Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered a sergeant to the home of a reporter around 12:45 a.m. Friday to request changes to a story that Meehan felt inaccurately portrayed him, media outlets reported this weekend.
From the article
Meehan has since apologized for his actions Thursday night...
Probably by sending a SWAT team to the editor's house.
And this went down about 2 months ago. One fuckup we can forgive as long as they learn their lesson. Two blatant abuses of power in 2 months. Of course the City Manager takes the chief of police to task over something like this, she doesn't want to get shot during a routine traffic investigation. How the fuck do we let assholes like them run our cities?
she is an awesome SciFi author; however, this is just nuts!
Good artists (actors, painters, singers, writers) are required to be nuts.
Yeah the good artists are at least good in their medium. A Sci-Fi author that can't think of the ramifications of something as absurdly draconian as this?
Except by even proposing something like this or stating something akin to "in fiction it would work" she is showing she has less cognitive reasoning capacity than an average teenager. "in fiction it would work"... Yeah, in badly written chock-full-o'-plot-holes fiction it would work. Seriously this goes beyond "did not do the research" and into willful ignorance.
Congrads indeed... finally we are at the point where NASA was in the 1960's!
And far further ahead of where NASA is today, considering SpaceX is close to putting people into orbit, where NASA is decades away if it will ever be able to do so again.
Basically irrigation and water use has grown quite a bit since the thing was built, and as the article suggests, a lot of this water ends up in the ocean.
I have always thought of IT as a department within a company that does a particular buisness.
Does this mean that the OP's company performs outsourced IT tasks for companies too small to need dedicated IT staff? In this case outsourcing (not offshoring) seems quite reasonable as long as it is to someone you have a good line of communications to with well defined and measurable goals.
Now, outsourcing isn't some magic powder you sprinkle on to a project to suddenly make it more cost effective. Keeping with the presumption that the OP's company performs outsourcing tasks themselves, if they are successful they should already know how to manage contracts, and evaluate outsourced work.
If food was expensive, we wouldn't eat as much. Also if food was very expensive more people would starve to death. Which according to mathematics means they are not obese, so its a win-win.
Since we are using math to analyze this, lets start taking the average human weight. That way for every morbidly obese person, we can have one or two skin and bones starving person to make up for them. Mathematical perfection!
While we are at it, we can government-mandate that the little food we do produce must be highly bland and nearly inedible. Problem solved!
You mean like all those pinup photos from WWII? Here's a before and after. (NSFWish, they're pinups). People have been photoshopping since before photoshop was invented. They still paid a team of analog artists to fix up all those photographs.
According to this, the duck-face look has been around for generations.
When the owner was resting a little, and put the bag or case nearby, then there is any theft who is sneaky to take it away, within 2.5 meter, it will become alarm, then 0.5 second later, it will begin high voltage attack to throw the theft down and be numb.
Of course you should take as many steps as possible to ensure you DON'T need to do damage control, but if you, Prey or something like it could be invaluable.
On their how it works page it is described as being Silent but deadly. Therefore I can only assume it stinks.
While everyone does the survey thing now, and I agree that they are of little value; I don't recall ever having a rep try to suggest I give them a good score. In fact that would be one way to guarantee I give them a low score and a comment of "cares more about getting a good score on the survey than providing good customer service."
Normally it is "Would you like to take a survey?", or "If you take this survey you will be entered to win $something." I normally tell the rep up front if I liked their service anyhow.
My favorite survey was for a bank location that I only did banking over the phone at. I wasn't able to answer many of the questions as they were mostly about the physical location. I was happy with the one person I talked to on the phone with, though. The surveyor and I had a good laugh when I suggested that I was only a few blocks away and could walk in there and let him know.
Customer satisfaction is *the* metric for a customer support service. Even for "internal customers" (people inside your company) it's a big deal. You won't get fired for a bad rating, and if the customer is an asshole this can be traced back and reviewed by a coordinator/supervisor by tracking where your points came from (there is a history log of everything).
It sounds like you are coming from a "tech vs. the rest" type of experience. In most non technology companies, tech is service for the rest, so a change of mindset is in order.
In the end, it's about people. Tools are just supposed to get all non-people problems out of your way (such as communication, tracking, measurement, etc).
And there are customers that are dicks. So do you just fire people assigned to your dick customers, since it must be the employee's fault they are getting low ratings?
How about lets have the managers rate the employees by reviewing their work and interaction with the customers... you know do their jobs. Instead it is easier to say "oh sorry, you didn't get enough gold stars, we have to let you go, its not my fault."
Also, the problem with the gaming system you have is similar to most MMO type games. Any technique that gives you the most reward for the least effort is going to be exploited. This gets it "nerfed" as they say. So you get into a culture that anything that is really effective in earning points gets reduced. (or the opposite, points are continually increased for anything that needs to be focused on more, causing a "points inflation")
And we also seem to realize that taking kids on field trips to see humans in jail wouldn't be prudent either.
Not the case - I was on a traveling football team in my younger years (early teen). We had drug and theft issues running through the community and team. We were actually brought to see the humans in jail. I decided at that moment that it was never going to be the place for me. Maybe we should take MORE of our kids to see humans in jail.
A friend of mine in law enforcement explained to me that those "scared straight" programs are mostly worthless. The kids come in, take a look, and say "Oh that isn't going to be me, I am way smarter than those fools."
You cannot arrest someone for wanting to cause harm; everyone will want to harm another person at some point in their life.
Sure you can. If I hit you with my car I will get charged with a very different crime if they can prove I wanted to hurt you than if I was just being careless.
What you are talking about is if someone thinks about doing a crime. This is more about when something actually occurs and not when someone just thinks about doing something.
"In some hospitals" So that could be 3 out of the thousands of hosptials across the country.
It isn't the illegal aliens causing the problem, its people that cant buy insurance because some political group would rather people just die than give everyone equal care.
Guess what, people without coverage are not going to sit at home and die, they are going to go to the ER which is much more expensive than having regular covered doctors visits for preventive care.
In terms of underwear bombs, the United States is so huge that while a proliferation of bombs would of course radically change life in the country, they would not destroy it.
A war on underwear would result in the entire country going commando.
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Without any knowledge except the city and borough names, I'm guessing "British Telecom" or something equivalent.
Just consider this article as a "Revenge of the Limeys" for all the ones that use US-known TLAs.
I suppose TLA could also stand for Two Letter Acronym....
So all those 80's fighter movies were prophetic. All of those "migs" that were really F5's are actually Iranian.
same guy sent a COP over to a REPORTERS house at MIDNIGHT because he was worried about a story which was about to run.
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/03/10/berkeley-police-chief-sends-officer-to-reporters-home/
Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered a sergeant to the home of a reporter around 12:45 a.m. Friday to request changes to a story that Meehan felt inaccurately portrayed him, media outlets reported this weekend.
From the article
Meehan has since apologized for his actions Thursday night...
Probably by sending a SWAT team to the editor's house.
And this went down about 2 months ago. One fuckup we can forgive as long as they learn their lesson. Two blatant abuses of power in 2 months. Of course the City Manager takes the chief of police to task over something like this, she doesn't want to get shot during a routine traffic investigation. How the fuck do we let assholes like them run our cities?
Except text messages don't require an immediate reply and leave a log of the conversation so it is easier to follow.
Wait, phones make a log of the conversation!? Ban those too!
she is an awesome SciFi author; however, this is just nuts!
Good artists (actors, painters, singers, writers) are required to be nuts.
Yeah the good artists are at least good in their medium. A Sci-Fi author that can't think of the ramifications of something as absurdly draconian as this?
The "* dog dare" are like a .5 raking to the dare system, so you are missing a few ranks. Let me illustrate:
Oh no, its more like a multiplicative effect.
Dare = 1
Double Dare = 2
Triple Dare = 3
Dog Dare = 2
Double Dog Dare = 4
Triple Dog Dare = 6
Except by even proposing something like this or stating something akin to "in fiction it would work" she is showing she has less cognitive reasoning capacity than an average teenager. "in fiction it would work"... Yeah, in badly written chock-full-o'-plot-holes fiction it would work. Seriously this goes beyond "did not do the research" and into willful ignorance.
Congrads indeed... finally we are at the point where NASA was in the 1960's!
And far further ahead of where NASA is today, considering SpaceX is close to putting people into orbit, where NASA is decades away if it will ever be able to do so again.
Actually I take back some of what I said, the lake is higher now than it was in the last 2 years (since the article I linked was written).
Levels are pretty good now, though that link doesnt show the outflow amount, and so doesnt say how much more water we use today.
While GP's "not much water" is an exaggeration, water use of the dam has been outpacing the rate it gets filled for decades now.
Soon it may not be able to produce power.
Basically irrigation and water use has grown quite a bit since the thing was built, and as the article suggests, a lot of this water ends up in the ocean.
Watch out Gandhi might drop the A-Bomb.
I have always thought of IT as a department within a company that does a particular buisness.
Does this mean that the OP's company performs outsourced IT tasks for companies too small to need dedicated IT staff? In this case outsourcing (not offshoring) seems quite reasonable as long as it is to someone you have a good line of communications to with well defined and measurable goals.
Now, outsourcing isn't some magic powder you sprinkle on to a project to suddenly make it more cost effective. Keeping with the presumption that the OP's company performs outsourcing tasks themselves, if they are successful they should already know how to manage contracts, and evaluate outsourced work.
I am using a functional language.
No its more like "garbage in = garbage out".
If food was expensive, we wouldn't eat as much. Also if food was very expensive more people would starve to death. Which according to mathematics means they are not obese, so its a win-win.
Since we are using math to analyze this, lets start taking the average human weight. That way for every morbidly obese person, we can have one or two skin and bones starving person to make up for them. Mathematical perfection!
While we are at it, we can government-mandate that the little food we do produce must be highly bland and nearly inedible. Problem solved!
You mean like all those pinup photos from WWII? Here's a before and after. (NSFWish, they're pinups). People have been photoshopping since before photoshop was invented. They still paid a team of analog artists to fix up all those photographs.
According to this, the duck-face look has been around for generations.
http://jr-international.fr/100-000v-electrified-briefcase_ELALOC_itm_english.html
When the owner was resting a little, and put the bag or case nearby, then there is any theft who is sneaky to take it away, within 2.5 meter, it will become alarm, then 0.5 second later, it will begin high voltage attack to throw the theft down and be numb.
Of course you should take as many steps as possible to ensure you DON'T need to do damage control, but if you, Prey or something like it could be invaluable.
On their how it works page it is described as being Silent but deadly. Therefore I can only assume it stinks.
While everyone does the survey thing now, and I agree that they are of little value; I don't recall ever having a rep try to suggest I give them a good score. In fact that would be one way to guarantee I give them a low score and a comment of "cares more about getting a good score on the survey than providing good customer service."
Normally it is "Would you like to take a survey?", or "If you take this survey you will be entered to win $something." I normally tell the rep up front if I liked their service anyhow.
My favorite survey was for a bank location that I only did banking over the phone at. I wasn't able to answer many of the questions as they were mostly about the physical location. I was happy with the one person I talked to on the phone with, though. The surveyor and I had a good laugh when I suggested that I was only a few blocks away and could walk in there and let him know.
Customer satisfaction is *the* metric for a customer support service. Even for "internal customers" (people inside your company) it's a big deal. You won't get fired for a bad rating, and if the customer is an asshole this can be traced back and reviewed by a coordinator/supervisor by tracking where your points came from (there is a history log of everything).
It sounds like you are coming from a "tech vs. the rest" type of experience. In most non technology companies, tech is service for the rest, so a change of mindset is in order.
In the end, it's about people. Tools are just supposed to get all non-people problems out of your way (such as communication, tracking, measurement, etc).
And there are customers that are dicks. So do you just fire people assigned to your dick customers, since it must be the employee's fault they are getting low ratings?
How about lets have the managers rate the employees by reviewing their work and interaction with the customers... you know do their jobs. Instead it is easier to say "oh sorry, you didn't get enough gold stars, we have to let you go, its not my fault."
Also, the problem with the gaming system you have is similar to most MMO type games. Any technique that gives you the most reward for the least effort is going to be exploited. This gets it "nerfed" as they say. So you get into a culture that anything that is really effective in earning points gets reduced. (or the opposite, points are continually increased for anything that needs to be focused on more, causing a "points inflation")
And we also seem to realize that taking kids on field trips to see humans in jail wouldn't be prudent either.
Not the case - I was on a traveling football team in my younger years (early teen). We had drug and theft issues running through the community and team. We were actually brought to see the humans in jail. I decided at that moment that it was never going to be the place for me. Maybe we should take MORE of our kids to see humans in jail.
A friend of mine in law enforcement explained to me that those "scared straight" programs are mostly worthless. The kids come in, take a look, and say "Oh that isn't going to be me, I am way smarter than those fools."
You cannot arrest someone for wanting to cause harm; everyone will want to harm another person at some point in their life.
Sure you can. If I hit you with my car I will get charged with a very different crime if they can prove I wanted to hurt you than if I was just being careless.
What you are talking about is if someone thinks about doing a crime. This is more about when something actually occurs and not when someone just thinks about doing something.
She has diabetes. You could also blame the FDA and the GMO corn syrup and not the pump.
I do not get it... why didn't she just opt-out? You have the right to do that, no? Not anymore?
If you walk up to a search station, see them searching and decide to walk away, they are going to search you whether you like it or not.
"In some hospitals" So that could be 3 out of the thousands of hosptials across the country.
It isn't the illegal aliens causing the problem, its people that cant buy insurance because some political group would rather people just die than give everyone equal care.
Guess what, people without coverage are not going to sit at home and die, they are going to go to the ER which is much more expensive than having regular covered doctors visits for preventive care.
Guess who pays for the uninsured visits?
In terms of underwear bombs, the United States is so huge that while a proliferation of bombs would of course radically change life in the country, they would not destroy it.
A war on underwear would result in the entire country going commando.