While I agree with some of your conclusion, be careful not to confuse "abducted" and "abused", because they're far different things.
I think most sexual abuse happens by parents and family, but "strangers" still account for like 5 or 10 percent, which still numbers in the thousands or tens of thousands per year.
As it has been pointed out, modern drives overlap various bits quite a bit and there really is no such residual magnetism. It is below the noise floor of the natural variations in a platter's magnetism.
Some of this research is even from the same guy (Guttmann) who published the technique 25 years ago, but states it is impossible with modern drives.
Because, other than the CIA, they are probably the only ones who's internal policies allow jurisdiction over sites that may have absolutely no presence or activity inside the USA, other than the fact that the Internets are basically based here. The FBI has no jurisdiction for sites hosted overseas, nor for foreign citizens, even if their DNS entry points to godaddy.
Well, revealing the information was ALWAYS a crime. This law seeks to make it illegal to "publish" that, which would include the Washington Post (in this instance) as well as several people, including Libby, who "published" it on television.
The "leaks" were from Bradley Manning, just like they were from Armitage in the example. They're seeking to make it illegal to "publish" already leaked information.
It won't pass a constitutional test and is such an absurd knee-jerk, with so many ridiculous implications....
Realistically, good teachers are going to be teaching right over the head of the bottom 10 or 20 percent of the class. Otherwise they're not good teachers.
The class cannot stop, or hold back the remainder of the students for a minority who are having trouble. This one of the myriad issues in American education. The whole mantra of "no child left behind" is a farce.
That said, the teacher was in the wrong posting about it publicly.
So, in that sense, I feel like you are both right, and wrong.
I think it's more the nuts and bolts and paint chips, and such things (shuttle insulation panels?) travelling at relative 40,000kmh that can really ruin your day.
As someone else mentioned
"JSC debris scientists said the largest ding returned on a shuttle window thus far occurred on STS-59 in April 1994. The ding measured one-half an inch in diameter and was caused by an orbiting paint chip."
Maybe not wrenches, but other such things are seriously dangerous in space, because they never slow down....
Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution, versus children of the rich who have about a 22 percent chance.
Anecdotes being what they are....
The US and the UK are relatively unique in this regard in "developed" countries. Those numbers resemble places like Saudi Arabia and African states...
Social mobility in the US and the UK are the lowest in the modern world.
Correlation between father's income and sons is 10% in Norway, 12% in France, 14% in Canada. In India it is 45%, in the US it is almost 60%. It's around 70% in Saudi Arabia and a few other examples of extreme variations, but the US and the UK are pretty much on par with Saudi Arabia in this regard, even if it's much more undercurrent than on the surface.
The United States DOES have the *lowest* levels of economic mobility in all of the western world.
It is not a caste system, but it is most closely resembling it amongst "European" countries.
The highest mobility occurs in places like Denmark and Norway, where your parent's education and income has a startlingly low correlation with your future income (where the correlation is almost linear in the US). Places like France and Canada fall somewhere halfway in the middle...
Actually, given the massive money spent to build and promot the AMBER alerts, a substantial number (as in 1000%) more children would have been saved from death by spending that money on things like pool safety enforcement, suicide prevention, automobile safety, industrial chemical disposal regulations, etc.
I saw a study a few years ago, that the number of billions of dollars spent on the AMBER alert system would have been more than 10x as effective in almost 30 different government programs at preventing childhood death and serious harm. Sports accidents, car accidents, cancer, poisoning, pool accidents, natural disasters. These are all substantially more risky to children than abduction, but the 5000 kids who die of drowning in swimming pools each year don't make it on the evening news, so they don't seem to matter.
Of course, actually saving kids wouldn't quite placate the Nancy Grace "ZOMG the poor abducted children" crew quite as effectively. They are about sensationalism, not actually helping society.
Sigh.
The reality is "if it was only one child" argument is a red herring, because it indicates "if we didn't do this, we wouldn't do anything". In reality, it is a bunch of competing interests and we have to choose the optimal one. It's not a choice of "this or nothing" but often proponents of these silly programs pitch it that way to garner public sympathy.
I think AMBER alerts are terrible, a waste of money, and merely a balm for busybodies who want the self-affirmation of "helping children" or "catching perverts" when really, we're just chasing after a bunch of jealous boyfriends and ex-husbands most of the time anyway.
Actually, given the massive money spent to build and promot the AMBER alerts, a substantial number (as in 1000%) more children would have been saved from death by spending that money on things like pool safety enforcement, suicide prevention, automobile safety, industrial chemical disposal regulations, etc.
I saw a study a few years ago, that the number of billions of dollars spent on the AMBER alert system would have been more than 10x as effective in almost 30 different government programs at preventing childhood death and serious harm. Sports accidents, car accidents, cancer, poisoning, pool accidents, natural disasters. These are all substantially more risky to children than abduction, but the 5000 kids who die of drowning in swimming pools each year don't make it on the evening news, so they don't seem to matter.
Of course, actually saving kids wouldn't quite placate the Nancy Grace "ZOMG the poor abducted children" crew quite as effectively. They are about sensationalism, not actually helping society.
I would suggest that anything that can survive the highly oxidizing environment of an oxygen-saturated solvent at -100C in pitch darkness is probably not going to last long in the ion-saturated solar heated environment of the upper atmosphere, even if it were to escape.
But that is presuming that there is sufficient pressure to force fresh water through miles of solid ice at -100C temperatures without freezing anyway, which there probably isn't.
Even if there is, I would wager that they thought of this and have a "stopper" of sorts in place.
Of course, I would have figured that TransOcean would have put one on their oil rigs too, and we know how that turned out.
His approval ratings are higher than Bush or Carter, he has had more victories for his agenda than most presidents in the first two years, has an astoundingly high approval rating OUTSIDE of the US, certainly higher than Bush and even Reagan during his first two years.
While the health care thing is probably a non-ideal solution, it is apparently too painful for republicans to realize that it was an almost exact copy of the bill originally drafted by Bob Dole and rejected by democrats for being "too conservative". Frankly, it sounds like partisan hackery or talking-point-itis to claim he's the most incompetent president on record.
uhm, it is not a pseudo-random in a true sense. The number generator is DESIGNED to output only a fraction of the input.
It's also true that some machines are set to higher numbers than others in order to attract attention.
They intentionally change the odds on you on the fly when they need to collect more money. Of course, this is regulated by a minimum percentage by most gaming boards, but there is no upper limit. It might be in a casino's favor to put a machine that pays out over 100% sometimes near a high traffic area to attract attention. Of course, they can change the odds at will, and probably often do.
But when the odds go against them, rather than being strictly under their control, it's a federal offense.
Your post was pretty insightful until the last sentence.
The US is still in the top 10 percentile of "right leaning" countries. The Obama administration would be conservative by the standards of almost any other western democracy, and a far right wing conservative by the standards of some.
Comparing the US to China or Cuba makes the rest of your post shrivel and stink.
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While I agree with some of your conclusion, be careful not to confuse "abducted" and "abused", because they're far different things.
I think most sexual abuse happens by parents and family, but "strangers" still account for like 5 or 10 percent, which still numbers in the thousands or tens of thousands per year.
Holy shit.......
That's all I can say.
Magnets do nothing to SSDs.
As it has been pointed out, modern drives overlap various bits quite a bit and there really is no such residual magnetism. It is below the noise floor of the natural variations in a platter's magnetism.
Some of this research is even from the same guy (Guttmann) who published the technique 25 years ago, but states it is impossible with modern drives.
Is this related to the reports that Apple just admitted employing child laborers in overseas factories?
Wait, what does this have to do with porn? Nobody sells child porn. There can't POSSIBLY be any money in it.
What the hell are you talking about?
Because, other than the CIA, they are probably the only ones who's internal policies allow jurisdiction over sites that may have absolutely no presence or activity inside the USA, other than the fact that the Internets are basically based here. The FBI has no jurisdiction for sites hosted overseas, nor for foreign citizens, even if their DNS entry points to godaddy.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Well, revealing the information was ALWAYS a crime. This law seeks to make it illegal to "publish" that, which would include the Washington Post (in this instance) as well as several people, including Libby, who "published" it on television.
The "leaks" were from Bradley Manning, just like they were from Armitage in the example. They're seeking to make it illegal to "publish" already leaked information.
It won't pass a constitutional test and is such an absurd knee-jerk, with so many ridiculous implications....
When I was 10, I sunk probably a thousand hours into that game and never beat it. I got to the last Bowser a few times and died and wanted to cry.
It sure is fun to see it beat in 5 minutes.
You realize that consumer privacy protections and gun control are not mutually exclusive, right?
The blog doesn't name any names. Just lists a few nasty comments that "might apply to some students".
Shrug. Borderline.
Realistically, good teachers are going to be teaching right over the head of the bottom 10 or 20 percent of the class. Otherwise they're not good teachers.
The class cannot stop, or hold back the remainder of the students for a minority who are having trouble. This one of the myriad issues in American education. The whole mantra of "no child left behind" is a farce.
That said, the teacher was in the wrong posting about it publicly.
So, in that sense, I feel like you are both right, and wrong.
Generally, businesses don't invest in LAUNCH VEHICLE and FIRE THINGS INTO SPACE because they have more buttons, figuratively or literally.
Spending a hundred million dollars as a business, without a credible cost-benefit analysis and proof of return on investment is just silly.
I think it's more the nuts and bolts and paint chips, and such things (shuttle insulation panels?) travelling at relative 40,000kmh that can really ruin your day.
As someone else mentioned
"JSC debris scientists said the largest ding returned on a shuttle window thus far occurred on STS-59 in April 1994. The ding measured one-half an inch in diameter and was caused by an orbiting paint chip."
Maybe not wrenches, but other such things are seriously dangerous in space, because they never slow down....
Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution, versus children of the rich who have about a 22 percent chance.
Anecdotes being what they are....
The US and the UK are relatively unique in this regard in "developed" countries. Those numbers resemble places like Saudi Arabia and African states...
Social mobility in the US and the UK are the lowest in the modern world.
Correlation between father's income and sons is 10% in Norway, 12% in France, 14% in Canada. In India it is 45%, in the US it is almost 60%. It's around 70% in Saudi Arabia and a few other examples of extreme variations, but the US and the UK are pretty much on par with Saudi Arabia in this regard, even if it's much more undercurrent than on the surface.
Sorry to break it to you....
The United States DOES have the *lowest* levels of economic mobility in all of the western world.
It is not a caste system, but it is most closely resembling it amongst "European" countries.
The highest mobility occurs in places like Denmark and Norway, where your parent's education and income has a startlingly low correlation with your future income (where the correlation is almost linear in the US). Places like France and Canada fall somewhere halfway in the middle...
Food for thought.
On the other hand, this area (baggage claim) is completely unsecured in US airports.
It just shows that spot-checks and things like cursory metal detector sweeps are more theatre.
This just in.....
It is STILL over 1000 times more dangerous to have a backyard swimming pool than an airport that gets hit with a bomb every 20 years.
Perspective, people....
Tragedy, yes. Bad people, yes.
ZOMGWTF, hide the kids! No.
Actually, given the massive money spent to build and promot the AMBER alerts, a substantial number (as in 1000%) more children would have been saved from death by spending that money on things like pool safety enforcement, suicide prevention, automobile safety, industrial chemical disposal regulations, etc.
I saw a study a few years ago, that the number of billions of dollars spent on the AMBER alert system would have been more than 10x as effective in almost 30 different government programs at preventing childhood death and serious harm. Sports accidents, car accidents, cancer, poisoning, pool accidents, natural disasters. These are all substantially more risky to children than abduction, but the 5000 kids who die of drowning in swimming pools each year don't make it on the evening news, so they don't seem to matter.
Of course, actually saving kids wouldn't quite placate the Nancy Grace "ZOMG the poor abducted children" crew quite as effectively. They are about sensationalism, not actually helping society.
Sigh.
The reality is "if it was only one child" argument is a red herring, because it indicates "if we didn't do this, we wouldn't do anything". In reality, it is a bunch of competing interests and we have to choose the optimal one. It's not a choice of "this or nothing" but often proponents of these silly programs pitch it that way to garner public sympathy.
I think AMBER alerts are terrible, a waste of money, and merely a balm for busybodies who want the self-affirmation of "helping children" or "catching perverts" when really, we're just chasing after a bunch of jealous boyfriends and ex-husbands most of the time anyway.
Actually, given the massive money spent to build and promot the AMBER alerts, a substantial number (as in 1000%) more children would have been saved from death by spending that money on things like pool safety enforcement, suicide prevention, automobile safety, industrial chemical disposal regulations, etc.
I saw a study a few years ago, that the number of billions of dollars spent on the AMBER alert system would have been more than 10x as effective in almost 30 different government programs at preventing childhood death and serious harm. Sports accidents, car accidents, cancer, poisoning, pool accidents, natural disasters. These are all substantially more risky to children than abduction, but the 5000 kids who die of drowning in swimming pools each year don't make it on the evening news, so they don't seem to matter.
Of course, actually saving kids wouldn't quite placate the Nancy Grace "ZOMG the poor abducted children" crew quite as effectively. They are about sensationalism, not actually helping society.
Sigh.
Don't you think half TFA was about how they have worked for 18 years on how not to contaminate the lake?
Sheesh.
I would suggest that anything that can survive the highly oxidizing environment of an oxygen-saturated solvent at -100C in pitch darkness is probably not going to last long in the ion-saturated solar heated environment of the upper atmosphere, even if it were to escape.
But that is presuming that there is sufficient pressure to force fresh water through miles of solid ice at -100C temperatures without freezing anyway, which there probably isn't.
Even if there is, I would wager that they thought of this and have a "stopper" of sorts in place.
Of course, I would have figured that TransOcean would have put one on their oil rigs too, and we know how that turned out.
Except that's not even true.
His approval ratings are higher than Bush or Carter, he has had more victories for his agenda than most presidents in the first two years, has an astoundingly high approval rating OUTSIDE of the US, certainly higher than Bush and even Reagan during his first two years.
While the health care thing is probably a non-ideal solution, it is apparently too painful for republicans to realize that it was an almost exact copy of the bill originally drafted by Bob Dole and rejected by democrats for being "too conservative". Frankly, it sounds like partisan hackery or talking-point-itis to claim he's the most incompetent president on record.
uhm, it is not a pseudo-random in a true sense. The number generator is DESIGNED to output only a fraction of the input.
It's also true that some machines are set to higher numbers than others in order to attract attention.
They intentionally change the odds on you on the fly when they need to collect more money. Of course, this is regulated by a minimum percentage by most gaming boards, but there is no upper limit. It might be in a casino's favor to put a machine that pays out over 100% sometimes near a high traffic area to attract attention. Of course, they can change the odds at will, and probably often do.
But when the odds go against them, rather than being strictly under their control, it's a federal offense.
Your post was pretty insightful until the last sentence.
The US is still in the top 10 percentile of "right leaning" countries. The Obama administration would be conservative by the standards of almost any other western democracy, and a far right wing conservative by the standards of some.
Comparing the US to China or Cuba makes the rest of your post shrivel and stink.