The real problem is not prison population. The real problem is that urban areas like Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco ship their prisoners to the Central Valley (more recently Arizona, Mississippi, and Oklahoma) because they do not want to pay for a prison in their own urban centers. Lower land costs, lower utility costs, and lower cost of living/labor makes the Central Valley a better place to house prisoners.
My father-in-law works at one of these Central Valley prisons, and I can tell you that his entire prison (3,000) does not fall within the category of rehabilitation. The entire prison is for people who were transferred from other prisons for murdering another prisoner or who were convicted of murder prior to being jailed. Not exactly the type of people that respond well to counseling and talk therapy. More like the kind of people that would stab you with a metal pen.
Yes, you are probably just naive. I make my postulations based on history. Lobotomy was an accepted medical practice during the early 1900's, and was actually developed in Portugal and practiced throughout the world. Indefinite internment has been practiced around the world, not just the US. Your short-minded world view apparently only remembers the past 10 years or so.
What I was getting at, is that some sort of biomarker would be used as a tool against the citizens. Some government bureaucrat would decide "Oh, you have a genetic pre-disposition to violence. You cannot own a gun, cannot drive a car, cannot vote, cannot own any sharp metal object over 3 inches long, and here is your new sub-citizen designation"
Someone must have caught Gattaca on Encore a few weeks ago. Sounds like a great idea, let's find the biomarker (a.k.a. genes) which identify violent behavior. Then what? Lobotomies? Indefinite internment? Put them on an island where they fight to the death on pay-per-view? Deny them the full rights accorded to them as citizens of the United States?
I seem to remember an era when scientists claimed that African-Americans were inferior to people of Caucasian descent. That proved to be ridiculous, racist, and fraudulent science. This concept is so flawed I can barely scratch the surface. Biomarkers do not determine who a person is or what they will become. Look at the Twins Studies. It is neither nature nor nurture, it is both.
This explains why the Earth's climate was so warm 700 years ago and the era was full of freak hurricanes. I mean, the 1300's was an era of increase greenhouse emissions and freak storms just like this. Let's not even get started on the 600's, or 100 BC. Now those were some whoppers.
Remember the rule. When you go to the hardware store and buy a new AC filter and batteries for your smoke detectors, you have to replace your unhealthy filter. Brought to you by the Ad Council.
If this continues, every item sold within the US is going to have a 89-page disclaimer. It is bad enough that insulated cups have warnings about the contents being hot, now electronic devices need to have a disclaimer about the internet having pornography? This guy is literally, blaming the messenger (company that makes the device), for this his own actions and lack of self-control. Plenty of people can use the internet and even peruse sexual content without having their lives destroyed.
Maybe he should have tried getting a life and setting his priorities, instead of watching the Farrah Abraham video.
From "Energy Production Causes Big US Earthquakes" to "Most of these quakes have been small, but some have exceeded magnitude 5.0."
From the USGS website, there are an estimated 1,444,469 earthquakes per year (based on records since 1990). There are 1,319 earthquakes per year which measure form 5.0 to 5.9 on the Richter scale. The article cites one instance of an earthquake which the scientists guess is because of fracking. Nature, you are not exactly knocking my socks off here.
Napolitano is heading out there to ensure that the Sharknado [imdb.com] does not come to pass. She's going to take flying lessons so she can hover a helicopter 50 feet away from the up-coming EF4 tornado and "blow it up".
This pretty much solves that whole iOS v. Android question that many have. If someone ever tells me that Climate Change exists with their Android device in hand, now I can call them a hypocrite.
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Exactly. Not all coccidioidomycosis is created equally. But "rare and immune-compromised" doesn't make for flashy headlines.
Shingles is a virus, Valley Fever is a fungus that gets inhaled. They are not the same.
I really dig that scrolling menu bar at the top of your website.
Valley fever is not a virus. It is a fungal infection. Your examples are viruses, and fungal infections do not follow those same rules.
The real problem is not prison population. The real problem is that urban areas like Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco ship their prisoners to the Central Valley (more recently Arizona, Mississippi, and Oklahoma) because they do not want to pay for a prison in their own urban centers. Lower land costs, lower utility costs, and lower cost of living/labor makes the Central Valley a better place to house prisoners.
My father-in-law works at one of these Central Valley prisons, and I can tell you that his entire prison (3,000) does not fall within the category of rehabilitation. The entire prison is for people who were transferred from other prisons for murdering another prisoner or who were convicted of murder prior to being jailed. Not exactly the type of people that respond well to counseling and talk therapy. More like the kind of people that would stab you with a metal pen.
From the summary:
It never leaves the body and symptoms can be triggered again.
From the linked article
The infection ordinarily resolves leaving the patient with a specific immunity to re-infection.
Both cannot be true.
Then the original should say "the D.C."
You only go to jail for election fraud when the election officials do not get paid by the elected office of which you have just stolen.
DC is not a freeway, therefore you cannot call it "the DC".
Yes, you are probably just naive. I make my postulations based on history. Lobotomy was an accepted medical practice during the early 1900's, and was actually developed in Portugal and practiced throughout the world. Indefinite internment has been practiced around the world, not just the US. Your short-minded world view apparently only remembers the past 10 years or so.
What I was getting at, is that some sort of biomarker would be used as a tool against the citizens. Some government bureaucrat would decide "Oh, you have a genetic pre-disposition to violence. You cannot own a gun, cannot drive a car, cannot vote, cannot own any sharp metal object over 3 inches long, and here is your new sub-citizen designation"
Corrupt Incompetent Assclowns
Or CIA.
Now that you mention it, I am going to blame JJ Abrams for eugenics being considered by these folks.
KHHHHAAAANNNNNN!!!!
Someone must have caught Gattaca on Encore a few weeks ago. Sounds like a great idea, let's find the biomarker (a.k.a. genes) which identify violent behavior. Then what? Lobotomies? Indefinite internment? Put them on an island where they fight to the death on pay-per-view? Deny them the full rights accorded to them as citizens of the United States?
I seem to remember an era when scientists claimed that African-Americans were inferior to people of Caucasian descent. That proved to be ridiculous, racist, and fraudulent science. This concept is so flawed I can barely scratch the surface. Biomarkers do not determine who a person is or what they will become. Look at the Twins Studies. It is neither nature nor nurture, it is both.
This explains why the Earth's climate was so warm 700 years ago and the era was full of freak hurricanes. I mean, the 1300's was an era of increase greenhouse emissions and freak storms just like this. Let's not even get started on the 600's, or 100 BC. Now those were some whoppers.
It's SCIENCE!
So what country are you from which does not have a "sense of entitlement"?
That would make MUCH more sense on the Green Lantern costume. Everyone KNOWS that Superman can fly because of the Earth's yellow sun, not his costume.
Remember the rule. When you go to the hardware store and buy a new AC filter and batteries for your smoke detectors, you have to replace your unhealthy filter. Brought to you by the Ad Council.
If this continues, every item sold within the US is going to have a 89-page disclaimer. It is bad enough that insulated cups have warnings about the contents being hot, now electronic devices need to have a disclaimer about the internet having pornography? This guy is literally, blaming the messenger (company that makes the device), for this his own actions and lack of self-control. Plenty of people can use the internet and even peruse sexual content without having their lives destroyed.
Maybe he should have tried getting a life and setting his priorities, instead of watching the Farrah Abraham video.
Would you prefer something more like "The Song of Ice and Fire: A Volcano's song"?
I bet the volcano's still have better pitch control than Justin Beiber.
From "Energy Production Causes Big US Earthquakes" to "Most of these quakes have been small, but some have exceeded magnitude 5.0."
From the USGS website, there are an estimated 1,444,469 earthquakes per year (based on records since 1990). There are 1,319 earthquakes per year which measure form 5.0 to 5.9 on the Richter scale. The article cites one instance of an earthquake which the scientists guess is because of fracking. Nature, you are not exactly knocking my socks off here.
Awesome, I have a stalker.
And FYI,
Napolitano is heading out there to ensure that the Sharknado [imdb.com] does not come to pass. She's going to take flying lessons so she can hover a helicopter 50 feet away from the up-coming EF4 tornado and "blow it up".
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But SHARKNADO! We have to stop it!
No matter how you parse it.
I don't believe in global warming, so I do not care what kind of phone I use.
But SHARKNADO! We have to stop it!
This pretty much solves that whole iOS v. Android question that many have. If someone ever tells me that Climate Change exists with their Android device in hand, now I can call them a hypocrite.