Censorship isn't the solution because it begets the slippery slope. See the UK for example, which first started restricting "allowable types of porn" and whatnot, and now are pushing for you to buy a porn pass.
Blocking all videos with kids in them, would mean that videos that the RCMP does, or OPP would no longer be available either. It's similar to the "everything looks like a nail, when you're holding a hammer" approach.
I've been using it for 8 years or so. I have run into the chunky click on occasion, but it's still going.
The chunky click problem has to do with the spring that's built around the microswitch and it getting gummed up simply from normal use(and oil/skin/hair/etc). You can buy replacement switches from allied electric(pretty sure those are the G400 switches might be a G500 though), or you can just pull the mouse apart clean it and put it all back together. I've been using a G300 for pretty much 8 years now, and a year or so back started running into the same problem.
So if I did have a daughter who was into gymnastics, and I posted her winning the super duper first prize, is this sexually suggestive? I believe someone out there will find it that way. So where to we draw the line. Would I get in trouble for posting such a video, if "someone" says this is sexually suggestive?
Some where someone probably would. But here's the question, is your daughter turning around and then reading through the comments and preforming specific actions that are sexually suggestive or sexual because people were asking for it. See in most cases, people are talking about the latter and not the former. Youtube has an automatic filtering system to close comments on videos that she's posting, and in turn youtube already knows it has a problem asking kids to engage in sexually suggestive or provocative actions already.
That's not really the problem. There a few actual problems, one being that Youtube knows that there's a pedo problem already, they have an automatic comment restriction system that kicks in on a lot of kids videos. Another problem is that, it's trivial to find the content and as pointed out in the video the comment section is cancerous and full of pedo crap. The real problem is that the pedos will start telling the kids what to do in the comment section, then the kid starts doing it. "Kids being cute" is perfectly fine. "Kids being cute" then pedos trying to groom them to preform sexual acts in front of the camera on the other hand is a problem. Enough of a problem that here in Canadaland that nearly all of the police to school programs(i.e. where they go in and do something fun with the kids) directly talks about why doing these things for strangers isn't a good idea.
Kids think it's innocent tech, and it is. Parents are using tech as baby sitters/keeps them out of their hair and that's not good. They also are lacking in teaching the kids why personal privacy and whatnot is important. I don't see any easy answers to this. Censorship isn't the solution, restrictions are the better solution. But it would be far better all around if the parents weren't shoveling their kids off on tech.
As usual you have no idea what you're talking about. Thw worst stories you hear on the news are not anything like the average case.
If you think the 70's were notoriously corrupt, the only person who has no idea on what they're talking about is yourself. I'll give you bonus points for at least trying, let me know how much you're liking the fact that unlike in the 1970's, they now let violent criminals simply walk out the door.
What you're really looking for in terms of solved crimes is what's called the clearance rate. Or the percentage of crimes reported that are solved. For example, in my town the assault 1(i.e. fist fighting) has a 95% clearance rate. The vandalism clearance rate is about 7%, it's hard to catch people in the act even these days with all the cameras around.
Depending on where you are in Canada, the most under reported crimes are theft under $5k and various victimless crimes like prostitution. The previous conservative government rescinded and rewrote large sections of the criminal code dealing with self-defense granting more leeway to an individual if they go over the proportional line of self-defense(i.e. they come at you with fists, you go to a bat isn't proportional). In turn you're now seeing more cases of "so-and-so person in the asshole of nowhere shoots and kills one person in a group of 5 people who were attempting to steal property/break into their home/etc" or "store owner locks three thieves into cargo van while awaiting police response" cases becoming more common.
This is especially true in the asshole of nowhere, where policing isn't minutes away it can be as long as a day before there's a response. 12hrs for example in rural Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta isn't unheard of. Even down here in Southwestern Ontario, you can wait 4 hours for the OPP to show up after an assault. Mainly because, even if the constables are posted to your town they may have a patrol area 200km away from their base station.
To be frank, British policing has devolved so badly in the last 30 years that you can't even call it policing. You've got serious issues with the police and local government covering up crimes, with approval of higher-up members of the government. And arresting people for daring to question their actions, followed by rampant political correctness and far too much "well because they're not white..." reasoning in not laying charges. To use it as an example of anything, is to highlight what happens when a government looks at the social contract and goes "fuck you peasants." That in itself is what happens when countries are about to fail or become authoritarian.
You'll get a far more authoritative source by going off and doing a ride-along or three, or volunteering.
You know what's funny? Is that US wages effectively stayed flat from ~2002ish until Trump was elected. Hell it was bad enough that the median income here in Canada was above the US median income. What changed though? Policy and action. Bush Jr, and Obama played the same game, ran the same types of policies, dealt with businesses the same way. More regulations, more restrictions, creating more uncertainty, granting more incentives for businesses to "offshore" or simply pick up and move out of the US. This isn't some type of genius rocket surgery by any means, Trudeau Jr., is doing the exact same BS that Obama did and guess what's happened up here. Within a few months of him taking office, wages stalled, unemployment started going for a shit, FT jobs started disappearing, more PT jobs in low-wage earner sectors started popping up. This is the same garbage the McGuinty and Wynne pulled in Ontario, same thing that Noltley is pulling in Alberta. Then we get a fundamental switch to policies and suddenly businesses are hiring FT workers, paying more and all the rest. Ontario accounted for ~65% of all job creation in Canada in the last quarter and over half of those piddly numbers were FT where as the rest of the country was PT with provinces like Alberta with 4% FT hires and 96% PT or seasonal-PT.
Welcome to Canada, 1975. It took people moving up the chain of police forces to make the change back to a more traditional form of policing. It hadn't fully changed over to the inverse model here until about 1996 or so, even at that the RCMP still operates in the traditional model of top-down. The US like many western nations went heavy-in on the whole "roving police cars is a great idea, especially from great big centralized police stations!" The method you're talking about, with community outreach, letting officers/constables deal with the issues and whatnot stem directly from the warm bodies filling warm chairs at the top, and that's where the change has to happen. The big problem of course, is that by the time someone gets to the top they may no longer care becoming so fundamentally jaded by decades of what's been happening that they say fuck it.
Japan though, was one of the few countries out that didn't move to the "roving cars great idea" line of policing, but maintained a traditional kiosk type system. Effectively, police live and work in the area they patrol. They know the people, people know them, and it makes it easier to recognize both newcomers and people who normally aren't there. It requires more warm bodies, that means full time officers plus community police/recruits - but that also means more trust between the public and the police itself.
Why don't you take a look to Canada, which uses a similar method as EU countries in terms of dealing with recidivism. The reality is, the recidivism rate is still around 80% and that's after all the various programs ranging from training to psychological treatments have been applied. Got a lot of people in prison up here for child rape, violent assault, rape, and a lot of people not getting put into prison despite 200+ convictions for violent assaults because "they're natives(aka indigenous population)" aka "government bad, systemic oppression(society) made me into the way I am!" bullshit going on from the gladeu report.
The US has a serious problem with black crime(broken homes, generational, no-opportunities, open government handouts, ghettoization, substance abuse, etc), but nobody really wants to look at it and go "well what the fuck are we doing and throwing money at this shit for, instead of doing concrete things that nobody will like." Here in Canada, we have the exact same problem with natives, with exactly the same issues. You might have heard about the indigenous missing women's investigation and whatnot, if not simply put: Indigenous women were disappearing at a very high rate, never to be seen again. The previous report, much like the current investigation is a rehash of the same thing. Nearly 90% of the disappearances were directly attributed to issues within the community. In other words, they were killing their own women and there's probably a handful or two of indigenous serial killers that prey exactly on that group because so many go missing. Again, nobody wants to actually look at this in an actual way - because when someone does the first response from progressive media is to start screeching "that's racist."
Finally pre-90s is a bad place to get crime statistics from. Lead in the air was pretty obviously creating unhinged people. Again, there's plenty of studies to back this up because it's the only thing that can explain the across the board drop in crime.
That would be wrong, because during the 70's and early 80's with those "worst case" eras of crime, there was a shitload of other things going on. Everything from deflation to hyperinflation, to new 'social diseases' of the period such as heavy drug use and whatnot. The deflationary period where wages decreased by upto 25% in some cases over a 8 year span, followed by living costs exploding by 25% a year had a lot to do with the spike in all levels of crime. Lead is an easy way out, but the factors are far more reaching.
Murder yes you're right, unless the area is dealing with a high number of murders. See the case of NYC in the 1970's, 'warm bodies' on the streets made a significant difference in the span of a few years. Burglary you're wrong on, more police or more active patrols decrease the possibility of those types of crimes happening because the possibility of something happening in plain sight makes the individual reconsider their actions. See the "rational choice" theory out of criminology for example. It takes the belief that most people, knowing right from wrong will not take an action unless they fall into three basic groups. First being those who won't ever commit a crime, the second being those that will commit a crime if they know they won't be caught. The third being those who will commit a crime irregardless of circumstances, even if someone is standing over their shoulder. Depending on the studies, those numbers range from 30-40% who will never commit a crime. To the remaining 60% who might or will. Will generally making up 10-25% of that remainder depending on various other factors dealing from generational crime, to social influence.
CPTED(Crime prevention through environmental design) is the basis of reducing crime by deterring the actions of those who "might" and "will" commit a crime. Whether it be more patrols, building designs that don't leave dark areas, motion lights/cameras, and so on. It's also heavily used in internal theft-prevention in every business around the world because it works, and works well. You can turn bad areas that are effectively ghettos into crime free areas by increasing property values, bringing in businesses that employ, reducing petty crime and poor education and so-forth. Having programs like Neighborhood watch or COP(citizens on patrol), to have more eyes looking for crime problems. All of that falls into the CPTED models.
That'll be interesting as well, because the company that did this based it off of previous long-hand methods of policing and predictive crime models. An example: In the old days, if you started seeing a rash of tire slashing or vandalism against vehicles you'd put more patrols through that area. This led to a decrease in crime in general, but could also lead to increased crime in other areas as police resources were shifted.
The entire premise of the model isn't new and the complaints about the "broken window" theory isn't unproven or controversial either. There's plenty of statistical data showing that the theory holds some or more then some value. The reality is, the more an area becomes rundown, the more likely that property values are depressed, and businesses will leave for other areas of the city as crime rises. This is effectively the opposite of gentrification of poor areas.
To give an example, in the late 1980's and through to the mid-1990's in London, Ontario you'd be insane to walk down Dundas St., even in daylight and that's the main street through a city with a population of ~200k at the time. Your chances of being mugged, stabbed, or having your store/vehicle burglarized was stupidly high. Back around '96 or so, after years of complaints from citizens, the fact that the entire downtown core was turning into a no-mans land with nothing but boarded up shops, they hired a police chief who took the exact opposite approach. This approach was very similar to the methods used in Manhattan during the "great crime purge" of the downtown. Today, in both cases you're pretty safe despite the rising crime rates due to other issues going on over the last decade.
If they really wanted to try policing methods on 'unproven and controversial' theories, then they should have gone with the "social strain theory" and put a fucking bullet it in when their ass hit the pavement. To put simply, for those that don't want to look it up. It boils down to "wealth bad, people become predisposed to crime because they don't have wealth." I'll point out that in the 1970's, this was the method of policing common in the USSR and GDR, and was such a obvious failure that despite the cold ware tensions and distrust of the west. The various communist policing services of the era ran to Interpol who in turn put them in touch with policing services in Canada and the US, that used broken window and the theories from the Chicago school(not perfect but it did do a lot to deal with crime foundational issues).
Standardized tests can work well or fail absolutely, it has a lot to do with the methods of teaching, and the subject at hand as well. Subject-fact tests generally are better, because they require you to understand the knowledge that's been gained and apply it to the problem. Regurgitation of information doesn't get you any points. The most difficult exams I've ever taken are open-book subject fact tests. Not only do you have to understand the content of the question being asked, you need to reference the section in the book that you are studying and apply reasoning to it as well.
To add in, here in Ontario back oh 15ish years ago the Liberal government implemented three big changes. First was standardized tests, the second was standardized teaching, the third was standardized methods of teaching relating to group learning. Needless to say, it's been an absolute shit show in terms of students passing the tests. The method that they picked works very good for girls, very shit for boys, and super shit for K-9 students. Around 65% of all students fail the standardized math tests now, 60% of boys fail all standardized tests, while it's only around 25% for girls. There's a reason why there's been a big push around tutors, and whatnot here the last decade and change.
It also doesn't help that various schools that were very specialized in particular areas of education, were effectively stripped of their budgets then closed when they became "under performing" and whatnot.
Of all the examples of legalese, you picked the ones explicitly understood by a website full of software developers and engineers? That's the least confusing part of EULAs.
The number of people on/. that is full of devs and engineers these days can be counted between fingers and toes. The reality is, even the most educated person becomes an absolute idiot when confronted with something outside of their sphere of knowledge. If I really wanted to get into something, I'd have started with common knowledge(i.e. the sky is blue, grass is green) and it's application into law.
In many cases, you need to take a law class or several to understand ELUA's, ToS and so on. It's not so much that there's legal interpretation it's that in legal documents all of the words, comma's, semi-colons, subsections, etc all count and explicitly apply.
Let me give you a few examples: And - both sections in the sentence/section must apply for it to be considered in-force. Or - either section can apply, but not both at the same time. And/Or - both sections may apply at the same time.
Those are among the first things they teach you in law classes. It's one of the reasons that "common language" contracts are being pushed in some countries, because the only person that can actually understand it is someone who's spent a significant time studying laws and legalese. Common language would be like talking to a friend, or a person on the street and agreeing to do something in exchange for something else. This isn't forgetting either that in some countries, ToS and EULA's have become so egregious that they're not considered in force at all because the wording violates the law or the agreement itself tries to strip a person of guaranteed rights. Meaning that the only resolution is taking it through the courts, that's one of the reasons why in the US for example you've seen such a spike in arbitration.
And Americans wonder why we don't want to buy your meat... it could have anything in it, asbestos sold as a cure for the common cold.
I thought that was because the UK had the high standards of rendering down cattle with BSE(mad cow disease), and then feeding them back to the herd - despite decades of proof that it can be transmitted to humans. And of course that you sold cattle with BSE to breeder ranches outside of the UK without disclosing that the cattle had tested positive for it.
It's been worse since 2007. Polar bears rely on sea ice to efficiently catch their seal prey. The polar bear's main prey, the ringed seal, relies on sea ice, tooâ"for giving birth to and raising their pups.
It has been? So why are we suddenly concerned with higher then normal seal populations and their direct impact on fish. Right, seal populations are increasing, and the primary fish diet is increasing enough so that harder limits on fishing quotas have been put in place as well as to not impact them. Enough so that the government had to use a treaty obligation in order to stop the 'natives' from using their territorial right of unlimited fishing.
By the way ever seen what happens when a polar bear chases down a moose? You should go watch it happen.
Moreover populations that are predator-prey, which is almost all of them, follow cyclic patterns as prey explodes, then predators, who eat them down, then start starving themselves.
You can't just look at a few years here and there and compare it to another random segment from a previous cycle.
Thank differential equations for showing this. Stable populations are the lie.
So 50-80 years of data showing a population increase isn't enough? Keeping in mind that prey populations for the polar bears are increasing. Not only do we have longer term counts of bears dating back 200 years or so, we've got far longer "on the ground" counts dating back over multiple generations.
The prey populations were increasing even back during that ass-cold period in the 1970's, humans were a factor because industry and settlement itself meant that prey had more feeding locations. It's a similar case with the increase in deer in Ontario and Michigan, it the tag counts are the same but populations have gone up 40% in cases. That's a lot of deer.
That's what they're trying to pull. Funny enough that if you do it legit and disclose to revenue canada(without the transfers OoC), they generally waive cryptomining unless it crosses the $1m threshold then they want a cut of it. You can even do this with XE's(currency trading), unlike in the US where they want a cut of every transaction.
of the "domestic disturbances" broadcast on Twitch when the S.O. interrupts the guy's Fortnight game?
The same reason if you worked in a union shop 30, 40, 50 years ago you'd hear the same thing through a 2nd or 3rd party. The difference is people are being caught because it's caught on video, in turn people can actually be prosecuted with evidence.
What? You think "domestic disturbances" are new or something? The upside in some cases is it actually catches the instigator leading to more appropriate outcomes then simply "it's all the males fault." And of course it also catches some people abusing themselves in order to try and get the other person fucked over.
Dude, you're a whiny poor person from Toronto, you've made it clear before yourself. Don't pretend you have any idea about the rest of your country. You couldn't afford to travel North if you wanted to because your spend all your time on Slashdot spreading nonsense rather than sorting your pathetic life the fuck out.
Well, look at that. Not only are you a special kind of idiot, but one that can't even get things straight. Give you a bonus point if you can figure out where I've worked in the far north, I've said that one too. Give you a hint, it's cold and not in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Ontario.
I'm not Canadian but I HAVE been to not just Northern Canada, and Greenland, and Svalbard, and I can say with absolute certainty that yes the ice cover has drastically decreased, and yes, polar bears are suffering and dying as a result, and yes it's pushing them south into ever greater contact with humans and other species.
So which is it? The fact that counts, electronic tagging and trackers, and setting up and recording numbers through migration paths showing that the numbers are increasing. And that primary diet animals are also on an increase. Or that the studies done on it, and the fact that they show the opposite of what you just said is a lie.
You can have your opinions, but your lies are never going to work, because some of us really have seen these things with our own eyes, and your lies are never going to beat real actual experience and first hand knowledge.
I'm sure you did. So how much was the loaf of bread and milk? And why is mock chicken popular in Northern Canada. By the way, what's the difference between beaver tails and beaver tails?
And you miss the part of light bulbs being manufactored in factories, that usually have strict environmental rules and closed production cycles with now waste...
And how much of what component is made in the west these days? I can't tell if you're ignorant, or simply ignorant of the general supply chain when something is made. Pull apart that LED bulb next to you. Let me know when you get finished reading "made in china" on everything from the PCB to the IC to the LED array strip. You may need to look up individual part numbers based off stamping if it's not a strip and instead individual LED's soldiered in.
When you get done, go look up the places in China where they were made. Then look up the assembly point(s). Because here's what you'll see. 90% of the components and pre-manufacturing not made in the west with those environmental rules and closed production cycles on waste. The final assembly, such as taking the fully assmbled PCB with components on board and enclosing them into a shell and socketing surface? Maybe in the west. Bonus points if you test the soldier and instead of finding tin, you find 50/50 lead/tin despite the no Pb label.
And that's still far longer than a standard incandescent,
Standard incandescent, well lets see. I've got a few left that are rated for 40,000 hours and aren't heavy-duty rated. Let's not forget either that the modern CFL and LED bulbs are far more sensitive to voltages then an incandescent as well, note your place from the transformer. Then calculate your drop-off and MTBF for the internal components. Incandescents are easy, if it's +5-10(120v), they last 10% less. -5-10v it's 10% longer. They're also not susceptible to line noise issues, which also cause component failures in electronics. If you live anywhere that's had it's grid updated in the last 10 years you'll probably start seeing more line noise, you can thank those shit-core transformer windings from China.
so your original post was nonsense, with a particular agenda not supported by evidence.
Nonsense? You mean what it says right off the box of the most popular brands. Not forgetting the environmental impact of the materials required to make it. On the other hand, a double coil tungsten element is simple to make and the element material itself was collected as slag-off from regular mining.
At that point, you basically have a chemical weapon... It's not hard to speculate how some ISIS type person could use it as such.
A bunch of intelligence agencies have already done a threat analysis on it, the declassified or non-restricted guesses are pretty nasty. Enough so that special warnings(in US, Canada and various EU countries) were issued a few years ago to watch for it.
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There was the eugenics wars in Star Trek as well.
Censorship isn't the solution because it begets the slippery slope. See the UK for example, which first started restricting "allowable types of porn" and whatnot, and now are pushing for you to buy a porn pass.
Blocking all videos with kids in them, would mean that videos that the RCMP does, or OPP would no longer be available either. It's similar to the "everything looks like a nail, when you're holding a hammer" approach.
I've been using it for 8 years or so. I have run into the chunky click on occasion, but it's still going.
The chunky click problem has to do with the spring that's built around the microswitch and it getting gummed up simply from normal use(and oil/skin/hair/etc). You can buy replacement switches from allied electric(pretty sure those are the G400 switches might be a G500 though), or you can just pull the mouse apart clean it and put it all back together. I've been using a G300 for pretty much 8 years now, and a year or so back started running into the same problem.
So if I did have a daughter who was into gymnastics, and I posted her winning the super duper first prize, is this sexually suggestive? I believe someone out there will find it that way. So where to we draw the line. Would I get in trouble for posting such a video, if "someone" says this is sexually suggestive?
Some where someone probably would. But here's the question, is your daughter turning around and then reading through the comments and preforming specific actions that are sexually suggestive or sexual because people were asking for it. See in most cases, people are talking about the latter and not the former. Youtube has an automatic filtering system to close comments on videos that she's posting, and in turn youtube already knows it has a problem asking kids to engage in sexually suggestive or provocative actions already.
That's not really the problem. There a few actual problems, one being that Youtube knows that there's a pedo problem already, they have an automatic comment restriction system that kicks in on a lot of kids videos. Another problem is that, it's trivial to find the content and as pointed out in the video the comment section is cancerous and full of pedo crap. The real problem is that the pedos will start telling the kids what to do in the comment section, then the kid starts doing it. "Kids being cute" is perfectly fine. "Kids being cute" then pedos trying to groom them to preform sexual acts in front of the camera on the other hand is a problem. Enough of a problem that here in Canadaland that nearly all of the police to school programs(i.e. where they go in and do something fun with the kids) directly talks about why doing these things for strangers isn't a good idea.
Kids think it's innocent tech, and it is. Parents are using tech as baby sitters/keeps them out of their hair and that's not good. They also are lacking in teaching the kids why personal privacy and whatnot is important. I don't see any easy answers to this. Censorship isn't the solution, restrictions are the better solution. But it would be far better all around if the parents weren't shoveling their kids off on tech.
As usual you have no idea what you're talking about. Thw worst stories you hear on the news are not anything like the average case.
If you think the 70's were notoriously corrupt, the only person who has no idea on what they're talking about is yourself. I'll give you bonus points for at least trying, let me know how much you're liking the fact that unlike in the 1970's, they now let violent criminals simply walk out the door.
What you're really looking for in terms of solved crimes is what's called the clearance rate. Or the percentage of crimes reported that are solved. For example, in my town the assault 1(i.e. fist fighting) has a 95% clearance rate. The vandalism clearance rate is about 7%, it's hard to catch people in the act even these days with all the cameras around.
Depending on where you are in Canada, the most under reported crimes are theft under $5k and various victimless crimes like prostitution. The previous conservative government rescinded and rewrote large sections of the criminal code dealing with self-defense granting more leeway to an individual if they go over the proportional line of self-defense(i.e. they come at you with fists, you go to a bat isn't proportional). In turn you're now seeing more cases of "so-and-so person in the asshole of nowhere shoots and kills one person in a group of 5 people who were attempting to steal property/break into their home/etc" or "store owner locks three thieves into cargo van while awaiting police response" cases becoming more common.
This is especially true in the asshole of nowhere, where policing isn't minutes away it can be as long as a day before there's a response. 12hrs for example in rural Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta isn't unheard of. Even down here in Southwestern Ontario, you can wait 4 hours for the OPP to show up after an assault. Mainly because, even if the constables are posted to your town they may have a patrol area 200km away from their base station.
To be frank, British policing has devolved so badly in the last 30 years that you can't even call it policing. You've got serious issues with the police and local government covering up crimes, with approval of higher-up members of the government. And arresting people for daring to question their actions, followed by rampant political correctness and far too much "well because they're not white..." reasoning in not laying charges. To use it as an example of anything, is to highlight what happens when a government looks at the social contract and goes "fuck you peasants." That in itself is what happens when countries are about to fail or become authoritarian.
You'll get a far more authoritative source by going off and doing a ride-along or three, or volunteering.
You know what's funny? Is that US wages effectively stayed flat from ~2002ish until Trump was elected. Hell it was bad enough that the median income here in Canada was above the US median income. What changed though? Policy and action. Bush Jr, and Obama played the same game, ran the same types of policies, dealt with businesses the same way. More regulations, more restrictions, creating more uncertainty, granting more incentives for businesses to "offshore" or simply pick up and move out of the US. This isn't some type of genius rocket surgery by any means, Trudeau Jr., is doing the exact same BS that Obama did and guess what's happened up here. Within a few months of him taking office, wages stalled, unemployment started going for a shit, FT jobs started disappearing, more PT jobs in low-wage earner sectors started popping up. This is the same garbage the McGuinty and Wynne pulled in Ontario, same thing that Noltley is pulling in Alberta. Then we get a fundamental switch to policies and suddenly businesses are hiring FT workers, paying more and all the rest. Ontario accounted for ~65% of all job creation in Canada in the last quarter and over half of those piddly numbers were FT where as the rest of the country was PT with provinces like Alberta with 4% FT hires and 96% PT or seasonal-PT.
Welcome to Canada, 1975. It took people moving up the chain of police forces to make the change back to a more traditional form of policing. It hadn't fully changed over to the inverse model here until about 1996 or so, even at that the RCMP still operates in the traditional model of top-down. The US like many western nations went heavy-in on the whole "roving police cars is a great idea, especially from great big centralized police stations!" The method you're talking about, with community outreach, letting officers/constables deal with the issues and whatnot stem directly from the warm bodies filling warm chairs at the top, and that's where the change has to happen. The big problem of course, is that by the time someone gets to the top they may no longer care becoming so fundamentally jaded by decades of what's been happening that they say fuck it.
Japan though, was one of the few countries out that didn't move to the "roving cars great idea" line of policing, but maintained a traditional kiosk type system. Effectively, police live and work in the area they patrol. They know the people, people know them, and it makes it easier to recognize both newcomers and people who normally aren't there. It requires more warm bodies, that means full time officers plus community police/recruits - but that also means more trust between the public and the police itself.
Why don't you take a look to Canada, which uses a similar method as EU countries in terms of dealing with recidivism. The reality is, the recidivism rate is still around 80% and that's after all the various programs ranging from training to psychological treatments have been applied. Got a lot of people in prison up here for child rape, violent assault, rape, and a lot of people not getting put into prison despite 200+ convictions for violent assaults because "they're natives(aka indigenous population)" aka "government bad, systemic oppression(society) made me into the way I am!" bullshit going on from the gladeu report.
The US has a serious problem with black crime(broken homes, generational, no-opportunities, open government handouts, ghettoization, substance abuse, etc), but nobody really wants to look at it and go "well what the fuck are we doing and throwing money at this shit for, instead of doing concrete things that nobody will like." Here in Canada, we have the exact same problem with natives, with exactly the same issues. You might have heard about the indigenous missing women's investigation and whatnot, if not simply put: Indigenous women were disappearing at a very high rate, never to be seen again. The previous report, much like the current investigation is a rehash of the same thing. Nearly 90% of the disappearances were directly attributed to issues within the community. In other words, they were killing their own women and there's probably a handful or two of indigenous serial killers that prey exactly on that group because so many go missing. Again, nobody wants to actually look at this in an actual way - because when someone does the first response from progressive media is to start screeching "that's racist."
Finally pre-90s is a bad place to get crime statistics from. Lead in the air was pretty obviously creating unhinged people. Again, there's plenty of studies to back this up because it's the only thing that can explain the across the board drop in crime.
That would be wrong, because during the 70's and early 80's with those "worst case" eras of crime, there was a shitload of other things going on. Everything from deflation to hyperinflation, to new 'social diseases' of the period such as heavy drug use and whatnot. The deflationary period where wages decreased by upto 25% in some cases over a 8 year span, followed by living costs exploding by 25% a year had a lot to do with the spike in all levels of crime. Lead is an easy way out, but the factors are far more reaching.
Murder yes you're right, unless the area is dealing with a high number of murders. See the case of NYC in the 1970's, 'warm bodies' on the streets made a significant difference in the span of a few years. Burglary you're wrong on, more police or more active patrols decrease the possibility of those types of crimes happening because the possibility of something happening in plain sight makes the individual reconsider their actions. See the "rational choice" theory out of criminology for example. It takes the belief that most people, knowing right from wrong will not take an action unless they fall into three basic groups. First being those who won't ever commit a crime, the second being those that will commit a crime if they know they won't be caught. The third being those who will commit a crime irregardless of circumstances, even if someone is standing over their shoulder. Depending on the studies, those numbers range from 30-40% who will never commit a crime. To the remaining 60% who might or will. Will generally making up 10-25% of that remainder depending on various other factors dealing from generational crime, to social influence.
CPTED(Crime prevention through environmental design) is the basis of reducing crime by deterring the actions of those who "might" and "will" commit a crime. Whether it be more patrols, building designs that don't leave dark areas, motion lights/cameras, and so on. It's also heavily used in internal theft-prevention in every business around the world because it works, and works well. You can turn bad areas that are effectively ghettos into crime free areas by increasing property values, bringing in businesses that employ, reducing petty crime and poor education and so-forth. Having programs like Neighborhood watch or COP(citizens on patrol), to have more eyes looking for crime problems. All of that falls into the CPTED models.
That'll be interesting as well, because the company that did this based it off of previous long-hand methods of policing and predictive crime models. An example: In the old days, if you started seeing a rash of tire slashing or vandalism against vehicles you'd put more patrols through that area. This led to a decrease in crime in general, but could also lead to increased crime in other areas as police resources were shifted.
The entire premise of the model isn't new and the complaints about the "broken window" theory isn't unproven or controversial either. There's plenty of statistical data showing that the theory holds some or more then some value. The reality is, the more an area becomes rundown, the more likely that property values are depressed, and businesses will leave for other areas of the city as crime rises. This is effectively the opposite of gentrification of poor areas.
To give an example, in the late 1980's and through to the mid-1990's in London, Ontario you'd be insane to walk down Dundas St., even in daylight and that's the main street through a city with a population of ~200k at the time. Your chances of being mugged, stabbed, or having your store/vehicle burglarized was stupidly high. Back around '96 or so, after years of complaints from citizens, the fact that the entire downtown core was turning into a no-mans land with nothing but boarded up shops, they hired a police chief who took the exact opposite approach. This approach was very similar to the methods used in Manhattan during the "great crime purge" of the downtown. Today, in both cases you're pretty safe despite the rising crime rates due to other issues going on over the last decade.
If they really wanted to try policing methods on 'unproven and controversial' theories, then they should have gone with the "social strain theory" and put a fucking bullet it in when their ass hit the pavement. To put simply, for those that don't want to look it up. It boils down to "wealth bad, people become predisposed to crime because they don't have wealth." I'll point out that in the 1970's, this was the method of policing common in the USSR and GDR, and was such a obvious failure that despite the cold ware tensions and distrust of the west. The various communist policing services of the era ran to Interpol who in turn put them in touch with policing services in Canada and the US, that used broken window and the theories from the Chicago school(not perfect but it did do a lot to deal with crime foundational issues).
Standardized tests can work well or fail absolutely, it has a lot to do with the methods of teaching, and the subject at hand as well. Subject-fact tests generally are better, because they require you to understand the knowledge that's been gained and apply it to the problem. Regurgitation of information doesn't get you any points. The most difficult exams I've ever taken are open-book subject fact tests. Not only do you have to understand the content of the question being asked, you need to reference the section in the book that you are studying and apply reasoning to it as well.
To add in, here in Ontario back oh 15ish years ago the Liberal government implemented three big changes. First was standardized tests, the second was standardized teaching, the third was standardized methods of teaching relating to group learning. Needless to say, it's been an absolute shit show in terms of students passing the tests. The method that they picked works very good for girls, very shit for boys, and super shit for K-9 students. Around 65% of all students fail the standardized math tests now, 60% of boys fail all standardized tests, while it's only around 25% for girls. There's a reason why there's been a big push around tutors, and whatnot here the last decade and change.
It also doesn't help that various schools that were very specialized in particular areas of education, were effectively stripped of their budgets then closed when they became "under performing" and whatnot.
Of all the examples of legalese, you picked the ones explicitly understood by a website full of software developers and engineers? That's the least confusing part of EULAs.
The number of people on /. that is full of devs and engineers these days can be counted between fingers and toes. The reality is, even the most educated person becomes an absolute idiot when confronted with something outside of their sphere of knowledge. If I really wanted to get into something, I'd have started with common knowledge(i.e. the sky is blue, grass is green) and it's application into law.
In many cases, you need to take a law class or several to understand ELUA's, ToS and so on. It's not so much that there's legal interpretation it's that in legal documents all of the words, comma's, semi-colons, subsections, etc all count and explicitly apply.
Let me give you a few examples:
And - both sections in the sentence/section must apply for it to be considered in-force.
Or - either section can apply, but not both at the same time.
And/Or - both sections may apply at the same time.
Those are among the first things they teach you in law classes. It's one of the reasons that "common language" contracts are being pushed in some countries, because the only person that can actually understand it is someone who's spent a significant time studying laws and legalese. Common language would be like talking to a friend, or a person on the street and agreeing to do something in exchange for something else. This isn't forgetting either that in some countries, ToS and EULA's have become so egregious that they're not considered in force at all because the wording violates the law or the agreement itself tries to strip a person of guaranteed rights. Meaning that the only resolution is taking it through the courts, that's one of the reasons why in the US for example you've seen such a spike in arbitration.
And Americans wonder why we don't want to buy your meat... it could have anything in it, asbestos sold as a cure for the common cold.
I thought that was because the UK had the high standards of rendering down cattle with BSE(mad cow disease), and then feeding them back to the herd - despite decades of proof that it can be transmitted to humans. And of course that you sold cattle with BSE to breeder ranches outside of the UK without disclosing that the cattle had tested positive for it.
It's been worse since 2007. Polar bears rely on sea ice to efficiently catch their seal prey. The polar bear's main prey, the ringed seal, relies on sea ice, tooâ"for giving birth to and raising their pups.
It has been? So why are we suddenly concerned with higher then normal seal populations and their direct impact on fish. Right, seal populations are increasing, and the primary fish diet is increasing enough so that harder limits on fishing quotas have been put in place as well as to not impact them. Enough so that the government had to use a treaty obligation in order to stop the 'natives' from using their territorial right of unlimited fishing.
By the way ever seen what happens when a polar bear chases down a moose? You should go watch it happen.
Moreover populations that are predator-prey, which is almost all of them, follow cyclic patterns as prey explodes, then predators, who eat them down, then start starving themselves.
You can't just look at a few years here and there and compare it to another random segment from a previous cycle.
Thank differential equations for showing this. Stable populations are the lie.
So 50-80 years of data showing a population increase isn't enough? Keeping in mind that prey populations for the polar bears are increasing. Not only do we have longer term counts of bears dating back 200 years or so, we've got far longer "on the ground" counts dating back over multiple generations.
The prey populations were increasing even back during that ass-cold period in the 1970's, humans were a factor because industry and settlement itself meant that prey had more feeding locations. It's a similar case with the increase in deer in Ontario and Michigan, it the tag counts are the same but populations have gone up 40% in cases. That's a lot of deer.
That's what they're trying to pull. Funny enough that if you do it legit and disclose to revenue canada(without the transfers OoC), they generally waive cryptomining unless it crosses the $1m threshold then they want a cut of it. You can even do this with XE's(currency trading), unlike in the US where they want a cut of every transaction.
of the "domestic disturbances" broadcast on Twitch when the S.O. interrupts the guy's Fortnight game?
The same reason if you worked in a union shop 30, 40, 50 years ago you'd hear the same thing through a 2nd or 3rd party. The difference is people are being caught because it's caught on video, in turn people can actually be prosecuted with evidence.
What? You think "domestic disturbances" are new or something? The upside in some cases is it actually catches the instigator leading to more appropriate outcomes then simply "it's all the males fault." And of course it also catches some people abusing themselves in order to try and get the other person fucked over.
Dude, you're a whiny poor person from Toronto, you've made it clear before yourself. Don't pretend you have any idea about the rest of your country. You couldn't afford to travel North if you wanted to because your spend all your time on Slashdot spreading nonsense rather than sorting your pathetic life the fuck out.
Well, look at that. Not only are you a special kind of idiot, but one that can't even get things straight. Give you a bonus point if you can figure out where I've worked in the far north, I've said that one too. Give you a hint, it's cold and not in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Ontario.
I'm not Canadian but I HAVE been to not just Northern Canada, and Greenland, and Svalbard, and I can say with absolute certainty that yes the ice cover has drastically decreased, and yes, polar bears are suffering and dying as a result, and yes it's pushing them south into ever greater contact with humans and other species.
So which is it? The fact that counts, electronic tagging and trackers, and setting up and recording numbers through migration paths showing that the numbers are increasing. And that primary diet animals are also on an increase. Or that the studies done on it, and the fact that they show the opposite of what you just said is a lie.
You can have your opinions, but your lies are never going to work, because some of us really have seen these things with our own eyes, and your lies are never going to beat real actual experience and first hand knowledge.
I'm sure you did. So how much was the loaf of bread and milk? And why is mock chicken popular in Northern Canada. By the way, what's the difference between beaver tails and beaver tails?
And you miss the part of light bulbs being manufactored in factories, that usually have strict environmental rules and closed production cycles with now waste ...
And how much of what component is made in the west these days? I can't tell if you're ignorant, or simply ignorant of the general supply chain when something is made. Pull apart that LED bulb next to you. Let me know when you get finished reading "made in china" on everything from the PCB to the IC to the LED array strip. You may need to look up individual part numbers based off stamping if it's not a strip and instead individual LED's soldiered in.
When you get done, go look up the places in China where they were made. Then look up the assembly point(s). Because here's what you'll see. 90% of the components and pre-manufacturing not made in the west with those environmental rules and closed production cycles on waste. The final assembly, such as taking the fully assmbled PCB with components on board and enclosing them into a shell and socketing surface? Maybe in the west. Bonus points if you test the soldier and instead of finding tin, you find 50/50 lead/tin despite the no Pb label.
And that's still far longer than a standard incandescent,
Standard incandescent, well lets see. I've got a few left that are rated for 40,000 hours and aren't heavy-duty rated. Let's not forget either that the modern CFL and LED bulbs are far more sensitive to voltages then an incandescent as well, note your place from the transformer. Then calculate your drop-off and MTBF for the internal components. Incandescents are easy, if it's +5-10(120v), they last 10% less. -5-10v it's 10% longer. They're also not susceptible to line noise issues, which also cause component failures in electronics. If you live anywhere that's had it's grid updated in the last 10 years you'll probably start seeing more line noise, you can thank those shit-core transformer windings from China.
so your original post was nonsense, with a particular agenda not supported by evidence.
Nonsense? You mean what it says right off the box of the most popular brands. Not forgetting the environmental impact of the materials required to make it. On the other hand, a double coil tungsten element is simple to make and the element material itself was collected as slag-off from regular mining.
At that point, you basically have a chemical weapon... It's not hard to speculate how some ISIS type person could use it as such.
A bunch of intelligence agencies have already done a threat analysis on it, the declassified or non-restricted guesses are pretty nasty. Enough so that special warnings(in US, Canada and various EU countries) were issued a few years ago to watch for it.