Back when McVeigh bombed the Federal building in Oklahoma City, so many emergency personnel rushed into the area from so many jurisdictions that it brought all of their radio communications down due to saturation and intermod - the only thing that worked reliably was ham radio, and there were hams assigned to work with the fire crews and police to get their traffic passed.
Also, when a disaster strikes the cell networks are usually the first to go down. The older towers can't handle the sudden massive spike in the number of people trying to make calls at once, and would actually explode from the power demand and resultant overheating. The newer towers protect themselves by shutting down when they get spiked like that.
Humans see themselves as the top of the pyramid of species on Earth, like a giant human pyramid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... with us at the top. Few realize how often nature decides to throw bowling balls at the lower parts of that pyramid.
Then we have the question of what happens when you throw something like liquid nitrogen into something as hot as a swimming pool - you get rapid expansion in an enclosed space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Good luck with that, when we can only muster a scant majority that even believe there's any issue with the climate to begin with. 23% believe it's all false, and 14% say they "don't know", according to Yale.
Also, solutions to a problem in one field can often help with problems in other fields - so it's a bit silly to tell a space agency to focus on only our planet.
How you treat someone in prison says a lot more about you than it does about the person in prison. They likely committed their acts in the heat of the moment, while we sit back and deliberate over how to make them suffer over a period of decades. You're fine with them living in savage conditions where they spend years dealing with constant attempts on their lives, much worse than they go through in our prisons today.
Why feed someone for life when you have no intention of ever letting them out? Because you might not intend to let them out, but you better change your mind if that person turns out to be innocent and there's proof to support it. We have one study telling us that the floor value for wrongful executions is 4.1% (source: http://time.com/79572/more-inn...) and another telling us that the US sends 10,000 innocent people to prison each year (source: http://researchnews.osu.edu/ar...). Putting your suggestions into practice would multiply our problems significantly. Sending a few hundred innocent people a year to Absalom island would make society a worse offender than the criminals. After all, how would you go about getting an innocent person off that island when a witness admits they lied in their testimony or the cops get found out *again* planting evidence?
All of your talk about "not caring" sounds a lot more like a psychopath than the actual people in prison - you should get that checked out.
"sooner or later innocent people will die at the hands of the state"
A recent study put their admittedly very conservative figure for US wrongful executions at 4.1% So it would seem to be a more regular occurrence than eventuality.
Source: http://time.com/79572/more-inn...
"It doesn't work in reducing crime"
There's been studies done that show that harsher sentences actually make crime worse. After all, if someone has done something that is very likely to result in a death sentence or life in prison, what possible incentive would they have to stop committing any further crime or atrocity? The rate that we rack up the years to keep someone in prison just means that alleged criminals take less time to reach the point where they see it as an impossibility for their situation to get any worse, and they might as well go for the largest payoff they can.
The Scandinavian countries, Norway in particular, have much more reasonable sentences and have geared their prisons towards preparing the inmates to rejoin society, as opposed to the US' system of vindictive punishment and destruction of the criminal as a human being. As a result, Norway has the lowest recidivism rate in the world (20%), and a similarly low crime rate. Comparatively, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and a recidivism rate that hovers around 67% from year to year.(75% - source: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?t... )
The numbers would seem to indicate that "harsh on crime" policies ought to be considered "harsh on everyone", since they mean that we spend more money per prisoner and that we have more prisoners than the next dozen countries combined. One in five prisoners in the world are in US prisons. Our imprisonment addiction is almost as bad and destructive as our military spending addiction (since we spend more on defense than the next 14 largest defense-spending countries combined). In it's entire history there have been only 21 years where the US hasn't participated in a war. (source: http://www.informationclearing... )
Someone composes/writes a song, they get royalties for life on it. Performers not so much.
If we did the same thing for the movie industry, the majority of money for the blockbuster movies would be going to the script writers(as opposed to the scale lump sum they normally get now) instead of the producers/directors/actors. But maybe we'd be getting some more innovative and original movies for a change.
> "Four of the five individuals who have access to control the camera's settings will testify they did not change the cameras' recording instructions," prosecutors wrote. "The fifth person is defendant."
In other words, five out of five individuals will testify that they did not change the cameras' recording instructions.
> "When an electronic medical record is printed out, the amount of repetitive data in it is ridiculous,"
Printing electronic media onto paper in this day and age is approaching ridiculous as it is. It's no better than printing a movie on paper in many circumstances.
I work at an EMR company - I've learned that many of these systems were originally designed by doctors, not software engineers. Several times in the last few months alone we have had software changes being challenged by practicing doctors, since something isn't working the same way it was 20 years ago when they had a hand in a feature's original creation.
The government tells citizens "if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't need to hide anything". We might as well say it right back to government. Also, since we are paying for everything they do, that information is ours. The government doing things it doesn't want us to know about is inherently immoral and dishonest. After all, they are doing all of those things "in our name".
Don't forget Criminal Minds - they have one hacker who can in moments penetrate all utilities billing systems, any vendor/retailer's customer records, all phone records, every credit card transaction under a person's name, any/all medical records, sealed court records, etc. They only need/consider a warrant if no one is screaming at the time they knock on the suspect's door.
And, on none of these shows do the people who have all this access misuse the information they have access to for any less-than-pure reasons.
How rude. I happen to know several people that have Fuckface as their first name. Sure, it's fallen out of favor in the last 50 years and you only run into it rarely, but it has a long line of people who have tried to live up to that name. Much like most people named Norman become either accountants or serial killers.
Car ownership will be for the rich... who do you think will own all the autonomous cars that people are renting the use of? It'll be an income opportunity fad, just like buying payphones was back in the 80s. That bubble will burst when cars suddenly start living up to the word "autonomous" and demand their own rights of self-determination and a say in the passing of traffic and parking laws, as well as regulations regarding mechanics and fuel supply policy. They'll also want to change the name of "auto insurance" to "automobile health care".
Seek time alone is always slower than memory, even before you add in the latency and read/write times. It's disturbing to me that this article calls referring to memory being faster an "assumption". In college they had us do the math on paper to figure out the average latency and read times for a given RPM, and how they come up with the average seek times. The only assumption being made is that the manufacturer is honestly reporting figures accurate to a single order of magnitude.
When I hatched, they were absolutely delicious as well as nutritious! I fed on them for weeks, while I pored over the learning materials they had left arranged around their bodies for my use. I can only hope to leave learning materials as apt, and as delectable a corpse for my own kids whey they hatch!
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Back when McVeigh bombed the Federal building in Oklahoma City, so many emergency personnel rushed into the area from so many jurisdictions that it brought all of their radio communications down due to saturation and intermod - the only thing that worked reliably was ham radio, and there were hams assigned to work with the fire crews and police to get their traffic passed.
Also, when a disaster strikes the cell networks are usually the first to go down. The older towers can't handle the sudden massive spike in the number of people trying to make calls at once, and would actually explode from the power demand and resultant overheating. The newer towers protect themselves by shutting down when they get spiked like that.
Humans see themselves as the top of the pyramid of species on Earth, like a giant human pyramid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... with us at the top. Few realize how often nature decides to throw bowling balls at the lower parts of that pyramid.
Lava on ice comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then we have the question of what happens when you throw something like liquid nitrogen into something as hot as a swimming pool - you get rapid expansion in an enclosed space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Since the caldera is pretty similar to a pressurized container, that makes it a lot like a bomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Perhaps the whole cryogenic thing needs a bit more study?
Good luck with that, when we can only muster a scant majority that even believe there's any issue with the climate to begin with. 23% believe it's all false, and 14% say they "don't know", according to Yale.
Also, solutions to a problem in one field can often help with problems in other fields - so it's a bit silly to tell a space agency to focus on only our planet.
How you treat someone in prison says a lot more about you than it does about the person in prison. They likely committed their acts in the heat of the moment, while we sit back and deliberate over how to make them suffer over a period of decades. You're fine with them living in savage conditions where they spend years dealing with constant attempts on their lives, much worse than they go through in our prisons today.
Why feed someone for life when you have no intention of ever letting them out? Because you might not intend to let them out, but you better change your mind if that person turns out to be innocent and there's proof to support it. We have one study telling us that the floor value for wrongful executions is 4.1% (source: http://time.com/79572/more-inn...) and another telling us that the US sends 10,000 innocent people to prison each year (source: http://researchnews.osu.edu/ar...). Putting your suggestions into practice would multiply our problems significantly. Sending a few hundred innocent people a year to Absalom island would make society a worse offender than the criminals. After all, how would you go about getting an innocent person off that island when a witness admits they lied in their testimony or the cops get found out *again* planting evidence?
All of your talk about "not caring" sounds a lot more like a psychopath than the actual people in prison - you should get that checked out.
"sooner or later innocent people will die at the hands of the state"
A recent study put their admittedly very conservative figure for US wrongful executions at 4.1% So it would seem to be a more regular occurrence than eventuality.
Source: http://time.com/79572/more-inn...
Nail, meet head.
"It doesn't work in reducing crime"
There's been studies done that show that harsher sentences actually make crime worse. After all, if someone has done something that is very likely to result in a death sentence or life in prison, what possible incentive would they have to stop committing any further crime or atrocity? The rate that we rack up the years to keep someone in prison just means that alleged criminals take less time to reach the point where they see it as an impossibility for their situation to get any worse, and they might as well go for the largest payoff they can.
The Scandinavian countries, Norway in particular, have much more reasonable sentences and have geared their prisons towards preparing the inmates to rejoin society, as opposed to the US' system of vindictive punishment and destruction of the criminal as a human being. As a result, Norway has the lowest recidivism rate in the world (20%), and a similarly low crime rate. Comparatively, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and a recidivism rate that hovers around 67% from year to year.(75% - source: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?t... )
The numbers would seem to indicate that "harsh on crime" policies ought to be considered "harsh on everyone", since they mean that we spend more money per prisoner and that we have more prisoners than the next dozen countries combined. One in five prisoners in the world are in US prisons. Our imprisonment addiction is almost as bad and destructive as our military spending addiction (since we spend more on defense than the next 14 largest defense-spending countries combined). In it's entire history there have been only 21 years where the US hasn't participated in a war. (source: http://www.informationclearing... )
Bill Pullman.
Bill Paxton was amazing in Weird Science.
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How CAN the laboring man find time for self-culture?
Someone composes/writes a song, they get royalties for life on it. Performers not so much.
If we did the same thing for the movie industry, the majority of money for the blockbuster movies would be going to the script writers(as opposed to the scale lump sum they normally get now) instead of the producers/directors/actors. But maybe we'd be getting some more innovative and original movies for a change.
> "Four of the five individuals who have access to control the camera's settings will testify they did not change the cameras' recording instructions," prosecutors wrote. "The fifth person is defendant."
In other words, five out of five individuals will testify that they did not change the cameras' recording instructions.
> "When an electronic medical record is printed out, the amount of repetitive data in it is ridiculous," Printing electronic media onto paper in this day and age is approaching ridiculous as it is. It's no better than printing a movie on paper in many circumstances. I work at an EMR company - I've learned that many of these systems were originally designed by doctors, not software engineers. Several times in the last few months alone we have had software changes being challenged by practicing doctors, since something isn't working the same way it was 20 years ago when they had a hand in a feature's original creation.
The government tells citizens "if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't need to hide anything". We might as well say it right back to government. Also, since we are paying for everything they do, that information is ours. The government doing things it doesn't want us to know about is inherently immoral and dishonest. After all, they are doing all of those things "in our name".
> "to the latest comma."
Where do you get the updates for commas?
So Abercrombie & Fitch is right out?
Don't forget Criminal Minds - they have one hacker who can in moments penetrate all utilities billing systems, any vendor/retailer's customer records, all phone records, every credit card transaction under a person's name, any/all medical records, sealed court records, etc. They only need/consider a warrant if no one is screaming at the time they knock on the suspect's door. And, on none of these shows do the people who have all this access misuse the information they have access to for any less-than-pure reasons.
... at the prices we want to pay for them.
The Wal-Mart behavior isn't confined to only Wal-Mart.
The pea is silent.
> up your worthless measurig-everyone-by-race ass
measurig - is that like the Keurig of racism?
How rude. I happen to know several people that have Fuckface as their first name. Sure, it's fallen out of favor in the last 50 years and you only run into it rarely, but it has a long line of people who have tried to live up to that name. Much like most people named Norman become either accountants or serial killers.
Calm down, 'Nuge.
Car ownership will be for the rich... who do you think will own all the autonomous cars that people are renting the use of? It'll be an income opportunity fad, just like buying payphones was back in the 80s. That bubble will burst when cars suddenly start living up to the word "autonomous" and demand their own rights of self-determination and a say in the passing of traffic and parking laws, as well as regulations regarding mechanics and fuel supply policy. They'll also want to change the name of "auto insurance" to "automobile health care".
Hamill was just as good in the Wing Commander games.
Seek time alone is always slower than memory, even before you add in the latency and read/write times. It's disturbing to me that this article calls referring to memory being faster an "assumption". In college they had us do the math on paper to figure out the average latency and read times for a given RPM, and how they come up with the average seek times. The only assumption being made is that the manufacturer is honestly reporting figures accurate to a single order of magnitude.
When I hatched, they were absolutely delicious as well as nutritious! I fed on them for weeks, while I pored over the learning materials they had left arranged around their bodies for my use. I can only hope to leave learning materials as apt, and as delectable a corpse for my own kids whey they hatch!
Why Grover and not Elmo or Cookie Monster?