implicit claim that it's somehow not just as bad for those innocent people to rot in prison forever,
Obviously it is not as bad to be in prison for life than to be killed. You can work every day to free yourself. You can maintain contact with lawyers, write letters, attempt to gain public support, etc.. There would be many reasons to be hopeful. That certainly is better than death.
I guess it depends on the person/shrug. But I doubt any of the innocent people, later released 10/20/30 years later when DNA proved they were innocent, would say "Man... I wish I had just been killed instead of having gone through those last 20 years".
When 3-Strikes laws were put in place, no real data showed them to have deterring effect. Apparently life/long time in prison is not a deterrent to committing 3 felonies.
I have not seen a "before/after implementing a death penalty" study in the US (does one exist?), but based on the zero effect of 3-Strikes to deter crime, the death penalty is probably equally likely to have zero effect.
Michael Pollan's book "Cooked" had an interesting story along those lines:
The star of this show is the cheese nun, Sister Noella Marcellino, of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Litchfield County, Connecticut. She makes a version of Saint- Nectaire cheese using an old wooden barrel and a beech-wood paddle that are happy hosts to countless bacteria.
When a cheese inspector balked at the absence of stainless steel, the fervent fermenter made two batches, one in her wooden tub and one in germ-free metal, and inoculated both with E. coli. The sterile vat’s finished cheese was rife with the bug, while the wooden one had almost none. Good bacteria in the old barrel had created “an environment in which (the E. coli) couldn’t survive.” The inspector relented.
Seems better to me. They are teaching math, subtraction for example, the way we actually do math in our heads.
Do you add ten, carry the one, etc... in your head? No, instead you look for shortcuts to round the number, and deal with the round parts first, to make it easier.
Being poor means your parents probably don't value education, so you probably don't value education, so you probably don't get an education.
That is part of the problem. But only part. I don't think anyone has ever evaluated how much impact it has.
Less money also means:
Being pulled out of school to pick crops with your family so you all have enough to eat tends to be detrimental to learning. Going to school hungry can make concentrating very hard. Having no extracurricular activities (schools cut them, parents can't afford them) means you are learning less than richer kids. No karate, no piano lessons, etc.. Ditto with things like vacations. What did you do this Summer Billy? "Oh, we traveled to Europe, it was awesome!", versus the poorer kid "I sat home and watched TV".
I couldn't even find any references providing evidence that the White House did the pressuring. The title is wrong as far as I can tell. The House Leadership decided to do the gutting.
The truth is that Bush Sr, GW Bush, and Obama are all the same.
on national security, sure. On corporate power, sure.
But you can't honestly believe things like education, abortion, college tuition, environmental issues, etc.... they are even remotely the same?
I think what people who say things like "they are all the same" are really complaining about is how watered down and useless most legislation gets after it goes through the completely dysfunctional Congressional system. Its like Obama says to the public, I promise a cake!. We all like cake. But by the time it gets "baked" in Congress, it is missing eggs because Republicans hate eggs, and missing sugar because Democrats hate sugar. So the cake is a soupy sloppy pile of bitter crap.
Or maybe the President is just one person who is put in charge every 8 years. While this building stays permanently, and is filled with people who are probably experts at convincing newly elected Presidents.
1 temporary President versus the permanent Military Industrial Complex. Democrats and Republicans are identical on the "true power" issues The "big money" stuff. They are very different on a lot of other things that truly do change our lives though, so I still think it is worth thinking about those other issues as well.
The narrowing to 2-3 Kudos happens before the primaries even take place. See here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim
I just gave these people money: a citizens' funded and crowdsourced superPAC First time in a long time that I have donated to something to a political movement. But I really think that we need election reform before voting will make a difference.
Depending on what sort of content you are looking for, it can be the new standard, not the exception. Minecraft/Skyrim games for instance. Nearly 100% video tutorials unless you end up in a user forum.
How big is your network? (number of clients?, Gbps?). pfSense states on their website that off the shelf hardware with their software cannot handle more than 3Gbps.
In environments requiring more than 3 Gbps or 1 million packets per second of sustained throughput, no router based on commodity hardware offers adequate performance. Such environments need to deploy layer 3 switches (routing done in hardware by the switch) or high end ASIC-based routers. As commodity hardware increases in performance, and general purpose operating systems like FreeBSD improve packet processing capabilities in line with what new hardware capabilities can support, scalability will continue to improve with time.
I suppose there may be lots of small business that have less than 3 Gbps. But there are probably way more people interacting with networks that handle over 3Gbps. Probably every University in the country, every retail chain, all city and state governments, etc..
You are kind of right about the increased rain. On average, yeah, more rain. But it is typically going to fall during the normal "rainy season" for an area. And much more of it. But mostly in areas that already have run.
So areas of California may have a wetter winter/spring, producing a lot more vegetation, which will dry out by summer. That will just lead to more material to burn.
But some places that typically do not get much rain, will just get dryer as the climate warms. It is hard to make blanket statements. You really have to look at a particular area and all its factors to know for sure.
Random technicians having access to touch the entire AD tree sounds like a major security issue. If we implemented something like that were I work, the technician would be asking some System Analyst/Sys Admin above him to make the change on his behalf via a IT ticket, or the technician would be granted access rights just over that computer lab for 1 day.
What we do to prevent these sorts of disasters is implement process around the use of the ConfigMgr
IT changes in general should always be governed by a change management process, including review, approval stages, and documentation. You shouldn't have small daily admin tasks governed by a complicated approval process, but anything that has the potential to change things in a widespread way should be stuck in a workflow queue for review of some sort.
Depending on the size of the group, you can adjust the level of formality for a change management process. It might just be as simple as emailing some group of people asking them if they see an issues with "change X".
What I can't believe is that someone did something without testing it for on a test system. I wouldn't be surprised to learn they they didn't have an adequate test system.
It is healthy to let a company die when the economy is doing fine. But letting a huge company, that is integrated into thousands of other companies' lives, die in the middle of a huge recession would just be adding fire onto the flames.
NOT a good dog for apartments. Does need exercise daily (like all working class dogs: hounds: labs, pointers, etc.. people rarely give them what they need though).
and, heaven forbid, people might have to change their behaviors.
I wouldn't even mention that as a possible issue. It is repeated time and time again by skeptics, but without one single shred of evidence that anyone would have to adjust their lifestyle. Oregon is at 20% renewables and my life hasn't changed one bit. Germany is way beyond that, and I don't hear anyone complaining that the government has asked them to turn off their air conditioners, etc...
Until we have an actual example of rationing or forced lifestyle change, it does a lot of harm to keep mentioning it as a possibility of tackling AGW. (In my opinion, after watching things like this: http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_on_winning_the_oil_endgame , or using google scholar to search for similar studies/plans, moving off oil would be fairly easy.
Because, like digital copies of music, there is little to no cost for multiplying the volume at these current levels. Fiber can push huge amounts of data. Like petabytes per second.
Cable/Phone companies won't bother upgrading their networks. That is why when Google moves into a town with Fiber, then can give people 1000 Mb/s (1 Gb/s) connections for the same cost as Comcast giving you 50 Mb/s.
All these data cap crap is just companies carving out a new market by creating yet another artificially scarce resource.
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implicit claim that it's somehow not just as bad for those innocent people to rot in prison forever,
Obviously it is not as bad to be in prison for life than to be killed. You can work every day to free yourself. You can maintain contact with lawyers, write letters, attempt to gain public support, etc.. There would be many reasons to be hopeful. That certainly is better than death.
I guess it depends on the person /shrug. But I doubt any of the innocent people, later released 10/20/30 years later when DNA proved they were innocent, would say "Man... I wish I had just been killed instead of having gone through those last 20 years".
When 3-Strikes laws were put in place, no real data showed them to have deterring effect. Apparently life/long time in prison is not a deterrent to committing 3 felonies.
I have not seen a "before/after implementing a death penalty" study in the US (does one exist?), but based on the zero effect of 3-Strikes to deter crime, the death penalty is probably equally likely to have zero effect.
http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/9405
http://online.ccj.pdx.edu/resources/news-article/factors-that-affect-criminal-behavior/
http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol29_2002/spring2002/hr_spring02_vitiello.html
Note: you can find reports saying that 3 strikes is effective. But look at the sources carefully.
Michael Pollan's book "Cooked" had an interesting story along those lines:
The star of this show is the cheese nun, Sister Noella Marcellino, of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Litchfield County, Connecticut. She makes a version of Saint- Nectaire cheese using an old wooden barrel and a beech-wood paddle that are happy hosts to countless bacteria.
When a cheese inspector balked at the absence of stainless steel, the fervent fermenter made two batches, one in her wooden tub and one in germ-free metal, and inoculated both with E. coli. The sterile vat’s finished cheese was rife with the bug, while the wooden one had almost none. Good bacteria in the old barrel had created “an environment in which (the E. coli) couldn’t survive.” The inspector relented.
I wish that were true. It probably just means we will double down on coal....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/03/07/about-that-common-core-math-problem-making-the-rounds-on-facebook/
Seems better to me. They are teaching math, subtraction for example, the way we actually do math in our heads.
Do you add ten, carry the one, etc... in your head? No, instead you look for shortcuts to round the number, and deal with the round parts first, to make it easier.
Being poor means your parents probably don't value education, so you probably don't value education, so you probably don't get an education.
That is part of the problem. But only part. I don't think anyone has ever evaluated how much impact it has.
Less money also means:
Being pulled out of school to pick crops with your family so you all have enough to eat tends to be detrimental to learning.
Going to school hungry can make concentrating very hard.
Having no extracurricular activities (schools cut them, parents can't afford them) means you are learning less than richer kids. No karate, no piano lessons, etc..
Ditto with things like vacations. What did you do this Summer Billy? "Oh, we traveled to Europe, it was awesome!", versus the poorer kid "I sat home and watched TV".
I couldn't even find any references providing evidence that the White House did the pressuring. The title is wrong as far as I can tell. The House Leadership decided to do the gutting.
The truth is that Bush Sr, GW Bush, and Obama are all the same.
on national security, sure. On corporate power, sure.
But you can't honestly believe things like education, abortion, college tuition, environmental issues, etc.... they are even remotely the same?
I think what people who say things like "they are all the same" are really complaining about is how watered down and useless most legislation gets after it goes through the completely dysfunctional Congressional system. Its like Obama says to the public, I promise a cake!. We all like cake. But by the time it gets "baked" in Congress, it is missing eggs because Republicans hate eggs, and missing sugar because Democrats hate sugar. So the cake is a soupy sloppy pile of bitter crap.
https://mayone.us/
http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim
Oh, there's a GOP one also: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/gop-pledge-o-meter/
I couldn't look back and see older Presidencies. I bet they are all similar amounts of broken/kept promises.
Am I missing something here?
How would Obama "Eliminate all oil and gas tax loopholes" without Congress? Ditto on most of that list.
Or is your objection that he did not try to do those things (despite knowing it would be a complete waste of time because of congress).
Or maybe the President is just one person who is put in charge every 8 years. While this building stays permanently, and is filled with people who are probably experts at convincing newly elected Presidents.
1 temporary President versus the permanent Military Industrial Complex. Democrats and Republicans are identical on the "true power" issues The "big money" stuff. They are very different on a lot of other things that truly do change our lives though, so I still think it is worth thinking about those other issues as well.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim
The narrowing to 2-3 Kudos happens before the primaries even take place. See here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim
I just gave these people money: a citizens' funded and crowdsourced superPAC First time in a long time that I have donated to something to a political movement. But I really think that we need election reform before voting will make a difference.
growing trend
Depending on what sort of content you are looking for, it can be the new standard, not the exception. Minecraft/Skyrim games for instance. Nearly 100% video tutorials unless you end up in a user forum.
Ditto with home repair for some odd reason.....
How big is your network? (number of clients?, Gbps?). pfSense states on their website that off the shelf hardware with their software cannot handle more than 3Gbps.
From the pfSense website:
Note
In environments requiring more than 3 Gbps or 1 million packets per second of sustained throughput, no router based on commodity hardware offers adequate performance. Such environments need to deploy layer 3 switches (routing done in hardware by the switch) or high end ASIC-based routers. As commodity hardware increases in performance, and general purpose operating systems like FreeBSD improve packet processing capabilities in line with what new hardware capabilities can support, scalability will continue to improve with time.
I suppose there may be lots of small business that have less than 3 Gbps. But there are probably way more people interacting with networks that handle over 3Gbps. Probably every University in the country, every retail chain, all city and state governments, etc..
I have a feeling that 40 years ago the US was doing stuff like this also... just less overtly.
I wouldn't mind shining some light on a plate and having a steak appear:)
You are kind of right about the increased rain. On average, yeah, more rain. But it is typically going to fall during the normal "rainy season" for an area. And much more of it. But mostly in areas that already have run.
So areas of California may have a wetter winter/spring, producing a lot more vegetation, which will dry out by summer. That will just lead to more material to burn.
But some places that typically do not get much rain, will just get dryer as the climate warms. It is hard to make blanket statements. You really have to look at a particular area and all its factors to know for sure.
Random technicians having access to touch the entire AD tree sounds like a major security issue. If we implemented something like that were I work, the technician would be asking some System Analyst/Sys Admin above him to make the change on his behalf via a IT ticket, or the technician would be granted access rights just over that computer lab for 1 day.
What we do to prevent these sorts of disasters is implement process around the use of the ConfigMgr
IT changes in general should always be governed by a change management process, including review, approval stages, and documentation. You shouldn't have small daily admin tasks governed by a complicated approval process, but anything that has the potential to change things in a widespread way should be stuck in a workflow queue for review of some sort.
Depending on the size of the group, you can adjust the level of formality for a change management process. It might just be as simple as emailing some group of people asking them if they see an issues with "change X".
What I can't believe is that someone did something without testing it for on a test system. I wouldn't be surprised to learn they they didn't have an adequate test system.
It is healthy to let a company die when the economy is doing fine. But letting a huge company, that is integrated into thousands of other companies' lives, die in the middle of a huge recession would just be adding fire onto the flames.
Or instead of a big dog, get a medium sized dog bred specifically to make very loud sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB23r3XMRNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyjHRSeCuZw
NOT a good dog for apartments. Does need exercise daily (like all working class dogs: hounds: labs, pointers, etc.. people rarely give them what they need though).
and, heaven forbid, people might have to change their behaviors.
I wouldn't even mention that as a possible issue. It is repeated time and time again by skeptics, but without one single shred of evidence that anyone would have to adjust their lifestyle. Oregon is at 20% renewables and my life hasn't changed one bit. Germany is way beyond that, and I don't hear anyone complaining that the government has asked them to turn off their air conditioners, etc...
Until we have an actual example of rationing or forced lifestyle change, it does a lot of harm to keep mentioning it as a possibility of tackling AGW. (In my opinion, after watching things like this: http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_on_winning_the_oil_endgame , or using google scholar to search for similar studies/plans, moving off oil would be fairly easy.
Because, like digital copies of music, there is little to no cost for multiplying the volume at these current levels. Fiber can push huge amounts of data. Like petabytes per second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/x7cko/regarding_the_google_fiber_announcement_what_is/
Cable/Phone companies won't bother upgrading their networks. That is why when Google moves into a town with Fiber, then can give people 1000 Mb/s (1 Gb/s) connections for the same cost as Comcast giving you 50 Mb/s.
All these data cap crap is just companies carving out a new market by creating yet another artificially scarce resource.