Correct. The police should be more constrained in their actions than the average citizen. Unfortunately we've allowed things to get turned on their heads.
If the M6500 isn't already a "developer-oriented" laptop, I'm not sure what is. Dual core i5 2.67 GHz CPU, supports up to 16GB ram, and a *matte* 1920x1200 display. The thing weighs about 15 lbs with the power adapter and gets about 45 min battery life. You'll obviously never match the power of a desktop workstation in a laptop form factor, but as a "desktop equivalent" it does a pretty good job.
There's a big difference in the self-dependence of New England as we understand it today (New York state and everything to the north) and the self-dependence of the entire eastern seaboard, obviously.
As a New Englander from Boston, I take offense in your lumping New York in with New England. Despite the name of their baseball team, they are no true Yankees:)
You are doing the statistics wrong. You are only counting threats associated with an actual bomb and ignoring the far more likely scenario of a kid wanting to get out of class. The report says they don't keep national stats on empty threats, but does give this example:
For example, in the 1997-1998 school year, one Maryland school district reported 150 bomb threats and 55 associated arrests. The South Carolina Department of Education in its 1999-2000 school incident crime report lists "disturbing schools," which includes bomb threats, hoaxes, false fire alarms etc., among its 10 top crimes, second only to simple assaults.
So let's take a SWAG and say that in the same 12-year period there were 100,000 prank or empty threats. That brings the likelihood that a threat is accompanied by a bomb down to 0.00014%. In other words, you're probably more likely to fall down the stairs and break your neck trying to evacuate than you are to be blown up if you ignore the "bomb threat".
The problem isn't so much that workers in the US can't do it, but that they are spoiled and they don't want to.
If by spoiled you mean refusing to live in factory housing so they can be rousted at 2am to reconfigure the line and work a 16 hour shift due to a last minute change order, then they are spoiled.
But US workers think it's their "right" to earn $25/hour for labor jobs that don't require a college degree or any advanced vocational training - and they use Unions to enforce this. When it costs $25 per hour to get someone to run a wire, or $25 per hour to get someone with 2 month's training to operate a screwdriver to put car doors on, something's wrong.
When a production line goes down, it costs an astronomical amount of money every minute it is down. Because you don't want the line to go down, you want responsible adults working the line, not teenagers. Responsible adults need to put a roof over their heads and potentially feed a family. It'd also be nice if maybe there was enough left over so their kids can go to school or get the advanced vocational training their parents never got. So you need to pay a living wage.
I've dropped my iPhone 4 from 5' up and watched it bounce down half a flight of concrete steps to no ill effect. On the other hand, my girlfriend had hers fall 6" from her breast pocket while she was bending over to pick up her car keys and the screen complete shattered. They build these things out of some pretty amazing materials and they do their best to make them hardy, but when it comes down to it you are still rolling the dice when you drop one.
If you cloak totalitarian government in the vestments of communism, you get Stalinist government.
If you mix totalitarianism with a conservative government you get fascism.
Liberal or conservative. Capitalist or socialist. It doesn't matter what the surface ideology is: there are people on either end of the spectrum that desire a government with absolute authority over its people.
One thing that Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Stalin have in common is: they would all love the PATRIOT Act.
Bees don't hibernate or anything. During the winter, they expend a huge amount of energy keeping their hive warm. They must maintain a hive temperature between 85 and 95 degrees to survive. They do this by clustering together and rapidly vibrating their wings. That's what honey is for: it's stored energy so they can perform this function when there is no food available during the winter.
So bees kept indoors might actually survive better due to not needing to expend as much energy. The only question I guess would be whether they would be smart enough to stay inside or if they would keep sending foragers out to freeze.
Sun's eGate Integrator platform (a predecessor to JCAPS) used a LISP derived language called Monk as a scripting language. Of course, it's been phased out in recent versions:P
What about pharmaceuticals that are excreted in urine or carcinogenic chemicals that are poured down the drain? I imagine that many of those compounds are small enough to pass through an osmotic filter.
There's a lot more to a PACS than "just" a DB of images. For example, a lot of times radiology has their own registration system, so you have two different patient identities you have to correlate, possibly through an MPI. You also want to make sure that relevant medical history or notes are available to the doc reading the film. And then at the end of the day, you may want to package the film and the read up into a clinical document and ship it off to an XDS or some other document system.
If any of that goes wrong, you could potentially file a DX to the wrong patient. So yes, some regulatory oversight is warranted.
Having said that, the FDA exercises oversight of clinical information systems, but does not require approval like it does with actual medical devices. So you're supposed to stick to certain procedures and be able to prove traceability from requirements through design down to code. You can and occasionally will be audited, but you don't have to submit each and every software release for approval like a new drug or something.
Torture was legalized not because it wasn't cruel, not because it wasn't unusual. But because if the person hadn't been charged with anything, let alone been found guilty at trial, it could not, by definition, be a "punishment" for anything. Therefore the Eighth didn't apply.
I can't say I agree with it, but that was the legal fig leaf that Yoo and Gonzalez came up with during the Bush II regime.
If it's not punishment for a crime, then it's simply assault and kidnapping. Otherwise, there is nothing stopping police from beating a confession out of people.
We're killing all those cows for meat anyway. I'm a vegetarian, but I have no problem with leather as long as other people are going to be consuming animals for meat. It would be wasteful not to use the byproducts of animal agriculture for other things as much as we can.
If we as a society ever get to a point where we are not consuming enough meat to keep up with our leather demand, then of course I think it would be foolish not to use synthetics wherever possible though.
Well, the shocking thing is how early the amount of self control one has appears to be "set". Most of us have little to no awareness and certainly no control of how we are raised before we are 3, yet it appears that a major facility that determines how successful we will be for the rest of our lives is already well established by this age.
Browse friendships on the new profile is just downright creepy. I know it's all visible info, but I can't think of a single non-creepy reason anyone would want to click and see every interaction between two other people.
That option has existed for a really long time. It used to be called wall-to-wall before, and you could get to it from a link on every single wall post.
So am I, hence the reason why neither of us will ever serve on a jury, unless we lie or the lawyers are too stupid to ask the "right" questions.
I've served as a juror in two criminal trials. At neither was I asked anything beyond a rote set of questions as to whether I knew anyone on the witness list, did I have a prejudice that would affect my judgment, etc. Most trials are routine enough that selection isn't a huge issue. If you refrain from spouting some libertarian manifesto, then chances are good that if you are selected you will serve.
Personally, I found both experiences pretty interesting.
Does anyone really think that they "soak" food in ammonia?
I don't see why not. Black canned olives are artificially ripened using lye, so sterilizing meat with ammonia doesn't sound too far fetched. Not saying the story is correct, but it doesn't seem too ridiculous at face value.
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Correct. The police should be more constrained in their actions than the average citizen. Unfortunately we've allowed things to get turned on their heads.
MIT still does: http://web.mit.edu/nrl/www/
If the M6500 isn't already a "developer-oriented" laptop, I'm not sure what is. Dual core i5 2.67 GHz CPU, supports up to 16GB ram, and a *matte* 1920x1200 display. The thing weighs about 15 lbs with the power adapter and gets about 45 min battery life. You'll obviously never match the power of a desktop workstation in a laptop form factor, but as a "desktop equivalent" it does a pretty good job.
There's a big difference in the self-dependence of New England as we understand it today (New York state and everything to the north) and the self-dependence of the entire eastern seaboard, obviously.
As a New Englander from Boston, I take offense in your lumping New York in with New England. Despite the name of their baseball team, they are no true Yankees :)
You are doing the statistics wrong. You are only counting threats associated with an actual bomb and ignoring the far more likely scenario of a kid wanting to get out of class. The report says they don't keep national stats on empty threats, but does give this example:
So let's take a SWAG and say that in the same 12-year period there were 100,000 prank or empty threats. That brings the likelihood that a threat is accompanied by a bomb down to 0.00014%. In other words, you're probably more likely to fall down the stairs and break your neck trying to evacuate than you are to be blown up if you ignore the "bomb threat".
When they retire, their positions will be filled in India or South Korea.
The problem isn't so much that workers in the US can't do it, but that they are spoiled and they don't want to.
If by spoiled you mean refusing to live in factory housing so they can be rousted at 2am to reconfigure the line and work a 16 hour shift due to a last minute change order, then they are spoiled.
But US workers think it's their "right" to earn $25/hour for labor jobs that don't require a college degree or any advanced vocational training - and they use Unions to enforce this. When it costs $25 per hour to get someone to run a wire, or $25 per hour to get someone with 2 month's training to operate a screwdriver to put car doors on, something's wrong.
When a production line goes down, it costs an astronomical amount of money every minute it is down. Because you don't want the line to go down, you want responsible adults working the line, not teenagers. Responsible adults need to put a roof over their heads and potentially feed a family. It'd also be nice if maybe there was enough left over so their kids can go to school or get the advanced vocational training their parents never got. So you need to pay a living wage.
I've dropped my iPhone 4 from 5' up and watched it bounce down half a flight of concrete steps to no ill effect. On the other hand, my girlfriend had hers fall 6" from her breast pocket while she was bending over to pick up her car keys and the screen complete shattered. They build these things out of some pretty amazing materials and they do their best to make them hardy, but when it comes down to it you are still rolling the dice when you drop one.
If you cloak totalitarian government in the vestments of communism, you get Stalinist government.
If you mix totalitarianism with a conservative government you get fascism.
Liberal or conservative. Capitalist or socialist. It doesn't matter what the surface ideology is: there are people on either end of the spectrum that desire a government with absolute authority over its people.
One thing that Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Stalin have in common is: they would all love the PATRIOT Act.
Bees don't hibernate or anything. During the winter, they expend a huge amount of energy keeping their hive warm. They must maintain a hive temperature between 85 and 95 degrees to survive. They do this by clustering together and rapidly vibrating their wings. That's what honey is for: it's stored energy so they can perform this function when there is no food available during the winter.
So bees kept indoors might actually survive better due to not needing to expend as much energy. The only question I guess would be whether they would be smart enough to stay inside or if they would keep sending foragers out to freeze.
"moody, impulsive, unfriendly (to adults)" describes, like, 90% of teenagers, with the exception of the student council types.
Sun's eGate Integrator platform (a predecessor to JCAPS) used a LISP derived language called Monk as a scripting language. Of course, it's been phased out in recent versions :P
Also some of us live in the city and don't have a garage. Charging with wall current for me would involve a 500' extension cord.
That's where I am, right across from the Prudential Plaza. Definitely felt it here.
What about pharmaceuticals that are excreted in urine or carcinogenic chemicals that are poured down the drain? I imagine that many of those compounds are small enough to pass through an osmotic filter.
There's a lot more to a PACS than "just" a DB of images. For example, a lot of times radiology has their own registration system, so you have two different patient identities you have to correlate, possibly through an MPI. You also want to make sure that relevant medical history or notes are available to the doc reading the film. And then at the end of the day, you may want to package the film and the read up into a clinical document and ship it off to an XDS or some other document system.
If any of that goes wrong, you could potentially file a DX to the wrong patient. So yes, some regulatory oversight is warranted.
Having said that, the FDA exercises oversight of clinical information systems, but does not require approval like it does with actual medical devices. So you're supposed to stick to certain procedures and be able to prove traceability from requirements through design down to code. You can and occasionally will be audited, but you don't have to submit each and every software release for approval like a new drug or something.
So they should have said a 24 pack of your favorite beer.
What kind of swill costs $6 per 24-pack?
God-schmod. I want my monkey man!
Torture was legalized not because it wasn't cruel, not because it wasn't unusual. But because if the person hadn't been charged with anything, let alone been found guilty at trial, it could not, by definition, be a "punishment" for anything. Therefore the Eighth didn't apply.
I can't say I agree with it, but that was the legal fig leaf that Yoo and Gonzalez came up with during the Bush II regime.
If it's not punishment for a crime, then it's simply assault and kidnapping. Otherwise, there is nothing stopping police from beating a confession out of people.
We're killing all those cows for meat anyway. I'm a vegetarian, but I have no problem with leather as long as other people are going to be consuming animals for meat. It would be wasteful not to use the byproducts of animal agriculture for other things as much as we can.
If we as a society ever get to a point where we are not consuming enough meat to keep up with our leather demand, then of course I think it would be foolish not to use synthetics wherever possible though.
Well, the shocking thing is how early the amount of self control one has appears to be "set". Most of us have little to no awareness and certainly no control of how we are raised before we are 3, yet it appears that a major facility that determines how successful we will be for the rest of our lives is already well established by this age.
That option has existed for a really long time. It used to be called wall-to-wall before, and you could get to it from a link on every single wall post.
I've served as a juror in two criminal trials. At neither was I asked anything beyond a rote set of questions as to whether I knew anyone on the witness list, did I have a prejudice that would affect my judgment, etc. Most trials are routine enough that selection isn't a huge issue. If you refrain from spouting some libertarian manifesto, then chances are good that if you are selected you will serve.
Personally, I found both experiences pretty interesting.
I don't see why not. Black canned olives are artificially ripened using lye, so sterilizing meat with ammonia doesn't sound too far fetched. Not saying the story is correct, but it doesn't seem too ridiculous at face value.
It's not true anymore, but up until 2004 or so, you couldn't buy on Sunday in MA. R.I.P. Sunday morning NH packy run -- you will not be missed.