Were you smoking when you missed the point about the effect being particularly notable in courses requiring math? I doubt you took many advanced math or technical classes in your liberal arts degree pursuit. I always found liberal arts classes to be a lot easier than my engineering ones.
It buys the power from the home solar at a suitable cost which it resells at a higher rate.
But this is not what many solar folks want. They want full retail rate, and that is what the existing forced purchase rules require in many places. If the requirement was to buy that power at wholesale rates or the going cost of power at that time, your view would make a lot more sense. And the utilities are also forced to purchase that power when there is an excess of supply, at that point they actually have to pay other part of the grid to take their excess power because they can't meet reliability requirements and shut down spinning reserve.
So you also need to account for that fact that when one person is providing his excess power, it is likely everyone else in the area is too, all solar peaks are at the same time of day.
Account for those factors, and other realities like managing power flow, then its not quite as pie in the sky as your analogy infers.
Everyone is malleable to some extent. Do you have a test to tell just how malleable enough a person is to get different treatment? It all sounds so wonderful until you try to implement such policy while still trying to stop as many bad guys as possible with as many tools as possible, including the deterrence just knowing there are agents that will play along to get you.
Quick google, the FBI has charged over 150 suspected 'terrorists' since 9-11 based on evidence from sting operations. Did they really prevent 150 people from committing terrorist acts? The FBI is either very good at catching terrorists before they even plan their attacks, or they are going out and setting people up. The Tsarnaev brothers kind of disprove the first possibility.
So, you believe the FBI is only effective if it catches 100% of terrorists? Its convenient to ask to prove the negative "did they really prevent 150 from commuting terror acts". Well of course not all 150 would have, but planning a terror act is a crime in itself. If they prevented one innocent person from dying, its a job well done.
You are right, don't blame religion. But also don't overlook the fact that a known religious structure is a key element in the widespread recruiting and development of terrorists. Be it an end or a means depends on where you stand in that structure. But if you don't talk about that structure and call it what it is, you can not hope to dismantle it.
The vast majority, if not all, of the people whom the FBI have entrapped in the past are some of the more vulnerable members of society: people without a strong social support structure, part of a marginalised community, often poor, often unemployed, and so on.
Unfortunately, these are the same people that are easily exploited and swayed into terrorist acts. If there were some easy way to get to them first, I'm sure we'd all agree that would be wonderful.. but back in the real world there is not always such a luxury. Criminal/Terror acts are treated as such in the eyes of the law regardless of the state of the person performing them, it can be sorted out in the legal process if mental illness was a factor.
The FBI is not just targeting this one person, but also trying to determine if there is an organized support network.
Incomplete analogy. It would be more appropriate to add that the restaurant must ALWAYS keep a table available for you, and keep extra veggies for you whether you will buy them or not.
A more appropriate analogy would be the delivery of those veggies to your home. You expect the delivery truck to pass buy every day whether you intend to buy or not. But you don't want to pay the cost of that truck traveling the extra distance to so it can be ready.
And if you are growing your own veggies, requiring that truck to buy your veggies at retail price, transport them and maybe sell them elsewhere at no profit even though the truck already had enough veggies to sell the other customers already.
No, what I described is giving a kid a little dose of reality and a chance to realize that actions have consequences. Too bad if you can't appreciate that important life lesson. It may be the best thing that ever happened to him, or he may ignore it and continue getting into trouble. Don't think for a minute this is his first run in.
Interesting. Were your charges dropped ? As I understand they do not stick with you if so. It may be different if for a 19 year old vs under 18. But if the charges stay no matter what, then I agree that would overdoing it as a scare tactic.
Yup, that is all this is. So much over reaction here. They were just scaring the kid and setting an example, then drop the charges, the kid walks and has learned a lesson.
This is nothing new... cops have used lots of tactics to scare kids, throwing them in jail or stuff like that. Its a very effective approach.
Well, if folks would calm down they'd realize that this is more likely just an attempt to scare the kid and set and example. So, they play this card for long enough, and that's the last time he or any of the other kids at school do this kind of thing, charges are dropped and the kid walks.
But the parents or whoever had to go to the media, the media makes a big stink, and it becomes a mess.
If these guys are so adamant that there is nothing wrong with paid reviews, ask them if they'd be willing to disclose in their reviews that they are paid.
If I were Amazon, I'd include a check box "I am not being paid or compensated for this review"... at least then they'd have reason to delete any from paid reviewers.
Then why would humans naturally form societies, if there were not some natural benefit from said 'societal pressures'? Evolutionary changes do not stem from natural instinct. They stem from differences that emerge in individuals within the group. Instinct is a result.
But why would this preferentially affect this one country?
Inbreeding?
But seriously, that is a good question. North Koreans are not getting taller, its generally attributed to nutrition. That should be considered, as well as evidence that tall Dutch are more likely to reproduce.
My point had nothing to do with this specific video or this particular cop's actions.
You have a point about behavior when being recorded, but they don't always know they are being recorded, and there are also many, many instances of cops doing good things when NOT being recorded.
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Well, that is another topic entirely unrelated to this discussion.
The FBI is out killing innocent people, for no reason? And how often is that happening?
Were you smoking when you missed the point about the effect being particularly notable in courses requiring math? I doubt you took many advanced math or technical classes in your liberal arts degree pursuit. I always found liberal arts classes to be a lot easier than my engineering ones.
It buys the power from the home solar at a suitable cost which it resells at a higher rate.
But this is not what many solar folks want. They want full retail rate, and that is what the existing forced purchase rules require in many places. If the requirement was to buy that power at wholesale rates or the going cost of power at that time, your view would make a lot more sense. And the utilities are also forced to purchase that power when there is an excess of supply, at that point they actually have to pay other part of the grid to take their excess power because they can't meet reliability requirements and shut down spinning reserve.
So you also need to account for that fact that when one person is providing his excess power, it is likely everyone else in the area is too, all solar peaks are at the same time of day.
Account for those factors, and other realities like managing power flow, then its not quite as pie in the sky as your analogy infers.
Everyone is malleable to some extent. Do you have a test to tell just how malleable enough a person is to get different treatment? It all sounds so wonderful until you try to implement such policy while still trying to stop as many bad guys as possible with as many tools as possible, including the deterrence just knowing there are agents that will play along to get you.
This explains why we never see fat serial killers in movies.
Quick google, the FBI has charged over 150 suspected 'terrorists' since 9-11 based on evidence from sting operations. Did they really prevent 150 people from committing terrorist acts? The FBI is either very good at catching terrorists before they even plan their attacks, or they are going out and setting people up. The Tsarnaev brothers kind of disprove the first possibility.
So, you believe the FBI is only effective if it catches 100% of terrorists? Its convenient to ask to prove the negative "did they really prevent 150 from commuting terror acts". Well of course not all 150 would have, but planning a terror act is a crime in itself. If they prevented one innocent person from dying, its a job well done.
You are right, don't blame religion. But also don't overlook the fact that a known religious structure is a key element in the widespread recruiting and development of terrorists. Be it an end or a means depends on where you stand in that structure. But if you don't talk about that structure and call it what it is, you can not hope to dismantle it.
The vast majority, if not all, of the people whom the FBI have entrapped in the past are some of the more vulnerable members of society: people without a strong social support structure, part of a marginalised community, often poor, often unemployed, and so on.
Unfortunately, these are the same people that are easily exploited and swayed into terrorist acts. If there were some easy way to get to them first, I'm sure we'd all agree that would be wonderful.. but back in the real world there is not always such a luxury. Criminal/Terror acts are treated as such in the eyes of the law regardless of the state of the person performing them, it can be sorted out in the legal process if mental illness was a factor.
The FBI is not just targeting this one person, but also trying to determine if there is an organized support network.
Google takes 6-9 months to release updates to their devices. It took 5 weeks for my nexus 7 to get the update.
Google should ask apple how to transmit updates to lots of users at once.
Doesn't it make sense to stagger updates, in case a problem like this occurs that didn't reveal itself in testing, so they can stop the updates?
I'm typically in no rush to get my android updates if my device is working fine, but it seems there are many that 'want it now' for some reason.
Incomplete analogy. It would be more appropriate to add that the restaurant must ALWAYS keep a table available for you, and keep extra veggies for you whether you will buy them or not.
A more appropriate analogy would be the delivery of those veggies to your home. You expect the delivery truck to pass buy every day whether you intend to buy or not. But you don't want to pay the cost of that truck traveling the extra distance to so it can be ready.
And if you are growing your own veggies, requiring that truck to buy your veggies at retail price, transport them and maybe sell them elsewhere at no profit even though the truck already had enough veggies to sell the other customers already.
interesting. Thanks
Why not use the grid as a reservoir..like a battery or capacitor?
Makes total sense, but the problem is that too many people think that reservoir should be provided at no cost.
A felony charge will follow that child around for the rest of his life.
Not if it is dropped.
No, what I described is giving a kid a little dose of reality and a chance to realize that actions have consequences. Too bad if you can't appreciate that important life lesson. It may be the best thing that ever happened to him, or he may ignore it and continue getting into trouble. Don't think for a minute this is his first run in.
Your assumption has no basis.
Interesting. Were your charges dropped ? As I understand they do not stick with you if so. It may be different if for a 19 year old vs under 18. But if the charges stay no matter what, then I agree that would overdoing it as a scare tactic.
The kid probably responded to authority in a similar manner....hence his situation.
Yup, that is all this is. So much over reaction here. They were just scaring the kid and setting an example, then drop the charges, the kid walks and has learned a lesson.
This is nothing new... cops have used lots of tactics to scare kids, throwing them in jail or stuff like that. Its a very effective approach.
It shouldn't even be a criminal charge.
Well, if folks would calm down they'd realize that this is more likely just an attempt to scare the kid and set and example. So, they play this card for long enough, and that's the last time he or any of the other kids at school do this kind of thing, charges are dropped and the kid walks.
But the parents or whoever had to go to the media, the media makes a big stink, and it becomes a mess.
If these guys are so adamant that there is nothing wrong with paid reviews, ask them if they'd be willing to disclose in their reviews that they are paid.
If I were Amazon, I'd include a check box "I am not being paid or compensated for this review"... at least then they'd have reason to delete any from paid reviewers.
The few times I've tried to code, I wound up saying some obscenities out loud. Didn't help my coding much but I felt better.
Societal pressures defy natural instinct.
They are vastly different things.
Then why would humans naturally form societies, if there were not some natural benefit from said 'societal pressures'? Evolutionary changes do not stem from natural instinct. They stem from differences that emerge in individuals within the group. Instinct is a result.
Forming societies is natural human behavior, so societal preferences are as well.
But why would this preferentially affect this one country?
Inbreeding?
But seriously, that is a good question. North Koreans are not getting taller, its generally attributed to nutrition. That should be considered, as well as evidence that tall Dutch are more likely to reproduce.
My point had nothing to do with this specific video or this particular cop's actions.
You have a point about behavior when being recorded, but they don't always know they are being recorded, and there are also many, many instances of cops doing good things when NOT being recorded.