Where is the money to be made by the detention center?
Fat state contracts. They get X dollars for every person/day of incarceration. Being a business, their goal is to have all their rooms occupied at all times, in order to increase shareholder value.
mercenary forces are generally a bad idea. The last people you want are those that *want* more war because that way they make more money.
It's time you read up on the Eisenhower quote about the military-industrial-congress complex. The revolving door between military service (where you spend military budgets), industry (where you profit from military budget) and politics (where you decide the military budget). Look at the life of Donald Rumsfeld, he's a perfect example of that.
The problem isn't that it was a commercially operated prison.
It is the sole duty of the operators of a commercial prison to maximize revenue for the shareholders.
That is at odds with the purpose of the law, which is (theoretically) to uphold justice.
As long as there is money to be made from incarcerating people, you WILL have sentences that will send people to prison who should not be there. Corruption is inevitable when the incentive exists.
doesn't mean that "copyright infringement" is ok, it's not. The marketplace works on supply/demand, and bootlegging music destroys the demand side of the marketplace
What about copyright abuse? My old cassette was eaten up by a player. I went to the big music store downtown to buy a replacement CD. Out of print. No plans to bring it back in print.
The only option is "piracy".
I'm a content creator, I have issues about someone profiting from my work and taking that revenue without giving me anything, but what the RIAAetc. have been doing is to stifle technology and pervert the law in order to maintain an artificial stranglehold on the market. They say that the sharing sites are making money from your content? Sue for a share of the profits, they should have offered them from the start.
But no, the RIAAetc. only aims to shut them down. Apple had to fight them at every step to make a system that people want to use, they only wanted to have the horrible DRM-filled, pay forever but lose everything at our whim subscription services.
The Pirate Bay has to win, because the alternative is far worse.
The earliest known example is a 27,000 year-old atlatl made of reindeer antler and found in France.
The problem here is that while there's a fair reason to believe that spear throwers appeared about 30,000 years ago, the oldest specimens are found in Africa, where there never were any Neanderthals. We have no evidence that they were used in Europe prior to 15,000 years ago, so it's rather unlikely that they'd have been a factor in the disappearance of Neanderthals.
Whats wrong with the 27000 year old one from France?
The nature of most people on Slashdot appears to be to figure out a way that a certain product could be used badly
The first thing I thought of when I first heard about the research on trauma-amnesia, despite all the articles talking about treating post traumatic stress, was "oh great, they'll be able to torture people and make them forget that it happened".
It's a post-modern thing. All the wonders of the 50s that ended up biting us in the ass. We're cynics now... until they treat us with this stuff, so we can get back to loving the petrochemical industry, in blissful forgetfulness of all the cancers and deformed babies.
I have toured several greenhouses in my life and it is not a smell that is repulsive. Many people enjoy the smell of growing things, though doubtless it is something that urbanites would have to get used to.
The smell? In New York?
Yeah, it would take some getting used to, seeing how harshly it would contrast with the usual permeating smell of aged urine and fermenting hobos.
Dry soil is light, but not much grows in it. Watered soil is heavy!
Whenever I see a project like this, I know the designer has read too much science fiction and hasn't driven enough combines.
And when I read comments like that, I know the poster has spent too much time driving and not enough time becoming aware of the mundane technology of hydroponics.
Human groups were as a rule no larger than those of the Neanderthals at the time when they became extinct, and their weapons technologies were similar
I believe it is not a meaningless coincidence that the neanderthals disappeared not long after "modern humans" acquired the technology of the spear launcher.
The atlatl is believed to have been in use since the Upper Paleolithic (c. 30,000 BC). Most stratified European finds come from the Magdalenian (late upper Palaeolithic). In this period, elaborate pieces, often in the form of animals, are common. The earliest known example is a 27,000 year-old atlatl made of reindeer antler and found in France.
Which was new technology allowing the possessor to throw deadly projectiles much farther and faster than those without.
every economist that I've read says that ironically, that massive layoffs are the beginning of the end of an economic downturn, and that it appears as though things will be back into shape around the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010
What were those same economists saying this time last year about the economy at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009?
When copy number variation is included, human to human genetic variation is estimated to be at least 0.5% (99.5% similarity).[7][8][9][10][11]
# ^ Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies by Hua Tang, Tom Quertermous, Beatriz Rodriguez, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Xiaofeng Zhu, Andrew Brown, James S. Pankow, Michael A. Province, Steven C. Hunt, Eric Boerwinkle, Nicholas J. Schork, and Neil J. Risch Am J Hum Genet. 2005 February; 76(2): 268â"275. # ^ Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease by Neil Risch, Esteban Burchard, Elad Ziv and Hua Tang] Genome Biology 2002, 3:comment # ^ Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Marcus W. Feldman. Genetic Structure of Human Populations. Science (2002) 298:2381-5 # ^ Risch, N., Burchard, E., Ziv, E. & Tang, H. Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race, and disease. Genome Biol. 3, 1â'12 (2003) # ^ Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Marcus W. Feldman. Genetic Structure of Human Populations. Science (2002) 298:2381-5
I'm not able to find any precedents regarding whether a warrant is required to request unlisted phone numbers either, so this may be a moot argument.
Since we're after 9-11, I assume that you they don't need a warrant for that. I can't believe that such a provision would have survived the hysterical police-state power grab that followed.
"Neanderthals are probably not any different in that way (it is probable, though, they disappeared because we humans killed them off)"
One _theory_ is that they disappeared because we (or rather, Cro-Magnon Man, who also disappeared around 8,000 BCE) killed them off, but there are plenty of other theories which are equally probable
I'm always amazed that people don't think that genocide is the most probable answer. How many situations involving different human cultures meeting have resulted in something else than total war and massacres? None? Less than zero? Wiping off other humans who are slightly different than us is one of the few universal human traits (trait may also apply to ants).
The hissyfits, the nose picking, the really good zingers. You'd be amazed how much fun it is to have a montage of someone ranting against lazy people on welfare and then snoozing at work.
Let them film themselves long enough to forget the cameras are there. It'll be fun.
in the end we all know how that worked out. The USSR was kind of like the morons I see sprinting at the beginning of a 10k run that then get passed up somewhere in the first couple miles and eventually finish walking.
It's more like olympic skating. The russians were Nancy Kerrigan and then Tonya Harding sent the CIA to kneecap their pipelines.
so the USA could 'catch up' with the Sovs. (If they were really 'in the lead' could be debated endlessly).
Lets see, they were the first to put an object in orbit, the first to follow that with an animal, a man, a woman, a 'permanent' space station. They were the first on the moon and on mars (robots).
If you want to debate who was in advance, you'll have to pull a Clinton and debate the meaning of "is", IMO.
I don't understand why this isn't viewed as a good thing by the tech community.
A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.
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Where is the money to be made by the detention center?
Fat state contracts.
They get X dollars for every person/day of incarceration.
Being a business, their goal is to have all their rooms occupied at all times, in order to increase shareholder value.
mercenary forces are generally a bad idea. The last people you want are those that *want* more war because that way they make more money.
It's time you read up on the Eisenhower quote about the military-industrial-congress complex. The revolving door between military service (where you spend military budgets), industry (where you profit from military budget) and politics (where you decide the military budget). Look at the life of Donald Rumsfeld, he's a perfect example of that.
judges go to prison
You're so naive. It's cute!
The poor judge will have to spend time at home.
The problem isn't that it was a commercially operated prison.
It is the sole duty of the operators of a commercial prison to maximize revenue for the shareholders.
That is at odds with the purpose of the law, which is (theoretically) to uphold justice.
As long as there is money to be made from incarcerating people, you WILL have sentences that will send people to prison who should not be there. Corruption is inevitable when the incentive exists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTBQxbDpyc
Because they can!
doesn't mean that "copyright infringement" is ok, it's not. The marketplace works on supply/demand, and bootlegging music destroys the demand side of the marketplace
What about copyright abuse?
My old cassette was eaten up by a player. I went to the big music store downtown to buy a replacement CD. Out of print. No plans to bring it back in print.
The only option is "piracy".
I'm a content creator, I have issues about someone profiting from my work and taking that revenue without giving me anything, but what the RIAAetc. have been doing is to stifle technology and pervert the law in order to maintain an artificial stranglehold on the market.
They say that the sharing sites are making money from your content? Sue for a share of the profits, they should have offered them from the start.
But no, the RIAAetc. only aims to shut them down. Apple had to fight them at every step to make a system that people want to use, they only wanted to have the horrible DRM-filled, pay forever but lose everything at our whim subscription services.
The Pirate Bay has to win, because the alternative is far worse.
The earliest known example is a 27,000 year-old atlatl made of reindeer antler and found in France.
The problem here is that while there's a fair reason to believe that spear throwers appeared about 30,000 years ago, the oldest specimens are found in Africa, where there never were any Neanderthals. We have no evidence that they were used in Europe prior to 15,000 years ago, so it's rather unlikely that they'd have been a factor in the disappearance of Neanderthals.
Whats wrong with the 27000 year old one from France?
The nature of most people on Slashdot appears to be to figure out a way that a certain product could be used badly
The first thing I thought of when I first heard about the research on trauma-amnesia, despite all the articles talking about treating post traumatic stress, was "oh great, they'll be able to torture people and make them forget that it happened".
It's a post-modern thing. All the wonders of the 50s that ended up biting us in the ass. We're cynics now... until they treat us with this stuff, so we can get back to loving the petrochemical industry, in blissful forgetfulness of all the cancers and deformed babies.
I have toured several greenhouses in my life and it is not a smell that is repulsive. Many people enjoy the smell of growing things, though doubtless it is something that urbanites would have to get used to.
The smell? In New York?
Yeah, it would take some getting used to, seeing how harshly it would contrast with the usual permeating smell of aged urine and fermenting hobos.
Dry soil is light, but not much grows in it. Watered soil is heavy!
Whenever I see a project like this, I know the designer has read too much science fiction and hasn't driven enough combines.
And when I read comments like that, I know the poster has spent too much time driving and not enough time becoming aware of the mundane technology of hydroponics.
I may have been raised a dumbass farmboy but here's a few hints to architects like this guy:
Dumbass farmboys should learn the meaning of the word "hydroponic".
Human groups were as a rule no larger than those of the Neanderthals at the time when they became extinct, and their weapons technologies were similar
I believe it is not a meaningless coincidence that the neanderthals disappeared not long after "modern humans" acquired the technology of the spear launcher.
The atlatl is believed to have been in use since the Upper Paleolithic (c. 30,000 BC). Most stratified European finds come from the Magdalenian (late upper Palaeolithic). In this period, elaborate pieces, often in the form of animals, are common. The earliest known example is a 27,000 year-old atlatl made of reindeer antler and found in France.
Which was new technology allowing the possessor to throw deadly projectiles much farther and faster than those without.
The youngest Neanderthal finds include Hyaena Den (UK), considered older than 30,000 years ago, while the Vindija (Croatia) Neanderthals have been re-dated to between 32,000 and 33,000 years ago. No definite specimens younger than 30,000 years ago have been found.
And wouldn't you know it, as soon as we were able to kill them when we are out of range as their spears, coexistence abruptly stops.
every economist that I've read says that ironically, that massive layoffs are the beginning of the end of an economic downturn, and that it appears as though things will be back into shape around the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010
What were those same economists saying this time last year about the economy at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009?
It says 0.1% between individuals.
And so does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation
When copy number variation is included, human to human genetic variation is estimated to be at least 0.5% (99.5% similarity).[7][8][9][10][11]
# ^ Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies by Hua Tang, Tom Quertermous, Beatriz Rodriguez, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Xiaofeng Zhu, Andrew Brown, James S. Pankow, Michael A. Province, Steven C. Hunt, Eric Boerwinkle, Nicholas J. Schork, and Neil J. Risch Am J Hum Genet. 2005 February; 76(2): 268â"275.
# ^ Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease by Neil Risch, Esteban Burchard, Elad Ziv and Hua Tang] Genome Biology 2002, 3:comment
# ^ Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Marcus W. Feldman. Genetic Structure of Human Populations. Science (2002) 298:2381-5
# ^ Risch, N., Burchard, E., Ziv, E. & Tang, H. Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race, and disease. Genome Biol. 3, 1â'12 (2003)
# ^ Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Marcus W. Feldman. Genetic Structure of Human Populations. Science (2002) 298:2381-5
I'm not able to find any precedents regarding whether a warrant is required to request unlisted phone numbers either, so this may be a moot argument.
Since we're after 9-11, I assume that you they don't need a warrant for that. I can't believe that such a provision would have survived the hysterical police-state power grab that followed.
I wonder what IDers claim neanderthals are supposed to be.
Sick humans.
"That's not a different species, it's an old man with a bone disease."
That's what they were saying about homo florensis.
"Neanderthals are probably not any different in that way (it is probable, though, they disappeared because we humans killed them off)"
One _theory_ is that they disappeared because we (or rather, Cro-Magnon Man, who also disappeared around 8,000 BCE) killed them off, but there are plenty of other theories which are equally probable
I'm always amazed that people don't think that genocide is the most probable answer.
How many situations involving different human cultures meeting have resulted in something else than total war and massacres?
None? Less than zero? Wiping off other humans who are slightly different than us is one of the few universal human traits (trait may also apply to ants).
No, you'd better hope that there is a difference between the human genome and the Neanderthal genome.
According to what was said on NPR this morning, there is less than a 1% difference between the human genome and the neanderthal genome.
The fact that there is a difference at all shows we and they were two distinct species.
The genetic difference between human individuals is 1%.
I guess you're not in the same species as me, monkey-boy.
the good bits.
Think about what you just said....
Let it sink in....
Apology accepted.
The hissyfits, the nose picking, the really good zingers.
You'd be amazed how much fun it is to have a montage of someone ranting against lazy people on welfare and then snoozing at work.
Let them film themselves long enough to forget the cameras are there. It'll be fun.
in the end we all know how that worked out. The USSR was kind of like the morons I see sprinting at the beginning of a 10k run that then get passed up somewhere in the first couple miles and eventually finish walking.
It's more like olympic skating. The russians were Nancy Kerrigan and then Tonya Harding sent the CIA to kneecap their pipelines.
It is also a very big building with a massive supply of electricity already installed.
Even better: Many paper mills are located next to rapids in rivers, where they have their own hydroelectric generators.
Wait, you mean it will be like C-Span, but whenever i want?
I don't know if youtube has the bandwidth.
Like C-Span, but with people linking directly to the good bits.
"All These Planets Are Yours Except Europa, Attempt No Landing There"
No point pissing off the starchild
As long as we land before 2010, we're fine ;-)
so the USA could 'catch up' with the Sovs. (If they were really 'in the lead' could be debated endlessly).
Lets see, they were the first to put an object in orbit, the first to follow that with an animal, a man, a woman, a 'permanent' space station.
They were the first on the moon and on mars (robots).
If you want to debate who was in advance, you'll have to pull a Clinton and debate the meaning of "is", IMO.
I don't understand why this isn't viewed as a good thing by the tech community.
A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.