Current judges don't even give people the same treatment. For the same crime, some kids are tried as adults and some as juveniles, some get a slap on the wrist and some get years in prison. If judges are given the lee-way to make decisions like this, they should at least have some data to back up their decisions. Currently they're using excel to help predict who will be the worst offenders, this is merely an upgrade in technology.
I really don't have much of a problem with this. The fact is, judges are doing this already. There is a reason that some kids get tried as adults and some as juveniles. Some get prison time, some get community service, many are somewhere in between. Often times, kids committing the same crimes together get different sentences.
Since we already have human beings making these decisions, and humans are notoriously fallible, it would be nice to give them real data to help them in that process.
"Better for you than actual cigarettes" is setting the bar pretty low, isn't it? Unfortunately, some people assume that "safer than cigarettes" means SAFE, especially the young and the ignorant, and especially when you consider that there are ads out there right now that call e-cigs "healthy." This is bad, considering the WHO, FDA, & Health Canada have pointed out that there ARE health risks associated with electronic cigarettes. At the very least, one could argue that the jury is still out, but to attempt to convince people that they are safe is misleading, and potentially dangerous.
That said, I am definitely cool with smokers using these instead of actual cigarettes, so long as they understand that they may still be harming themselves. With just a cursory knowledge, I'm almost positive that these will be safer than cigarettes, and know for sure that they are safer for me since I don't have to deal with second hand smoke.
Sure, blame it on the girls. I don't need to do that, I have the same experience at home. Every time I "drop the kids off at the pool." It smells terrible, so I spray the deodorant. Except then it smell like crap and flowers, which is 8 times worse*. You'd think I would figure this out and stop spraying the lilac lilly lavendar vanilla chemical mist, but I just can't help myself.
*Pardon me if the math is wrong, I did the calculation in my head.
almost make me not so pissed off that that gas was only $3.19 a gallon by my house today.
Except most people use gasoline in gallons and printer ink in milliliters. I've definitely not used anywhere near a gallon of ink in my life so far (and would be shocked if I use a gallon of ink during my entire life), whereas I know I've spent over $10,000 in gas.
and some times those seemingly irrelevant words can change the context of things.
That's why it is faded and not completely eliminated. If you're looking for a certain part of the document, this has the potential to be quite useful. Also, as I've stated and read way too many times on slashdot, just because you think something is useless doesn't mean a use cannot be found.
Probably for the same reason that young people prefer MP3s to higher quality music. People grow up listening to music in a certain way and the cracks and pops of vinyls, much in the same way as the sizzle sounds of MP3s, are what the listener expects to hear in the music. Because they expect to hear it, the music doesn't sound "right" when they hear high quality recordings without it. So now that baby boomers are reaching retirement age, they look back at what they loved when they are younger and buy old vinyls.
Message to dgatwood: The government has plenty to hide. I'm sure that there are plenty of things that some people in our government know that should not be known by many (most, if not all) people outside of some agencies. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there aren't things that should be disclosed, the government is run by people, people seek power, power corrupts and all that, but there are definitely reasons that the government SHOULD have some secrets.
Thank you, you just made my day. The information they have on me is so completely wrong (other than getting my family members right) that I couldn't help but giggling. I guess there is an advantage to constantly checking random boxes when filling out personal surveys. There's so much data associated with my name that the aggregators are completely confounded.
PS. Contrary to spokeo, I'm not a 60 year old woman who plays football, drives a truck, collects dolls and enjoys birdwatching. Although seeing my old address reminds me, I should probably get to the DMV some day and update that.
So.. at first I was looking at it as a satire of the Chinese hacking incident, but then you threw in the stuff about the drugs and I got confused. Could someone with better reading comprehension explain this to me?
One of the sports blogs that I regularly read, which will remain unmentioned for fear of the Slashdot effect, actually convinced the NFL to give him a press pass to the NFL Scouting Combine. Since I started reading his blog in '08, the writer has ingratiated himself with the local* beat guys, get an article published in the New York Times, and built a rapport with members of the national sports media and NFL Players. When it counts, he puts in just as much work as the beat writers and his analysis is often a step ahead of theirs, even with less access. I have absolutely no problem with giving him a press pass.
Nate Silver, from fivethirtyeight.com, also provides excellent political commentary. His primary work is with polls, and we was able to correctly predict 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 presidential election. He has also contributed to ESPN, Slate, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and the New York Sun. Again, I hardly have an issue with him receiving a press pass.
As stated in the article, there are requirements in place for attaining a press pass. I'm sure this will be a work in progress, but opening up the news reporting mechanism in this country can hardly be a bad thing.
*He lives in New York, but covers the Green Bay(Wisconsin) Packers. He gets regular commentary from writers in Green Bay and Milwaukee, the two largest markets that cover the team.
My question is, why do hackers always type so slowly? In fact, the only time I ever see people typing quickly on a keyboard is when they're obviously faking it. This always bugs me.
I was referring more to things like this and this. Perhaps some of this,this, and this. When about a third of the jokes are completely incomprehensible to me, then I'm wasting my time on the wrong website. As for the ones that I could get the joke on, I'm sure I could find something similar on failblog, where everything's written in my language.
The other thing is, many dealers see the prison stint as a badge of honor. It's kind of perverse. Also, once they get there, they have free health care, meals, a roof over their head, and people with similar interests to socialize with. Sure, they're bored all the time, but so are must of us who have jobs.
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Current judges don't even give people the same treatment. For the same crime, some kids are tried as adults and some as juveniles, some get a slap on the wrist and some get years in prison. If judges are given the lee-way to make decisions like this, they should at least have some data to back up their decisions. Currently they're using excel to help predict who will be the worst offenders, this is merely an upgrade in technology.
I really don't have much of a problem with this. The fact is, judges are doing this already. There is a reason that some kids get tried as adults and some as juveniles. Some get prison time, some get community service, many are somewhere in between. Often times, kids committing the same crimes together get different sentences.
Since we already have human beings making these decisions, and humans are notoriously fallible, it would be nice to give them real data to help them in that process.
Thanks for the warning, I'll knock the cake out of my beloved's hands in 2 months... Aww crap, it's only 2 months away.
She's a gamer(loosely termed), she craves sex, I've got the perfect career for her!
Haha. I said loose.
And now the slightest of vibrations, from mobile phones to food processors, turns her on.
It's more severe than I thought. She's turning into a teenage boy.
"Better for you than actual cigarettes" is setting the bar pretty low, isn't it? Unfortunately, some people assume that "safer than cigarettes" means SAFE, especially the young and the ignorant, and especially when you consider that there are ads out there right now that call e-cigs "healthy." This is bad, considering the WHO, FDA, & Health Canada have pointed out that there ARE health risks associated with electronic cigarettes. At the very least, one could argue that the jury is still out, but to attempt to convince people that they are safe is misleading, and potentially dangerous.
That said, I am definitely cool with smokers using these instead of actual cigarettes, so long as they understand that they may still be harming themselves. With just a cursory knowledge, I'm almost positive that these will be safer than cigarettes, and know for sure that they are safer for me since I don't have to deal with second hand smoke.
I, for one, welcome our new metal sculpting overlords?
Seriously though, the video was kind of mesmerizing. And now I want a new aluminum motorcycle helmet.
This guy is driving the vehicle and manning the camera? He should be in jail, not Youtube.
Indeed, I was surprised at how good it looked when shown that way.
I hope it helps you to know that I clicked on your link instead of the AC's.
Sure, blame it on the girls. I don't need to do that, I have the same experience at home. Every time I "drop the kids off at the pool." It smells terrible, so I spray the deodorant. Except then it smell like crap and flowers, which is 8 times worse*. You'd think I would figure this out and stop spraying the lilac lilly lavendar vanilla chemical mist, but I just can't help myself.
*Pardon me if the math is wrong, I did the calculation in my head.
almost make me not so pissed off that that gas was only $3.19 a gallon by my house today.
Except most people use gasoline in gallons and printer ink in milliliters. I've definitely not used anywhere near a gallon of ink in my life so far (and would be shocked if I use a gallon of ink during my entire life), whereas I know I've spent over $10,000 in gas.
So the question remains, is he really discontent or just incontinent?
and some times those seemingly irrelevant words can change the context of things.
That's why it is faded and not completely eliminated. If you're looking for a certain part of the document, this has the potential to be quite useful. Also, as I've stated and read way too many times on slashdot, just because you think something is useless doesn't mean a use cannot be found.
If you find this concept quaint then why are vinyl sales slowly rising?
Probably for the same reason that young people prefer MP3s to higher quality music. People grow up listening to music in a certain way and the cracks and pops of vinyls, much in the same way as the sizzle sounds of MP3s, are what the listener expects to hear in the music. Because they expect to hear it, the music doesn't sound "right" when they hear high quality recordings without it. So now that baby boomers are reaching retirement age, they look back at what they loved when they are younger and buy old vinyls.
Message to dgatwood: The government has plenty to hide. I'm sure that there are plenty of things that some people in our government know that should not be known by many (most, if not all) people outside of some agencies. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there aren't things that should be disclosed, the government is run by people, people seek power, power corrupts and all that, but there are definitely reasons that the government SHOULD have some secrets.
So for people like you, there's the app store. That doesn't diminish the value of having fewer restrictions for other people.
Thank you, you just made my day. The information they have on me is so completely wrong (other than getting my family members right) that I couldn't help but giggling. I guess there is an advantage to constantly checking random boxes when filling out personal surveys. There's so much data associated with my name that the aggregators are completely confounded.
PS. Contrary to spokeo, I'm not a 60 year old woman who plays football, drives a truck, collects dolls and enjoys birdwatching. Although seeing my old address reminds me, I should probably get to the DMV some day and update that.
So.. at first I was looking at it as a satire of the Chinese hacking incident, but then you threw in the stuff about the drugs and I got confused. Could someone with better reading comprehension explain this to me?
One of the sports blogs that I regularly read, which will remain unmentioned for fear of the Slashdot effect, actually convinced the NFL to give him a press pass to the NFL Scouting Combine. Since I started reading his blog in '08, the writer has ingratiated himself with the local* beat guys, get an article published in the New York Times, and built a rapport with members of the national sports media and NFL Players. When it counts, he puts in just as much work as the beat writers and his analysis is often a step ahead of theirs, even with less access. I have absolutely no problem with giving him a press pass.
Nate Silver, from fivethirtyeight.com, also provides excellent political commentary. His primary work is with polls, and we was able to correctly predict 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 presidential election. He has also contributed to ESPN, Slate, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and the New York Sun. Again, I hardly have an issue with him receiving a press pass.
As stated in the article, there are requirements in place for attaining a press pass. I'm sure this will be a work in progress, but opening up the news reporting mechanism in this country can hardly be a bad thing.
*He lives in New York, but covers the Green Bay(Wisconsin) Packers. He gets regular commentary from writers in Green Bay and Milwaukee, the two largest markets that cover the team.
Too bad you don't get Karma for Funny posts ;)
My question is, why do hackers always type so slowly? In fact, the only time I ever see people typing quickly on a keyboard is when they're obviously faking it. This always bugs me.
I was referring more to things like this and this. Perhaps some of this, this, and this. When about a third of the jokes are completely incomprehensible to me, then I'm wasting my time on the wrong website. As for the ones that I could get the joke on, I'm sure I could find something similar on failblog, where everything's written in my language.
The other thing is, many dealers see the prison stint as a badge of honor. It's kind of perverse. Also, once they get there, they have free health care, meals, a roof over their head, and people with similar interests to socialize with. Sure, they're bored all the time, but so are must of us who have jobs.
Citation needed! And even if you dig up some I still won't buy it
I understand your intent, but you have to see the irony.