Oh, so the whole argument falls down if we just look at the UK, does it?
Hmm, let's take a little looksie shall we?
Countries in Europe that are like the UK, ie rates below 2 include: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina (I mean Jesus fuck they had a war and they're still way better than you), Croatia, Greece, Italy, Kosovo (also war!), Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia (yet more war), Slovenia, Spain, Macedonia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.
Bolstering *your argument*, we have the redoutable Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Montenegro, all with rates above 2.5.
Try doing your sums a bit better next time.
Incidentally, I wish I didn't feel so pompous around you, but it's really tricky because you are in fact very very very stupid.
How many Bataclans does it take to get to the same number of deaths as the US suffers from gunshots each year?
Exciting! Let's run the numbers: 33,000 deaths from gunshot in the US in 2016. 89 deaths at Bataclan.
So your carnage in 2016 was the equivalent of no less than 371 Bataclans!
Let's try this with the total number of gunshot deaths, shall we? How many of those were there in France? Figures for 2016 aren't readily available, and the trend is steadily downward, but what the hey, lets use the figure for 2013: 1,750.
So 33,000 in the US vs 1,750 in France. US population is 320m, so about 100 of you die each year per 1m population from gunshots. French population is 67m, so about 26 French people die each year per 1m population from gunshots. So you guys are slaughtering yourselves with guns at a rate that's 4 times higher than the Frenchies! But Bataclan, amirite?
When shooting from the 32nd floor of a hotel. I'd say he has all the time in the world.
What's the chance of an Official NRA Gun Nut killing the perp and only the perp? Pretty damn low, because the level of tactical training required to keep cool and return fire without hitting civilians is of the intensity you get when you join Special Forces, or an HRT.
The US has far more freedom than Europe, and if you remove a 15% violent, lawless minority that commits 50% of all murders in the US, we have the same or better murder rate than Europe.
US murder rate 2015: 4.88 per 100k inhabitants. UK murder rate 2015: 0.92 per 100k inhabitants.
And what is 50% of 4.88? Why goodness, it turns out there's this thing called maths that allows you to perform these complex operations. And it turns out that answer is that you're full of shit, because the murder rate in the US, after excluding half the murders for reasons of your racism, is 2.44 per 100k inhabitants, which is still more than 2.5 times the murder rate in the UK.
You moan about "PC" but you don't even have the balls to own your own racism. You can't do maths. You confidently assert trivially refutable bullshit. A 9 year old can reason more effectively than you -- in fact, it'd be tough to find a 9 year old whom you could actually out-reason. And people all around the world are laughing at you. Well done!
"actual murder rates with whatever the hell they use (kitchen knife, machete, baseball bat, car, etc.) are very comparable to the US, once you exclude a very violent 15% minority that exists in the US"
So actual murder rates are very similar if you... exclude lots of actual murders. Brilliant! Your perspicacity and clarity of thinking is a shining example to us all.
And of course you don't stop there -- you suggest that the appropriate response to the man shooting from a hotel's 32nd floor at night is for someone on the ground to start shooting back! I'm sure that's an excellent strategy and wouldn't lead to any other hotel guests being shot by some fuckwit who sees movement and thinks he's spotted the shooter. Are you available for weddings and bar mitzvahs? Cos this is peerless comedy.
I want ScentCone to one day realise how insufferably vile and stupid his political views are, and then to spend the rest of his life curled up in shame. Ainâ(TM)t gonna happen, so Iâ(TM)ll settle for laughing at him instead
You could. If you wanted to create a wildly unfair taxation system, you could introduce VAT and abolish other taxes. Then poor people would face a massive hike in the costs of things they have to buy to survive, while really rich people saw their taxes plummet.
And then go bankrupt themselves. Congratulations! You've demonstrated why your thinking skills means that debates about university are, for you, academic.
No, America is going to collapse because too many of you think this is an adequate riposte to the OP. Whether the result of ideology, stupidity or some toxic mix, this impoverished thinking is what will do for you.
Great, that's the upper bound established: perfection is an inappropriate bar. Now, what about the lower bound? Worse then fucking useless seems like a reasonable place to start.
But then, I suspect you and reason are uncomfortable bedfellows.
Real security is *always* a trade off between complexity and convenience, because when security is too complex, users will game it. Real security engineers deal with the world as it is, and don't waste time on faux-moralising about users who don't behave as they'd like them to.
There are 38k James Smiths in the US, out of 120m white men. There are 32k Maria Garcias in the US, out of 21m Hispanic women.
James Smiths account for 0.04% of white men and appears 4.5 times less often among that population than Maria Garcia appears among Hispanic women (0.18%). So the Hispanic population sees a higher proportion of collisions than the white population.
I'm perfectly well aware of what the thread started with. I was following up on your very own "bold assertion", to borrow a phrase: the idea that there's a right way to spell names.
If I were being deliberately stupid, there wouldn't be Steven, Steve, Stephen, Stephan, Stefan, etc. Nor 17 ways that Shakespeare spelled his surname. Not to mention that there is no possibility of a correct way of spelling an anglicised name from another language, like Muhammad, Mohamed, Mohammed, etc.
There aren't right and wrong ways to spell names: there are common and less common ways. As with everything else in this vein, 9 times out of 10, this is just snowflake whinging from middle aged white men who pine for the 50s when everyone else knew their place. I mean, have you listened to yourself? Climbing on some kind of high horse because someone else calls their son DeShawn or what have you
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Oh, so the whole argument falls down if we just look at the UK, does it?
Hmm, let's take a little looksie shall we?
Countries in Europe that are like the UK, ie rates below 2 include: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina (I mean Jesus fuck they had a war and they're still way better than you), Croatia, Greece, Italy, Kosovo (also war!), Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia (yet more war), Slovenia, Spain, Macedonia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.
Bolstering *your argument*, we have the redoutable Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Montenegro, all with rates above 2.5.
Try doing your sums a bit better next time.
Incidentally, I wish I didn't feel so pompous around you, but it's really tricky because you are in fact very very very stupid.
How many Bataclans does it take to get to the same number of deaths as the US suffers from gunshots each year?
Exciting! Let's run the numbers:
33,000 deaths from gunshot in the US in 2016.
89 deaths at Bataclan.
So your carnage in 2016 was the equivalent of no less than 371 Bataclans!
Let's try this with the total number of gunshot deaths, shall we? How many of those were there in France? Figures for 2016 aren't readily available, and the trend is steadily downward, but what the hey, lets use the figure for 2013: 1,750.
So 33,000 in the US vs 1,750 in France. US population is 320m, so about 100 of you die each year per 1m population from gunshots. French population is 67m, so about 26 French people die each year per 1m population from gunshots. So you guys are slaughtering yourselves with guns at a rate that's 4 times higher than the Frenchies! But Bataclan, amirite?
And they will be told, "sorry, we cannot help. Here's how you reset the device"
You say that like it's not blindingly obvious why that's a bad idea. You do know why, right?
Sucks to be you. Here in Europe, it's vanishingly rare for a crazy person to be able to get hold of a gun.
When shooting from the 32nd floor of a hotel. I'd say he has all the time in the world.
What's the chance of an Official NRA Gun Nut killing the perp and only the perp? Pretty damn low, because the level of tactical training required to keep cool and return fire without hitting civilians is of the intensity you get when you join Special Forces, or an HRT.
The US has far more freedom than Europe, and if you remove a 15% violent, lawless minority that commits 50% of all murders in the US, we have the same or better murder rate than Europe.
Let's have a little look at that, shall we?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
US murder rate 2015: 4.88 per 100k inhabitants.
UK murder rate 2015: 0.92 per 100k inhabitants.
And what is 50% of 4.88? Why goodness, it turns out there's this thing called maths that allows you to perform these complex operations. And it turns out that answer is that you're full of shit, because the murder rate in the US, after excluding half the murders for reasons of your racism, is 2.44 per 100k inhabitants, which is still more than 2.5 times the murder rate in the UK.
You moan about "PC" but you don't even have the balls to own your own racism. You can't do maths. You confidently assert trivially refutable bullshit. A 9 year old can reason more effectively than you -- in fact, it'd be tough to find a 9 year old whom you could actually out-reason. And people all around the world are laughing at you. Well done!
"actual murder rates with whatever the hell they use (kitchen knife, machete, baseball bat, car, etc.) are very comparable to the US, once you exclude a very violent 15% minority that exists in the US"
So actual murder rates are very similar if you ... exclude lots of actual murders. Brilliant! Your perspicacity and clarity of thinking is a shining example to us all.
And of course you don't stop there -- you suggest that the appropriate response to the man shooting from a hotel's 32nd floor at night is for someone on the ground to start shooting back! I'm sure that's an excellent strategy and wouldn't lead to any other hotel guests being shot by some fuckwit who sees movement and thinks he's spotted the shooter. Are you available for weddings and bar mitzvahs? Cos this is peerless comedy.
Already happens, and VAT is still regressive
Income and wealth tax are fair taxes. Acknowledging that, and making them work well, is a much better use of time.
I want ScentCone to one day realise how insufferably vile and stupid his political views are, and then to spend the rest of his life curled up in shame. Ainâ(TM)t gonna happen, so Iâ(TM)ll settle for laughing at him instead
You could. If you wanted to create a wildly unfair taxation system, you could introduce VAT and abolish other taxes. Then poor people would face a massive hike in the costs of things they have to buy to survive, while really rich people saw their taxes plummet.
And then go bankrupt themselves. Congratulations! You've demonstrated why your thinking skills means that debates about university are, for you, academic.
No, America is going to collapse because too many of you think this is an adequate riposte to the OP. Whether the result of ideology, stupidity or some toxic mix, this impoverished thinking is what will do for you.
1. The whole point of HUMINT is to shortcut the noise-sifting.
2. Adding in a ton of new noise does not make the problem easier
Alternatively, it might divert a tremendous amount of effort into sifting through vast quantities of signal in search of tiny tiny noises.
Great, that's the upper bound established: perfection is an inappropriate bar. Now, what about the lower bound? Worse then fucking useless seems like a reasonable place to start.
But then, I suspect you and reason are uncomfortable bedfellows.
Whereas, of course, Apple will make no attempts to further harden and improve FaceID.
Real security is *always* a trade off between complexity and convenience, because when security is too complex, users will game it. Real security engineers deal with the world as it is, and don't waste time on faux-moralising about users who don't behave as they'd like them to.
Thank goodness someone else pays attention to Ross Anderson. Economics of security and all that.
You've not got your reasoning right at all.
There are 38k James Smiths in the US, out of 120m white men.
There are 32k Maria Garcias in the US, out of 21m Hispanic women.
James Smiths account for 0.04% of white men and appears 4.5 times less often among that population than Maria Garcia appears among Hispanic women (0.18%). So the Hispanic population sees a higher proportion of collisions than the white population.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Great article!
I'm perfectly well aware of what the thread started with. I was following up on your very own "bold assertion", to borrow a phrase: the idea that there's a right way to spell names.
You've not read the thread, have you? Never mind, no-one expects it of you.
If I were being deliberately stupid, there wouldn't be Steven, Steve, Stephen, Stephan, Stefan, etc. Nor 17 ways that Shakespeare spelled his surname. Not to mention that there is no possibility of a correct way of spelling an anglicised name from another language, like Muhammad, Mohamed, Mohammed, etc.
There aren't right and wrong ways to spell names: there are common and less common ways. As with everything else in this vein, 9 times out of 10, this is just snowflake whinging from middle aged white men who pine for the 50s when everyone else knew their place. I mean, have you listened to yourself? Climbing on some kind of high horse because someone else calls their son DeShawn or what have you
Perhaps they don't want to.