That's not how it works. The feminist position is that the notion that false accusations of rape occur enough to take the notion too seriously is part of the oppression of women. The hypothetical false accuser gets no support, but the actual false accuser gets lots of support on the presumption of being sincere.
INTERPOL is not a Swedish organization, as you must know. You might as well have listed the US definition of rape. Here is something that actually has to do with Sweden:
Doesn't go into detail, but it does mention that the Swedish definition of rape is broader than in other countries. That's what I found on the first page of Googling for "rape definition sweden". If you really care about the matter you can probably find something more specific.
That Hitler quote is interesting, and it makes me wonder why general education does not generally involve reading the speeches of evil people who were never the less skilled at persuasion. I would want such a thing as a way to immunize the citizens against demagogues, but then I realized that another outcome could be that we'd have a lot more nazi's in the world today. Though perhaps even that price would be worth it as long as the average citizen got a bit wiser to political manipulation.
All we know is that there is an investigation and that someone accused him of something that has to do with sex - what exactly he stands accused of and by whom is anyone's guess. So at this point it's not even about allegations, it's about vague rumors of allegations. And no, in Sweden rape and molestation are very broad concepts that cover very different things than what those words refer to in English, so that doesn't tell us very much. Except that Swedish legislation is bizarre. Back on topic: If I accused you right now of rape, should you then quit your job to spare your company? How would you feel about it if you were not told what the actual charges were, making it impossible for you to even comment on them directly, once you found out about the investigation by reading the newspaper one morning?
It becomes especially hard to distinguish the actual sociopaths because empathy is not automatic - if you want to, you can turn it off. If you don't at some point turn your empathy for starving people in the third world off, you won't be able to to function normally because obviously their issues are more grave than anything going on around you. So you turn it off. Soldiers aren't all sociopaths, yet they will seek opportunities to kill their enemies - they turn their empathy for their enemy off. What distinguishes the pure sociopath is that he can't turn empathy on, even if he wanted to, so there is nothing that will shock him into looking to his empathy. He does not have the option. So I think that there is a difference between perhaps having your empathy not come to you so naturally, and then to actually having none.
I very much doubt that having a few or even a huge amount of plants in the room generates enough oxygen to make any detectable difference in the oxygen level of the air in there. As far as I know, the important things to pay attention to when attempting to improve air quality is ventilation and dust. With sufficient ventilation I doubt that any further increase in oxygen level does anything useful unless you a running a marathon inside the bunker.
"he" covers both a reference to a male and a reference to someone of unknown gender. There is no case missing, it's just ambiguous. If someone feels they absolutely must follow the pointless radical feminist agenda on this, use "she" instead for the same purpose. Apologizing every time you need an indeterminate gender is language pollution - that is what I was saying.
Unfold your wisdom on poor me and explain what you are talking about. What is insulting the English language is "Apologizing for referring to the Christians' god as a he". It is not "he" who insults the English language. What am I missing?
[...] or assuming the correctness of math before Godel (who proved math is not consistent, whoops)
You got to improve your trolling - you have to be irrational and coarse enough to be enraging, yet not so loony that you self-identify as a troll. I rate you a 6 out of 10 for aggravating, which is OK I guess. What puts you over the top is stating that Godel proved that math is inconsistent. At that point the trolling just becomes too obvious.
Doesn't work so well if you've got a graph structure or a tree. If in a family tree, you want to find all 5'th descendants or all descendants of some guy, SQL won't make you happy. As far as I can see, you end up iterating a query to add children until you reach a fixed point, and SQL doesn't have fixed point operators so you have to do it by hand. Right?
Doing procedures the right way every time is not an option because anything a human does carries a risk of mistake. There are better ways of identifying incompetent nurses than letting them kill patients and then fire them for it.
You seem to be advocating introducing mistake-prone procedures to be able to punish the nurses who then make mistakes. I think killing patients just to be able to punish the nurses who weren't able to prevent it is rather a strange idea, though I acknowledge that it would help in identifying which nurses are better able to prevent the mistake-prone procedure from killing patients.
Make a 2 inch tube that everything can plug into on both ends to preserve versatility in an emergency. It's just that every doctor should know to pay extra attention when using such a thing. Use the safe connectors out of an emergency where 20 seconds spent hunting for a tube isn't a problem.
Everyone makes mistakes and pretending otherwise is pure delusion. There is no amount of trying to pay attention that lowers risk of mistakes to 0%. If equipment can reasonable be made such that people don't die when the inevitable mistakes happen, then make the equipment like that.
That troll mod is simply itself trolling. It was a part of the damn series itself that the police people except one couldn't understand what people were saying on the wiretap, so that guy had to translate for everyone else and the viewers.
You are right that security could be increased now by hiring more expensive people to do and test the design, spending more money on hardware and giving the people longer to perfect the machine. I don't know if that can currently buy an electronic voting machine that is as secure as paper ballots - perhaps it can. I think it is true that most things can be made more secure by spending more money and time. With maturity comes industry experience that makes it possible to increase security while not hiring an expensive team of security geniuses. In 50 years I expect standard industry experience will make it possible to make more secure machines than we can make now using less resources than we do now, because it will be explicitly known how to do it. Maturity increases the best possible security you can get, and more importantly for our discussion now it also increases the security you can get at a given price. That is why maturity matters - it buys you more security within the budget of the voting machine buyers. I think that makes a difference even in the face of idiots setting the system up.
You are right that with sufficient resources invested it would be possible to create machines that would be harder to compromise than those we have today. It seems you are trying to disagree with my post, but you didn't actually manage to do so. But let me disagree with you and say that there is no such thing as an electronic voting machine that can be known to "be secure" in the sense that we can know that no compromise could ever happen. That is not how security of software or hardware works today, and I don't see that changing even in 50 years.
Huh, having North Korea and South Korea unite into one country sounds completely bizarre. I don't see how it could happen other than if South Korea invades North Korea or the North Korean government collapses. Is that what South Korea is really talking about when saying they want to "unite"?
Security is hard and electronic voting machines are not a mature product. Give it 50 years and probably electronic voting machine security will have improved.
I'm not sure I understand. You seem to be disagreeing with me, and I can only have that make sense if you are disagreeing with me by saying that a false accusation of rape is not serious business. I think I must have gotten that wrong, so I'm left to wonder what it is you meant to say.
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That's not how it works. The feminist position is that the notion that false accusations of rape occur enough to take the notion too seriously is part of the oppression of women. The hypothetical false accuser gets no support, but the actual false accuser gets lots of support on the presumption of being sincere.
INTERPOL is not a Swedish organization, as you must know. You might as well have listed the US definition of rape. Here is something that actually has to do with Sweden:
http://www.thelocal.se/19376/20090511/
Doesn't go into detail, but it does mention that the Swedish definition of rape is broader than in other countries. That's what I found on the first page of Googling for "rape definition sweden". If you really care about the matter you can probably find something more specific.
That Hitler quote is interesting, and it makes me wonder why general education does not generally involve reading the speeches of evil people who were never the less skilled at persuasion. I would want such a thing as a way to immunize the citizens against demagogues, but then I realized that another outcome could be that we'd have a lot more nazi's in the world today. Though perhaps even that price would be worth it as long as the average citizen got a bit wiser to political manipulation.
So the damning evidence of his crime is that he annoyed a woman while being male. Lock him up and throw away the key, yes ma'am!
I don't agree with the parent, but he was clearly making a valid point that is nothing like flamebait. Shame on you, mods!
All we know is that there is an investigation and that someone accused him of something that has to do with sex - what exactly he stands accused of and by whom is anyone's guess. So at this point it's not even about allegations, it's about vague rumors of allegations. And no, in Sweden rape and molestation are very broad concepts that cover very different things than what those words refer to in English, so that doesn't tell us very much. Except that Swedish legislation is bizarre. Back on topic: If I accused you right now of rape, should you then quit your job to spare your company? How would you feel about it if you were not told what the actual charges were, making it impossible for you to even comment on them directly, once you found out about the investigation by reading the newspaper one morning?
It becomes especially hard to distinguish the actual sociopaths because empathy is not automatic - if you want to, you can turn it off. If you don't at some point turn your empathy for starving people in the third world off, you won't be able to to function normally because obviously their issues are more grave than anything going on around you. So you turn it off. Soldiers aren't all sociopaths, yet they will seek opportunities to kill their enemies - they turn their empathy for their enemy off. What distinguishes the pure sociopath is that he can't turn empathy on, even if he wanted to, so there is nothing that will shock him into looking to his empathy. He does not have the option. So I think that there is a difference between perhaps having your empathy not come to you so naturally, and then to actually having none.
I very much doubt that having a few or even a huge amount of plants in the room generates enough oxygen to make any detectable difference in the oxygen level of the air in there. As far as I know, the important things to pay attention to when attempting to improve air quality is ventilation and dust. With sufficient ventilation I doubt that any further increase in oxygen level does anything useful unless you a running a marathon inside the bunker.
"he" covers both a reference to a male and a reference to someone of unknown gender. There is no case missing, it's just ambiguous. If someone feels they absolutely must follow the pointless radical feminist agenda on this, use "she" instead for the same purpose. Apologizing every time you need an indeterminate gender is language pollution - that is what I was saying.
Unfold your wisdom on poor me and explain what you are talking about. What is insulting the English language is "Apologizing for referring to the Christians' god as a he". It is not "he" who insults the English language. What am I missing?
Apologizing for referring to the Christians' god as a he insults the English language just as much as saying "he or she" everywhere.
That's exactly opposite from usual academic papers.
[...] or assuming the correctness of math before Godel (who proved math is not consistent, whoops)
You got to improve your trolling - you have to be irrational and coarse enough to be enraging, yet not so loony that you self-identify as a troll. I rate you a 6 out of 10 for aggravating, which is OK I guess. What puts you over the top is stating that Godel proved that math is inconsistent. At that point the trolling just becomes too obvious.
Doesn't work so well if you've got a graph structure or a tree. If in a family tree, you want to find all 5'th descendants or all descendants of some guy, SQL won't make you happy. As far as I can see, you end up iterating a query to add children until you reach a fixed point, and SQL doesn't have fixed point operators so you have to do it by hand. Right?
Doing procedures the right way every time is not an option because anything a human does carries a risk of mistake. There are better ways of identifying incompetent nurses than letting them kill patients and then fire them for it.
You seem to be advocating introducing mistake-prone procedures to be able to punish the nurses who then make mistakes. I think killing patients just to be able to punish the nurses who weren't able to prevent it is rather a strange idea, though I acknowledge that it would help in identifying which nurses are better able to prevent the mistake-prone procedure from killing patients.
Make a 2 inch tube that everything can plug into on both ends to preserve versatility in an emergency. It's just that every doctor should know to pay extra attention when using such a thing. Use the safe connectors out of an emergency where 20 seconds spent hunting for a tube isn't a problem.
Everyone makes mistakes and pretending otherwise is pure delusion. There is no amount of trying to pay attention that lowers risk of mistakes to 0%. If equipment can reasonable be made such that people don't die when the inevitable mistakes happen, then make the equipment like that.
That troll mod is simply itself trolling. It was a part of the damn series itself that the police people except one couldn't understand what people were saying on the wiretap, so that guy had to translate for everyone else and the viewers.
Little Jacob in the game GTA IV is even worse.
You are right that security could be increased now by hiring more expensive people to do and test the design, spending more money on hardware and giving the people longer to perfect the machine. I don't know if that can currently buy an electronic voting machine that is as secure as paper ballots - perhaps it can. I think it is true that most things can be made more secure by spending more money and time. With maturity comes industry experience that makes it possible to increase security while not hiring an expensive team of security geniuses. In 50 years I expect standard industry experience will make it possible to make more secure machines than we can make now using less resources than we do now, because it will be explicitly known how to do it. Maturity increases the best possible security you can get, and more importantly for our discussion now it also increases the security you can get at a given price. That is why maturity matters - it buys you more security within the budget of the voting machine buyers. I think that makes a difference even in the face of idiots setting the system up.
You are right that with sufficient resources invested it would be possible to create machines that would be harder to compromise than those we have today. It seems you are trying to disagree with my post, but you didn't actually manage to do so. But let me disagree with you and say that there is no such thing as an electronic voting machine that can be known to "be secure" in the sense that we can know that no compromise could ever happen. That is not how security of software or hardware works today, and I don't see that changing even in 50 years.
Huh, having North Korea and South Korea unite into one country sounds completely bizarre. I don't see how it could happen other than if South Korea invades North Korea or the North Korean government collapses. Is that what South Korea is really talking about when saying they want to "unite"?
Security is hard and electronic voting machines are not a mature product. Give it 50 years and probably electronic voting machine security will have improved.
I'm not sure I understand. You seem to be disagreeing with me, and I can only have that make sense if you are disagreeing with me by saying that a false accusation of rape is not serious business. I think I must have gotten that wrong, so I'm left to wonder what it is you meant to say.