason to report after all. If it was your stash of drugs that were stolen you aren't going to call the police. When your child broke in and pawned off some of your stuff you are probably not going to report the crime. And so on.
Rap songs have also glorified murdering people, murder culture?
Right. there are more rapes than burglaries! Inside prisons I'll buy that, in the rest of America not a chance.
No one* is teaching boys it's ok to harass and rape. Just like no one says "you didn't lock your doors enough" when a house is burgled.
* Well OK I'm sure there is someone. Just like there is someone teaching boys that jews are evil incarnate and somone teaching boys that violence is a good first resort. I'm assuming we are talking about "normal" people.
It already is.
But non-idiots mitigate risks as best they can - trading off against convenience and so on of course, sometimes with convenience winning by miles.
The message is "never burglarize" and no one thinks advising people to lock their doors somehow changes that message.
The message is "don't abduct children" and no one thinks that "stranger danger" type idiocy in schools changes that message.
Why does any mention of mitigating rape risks always get portrayed as undermining "don't rape".
Spirit recorded temperatures of +35C - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/s....
You are claiming that in say the last 10,000 years nowhere on the planet has ever managed to get just 5C higher than what was measured in an arbitrary few year window?
Don't they all do that already - at least the 911 part. Every cell phone I've ever owned of the dumb and smart variety have all allowed calling 911 while locked. I'm pretty sure it's a legal requirement that they call 911 when they are locked and when they have no sim card.
On my samsung you can add numbers to the emergency contact group and they'll be callable from the emergency call button that shows up on the lock screen as well as 911. Given it's a samsung there is a 0% chance that they didn't copy that from elsewhere and hence iphone's must do the same thing (and probably all the other smart phones too).
In fact people keep complaining about it - apparently it's easier to butt dial 911 when the phone is locked then when it isn't :)
Sure, but other people don't matter...
You are going to pay my fines, right?
I took you advice and drove a little below the posted limit, while driving straight through all the red lights. I now have a dozen tickets for going through those red lights!
Your specific example is not irrational. It's the same situation as my eating berries example. At least until people keep dieing even after not going to said facilities. Assuming causation is what rational people do. It's the people who grab the hot pot, yell "ouch" and drop it and then proceed to grab it and yell "ouch" and drop it over and over again because they refuse to assume causation are the ones being irrational.
That we "know" it's an incorrect hypothesis doesn't change that it's a rational first attempt for people without all the information that you have.
I'm pretty sure looting an ebola quarantine facility is not "equally deadly" to having a view on one side or the other on US healthcare.