Federal sentences come from guidelines with charts and point systems. Google "USSC". Whenever you hear "up to N years", it's going to be nowhere near that much unless a whole bunch of aggravating factors line up, like having a long record.
That delegation has been going on for many decades and used to work just fine. Conservative engineers and executives who had come up through the ranks made "belt and suspenders" decisions. Boeing's company culture took a wrong turn in the 90s, and I agree with this hypothesis about why: http://www.laobserved.com/biz/...
I worked for Paul from '85 through '90. Occasionally, at random, he'd just invite a bunch of us to his house. As far as I could ever tell, not a mean bone in his body.
"nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest use to you in after life â" save only this â" that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view is the main, if not the sole purpose of education"
StormReaver is right, this is nothing new. I ran into some remarkably foul examples on Usenet in the '80s.
Managing a forum is one of the most challenging jobs I have ever had. One tool that is more powerful than it appears is setting a good example. If the moderators are frequent posters they can set a tone for the place. Then the jerks will be the exceptions. A positive feedback loop begins when good people are willing to stay and they create a space where more good people want to hang out.
Leave the jerks in place and it's a down-spiral to Lord of the Flies.
I've even heard of someone who (allegedy) got locked up because he ground-shipped sodium to Alaska, not realizing that in Alaska even ground packages go by air.
If it's the FBI who suggested the crime, if they only knew Reid and Espinoza as Bitcoin traders with no known criminal activities, then like you I've got a real problem with this case.
Thesupraman has everything right and I'm just filling in background.
What makes a radioisotope dangerous is 1. A long enough half-life that it is still around when the plume reaches its first victims 2. A short enough half-life to be intensely radioactive. 3. A tendency to get stuck in the body by looking like something the body normally uses. Strontium-90 mimics calcium. Iodine is iodine.
I've seen potassium iodide in mail order catalogs.
For US active duty military and veterans: Veteran's Crisis Line: 1800-273-8255 Press 1 or text 838255
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That depends on whose version of the incident response costs is true.
The defense as I understand it says it was a matter of clicking revert and took less time than scrubbing out graffiti.
The prosecution claims the cost to the victim was 333 hours. On the other hand they included some response work to different incidents for which he had not been on trial.
"The search warrant seeks to have Microsoft â" which owns Skype â" provide the government with logs and the content of conversations and written messages made on Ciccoloâ(TM)s account, as well as passwords."
If Microsoft is in fact recording the content of Skype conversations, that really is news for nerds.
Two dollars an hour is the rarefied elite of pay ranges. The Unicor factory jobs which pay that much have waiting lists of more than a year to get into one.
Inmates have small accounts with the facility which they can feed from their 12-42 cent/hour jobs, or, if they're fortunate, with gifts from friends on the outside. They can spend the money on phone calls or items from the prison commissary, for example toothpaste, stamps, and vitamins. The last time I looked, the Federal system was charging inmates 6 cents per minute to make _collect_ calls. In other words, to talk to your children for five minutes, you'd have to work two and a half hours at one of the entry-level jobs, or most of an hour at a skilled trade.
Is it corruption if the money goes to the institution and not into the administrator's pockets? The firms that gouge prisoners offer "facility commissions" to share their revenue with the prisons. JPay has been reported to entertain wardens lavishly, but I haven't heard of actual bribery.
At its best it's prescriptive and incorporates some sound practices. At its worst, it's as bad as you say.
At least one cynical person has suspected it's all just a way for the card issuers to shift liability to merchants ("Your Honor, we will show the defendant was out of compliance with the following vague language...").
At least it's better than HIPAA but that's setting the bar pretty low.
That law puts decision making burdens on the wrong people and there are no end of debatable cases.
The police department of a nearby city told an employer that the picture of a young boy in his underwear on an employee's computer was actionable.
On the other hand, if an "IT technician" gets too sensitive, people with bathtub photos of their kids are going to have their lives ruined.
Then there's the issue of whether it's even safe to report things. Right here on Slashdot, someone who runs a porn hosting business said that the first time they found a customer running underage porn, they contacted the authorities. The authorities then threatened to prosecute the hosting firm. When that firm finds child porn today they silently fire the customer and delete the content.
When all else fails, watch the way the parties debate and assess their credibility from their actions.
On one hand, there are scientists who tell you what their error bars are, talk in terms of probabilities, and tell you where they need more data to offer firmer forecasts.
On the other side I have heard o The planet is not warming up, satellite measurements prove it o The warming, which isn't happening, ended in 1998 o The warming, which isn't happening, which ended in 1998, is caused by carbon dioxide from volcanoes o The warming which isn't happening which ended in 1998 which is caused by CO2 from volcanoes has nothing to do with CO2 but is caused by solar output changes
There's more.
Some of it is honest backlash against people who go beyond the evidence. I dismiss anyone who talks about "saving the planet". The planet was just fine with palm trees growing in Antarctica.
Most of it is cynically calculated intentional disinformation. See the book "The Climate Coverup" for examples of how talking points were tested in focus groups without any investigation into whether they were true.
Then consider, if you don't believe the scientists, that they could be wrong in either direction and things could be worse than they expect. There's actually some data to suggest exactly that. See the book "With Speed and Violence", from a science magazine editor who has excellent BS filters.
Google "total solar irradiance", look at the direct satellite measurements of solar output going back to 1978, then compare that curve to average global temperature anomaly over the same period.
Biologically, men are constitutionally weaker than women. Their infant mortality rate is higher. In environments with the same lifestyle and stresses, women live longer (studies have compared nuns with monks).
You could even argue that having only one X chromosome is a dangerous genetic defect.
Speculation #1, then, is that mental illness is in the same lump of phenomena as hemophilia and color blindness, disproportionately affecting males.
Speculation #2 is that men get better health care than women and are diagnosed more often as a result.
Speculation #3 is that there's no such phenomenon at all, given that women are diagnosed with depression more than men are.
>They are just as dangerous
You might be falling into a common mistake there. OCD people, depressed people, most schizophrenics, and most other mentally ill people are as safe to be around as anyone else.
3He is hard to find, but relatively easy to make. Pile up some tritium and wait. It decays to 3He with a half-life of 12.3 years.
If we ever get fusion power plants at all we'll start with D-T reactors, which means we'll have to have enough tritium breeding capacity to fuel our reactors, which means we'll have enough production capacity to fuel our 3He reactors with the decay products.
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Federal sentences come from guidelines with charts and point systems. Google "USSC". Whenever you hear "up to N years", it's going to be nowhere near that much unless a whole bunch of aggravating factors line up, like having a long record.
That delegation has been going on for many decades and used to work just fine. Conservative engineers and executives who had come up through the ranks made "belt and suspenders" decisions. Boeing's company culture took a wrong turn in the 90s, and I agree with this hypothesis about why:
http://www.laobserved.com/biz/...
I worked for Paul from '85 through '90. Occasionally, at random, he'd just invite a bunch of us to his house. As far as I could ever tell, not a mean bone in his body.
"nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest use to you in after life â" save only this â" that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view is the main, if not the sole purpose of education"
StormReaver is right, this is nothing new. I ran into some remarkably foul examples on Usenet in the '80s.
Managing a forum is one of the most challenging jobs I have ever had. One tool that is more powerful than it appears is setting a good example. If the moderators are frequent posters they can set a tone for the place. Then the jerks will be the exceptions. A positive feedback loop begins when good people are willing to stay and they create a space where more good people want to hang out.
Leave the jerks in place and it's a down-spiral to Lord of the Flies.
SCR 9, from last month, isn't an enforceable law and that quote reeks of parody as well as not appearing in a Google News search.
It sure doesn't seem accidental, and intentional mis-shipping of hazmat is Serious Business:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've even heard of someone who (allegedy) got locked up because he ground-shipped sodium to Alaska, not realizing that in Alaska even ground packages go by air.
If it's the FBI who suggested the crime, if they only knew Reid and Espinoza as Bitcoin traders with no known criminal activities, then like you I've got a real problem with this case.
Thesupraman has everything right and I'm just filling in background.
What makes a radioisotope dangerous is
1. A long enough half-life that it is still around when the plume reaches its first victims
2. A short enough half-life to be intensely radioactive.
3. A tendency to get stuck in the body by looking like something the body normally uses. Strontium-90 mimics calcium. Iodine is iodine.
I've seen potassium iodide in mail order catalogs.
US: 1-800-273-8255 is a 24/7 suicide prevention hotline, which also advises people dealing with a suicidal loved one or friend.
http://www.suicide.org/interna...
For US active duty military and veterans:
Veteran's Crisis Line:
1800-273-8255
Press 1
or text 838255
confidential chat available at: www.veteranscrisisline.net
Specifically for support of trans* people, http://www.translifeline.org/ has a US hotline number +18775658860 and a Canadian toll-free number +18773306366.
For LGBT teenagers and young adults, http://www.thetrevorproject.or.... They also have a hotline number, 866-488-7386.
If you're a friend or bystander, these are relevant.
Suicide threats on social media:
http://www.suicidepreventionli...
If you're in the US this is a guide to reaching emergency services outside your own area: http://firstaid.about.com/od/c...
Immediate steps you can take: http://www.helpguide.org/artic...
That depends on whose version of the incident response costs is true.
The defense as I understand it says it was a matter of clicking revert and took less time than scrubbing out graffiti.
The prosecution claims the cost to the victim was 333 hours. On the other hand they included some response work to different incidents for which he had not been on trial.
Burdell has pointed out the real story.
"The search warrant seeks to have Microsoft â" which owns Skype â" provide the government with logs and the content of conversations and written messages made on Ciccoloâ(TM)s account, as well as passwords."
If Microsoft is in fact recording the content of Skype conversations, that really is news for nerds.
Isn't it the construction crew, not the architect, who are "groundbreaking"?
They then split that 5-10% with the prison administration.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06...
Two dollars an hour is the rarefied elite of pay ranges. The Unicor factory jobs which pay that much have waiting lists of more than a year to get into one.
Inmates have small accounts with the facility which they can feed from their 12-42 cent/hour jobs, or, if they're fortunate, with gifts from friends on the outside.
They can spend the money on phone calls or items from the prison commissary, for example toothpaste, stamps, and vitamins.
The last time I looked, the Federal system was charging inmates 6 cents per minute to make _collect_ calls. In other words, to talk to your children for five minutes, you'd have to work two and a half hours at one of the entry-level jobs, or most of an hour at a skilled trade.
Is it corruption if the money goes to the institution and not into the administrator's pockets? The firms that gouge prisoners offer "facility commissions" to share their revenue with the prisons.
JPay has been reported to entertain wardens lavishly, but I haven't heard of actual bribery.
At its best it's prescriptive and incorporates some sound practices. At its worst, it's as bad as you say.
At least one cynical person has suspected it's all just a way for the card issuers to shift liability to merchants ("Your Honor, we will show the defendant was out of compliance with the following vague language ...").
At least it's better than HIPAA but that's setting the bar pretty low.
That law puts decision making burdens on the wrong people and there are no end of debatable cases.
The police department of a nearby city told an employer that the picture of a young boy in his underwear on an employee's computer was actionable.
On the other hand, if an "IT technician" gets too sensitive, people with bathtub photos of their kids are going to have their lives ruined.
Then there's the issue of whether it's even safe to report things. Right here on Slashdot, someone who runs a porn hosting business said that the first time they found a customer running underage porn, they contacted the authorities. The authorities then threatened to prosecute the hosting firm. When that firm finds child porn today they silently fire the customer and delete the content.
When all else fails, watch the way the parties debate and assess their credibility from their actions.
On one hand, there are scientists who tell you what their error bars are, talk in terms of probabilities, and tell you where they need more data to offer firmer forecasts.
On the other side I have heard
o The planet is not warming up, satellite measurements prove it
o The warming, which isn't happening, ended in 1998
o The warming, which isn't happening, which ended in 1998, is caused by carbon dioxide from volcanoes
o The warming which isn't happening which ended in 1998 which is caused by CO2 from volcanoes has nothing to do with CO2 but is caused by solar output changes
There's more.
Some of it is honest backlash against people who go beyond the evidence. I dismiss anyone who talks about "saving the planet". The planet was just fine with palm trees growing in Antarctica.
Most of it is cynically calculated intentional disinformation. See the book "The Climate Coverup" for examples of how talking points were tested in focus groups without any investigation into whether they were true.
Then consider, if you don't believe the scientists, that they could be wrong in either direction and things could be worse than they expect. There's actually some data to suggest exactly that. See the book "With Speed and Violence", from a science magazine editor who has excellent BS filters.
Google "total solar irradiance", look at the direct satellite measurements of solar output going back to 1978, then compare that curve to average global temperature anomaly over the same period.
This isn't a theory, this is speculation.
Biologically, men are constitutionally weaker than women. Their infant mortality rate is higher. In environments with the same lifestyle and stresses, women live longer (studies have compared nuns with monks).
You could even argue that having only one X chromosome is a dangerous genetic defect.
Speculation #1, then, is that mental illness is in the same lump of phenomena as hemophilia and color blindness, disproportionately affecting males.
Speculation #2 is that men get better health care than women and are diagnosed more often as a result.
Speculation #3 is that there's no such phenomenon at all, given that women are diagnosed with depression more than men are.
>They are just as dangerous
You might be falling into a common mistake there. OCD people, depressed people, most schizophrenics, and most other mentally ill people are as safe to be around as anyone else.
Every spy agency, then, would see that they could monitor sensitive communications simply by collaborating with other spy agencies?
Someone got himself published after the 2009 test saying "we never had problems like this when George W. Bush was president".
3He is hard to find, but relatively easy to make. Pile up some tritium and wait. It decays to 3He with a half-life of 12.3 years.
If we ever get fusion power plants at all we'll start with D-T reactors, which means we'll have to have enough tritium breeding capacity to fuel our reactors, which means we'll have enough production capacity to fuel our 3He reactors with the decay products.
Cheaper than mining the Moon, I would guess.