After I do a consult with prospective clients, someone always asks me "Why should we pay you since you just told us what we needed to do? We can just go do it ourselves." This is pretty close to the sentiment of the article.
I always say the same thing: "What to do is free, how to do it costs money, asking me how to do it after you try to do it yourself will cost you double and I won't even have to raise my price."
Knowing how to execute a particular idea is always better than the original idea, because you have the hands on knowledge to improve it and improvise with it.
It has moved away from this to attempting to prevent thoughts of people who are into this sort of thing (not the cartoons, the real disgusting kid stuff)because if they are able to see it, they begin to imagine it, and if they imagine it, they want to go do it. Its still looked at as prevention, but instead of preventing the actual abuse, they want to prevent the thoughts that may lead to the abuse.
I always love to hear when people use this logic. If this is correct, we should be able to rehabilitate our criminals by showing them children's movies for years on end. We can turn hardened killers into Archeologists through the power of Dora the Explorer!
Actually, I do know what I'm talking about. 15 years in the industry gives you that.
I'm not talking about an establishment's license, I'm talking about a servers license. It's complete bullshit.
And as far as liquor stores going through a distributor, they do. Yet, it is ILLEGAL for a bar to go to the local liquor store to get a bottle of something they ran out of. You think your distro guy is going to get it to you in 20 minutes?
My brother wasn't in an accident (and lost two months of work) caused by a guy driving high on weed.
The driving while intoxicated has nothing to do with the intoxicating element. This crime is illegal regardless of mind altering source.
My neighbor didn't have his car stereo stolen by a guy getting money for smack.
Unless you KNOW FOR A FACT the perpetrator WAS stealing explicitly for smack, then this argument has no value. You can steal for many other reasons. One of them being CASH.
One of my friends wasn't held up at knife point by a guy obviously seeking a fix of something.
The SOMETHING could have been Money, or THRILL (it does happen), or proof of loyalty to a gang.
The accident, theft, and hold up are all products of their imaginations.
They are all the products of IGNORANCE. If you could function in society and still "get your fix", like alcoholics most often do, then these crimes would be categorized as they should be - the results of SPECIFIC ACTIONS. Ignorant people do Ignorant shit to no end.
I disagree: if all drugs were legal, the people currently selling them would move onto some other lucrative, illegal activity. For example, the Mafia didn't cease to exist when Prohibition ended and they couldn't run their speakeasys anymore; they just stepped up their extortion, money laundering, etc. to compensate.
Or they got into Politics like the Kennedys.
Why would an organization who engaged in illegal activities related to drugs suddenly move on to other illegal activities just because drugs became legalized? It makes no sense. Drug dealers ARE businessmen. There is A LOT of money in dealing, because demand is high and risks are high. It is no different than shipping magnates making large chunks of cash by moving LEGAL products through DANGEROUS areas. The danger here is just relative.
So a dealing operation gets an in to legitimate business practice, you think they won't go "ok lets SCALE this bitch now that we won't go to jail for it."
The mafia that you speak of was already engaged in those other practices, they legitimized the liquor elements and made money off of that. Hell, ever wonder why a bar is forced to buy its product through a distributor instead of the local liquor store? Ever wonder why you had to buy a liquor license just to BRING IT TO A TABLE? You don't go through special training to get the license, you just pay. T.I.P.S. Classes are insurance, not true training.
The real world manifestations disagree with your hypothesis.
You can already get that type of information from google trends.
This seems to be an application of search data relative to local IP of the index server being applied to social networking theory.
It's actually quite benign. It's not like you are going to learn a whole bunch from southern states googling "AR15 purchase" or from Californians googling "gay marriage vote". We already have key demographic data and above board social knowledge that can somewhat accurately predict these behaviors.
But if you see a spike of "flu symptoms", "flu remedies", and "flu prevention" showing up in unusually large quantities in a certain IP block, you can probably safely assume there is something going on there. It's not like this data is going to give you the zero case, but it can give valuable insight for planning purposes.
This isn't unprecedented you know. Stock Market data is open to view and many people use it for Technical Analysis when trying to determine their purchasing. You don't know that "Steve McMillian bought NKE at 22.45 for 100 shares" but you do know that there was a 1 million volume of trade for NKE at 22.36.
On another note, what the hell did you think was going to happen when a company states they want to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".
With the increasingly lowered cost of technology, why in the world are medical tests on machines, like MRI's, increasing in price?
Because MRIs are one of the few outpatient services that generate a PROFIT in a hospital. If you look at how the payers deal with hospitals with DRG codes, retroactive denials (yeah, you read that right), and paper shuffle games delaying payment - the hospital has to do something to maintain operating costs.
Actually, you already have this in the form of Diagnose Related Groups (DRG Codes) being used by Insurers to determine payouts. It DOES NOT work. All it does is tell the care provider how much they will be on the hook for if the procedures go over cost. Forcing even non-profits to act like for-profits and reduce their cost per procedure.
When hospitals are forced to put focus on their cost per procedure at the expense of quality of care - you're not fixing the system.
Both of us have opinions. Both of us have a chosen to live a lifestyle that makes us comfortable. One of us has the tools and skills to keep that lifestyle when someone tries to take it forcibly.
Understand the math?
You can articulate any point of superiority you want to, but it means fuck all in the real world. You have yet to produce any data to support your wild emotion claims.
Like I said before, you're belief isn't necessary to make something true. Be angry all you want. Talk all the shit you want. Make wild accusations of how I'm a fascist and how I use my weapons to force others to do my bidding. I don't give a shit.
Your opinion, while protected by the constitution, is completely worthless in value. When employed in the real world it doesn't hold up. SO continue to assume your the enlightened one. Continue to spew ignorance. The fact remains that you cannot change the circumstance.
Well since my gun safe next to my bed responds to fingerprints I guess we can ignore half your argument as it pertains to me.
The other arguments regarding domestic violence fall under the auspice of "best weapon available", we going to get rid of chef knives too?
for every scenario where they are used on an intruder successfully, there are 10 other scenarios where they are used on the house occupants: self-inflicted in a moment of despondency, self-inflicted by a child, used on an inhabitant in the dark sneaking in the window because they forgot their keys, used on a wife in the heat of a giant flare up, used on someone while drunk or high
Statistical link or shut the fuck up. Feelings aren't facts.
But lets take this argument along the allegory line you have established.
I have been to 15 competitions where there were over 400 fully armed people competing with each other in their skill at shooting. In a situation where we are all competing, filled with hypothetical testosterone and obviously laying out our manhood against each other, you would think that you could find at least one instance of one competitor shooting another. You can't. In fact, you can't even find an instance of an accidental shooting injury at a match.
Go ahead and try. Use google - I'll wait.
The situations you allude to all have to do with the ignorant doing ignorant things to each other.
I was racked with guilt at the time. Everyone, excluding my father in law, told me I should get over it (me and him actually bonded in a weird way because of this). He has never antagonized me about it, and any time the subject is brought up in conversation he hasn't been the one to initiate it - and he never says anything critical.
In a culinary sense, it was good. In an existential sense, it was probably the most meaningful meal I have ever had.
I used to feel the exact same way about shooting a human or an animal. I don't need to hunt to eat and I have no desire to take a human life. I shoot competitively, but that's always for a score against paper targets. I figure if I own a gun I should be good with it. A competent user is a safe user and all that...
But then I had an interesting event happen - I got charged by a boar.
I occasionally go hunting with my father in law to take photographs. I always figured "hey I'm learning how to hunt if I ever need it, I just don't have to shoot anything." Quite often my father in law would stalk a deer and let it go, he got off on just doing it. Plus, he ate everything he ever did shoot. He's old school southern ex-military.
After one evening of watching an inactive plot, we called no joy and decided to head back to camp. After about five minutes of walking this boar comes crashing out of some brush right at us. I just drew and discharged my whole magazine. I was scared absolutely shitless. All the competition training and practice went out the fucking window. I'm surprised I even managed to draw. Hell, I'm not sure I'm the one who even killed it.
After I quit crying, and trust me I did, my father in law laughed and said "well, you may not be a hunter, but you're definitely no pacifist." He bundled up the boar and we continued to camp.
I agonized over this event for weeks. I had taken life (or so I assumed) and was none to happy about it, yet I didn't feel it was unjustified - just horrible. I kept running through thought experiments concerning the difference between the ideal I tried to hold myself to and the actions I had taken in light of a real world scenario. Was I a hypocrite? Was it my fault for being there? If I didn't actually own a weapon would these feeling even exist?
Maybe it is just a cop out, but I eventually came to the conclusion that my actions were justified. I also became acutely aware that I had a very different attitude towards having to use my weapon for self defense. Before I never kept it loaded in the gun safe. Now I have a touch sensitive gun case next to the bed, and the gun is loaded.
I also purchased a second weapon, realizing the limitations of the one I had when it came to home defense.
I'm not saying that everyone should own a gun, or that others wouldn't stick to their guns (pun intended) and not use such a tool against an animal or human. I'm just saying that never is a tricky word.
In areas with high concentrations of "not white, alternative lifestyle living people" you will find a very dedicated contingency of this neo-nazi archetype.
As a white dude who moved from Memphis to Miami I can tell you it was an experience. Not many white Americans can tell you what it feels like to be a true minority first hand. I didn't speak spanish, and not just textbook spanish - but all the South American variants. I wasn't Jewish, or Cuban, or Old, or Rich.
It was an eye opening experience, and one that I think I am better for. Once you start looking for "those you can relate to" in an area where there aren't many present - you quickly see how many people you need to stay the fuck away from because you don't want to be lumped in with them. The neo-nazi typo attitude and hatred was a very real and tangible thing.
It got to the point where I was looking at the lace colors on the boots to tell if I was going to taste blood, go to the ER, or possibly die based on the skin color of my GF at the time when confronted by these motherfuckers.
And as an aside, no gay guy tried to kick my ass because I was dating a Jewish or Spanish girl.
Slashdot Mirror
After I do a consult with prospective clients, someone always asks me "Why should we pay you since you just told us what we needed to do? We can just go do it ourselves." This is pretty close to the sentiment of the article.
I always say the same thing: "What to do is free, how to do it costs money, asking me how to do it after you try to do it yourself will cost you double and I won't even have to raise my price."
Knowing how to execute a particular idea is always better than the original idea, because you have the hands on knowledge to improve it and improvise with it.
It has moved away from this to attempting to prevent thoughts of people who are into this sort of thing (not the cartoons, the real disgusting kid stuff)because if they are able to see it, they begin to imagine it, and if they imagine it, they want to go do it. Its still looked at as prevention, but instead of preventing the actual abuse, they want to prevent the thoughts that may lead to the abuse.
I always love to hear when people use this logic. If this is correct, we should be able to rehabilitate our criminals by showing them children's movies for years on end. We can turn hardened killers into Archeologists through the power of Dora the Explorer!
Just use the pledge algorithm
Put your right hand on the maze wall and keep walking. As long as your right hand is touching the wall you will eventually find the exit.
But why is there a legal blockade on a local bar setting up a purchasing agreement with the local liquor store?
Actually, I do know what I'm talking about. 15 years in the industry gives you that.
I'm not talking about an establishment's license, I'm talking about a servers license. It's complete bullshit.
And as far as liquor stores going through a distributor, they do. Yet, it is ILLEGAL for a bar to go to the local liquor store to get a bottle of something they ran out of. You think your distro guy is going to get it to you in 20 minutes?
Do you know what your talking about?
I don't trust single point data.
At least here someone will call out another for proffering me bullshit.
My brother wasn't in an accident (and lost two months of work) caused by a guy driving high on weed.
The driving while intoxicated has nothing to do with the intoxicating element. This crime is illegal regardless of mind altering source.
My neighbor didn't have his car stereo stolen by a guy getting money for smack.
Unless you KNOW FOR A FACT the perpetrator WAS stealing explicitly for smack, then this argument has no value. You can steal for many other reasons. One of them being CASH.
One of my friends wasn't held up at knife point by a guy obviously seeking a fix of something.
The SOMETHING could have been Money, or THRILL (it does happen), or proof of loyalty to a gang.
The accident, theft, and hold up are all products of their imaginations.
They are all the products of IGNORANCE. If you could function in society and still "get your fix", like alcoholics most often do, then these crimes would be categorized as they should be - the results of SPECIFIC ACTIONS. Ignorant people do Ignorant shit to no end.
I disagree: if all drugs were legal, the people currently selling them would move onto some other lucrative, illegal activity. For example, the Mafia didn't cease to exist when Prohibition ended and they couldn't run their speakeasys anymore; they just stepped up their extortion, money laundering, etc. to compensate.
Or they got into Politics like the Kennedys.
Why would an organization who engaged in illegal activities related to drugs suddenly move on to other illegal activities just because drugs became legalized? It makes no sense. Drug dealers ARE businessmen. There is A LOT of money in dealing, because demand is high and risks are high. It is no different than shipping magnates making large chunks of cash by moving LEGAL products through DANGEROUS areas. The danger here is just relative.
So a dealing operation gets an in to legitimate business practice, you think they won't go "ok lets SCALE this bitch now that we won't go to jail for it."
The mafia that you speak of was already engaged in those other practices, they legitimized the liquor elements and made money off of that. Hell, ever wonder why a bar is forced to buy its product through a distributor instead of the local liquor store? Ever wonder why you had to buy a liquor license just to BRING IT TO A TABLE? You don't go through special training to get the license, you just pay. T.I.P.S. Classes are insurance, not true training.
The real world manifestations disagree with your hypothesis.
Just an aside.
How the hell does WHO predict Flu strains for immunization? I am honestly ignorant and would like to know.
You can already get that type of information from google trends.
This seems to be an application of search data relative to local IP of the index server being applied to social networking theory.
It's actually quite benign. It's not like you are going to learn a whole bunch from southern states googling "AR15 purchase" or from Californians googling "gay marriage vote". We already have key demographic data and above board social knowledge that can somewhat accurately predict these behaviors.
But if you see a spike of "flu symptoms", "flu remedies", and "flu prevention" showing up in unusually large quantities in a certain IP block, you can probably safely assume there is something going on there. It's not like this data is going to give you the zero case, but it can give valuable insight for planning purposes.
This isn't unprecedented you know. Stock Market data is open to view and many people use it for Technical Analysis when trying to determine their purchasing. You don't know that "Steve McMillian bought NKE at 22.45 for 100 shares" but you do know that there was a 1 million volume of trade for NKE at 22.36.
On another note, what the hell did you think was going to happen when a company states they want to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".
With the increasingly lowered cost of technology, why in the world are medical tests on machines, like MRI's, increasing in price?
Because MRIs are one of the few outpatient services that generate a PROFIT in a hospital. If you look at how the payers deal with hospitals with DRG codes, retroactive denials (yeah, you read that right), and paper shuffle games delaying payment - the hospital has to do something to maintain operating costs.
Actually, you already have this in the form of Diagnose Related Groups (DRG Codes) being used by Insurers to determine payouts. It DOES NOT work. All it does is tell the care provider how much they will be on the hook for if the procedures go over cost. Forcing even non-profits to act like for-profits and reduce their cost per procedure.
When hospitals are forced to put focus on their cost per procedure at the expense of quality of care - you're not fixing the system.
Fuck man.
You get it.
This is probably the most succinct evaluation of new society campaigning I have ever read.
You must be kidding, serve you?
Both of us have opinions. Both of us have a chosen to live a lifestyle that makes us comfortable. One of us has the tools and skills to keep that lifestyle when someone tries to take it forcibly.
Understand the math?
You can articulate any point of superiority you want to, but it means fuck all in the real world. You have yet to produce any data to support your wild emotion claims.
Like I said before, you're belief isn't necessary to make something true. Be angry all you want. Talk all the shit you want. Make wild accusations of how I'm a fascist and how I use my weapons to force others to do my bidding. I don't give a shit.
Your opinion, while protected by the constitution, is completely worthless in value. When employed in the real world it doesn't hold up. SO continue to assume your the enlightened one. Continue to spew ignorance. The fact remains that you cannot change the circumstance.
Enjoy it.
lol. We eat you.
in the hands of a well-trained police force and a military
I outshoot police and military shooters on a regular basis.
The reality is I am better with the tools than those you say are the only ones who should have them.
i don't trust random arrogantly self-certain assholes with guns
Your trust has nothing to do with us being in charge.
lol. That's all you get. lol.
You fucking idiot.
very rare and expensive.
The fingerprint sensitive cabinet costs $300. Not rare, not expensive.
The "misuse of statistics" link is the most awesome example of straw man I have ever seen. You didn't even offer a supporting source. You fail.
Here's the deal. You are free to think whatever you want on the subject.
Your feelings don't jibe with the reality.
People who interact with the reality will outnumber the people who "feel" about the reality when it comes to brass tacks.
Your statistical argument requires a time machine. You are a fucking idiot.
Well since my gun safe next to my bed responds to fingerprints I guess we can ignore half your argument as it pertains to me.
The other arguments regarding domestic violence fall under the auspice of "best weapon available", we going to get rid of chef knives too?
for every scenario where they are used on an intruder successfully, there are 10 other scenarios where they are used on the house occupants: self-inflicted in a moment of despondency, self-inflicted by a child, used on an inhabitant in the dark sneaking in the window because they forgot their keys, used on a wife in the heat of a giant flare up, used on someone while drunk or high
Statistical link or shut the fuck up. Feelings aren't facts.
But lets take this argument along the allegory line you have established.
I have been to 15 competitions where there were over 400 fully armed people competing with each other in their skill at shooting. In a situation where we are all competing, filled with hypothetical testosterone and obviously laying out our manhood against each other, you would think that you could find at least one instance of one competitor shooting another. You can't. In fact, you can't even find an instance of an accidental shooting injury at a match.
Go ahead and try. Use google - I'll wait.
The situations you allude to all have to do with the ignorant doing ignorant things to each other.
It was a fucked up experience when I ate it.
I was racked with guilt at the time. Everyone, excluding my father in law, told me I should get over it (me and him actually bonded in a weird way because of this). He has never antagonized me about it, and any time the subject is brought up in conversation he hasn't been the one to initiate it - and he never says anything critical.
In a culinary sense, it was good. In an existential sense, it was probably the most meaningful meal I have ever had.
Off topic.
I used to feel the exact same way about shooting a human or an animal. I don't need to hunt to eat and I have no desire to take a human life. I shoot competitively, but that's always for a score against paper targets. I figure if I own a gun I should be good with it. A competent user is a safe user and all that...
But then I had an interesting event happen - I got charged by a boar.
I occasionally go hunting with my father in law to take photographs. I always figured "hey I'm learning how to hunt if I ever need it, I just don't have to shoot anything." Quite often my father in law would stalk a deer and let it go, he got off on just doing it. Plus, he ate everything he ever did shoot. He's old school southern ex-military.
After one evening of watching an inactive plot, we called no joy and decided to head back to camp. After about five minutes of walking this boar comes crashing out of some brush right at us. I just drew and discharged my whole magazine. I was scared absolutely shitless. All the competition training and practice went out the fucking window. I'm surprised I even managed to draw. Hell, I'm not sure I'm the one who even killed it.
After I quit crying, and trust me I did, my father in law laughed and said "well, you may not be a hunter, but you're definitely no pacifist." He bundled up the boar and we continued to camp.
I agonized over this event for weeks. I had taken life (or so I assumed) and was none to happy about it, yet I didn't feel it was unjustified - just horrible. I kept running through thought experiments concerning the difference between the ideal I tried to hold myself to and the actions I had taken in light of a real world scenario. Was I a hypocrite? Was it my fault for being there? If I didn't actually own a weapon would these feeling even exist?
Maybe it is just a cop out, but I eventually came to the conclusion that my actions were justified. I also became acutely aware that I had a very different attitude towards having to use my weapon for self defense. Before I never kept it loaded in the gun safe. Now I have a touch sensitive gun case next to the bed, and the gun is loaded.
I also purchased a second weapon, realizing the limitations of the one I had when it came to home defense.
I'm not saying that everyone should own a gun, or that others wouldn't stick to their guns (pun intended) and not use such a tool against an animal or human. I'm just saying that never is a tricky word.
In areas with high concentrations of "not white, alternative lifestyle living people" you will find a very dedicated contingency of this neo-nazi archetype.
As a white dude who moved from Memphis to Miami I can tell you it was an experience. Not many white Americans can tell you what it feels like to be a true minority first hand. I didn't speak spanish, and not just textbook spanish - but all the South American variants. I wasn't Jewish, or Cuban, or Old, or Rich.
It was an eye opening experience, and one that I think I am better for. Once you start looking for "those you can relate to" in an area where there aren't many present - you quickly see how many people you need to stay the fuck away from because you don't want to be lumped in with them. The neo-nazi typo attitude and hatred was a very real and tangible thing.
It got to the point where I was looking at the lace colors on the boots to tell if I was going to taste blood, go to the ER, or possibly die based on the skin color of my GF at the time when confronted by these motherfuckers.
And as an aside, no gay guy tried to kick my ass because I was dating a Jewish or Spanish girl.