No. This is based on the theory that most criminals (this technique is most often used with property crimes like burglary or armed robbery) like to work in familiar territory.
Forcing them into unfamiliar territory to screw up the profiling them loses them the advantages of commiting crimes on known ground and makes it more likely they'll be seen/caught.
Actually this isn't new, nore is it all that freaking scary.
It's a technique that's been in use for a long long time by police departments, only with a less quantitative aspect. But they dind't call it 'geographic profiling' they called it 'sticking pushpins into the map'...
They're not *tracking* people, they're entering crime data into a GIS.
Go to a computer store. There's shelf after shelf after shelf of Wintel software. Maybe a couple of RedHat boxes, two kernels back. One shrinkwrap-less, grungy, taped up box of Mac preschool kids software with a big sticker on it proclaiming it's 'Compatible with System 7!!':-/
If you go to a grocery store, you typically have a lot of brands of cola to choose from. Of course there's Pepsi and Coke. But there's RC, and usually two or more local and store brands as well.
Moreover, inspired by the beer industry, there's a thriving market in 'microbrewed' soft drinks, too. You get a lot of choice in the soda aisle. A lot more than you get in the computer aisle.
P&C spend all the advertising bucks, but the other brands sell pretty well in spite of it.
Now if you look at some of the extortion ^h^h^h^h 'Gracious support of our education system' contracts that schools are signing with soda distributors, that's where yuou have a monopoly, and get kids expelled from school for wearing pepsi shirts on the Coke Corporate Masters visitation day...
the Protect me from the big guy down the street who paid off the Police bill.
The Police bill rider to keep the police I paid from breaking my kneecaps because they want a raise this week.
The pharmaceutical bill for the drugs I need to take to keep from dying from the bioengineered plague that the same company released, so they could make money selling the cure...
And we ALL know how utterly efficient and helpful private business is, after all, the Peter Principle and Dilbert both arose out of the government sector...
That's like saying Ford's a monopoly, because you can only buy a Mustang from them.
If you want a Mac, buy it from Apple, if you want something else, buy it.
Pissing and moaning about the death of the clones (which was probably the soundest business decision Apple's made in some time) is irrelevant ot to concept of monopoly.
MS has a monopoly: You have to pay them every time you buy virtually *any* pc, regardless of manufacturer, whether or not you want their OS.
Microsoft uses it's market strength to force compliance to it's *own* standards, which it controls, and uses to force out competition.
And they're getting scared of Apple...why else would they be doing the kinds of announcemnts they're doing today...
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'Innocent until proven guilty' is a principle applied to trials only. The defendant is not compelled to prove himself innocent, the prosecution must prove his guilt.
The police have always had the right to incarcerate you before trial if you were considered a danger to society *or* a flight risk; these determinations are made at the arraignment.
Since Blake is facing a probable death sentence if he is convicted, even a very high bail would likely be considered not sufficient to compel him to stay and face trial instead of leaving for any number of places that don't have extradition treaties with the US.
you saw the *same* article in the NY Post today...both Fox and the Post are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Co. a direct competitor of TW/AOL, and somewhere around the Weekly World News in terms of journalistic credibility...
They were able to hide their debt in offshore companies by lobbying Congress and the regulatory agencies to exempt them from the rules preventing them from doing that.
Those rules were enacted in response to companies doing exactly what Enron did to defraud their investors.
Ha! The technology that Beck so cheerfully says will create a 'global citizen' is being increasingly (and has always been used) to further, not erode oppression.
Instant communication?
Witness the WTO meetings: All Joe and Jane Average ever saw were images of raging anarchists bent on destruction of all that is good, followed by 15 minutes of commercials for gas-guzzling SUV's they don't need, hamburgers they shouldn't be eating and diet schemes they wouldn't need if they didn't eat those hamburgers and actually got their lazy asses out of the SUV's once in a while and got some excercize.
This technology has been advancing at a dizzying rate, as has the dehumanization of the lower and middle classes has accellerated.
But so long as the tevee drones on soothing crap about Rachel and Raymond, they don't care that things are really going to hell around them.
Not 'till it knocks on _their_ front doors, and it's too late then.
>It pisses me off that Harddrive manufactures can
>lie and use (1000 per K not 1024 per K), thus a 100
>Gigabyte drive is really only 97 Gigabytes. Seems
>like false advertising, even if they do add "In our
>world a gig is 1,000,000 bytes"
OH MY GOD!!! What'll they think of next!??? Maybe they'll have to rename my KZ1000 to KZ926 (or whatever the hell the real displacement of a kz1000 is, I don't actually own one)
Anyone stupid enbough to buy a 100G drive without looking at the tech specs saying exactly how big it is, os probably too stupid to be buying a drive in the first place...
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Heinlein wasn't even an officer.
He was accepted to the Naval Academy, but was discharged (in his sophmore year iirc)for medical reasons (a blown out knee), while Haldeman was an infantryman in Viet Nam.
Heinlein tried to sign up during WWII, but was refused, again, on medical grounds.
Heinlein saw military service as a glorious thing to aspire to, a dream he couldn't realize, whereas, Haldeman had the perspective of someone who actually saw combat from the grunt's eye view.
ST the movie was driven by Verhoeven's deliberate misstatement of what Heinlein wrote...
No shit sherlock...how is this alleged virus supposed to be installed?
I'm reading my e-mail on my Mac using SimpleMail and this weird attachment shows up. Download it, look at it in BBEdit and go.."That's not a pornographic Flash file! Just another dumbass PeeCee virus...to the Trash with you"
How much do you want to bet this is Windows only and dependent on MS Outpuke to be run?
Now we know why the Injustice department under Darth Ashcroft wants MS to be a monopoly...the easier to break into your computer my pretty...
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Um, Hormel does not just claim that SPAM tastes good...their customers do.
They sell a bucketload of it every year.
*Someone* out there is either eating it or they're secretly buying it to power their giant world domination machine....
"What're we gonna do tonight Brain?"
No. This is based on the theory that most criminals (this technique is most often used with property crimes like burglary or armed robbery) like to work in familiar territory.
Forcing them into unfamiliar territory to screw up the profiling them loses them the advantages of commiting crimes on known ground and makes it more likely they'll be seen/caught.
Actually this isn't new, nore is it all that freaking scary.
It's a technique that's been in use for a long long time by police departments, only with a less quantitative aspect. But they dind't call it 'geographic profiling' they called it 'sticking pushpins into the map'...
They're not *tracking* people, they're entering crime data into a GIS.
Not really.
:-/
Look at the IT industry.
Go to a computer store. There's shelf after shelf after shelf of Wintel software. Maybe a couple of RedHat boxes, two kernels back. One shrinkwrap-less, grungy, taped up box of Mac preschool kids software with a big sticker on it proclaiming it's 'Compatible with System 7!!'
If you go to a grocery store, you typically have a lot of brands of cola to choose from. Of course there's Pepsi and Coke. But there's RC, and usually two or more local and store brands as well.
Moreover, inspired by the beer industry, there's a thriving market in 'microbrewed' soft drinks, too. You get a lot of choice in the soda aisle. A lot more than you get in the computer aisle.
P&C spend all the advertising bucks, but the other brands sell pretty well in spite of it.
Now if you look at some of the extortion ^h^h^h^h 'Gracious support of our education system' contracts that schools are signing with soda distributors, that's where yuou have a monopoly, and get kids expelled from school for wearing pepsi shirts on the Coke Corporate Masters visitation day...
Rofl!!
So instead of paying taxes we get to pay:
The Road bill
The Street Signs bill
The sewer bill
the garbage bill
the water bill
The Police bill
The Fire bill
The school bill
The electric bill
the Protect me from the competing Police bill
the Protect me from the big guy down the street who paid off the Police bill.
The Police bill rider to keep the police I paid from breaking my kneecaps because they want a raise this week.
The pharmaceutical bill for the drugs I need to take to keep from dying from the bioengineered plague that the same company released, so they could make money selling the cure...
And we ALL know how utterly efficient and helpful private business is, after all, the Peter Principle and Dilbert both arose out of the government sector...
"You're not cleared for that information, Citizen!"
"Please report to the nearest Security station for execution!"
"Thank you, and remember The Computer is your Friend!"
That's like saying Ford's a monopoly, because you can only buy a Mustang from them.
If you want a Mac, buy it from Apple, if you want something else, buy it.
Pissing and moaning about the death of the clones (which was probably the soundest business decision Apple's made in some time) is irrelevant ot to concept of monopoly.
MS has a monopoly: You have to pay them every time you buy virtually *any* pc, regardless of manufacturer, whether or not you want their OS.
Microsoft uses it's market strength to force compliance to it's *own* standards, which it controls, and uses to force out competition.
And they're getting scared of Apple...why else would they be doing the kinds of announcemnts they're doing today...
Perhaps that was this:
??
Uhh, that's a different thing entirely.
'Innocent until proven guilty' is a principle applied to trials only. The defendant is not compelled to prove himself innocent, the prosecution must prove his guilt.
The police have always had the right to incarcerate you before trial if you were considered a danger to society *or* a flight risk; these determinations are made at the arraignment.
Since Blake is facing a probable death sentence if he is convicted, even a very high bail would likely be considered not sufficient to compel him to stay and face trial instead of leaving for any number of places that don't have extradition treaties with the US.
Except it isn't King Lear, either...
Prospero is from 'The Tempest'
Huh??
Jet Direct's support LP/LPD out of the box...that should work fine with OSX...
you saw the *same* article in the NY Post today...both Fox and the Post are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Co. a direct competitor of TW/AOL, and somewhere around the Weekly World News in terms of journalistic credibility...
Hollings doesn't care, Hollywood doesn't care.
Why should you be allowed to create and share content on your own?
You do not matter to these people.
You are not a person, merely a source of income.
They care as much for you and your home movies as they care for the feelings of the dead cow they ate for lunch.
You are a walking cash machine to Hollywood, and it is Holling's job is to extract as much of it as possible for his corporate masters.
But don't worry. Soon you'll be over 18 and won't matter to them even that much since you're not in the right demographic.
Norman Spinrad's book 'Riding the Torch' is all about this...very good read.
I got it in an Ace double...
So you're paying the fees the CC comp[anies are charging.
/. response:
Qwityerbitching...if you don't like it, don't accept CC payments.
You still don't have to go through the stuff the CC companies require to get an account with them.
Ye gods what a typical
I want my free beeeeeeeer
They're evil!
They won't give me my free beeeeeer
If you don't like it, take your business elsewhere....it's not like you're being forced to use their services at gunpoint.
They were able to hide their debt in offshore companies by lobbying Congress and the regulatory agencies to exempt them from the rules preventing them from doing that.
Those rules were enacted in response to companies doing exactly what Enron did to defraud their investors.
Uhhh, before you go all gaga there...look at the average income of China:
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,600 (2000 est.)
From the CIA world factbook.
What can they afford to buy?
Ha! The technology that Beck so cheerfully says will create a 'global citizen' is being increasingly (and has always been used) to further, not erode oppression.
Instant communication?
Witness the WTO meetings: All Joe and Jane Average ever saw were images of raging anarchists bent on destruction of all that is good, followed by 15 minutes of commercials for gas-guzzling SUV's they don't need, hamburgers they shouldn't be eating and diet schemes they wouldn't need if they didn't eat those hamburgers and actually got their lazy asses out of the SUV's once in a while and got some excercize.
This technology has been advancing at a dizzying rate, as has the dehumanization of the lower and middle classes has accellerated.
But so long as the tevee drones on soothing crap about Rachel and Raymond, they don't care that things are really going to hell around them.
Not 'till it knocks on _their_ front doors, and it's too late then.
>It pisses me off that Harddrive manufactures can
>lie and use (1000 per K not 1024 per K), thus a 100
>Gigabyte drive is really only 97 Gigabytes. Seems
>like false advertising, even if they do add "In our
>world a gig is 1,000,000 bytes"
OH MY GOD!!! What'll they think of next!??? Maybe they'll have to rename my KZ1000 to KZ926 (or whatever the hell the real displacement of a kz1000 is, I don't actually own one)
Anyone stupid enbough to buy a 100G drive without looking at the tech specs saying exactly how big it is, os probably too stupid to be buying a drive in the first place...
Heinlein wasn't even an officer.
He was accepted to the Naval Academy, but was discharged (in his sophmore year iirc)for medical reasons (a blown out knee), while Haldeman was an infantryman in Viet Nam.
Heinlein tried to sign up during WWII, but was refused, again, on medical grounds.
Heinlein saw military service as a glorious thing to aspire to, a dream he couldn't realize, whereas, Haldeman had the perspective of someone who actually saw combat from the grunt's eye view.
ST the movie was driven by Verhoeven's deliberate misstatement of what Heinlein wrote...
No shit sherlock...how is this alleged virus supposed to be installed?
.."That's not a pornographic Flash file! Just another dumbass PeeCee virus...to the Trash with you"
I'm reading my e-mail on my Mac using SimpleMail and this weird attachment shows up. Download it, look at it in BBEdit and go
How much do you want to bet this is Windows only and dependent on MS Outpuke to be run?
Now we know why the Injustice department under Darth Ashcroft wants MS to be a monopoly...the easier to break into your computer my pretty...
Oh yeah, they also make servers that keep running for years after being walled up in a building...
Uhhh Rupert Murdoch isn't a 'pretty solid Republican' unless the US has quietly annexed Australia somehow.
The original Mac Toolbox, as well as the Finder was entirely written in 68k assembly code.
This was in 1984, so he's only 16 years off of the first graphical OS written in assembler....
Actually, the Taliban will execute people for having sex outside of marriage.
Under this sort of law, the Taliban will have to arrest _everyone_ who reads this because the Internet is banned there...