Too often the forensic office is friends with and/or pressured by the police or DA to get results. Especially in election years or for high profile casrs.
Forensic science should be done behind a blind. I.E., with no name or trackable case number attached to the evidence, by a lab in an entirely different physical area than the case. Anonymous methods of communication can be devised to pass requests back and forth.
In addition, whenever possible the work should be peer reviewed as in redone, again anoymously by another lab.
We spend millions locking up people for joints, this is peoples entire lives that are ruined by mistakes, over zealouness, and -gasp- corruption. But, lile security theater, it is not about safety, but the illusion of safety. Oh, and raking in tax dollars for a job done wrong.
Typical. In Virginia, the low end for Grand Larceny is $200. You can spent 20 years in prison for picking up someones netbook.
On the other hand, you can raise funds from investors, buy up companies, bilk the assets as the companies sit neglected and die, the investors, and the emplyes all lose, thousands and jobs and homes and more, while the 'perpetrators' bilk off millions. And we call it 'business' and make it legal.
4Chan can update it's codebase, but I still cannot post Unicode chars or have a decent editing box on/.. The mobile version breaks on me standard android browser more often than not, and no matter what I do, carriage returns have to be manually input as HTML. Really fun on a touchscreen keyboard.
"Hi, state bureaucratic offices? This is Steve Ballmer. After the window Windows 8 debacle, I would like to disband and unfile this little corporation I own."
"Yes, I have controlling rights, just delist it. The company and its products are worthless anyway."
The other facets of organic vs. non organic?
Non-organic farming relies on fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides in humongous quantities.
Why, to support soil depleting and disease susceptible monocultures.
Without proper rotation of crops, this leaves the soil barren of nutrients unless you pump fertilizers into it, and when farming is done, contributes to soil erosion.
With a monoculture, one fungus or insect can destroy an entire crop, necessitating the use of pesticides and other harsh chemicals.
Even of organic does not offer much greater health benefits, it robs Monsanto, Cargill, Dow, and Chevron of a constant revenue stream.
It also reduced reliance on fossil fuels, reduces carbon emissions (both from the production and use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides), creates (at least anecdotally) safer food, and makes for a cleaner environment.
What is NOT desirable about that? Oh, profit for the megacorps, I forgot.
Amen.
Not to mention the fact that restoring rights allows a not insignificant bloc of disenfranchised individuals to vote again. Scary to some in power to be sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler_transporter
This is one seriously wicked piece of engineering.
I sincerely hope we get to use it again.
Diesel-electric, and rides on a road made of a specific gravel that can support the weight.
An analogy for you Mr. Skeptic.
Your house is on fire. You know it is on fire, you can see the flames and smell the smoke.
You do not know if it was started by an arsonist, or perhaps by lightning or an electrical problem.
Do you wait for the scientists to find out what started the fire before calling the fire department?
By that time the house will be burned down
I myself think we are looking at it all wrong. I think it is man-made, all the evidence points to the earth never having had such a rapid increase CO2 and temperature. Regardless of the source of warming though, we both agree that it -is- warming, and at an alarming rate.
Shouldn't we expend resources to stop it or reduce damages from it, regardless of our belief? If you are of a christian bent, God made us stewards of the earth. To care for and manipulate as we need, but in that process we should respect it.
I myself am no longer christian, but I do not understand how 'christian' people can so readily rape the world that they believe god has given them.
However the content is removed, be it by an AI skimmer, a human, or a copyright holder or troll sending takedown notices, we keep missing one key part of the equation.
That part is the fact that there is little to no recourse for those that have legitimate content taken down. In this case apparently uStream was silent and ignored things. How hard would it have been to get a human to look at the stream? Shouldn't your NOC have a few people on hand to do this at all times?
Another case, takedowns on youtube. One troll can issue unlimited bogus takedown requests with no fear of any punishment or reprisal, even though they are clearly in the wrong. An individual youtube channel however does not fare so well, to many takedowns, legit or not, and you are suspended or removed.
There are no real checks and balances in the system. Those in power, with money and lobbyists and pet politicians sit at the top of the hill, and the shit rolls downhill to the common man.
Technology has and is making it easier and easier for the common man to produce content. This we know, and it scares the behemoths as they see people slowly fleeing. This type of behavior is grasping, saying mine, mine min, when you already have more than enough, and also another barrier to entry for competition, which poorly replaces the old barrier of content production and distribution, which was high cost.
The reason you cannot remember is you were one of the ones who gave a sample. They wiped your memory of the event.
The fact that you recall this much is cause for concern.
This is a valid assumption. We have only been using radio for an eyeblink in time, and already many of are signals are directed and lower power. Not much noise leakage or signal strength for others to pick up. Assuming technology continues to advance, hat trend should continue, and our radio signal will look more and more like noise at a distance. Then, if better or different technologies supplant radio it's over.
Who says ET doesn't communicate with lasers, or quantum entanglement, or by manipulating the string patterns in the dark energy matrix?
hmm, apparently we have some Nokia fanboi moderators today. How nice. Any company that cuts user options because it would defile design is a douchbag in my book. Form should follow function, not the other way around. These devices are tools, not art.
You would think a company that is on the verge of dying would be a little more customer focused.
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if the abstracts contain spin 0, 1, 1/2, 3/2 etc. ? If the don't contain spin, is it a new type of physics?
Tell that to those killed in the crusades.. or by the inquisition, or dead because of a thousand other dumb fucking reasons.
Is go on tor and use bitcoin to hire a hitman for the poacher.
All jokes aside, its pretty damn cool.
But is is coffee proof? Have you dunked your toothbrush in starbucks swill or a triple shot espresso? Tht may burn thrpung seals and gaskets.
Amen. Jupiter, the hoover of the sol system.
Just hope we never hear the words "Megamaid has gone from suck to blow!"
Oh, and my name is Hauser or is it Quaid?
Too often the forensic office is friends with and/or pressured by the police or DA to get results. Especially in election years or for high profile casrs.
Forensic science should be done behind a blind. I.E., with no name or trackable case number attached to the evidence, by a lab in an entirely different physical area than the case.
Anonymous methods of communication can be devised to pass requests back and forth.
In addition, whenever possible the work should be peer reviewed as in redone, again anoymously by another lab.
We spend millions locking up people for joints, this is peoples entire lives that are ruined by mistakes, over zealouness, and -gasp- corruption.
But, lile security theater, it is not about safety, but the illusion of safety. Oh, and raking in tax dollars for a job done wrong.
The guy is in 'statistics', a sample size of one is all he needs.
Especially when his career is at stake!
Those are scars left by martian strip mining and martian mountaintop coal removal crews.
Typical. In Virginia, the low end for Grand Larceny is $200. You can spent 20 years in prison for picking up someones netbook.
On the other hand, you can raise funds from investors, buy up companies, bilk the assets as the companies sit neglected and die, the investors, and the emplyes all lose, thousands and jobs and homes and more, while the 'perpetrators' bilk off millions. And we call it 'business' and make it legal.
4Chan can update it's codebase, but I still cannot post Unicode chars or have a decent editing box on /.. The mobile version breaks on me standard android browser more often than not, and no matter what I do, carriage returns have to be manually input as HTML. Really fun on a touchscreen keyboard.
I didn't have a C64, I started with TRS-80 and Apple ][. Does this explain why I am unemployed and all my posts get modded down?
C64 Bias. I knew it.
ISRO: Using India's electricity to power or space program.
-or-
ISRO: You light your candles, while we light ours.
"Hi, state bureaucratic offices? This is Steve Ballmer. After the window Windows 8 debacle, I would like to disband and unfile this little corporation I own."
"Yes, I have controlling rights, just delist it. The company and its products are worthless anyway."
The other facets of organic vs. non organic?
Non-organic farming relies on fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides in humongous quantities.
Why, to support soil depleting and disease susceptible monocultures. Without proper rotation of crops, this leaves the soil barren of nutrients unless you pump fertilizers into it, and when farming is done, contributes to soil erosion.
With a monoculture, one fungus or insect can destroy an entire crop, necessitating the use of pesticides and other harsh chemicals.
Even of organic does not offer much greater health benefits, it robs Monsanto, Cargill, Dow, and Chevron of a constant revenue stream.
It also reduced reliance on fossil fuels, reduces carbon emissions (both from the production and use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides), creates (at least anecdotally) safer food, and makes for a cleaner environment.
What is NOT desirable about that? Oh, profit for the megacorps, I forgot.
Amen.
Not to mention the fact that restoring rights allows a not insignificant bloc of disenfranchised individuals to vote again. Scary to some in power to be sure.
They want there store filled with there own apps and selected others first? The power of the default optipn is strong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler_transporter
This is one seriously wicked piece of engineering.
I sincerely hope we get to use it again.
Diesel-electric, and rides on a road made of a specific gravel that can support the weight.
Your house is on fire. You know it is on fire, you can see the flames and smell the smoke.
You do not know if it was started by an arsonist, or perhaps by lightning or an electrical problem.
Do you wait for the scientists to find out what started the fire before calling the fire department?
By that time the house will be burned down
I myself think we are looking at it all wrong. I think it is man-made, all the evidence points to the earth never having had such a rapid increase CO2 and temperature. Regardless of the source of warming though, we both agree that it -is- warming, and at an alarming rate.
Shouldn't we expend resources to stop it or reduce damages from it, regardless of our belief? If you are of a christian bent, God made us stewards of the earth. To care for and manipulate as we need, but in that process we should respect it.
I myself am no longer christian, but I do not understand how 'christian' people can so readily rape the world that they believe god has given them.
Not when there is a one way facing no class-action arbitration clause in the terms of service we so blithely click on.
However the content is removed, be it by an AI skimmer, a human, or a copyright holder or troll sending takedown notices, we keep missing one key part of the equation.
That part is the fact that there is little to no recourse for those that have legitimate content taken down. In this case apparently uStream was silent and ignored things. How hard would it have been to get a human to look at the stream? Shouldn't your NOC have a few people on hand to do this at all times?
Another case, takedowns on youtube. One troll can issue unlimited bogus takedown requests with no fear of any punishment or reprisal, even though they are clearly in the wrong. An individual youtube channel however does not fare so well, to many takedowns, legit or not, and you are suspended or removed.
There are no real checks and balances in the system. Those in power, with money and lobbyists and pet politicians sit at the top of the hill, and the shit rolls downhill to the common man.
Technology has and is making it easier and easier for the common man to produce content. This we know, and it scares the behemoths as they see people slowly fleeing. This type of behavior is grasping, saying mine, mine min, when you already have more than enough, and also another barrier to entry for competition, which poorly replaces the old barrier of content production and distribution, which was high cost.
The reason you cannot remember is you were one of the ones who gave a sample. They wiped your memory of the event.
The fact that you recall this much is cause for concern.
This is a valid assumption. We have only been using radio for an eyeblink in time, and already many of are signals are directed and lower power. Not much noise leakage or signal strength for others to pick up. Assuming technology continues to advance, hat trend should continue, and our radio signal will look more and more like noise at a distance. Then, if better or different technologies supplant radio it's over.
Who says ET doesn't communicate with lasers, or quantum entanglement, or by manipulating the string patterns in the dark energy matrix?
hmm, apparently we have some Nokia fanboi moderators today. How nice. Any company that cuts user options because it would defile design is a douchbag in my book. Form should follow function, not the other way around. These devices are tools, not art.
You would think a company that is on the verge of dying would be a little more customer focused.
Oh how I long for the day a Nokia 7110 would arrive at my desk so I could talk to Morpheus