As a Brit, I can second that statement about the importance of inflammatory tabloid headlines. They really are of central importance in our campaigning.
You forget how fast time passes: You'd need obscure trivia questions from the 80s now.
Find me anyone under 18 who can answer 'What food does Badger like?' - it's hard one to look up even with google, but almost any child of the early nineties in the UK will know.
The US has been in a perpetual state of emergency since 9/11. Every time things look like they are settling down, some new crisis is presented to prolong the panic a bit longer.
This suggests there's a list of people it is forbidden to donate too, but the list is secret: You don't get to see it until the FBI or CIA come after you for funding terrorism.
Childline is run by the NSPCC. The NSPCC has something of a history of abusing statistics and using poor survey methodology to generate scary statistics.
I can't find anything yet that describes exactly how the survey was carried out - mostly I find columns expressing shock at the claimed numbers - but I wouldn't trust the findings too much without checking where they come from.
You show this to anyone who works with electronics and the first thing they are going to do is ask that be turned into ohms/meter, just like any other form of wire. Siemens are a materials-scientist unit, not an electronics unit.
Take a look at the US, the world's most anti-communist country. Their healthcare system is seriously flawed, the government can't do anything because of widespread ideological opposition to any questioning of the power of the free market, and there are plenty of examples of the government using excessive force to clear protesters. Don't blame communism for this one: It's not communism at fault, it's the inherent corruptibility of any government.
We've treated them as disposable in recent years because technology was advancing too rapidly to bother about building them to last. There's no point making a phone that can be repaired and maintaned for twenty years when next year's model will have twice the memory and three times the processing power, and a radio that moves bits twice as fast too. There may come a time when that will change.
Not until late in the series - and it takes tleilaxu genetic technology to adapt them to another planet. Unmodified sandworms are too niche in biology to survive in any other ecosystem, but the tleilaxu are pretty good with biotech.
We don't need internet trolls. The natural polarising effect of the internet echo chamber works. Just go to any fringe news site, ideally a political one - far-left or far-right, works either way - and look at the comments.
My favorite right now, on the subject of same-sex marriage: "The plan is to depopulate the world by 2050 to about 1 billion. Encouraging same sex attraction and indoctrinating the young to accept such as normal behaviour is just one of the many methods being used to accomplish this."
There's a very socially-conservative American news site I read for entertainment - it's quite funny. They are currently running stories like "EPA boss under fire for admitting Keystone will not destroy mankind," "Amid accusations of 'discrimination,' Indiana may toss out religious freedom," and "Obama continues 'game of revenge' on Israel" It's not satire, just politically biased. The comments are the funniest part - a lot of conspiracy theorists there, most of them insisting that Obama is secretly a Muslim or that the 'gay agenda' is a plot to legalise raping children.
I don't think we are in disagreement. I explained that accountability is a good thing in practice, but that it creates serious problems with corruption when the organisation supposed to enforce accountability is itsself unaccountable and subject to both corruption and political bias.
Works historically, too. You don't have to compare just cultures of today, but cultures of the past too. There were periods in both England and America where 'the right thing' was to kill witches. They were not only intrinsically evil, they were a threat to the welfare of others and of the community.
There's nothing wrong with an accountability system in principle - we want politicians to follow the law and avoid corruption, after all. The problem is bias in enforcement. If you get the NSA to spy on politicians, they are sure to find more than a few who are taking bribes (Or as we put it today, violating what few rules on campaign finance remain). That much is fine - but you can also expect them to take a much longer, harder look at any politicians who propose cutting the NSA budget, and deliberately not investigating too hard those that seek to increase the agency's influence. The personal political views of the agency management would also be an influence on who gets the most enforcement effort.
Get him to delete anything personal, because chances are his co-workers are going to be asking for access to his files and emails so they can continue whatever work he was in the middle of.
Even people who try to ram the gates of a federal military facility still deserve their right to a fair trial. Shooting should be reserved only for those cases in which someone poses an immediate and obvious danger to others and cannot be incapacitated any other way - and that doesn't include a danger to property.
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As a Brit, I can second that statement about the importance of inflammatory tabloid headlines. They really are of central importance in our campaigning.
You forget how fast time passes: You'd need obscure trivia questions from the 80s now.
Find me anyone under 18 who can answer 'What food does Badger like?' - it's hard one to look up even with google, but almost any child of the early nineties in the UK will know.
The US has been in a perpetual state of emergency since 9/11. Every time things look like they are settling down, some new crisis is presented to prolong the panic a bit longer.
This suggests there's a list of people it is forbidden to donate too, but the list is secret: You don't get to see it until the FBI or CIA come after you for funding terrorism.
They also claim that 12% of thirteen-year-olds have produced a pornographic video - a statistic that just sounds implausible.
Childline is run by the NSPCC. The NSPCC has something of a history of abusing statistics and using poor survey methodology to generate scary statistics.
Here's a BBC article on their survey: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ...
I can't find anything yet that describes exactly how the survey was carried out - mostly I find columns expressing shock at the claimed numbers - but I wouldn't trust the findings too much without checking where they come from.
This is going to be amusing.
Most of those images were probably send by peers. Children have a fascination with the morbid and forbidden.
That's a valid unit, sure, but... why?
You show this to anyone who works with electronics and the first thing they are going to do is ask that be turned into ohms/meter, just like any other form of wire. Siemens are a materials-scientist unit, not an electronics unit.
Take a look at the US, the world's most anti-communist country. Their healthcare system is seriously flawed, the government can't do anything because of widespread ideological opposition to any questioning of the power of the free market, and there are plenty of examples of the government using excessive force to clear protesters. Don't blame communism for this one: It's not communism at fault, it's the inherent corruptibility of any government.
I think that is called 'externalising the costs.'
We've treated them as disposable in recent years because technology was advancing too rapidly to bother about building them to last. There's no point making a phone that can be repaired and maintaned for twenty years when next year's model will have twice the memory and three times the processing power, and a radio that moves bits twice as fast too. There may come a time when that will change.
Also, China can undercut anyone else on price by sacrificing their environment.
Not until late in the series - and it takes tleilaxu genetic technology to adapt them to another planet. Unmodified sandworms are too niche in biology to survive in any other ecosystem, but the tleilaxu are pretty good with biotech.
Some films don't end, they just stop.
We don't need internet trolls. The natural polarising effect of the internet echo chamber works. Just go to any fringe news site, ideally a political one - far-left or far-right, works either way - and look at the comments.
My favorite right now, on the subject of same-sex marriage: "The plan is to depopulate the world by 2050 to about 1 billion. Encouraging same sex attraction and indoctrinating the young to accept such as normal behaviour is just one of the many methods being used to accomplish this."
There's a very socially-conservative American news site I read for entertainment - it's quite funny. They are currently running stories like "EPA boss under fire for admitting Keystone will not destroy mankind," "Amid accusations of 'discrimination,' Indiana may toss out religious freedom," and "Obama continues 'game of revenge' on Israel" It's not satire, just politically biased. The comments are the funniest part - a lot of conspiracy theorists there, most of them insisting that Obama is secretly a Muslim or that the 'gay agenda' is a plot to legalise raping children.
It's not the same joke. It's ten jokes all following the same theme.
I don't think we are in disagreement. I explained that accountability is a good thing in practice, but that it creates serious problems with corruption when the organisation supposed to enforce accountability is itsself unaccountable and subject to both corruption and political bias.
Works historically, too. You don't have to compare just cultures of today, but cultures of the past too. There were periods in both England and America where 'the right thing' was to kill witches. They were not only intrinsically evil, they were a threat to the welfare of others and of the community.
Have any police departments actually been prosecuted though? I rather doubt it.
DTRT isn't universal at all. If it seems universal, then you are not considering a broad enough array of cultures.
There's nothing wrong with an accountability system in principle - we want politicians to follow the law and avoid corruption, after all. The problem is bias in enforcement. If you get the NSA to spy on politicians, they are sure to find more than a few who are taking bribes (Or as we put it today, violating what few rules on campaign finance remain). That much is fine - but you can also expect them to take a much longer, harder look at any politicians who propose cutting the NSA budget, and deliberately not investigating too hard those that seek to increase the agency's influence. The personal political views of the agency management would also be an influence on who gets the most enforcement effort.
Get him to delete anything personal, because chances are his co-workers are going to be asking for access to his files and emails so they can continue whatever work he was in the middle of.
Even people who try to ram the gates of a federal military facility still deserve their right to a fair trial. Shooting should be reserved only for those cases in which someone poses an immediate and obvious danger to others and cannot be incapacitated any other way - and that doesn't include a danger to property.