Don't post online about current work-related stuff is probably good advice for all of us to take.
TFA was a bit sketchy on details, but it did seem to indicate her Facebooking had something to do with the mistrial, and eventual acquittal... whether or not this is factually accurate,
it's probably safe to say this was poor judgement on her part.
Elderly men with slow developing prostate cancer are frequently not treated because the disease is unlikely to kill them first.
Sadly, your medical care is incentivized in the same fashion as an automotive repair: the more repairs that are necessary, the greater the final invoice.
This is not to suggest there are not a great many ethical physicians, but we would be fools to overlook the likelihood that some sociopaths have slithered into the profession.
Here's to hoping they don't find any oil there, given the earthquakes it's caused in OK.
FWIW, except for the trailer-home salesmen, people here find the annual tornado problem much more inconvenient than the increase in 1.0 to 3.0 Richter quakes.
Your thoughts smell like truth. It just seems as if the number of well-publicized breaches has reached a threshold where even the Muggles are aware of the ubiquitous flaws in security.
Well, I can't speak for the poster... but I think you can reasonably conclude (and in fact should) that if someone comes out of the blue and claims to have a miracle cure for cancer, but no scientific evidence you should treat them with a degree of skepticism.
That absolutely nobody ever confirmed a diagnosis of cancer tells me this was a fraud which was committed with the willing complicity of the media, her publisher, and everybody else who utterly failed to do anything other than take her on face value.
Maybe everyone didn't "know"... but people sure as shit should have been saying "OK, how credible is this claim". Because, really, reading the news stories about this... there was absolutely no basis to deem her claims credible.
Just a media who wanted to show a story, and a bunch of people who lacked critical thinking skills who wanted to believe in miracles, or something which matched their existing world view.
When people make big claims about their magic healing cure which has no scientific evidence or study... they should not be taken at face value.
Folks diagnosed with cancer are desperate people. Desperate people, sadly, just want to believe they can make every horrible boogeyman disease go away if they do the right thing, especially when receiving a grim outlook from conventional medical practitioners.
Fact checking, logic, and realistic thinking are displaced by the grasping of straws.
Indeed, and any retailer who entrusts all their monetary transactions to a manufacturer's default password is probably going to slip up somewhere anyway.
They warn that "because the genetic changes to embryos, known as germline modification, are heritable, they could have an unpredictable effect on future generations."
I guess they mean if the children don't inherit the disease, DrugCo's profits will fall.
Unless DrugCo's patent skills are Monsanto-like...
Caller ID itself has taken a sharp face plant, IMHO, what with the ability of telemarketers to disguise their true origins with a local cover number. It's possible the Facebook has maximized its ability to innovate, and this is all that's left to go on about.
Yes. Intent is an essential consideration when sentencing, but not so much to the guilt or innocent phase of the trial.
Since it occurred at MIT, the bastion of clever hacking, it's fairly likely Aaron never imagined his hacktivities would be treated criminally, let alone get to a zealous prosecutor. IIRC, the most egregious prior transgressions were charged with trespassing and little else.
Sure. He was ill equipped to handle the fallout of being made an example of. It probably never happened to him before. To be fair though, his response was as big an overreaction as that of the prosecutor.
There is some precedent with sub-oceanic pipeline technology, primarily with the ever valuable hydrocarbons, but as shortages continue the rising value of water delivery to populations may make odd ideas feasible.
Seattle's water is all going into the ocean. How about using the ocean to transport all that water to southern California instead of building a pipeline? All you have to do is remove a little bit of salt it picked up along the way! I'm guessing 30B bucks would build quite a few desalination plants.
How about taking the fresh river water as it is about to dump into the Pacific, and pipe it through the ocean in poly blend pipes that are easy to install and repair... a leak would do no damage, there would be no trouble obtaining land rights, and Southern Cal could tax the almond growers (et al) to pay their Northern brothers for water they don't even use.
We make pledges and promises to better ourselves because we recognize at times, we are our own worst enemy... but we regularly fail at self betterment.
Unfortunately, it's not difficult at all to win a debate with one's self over whether you deserve that pastry, beverage or morning free of exercise.
Yet we are just creating more and more by bullshit like this. Usually it's just for women's benefit, but in this case there's also discrimination against gals too.
Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?
Because. This is the sort of shite people with an activist streak get caught up in any more,
leaving important worries like electing good people to govern us languishing on the back burner.
Probably not, with many municipalities being forever cash-strapped by poor local political decisions. A brief internet search shows the income average/mean split as approximately $47k/$52K per annum.
They already start higher than educators and fire fighters where I am. They can move up the ranks, and then side to side in the private industry making some pretty comfortable money.
An even less well researched internet factoid has median annual US household income at just under $52K, so yes... comfortable. Still, IMHO, that is a compensation poorly matched with being shot at, running into burning buildings, or teaching in an average high school.
Much like the American educational system, salary considerations and other incentives for employment minimize the likelihood that law enforcement will attract the sort of candidates we might prefer in the vocation as a society.
My two cents: law enforcement and education are often thankless jobs, and my hat is off to the many, many folks who give their best in these positions I wouldn't care to work.
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Is it safe to say, even despite the NSA revelations by TheTrueHOOHA, that the Chinese may trust the Chinese government even less?
TFA was a bit sketchy on details, but it did seem to indicate her Facebooking had something to do with the mistrial, and eventual acquittal... whether or not this is factually accurate,
it's probably safe to say this was poor judgement on her part.
Sadly, your medical care is incentivized in the same fashion as an automotive repair: the more repairs that are necessary, the greater the final invoice.
This is not to suggest there are not a great many ethical physicians, but we would be fools to overlook the likelihood that some sociopaths have slithered into the profession.
Here's to hoping they don't find any oil there, given the earthquakes it's caused in OK.
FWIW, except for the trailer-home salesmen, people here find the annual tornado problem much more inconvenient than the increase in 1.0 to 3.0 Richter quakes.
I will take with the same pleasure as being carded at 40.
Your thoughts smell like truth. It just seems as if the number of well-publicized breaches has reached a threshold where even the Muggles are aware of the ubiquitous flaws in security.
Well, I can't speak for the poster ... but I think you can reasonably conclude (and in fact should) that if someone comes out of the blue and claims to have a miracle cure for cancer, but no scientific evidence you should treat them with a degree of skepticism.
That absolutely nobody ever confirmed a diagnosis of cancer tells me this was a fraud which was committed with the willing complicity of the media, her publisher, and everybody else who utterly failed to do anything other than take her on face value.
Maybe everyone didn't "know" ... but people sure as shit should have been saying "OK, how credible is this claim". Because, really, reading the news stories about this ... there was absolutely no basis to deem her claims credible.
Just a media who wanted to show a story, and a bunch of people who lacked critical thinking skills who wanted to believe in miracles, or something which matched their existing world view.
When people make big claims about their magic healing cure which has no scientific evidence or study ... they should not be taken at face value.
Folks diagnosed with cancer are desperate people. Desperate people, sadly, just want to believe they can make every horrible boogeyman disease go away if they do the right thing, especially when receiving a grim outlook from conventional medical practitioners.
Fact checking, logic, and realistic thinking are displaced by the grasping of straws.
Indeed, and any retailer who entrusts all their monetary transactions to a manufacturer's default password is probably going to slip up somewhere anyway.
They warn that "because the genetic changes to embryos, known as germline modification, are heritable, they could have an unpredictable effect on future generations."
I guess they mean if the children don't inherit the disease, DrugCo's profits will fall.
Unless DrugCo's patent skills are Monsanto-like...
when the governors were so far behind the curve of technology that it caused physical pain to watch them at work.
Is a powerful Senator hell bent on false god belief any less harmful to the future prosperity of mankind than a 4th World Jihadi member of ISIS?
Caller ID itself has taken a sharp face plant, IMHO, what with the ability of telemarketers to disguise their true origins with a local cover number. It's possible the Facebook has maximized its ability to innovate, and this is all that's left to go on about.
hours upon hours and then more hours of mind numbing boredom spontaneously broken up by a sensational robbery, kidnapping, or sublimation.
Since it occurred at MIT, the bastion of clever hacking, it's fairly likely Aaron never imagined his hacktivities would be treated criminally, let alone get to a zealous prosecutor. IIRC, the most egregious prior transgressions were charged with trespassing and little else.
Sure. He was ill equipped to handle the fallout of being made an example of. It probably never happened to him before. To be fair though, his response was as big an overreaction as that of the prosecutor.
The pre-1982 US cent, if you will.
What's next? A judgement against the internet on behalf of cats everywhere?
After all, when you're fighting a losing battle, even a hand up from science is a welcome blessing.
Oh, and there's a learning curve. Most people are like water... path of least resistance.
There is some precedent with sub-oceanic pipeline technology, primarily with the ever valuable hydrocarbons, but as shortages continue the rising value of water delivery to populations may make odd ideas feasible.
Seattle's water is all going into the ocean. How about using the ocean to transport all that water to southern California instead of building a pipeline? All you have to do is remove a little bit of salt it picked up along the way! I'm guessing 30B bucks would build quite a few desalination plants.
How about taking the fresh river water as it is about to dump into the Pacific, and pipe it through the ocean in poly blend pipes that are easy to install and repair... a leak would do no damage, there would be no trouble obtaining land rights, and Southern Cal could tax the almond growers (et al) to pay their Northern brothers for water they don't even use.
Win, win, winner.
We make pledges and promises to better ourselves because we recognize at times, we are our own worst enemy... but we regularly fail at self betterment.
Unfortunately, it's not difficult at all to win a debate with one's self over whether you deserve that pastry, beverage or morning free of exercise.
Yet we are just creating more and more by bullshit like this. Usually it's just for women's benefit, but in this case there's also discrimination against gals too.
Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?
Because. This is the sort of shite people with an activist streak get caught up in any more,
leaving important worries like electing good people to govern us languishing on the back burner.
Can they start them much higher though?
Probably not, with many municipalities being forever cash-strapped by poor local political decisions. A brief internet search shows the income average/mean split as approximately $47k/$52K per annum.
They already start higher than educators and fire fighters where I am. They can move up the ranks, and then side to side in the private industry making some pretty comfortable money.
An even less well researched internet factoid has median annual US household income at just under $52K, so yes... comfortable. Still, IMHO, that is a compensation poorly matched with being shot at, running into burning buildings, or teaching in an average high school.
Much like the American educational system, salary considerations and other incentives for employment minimize the likelihood that law enforcement will attract the sort of candidates we might prefer in the vocation as a society.
My two cents: law enforcement and education are often thankless jobs, and my hat is off to the many, many folks who give their best in these positions I wouldn't care to work.
"Look, I can set the temperature on my thermostat from here!" or "Watch this Bubba... I can turn on the Spa heater an hour before getting home!"
We're so accustomed to the exchange of freedom for security that now we're trading it for convenience.
Because: Star Wars, clever parody of a current blight on rational thinking, it's not Ponies, and Star Wars.