... but the fact is he was following the kid for dubious reasons, got lost, and then was ambushed by the person he was following.
Except he wasn't following the kid for dubious reasons, there had been a large number of break-ins in that complex by blacks. He believed that Martin was acting strangely, stated so when he called in. Zimmerman didn't get lost, he doubled back trying to find him and couldn't. Martin laid in ambush for him, instead of continuing the 700ft to his fathers place. And being realistic, I could with a broken back cover 700ft in under 4mins.
The whole thing is just a tragedy that didn't need to happen.
True, then again Martin could have kept walking, or called the police himself. Instead he took matters into his own hands and paid for it with is life. Zimmerman on the otherhand, did what any reasonable person would have done if they were looking out for suspicious behavior, and a person fit the profile of those who had already committed criminal actions in the area.
You mean Martin shouldn't pick fights with people if the consequences could be bad. When one "doubles back, and attacks someone" they're the aggressor. Just a useful tip.
Is this the same Lloyds of London that said in 2007 that for businesses "climate change would be the highest output cost for policies and collection?" Fast forward to today, where piracy is a higher issue along with 23 other items.
Uh what? The number of inspectors have double in Canada in the last 5 years. Following that, the number of heavy crude transit trains has increased 27000% in the last 3 years. Regulation hasn't gone anywhere, the real problem is that the number of people doing inspections has always been substantially low. It's similar to CN:Police or CP:Police(both police services, and peace officers in Canada). A singe guy can be responsible for 1500-3400km/square.
And even regular policing has issues like that. Back a few years ago, the police service expanded to do the entire county. The average patrol route was 1100km/square. Regardless, this is a-typical knee-jerk reactions. I'm guessing you don't even know about the Mississauga train derailment. If it's one thing that irks me, it's the "blah blah blah deregulation" nuts, when nothing has been deregulated.
I think he meant "populist" hot-button issue. That would be accurate at least.
Populist would be closer, but even then it's only a very tiny segment of even particular segment of americans. The same is holding true in Canada, where around 18% believe it's a pressing issue. And in Europe it's dropped down to around 35%.
Well it's been pointed out before, that gaming is a huge driver. In turn, when things were bleeding edge a decade ago. It was games driving hardware, faster GPU's, faster CPU's, RAM with better response times, and so on. Now a days, with large numbers of developers sucking on the console market that's slowing down the hardware push to a crawl. In many cases you're developing games for 10 year old hardware. Which of course is right around that Athlon64/Intel Duo core setup, with a low-to-midrange video card. And for that, you don't need bleeding-edge or even a previous generation to make a go of it. Unless it's a very poor port.
People don't like to think that it was gaming that was pushing hardware, but it was. And with the "next generation" of consoles, and I use that term loosely...being that it's still 3-4 years behind what we have in the PC market, it'll continue to stagnate. 7 years ago I would have replaced my videocard on the "every-other" generation movement. Today, I know I can get my 560ti to last until the 800 series or AMD-ATI equivalent comes out. And if, for whatever reason I decide I don't want to buy an 800 series, I'll just wait for the mid-highend 700 series to go on sale and save myself an extra $100-150 or more, and know I'll still be good.
Learning a flaky, inconsistent language is only prolonging the problem. The web needs to move to something sane.
What the hell are you talking about? I thought being a programer entitled oneself to be a masochist. After all, if it was about sanity, people would have lit java on fire in 2005, and run the other way.
I think it was oh 8 months ago or so, I made a comment about how the UK was no longer adhering to the basic tenets of democracy and have basically thrown the shitter, and then burning it. I got modded down, flamed, and people said I was full of shit then. Yeah well, I guess I was right then as much as I was right now. Get's worse of course, that the UK is blocking people who might offend the "violent minority" and in turn speaking the truth isn't conducive to the public good.
I'm sure the UK government will be shutting down the program forthwith. After all, the idea that kids could get access to knives is terrible...and a crime in and of itself.
Now we just need our safety nets to keep up with the fact that a large percentage of the population will probably be working less than 40 hours per week in the future.
They tried that in France, didn't work out very well. In fact more people are part-time than fulltime now because of it.
Gitmo is just as bad, if not worse than post-Stalin gulag. I'd take work-camps over systematic torture any day.
Really? Gitmo, the place where they remove symbols which may offend the prisoners. Where they get so much food that they're becoming fat, and they're allowed to practice their religion in the open, and together under supervision.
The USSR fell apart in large part because it went bankrupt, that was further created by massive misinformation.
It constantly surprises me just how fucking stupid some people are. You want to point out to us where that "northern wasteland gulag" is, and where people are placed into slave labor conditions, while fighting over food and beaten to near death for trivial offences like "speaking out of turn" and "looking at a guard."
As a point, the US government has been doing some damned stupid things. And all the rest, but believing that "western agents posed a more serious threat to the USSR" is blind, stupid ignorance. And let me just say that as someone who had a family member spend 25 years in a soviet gulag for "refusing to give his cows to the state."
Yeah, that's not difficult. Now all we do is take the upswing in the number of attacks which happen, and on what day and adjust for time. And you see what?
Right. Please feel free to remain as ignorant as you want.
It's not hard to wipe out terror. I mean what, did you think people just sat down on a Friday afternoon and said, hey I'm bored, let's blow up a building? Let's strap a vest packed with fertiliser based explosives to our chests and go take a last ride on a bus?
Well...yeah. Ever wonder why the greatest explosions of violence in the middle east are after friday prayers where the islamofascist imam's are chanting "death to the jews, death to america, and death to west." Along with "death to any sect but ours..."
Well with Morsi in power and his el-presedente like powers the chance of something like "a mechanism to revoke the president and other elected officials" is nil. Though I have a much bigger suspicion that the military rebelled because Morsi and rest of the muslim brotherhood wanted them to jump into Syria, and Nigeria and support the islamo-facists there.
Really? Well I don't own a PS3, though I did use my sisters for the 3 months I was house sitting for her. And I didn't see ads once, that was 6 mo ago. So perhaps things have changed.
The problem with your bad attempt at an analogy is that none of those crimes really represent anything personal. The kinds of people that commit those crimes don't care who their victim are. Even a rapist doesn't have any strong preference. It's not personal.
Uh no, not always. About 30% of the time they're targeted attacks for car jacking. Armed robbery is almost always a targeted attack, with the person checking out several locations and picking one. Rape about 70% in all cases the person knows who attacked them. And in all cases it *is* personal, that's the thing with rape and a graduated crime. It's the same with psychopathic killers. It is personal, and they've graduated from a lower series of criminal acts to the point at which they're at.
Terrorism on the other hand can be both personal and impersonal. Sometimes terrorists are out to kill *insert religious branch here* or *kill people of x society.* In other cases they meticulously target and select exactly who they're going after and where.
Parents coddle adult kids. The kids have never been encouraged to fend for themselves, and this is the natural result.
Actually it's much closer to the collapse of the Japanese family, more than anything. It's not the coddling, it's the disdain for people, society, and not wanting to go into the massive "grind your face into the dirt" mentality that exists in Japan.
But we're seeing the entire thing play out here with the current generation of kids too. It's just not getting pulled up in the media.
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... but the fact is he was following the kid for dubious reasons, got lost, and then was ambushed by the person he was following.
Except he wasn't following the kid for dubious reasons, there had been a large number of break-ins in that complex by blacks. He believed that Martin was acting strangely, stated so when he called in. Zimmerman didn't get lost, he doubled back trying to find him and couldn't. Martin laid in ambush for him, instead of continuing the 700ft to his fathers place. And being realistic, I could with a broken back cover 700ft in under 4mins.
The whole thing is just a tragedy that didn't need to happen.
True, then again Martin could have kept walking, or called the police himself. Instead he took matters into his own hands and paid for it with is life. Zimmerman on the otherhand, did what any reasonable person would have done if they were looking out for suspicious behavior, and a person fit the profile of those who had already committed criminal actions in the area.
You mean Martin shouldn't pick fights with people if the consequences could be bad. When one "doubles back, and attacks someone" they're the aggressor. Just a useful tip.
Getting one's head bashed into the ground is a "life threatening situation" even here in liberal leaning Canada.
Enjoying that new "buyout" from the bottom feeding trough? I though so.
Is this the same Lloyds of London that said in 2007 that for businesses "climate change would be the highest output cost for policies and collection?" Fast forward to today, where piracy is a higher issue along with 23 other items.
Uh what? The number of inspectors have double in Canada in the last 5 years. Following that, the number of heavy crude transit trains has increased 27000% in the last 3 years. Regulation hasn't gone anywhere, the real problem is that the number of people doing inspections has always been substantially low. It's similar to CN:Police or CP:Police(both police services, and peace officers in Canada). A singe guy can be responsible for 1500-3400km/square.
And even regular policing has issues like that. Back a few years ago, the police service expanded to do the entire county. The average patrol route was 1100km/square. Regardless, this is a-typical knee-jerk reactions. I'm guessing you don't even know about the Mississauga train derailment. If it's one thing that irks me, it's the "blah blah blah deregulation" nuts, when nothing has been deregulated.
I think he meant "populist" hot-button issue. That would be accurate at least.
Populist would be closer, but even then it's only a very tiny segment of even particular segment of americans. The same is holding true in Canada, where around 18% believe it's a pressing issue. And in Europe it's dropped down to around 35%.
bottom of the list of top 20 hot button issues is still a hot button issue.
Bottom of a list of 20 issues, means that the general public consider it a current non-issue compared to things that impact their daily life.
Corporation places self-interest over popular hot-button issue. Stay tuned for more.
If by "popular hot-button issue" means it ranks the lowest on the most important things people are dealing with today, then I guess you can just keep thinking that.
Fair point, time will tell. Though I was in the reseller industry from '97-03, and saw most of the trends first hand. As with everything, we'll see.
Well it's been pointed out before, that gaming is a huge driver. In turn, when things were bleeding edge a decade ago. It was games driving hardware, faster GPU's, faster CPU's, RAM with better response times, and so on. Now a days, with large numbers of developers sucking on the console market that's slowing down the hardware push to a crawl. In many cases you're developing games for 10 year old hardware. Which of course is right around that Athlon64/Intel Duo core setup, with a low-to-midrange video card. And for that, you don't need bleeding-edge or even a previous generation to make a go of it. Unless it's a very poor port.
People don't like to think that it was gaming that was pushing hardware, but it was. And with the "next generation" of consoles, and I use that term loosely...being that it's still 3-4 years behind what we have in the PC market, it'll continue to stagnate. 7 years ago I would have replaced my videocard on the "every-other" generation movement. Today, I know I can get my 560ti to last until the 800 series or AMD-ATI equivalent comes out. And if, for whatever reason I decide I don't want to buy an 800 series, I'll just wait for the mid-highend 700 series to go on sale and save myself an extra $100-150 or more, and know I'll still be good.
Learning a flaky, inconsistent language is only prolonging the problem. The web needs to move to something sane.
What the hell are you talking about? I thought being a programer entitled oneself to be a masochist. After all, if it was about sanity, people would have lit java on fire in 2005, and run the other way.
I think it was oh 8 months ago or so, I made a comment about how the UK was no longer adhering to the basic tenets of democracy and have basically thrown the shitter, and then burning it. I got modded down, flamed, and people said I was full of shit then. Yeah well, I guess I was right then as much as I was right now. Get's worse of course, that the UK is blocking people who might offend the "violent minority" and in turn speaking the truth isn't conducive to the public good.
I'm sure the UK government will be shutting down the program forthwith. After all, the idea that kids could get access to knives is terrible...and a crime in and of itself.
Now we just need our safety nets to keep up with the fact that a large percentage of the population will probably be working less than 40 hours per week in the future.
They tried that in France, didn't work out very well. In fact more people are part-time than fulltime now because of it.
Gitmo is just as bad, if not worse than post-Stalin gulag. I'd take work-camps over systematic torture any day.
Really? Gitmo, the place where they remove symbols which may offend the prisoners. Where they get so much food that they're becoming fat, and they're allowed to practice their religion in the open, and together under supervision.
The USSR fell apart in large part because it went bankrupt, that was further created by massive misinformation.
It constantly surprises me just how fucking stupid some people are. You want to point out to us where that "northern wasteland gulag" is, and where people are placed into slave labor conditions, while fighting over food and beaten to near death for trivial offences like "speaking out of turn" and "looking at a guard."
As a point, the US government has been doing some damned stupid things. And all the rest, but believing that "western agents posed a more serious threat to the USSR" is blind, stupid ignorance. And let me just say that as someone who had a family member spend 25 years in a soviet gulag for "refusing to give his cows to the state."
Oh and how could I forget these.
Yeah, that's not difficult. Now all we do is take the upswing in the number of attacks which happen, and on what day and adjust for time. And you see what?
Right. Please feel free to remain as ignorant as you want.
It's not hard to wipe out terror. I mean what, did you think people just sat down on a Friday afternoon and said, hey I'm bored, let's blow up a building? Let's strap a vest packed with fertiliser based explosives to our chests and go take a last ride on a bus?
Well...yeah. Ever wonder why the greatest explosions of violence in the middle east are after friday prayers where the islamofascist imam's are chanting "death to the jews, death to america, and death to west." Along with "death to any sect but ours..."
Well with Morsi in power and his el-presedente like powers the chance of something like "a mechanism to revoke the president and other elected officials" is nil. Though I have a much bigger suspicion that the military rebelled because Morsi and rest of the muslim brotherhood wanted them to jump into Syria, and Nigeria and support the islamo-facists there.
Really? Well I don't own a PS3, though I did use my sisters for the 3 months I was house sitting for her. And I didn't see ads once, that was 6 mo ago. So perhaps things have changed.
The problem with your bad attempt at an analogy is that none of those crimes really represent anything personal. The kinds of people that commit those crimes don't care who their victim are. Even a rapist doesn't have any strong preference. It's not personal.
Uh no, not always. About 30% of the time they're targeted attacks for car jacking. Armed robbery is almost always a targeted attack, with the person checking out several locations and picking one. Rape about 70% in all cases the person knows who attacked them. And in all cases it *is* personal, that's the thing with rape and a graduated crime. It's the same with psychopathic killers. It is personal, and they've graduated from a lower series of criminal acts to the point at which they're at.
Terrorism on the other hand can be both personal and impersonal. Sometimes terrorists are out to kill *insert religious branch here* or *kill people of x society.* In other cases they meticulously target and select exactly who they're going after and where.
Parents coddle adult kids. The kids have never been encouraged to fend for themselves, and this is the natural result.
Actually it's much closer to the collapse of the Japanese family, more than anything. It's not the coddling, it's the disdain for people, society, and not wanting to go into the massive "grind your face into the dirt" mentality that exists in Japan.
But we're seeing the entire thing play out here with the current generation of kids too. It's just not getting pulled up in the media.
200wpm? Bullshit,.
Aww. Anonymous troll butthurt that people can type quickly. Useful tip: The best typers w/o errors can easily hit 300-350wpm.