The state of israel goes of of their way to accommodate their sensibilities by making army duty non-compulsory for Arabs (they are the only ones exempt from draft).
Because they know they won't heavy-handedly oppress the Palestinians like the Jewish soldiers do. An Israeli soldier just got out of jail after only a year for shooting a wounded, already handcuffed Palestinian teenager in the head on camera! And let's not forget using live ammunition on children throwing rocks at armored vehicles.
We are creating a generation of sociopaths, who have inverted their priorities and have no notion of right or wrong.
You're right, but you're wrong on who the sociopaths are. The sociopaths are the ones using drones to bomb weddings. A lot of what the US does to "protect the nation" is counterproductive, because all it does is breed more enemies. A perfect example would be, oh, I don't know, supporting and approving apartheid by moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
You know what else works really well? In Saudi Arabia, they will chop of the hand of people convicted of theft. It's more than just a deterrent, it actually makes it much more difficult to steal again. Impossible, in fact, if you get caught twice. Fuck yeah.
Also makes it virtually impossible for that person to ever hold a respectable or half-way decent job and virtually dooming him to a life of ostracism, poverty, and whatever crimes he can still commit. At the very least he is now dependent on government support for survival.
They don't really don't care about it being humane for the condemned. They are more concerned about it being humane for the people watching or carrying out the sentence. Like you said, lethal injection is clinical and can be highly automated. Electrocution, beheading, firing squad can be messy which would affect everyone involved and make it harder to support. Personally, if I were to be executed, I would prefer firing squad. Best option would be a chair that I'm strapped into with a bolt gun or.22 against my temple, with a button I can push to trigger it and a backup randomly timed trigger in case I can't do it. Quick, clean, dignified, and at least gives me the chance to do it myself.
The OTHER shooting happened about 1.5 miles from where I lived and involved an African American (first Somali immigrant police officer) officer who shot an unarmed white woman who had actually initiated the police call.
Was that the one with the Aussie tourist who called to report an assault and the trigger-happy cop shot her as she walked up to the car? The sad thing is, your case is precisely what we need police for: to patrol areas to reduce crime. However the increased militarization of police and the hostile "us vs them" mentality that is being trained into police these days (hell, soldiers in Iraq had a more restrictive ROE regarding firing weapons than police do these days) means an increasing distrust of police, both within the population that is being policed and the population being protected.
I had a long conversation with my council member about what can be done and was told that we should just report it and then do insurance or whatever. I asked why we couldn't get more police patrols and was told our area was "too low crime" (the numbers say we're the lowest crime area in the city) and there wasn't sufficient resources.
So what the fuck? Just put up with it? That's the answer? Or just change my thinking, it *must* be my racial bias?
Or this is somehow really ad-hoc redistributive economic justice, and I'm just too racist to notice?
So how about you, or someone in your neighborhood, run for city council and push for increased police patrols?
>he thinks it was a senseless murder!
Martin was killed by Zimmerman because Martin was assaulting him. Zimmerman showed in court he feared for his life and the use of deadly force was justified. It was not murder. It was not even manslaughter.
Zimmerman broke the first rule of self defense that they teach in gun safety course: don't put yourself into situations where you are not safe. He could have remained in his vehicle to follow Martin or, as advised by the 911 operator, not followed him at all. His reckless actions started him down a course that ended with him being in a position where he felt he needed to fire his weapon. And I would say that the fact that he keeps getting in trouble for threatening people and waving his gun around demonstrates that he probably isn't competent enough to continue owning firearms.
You know the break-ins in that neighborhood stopped after that teenager was killed, right?
If you were a thief, would you want to break into houses in a neighborhood where they kill people just walking down the street? I'd stay away from that neighborhood too!
Takes screenshots, partial screenshots, saves as PNG, allows you to draw over them, emails, puts in clipboard.
It's probably one of the best features of the default Windows installs, as sad as that is.
The snipping tool makes my job so much easier. I actually use that more in my daily work than I do Word and Excel combined. My main workspace is an internal web application (coded so horribly that the website doesn't scale-for it to be readable without getting a headache you have to use a separate monitor with the resolution turned down to zoom in the content without distorting it) with no real, convenient way to export the content, so screenshots are a sanity saver.
Why should airlines be asked for permission? Why not the people actually being scanned?!
You're misunderstanding. They already plan to use facial recognition on the passengers. They need to ask the airlines for permission to access flight manifests and bookings, and most likely tie in with check-in counters and kiosks to actually match names to faces (either by storing the photo when a passport is scanned, or have a camera trained on each check in counter). Depending on the systems used by the airline this could lead to possible exposure to payment or contact information of passengers, and possibly proprietary airline data. That's where it gets tricky. But the passengers? They're SOL in terms of privacy control. I guess you could wear one of those little surgical masks? It's an asian airport so at least you'd fit in and wouldn't look too weird.
Blame you local governments for the last mile ISP monopoly. Government has been the problem and government is the problem going forward. Once you start opening free markets sans net neutrality we'll start seeing more competition.
Yes, those evil local governments forced large ISPs to come in and give them loads of money to make sure no other ISP could roll out in that area. And don't forget the mean government taking those poor ISPs to court over One Touch Make Ready laws.
Oh, wait, you mean ISPs have lobbied to create local laws that prevent competing ISPs from rolling out and have sued local governments that have tried to implement policies like OTMR which promotes competition? It's almost like in the absence of government regulation companies will actively seek out methods to avoid a free market and therefore competition. Who'd've thunkit?
Internal politics always plays, but it is possible in NK it plays less than elsewhere. Dictators who are firmly in place have more freedom to do as they choose. Relative to other regimes.
They really don't though, especially ones as brutal as the NK regime has been. All governments have internal factions, and in brutal dictatorships those factions can literally mean life and death. Displease the ruler, even as a high ranking general, and you might find yourself standing in front of an anti-aircraft cannon. Even if your faction is currently in favor with the ruler, that could change in the drop of the hat and you might find yourself purged, even if you are the ruler's uncle. Both of these examples have happened in NK under Kim Jong Un. If things aren't going well, then you start getting groups within the government thinking "We're dead either way, might as well try and take over." As for the civilian population, they know they are suffering horribly under this regime. Starvation is a regular occurrence, whole families whisked away to gulags for the (real or perceived) actions of one member, to stay there the rest of their lives-even young children or those born in the camps. They have to believe there is a reason for all of it, that others are just as bad off or worse than they are. When that goes away, the civilians will inevitably react. Internal politics and the appearance of strength is really the only thing keeping North Korea together.
You have to pay to play and that's how it is, get over it.
We've already paid for our internet use, through our ISP. This is about ISPs wanting to make deal with companies to charge you varying amounts (or on top of what you already pay for service) based upon the source of the content. You paid for it, why does the ISP care if that data is coming from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, CNN, Youtube? They want to charge customers to receive the data and companies to send the data, effectively getting paid twice for the same data. How would you like to pay $10 more a month to access news sites (beyond the ones that have already paid to be "included" in the ISPs base package)? $10 more to access Google services (oh, and an additional $5 for Youtube on top of that)? Twitter paid off your ISP, now you can't access Facebook or Instagram. Access to content producers owned by the ISP: free. Access to content producers like Netflix or Hulu? Pay extra (so you are now paying Netflix and your ISP to watch Netflix).
This is like your water company charging you different rates based upon whether you are using your shower or the kitchen sink or the sprinkler in your yard. You paid for the water, you decide how you use it; you paid for the data, you decide where that data comes from.
Bolton says North Korea disarmament should follow the Libyan example, which is code for 'Kim Jong Un should end like Qaddafi with a bajonet up his ass.' I doubt NK considers Libya a good example. For them it the meaning of Libya was 'we need nukes right now'. Getting a signed agreement is also not much of an improvement. Iran did that. The US never stuck to it and plans to pull out.
I wouldn't take Kim Jong Un's words literally. They mean NK wants improvements. NK sees a chance for improvements because they now have a real stick to threaten with , South Korea got the ball moving and is leading the way. Trump always signalled he can talk to (pseudo)dictatorships like North korea and Russia, though we've seen that doesn't mean much.
Chances are slim though. The US is more belligerent than ever and international law has gone into the dustbin. There is no adversarial press putting any checks on them either. The last thing Japan wants is the two Koreas growing too close. Negotiations would be long and easy to derail. NK has always been open to negotiations but a lot of patience is required to get a real deal.
I think a lot of this has to do with internal politics in the PRK. You know the NK media will be saying their repeated tests of nuclear missiles has finally cowed South Korea and the US into coming to the negotiating table and sue for peace, which Kim Jong Un has gracefully accepted. Notice now that Trump is thinking about going to the DMZ or Korea for the talks. Not only has the great Kim Jong Un defeated the evil West, he has forced to their leader to personally come all the way to him to ask for peace!
Like I said, there is a long game here and I think Trump is just looking for a quick win. Either that, or China really did get spooked by the nuke test collapse and threatened to cut NK off, but even if that's the case and this whole thing is aboveboard, you still have a despotic, brutally oppressive regime that has just been legitimized by the US government.
"With the US out of South Korea China's position in Asia strengthens considerably."
Not really, the modern Navy doesn't really have any need of these bases. We can put troops, missiles, jets, etc pretty much anywhere on the globe in a matter of hours.
Power projection is as much about appearance as it is capability. For example, the US forces stationed in South Korea, or in Berlin during the Cold War, aren't really there to make any meaningful contribution in the event of war. They are meant more as tripwire, to ensure that if the host state is attacked, the US will be there ASAP with the full brunt of it's military. Without those units, there is no real guarantee that the US will come to the aid of its allies (especially considering the current administration).
Without these troops stationed there, all South Korea has is paper assurances of protection and support. The US would no longer have any skin in the game. And as for the Navy, besides our nuclear powered subs and carriers, ships need to refuel and resupply. In a shooting war with NK or China, a base in South Korea is a lot more useful than one in Japan or Australia.
There it is. Obviously the Chinese government was paying them under the table to use their employees as guinea pigs to test the brainwave technology. Personally, if I were a Chinese citizen, I would be a little wary if they started handing out free hats at the next Party meeting.
A tin foil hat would probably increase conductivity, making the brain scanners more accurate.
Yep, the whole tin-foil hat thing was secretly promulgated by the government to make it easier to track and monitor the people who can see through all of the government's tricks and lies. That's why I built a farraday cage around my head. Now I just have to deal with people asking me why I have a copper birdcage on my head.
He sent emails to county jail employees, luring them on the "ewashtenavv.org" domain, a carbon copy of the county's official website of "ewashtenaw.org."
The difference between the domain names is that the latter ends in double-ewe dot org, the former in two vees dot org.
Is it possible for browsers to by default (with the default font) automatically insert just a little more room when 2 "v"s are typed consecutively? Not enough to be seen as a space between the characters but just enough to distinguish "vv" from "w". Do the same with "cl" or add the top and bottom lines to a capital "I" to distinguish it from a lower case "l". Seems like a small change to the default font would make a lot of these attacks go away.
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supporting and approving apartheid
The state of israel goes of of their way to accommodate their sensibilities by making army duty non-compulsory for Arabs (they are the only ones exempt from draft).
Because they know they won't heavy-handedly oppress the Palestinians like the Jewish soldiers do. An Israeli soldier just got out of jail after only a year for shooting a wounded, already handcuffed Palestinian teenager in the head on camera! And let's not forget using live ammunition on children throwing rocks at armored vehicles.
We are creating a generation of sociopaths, who have inverted their priorities and have no notion of right or wrong.
You're right, but you're wrong on who the sociopaths are. The sociopaths are the ones using drones to bomb weddings. A lot of what the US does to "protect the nation" is counterproductive, because all it does is breed more enemies. A perfect example would be, oh, I don't know, supporting and approving apartheid by moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
You know what else works really well? In Saudi Arabia, they will chop of the hand of people convicted of theft. It's more than just a deterrent, it actually makes it much more difficult to steal again. Impossible, in fact, if you get caught twice. Fuck yeah.
Also makes it virtually impossible for that person to ever hold a respectable or half-way decent job and virtually dooming him to a life of ostracism, poverty, and whatever crimes he can still commit. At the very least he is now dependent on government support for survival.
Since he has aggregately stole or taken away several human lifespans... I say capital punishment would be appropriate.
Death by 1000 cuts seems an appropriate method
They don't really don't care about it being humane for the condemned. They are more concerned about it being humane for the people watching or carrying out the sentence. Like you said, lethal injection is clinical and can be highly automated. Electrocution, beheading, firing squad can be messy which would affect everyone involved and make it harder to support. Personally, if I were to be executed, I would prefer firing squad. Best option would be a chair that I'm strapped into with a bolt gun or .22 against my temple, with a button I can push to trigger it and a backup randomly timed trigger in case I can't do it. Quick, clean, dignified, and at least gives me the chance to do it myself.
The OTHER shooting happened about 1.5 miles from where I lived and involved an African American (first Somali immigrant police officer) officer who shot an unarmed white woman who had actually initiated the police call.
Was that the one with the Aussie tourist who called to report an assault and the trigger-happy cop shot her as she walked up to the car? The sad thing is, your case is precisely what we need police for: to patrol areas to reduce crime. However the increased militarization of police and the hostile "us vs them" mentality that is being trained into police these days (hell, soldiers in Iraq had a more restrictive ROE regarding firing weapons than police do these days) means an increasing distrust of police, both within the population that is being policed and the population being protected.
I had a long conversation with my council member about what can be done and was told that we should just report it and then do insurance or whatever. I asked why we couldn't get more police patrols and was told our area was "too low crime" (the numbers say we're the lowest crime area in the city) and there wasn't sufficient resources.
So what the fuck? Just put up with it? That's the answer? Or just change my thinking, it *must* be my racial bias?
Or this is somehow really ad-hoc redistributive economic justice, and I'm just too racist to notice?
So how about you, or someone in your neighborhood, run for city council and push for increased police patrols?
>he thinks it was a senseless murder! Martin was killed by Zimmerman because Martin was assaulting him. Zimmerman showed in court he feared for his life and the use of deadly force was justified. It was not murder. It was not even manslaughter.
Zimmerman broke the first rule of self defense that they teach in gun safety course: don't put yourself into situations where you are not safe. He could have remained in his vehicle to follow Martin or, as advised by the 911 operator, not followed him at all. His reckless actions started him down a course that ended with him being in a position where he felt he needed to fire his weapon. And I would say that the fact that he keeps getting in trouble for threatening people and waving his gun around demonstrates that he probably isn't competent enough to continue owning firearms.
You know the break-ins in that neighborhood stopped after that teenager was killed, right?
If you were a thief, would you want to break into houses in a neighborhood where they kill people just walking down the street? I'd stay away from that neighborhood too!
It's for the prepared food you can get in most mid-range and up grocery stores these days. Think rotisserie chickens, sandwiches, etc.
You know our own SecDef and head of the joint chiefs of staff came out and said Iran is abiding by the terms of the deal?
And of course, the first question that will be submitted when the service goes live is "how is babby formed?"
Pretty sure it's "Englishi"
Seriously?
Have you people never heard of Snipping Tool?
Bundled with Windows since at least 7.
Takes screenshots, partial screenshots, saves as PNG, allows you to draw over them, emails, puts in clipboard.
It's probably one of the best features of the default Windows installs, as sad as that is.
The snipping tool makes my job so much easier. I actually use that more in my daily work than I do Word and Excel combined. My main workspace is an internal web application (coded so horribly that the website doesn't scale-for it to be readable without getting a headache you have to use a separate monitor with the resolution turned down to zoom in the content without distorting it) with no real, convenient way to export the content, so screenshots are a sanity saver.
Have physicians and medical device companies been recommending people in general seek out lightning strikes?
That would be a rather shocking revelation.
Know how every elevator has 'Door Close' button? That doesn't seem to actually be connected to anything, and therefore does nothing?
Is that anything like those bacon machines in the bathroom that always seem to be broken?
"Of course, with permission from the airlines."
Why should airlines be asked for permission? Why not the people actually being scanned?!
You're misunderstanding. They already plan to use facial recognition on the passengers. They need to ask the airlines for permission to access flight manifests and bookings, and most likely tie in with check-in counters and kiosks to actually match names to faces (either by storing the photo when a passport is scanned, or have a camera trained on each check in counter). Depending on the systems used by the airline this could lead to possible exposure to payment or contact information of passengers, and possibly proprietary airline data. That's where it gets tricky. But the passengers? They're SOL in terms of privacy control. I guess you could wear one of those little surgical masks? It's an asian airport so at least you'd fit in and wouldn't look too weird.
Blame you local governments for the last mile ISP monopoly. Government has been the problem and government is the problem going forward. Once you start opening free markets sans net neutrality we'll start seeing more competition.
Yes, those evil local governments forced large ISPs to come in and give them loads of money to make sure no other ISP could roll out in that area. And don't forget the mean government taking those poor ISPs to court over One Touch Make Ready laws.
Oh, wait, you mean ISPs have lobbied to create local laws that prevent competing ISPs from rolling out and have sued local governments that have tried to implement policies like OTMR which promotes competition? It's almost like in the absence of government regulation companies will actively seek out methods to avoid a free market and therefore competition. Who'd've thunkit?
Internal politics always plays, but it is possible in NK it plays less than elsewhere. Dictators who are firmly in place have more freedom to do as they choose. Relative to other regimes.
They really don't though, especially ones as brutal as the NK regime has been. All governments have internal factions, and in brutal dictatorships those factions can literally mean life and death. Displease the ruler, even as a high ranking general, and you might find yourself standing in front of an anti-aircraft cannon. Even if your faction is currently in favor with the ruler, that could change in the drop of the hat and you might find yourself purged, even if you are the ruler's uncle. Both of these examples have happened in NK under Kim Jong Un. If things aren't going well, then you start getting groups within the government thinking "We're dead either way, might as well try and take over." As for the civilian population, they know they are suffering horribly under this regime. Starvation is a regular occurrence, whole families whisked away to gulags for the (real or perceived) actions of one member, to stay there the rest of their lives-even young children or those born in the camps. They have to believe there is a reason for all of it, that others are just as bad off or worse than they are. When that goes away, the civilians will inevitably react. Internal politics and the appearance of strength is really the only thing keeping North Korea together.
You have to pay to play and that's how it is, get over it.
We've already paid for our internet use, through our ISP. This is about ISPs wanting to make deal with companies to charge you varying amounts (or on top of what you already pay for service) based upon the source of the content. You paid for it, why does the ISP care if that data is coming from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, CNN, Youtube? They want to charge customers to receive the data and companies to send the data, effectively getting paid twice for the same data. How would you like to pay $10 more a month to access news sites (beyond the ones that have already paid to be "included" in the ISPs base package)? $10 more to access Google services (oh, and an additional $5 for Youtube on top of that)? Twitter paid off your ISP, now you can't access Facebook or Instagram. Access to content producers owned by the ISP: free. Access to content producers like Netflix or Hulu? Pay extra (so you are now paying Netflix and your ISP to watch Netflix).
This is like your water company charging you different rates based upon whether you are using your shower or the kitchen sink or the sprinkler in your yard. You paid for the water, you decide how you use it; you paid for the data, you decide where that data comes from.
Bolton says North Korea disarmament should follow the Libyan example, which is code for 'Kim Jong Un should end like Qaddafi with a bajonet up his ass.' I doubt NK considers Libya a good example. For them it the meaning of Libya was 'we need nukes right now'. Getting a signed agreement is also not much of an improvement. Iran did that. The US never stuck to it and plans to pull out.
I wouldn't take Kim Jong Un's words literally. They mean NK wants improvements. NK sees a chance for improvements because they now have a real stick to threaten with , South Korea got the ball moving and is leading the way. Trump always signalled he can talk to (pseudo)dictatorships like North korea and Russia, though we've seen that doesn't mean much.
Chances are slim though. The US is more belligerent than ever and international law has gone into the dustbin. There is no adversarial press putting any checks on them either. The last thing Japan wants is the two Koreas growing too close. Negotiations would be long and easy to derail. NK has always been open to negotiations but a lot of patience is required to get a real deal.
I think a lot of this has to do with internal politics in the PRK. You know the NK media will be saying their repeated tests of nuclear missiles has finally cowed South Korea and the US into coming to the negotiating table and sue for peace, which Kim Jong Un has gracefully accepted. Notice now that Trump is thinking about going to the DMZ or Korea for the talks. Not only has the great Kim Jong Un defeated the evil West, he has forced to their leader to personally come all the way to him to ask for peace!
Like I said, there is a long game here and I think Trump is just looking for a quick win. Either that, or China really did get spooked by the nuke test collapse and threatened to cut NK off, but even if that's the case and this whole thing is aboveboard, you still have a despotic, brutally oppressive regime that has just been legitimized by the US government.
"With the US out of South Korea China's position in Asia strengthens considerably." Not really, the modern Navy doesn't really have any need of these bases. We can put troops, missiles, jets, etc pretty much anywhere on the globe in a matter of hours.
Power projection is as much about appearance as it is capability. For example, the US forces stationed in South Korea, or in Berlin during the Cold War, aren't really there to make any meaningful contribution in the event of war. They are meant more as tripwire, to ensure that if the host state is attacked, the US will be there ASAP with the full brunt of it's military. Without those units, there is no real guarantee that the US will come to the aid of its allies (especially considering the current administration).
Without these troops stationed there, all South Korea has is paper assurances of protection and support. The US would no longer have any skin in the game. And as for the Navy, besides our nuclear powered subs and carriers, ships need to refuel and resupply. In a shooting war with NK or China, a base in South Korea is a lot more useful than one in Japan or Australia.
Their publicly disclosed net income
There it is. Obviously the Chinese government was paying them under the table to use their employees as guinea pigs to test the brainwave technology. Personally, if I were a Chinese citizen, I would be a little wary if they started handing out free hats at the next Party meeting.
A tin foil hat would probably increase conductivity, making the brain scanners more accurate.
Yep, the whole tin-foil hat thing was secretly promulgated by the government to make it easier to track and monitor the people who can see through all of the government's tricks and lies. That's why I built a farraday cage around my head. Now I just have to deal with people asking me why I have a copper birdcage on my head.
The difference between the domain names is that the latter ends in double-ewe dot org, the former in two vees dot org.
Is it possible for browsers to by default (with the default font) automatically insert just a little more room when 2 "v"s are typed consecutively? Not enough to be seen as a space between the characters but just enough to distinguish "vv" from "w". Do the same with "cl" or add the top and bottom lines to a capital "I" to distinguish it from a lower case "l". Seems like a small change to the default font would make a lot of these attacks go away.