How does the number of pedophiles convicted globally during the same time frame relate to the number of terrorist attacks?
Wrong question.
How high is the occurence of paedophiles among scanner operators?
And even more important, are these scans stored and available to others not connected with security of this flight?
I largely agree with you, a fear of nakedness can never be an excuse for less security.
But certain measures need to be in place and well communicated, like who is actually looking at the scan and what happens to the pictures after it's done.
Especially in the case of the Brits and Americans I'd have some worries about the last issue.
About changed meanings, we live in a country where foreign language skills are a necessity and some basic Etymological knowledge helps a lot in studying other European languages.
Nice to be reminded the Germanic based grammar of the English language once went with a fitting vocabulary. Even though in Shakespeare's days a lot of it had already been lost or replaced.
Yes the establishment has generally looked with disdain at scholastic developments.
For your safety, pumping the brakes has been long disqualified.
All new cars have ABS as standard and even the old ones that don't stop soonest with full braking.
The UK stand alone in world with its absurd ban on driving lessons on motorways.
I'm afraid this problem is wider spread than just the English-speaking world
Only this morning I heard an author and professor on the radio about a new rewritten version of the Dutch classic Max Havelaar by Multatuli.
Apparently present students can't and won't read the original due to the long sentences used and words whose meaning has changed since it was written 150 years ago.
The man had observed the attention span of his students was too short to comprehend a sentence over several lines. Words that are maybe quaint but otherwise understood by someone in his fifties are alien to them and were replaced.
I was always under the impression literature used the classics among others to train in grammar, expand our vocabulary and breed understanding for what has been. I feel this initiative is sooner sabotage than helpful.
For me it's very strange but also interesting this dumbing down of language skills has happened over such a short time span, only some 10-15 years.
BSE is the bovine version of a, also of British origin, disease that in sheep is for centuries known as scrapie.
Margaret Thatcher came to power in the UK on promises to get rid of or at least simplify a lot of rules hampering business.
Among these according to her (government) were the regulations on how to treat offal from sheep so as to turn it into a valuable cattle (herbivores!) feed stock.
(I don't recall the exact numbers but you'll get the drift)
Instead of treating these leftovers at 200 degC for 2 hours it now became legal to process them at 120 degC for 1 hr.
The result was that scrapie mutated and became the curse we know as BSE.
Sickening is that scrapie can be eradicated, other countries keep it outside their borders but the UK has never been interested, really a bit like that MSRA bacteria in British hospitals.
Let's for the sanity of your kids hope your state doesn't allow home schooling. One of the most important results you get from a regular school is that kids learn to interact with others, experience society.
One of my GP's received home schooling (from no less than his schoolmaster father!) and although he was for a kid a real nice person to be with he remained a sort of weirdo for all his life.
Just have look at the statistics for various nations re. the issues mentioned.
In the developed world there are hardly any unwanted teen pregnancies and by consequence very few abortions.
The main reason is because the teens in these countries have easy access to and educated on the subject of anti-conception, not because someone vainly tries to stop them having intercourse:)
At the same time the use of condoms is the best way to prevent STD's.
In parts of the world (like the Middle East) where, mainly, men feel forced to go to, often illegal, prostitutes the occurrence of untreated STD's is scary.
It's all subjective, and until people start realizing this, they will let the big corporations push them around, since it is in the best interest of those corporations to make people believe there are hard and fast rules when none actually exist.
I hope you realise(d) you placed the word 'corporations' in the sentence where in a less broken legal system would have been written 'laws'.
Damn, how you keep repeating this simplistic and damaging stuff!
Teaching kids is about preparing them to act flexible to an ever faster changing world and IT is probably the fastest mover. Treating them as mindless drones that can only press buttons on today's version of a very specific machine/application is a sure way to frustration in the job market.
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They go looking for your little blue pills.
Yep, as you said that was a few weeks ago, now sanity has returned.
How does the number of pedophiles convicted globally during the same time frame relate to the number of terrorist attacks?
Wrong question.
How high is the occurence of paedophiles among scanner operators?
And even more important, are these scans stored and available to others not connected with security of this flight?
But certain measures need to be in place and well communicated, like who is actually looking at the scan and what happens to the pictures after it's done.
Especially in the case of the Brits and Americans I'd have some worries about the last issue.
About changed meanings, we live in a country where foreign language skills are a necessity and some basic Etymological knowledge helps a lot in studying other European languages.
Even though in Shakespeare's days a lot of it had already been lost or replaced.
Yes the establishment has generally looked with disdain at scholastic developments.
All new cars have ABS as standard and even the old ones that don't stop soonest with full braking.
The UK stand alone in world with its absurd ban on driving lessons on motorways.
Only this morning I heard an author and professor on the radio about a new rewritten version of the Dutch classic Max Havelaar by Multatuli.
Apparently present students can't and won't read the original due to the long sentences used and words whose meaning has changed since it was written 150 years ago.
The man had observed the attention span of his students was too short to comprehend a sentence over several lines. Words that are maybe quaint but otherwise understood by someone in his fifties are alien to them and were replaced.
I was always under the impression literature used the classics among others to train in grammar, expand our vocabulary and breed understanding for what has been. I feel this initiative is sooner sabotage than helpful.
For me it's very strange but also interesting this dumbing down of language skills has happened over such a short time span, only some 10-15 years.
Both Galloway and Lulu were unavailable for comment at the time of writing.
21 years ago it was already known the for humans dangerous version of the disease came from cows, not sheep.
Margaret Thatcher came to power in the UK on promises to get rid of or at least simplify a lot of rules hampering business.
Among these according to her (government) were the regulations on how to treat offal from sheep so as to turn it into a valuable cattle (herbivores!) feed stock.
(I don't recall the exact numbers but you'll get the drift)
Instead of treating these leftovers at 200 degC for 2 hours it now became legal to process them at 120 degC for 1 hr.
The result was that scrapie mutated and became the curse we know as BSE.
Sickening is that scrapie can be eradicated, other countries keep it outside their borders but the UK has never been interested, really a bit like that MSRA bacteria in British hospitals.
He, by international treaty al basic education should be free and unhindered!
Unless you see CSS as DRM most CD's and DVD's are free, even without that damned region coding.
I wouldn't call it a 'computer'.
Let's for the sanity of your kids hope your state doesn't allow home schooling. One of the most important results you get from a regular school is that kids learn to interact with others, experience society.
One of my GP's received home schooling (from no less than his schoolmaster father!) and although he was for a kid a real nice person to be with he remained a sort of weirdo for all his life.
And last time I checked they don't update too well.
Although many Europeans consider them right wing reactionaries they are non the less taken very seriously for content and presence.
For the European palate Fox News is an failed and annoying attempt at satire that only the dangerous among Americans take for informative.
The subject of this /. article suggests people might get more dangerous by being able to avoid (the rest of) the news.
By the way, I see similar problems in Europe, it's just we have less taste for military solutions to the world's problems :)
A very public example was that daughter of the Alaskan governor.
In the developed world there are hardly any unwanted teen pregnancies and by consequence very few abortions.
The main reason is because the teens in these countries have easy access to and educated on the subject of anti-conception, not because someone vainly tries to stop them having intercourse :)
At the same time the use of condoms is the best way to prevent STD's.
In parts of the world (like the Middle East) where, mainly, men feel forced to go to, often illegal, prostitutes the occurrence of untreated STD's is scary.
200 grand a fucking day ? Something is seriously wrong with our world.
Sure, but only when your world goes no further than the USofA...
Strange that people seemingly never wonder why these kind of cases and charges hardly exist outside of the US.
It's all subjective, and until people start realizing this, they will let the big corporations push them around, since it is in the best interest of those corporations to make people believe there are hard and fast rules when none actually exist.
I hope you realise(d) you placed the word 'corporations' in the sentence where in a less broken legal system would have been written 'laws'.
Oh yeah, and a sprinkle of greed.
And because from an educational standpoint there is so little merit in going the MS (monopoly!) way.
Here we have a typical example of a win-win situation, it costs considerable less and you get a lot more.
Teaching kids is about preparing them to act flexible to an ever faster changing world and IT is probably the fastest mover.
Treating them as mindless drones that can only press buttons on today's version of a very specific machine/application is a sure way to frustration in the job market.
You shouldn't teach applications to kids but the inquisitiveness to find solutions, for computers Linux is probably one of the best ways to do so.