And guess what? all of them failed, and some of those might actually have been misreported incidents. So yes, I can tell you that the facts show that the danger is low.
but even if not a thing has changed
Actually they are substantially down steadily over the last hundred years.
it would be foolish not to at least consider the "fact" that these abductions and even attempted abductions do happen,
Right, the same way you consider the fact that people have been hit by meteorites every time you go out and that such a thing does happen.
And none of those things would happen if we made it illegal and placed prostitutes in jail!
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One does not set policy to appease bigots who wouldn't change their mind to begin with. How come negative examples increase bigotry and positive examples do not decrease it? Because these were bigoted people looking for confirmation bias, and they would find it anywhere they want.
These are the same people being overly critical of Obama. Yes he made mistakes, and one can honestly accuse them various things without being a bigot I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about the people who claim he is the worst president in history when all he has done is do a mild job at keeping the country together (more jobs created than Bush Jr in 8 years) after the worst disaster in history from the previous eight years: two unfunded wars, a financial collapse for the ages, a large budget deficit and a global recession.
Those are bigots to begin with and will find justification in their racism wherever they want. We shouldn't worry about them when setting AA policies.
It always seemed odd to me how much money politicians make
You gotta be kidding. In what sense do they make too much money? Almost any politician would make far more in the private sector.
I happen to know a cadre of senior pundits with high end connections around here and all of them would have to take a pay cut if they were to become members of cabinet.
If you pay low salaries to politicians you are assured to get one of four things:
- Mediocre people - Power hungry egomaniacs - Corrupt people - Millionaires
and to be fair, far behind the four above you get a fifth option, which happens ever so rarely:
- people who care
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You are lucky if you never had to deal with an incompetent AA hire.
Never in any higher numbers than non AA candidates. In fact if anything in my limited experience the record is biased in favor of AA. There are more bad hires (%-wise) in the non AA pool, which coincides with the dictum that you have to be twice as good to make it as a woman.
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discriminatory practices tend to have the effect of encouraging more discrimination. "She only got the job because she's a woman and they had to hire her" and the like.
Actually in my 25+ years in the work place I never heard anyone make that comment that wasn't a sexist bigot to begin with.
Remember, big brother is always watching. If you say the wrong thing the thought^H^H^H^H^Hcopyright police will fall on you and take you to a reeducation gulag.
The fact that you do it and it still works proper is mere coincidence. Especially with tap water, and not disassembling.
Not at all. At University we used to wash keyboards all the time, from many different manufacturers. You just have to let them dry for at least twenty four hours, but preferably over the weekend.
minivans are far more useful from a masculine point of view than a sports car.
I agree, but there are better alternatives: a Honda Pilot or Element, or an Elantra Touring. I haul wood and kids to sports events and I've never needed a minivan.
You forget that once you've been married for a few years you get used to feeling emasculated 24x7, which is why so many married men consent to readily consent to getting a minivans and a vasectomy..
I can totally see a married man taking those pills.
Generally touchpads are much worse if you type with your thumbs to the side or the touchpad is overly sensitive. We have an HP loaner where the touchpad is so sensitive that even hovering near the surface is detected. We loan it out with a mouse and every one who uses it reports turning off the touchpad and using the mouse.
The fact is, no one has any idea what side of the Laffer Curve we are on.
Not true. It is actually not rocket science to work this one out. The last few times we cut taxes (Bush Jr., stimulus tax cuts with Obama) revenues went down, and the last few times we raised taxes (Bush Sr, Clinton) total receipts went up.
Now if you look at the Laffer Curve there is only one place when this can happen: if you are on the wrong side of the curve.
I was told by an ad executive that about half of the TV ads are directed at the employees, not the customers, with the sole intention of rising morale among their working masses. Studies have shown that they are way more effective than increasing the employee's salaries by the cost of the commercial campaign.
Next time you see a commercial pay attention and it is easy to tell who the target audience is. In the case of the cheesy apple ads, clearly the target are the teenagers working at the Apple store.
Why can't more companies act this way towards one another?
Because lawyers are paid by the hour, so the more they litigate the more they earn. I have friends who were ready to settle amicably in their divorces and their respective lawyers, against their own wishes prolonged the proceedings until a certain large round figure in billings had been reached at which point all objections disappeared and a final settlement was signed.
There are countless examples of that behavior, to the extend that is has made it into pop culture, e.g. the movie Liar, Liar, where it is even part of the plot.
Target practice and training on using lethal force are not the same thing.
For example training in the use of lethal force includes being taught when to unlock the holster, when to grip the gun, when to pull the gun but still keep it pointing at the ground, when to pull it up and issue a warning, when to shoot to a warning shot, when to shoot to maim/disable, and when to shoot to kill.
Here's news for you: sometimes you can lie by only saying part of the truth.
I'm about 99.999% sure that Trayvon Martin would still be alive if he hadn't seen fit to get into a brawl in the middle of the night with someone who happened to be armed.
And??? I'm 100% sure he would be alive if he hadn't gone out to purchase a candy bar. In what way does either your statement or mine absolve Zimmerman?
Getting into a brawl, which was provoked by Z.'s actions is not a valid legal defense for shooting anyone.
Lastly you are trying to argue that because anyone can make mistakes, then everyone is equally likely to do so. This is is not the case. An off-duty policeman is less likely to make those mistakes than a random civilian who happens to be carrying a gun, even if said civilian is a good marksman (there is more to when and where fire at some one than merely having a good aim).
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And guess what? all of them failed, and some of those might actually have been misreported incidents. So yes, I can tell you that the facts show that the danger is low.
but even if not a thing has changed
Actually they are substantially down steadily over the last hundred years.
it would be foolish not to at least consider the "fact" that these abductions and even attempted abductions do happen,
Right, the same way you consider the fact that people have been hit by meteorites every time you go out and that such a thing does happen.
Actually the main branches of Judaism and Islam do not oppose autopsies.
Sorry, but you your LMGTFY is a fail:
"some sects" != "major religion"
the standard autopsy is becoming increasingly rare for cost reasons, religious objections,
Is there any major religion other than "Cult of the Dead" that America is slowly devolving into in which autopsies are forbidden?
And none of those things would happen if we made it illegal and placed prostitutes in jail!
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One does not set policy to appease bigots who wouldn't change their mind to begin with. How come negative examples increase bigotry and positive examples do not decrease it? Because these were bigoted people looking for confirmation bias, and they would find it anywhere they want.
These are the same people being overly critical of Obama. Yes he made mistakes, and one can honestly accuse them various things without being a bigot I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about the people who claim he is the worst president in history when all he has done is do a mild job at keeping the country together (more jobs created than Bush Jr in 8 years) after the worst disaster in history from the previous eight years: two unfunded wars, a financial collapse for the ages, a large budget deficit and a global recession.
Those are bigots to begin with and will find justification in their racism wherever they want. We shouldn't worry about them when setting AA policies.
So if there is already a fire we might as well throw gas at it rather than water? Seriously dude, think about that one for a sec.
It always seemed odd to me how much money politicians make
You gotta be kidding. In what sense do they make too much money? Almost any politician would make far more in the private sector.
I happen to know a cadre of senior pundits with high end connections around here and all of them would have to take a pay cut if they were to become members of cabinet.
If you pay low salaries to politicians you are assured to get one of four things:
- Mediocre people
- Power hungry egomaniacs
- Corrupt people
- Millionaires
and to be fair, far behind the four above you get a fifth option, which happens ever so rarely:
- people who care
You are lucky if you never had to deal with an incompetent AA hire.
Never in any higher numbers than non AA candidates. In fact if anything in my limited experience the record is biased in favor of AA. There are more bad hires (%-wise) in the non AA pool, which coincides with the dictum that you have to be twice as good to make it as a woman.
discriminatory practices tend to have the effect of encouraging more discrimination. "She only got the job because she's a woman and they had to hire her" and the like.
Actually in my 25+ years in the work place I never heard anyone make that comment that wasn't a sexist bigot to begin with.
but it galls me when Internet people hold it up as a paragon of scientific thought.
[citation needed]
People say is a paragon of a science-oriented entertaining show/
Remember, big brother is always watching. If you say the wrong thing the thought^H^H^H^H^Hcopyright police will fall on you and take you to a reeducation gulag.
TTL is in hops, not time units.
The fact that you do it and it still works proper is mere coincidence.
Especially with tap water, and not disassembling.
Not at all. At University we used to wash keyboards all the time, from many different manufacturers. You just have to let them dry for at least twenty four hours, but preferably over the weekend.
minivans are far more useful from a masculine point of view than a sports car.
I agree, but there are better alternatives: a Honda Pilot or Element, or an Elantra Touring. I haul wood and kids to sports events and I've never needed a minivan.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yes
You forget that once you've been married for a few years you get used to feeling emasculated 24x7, which is why so many married men consent to readily consent to getting a minivans and a vasectomy..
I can totally see a married man taking those pills.
Generally touchpads are much worse if you type with your thumbs to the side or the touchpad is overly sensitive. We have an HP loaner where the touchpad is so sensitive that even hovering near the surface is detected. We loan it out with a mouse and every one who uses it reports turning off the touchpad and using the mouse.
The fact is, no one has any idea what side of the Laffer Curve we are on.
Not true. It is actually not rocket science to work this one out. The last few times we cut taxes (Bush Jr., stimulus tax cuts with Obama) revenues went down, and the last few times we raised taxes (Bush Sr, Clinton) total receipts went up.
Now if you look at the Laffer Curve there is only one place when this can happen: if you are on the wrong side of the curve.
I was told by an ad executive that about half of the TV ads are directed at the employees, not the customers, with the sole intention of rising morale among their working masses. Studies have shown that they are way more effective than increasing the employee's salaries by the cost of the commercial campaign.
Next time you see a commercial pay attention and it is easy to tell who the target audience is. In the case of the cheesy apple ads, clearly the target are the teenagers working at the Apple store.
But apart from that is just the same.
Why can't more companies act this way towards one another?
Because lawyers are paid by the hour, so the more they litigate the more they earn. I have friends who were ready to settle amicably in their divorces and their respective lawyers, against their own wishes prolonged the proceedings until a certain large round figure in billings had been reached at which point all objections disappeared and a final settlement was signed.
There are countless examples of that behavior, to the extend that is has made it into pop culture, e.g. the movie Liar, Liar, where it is even part of the plot.
Target practice and training on using lethal force are not the same thing.
For example training in the use of lethal force includes being taught when to unlock the holster, when to grip the gun, when to pull the gun but still keep it pointing at the ground, when to pull it up and issue a warning, when to shoot to a warning shot, when to shoot to maim/disable, and when to shoot to kill.
Here's news for you: sometimes you can lie by only saying part of the truth.
I'm about 99.999% sure that Trayvon Martin would still be alive if he hadn't seen fit to get into a brawl in the middle of the night with someone who happened to be armed.
And??? I'm 100% sure he would be alive if he hadn't gone out to purchase a candy bar. In what way does either your statement or mine absolve Zimmerman?
Getting into a brawl, which was provoked by Z.'s actions is not a valid legal defense for shooting anyone.
Lastly you are trying to argue that because anyone can make mistakes, then everyone is equally likely to do so. This is is not the case. An off-duty policeman is less likely to make those mistakes than a random civilian who happens to be carrying a gun, even if said civilian is a good marksman (there is more to when and where fire at some one than merely having a good aim).
Hint:
target practice != training on use of lethal force