In terms of absolute numbers, yeah, Chicago is quite high. But for the third biggest city in the nation, that's not exactly stunning. It's a purely manufactured crisis, to sell news, to increase spending on law enforcement, to justify gun control.
Four years, actually. It hasn't been ten years since 2007, when he was convicted, nor has it been a decade 2009 when he exhausted his appeals and turned himself in. And no one is disputing that he dumped tens of millions of dollars worth of his stock right before the government backed out of contracts. It sounds like he was actually guilty of insider trading even though he was a good guy in terms of saying no to the NSA.
Maybe in the UK, the topics of abortion and politics can be separated, but in the US it definitely can't be. Moreover, the charity itself says it was an anti-abortion activist, and that the ruling rewards the criminal. So it's already political from the summary.
I suppose since we don't read the summary anymore, we may have been able to take it BACK from political. I can see how from the title, one might think it was a bank that was being punished.
Why so black and white? Your brain should be able to handle sympathy while at the same time thinking they should be required to pay the fine.
At the very least, realize that the people who are going to be paying the price here aren't people who said "Hey, know what? FUCK PRIVACY! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
There's little point in trying to figure out when science can be settled in questions like gun control, climate change, and evolution. When one or both sides dig in, there's no way either is going to be convinced. Evolution, for example: the yelling match is only going to stop when the last creationist dies, or when God comes down and tells us "Uh, hello? I TOLD you I made the world in six days. How did you think it was a metaphor? The devil CLEARLY put those bones there! I even sent a bunch of prophets to tell you. Did you not see them in the parking lot of walmarts throughout the deep south?"
Indeed. "A bad workman always blames his tools." If you think my powerpoint is confusing, I've got news for you: my chalk talk is the same level of poor organization, but now it has awful handwriting too.
Next up: physics forum bans verbal or written communication. You have to dance your research.
There's also the fact that industrial labs often have routine things they do (mix up these chemicals, repeat until the patent expires in a decade or two) while academic labs have fewer. Academic labs aren't generally suited to doing one thing over and over again, there's a high turnover of people and more incentive through profits to optimize standard operating procedures in private industries.
That can lead to increased safety: if you have a protocol you follow every day, it's probably pretty well thought out, with potential dangerous parts examined closely. Liability, etc.
Meanwhile, me in an academic lab, I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants at all times, since I'm supposed to be doing new things. "Okay, I'll just pipette off this and put it in the... oh... is this water or is this that horrible carcinogen? I can't remember... What am I even doing, I got really into this Taylor Swift song..."
More general statement: groups of individual people find ways of rationalizing anything through a process of "everyone else is doing it so it must be okay" and kicking out the people who oppose the groupthink.
Corporations, government agencies, religions, industries.
Because once Newsweek finds you, they'll pester you to death to subscribe, for interviews, to talk about them, to let people know that they didn't die completely when they went online only, and can you spare some change for a sandwich.
Well, that and the pancreas is a whole fucking lot more complicated than a bunch of skin and cartilage shaped like an ear. I'm all for cynicism about the pharmecutical industry, but the simpler explanation is that we just can't cure diabetes yet, not that anyone is conspiring to keep patients sick.
There are people who think that HIV was made by the government, there are people who think that cancer could have been cured if researchers cared more or weren't so focused on keeping people on expensive meds. As a biomedical researcher, I have to say: we're simply not smart enough to actually do these conspiracies. If we were more cunning, we would have gone into the finance industry.
When I first read the title, I assumed that Samzenpus' "A" key was malfunctioning. My first thought was "I thought they were ALREADY there, what was Merkel complaining about if not that?"
Companies don't have a moral obligation to make every possible cent for their shareholders that they can, nor would a moral obligation to their shareholders trump a moral obligation to society. With morals, there are few absolutes.
I agree that the thing to focus on is the tax structure, but this seems like a good example to illustrate how it is messed up. So we ARE talking about that.
Possibly because CEOs aren't hired for charisma, their ability to strut on a walkway, or twirling a baton? I think they SHOULD be, and I think many CEOs are still little more than celebrities to promote the company, but charisma isn't it.
The press started working for the government. Not sure when, but the media merged with the government at least during the Iraq invasion. They were all instrumental in starting the war. Once it got going, they fired anyone who dared question whether the war was a good idea.
The white house press corp pretty clearly works for the white house. They take the propaganda verbatim and publish it.
I think that mindset explains why the government thinks media leak legislation is appropriate. They see their employees as misbehaving. For that matter, the media masters are probably accepting it in exchange for goodies. "Tell you what, Obama, we'll accept more muzzling of our reporters. That will go for these online news source up and comers double, right? And you won't have a problem with Rupert Murdoch/whoever taking a complete monopoly over all news, right? He's promised us new mansions."
Your simile is more fitting than you think. If you don't want to see Obama taking flak, don't watch fox news. If you don't want to see microsoft's actions being criticized, don't go on slashdot. Or don't click on the link. Judging by your comment history, you ONLY seem to defend MS and knock google or apple. I don't think you're shilling, I just think if you're so pro-MS you might be happier elsewhere.
Another way of looking at it would be "I wasted a lot of political capitol on solar power, and all it got me was a lot of trouble. Lesson learned: Americans do not care about clean energy. Thus, I don't either."
Citizens get the government they earn. I hear more hate about the billions spent on solar power than I do about the trillions wasted on Bush's wars. If Obama were a smarter man, he'd invade Cuba or something, dump the rest of the budget into coal, and get elected a third and fourth term.
That's a good point. I'm not sure what about my post made you think I accepted the government's reasoning for gaining new powers to fight KP, but you make a good point nonetheless. It was not the most thought-through of proposals, it was really more of a counter argument to the argument that we need to stop KP at all costs, including the liberties of people who have nothing to do with child molesting.
According to at least a few sources, the decrease was in beer, not wine or hard alchohol. Which makes sense: the overlap between beer drinkers and alcoholics is less than alcoholic beverages with higher ABV. Furthermore, the thriving beer industry in America was crippled by prohibition and didn't recover until recently.
Citation needed on pot consumption rising. Could easily be an artifact: if it's legal, it no longer is hidden.
Citation also needed on the pedophilia rising. "Seems to be nearing the state of homosexuality" sounds like it was taken straight from some televangelist shithead's rantings.
Mandatory butt plugs with RFID chips attached. It will log whose anus is near the equipment and at what times. It's the only way. Bonus: you can write the butt plugs off as a business expense.
In seriousness, it sounds like you are asking for a universal solution for many different bits of equipment made for different purposes by different manufacturers. I don't think that exists or we'd see it at all universities.
You could do what every department I'm familiar with does: simply charge the whole department.
You could also combine less effective methods: have a logbook and also have a webcam. Put many warning signs up saying the room/equipemnt is monitored, and that not signing in / cleaning up / maintaining will be reported. If your departments are anything like basically any department I've seen, it's the grunts that are doing it. The threat of reporting it to their boss and / or charging their boss, with the webcam, I suspect you'll see people behave without ever actually connecting the webcam to anything.
PS. I would be royally pissed if the law were changed right now for this censor. Or if they do change it, censorship like this asshole did should be punishable by death.
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It's not even on the top fifty cities in the world by murder rate. Thirteenth if you limit it to just US according to this page.
In terms of absolute numbers, yeah, Chicago is quite high. But for the third biggest city in the nation, that's not exactly stunning. It's a purely manufactured crisis, to sell news, to increase spending on law enforcement, to justify gun control.
Four years, actually. It hasn't been ten years since 2007, when he was convicted, nor has it been a decade 2009 when he exhausted his appeals and turned himself in. And no one is disputing that he dumped tens of millions of dollars worth of his stock right before the government backed out of contracts. It sounds like he was actually guilty of insider trading even though he was a good guy in terms of saying no to the NSA.
It's worth noting that those fears about racism are probably based on the fact that that has definitely happened.
Maybe in the UK, the topics of abortion and politics can be separated, but in the US it definitely can't be. Moreover, the charity itself says it was an anti-abortion activist, and that the ruling rewards the criminal. So it's already political from the summary.
I suppose since we don't read the summary anymore, we may have been able to take it BACK from political. I can see how from the title, one might think it was a bank that was being punished.
Why so black and white? Your brain should be able to handle sympathy while at the same time thinking they should be required to pay the fine.
At the very least, realize that the people who are going to be paying the price here aren't people who said "Hey, know what? FUCK PRIVACY! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
There's little point in trying to figure out when science can be settled in questions like gun control, climate change, and evolution. When one or both sides dig in, there's no way either is going to be convinced. Evolution, for example: the yelling match is only going to stop when the last creationist dies, or when God comes down and tells us "Uh, hello? I TOLD you I made the world in six days. How did you think it was a metaphor? The devil CLEARLY put those bones there! I even sent a bunch of prophets to tell you. Did you not see them in the parking lot of walmarts throughout the deep south?"
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Indeed. "A bad workman always blames his tools." If you think my powerpoint is confusing, I've got news for you: my chalk talk is the same level of poor organization, but now it has awful handwriting too.
Next up: physics forum bans verbal or written communication. You have to dance your research.
I think I acknowledged that I was not making an absolute statement, I don't know why you'd assume I was.
There's also the fact that industrial labs often have routine things they do (mix up these chemicals, repeat until the patent expires in a decade or two) while academic labs have fewer. Academic labs aren't generally suited to doing one thing over and over again, there's a high turnover of people and more incentive through profits to optimize standard operating procedures in private industries.
That can lead to increased safety: if you have a protocol you follow every day, it's probably pretty well thought out, with potential dangerous parts examined closely. Liability, etc.
Meanwhile, me in an academic lab, I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants at all times, since I'm supposed to be doing new things. "Okay, I'll just pipette off this and put it in the... oh... is this water or is this that horrible carcinogen? I can't remember... What am I even doing, I got really into this Taylor Swift song..."
More general statement: groups of individual people find ways of rationalizing anything through a process of "everyone else is doing it so it must be okay" and kicking out the people who oppose the groupthink.
Corporations, government agencies, religions, industries.
Because once Newsweek finds you, they'll pester you to death to subscribe, for interviews, to talk about them, to let people know that they didn't die completely when they went online only, and can you spare some change for a sandwich.
Well, that and the pancreas is a whole fucking lot more complicated than a bunch of skin and cartilage shaped like an ear. I'm all for cynicism about the pharmecutical industry, but the simpler explanation is that we just can't cure diabetes yet, not that anyone is conspiring to keep patients sick.
There are people who think that HIV was made by the government, there are people who think that cancer could have been cured if researchers cared more or weren't so focused on keeping people on expensive meds. As a biomedical researcher, I have to say: we're simply not smart enough to actually do these conspiracies. If we were more cunning, we would have gone into the finance industry.
Strawman argument: the critique here is "It's stupid and anti-scientific" not "they shouldn't have the freedom to do that."
When I first read the title, I assumed that Samzenpus' "A" key was malfunctioning. My first thought was "I thought they were ALREADY there, what was Merkel complaining about if not that?"
Companies don't have a moral obligation to make every possible cent for their shareholders that they can, nor would a moral obligation to their shareholders trump a moral obligation to society. With morals, there are few absolutes.
I agree that the thing to focus on is the tax structure, but this seems like a good example to illustrate how it is messed up. So we ARE talking about that.
Possibly because CEOs aren't hired for charisma, their ability to strut on a walkway, or twirling a baton? I think they SHOULD be, and I think many CEOs are still little more than celebrities to promote the company, but charisma isn't it.
The press started working for the government. Not sure when, but the media merged with the government at least during the Iraq invasion. They were all instrumental in starting the war. Once it got going, they fired anyone who dared question whether the war was a good idea.
The white house press corp pretty clearly works for the white house. They take the propaganda verbatim and publish it.
I think that mindset explains why the government thinks media leak legislation is appropriate. They see their employees as misbehaving. For that matter, the media masters are probably accepting it in exchange for goodies. "Tell you what, Obama, we'll accept more muzzling of our reporters. That will go for these online news source up and comers double, right? And you won't have a problem with Rupert Murdoch/whoever taking a complete monopoly over all news, right? He's promised us new mansions."
Your simile is more fitting than you think. If you don't want to see Obama taking flak, don't watch fox news. If you don't want to see microsoft's actions being criticized, don't go on slashdot. Or don't click on the link. Judging by your comment history, you ONLY seem to defend MS and knock google or apple. I don't think you're shilling, I just think if you're so pro-MS you might be happier elsewhere.
Another way of looking at it would be "I wasted a lot of political capitol on solar power, and all it got me was a lot of trouble. Lesson learned: Americans do not care about clean energy. Thus, I don't either."
Citizens get the government they earn. I hear more hate about the billions spent on solar power than I do about the trillions wasted on Bush's wars. If Obama were a smarter man, he'd invade Cuba or something, dump the rest of the budget into coal, and get elected a third and fourth term.
That's a good point. I'm not sure what about my post made you think I accepted the government's reasoning for gaining new powers to fight KP, but you make a good point nonetheless. It was not the most thought-through of proposals, it was really more of a counter argument to the argument that we need to stop KP at all costs, including the liberties of people who have nothing to do with child molesting.
According to at least a few sources, the decrease was in beer, not wine or hard alchohol. Which makes sense: the overlap between beer drinkers and alcoholics is less than alcoholic beverages with higher ABV. Furthermore, the thriving beer industry in America was crippled by prohibition and didn't recover until recently.
Citation needed on pot consumption rising. Could easily be an artifact: if it's legal, it no longer is hidden.
Citation also needed on the pedophilia rising. "Seems to be nearing the state of homosexuality" sounds like it was taken straight from some televangelist shithead's rantings.
Mandatory butt plugs with RFID chips attached. It will log whose anus is near the equipment and at what times. It's the only way. Bonus: you can write the butt plugs off as a business expense.
In seriousness, it sounds like you are asking for a universal solution for many different bits of equipment made for different purposes by different manufacturers. I don't think that exists or we'd see it at all universities.
You could do what every department I'm familiar with does: simply charge the whole department.
You could also combine less effective methods: have a logbook and also have a webcam. Put many warning signs up saying the room/equipemnt is monitored, and that not signing in / cleaning up / maintaining will be reported. If your departments are anything like basically any department I've seen, it's the grunts that are doing it. The threat of reporting it to their boss and / or charging their boss, with the webcam, I suspect you'll see people behave without ever actually connecting the webcam to anything.
Good thing all of them like passing laws based on what they like, otherwise the paradox would probably destroy the UK.
PS. I would be royally pissed if the law were changed right now for this censor. Or if they do change it, censorship like this asshole did should be punishable by death.