(Over) Regulation does not prevent fraud charges, or lawsuits.
Here is the deal, criminals are criminals. Period. All the rules and regulations in the world won't prevent them from being criminals.
IF you're making the case that regulation prevents crime, you're simply in error, it does not. Oftentimes it doesn't even prevent the crimes it was designed to prevent, it just adds an extra step in the criminal behavior. All the rules and regulations designed to prevent money laundering hasn't even put a dent in money laundering, it simply made it slightly more difficult. Meanwhile, it affects everyone who has legitimate banking transactions, costing everyone a little.
In short, Regulations rarely match the intended results.
How about being angry at those that perpetrated the myth, namely the scientific community, rather than getting angry at those that had no say in the matter?
I have no problem with Science. I have a huge problem with scientific fraud, accepted on FAITH by large communities that want it to be so, only to get caught with their pants down in the end.
Science, when done right, doesn't have the problems that were present in the years that Universities taught Evolution on the basis of fraud. The problem is, you're mad at the wrong people.
Piltdown Man, to discuss your example, was due to observational error (ie, a hoax), not experimental evidence demonstrating provability.
My point was that Consensus is often wrong, and glaringly so. Any amount of scientific experimentation would have proven it a hoax, but it was accepted on the basis of consensus for a long time.
Actually, there is no correlation to money spent and education success. If you want the best correlation to success in education, look at parents. Children with Actively engaged, supportive parents, regardless of race, ethnicity or otherwise, are way more likely to be successful in their own education, than children with distant, uncaring adult supervision.
I support educating children, yes. However, working in Public Education, I can assure you that Educating Kids is almost secondary to all the people in Administration and in the Political Classes, who just want to report that they are doing well on "Education" with their initiatives, programs and for union goals of the same.
FYI, the number one indicator of success in school, are the parents.
There USED to be a good reason for many of them. Then they started being used to cull competition, raise prices and barriers to entry for no other reason than to make more money. This is why Taxi Medallions in certain cities are worth MILLIONS.
And from my experience, all the rules that supposedly are for "safety" and such, are more or less used a clubs and sledgehammers on competition, and doesn't actually apply to safety any longer. Technology has improved cars and safety to the point where much of those rules are just silly these days. Akin to keeping gloves in the glove box style rules (perhaps not that exactly, but you get the point) .
School Shootings are "OMFG SCARY" regardless of the likelihood of them happening to your school this year. So, while they are still rare, people treat them like they are happening every day somewhere in America.
And we are spending BILLIONS of dollars trying to prevent them. Because OMFG SCARY!
You CANNOT stop crime. And arresting people for "Pre Crime" is right out of Sci-Fi (Minority Report).
A free society is messy. And often terribly so. We MUST accept being messy, sometimes nasty and ugly, if we are to truly appreciate the beautiful. Anything less is ugly, without any beauty to appreciate.
Think of the children is the battle cry of Tyrants everywhere. I won't vote for anyone, even if I agree 99% with them politically, if they make any statement similar to "do it for the children". I urge every slashdotter to do the same this election cycle, even if it means voting for the "other guy". AND let the Politicians know that hiding behind skirts and baby strollers is what terrorists do.
Good for nature, bad for man. Just like O2 Poisoning the planet when it was overrun by Plant life. Life adapts. Humans haven't always been around, and won't be around forever. Because we are aware of our own demise doesn't change these facts.
Liberals voting for Liberals, hating what Liberals do but not ever changing how they vote, because they view the alternative is being worse. The reality is, both (R) and (D) are equally bad, especially when they get a Monopoly of power, like California. Hell, they voted in the loon Jerry Brown... Again.
WIndows 8.1 is what Windows 8 should have been. I don't hate Metro, I just think it is cumbersome to keyboard / mouse based interface. Knowing keyboard shortcuts, it doesn't bother me that much and setting up the desktop as desired is just as easy as Win 7.
No, they aren't doing it wrong. They are doing it right for their business model, because it works. If nobody saw that crap, click through the click bait, and didn't click the "share to see what happened next" only to be tricked into sharing their account details and not ever seeing what they came to see, their business model would fail.
But enough people fall for the bullshit that I really believe that is how we get GWB and BHO as presidents!
Logic is what is flowing from the Whitehouse at the moment. Dressed up legal process of trying to find out who killed the one guy kidnapped a couple years ago so we can arrest him and charge him for murder, giving fodder for the radical Muslims and a voice to them during trial. Logically, it all makes sense, until you realize that logic doesn't play a part in eliminating the real threat.
Meanwhile there are millions being killed all over the Muslim world and instead of uniting the world against Radical Islam, we're playing law and order. Political Correctness run amok and it is going to kill us all.
And when they hold a knife to your neck, you can recall that I warned you. It is coming, and we're too scared of being called names to stop it.
It leads to people understating the horrors of crime. I realize that some people take a personal offense when exposed to the images of horrors. THEY get offended, not because of the crime, but more because they were exposed to the crime. They would rather not have to face it, but they also don't want others to face it on their behalf.
These are like people who don't want to know where Meat comes from.
Did you have an emotional response to the video? That emotional response is what is needed. Logic is nice and fine and all that, but when facing the horrors of evil, we must summon the gut wrenching emotions needed to effectively combat the horrors we face. Not seeing the video is a form of willful apathy, IMHO.
Personally, it wouldn't offend me. I would use it as a case to humiliate the person actually thinking that was funny. Go ahead, make the video dubbing Benny Hill theme to it, as that says more about them, and those that think that is funny than anything else.
And I would use their tastelessness against them as often as I could for as long as I could. Humiliation and Shunning do work, it is too bad that we are too afraid to use them because we might offend those that we find offensive!
Personally, I think that making people face the horrors of this world are the only way to create the incentives to stop them. Hiding the horrors allows them to continue with minimal impact. Put the video, on National TV, Prime Time, not as a recruiting video, but as evidence of the barbarism we are are facing in the world and a call to action against the virulent evil permeating the Muslim World and what "Jihad" means to them.
And until Moderate Muslims take up arms against the "Jihadists", there is no such thing as "moderate muslims". Let me know when Saudi Arabia, and the Emerates and..... help us with their religious kinfolk.
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(Over) Regulation does not prevent fraud charges, or lawsuits.
Here is the deal, criminals are criminals. Period. All the rules and regulations in the world won't prevent them from being criminals.
IF you're making the case that regulation prevents crime, you're simply in error, it does not. Oftentimes it doesn't even prevent the crimes it was designed to prevent, it just adds an extra step in the criminal behavior. All the rules and regulations designed to prevent money laundering hasn't even put a dent in money laundering, it simply made it slightly more difficult. Meanwhile, it affects everyone who has legitimate banking transactions, costing everyone a little.
In short, Regulations rarely match the intended results.
How about being angry at those that perpetrated the myth, namely the scientific community, rather than getting angry at those that had no say in the matter?
I have no problem with Science. I have a huge problem with scientific fraud, accepted on FAITH by large communities that want it to be so, only to get caught with their pants down in the end.
Science, when done right, doesn't have the problems that were present in the years that Universities taught Evolution on the basis of fraud. The problem is, you're mad at the wrong people.
Piltdown Man, to discuss your example, was due to observational error (ie, a hoax), not experimental evidence demonstrating provability.
My point was that Consensus is often wrong, and glaringly so. Any amount of scientific experimentation would have proven it a hoax, but it was accepted on the basis of consensus for a long time.
Science is about provability, consensus is about getting majority or even a plurality of opinions. These two things are mutually exclusive.
Piltdown Man was once "consensus". We know how that turned out.
Science is always on your side precisely because it's science.
Science doesn't take sides. It is not evil nor good.
Comcast vs Amazon, whoever wins, we lose!
This is basically something "______, BUT AT SEA" patent model.
Actually, there is no correlation to money spent and education success. If you want the best correlation to success in education, look at parents. Children with Actively engaged, supportive parents, regardless of race, ethnicity or otherwise, are way more likely to be successful in their own education, than children with distant, uncaring adult supervision.
I support educating children, yes. However, working in Public Education, I can assure you that Educating Kids is almost secondary to all the people in Administration and in the Political Classes, who just want to report that they are doing well on "Education" with their initiatives, programs and for union goals of the same.
FYI, the number one indicator of success in school, are the parents.
There USED to be a good reason for many of them. Then they started being used to cull competition, raise prices and barriers to entry for no other reason than to make more money. This is why Taxi Medallions in certain cities are worth MILLIONS.
And from my experience, all the rules that supposedly are for "safety" and such, are more or less used a clubs and sledgehammers on competition, and doesn't actually apply to safety any longer. Technology has improved cars and safety to the point where much of those rules are just silly these days. Akin to keeping gloves in the glove box style rules (perhaps not that exactly, but you get the point) .
School Shootings are "OMFG SCARY" regardless of the likelihood of them happening to your school this year. So, while they are still rare, people treat them like they are happening every day somewhere in America.
And we are spending BILLIONS of dollars trying to prevent them. Because OMFG SCARY!
You CANNOT stop crime. And arresting people for "Pre Crime" is right out of Sci-Fi (Minority Report).
A free society is messy. And often terribly so. We MUST accept being messy, sometimes nasty and ugly, if we are to truly appreciate the beautiful. Anything less is ugly, without any beauty to appreciate.
Think of the children is the battle cry of Tyrants everywhere. I won't vote for anyone, even if I agree 99% with them politically, if they make any statement similar to "do it for the children". I urge every slashdotter to do the same this election cycle, even if it means voting for the "other guy". AND let the Politicians know that hiding behind skirts and baby strollers is what terrorists do.
Good for nature, bad for man. Just like O2 Poisoning the planet when it was overrun by Plant life. Life adapts. Humans haven't always been around, and won't be around forever. Because we are aware of our own demise doesn't change these facts.
Liberals voting for Liberals, hating what Liberals do but not ever changing how they vote, because they view the alternative is being worse. The reality is, both (R) and (D) are equally bad, especially when they get a Monopoly of power, like California. Hell, they voted in the loon Jerry Brown ... Again.
WIndows 8.1 is what Windows 8 should have been. I don't hate Metro, I just think it is cumbersome to keyboard / mouse based interface. Knowing keyboard shortcuts, it doesn't bother me that much and setting up the desktop as desired is just as easy as Win 7.
Actually, that might just be the improvement to pull Microsoft out of the dulldrums!
No, they aren't doing it wrong. They are doing it right for their business model, because it works. If nobody saw that crap, click through the click bait, and didn't click the "share to see what happened next" only to be tricked into sharing their account details and not ever seeing what they came to see, their business model would fail.
But enough people fall for the bullshit that I really believe that is how we get GWB and BHO as presidents!
Logic is what is flowing from the Whitehouse at the moment. Dressed up legal process of trying to find out who killed the one guy kidnapped a couple years ago so we can arrest him and charge him for murder, giving fodder for the radical Muslims and a voice to them during trial. Logically, it all makes sense, until you realize that logic doesn't play a part in eliminating the real threat.
Meanwhile there are millions being killed all over the Muslim world and instead of uniting the world against Radical Islam, we're playing law and order. Political Correctness run amok and it is going to kill us all.
And when they hold a knife to your neck, you can recall that I warned you. It is coming, and we're too scared of being called names to stop it.
Yes. And I know where it comes from (cows mostly, some chicken, lamb infrequently) grown in factory farms (except Lamb). I buy organic when I can.
Why?
IT is higher than they thought, and yet we are at a global standstill in climate change. And it is all man's fault. ... got it.
It leads to people understating the horrors of crime. I realize that some people take a personal offense when exposed to the images of horrors. THEY get offended, not because of the crime, but more because they were exposed to the crime. They would rather not have to face it, but they also don't want others to face it on their behalf.
These are like people who don't want to know where Meat comes from.
Did you have an emotional response to the video? That emotional response is what is needed. Logic is nice and fine and all that, but when facing the horrors of evil, we must summon the gut wrenching emotions needed to effectively combat the horrors we face. Not seeing the video is a form of willful apathy, IMHO.
Personally, it wouldn't offend me. I would use it as a case to humiliate the person actually thinking that was funny. Go ahead, make the video dubbing Benny Hill theme to it, as that says more about them, and those that think that is funny than anything else.
And I would use their tastelessness against them as often as I could for as long as I could. Humiliation and Shunning do work, it is too bad that we are too afraid to use them because we might offend those that we find offensive!
Personally, I think that making people face the horrors of this world are the only way to create the incentives to stop them. Hiding the horrors allows them to continue with minimal impact. Put the video, on National TV, Prime Time, not as a recruiting video, but as evidence of the barbarism we are are facing in the world and a call to action against the virulent evil permeating the Muslim World and what "Jihad" means to them.
And until Moderate Muslims take up arms against the "Jihadists", there is no such thing as "moderate muslims". Let me know when Saudi Arabia, and the Emerates and ..... help us with their religious kinfolk.