A very very small fraction of blacks commit murder
But, most black males are killed by other black males.
I'm guessing you probably mean most black people that are murdered are murdered by black people, not that the cause of death of most black males is murder by other black males.:-)
And, blacks seem to commit more crime per capita than any other race in the US, by what seems to be a much greater degree than their numbers by % of the US population.
That is true (I think). But the point is that, even so, the odds that a particular black person is a criminal or a murderer is very very low. So there's no need to be afraid of every black person you see. Just because the odds are higher than for other races, doesn't mean the rate is actually high enough to be worried about when you see a person. That's the point Colbert tries to make.
When I watch the local news, I mostly see black faces as those the cops are looking for for a crime, or have picked up for a crime, or are caught on crime cameras committing crimes.
Well, first of all, the local news doesn't report all crimes. But even if they did report all crime proportionally by race, and blacks do have a higher rate of committing crimes, again, the point is that the odds of any black person you see being a murderer is extremely low.
I just don't see that many Japanese folks as being a problem for the crimes in most cities I visit and watch the news.....
There is a petition on change.org asking TSA to get rid of "priority" screening lines. As the petition says, the speed of a government service should NOT depend on how much we pay to an airline, and TSA should not allow airlines to profit by offering better access to a government service as a perk for a high priced ticket (or participation in their reward programs).
The petition doesn't have a lot of signatures yet, but to me it's a no brainer, so I hope it catches on.
Well, petitions on change.org have no time limit, so you can take your time to get a bunch of signatures, then message all the signers to sign another similar petition on the White House Petition site, where the administration has committed to at least responding to all petitions that hit a certain threshold in a certain amount of time.
That's a huge cop out by TSA. Why should TSA allow the authorities to run the lines? TSA runs the checkpoint area. TSA could easily insist that they should run the lines too. At the very least, they shouldn't allow the airport authorities to run the lines that way.
On top of that, there have been times where I have made it through the lines and gotten to the designated "priority" screening area, and TSA turned me away because I didn't have priority access. They appear to be fully complicit in this.
This is a little off-topic, but concerns getting TSA to change it's ways. There is a petition on change.org asking TSA to get rid of "priority" screening lines. As the petition says, the speed of a government service should NOT depend on how much we pay to an airline, and TSA should not allow airlines to profit by offering better access to a government service as a perk for a high priced ticket (or participation in their reward programs).
The petition doesn't have a lot of signatures yet, but to me it's a no brainer, so I hope it catches on.
Let's say a company like Amazon came up with a packing algorithm that allowed them to use 10% less packing material. Do you really think that would affect the price so much so that people would buy 10% more items from Amazon? I think that's highly unlikely. If people bought more goods, but less than 10% more goods, there would still be a net decrease in packing material.
Why? Acceleration is simply the rate of change of velocity. If you decelerate from 2m/s to 1m/s in some amount of time, then you can decelerate from 1m/s to 0m/s in the same amount of time with the same deceleration rate (g's).
There's nothing special about 0m/s compared to any other velocity, except that he's chosen to stop decelerating when he hits 0m/s. He could choose to continue decelerating which would give him a negative velocity (like -1m/s). Alternately, he could have simply chosen to stop decelerating at 1m/s.
They don't need a warrant if they are called in to respond to a fire.
"Firefighters found more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement Tuesday afternoon, after they responded to an unrelated fire in an air conditioner on the second floor of the home."
Yes, but if we're able to do more communicating now because of the lower cost, you need to add that in the benefits column rather just considering the power used as a cost. If you do this, the net benefit of low-power communications is still WAY positive.
I agree completely. How does Verizon get away with charging $40 for what Sprint offers for $15? You'd think people that need data would all have left Verizon by now (aside from other constraints like family members on the same plan, etc).
I think most of the items you are talking about (VCR, Printer, Cell phone charger) use much less than a fraction of a percent of your total power usage in a normal home. Why focus on making something so trivial a little more efficient? If you turn down your A/C or buy a more efficient washer/dryer, you're going to make a much larger difference than by unplugging devices that use such low amounts of power anyway.
You're being ridiculous. Storing more gas doesn't help if it's at lower pressure. The power is generated by the gas forcing it's way out of the tank. So, the energy released is going to be the product of the pressure differential and the amount of gas. If you lower the pressure, you're losing energy, plain and simple. And if you had extra heat to spare to start with, you should have used it to heat the water that you were talking about earlier. There's no need to send that whole energy transfer through the gas. It's a separate process if you just want to move heat from your air to your water.
Yeah, but since the gas is now at lower pressure, you get less energy out of it when you decompress the tank. You've lost energy by cooling it, so you're effectively storing less energy now.
I HATE when people spout this crap. It's possible to be nice to people because you recognize that they are human beings with feelings, and that they ought to be treated with respect. Not because you want respect in return, but because you recognize that they are like you, and you like respect, so they probably value it as well. It *is* possible to be kind without expecting ANYTHING in return, not even the warm fuzzy feeling. You may get a warm fuzzy feeling as a result, but that doesn't mean that that was the reason for your action.
I don't think you've got it quite right. They use the user's login (not password) plus the answer to a security question to get the user's sitekey. Then they display the sitekey to the user to get the user's password. Only then can they access the account.
I think you're missing the point. SiteKey aims to help users avoid being phished. Do you have any other suggestion for how banks could do this? It's not their systems that are weak - the problem is that people can easily re-create what a website looks like and make it look legitimate to a user. If you have other suggestions to address phishing, even ones that put the burden on the company, I'm sure many people would be interested to hear them.
From an economics perspective, there is nothing wrong with either inflation or deflation, as long as it stays relatively constant. That's why we sue the monetary system to keep inflation/deflation from fluctuating too much. The preference for inflation over deflation is merely psychological, from what I've been told. (i.e. it would appear to people that their possessions are becoming less valuable over time.)
If what you are saying were true, then the GDP deflator would be larger than CPI inflation. But it is not.
The reason is that although the GDP deflator includes all goods, and not a selected basket like CPI, the GDP deflator implicitly allows for the fact that when some goods rise in price, people switch to different goods. Thus, it can sometimes be a better measure of the increase in cost of living, depending on what you are using the data for.
It's hard to claim that inflation (including energy and housing) is greater than what the CPI shows when the GDP deflator is smaller than the CPI factor. Inflation is not out of control.
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But, most black males are killed by other black males.
I'm guessing you probably mean most black people that are murdered are murdered by black people, not that the cause of death of most black males is murder by other black males. :-)
And, blacks seem to commit more crime per capita than any other race in the US, by what seems to be a much greater degree than their numbers by % of the US population.
That is true (I think). But the point is that, even so, the odds that a particular black person is a criminal or a murderer is very very low. So there's no need to be afraid of every black person you see. Just because the odds are higher than for other races, doesn't mean the rate is actually high enough to be worried about when you see a person. That's the point Colbert tries to make.
When I watch the local news, I mostly see black faces as those the cops are looking for for a crime, or have picked up for a crime, or are caught on crime cameras committing crimes.
Well, first of all, the local news doesn't report all crimes. But even if they did report all crime proportionally by race, and blacks do have a higher rate of committing crimes, again, the point is that the odds of any black person you see being a murderer is extremely low.
I just don't see that many Japanese folks as being a problem for the crimes in most cities I visit and watch the news.....
All pigeons shit. A very very small fraction of blacks commit murder. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428008/july-23-2013/the-word---color-bind
There is a petition on change.org asking TSA to get rid of "priority" screening lines. As the petition says, the speed of a government service should NOT depend on how much we pay to an airline, and TSA should not allow airlines to profit by offering better access to a government service as a perk for a high priced ticket (or participation in their reward programs). The petition doesn't have a lot of signatures yet, but to me it's a no brainer, so I hope it catches on.
Well, petitions on change.org have no time limit, so you can take your time to get a bunch of signatures, then message all the signers to sign another similar petition on the White House Petition site, where the administration has committed to at least responding to all petitions that hit a certain threshold in a certain amount of time.
That's a huge cop out by TSA. Why should TSA allow the authorities to run the lines? TSA runs the checkpoint area. TSA could easily insist that they should run the lines too. At the very least, they shouldn't allow the airport authorities to run the lines that way.
On top of that, there have been times where I have made it through the lines and gotten to the designated "priority" screening area, and TSA turned me away because I didn't have priority access. They appear to be fully complicit in this.
This is a little off-topic, but concerns getting TSA to change it's ways. There is a petition on change.org asking TSA to get rid of "priority" screening lines. As the petition says, the speed of a government service should NOT depend on how much we pay to an airline, and TSA should not allow airlines to profit by offering better access to a government service as a perk for a high priced ticket (or participation in their reward programs).
The petition doesn't have a lot of signatures yet, but to me it's a no brainer, so I hope it catches on.
Let's say a company like Amazon came up with a packing algorithm that allowed them to use 10% less packing material. Do you really think that would affect the price so much so that people would buy 10% more items from Amazon? I think that's highly unlikely. If people bought more goods, but less than 10% more goods, there would still be a net decrease in packing material.
Why? Acceleration is simply the rate of change of velocity. If you decelerate from 2m/s to 1m/s in some amount of time, then you can decelerate from 1m/s to 0m/s in the same amount of time with the same deceleration rate (g's).
There's nothing special about 0m/s compared to any other velocity, except that he's chosen to stop decelerating when he hits 0m/s. He could choose to continue decelerating which would give him a negative velocity (like -1m/s). Alternately, he could have simply chosen to stop decelerating at 1m/s.
They don't need a warrant if they are called in to respond to a fire.
"Firefighters found more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement Tuesday afternoon, after they responded to an unrelated fire in an air conditioner on the second floor of the home."
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080809/NEWS/808090323/1008/
Try that same idea with any number other than 2, and you'll see it doesn't work.
For example:
(2^4)/2 (which is 8) is not 2^(4/2) (which is 4). (2^4)/2 = 2^(4-1) = 8. So (2^2048)/2 = 2^(2048-1)/2 = 2^2047.
Um, manufacturing/energy costs can't be more than the price of the item, otherwise the company would be losing money!
Um, you could just create a folder called archive and move your emails there.
Yes, but if we're able to do more communicating now because of the lower cost, you need to add that in the benefits column rather just considering the power used as a cost. If you do this, the net benefit of low-power communications is still WAY positive.
I agree completely. How does Verizon get away with charging $40 for what Sprint offers for $15? You'd think people that need data would all have left Verizon by now (aside from other constraints like family members on the same plan, etc).
I think most of the items you are talking about (VCR, Printer, Cell phone charger) use much less than a fraction of a percent of your total power usage in a normal home. Why focus on making something so trivial a little more efficient? If you turn down your A/C or buy a more efficient washer/dryer, you're going to make a much larger difference than by unplugging devices that use such low amounts of power anyway.
You're being ridiculous. Storing more gas doesn't help if it's at lower pressure. The power is generated by the gas forcing it's way out of the tank. So, the energy released is going to be the product of the pressure differential and the amount of gas. If you lower the pressure, you're losing energy, plain and simple. And if you had extra heat to spare to start with, you should have used it to heat the water that you were talking about earlier. There's no need to send that whole energy transfer through the gas. It's a separate process if you just want to move heat from your air to your water.
Yeah, but since the gas is now at lower pressure, you get less energy out of it when you decompress the tank. You've lost energy by cooling it, so you're effectively storing less energy now.
"ALL kindness is ultimately self-centered."
I HATE when people spout this crap. It's possible to be nice to people because you recognize that they are human beings with feelings, and that they ought to be treated with respect. Not because you want respect in return, but because you recognize that they are like you, and you like respect, so they probably value it as well. It *is* possible to be kind without expecting ANYTHING in return, not even the warm fuzzy feeling. You may get a warm fuzzy feeling as a result, but that doesn't mean that that was the reason for your action.
I don't think you've got it quite right. They use the user's login (not password) plus the answer to a security question to get the user's sitekey. Then they display the sitekey to the user to get the user's password. Only then can they access the account.
Interesting idea...
I think you're missing the point. SiteKey aims to help users avoid being phished. Do you have any other suggestion for how banks could do this? It's not their systems that are weak - the problem is that people can easily re-create what a website looks like and make it look legitimate to a user. If you have other suggestions to address phishing, even ones that put the burden on the company, I'm sure many people would be interested to hear them.
Keyfobs do not address phishing attacks, such as the SiteKey attempts to. Keyfobs are great at what they do, but they don't address this problem.
From an economics perspective, there is nothing wrong with either inflation or deflation, as long as it stays relatively constant. That's why we sue the monetary system to keep inflation/deflation from fluctuating too much. The preference for inflation over deflation is merely psychological, from what I've been told. (i.e. it would appear to people that their possessions are becoming less valuable over time.)
If what you are saying were true, then the GDP deflator would be larger than CPI inflation. But it is not.
The reason is that although the GDP deflator includes all goods, and not a selected basket like CPI, the GDP deflator implicitly allows for the fact that when some goods rise in price, people switch to different goods. Thus, it can sometimes be a better measure of the increase in cost of living, depending on what you are using the data for.
It's hard to claim that inflation (including energy and housing) is greater than what the CPI shows when the GDP deflator is smaller than the CPI factor. Inflation is not out of control.
That article doesn't support what you're asserting. PG never said that that was their goal.