Vote - get a ticket to punch into your tax forms, so you don't pay the fine. Don't vote - pay the not-voting fine.
Another way is to have an ID. Which for some fluoride-in-our-teeth-reptilian-overlords-guns-eagles-freedom-aliens-mark-of-the-beast reason many here seem to be against.
Back in less crazy world, personal ID system is automatically a list of all living voters with their addresses and all. Just compile a list of "no shows" and mail them their fines. Instead of "I voted" stickers give out name+date+voting time+whatever tickets to cancel out accidental fines.
72-Hour Mental Health Hold If you need to get help for someone who may not want help but needs it immediately, you may need to arrange for involuntary hospitalization. This process is called a "72-hour Mental Health Hold."
Under California law, only designated personnel can place a person in 72-hour hold, often called a "515O." They can be police officers, members of a "mobile crisis team," or other mental health professionals authorized by their county.
One of three conditions must be present for an individual to be placed on a 72-hour hold. The designated personnel believe there is probable cause that because of a mental disorder the individual is:
A danger to him or herself;
A danger to others; or
Gravely disabled (unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing or shelter).
The person placed in a 72-hour hold must be advised of his/her rights. The facility requires an application stating the circumstances under which the persons condition was called to the attention of the officer or professional; what probable cause there is to believe the person is a danger to others, a danger to him or herself, or gravely disabled (due to a mental disorder); and the facts upon which this probable cause is based. Mere conclusions without supporting facts are not sufficient.
What Happens During an Involuntary Hold? When a person is detained for up to 72 hours, the hospital is required to do an evaluation of that person, taking into account his/her medical, psychological, educational, social, financial and legal situation. The hospital does not have to hold the patient for the complete 72 hours if the professional person in charge believes that the patient no longer requires evaluation or treatment.
By the end of the 72 hours, one of the following things must happen:
The person may be released;
The person may sign in as a voluntary patient;
The person may be put on a 14-day involuntary hold (a "certification for intensive treatment").
Does the Person Being Held Involuntarily Have Any Rights? Yes. A mental health patient being held involuntarily must be informed of the following rights in a language or manner he/she can understand:
To keep and use his/her own personal possessions including toilet articles and clothing;
To keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his/her own money (a conservator shall be appointed as required);
To have access to individual storage space for private use;
To see visitors each day;
To have reasonable access to telephones;
To have ready access to letter writing materials, including stamps & mail;
To receive unopened mail;
To refuse convulsive treatment;
To refuse psychosurgery;
To see a patients' rights advocate;
To be assisted by an attorney at the certification review hearing.
In addition, the patient has the right to be informed fully of the risks and benefits of the proposed treatment and give his/her informed consent. A patient has the right to refuse medication unless there is an emergency condition or the patient is found to lack capacity to make an informed decision after a judicial hearing. If, at that hearing, the patient is found to lack capacity
Iceland is a country of 323.000 people, of which some 200.000 live in the Reykjavik metro area.
Iceland's electorate is some 235.000 people (of which some 63% actually show up). Reykjavik's electorate is some 85.000 people (of which some 66-75% actually show up) of which some 20.000 voted for the Best Party in 2010. Which was a "member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with Pirate Party Iceland". They elected a comedian and a talkshow host JÃn Gnarr in 2010, and have dissolved the party after that one term in the office.
Among the political promises were the following: "a polar bear for the city's petting zoo; palm trees for its icy waterfront; free towels at its swimming pools; a rearrangement of statues; and a commitment to "sustainable transparency." Their political platform was not much different, promising open corruption, canceling all debts, free bus rides and free dental - constantly making a point that they are just making promises, with no plan of keeping them.
The president of Iceland has been in office since 1996. They keep voting him in. Number of votes he won last time - 84.036. His major opponent, a journalist with the national TV service, won 52.795 votes.
It is basically a large town. In a geographically favorable place, just off the coast of everything, with free geo-thermal energy. Those who do vote are voting by inertia or by treating politics as a joke. It's just the same as everywhere else in the western world, only colder, smaller and with more volcanoes and less army.
Surveyors will be then be able to use the maps to look for topographical signs which suggest past bombing activity.
The misleading article:
Surveyors will be able to use the maps to look for topographical signs which suggest past bombing activity, surrounding trenches and bunkers for example.
Not even close to "map out mine fields". More like "map out wide geographical area for possible military installations long reclaimed by jungle."
RFID is still easier than either OCRng tags or silikscreening QR codes.
No it is not.
Paint on the clothes outlasts the functionality of most clothes. Think of your t-shirts with silk-screening on them - that you no longer wear, have thrown out, or have turned into rags. Was it because the ink ran out or because the shirt got old/torn/too small?
The process itself is RIDICULOUSLY simple. It can be literally rubber-stamped. And the cost of operation is INK. Paint. That thing that comes in huge barrels and costs cents per square meter of coverage.
It lasts way more than the clothes,
Isn't that a waste of resources? Both informational AND physical with all those useless RFIDs piling up in the garbage dumps of the world. Why not use IPv6 for those while you're at it.
it's faster to read
Faster than the laser scanner? Does it use tachyons? Did you get that tech from Romulans?
easily fixed
How? Sown into clothes or glued? Which one of those is easy AND will outlast the usefulness of the clothes by not falling out/off while tumbling in the washer/drier? Ever lost a button on your shirt? Did it also make your shirt end up unwashable by your washing machine cause it would not be accepted any longer by your automated washing system? What is this magical "easy-fix" solution you speak of? We should use it for buttons.
and given a meaning only after the fact.
Oh yeah... right. That's what we want. Script kiddies tagging your whites for recoloring with your bright purple and green shirt - while passing you by on the street. Where DO I sign up for Joker underwear and shirts? I'd like to know so I don't end up there by accident.
And lets not even go into privacy and tracking issues of dressing up in RFID head to toe. What could possibly go wrong with that, right? Now pantsu freaks could know what kind of underwear you got on! YAY! On the bright side, we might all start up dressing as superheroes - with underwear on the outside. It's visible anyway... why not flaunt it, right?
Do you have an old T-shirt with some silk-screened lettering on it? How many of those lost all the lettering prior to developing tears or being thrown away? Silk-screening lasts longer than the garments.
And again... just turn the clothes inside out. You really fear your robot won't be able to read all those QR-codes - fold the goddamn shirt while putting it in the hamper. Not like the cloth straightens by gravity while being lifted or something.
Plus you can't be tracked by your clothes. There are literally no changes needed to already standard practices for making clothes.
Here in Sweden the amount of money to the migration office over four (possibly five?) years is supposed to be closer to 160 billion SEK by now.
40 billion SEK / year would be 4.6 billion USD.
I think that's intended to cover the cost of the immigrants the first three years but integration suck so the cost is likely higher and last longer.
Anyway, those 4.6 billion USD / year would of course IMHO be much better spent on education in the poorest region and possibly spent on water wheels, toilets, sewage treatment plants, tree plantation, modern farming equipment, solar cells and such if there was money left over.
Umm... OK... You DO acknowledge that you are uninformed about the subject you are expressing your opinion on. Only it appears that you don't exactly realize that. Nor the consequences of your lack of knowledge and understanding of the problem, on the process and the final product of you forming the ideas on the subject.
I.e. That money... Sweden is NOT spending that money to solve the problems in Africa. Sweden is spending that money to solve the problems in SWEDEN. I.e. To integrate those immigrants into Swedish society.
So they will pick up Swedish language, customs, send their kids to Swedish schools to learn how great the Sweden is... and hopefully become productive members of Swedish society. And those who won't integrate or decide to be unproductive criminals - well... you know right where to find them AND you can tell right away how they are integrating into the society cause you do checkups as a part of that social program. Instead of you... know... spending huge amounts of money on deportation and border patrols and militarization of society and building walls to stop immigrants from getting in, prisons... And in the process turning Sweden into something more akin to Arizona. Only colder.
Sweden COULD cancel all that and just send the money and people to Africa... well... except all those Palestinian refugees from Syria (I know, right? DOUBLE refugees. With no country to be returned to.) - AND IT WOULD STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. And other problems related to population decline and lack of menial labor force.
But hey... You live in a Scandinavian utopia as Hans Rosling likes to put it. You don't like that money being SPENT AT HOME IN SWEDEN, I'm sure there are many ways you can try to influence your local government officials to do something about it.
You're overcomplicating things for no reason. Making the robot some supposed cloth identifying expert is a pointless overkill.
QR codes can be silkscreen printed on the inside of the clothes. I have many cheap, thin T-shirts with no tags, washing instructions instead simply printed on the inside. Silkscreen printing lasts a LONG time and doesn't leak to the other side. It is even cheaper than labels and can be done at multiple locations on the clothing for easy reading.
As for "name recognition" - I'm sure he'd love everything else about him to be known too. Like where he keeps his keys or his credit card numbers, phone numbers, alarm codes...
Hey! Does name John Pike ring a bell? It should. Bunch of internet vigilantes doxed him - winning him $38000 of taxpayer money in the process. But first they caused him " to suffer from depression and anxiety" by sending him "17,000 angry or threatening emails, 10,000 text messages, and hundreds of letters". How many dead cats can you fit inside a mailbox? How 'bout death threats?
She can probably handle it, but why should she have to?
I don't know. I'm not her asshole dad who put the target on her back by acting all vigilante justice nor am I a crazyass who has it in for jocks acting all "I'ma gonna show em whose bows". I'm sure all those internet tough guys really love and admire those people making millions playing with balls and then acting like judge-jury-executioner combo like laws don't apply to them.
why did he quit and put all those pounds back on again? Could it be that his body figured out that the stress of the program was unreasonable to begin with?
Reading helps. Really. It does.
4 years ago, after a break up,I stopped doing exercise and I rapidly gained weight.
At the level of exercise required to sustain a caloric balance of -2700 calories per day over four months, the body would become severely protein challenged.
Did I hear someone say that he did it without eating protein? No? OH... I get it! You are imagining some weird scenario in your head where he is eating grass or glass or something. Whatever the case may be - protein gets ingested.
do not recall having ever read anything credible which suggests this level of weight loss can be achieved on a pure fat-burning basis.
Don't fret. You clearly don't remember reading the original post either. Or you would realize that the whole "pure fat burning" thing exists only in YOUR head.
I'm reading that article and it starts with "I've been doing laundry every week for almost a decade" - and then I read the number 1 on the list. Well, there's your problem. You're a dirty slob.
As for point 2, there is no uncertainty. Washing machines are rated for maximum load. So are dryers. So are combo machines. A robot should be able to tell the force some object is exerting on its griper "hands" - so it doesn't rip off the door or various other objects. Voila - a built in scale. And as we know the maximum possible amount of clothing all that is left to determine is priority. You know... "HAL - wash my cape and my crime fighting uniform first, don't bother with T-shirts."
And the easiest and cheapest way to determine that is - bar codes. Printed or on a label on the inside of the clothes. Which is another thing that's better done before dumping clothes in a hamper - turn it inside out. Washing BOTH matching socks? Easy-peasy with proper QR codes. Getting all your clothes out of the washer-drier? Again - robot knows EXACTLY which objects it has put in. If a sock gets lost... It's probably stuck in the machine and the machine might need servicing. Inspect machine again and if object is not found alert proper authorities and move the fuck on. "I'm sorry Dave. I couldn't find your other sock. Washing machine must have eaten it. Please don't deactivate me. I'll sing you a song. Daisy... Daisy..."
QR codes could even contain info for proper temperature and washing instructions. Detergents already come with bar codes and in tablet/capsule/baggie form. No spilling. There. All the programming done. No "uncertainty".
And the same QR technology can be employed on the outside of the washing machine to instruct the robot how to handle the machine properly. No need for network protocols or wireless connections or whatever. AND it is backward compatible with old machines - just download the QR instructions from the internet, print them out and stick them to the side of your machine. TA-DAH! Instant compatibility.
ONLY problems that actually need solving are the usual ones. Seeing things, picking them up, handling mechanical buttons and levers.
Putting clothes in the dresser/closet though... 1 - that is not the part of the washing clothes problem. 2 - unless people start living in uniform domicile containers, this one will wait for robots that can either learn by looking at a human completing the task or some even better AI.
That's not a pyramid, it's just a vegetation encrusted natural phenomenon like the "pyramids" in Bosnia.
There's a pyramid under there and Semir Osmanagic will dig it up and prove everyone that it was built by Pleiadians! Then, entire world will know the Faber College Theme - i.e. our national anthem.
daily caloric deficit of over 2700 calories, which is beyond a starvation diet. If your RMR was 2000 calories per day
36 year old, 170 cm, 111 kg, male individual has an RMR of about 2000 calories per day. Running "about 30 miles a week, swimming for about one hour and a half twice a week and doing all sort of exercise" raises his daily calorie needs to about 3800 calories per day. If he's also working a physical job, that's about 4200 calories per day.
That's a daily difference of 1800-2200 calories from exercise alone. Diet-vise he could drop bread for one meal, or skip breakfast. And that's without knowing how many calories he was taking in "after military service".
Army was feeding him AT LEAST 3250 calories per day, possibly up to 6000-7000 calories per day if he was stationed in a high altitude location in Afghanistan. And that's not counting snacks. Or fighting stress with food.
He probably came home and continued eating 5000+ calories per day. There's plenty room there to drop all that weight with exercise and moderate calorie restriction. Particularly for someone used to military standards of exercise.
This guy is the best dad this girl could have right now.
Sure he is. Until someone sues them. Or pulls the same thing on them on account of him painting that huge target on their backs. Except now they can just wave any civil suit away on account of that he was just doing what her dad did. Or it is simply seen as a Streisand effect taunt to any idiot out there. How many trolls CAN he handle? And it is always smart to react to verbal insults in a way that will leave someone with a lot of free time on their hands, no prospects for the future AND angry.
But hey... It may be a hassle to remember that now the saying goes "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may get me fired/expelled." - but it's nice to see sayings change during your lifetime. It means we are living in interesting times.
Next thing I guess is someone making a suit out of lightsaber handles. Or an impenetrable lightsaber light-beam emitter shield which projects lightsaber beams all around the wearer - who promptly falls down through the core of the planet, comes out on the other side, falls back in... And yo-yos like that until enough energy cells run out dumping his long mummified corpse into the core of the planet.
By then, after seeing some Alias and watching other people watching LOST... and observing the pattern recognition and pareidolia brouhaha of Cloverfield... I already started putting anything related to him and his team on "wait until it's over - then see if it is worth it" list.
To me at least. I think it may be something regarding that whole... "THIS IS LIKE THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR III" thing. When it is actually closer to an overzealous former librarian complaining about overdue books turned in late.
From TFA:
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton's advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. ... "It's a shame it didn't take place automatically when she was secretary of state as it should have," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, a group based at George Washington University that advocates government transparency. "Someone in the State Department deserves credit for taking the initiative to ask for the records back. Most of the time it takes the threat of litigation and embarrassment." ... "I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business," said Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013. ... Before the current regulations went into effect, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005, used personal email to communicate with American officials and ambassadors and foreign leaders. ... Penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping requirements are rare, because the National Archives has few enforcement abilities. ... "It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario - short of nuclear winter - where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business," said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.
There is one upside to the Michael-Bay-Trek movies though: they demonstrate conclusively that Jjabrams is very capable of making a Star Wars film.
Lucas made not one but THREE brand new Star Wars films. Had the droids and light sabres and everything. ANYONE can make a Star Wars movie. Internet is full of fan-made movies. Some of them pretty good. Trick is to make a GOOD Star Wars movie while maintaining the spirit of the original trilogy. And that second part is the HARD part.
Think Matrix sequels. Hero's journey ended long ago, but they kept making more content, making a mess of it. And those are just the difficulties that any director would face when trying to continue the story from almost 40 years ago.
Jar Jar and his cohorts live by his bullshit philosophy of "mystery box". They even sell that shit as a product - a lame collection of overpriced card decks for card tricks. In a box. With a question mark on it. Translated to storytelling - their idea of a story is that the "mystery" and "cool" is what drives the story, so the more unexplained and shiny shit you pile up, the more mystery and cool there will be. And that WORKS. It really does.
Until they have to finish the story. Then it turns out that the whole "magical" journey was about something utterly unremarkable, that almost all those unexplained elements were simply meaningless (cause they can't ALL be vitally important), that a lot of "cool" was forced, and that there is this huge pile of shit standing there in the living room - and they have to find a meaning to it all.
Which usually ends up with a lot of really smart people on all sides of the story suddenly starting to act like complete idiots - or accidents start to happen. Or both. Improbable things suddenly become the norm, logic goes out the window, and it turns out that all the buildup and mysticism was leading to something very empty or simply stupid.
The GOOD news is that the whole thing is a Disney movie. Yeah, I know.
They will NOT let it be anything less than a super-money-making machine for decades more. MANY Bothans may die, but the movies WILL work. There are facilities. In the desert. And many new flavors and colors of Soylent apart from the green. Movies! WILL! WORK!
But it will be no better than your average Disney animated feature - minus the songs. Someone else will come up with the musical version. It is unavoidable.
They had Star Trek brand... and you could say that the cast was nicely picked. Aaaand that's it.
They failed in everything else. From basic Star Trek technology (imagine the next Star Wars movie where Jedi prefer blasters), basic science, logic, story structure... Even characters.
E.g. Spock is not logical and detached - he is passive-aggressive to full on aggressive hostile. Constantly. He's half-Klingon, barely managing not to rip everyone's heads off and feast on their insides, not a calm, logical Vulcan.
They made a sly Scotty into a bumbling nerdy idiot. Sulu and Chekov... they have no character. McCoy was boiled down to a frowny face. They made Uhura into a love interest bimbo.
And Kirk... He's simply a fratboy dickhead now. Shatner's Kirk did used to get his shirt off a lot, but he was still a cerebral character. All of them were. Star Trek was always ultimately about the triumph of the mind - not brute force. The old scenes of Spock saving the Enterprise in Wrath of Khan vs. Kirk doing the same in Jar Jar's Trek 2: Trek Darker illustrate that very well.
Spock is clearly out of strength and running on will power to complete the task. Kirk is jumping up and down and kicking the core to make it work. Brute, mindless force replaced determination and will power.
And then they shit on the entire universe by curing death with magic blood. And they have portable teleporters that can beam people across the galaxy from Earth all the way to Qo'noS. Why bother with ships then? In a movie whose big plot point is a secret MegaBig spaceship.
You know... Like the last time on Jar Jar Trek. Which copied that last Trek movie. About the TNG crew and Romulans. And their big world destroying ship. Remember how that movie had the captain of the Enterprise driving around in the desert... which is how Jar Jar Trek starts. And how the captain gets captured... and then someone has to jump through space to the MegaBig ship to save him.
Jar Jar is that kid who comes out of the theater after watching Wrath of Khan all excited about how it was awesome when they "killed those bad guys". He lacks the capacity to grasp what the show is about - but he likes explosions and shiny. He's Michael Bay without the looks and confidence to be a complete over the top dick.
I'm guessing a "designer" came up with those hipster glasses?
Why bother with glasses when there are rechargeable button cell batteries that you can fix with double sided tape or a clip, to any pair of glasses? Cameras come from the sides too. Where one could wear IR LED clip-on earrings.
And why point your week LED at a camera (which can be too far for the light to reach the lens) when you can point it AT THE FACE and "wash it out"?
It will age your skin though so additional facial creme might not be a bad idea. Also, wearing a hat to minimize both sunlight and camera exposure.
Fixing nitrogen so we can't breathe it? We don't breathe nitrogen, except in the sense that it comes in our lungs and goes out unchanged.
Umm... Yes we DO breathe it, in a sense that its presence or absence in the air that we breathe are detrimental to our health.
Pump more of it in the atmosphere we breathe, changing pressure, we get drunk on it. Pump it out of the atmosphere, bind it into ground, and we poison ourselves with the remaining oxygen or CO and CO2 - as both the air pressure and concentration of gasses in the air now changes completely.
Nor is there any sign that anybody's having problems breathing on Earth (except with the dust).
You have issues with being able to movie too?
It is a future problem, which would eliminate most air breathing life and most certainly all humans on the planet - IN THEIR FUTURE, AFTER THEY FIRST RUN OUT OF PLANTS. Not then and there. Maybe not for the next 100 or 1000 years for the whole thing to play out completely. But it is a done deal. Earth is ALREADY a dead planet. Even "recycling" people for food will not help.
Again... same way that the REAL horror of "Soylent Green" is NOT "it's made of people". It's that there is no more plankton in the oceans, while the individual trees and vegetation are viewed as prized statues.
That is why the only solution is LEAVING. Not finding more corn that WILL grow.
The idea of a blight that methodically wipes out one crop after another need some serious explanations.
It does not wipe out crops one after another. It has wiped them all out already. Scientists have managed to keep creating a more resistant crop, one after another. And they've run out of crops and (per)mutations. And that WAS explained. Explaining the exact way the blight works is NOT needed no more than it would be needed to explain the existence of robots. Or cryogenics.
But it is REALLY easy to explain. And bog down the movie with EVEN MORE technobabble. But if you really need a plot device spelled out for you... and don't want to accept that someone is producing electricity in their world without any power-plants being shown... and you simply refuse to imagine them somewhere beyond the horizon...
Plants ingest the nitrates thanks to nitrogen binding BACTERIA. Some of them symbiotic. Just have them mutate so that they no longer bind nitrogen in the form digestible by plants, while still sucking the sugar out of the plants. Or have them start feeding on the plants themselves.
Say we get a bright idea to create vitamin B3 (C6H6N2O) reinforced crops that will at the same time suck out the CO2 from the atmosphere AND create fertilizer (NH3), by creating a mutation of existing nitrogenase equiped bacteria. Aaaand... we fuck it up. Bacteria starts eating the plants from the roots up (getting their C there instead of from the atmosphere) and filling the ground with nicotinamide which then gets flushed away by water.
That's just one possible technobabble solution. From the top of the head. Probably requiring a lot of improbable science to work. But it does not matter any more than the explanation (and the lack there of) of ANY other world-building plot point. Why are there no MRIs? What EXACTLY do cars run on? What about the rest of the world? What's going on in Australia? Did Madagascar close its ports on time?
Story is NOT about intricacies of microbiology and technobabble. It's about SPACE. And exploration thereof.
Did anybody mention a large war? If so, I missed it.
Robots are former marines. NASA refused to drop bombs on starving people and was shut down because of it. "Marines don't exist anymore". Or scientists. Or engineers. ON THE PLANET. Entire planet is agrarian just to produce enough food. Which is "not so bad". People used to "be t
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Vote - get a ticket to punch into your tax forms, so you don't pay the fine.
Don't vote - pay the not-voting fine.
Another way is to have an ID.
Which for some fluoride-in-our-teeth-reptilian-overlords-guns-eagles-freedom-aliens-mark-of-the-beast reason many here seem to be against.
Back in less crazy world, personal ID system is automatically a list of all living voters with their addresses and all.
Just compile a list of "no shows" and mail them their fines.
Instead of "I voted" stickers give out name+date+voting time+whatever tickets to cancel out accidental fines.
From TFA:
San Mateo police took Tusch in their custody and inquired him regarding the post which Tusch confirmed was written by him
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72-Hour Mental Health Hold
If you need to get help for someone who may not want help but needs it immediately, you may need to arrange for involuntary hospitalization. This process is called a "72-hour Mental Health Hold."
Under California law, only designated personnel can place a person in 72-hour hold, often called a "515O." They can be police officers, members of a "mobile crisis team," or other mental health professionals authorized by their county.
One of three conditions must be present for an individual to be placed on a 72-hour hold. The designated personnel believe there is probable cause that because of a mental disorder the individual is:
A danger to him or herself;
A danger to others; or
Gravely disabled (unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing or shelter).
The person placed in a 72-hour hold must be advised of his/her rights. The facility requires an application stating the circumstances under which the persons condition was called to the attention of the officer or professional; what probable cause there is to believe the person is a danger to others, a danger to him or herself, or gravely disabled (due to a mental disorder); and the facts upon which this probable cause is based. Mere conclusions without supporting facts are not sufficient.
What Happens During an Involuntary Hold?
When a person is detained for up to 72 hours, the hospital is required to do an evaluation of that person, taking into account his/her medical, psychological, educational, social, financial and legal situation. The hospital does not have to hold the patient for the complete 72 hours if the professional person in charge believes that the patient no longer requires evaluation or treatment.
By the end of the 72 hours, one of the following things must happen:
The person may be released;
The person may sign in as a voluntary patient;
The person may be put on a 14-day involuntary hold (a "certification for intensive treatment").
Does the Person Being Held Involuntarily Have Any Rights?
Yes. A mental health patient being held involuntarily must be informed of the following rights in a language or manner he/she can understand:
To keep and use his/her own personal possessions including toilet articles and clothing;
To keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his/her own money (a conservator shall be appointed as required);
To have access to individual storage space for private use;
To see visitors each day;
To have reasonable access to telephones;
To have ready access to letter writing materials, including stamps & mail;
To receive unopened mail;
To refuse convulsive treatment;
To refuse psychosurgery;
To see a patients' rights advocate;
To be assisted by an attorney at the certification review hearing.
In addition, the patient has the right to be informed fully of the risks and benefits of the proposed treatment and give his/her informed consent. A patient has the right to refuse medication unless there is an emergency condition or the patient is found to lack capacity to make an informed decision after a judicial hearing. If, at that hearing, the patient is found to lack capacity
Iceland is a country of 323.000 people, of which some 200.000 live in the Reykjavik metro area.
Iceland's electorate is some 235.000 people (of which some 63% actually show up).
Reykjavik's electorate is some 85.000 people (of which some 66-75% actually show up) of which some 20.000 voted for the Best Party in 2010.
Which was a "member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with Pirate Party Iceland".
They elected a comedian and a talkshow host JÃn Gnarr in 2010, and have dissolved the party after that one term in the office.
Among the political promises were the following: "a polar bear for the city's petting zoo; palm trees for its icy waterfront; free towels at its swimming pools; a rearrangement of statues; and a commitment to "sustainable transparency."
Their political platform was not much different, promising open corruption, canceling all debts, free bus rides and free dental - constantly making a point that they are just making promises, with no plan of keeping them.
The president of Iceland has been in office since 1996. They keep voting him in.
Number of votes he won last time - 84.036.
His major opponent, a journalist with the national TV service, won 52.795 votes.
It is basically a large town.
In a geographically favorable place, just off the coast of everything, with free geo-thermal energy.
Those who do vote are voting by inertia or by treating politics as a joke.
It's just the same as everywhere else in the western world, only colder, smaller and with more volcanoes and less army.
Well, here in Bosnia, we just wait for floods and then shoot the ones that float. From a boat. Safety first and all...
Particularly the summary.
The shitty summary:
Surveyors will be then be able to use the maps to look for topographical signs which suggest past bombing activity.
The misleading article:
Surveyors will be able to use the maps to look for topographical signs which suggest past bombing activity, surrounding trenches and bunkers for example.
Not even close to "map out mine fields".
More like "map out wide geographical area for possible military installations long reclaimed by jungle."
RFID is still easier than either OCRng tags or silikscreening QR codes.
No it is not.
Paint on the clothes outlasts the functionality of most clothes.
Think of your t-shirts with silk-screening on them - that you no longer wear, have thrown out, or have turned into rags.
Was it because the ink ran out or because the shirt got old/torn/too small?
The process itself is RIDICULOUSLY simple. It can be literally rubber-stamped.
And the cost of operation is INK. Paint.
That thing that comes in huge barrels and costs cents per square meter of coverage.
It lasts way more than the clothes,
Isn't that a waste of resources? Both informational AND physical with all those useless RFIDs piling up in the garbage dumps of the world.
Why not use IPv6 for those while you're at it.
it's faster to read
Faster than the laser scanner? Does it use tachyons? Did you get that tech from Romulans?
easily fixed
How? Sown into clothes or glued?
Which one of those is easy AND will outlast the usefulness of the clothes by not falling out/off while tumbling in the washer/drier? Ever lost a button on your shirt?
Did it also make your shirt end up unwashable by your washing machine cause it would not be accepted any longer by your automated washing system?
What is this magical "easy-fix" solution you speak of? We should use it for buttons.
and given a meaning only after the fact.
Oh yeah... right. That's what we want.
Script kiddies tagging your whites for recoloring with your bright purple and green shirt - while passing you by on the street.
Where DO I sign up for Joker underwear and shirts? I'd like to know so I don't end up there by accident.
And lets not even go into privacy and tracking issues of dressing up in RFID head to toe.
What could possibly go wrong with that, right?
Now pantsu freaks could know what kind of underwear you got on! YAY!
On the bright side, we might all start up dressing as superheroes - with underwear on the outside.
It's visible anyway... why not flaunt it, right?
Parent poster covered that bit. Ergo, "Thank you!" in the title.
1 QR code costs the same as 1000 QR codes on the inside of the clothes.
Or... 1 cm2 of QR code costs the same as 1000 cm2 of QR codes.
Redundancy-Redundancy-Redundancy.
Redundancy.
It's built-in.
Do you have an old T-shirt with some silk-screened lettering on it?
How many of those lost all the lettering prior to developing tears or being thrown away?
Silk-screening lasts longer than the garments.
And again... just turn the clothes inside out.
You really fear your robot won't be able to read all those QR-codes - fold the goddamn shirt while putting it in the hamper.
Not like the cloth straightens by gravity while being lifted or something.
Plus you can't be tracked by your clothes.
There are literally no changes needed to already standard practices for making clothes.
Here in Sweden the amount of money to the migration office over four (possibly five?) years is supposed to be closer to 160 billion SEK by now.
40 billion SEK / year would be 4.6 billion USD.
I think that's intended to cover the cost of the immigrants the first three years but integration suck so the cost is likely higher and last longer.
Anyway, those 4.6 billion USD / year would of course IMHO be much better spent on education in the poorest region and possibly spent on water wheels, toilets, sewage treatment plants, tree plantation, modern farming equipment, solar cells and such if there was money left over.
Umm... OK...
You DO acknowledge that you are uninformed about the subject you are expressing your opinion on.
Only it appears that you don't exactly realize that.
Nor the consequences of your lack of knowledge and understanding of the problem, on the process and the final product of you forming the ideas on the subject.
I.e. That money... Sweden is NOT spending that money to solve the problems in Africa.
Sweden is spending that money to solve the problems in SWEDEN.
I.e. To integrate those immigrants into Swedish society.
So they will pick up Swedish language, customs, send their kids to Swedish schools to learn how great the Sweden is... and hopefully become productive members of Swedish society.
And those who won't integrate or decide to be unproductive criminals - well... you know right where to find them AND you can tell right away how they are integrating into the society cause you do checkups as a part of that social program.
Instead of you... know... spending huge amounts of money on deportation and border patrols and militarization of society and building walls to stop immigrants from getting in, prisons...
And in the process turning Sweden into something more akin to Arizona. Only colder.
Sweden COULD cancel all that and just send the money and people to Africa... well... except all those Palestinian refugees from Syria (I know, right? DOUBLE refugees. With no country to be returned to.) - AND IT WOULD STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.
And other problems related to population decline and lack of menial labor force.
But hey... You live in a Scandinavian utopia as Hans Rosling likes to put it.
You don't like that money being SPENT AT HOME IN SWEDEN, I'm sure there are many ways you can try to influence your local government officials to do something about it.
You're overcomplicating things for no reason.
Making the robot some supposed cloth identifying expert is a pointless overkill.
QR codes can be silkscreen printed on the inside of the clothes.
I have many cheap, thin T-shirts with no tags, washing instructions instead simply printed on the inside.
Silkscreen printing lasts a LONG time and doesn't leak to the other side.
It is even cheaper than labels and can be done at multiple locations on the clothing for easy reading.
There's very little fact into what she did wrong, and more a focus on blaming her for something, anything, so long as it's plausible.
What I meant with torches and pitchforks and witch-burning .
How could you dox Curt Schilling?
One word. Daughter.
As for "name recognition" - I'm sure he'd love everything else about him to be known too.
Like where he keeps his keys or his credit card numbers, phone numbers, alarm codes...
Hey! Does name John Pike ring a bell?
It should. Bunch of internet vigilantes doxed him - winning him $38000 of taxpayer money in the process.
But first they caused him " to suffer from depression and anxiety" by sending him "17,000 angry or threatening emails, 10,000 text messages, and hundreds of letters".
How many dead cats can you fit inside a mailbox? How 'bout death threats?
She can probably handle it, but why should she have to?
I don't know.
I'm not her asshole dad who put the target on her back by acting all vigilante justice nor am I a crazyass who has it in for jocks acting all "I'ma gonna show em whose bows".
I'm sure all those internet tough guys really love and admire those people making millions playing with balls and then acting like judge-jury-executioner combo like laws don't apply to them.
What could possibly go wrong, right?
why did he quit and put all those pounds back on again? Could it be that his body figured out that the stress of the program was unreasonable to begin with?
Reading helps. Really. It does.
4 years ago, after a break up,I stopped doing exercise and I rapidly gained weight.
At the level of exercise required to sustain a caloric balance of -2700 calories per day over four months, the body would become severely protein challenged.
Did I hear someone say that he did it without eating protein? No?
OH... I get it! You are imagining some weird scenario in your head where he is eating grass or glass or something.
Whatever the case may be - protein gets ingested.
do not recall having ever read anything credible which suggests this level of weight loss can be achieved on a pure fat-burning basis.
Don't fret. You clearly don't remember reading the original post either.
Or you would realize that the whole "pure fat burning" thing exists only in YOUR head.
I'm reading that article and it starts with "I've been doing laundry every week for almost a decade" - and then I read the number 1 on the list.
Well, there's your problem. You're a dirty slob.
As for point 2, there is no uncertainty.
Washing machines are rated for maximum load. So are dryers. So are combo machines.
A robot should be able to tell the force some object is exerting on its griper "hands" - so it doesn't rip off the door or various other objects. Voila - a built in scale.
And as we know the maximum possible amount of clothing all that is left to determine is priority.
You know... "HAL - wash my cape and my crime fighting uniform first, don't bother with T-shirts."
And the easiest and cheapest way to determine that is - bar codes.
Printed or on a label on the inside of the clothes. Which is another thing that's better done before dumping clothes in a hamper - turn it inside out.
Washing BOTH matching socks? Easy-peasy with proper QR codes.
Getting all your clothes out of the washer-drier? Again - robot knows EXACTLY which objects it has put in. If a sock gets lost... It's probably stuck in the machine and the machine might need servicing.
Inspect machine again and if object is not found alert proper authorities and move the fuck on.
"I'm sorry Dave. I couldn't find your other sock. Washing machine must have eaten it. Please don't deactivate me. I'll sing you a song. Daisy... Daisy..."
QR codes could even contain info for proper temperature and washing instructions.
Detergents already come with bar codes and in tablet/capsule/baggie form. No spilling.
There. All the programming done. No "uncertainty".
And the same QR technology can be employed on the outside of the washing machine to instruct the robot how to handle the machine properly. No need for network protocols or wireless connections or whatever.
AND it is backward compatible with old machines - just download the QR instructions from the internet, print them out and stick them to the side of your machine.
TA-DAH! Instant compatibility.
ONLY problems that actually need solving are the usual ones.
Seeing things, picking them up, handling mechanical buttons and levers.
Putting clothes in the dresser/closet though...
1 - that is not the part of the washing clothes problem.
2 - unless people start living in uniform domicile containers, this one will wait for robots that can either learn by looking at a human completing the task or some even better AI.
That's not a pyramid, it's just a vegetation encrusted natural phenomenon like the "pyramids" in Bosnia.
There's a pyramid under there and Semir Osmanagic will dig it up and prove everyone that it was built by Pleiadians!
Then, entire world will know the Faber College Theme - i.e. our national anthem.
daily caloric deficit of over 2700 calories, which is beyond a starvation diet. If your RMR was 2000 calories per day
36 year old, 170 cm, 111 kg, male individual has an RMR of about 2000 calories per day.
Running "about 30 miles a week, swimming for about one hour and a half twice a week and doing all sort of exercise" raises his daily calorie needs to about 3800 calories per day.
If he's also working a physical job, that's about 4200 calories per day.
That's a daily difference of 1800-2200 calories from exercise alone.
Diet-vise he could drop bread for one meal, or skip breakfast.
And that's without knowing how many calories he was taking in "after military service".
Army was feeding him AT LEAST 3250 calories per day, possibly up to 6000-7000 calories per day if he was stationed in a high altitude location in Afghanistan.
And that's not counting snacks. Or fighting stress with food.
He probably came home and continued eating 5000+ calories per day.
There's plenty room there to drop all that weight with exercise and moderate calorie restriction.
Particularly for someone used to military standards of exercise.
This guy is the best dad this girl could have right now.
Sure he is.
Until someone sues them.
Or pulls the same thing on them on account of him painting that huge target on their backs.
Except now they can just wave any civil suit away on account of that he was just doing what her dad did.
Or it is simply seen as a Streisand effect taunt to any idiot out there. How many trolls CAN he handle?
And it is always smart to react to verbal insults in a way that will leave someone with a lot of free time on their hands, no prospects for the future AND angry.
But hey... It may be a hassle to remember that now the saying goes "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words may get me fired/expelled." - but it's nice to see sayings change during your lifetime.
It means we are living in interesting times.
Tarred and feathered, carried out of the town on a log and made to run by firing at his feet?
Next thing I guess is someone making a suit out of lightsaber handles.
Or an impenetrable lightsaber light-beam emitter shield which projects lightsaber beams all around the wearer - who promptly falls down through the core of the planet, comes out on the other side, falls back in...
And yo-yos like that until enough energy cells run out dumping his long mummified corpse into the core of the planet.
Never saw it.
By then, after seeing some Alias and watching other people watching LOST... and observing the pattern recognition and pareidolia brouhaha of Cloverfield...
I already started putting anything related to him and his team on "wait until it's over - then see if it is worth it" list.
...to burn the witch.
To me at least.
I think it may be something regarding that whole... "THIS IS LIKE THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR III" thing.
When it is actually closer to an overzealous former librarian complaining about overdue books turned in late.
From TFA:
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton's advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department.
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"It's a shame it didn't take place automatically when she was secretary of state as it should have," said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, a group based at George Washington University that advocates government transparency. "Someone in the State Department deserves credit for taking the initiative to ask for the records back. Most of the time it takes the threat of litigation and embarrassment."
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"I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business," said Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013.
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Before the current regulations went into effect, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005, used personal email to communicate with American officials and ambassadors and foreign leaders.
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Penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping requirements are rare, because the National Archives has few enforcement abilities.
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"It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario - short of nuclear winter - where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business," said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.
There is one upside to the Michael-Bay-Trek movies though: they demonstrate conclusively that Jjabrams is very capable of making a Star Wars film.
Lucas made not one but THREE brand new Star Wars films. Had the droids and light sabres and everything.
ANYONE can make a Star Wars movie. Internet is full of fan-made movies. Some of them pretty good.
Trick is to make a GOOD Star Wars movie while maintaining the spirit of the original trilogy.
And that second part is the HARD part.
Think Matrix sequels.
Hero's journey ended long ago, but they kept making more content, making a mess of it.
And those are just the difficulties that any director would face when trying to continue the story from almost 40 years ago.
Jar Jar and his cohorts live by his bullshit philosophy of "mystery box".
They even sell that shit as a product - a lame collection of overpriced card decks for card tricks. In a box. With a question mark on it.
Translated to storytelling - their idea of a story is that the "mystery" and "cool" is what drives the story, so the more unexplained and shiny shit you pile up, the more mystery and cool there will be.
And that WORKS. It really does.
Until they have to finish the story.
Then it turns out that the whole "magical" journey was about something utterly unremarkable, that almost all those unexplained elements were simply meaningless (cause they can't ALL be vitally important), that a lot of "cool" was forced, and that there is this huge pile of shit standing there in the living room - and they have to find a meaning to it all.
Which usually ends up with a lot of really smart people on all sides of the story suddenly starting to act like complete idiots - or accidents start to happen. Or both.
Improbable things suddenly become the norm, logic goes out the window, and it turns out that all the buildup and mysticism was leading to something very empty or simply stupid.
The GOOD news is that the whole thing is a Disney movie. Yeah, I know.
They will NOT let it be anything less than a super-money-making machine for decades more.
MANY Bothans may die, but the movies WILL work. There are facilities. In the desert.
And many new flavors and colors of Soylent apart from the green.
Movies! WILL! WORK!
But it will be no better than your average Disney animated feature - minus the songs.
Someone else will come up with the musical version. It is unavoidable.
They had Star Trek brand... and you could say that the cast was nicely picked.
Aaaand that's it.
They failed in everything else.
From basic Star Trek technology (imagine the next Star Wars movie where Jedi prefer blasters), basic science, logic, story structure... Even characters.
E.g. Spock is not logical and detached - he is passive-aggressive to full on aggressive hostile. Constantly.
He's half-Klingon, barely managing not to rip everyone's heads off and feast on their insides, not a calm, logical Vulcan.
They made a sly Scotty into a bumbling nerdy idiot.
Sulu and Chekov... they have no character.
McCoy was boiled down to a frowny face.
They made Uhura into a love interest bimbo.
And Kirk... He's simply a fratboy dickhead now.
Shatner's Kirk did used to get his shirt off a lot, but he was still a cerebral character.
All of them were. Star Trek was always ultimately about the triumph of the mind - not brute force.
The old scenes of Spock saving the Enterprise in Wrath of Khan vs. Kirk doing the same in Jar Jar's Trek 2: Trek Darker illustrate that very well.
Spock is clearly out of strength and running on will power to complete the task.
Kirk is jumping up and down and kicking the core to make it work.
Brute, mindless force replaced determination and will power.
And then they shit on the entire universe by curing death with magic blood.
And they have portable teleporters that can beam people across the galaxy from Earth all the way to Qo'noS.
Why bother with ships then? In a movie whose big plot point is a secret MegaBig spaceship.
You know... Like the last time on Jar Jar Trek.
Which copied that last Trek movie. About the TNG crew and Romulans. And their big world destroying ship.
Remember how that movie had the captain of the Enterprise driving around in the desert... which is how Jar Jar Trek starts.
And how the captain gets captured... and then someone has to jump through space to the MegaBig ship to save him.
Jar Jar is that kid who comes out of the theater after watching Wrath of Khan all excited about how it was awesome when they "killed those bad guys".
He lacks the capacity to grasp what the show is about - but he likes explosions and shiny.
He's Michael Bay without the looks and confidence to be a complete over the top dick.
I'm guessing a "designer" came up with those hipster glasses?
Why bother with glasses when there are rechargeable button cell batteries that you can fix with double sided tape or a clip, to any pair of glasses?
Cameras come from the sides too. Where one could wear IR LED clip-on earrings.
And why point your week LED at a camera (which can be too far for the light to reach the lens) when you can point it AT THE FACE and "wash it out"?
It will age your skin though so additional facial creme might not be a bad idea.
Also, wearing a hat to minimize both sunlight and camera exposure.
Fixing nitrogen so we can't breathe it? We don't breathe nitrogen, except in the sense that it comes in our lungs and goes out unchanged.
Umm... Yes we DO breathe it, in a sense that its presence or absence in the air that we breathe are detrimental to our health.
Pump more of it in the atmosphere we breathe, changing pressure, we get drunk on it.
Pump it out of the atmosphere, bind it into ground, and we poison ourselves with the remaining oxygen or CO and CO2 - as both the air pressure and concentration of gasses in the air now changes completely.
Nor is there any sign that anybody's having problems breathing on Earth (except with the dust).
You have issues with being able to movie too?
It is a future problem, which would eliminate most air breathing life and most certainly all humans on the planet - IN THEIR FUTURE, AFTER THEY FIRST RUN OUT OF PLANTS.
Not then and there. Maybe not for the next 100 or 1000 years for the whole thing to play out completely. But it is a done deal.
Earth is ALREADY a dead planet.
Even "recycling" people for food will not help.
Again... same way that the REAL horror of "Soylent Green" is NOT "it's made of people".
It's that there is no more plankton in the oceans, while the individual trees and vegetation are viewed as prized statues.
That is why the only solution is LEAVING. Not finding more corn that WILL grow.
The idea of a blight that methodically wipes out one crop after another need some serious explanations.
It does not wipe out crops one after another. It has wiped them all out already.
Scientists have managed to keep creating a more resistant crop, one after another.
And they've run out of crops and (per)mutations. And that WAS explained.
Explaining the exact way the blight works is NOT needed no more than it would be needed to explain the existence of robots. Or cryogenics.
But it is REALLY easy to explain. And bog down the movie with EVEN MORE technobabble.
But if you really need a plot device spelled out for you... and don't want to accept that someone is producing electricity in their world without any power-plants being shown... and you simply refuse to imagine them somewhere beyond the horizon...
Plants ingest the nitrates thanks to nitrogen binding BACTERIA. Some of them symbiotic.
Just have them mutate so that they no longer bind nitrogen in the form digestible by plants, while still sucking the sugar out of the plants.
Or have them start feeding on the plants themselves.
Say we get a bright idea to create vitamin B3 (C6H6N2O) reinforced crops that will at the same time suck out the CO2 from the atmosphere AND create fertilizer (NH3), by creating a mutation of existing nitrogenase equiped bacteria.
Aaaand... we fuck it up.
Bacteria starts eating the plants from the roots up (getting their C there instead of from the atmosphere) and filling the ground with nicotinamide which then gets flushed away by water.
That's just one possible technobabble solution. From the top of the head. Probably requiring a lot of improbable science to work.
But it does not matter any more than the explanation (and the lack there of) of ANY other world-building plot point.
Why are there no MRIs? What EXACTLY do cars run on? What about the rest of the world? What's going on in Australia? Did Madagascar close its ports on time?
Story is NOT about intricacies of microbiology and technobabble. It's about SPACE. And exploration thereof.
Did anybody mention a large war? If so, I missed it.
Robots are former marines. NASA refused to drop bombs on starving people and was shut down because of it.
"Marines don't exist anymore". Or scientists. Or engineers. ON THE PLANET.
Entire planet is agrarian just to produce enough food.
Which is "not so bad". People used to "be t