It's not absurd at all. Such professionals are not always the ones who actually do the interrogation. All too often it's left to the Lynndie Englands of the world to interogate, whether under orders or just because they think it's a good idea. No, it was not "left to [them]" to interrogate the prisoners. England wasn't doing any interrogation. She and her pal were told by the interrogators to "soften the prisoners up" before the interrogation. Being a couple of typical dickhead southern cracker cops (reservist Military Police), they jumped at the chance. They knew they were wrong. They just thought that out there, in Iraq, they could get away with it. The interrogators who assigned them this task also knew better, but thought they could get away with pawning the job off on a couple thickheaded reservists.
In the military there IS a class during basic training on the Geneva Conventions, but it's hard to retain information when you're on a 6 hour sleep schedule and just did 2 hours of physical fitness right after waking up. I had trouble staying awake for that class (as did everyone else), but I managed to remember one of the primary points: no fucking torturing. Anyone claiming that they "didn't know" they weren't allowed to torture prisoners is full of it. They knew. They just thought the situation warranted breaking the rules and thought they could get away with it. Besides, they don't just tell Joe Infantry "go interrogate that prisoner", because Joe isn't even trained to ask the right questions. "Interrogator" is its own job classification (97E), and you can bet your sweet bottom that they had a little more instruction on prisoner handling than the 2 hour GC lecture in basic training. It's not a failure of training, it's a failure of command and oversight.
Just goes to show you how strange the Internet is, i say there should only be one person that does the registration of domains, and not all these half-baked companies You mean like it was when Network Solutions did it? Back when you had to provide your own nameserver and manage your own DNS? Great for those of a technical bent with access to a nameserver, but useless if all you wanted was a domain name pointed at your DSL IP address.
It was a forseeable consequence that soldiers dealing with combat violence would eventually become conditioned to using an armed response as their only response. Hmmmm....I'd have to disagree with the assessment that violent behavior in veterans is related to combat conditioning. The very purpose of combat training it to separate the application of "military grade violence" from whatever emotional reactions the soldier may be having at the time. Being a trained soldier does not make your first reaction to being angry be to grab a machine gun and start firing wildly.
Domestic violence in veterans stems from the fact that combat training circumvents emotion so well that the military has largely ignored the emotional damage caused by combat stress.
For those who come after me, there was originally a typo in the headline.
The funny thing is, my original submission had a completely different headline, so the typo was added by the editors. You misspelled "janitors".
Of course, that's an insult to the hardworking intelligent people who swing a mop all day. They're more like "chimps". Good thing they aren't being paid for the work they do, right?
All we know is that it will blow up again someday.
How do we know that?
Because that's what volcanoes do. In the long term, they're very predictable.
>Even if it does erupt again, it might not be a supervolcano the next time around. Magma bubbles under 40 mile diameter calderas don't erupt in any way other than as a "supervolcano". You can't pop a balloon "a little bit", 100,000 cubic miles of molten rock can't erupt "a little bit".
Netflix can't recommend a good movie to me either Netflix recommendations used to work back when it was all movie buffs. Now that all those tasteless assholes out there have come in and made every move (from tripe to gold) uniformly 3 1/2 stars, it doesn't work.
Medical marijuana is a pain killer, not a cure for anything. So there is never going to be a situation where marijuana is the only thing keeping someone alive. Bad comparison. No, you're just an idiot pulling ignorance out of his ass. The analgesic effect of THC is secondary. The primary benefit is its anti-nausea effect. It can make the difference between a chemo patient being able to eat vs. not being able to keep anything down and slowly starving and weakening on a glucose drip.
Karma is unknowable. Who are you to say what karmic result the Universe might deem appropriate for any given action?
At any rate, the GP poster is still an idiot, because karma is a much larger system than that. It doesn't work on the scale of "kick a dog, get struck by lightning". I wish that it wasn't bad karma to do horrible things to all those long haired new age dumbfucks out there who blame illnesses, accidents, and general bad luck on bad karma--- it ain't like that. It's more of a "be a bad person your whole life and risk coming back the next life as a bug" sort of arrangement. Smug, self-satisfied vegans don't have nearly the lock on good karma they think they do.
As has been noted previously, the "editors" here are really little more than chimps who've learned to click an "accept submission" button. Doing any sort of sanity check on the content, or even checking to see if it's been posted here already, is far beyond their meager "skills". But it's OK, they're not being PAID to do this job, right?
Except, producers of something have every right to attach whatever conditions they wish to that product. If you don't like those conditions, don't use it. It's that simple. Producers should not have the right to mandate by force of law the configuration of receivers of their content. It's that simple. Idiot.
Not every country has to go through the Manhattan Project stage again; the knowledge has already been discovered. They can theoretically buy/steal materials (enriched uranium) or parts (missile casings and launchers). Except that the Manhattan Project was all about discovering everything you left out. Just have uranium and a launch vehicle is not enough. That's the easy part. Making it explode reliably, that's the very, very hard part. There really is more to it than just smacking two chunks of uranium together any old way.
Calling me paranoid doesn't mean that tech companies are philanthropic. No, but no one claimed that, did they? What was said was that your paranoid vision of the old "owe my soul to the company store" system that worked when labor was cheap and replaceable showing up in the modern tech industry is ridiculous. We aren't 1000 okies clamoring for 300 jobs picking fruit, willing to live in company-owned shacks at high rents because we can't afford to look for a better job without starving ourselves and our families. Seriously, you really should look at the circumstances surrounding all those past "company town" situations so you might see that they didn't arise simply because the company happened to own all the local housing.
No, I'm one of those, "Don't expose me to blood, guts and sex without me knowing about it," fuckwits. All forms of advertisements that do those things are evil. Sorry, I have yet to see a credible example of "secret graphic blood/guts/sex images" in advertising. Perhaps you could provide a couple examples? Or are they all so well hidden no one can see them? (snicker)
The observed and cited consequences of those exposures is a matter of debate. Given that the very existence of such things is a matter of debate, I'd have to agree.
Nice. Do you work for Microsoft or do you curse to make yourself feel big?
No, I curse to show my derision for the laughable conspiracy theory blatherings of certifiable lunatics when I'm addressing them through a text-only interface, as you can't hear me laughing and snorting at your tin-foil-hattery.
See, if you really want to discredit someone who's mocking you and using profanity, the best way is to calmly prove your points with rational argument and hard facts and make him look like an asshat. I can give you this advice without fear, as I know your position is insane and indefensible. The profanity has a bonus of goading a pure ad hominem response, letting me know you read my rebuttal. If I speak politely, I tend to get no response to my rebuttal, which isn't quite as satisfying. Now I know you heard my argument, and can't come up with any counterargument. Much more satisfying to my cynical heart!
Looking forward to clips of those subliminal bloody-guts beer commercials you promised!
But pretty much the one thing that's been proven over and over again about advertising is that people's buying habits are not affected much by subtlety. See, it doesn't matter if stuff registers subliminally, because then it only works subliminally. You could spend a quarter million dollars seeding various forms of media with your message, but in the end you get X number of people with the vague notion that they've heard someone mention "Coca-Cola". The same money would have better results in the form of a giant billboard showing a frosty Coke can, facing a busy street in the summer. That's what this most recent study shows: there's just no shortcut. Advertising works best by beating people over the head with it.
It's a pity the/. editors... wonder what/. editors mean... the/. editors... You keep misspelling "paid chimps who have learned to randomly smash the [ACCEPT] button"
increased my reading speed to over 400 words per minute (the average adult reads about 100-150 wpm), while still maintaining high comprehension scores. It's been so long since I actually paid attention to this stuff that I didn't initially notice your numbers there. Actual "average" reading speed is about 200wpm. 100wpm would be considered "slow". 400wpm is actually about the average normal reading speed of a college grad--- that's about the speed I read a book for fun. If you're not getting up to the 600-700wpm range with Evelyn Wood, something's wrong.
That's because "speed reading" takes advantage of the natural redundancy of human language. You can still "gist" the content even if you lose half the detail. You're technically still reading at about 100-150wpm--- you're just skipping 200-odd wpm worth of "superfluous" content. Like you say, if the "devil is in the details", such as a book on SQL, you gotta slow down! Great for college assigned reading, but I find it to be a deeply unsatisfying way to read. I actually like reading.
Road rage, divorce, hook-ups, and many other social disorders are a direct consequence of this unethical form of advertising. Bollocks. You're one of those "TV is the devil" fuckwits, aren't you. Road rage has more to do with urban stress than anything else. Increase in divorce rates has fuck-all to do with TV and everything to do with a liberalization of society and abandonment of the stigma attached to single parenting, i.e. marriages aren't being wrecked by TV, they're just not being kept together when they're bad anymore. "Hook-ups"? If you knew anything about sexual promiscuity throughout the ages, you'd know what an idiot you sound like claiming it's a "social disorder". People like fucking, and they always have. They do it all the time. Porn doesn't make 'em do it-- we're hard wired for it. Get over your bizarre prudery.
It's a shame you guys are stuck with the 24fps->30fps (half of 60Hz) problem even with HDTV, no wonder people aren't as hot on the idea of 1080i in the US! Fix your electricity supply! As another poster noted, ATSC (our HDTV system) has a 24fps mode specifically tailored for film. So I suggest to you stop slaving your fps to the frequency of your AC mains!
according to a study by Privacy International, USA is worse all the European countries except UK. PI uses a ridiculously coarse scale one to five points, based on 13 answers of "true or false" on absurdly broad categories, e.g. "do they use ID cards" and "do they have democratic safeguards". This is USA Today style four-color-glossy "news". They had a foregone conclusion to reach, and devised a "survey" to illustrate it. There's a kernel of truth in it all, but it's hardly a substantive ranking.
And before someone whips out the quote "Governments should be afraid of their people!" that applies to the elected, legislative body. In this case, enforcement arms - police, ICE, and the like - should instill a little fear... Often times the threat of action by the authorities will halt criminal activities. No.... that should apply especially to the police. Law enforcement should always be a little afraid to serve that warrant, to kick in that door. It should be a mix of fears: fear they might have the wrong house, fear the residents might be armed, fear they're about to overstep their authority and land in the clink. OK, so the last one's unfortunately wishful thinking, but the day the police have nothing to fear when they confront a citizen is the day we've lost. It'll be like the cops coming for Mr Buttle...er Tuttle... in "Brazil". We've bagged your husband ma'am, here's your receipt...
Tell me, if people are apparentely losing rights in the US, why don't your guns sort it out? No reason to swat flies with a 2x4. What's the old saw? Three boxes in defense of liberty, ballot box, jury box, and ammo box, to be used in that order? Something like that. We're still at the point where people are figuring out (1) isn't working right. It (appropriately) takes a while to get decent folks to (3).
The eternal jerkoff fantasy of gun nuts. People who can barely pay off their credit cards bills or be bothered to vote every 4 years will suddenly overthrow the US Government and the Armed Forces with their hunting rifles. Go ask a member of the Armed Forces if they'd be willing to shoot their fellow countrymen. We generally take a dim view of that. We're trained to kill foreigners, not our neighbors. You might be surprised to find that we're more likely to be on the other side.
If it comes down to it, the gov't can really only count on the cops.
Slashdot Mirror
Domestic violence in veterans stems from the fact that combat training circumvents emotion so well that the military has largely ignored the emotional damage caused by combat stress.
The funny thing is, my original submission had a completely different headline, so the typo was added by the editors. You misspelled "janitors".
Of course, that's an insult to the hardworking intelligent people who swing a mop all day. They're more like "chimps". Good thing they aren't being paid for the work they do, right?
How do we know that?
Because that's what volcanoes do. In the long term, they're very predictable.>Even if it does erupt again, it might not be a supervolcano the next time around. Magma bubbles under 40 mile diameter calderas don't erupt in any way other than as a "supervolcano". You can't pop a balloon "a little bit", 100,000 cubic miles of molten rock can't erupt "a little bit".
Karma is unknowable. Who are you to say what karmic result the Universe might deem appropriate for any given action?
At any rate, the GP poster is still an idiot, because karma is a much larger system than that. It doesn't work on the scale of "kick a dog, get struck by lightning". I wish that it wasn't bad karma to do horrible things to all those long haired new age dumbfucks out there who blame illnesses, accidents, and general bad luck on bad karma--- it ain't like that. It's more of a "be a bad person your whole life and risk coming back the next life as a bug" sort of arrangement. Smug, self-satisfied vegans don't have nearly the lock on good karma they think they do.
As has been noted previously, the "editors" here are really little more than chimps who've learned to click an "accept submission" button. Doing any sort of sanity check on the content, or even checking to see if it's been posted here already, is far beyond their meager "skills". But it's OK, they're not being PAID to do this job, right?
The observed and cited consequences of those exposures is a matter of debate. Given that the very existence of such things is a matter of debate, I'd have to agree.
Bollocks.
Nice. Do you work for Microsoft or do you curse to make yourself feel big?
No, I curse to show my derision for the laughable conspiracy theory blatherings of certifiable lunatics when I'm addressing them through a text-only interface, as you can't hear me laughing and snorting at your tin-foil-hattery.See, if you really want to discredit someone who's mocking you and using profanity, the best way is to calmly prove your points with rational argument and hard facts and make him look like an asshat. I can give you this advice without fear, as I know your position is insane and indefensible. The profanity has a bonus of goading a pure ad hominem response, letting me know you read my rebuttal. If I speak politely, I tend to get no response to my rebuttal, which isn't quite as satisfying. Now I know you heard my argument, and can't come up with any counterargument. Much more satisfying to my cynical heart!
Looking forward to clips of those subliminal bloody-guts beer commercials you promised!
But pretty much the one thing that's been proven over and over again about advertising is that people's buying habits are not affected much by subtlety. See, it doesn't matter if stuff registers subliminally, because then it only works subliminally. You could spend a quarter million dollars seeding various forms of media with your message, but in the end you get X number of people with the vague notion that they've heard someone mention "Coca-Cola". The same money would have better results in the form of a giant billboard showing a frosty Coke can, facing a busy street in the summer. That's what this most recent study shows: there's just no shortcut. Advertising works best by beating people over the head with it.
That's because "speed reading" takes advantage of the natural redundancy of human language. You can still "gist" the content even if you lose half the detail. You're technically still reading at about 100-150wpm--- you're just skipping 200-odd wpm worth of "superfluous" content. Like you say, if the "devil is in the details", such as a book on SQL, you gotta slow down! Great for college assigned reading, but I find it to be a deeply unsatisfying way to read. I actually like reading.
Great! I bag my limit on policemen and federal agents on the first day the season opens.