A taxi driver in the UK was spared false rape charges because he'd recorded the women scheming to get out of paying their fare, so there is value for drivers other than preventing robberies. The question though is who watches the watchers? IMO these CCTV systems should instead be cracked wide open so that the general public can view the feeds, not just have it limited to police. After all, they're in public spaces anyway so the people there have no expectation of privacy, so what compelling reason could there be to restrict access to the feeds? Also, include cameras in all the reasonable spaces of legislature and justice. What's good for the goose...
Agreed. She's 23 for fucks sake! Time for the little princess to stop mooching off daddy and get her ass a J-O-B. Notice that she wasn't too butthurt over the asswhooping to take his money and borrow his car, but once that stopped now he's the bad guy. Riiiight. The guy isn't winning any popularity contests with the beatdown, and yes I think it was excessive, but this whole thing smacks of sour grapes and entitlement mentality on the girl's part.
It's all about lost term budgeting costs. When the govt booted out all the govies it was to save money on the back-end. You either pay contractors more up front, or govies less, but have to foot the bill for a fat govt pension later. Pick your poison.
And by 5-10 years away they mean 25-50 years. They've been working on male birth control for 20 years and it's been stuck in the "5-10 years away" the entire time. I see no reason to believe this doesn't fall under the same kind of fantasy science that one day will certainly happen, but probably not nearly as soon as they hope for.
Fermilab has a similar setup which should be able to test the results. So does an experiment in Japan, T2K, but they aren't running at the moment because of the tsunami. The actual experiment shouldn't be too hard to do if you have the equipment to make a beam of neutrinos, just point them at a detector and fire away and see how long time of flight was, which means they could probably start working on it fairly soon, though it will probably take months or years to get enough data points to be statistically significant.
This actually replicates the results of another labs findings, which they had discounted as measurement errors. If anything, this might just prove the previous test's findings weren't a mistake as previously assumed.
So when should we expect Karen Owens to be arrested? Hmm...? She did just about the same thing at Duke last year and instead of bitching about it many people, mainly feminists, held her up on high as the picture of "empowerment".
I cut the cord about a month ago and got a Roku. Netflix, HuluPlus, and Amazon Prime, plus the channels on Roku have more than met my needs. As for my wants, HuluPlus is near worthless since the shows I'd use it for aren't available for streaming to the TV despite being able to watch them online (eg Fringe) and Amazon Prime is utterly worthless unless you like Dr Who. Netflix is a champ though with them getting streaming for current shows still on the air. Once the networks/studios knock of being stupid and start looking at streaming like pay channels I think we'll see the streaming services start to look more like HBO than not.
This kind of police activity is quite literally "thought crime" since no actual crime had been committed. Is it good that guys like him aren't out there *possibly* victimizing real people? Probably, sure. But does it warrant locking him up? Probably not. IMO they should use stings like this merely to flag and monitor people so that if they do try and take action, THEN you arrest them. What they're doing isn't any different from going after people who get off on CGI kiddie porn. How in the world that makes sense I'll never understand. No actual kids were harmed, so there's no actual crime.
Fully agree. At 7" it needs to undercut the iPad, so maybe $299 for a WiFi only and maybe $399 for a 3G or 4G capable version. For the 10" model they need to look at $499 for the WiFi only version, and maybe $599 for the 3G/4G model--at that's at the high end IMO. And of course as generations progress those prices need to come down by $50-100 a year if they're going to continue with the 6 month product cycles. "Off brand" tablets like the Archos will need to be even cheaper, which they've already demonstrated is possible with a $300 10" model. Once decent alternatives become more widespread HP and Apple will have no choice but to lower the ceiling on their non-flagship models. If the 7" Galaxy Tab is even made a year from now I expect it to be in the $199 range if they have any hope of it being competitive with what will be on the market, although this is HP and Apple we're talking about here so I'm not holding my breath.
That's the exact point The Atlantic made when they covered this story. The big whopping question feminists cannot or will not answer is:
Why should anyone care?
Like many other aspects of society women have equal opportunity, in this case to create and edit articles. We must not fault Wikipedia because women won't take the initiative. It's much the same with regards to male dominated careers. Instead of pumping millions into special incentives programs specially made to benefit only women, we should actually let the chips fall where they may. Success comes with risk, and quite frankly women don't take the same risks men do. You need not look any further than the rates of war dead, homeless, and on the job deaths. Men take the risks and subsequently men make up the bulk of life's successes AND failures with 98% of the war dead, a little over 75% of the US's homeless, and 96% of those killed on the job. On the other end of the spectrum they make up the bulk of the CEOs, politicians, and so on.
Bottom line, feminism was supposed to be about equal opportunity, NOT equal result.
I once read a story about a company who had a widget making machine. One day the machine breaks and they have to call in a specialist to fix it. An hour later the specialize arrives and they take him to the machine. He looks it over for a minute, pulls out a wrench, and turns a bolt. The machine springs back to the life and the specialist hands the company rep his bill. The rep is astounded when he reads it and exclaims, "$5005.00?! But it just took you a minute! How can you charge so much?" The specialist replied, "It's 5 dollars to come down and turn the bolt, but $5000 for knowing which one to turn."
My point is that companies need to realize that superusers/admins get paid what they do and have the responsiblity they hold for a reason. Looking for a "quick fix" and trying to cheap out is just going to get egg on your face and put your company's infrastructure at risk later. My suggestion to employers is to make sure they do adequate background/security checks on the people they're handing the keys to the company to.
Looks like the recession is due for one more person to lose their job. Instead of creating laws & regulations on public safety based on research and reasoned debate over what's truly in the public's best interest we've got a zealot dictating what should and shouldn't be based on nothing more than personal belief. He's got to go.
And?
The punishment needs to fit the crime. One person. 20something songs. The damage is marginal and so should be the punishment.
Now if it were a large-scale counterfeiting ring then I'd see the need for a large fiscal punishment. Against a single person with a handful of songs in a shared folder? Bitch please! Use some common sense here folks.
When are people going to wise up and ask the question of how much would it have cost if she'd actually stolen the CDs in question? That should be the basis for what her punishment should be, plus maybe something extra as punishment. Looking at shoplifting laws would be a good place to start.
"...the first clinical trials of new drugs based on the findings could begin within two to five years."
Am I the only one that wouldn't mind a moratorium on this sort of reporting. Let us know when the clinical trials are starting, or perhaps when it's hitting the market. Otherwise it's a bunch of false hope with little in the way of practical application in any meaningful timeframe.
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A taxi driver in the UK was spared false rape charges because he'd recorded the women scheming to get out of paying their fare, so there is value for drivers other than preventing robberies. The question though is who watches the watchers? IMO these CCTV systems should instead be cracked wide open so that the general public can view the feeds, not just have it limited to police. After all, they're in public spaces anyway so the people there have no expectation of privacy, so what compelling reason could there be to restrict access to the feeds? Also, include cameras in all the reasonable spaces of legislature and justice. What's good for the goose...
Agreed. She's 23 for fucks sake! Time for the little princess to stop mooching off daddy and get her ass a J-O-B. Notice that she wasn't too butthurt over the asswhooping to take his money and borrow his car, but once that stopped now he's the bad guy. Riiiight. The guy isn't winning any popularity contests with the beatdown, and yes I think it was excessive, but this whole thing smacks of sour grapes and entitlement mentality on the girl's part.
It's all about lost term budgeting costs. When the govt booted out all the govies it was to save money on the back-end. You either pay contractors more up front, or govies less, but have to foot the bill for a fat govt pension later. Pick your poison.
And by 5-10 years away they mean 25-50 years. They've been working on male birth control for 20 years and it's been stuck in the "5-10 years away" the entire time. I see no reason to believe this doesn't fall under the same kind of fantasy science that one day will certainly happen, but probably not nearly as soon as they hope for.
Fermilab has a similar setup which should be able to test the results. So does an experiment in Japan, T2K, but they aren't running at the moment because of the tsunami. The actual experiment shouldn't be too hard to do if you have the equipment to make a beam of neutrinos, just point them at a detector and fire away and see how long time of flight was, which means they could probably start working on it fairly soon, though it will probably take months or years to get enough data points to be statistically significant.
This actually replicates the results of another labs findings, which they had discounted as measurement errors. If anything, this might just prove the previous test's findings weren't a mistake as previously assumed.
This is the 21st century version of the shoe-shine boy giving stock advice. It's clear now we're in for another tech bubble fiasco.
So when should we expect Karen Owens to be arrested? Hmm...? She did just about the same thing at Duke last year and instead of bitching about it many people, mainly feminists, held her up on high as the picture of "empowerment".
If this kid is being charged then they need to arrest Karen Owens. EQUALITY and all that jazz.
I cut the cord about a month ago and got a Roku. Netflix, HuluPlus, and Amazon Prime, plus the channels on Roku have more than met my needs. As for my wants, HuluPlus is near worthless since the shows I'd use it for aren't available for streaming to the TV despite being able to watch them online (eg Fringe) and Amazon Prime is utterly worthless unless you like Dr Who. Netflix is a champ though with them getting streaming for current shows still on the air. Once the networks/studios knock of being stupid and start looking at streaming like pay channels I think we'll see the streaming services start to look more like HBO than not.
"Only other thing to say is -- good job, submitter. Made me look."
I had to double check the date to make sure they weren't submitted on the 1st.
And by girl you mean police officer of legal age.
This kind of police activity is quite literally "thought crime" since no actual crime had been committed. Is it good that guys like him aren't out there *possibly* victimizing real people? Probably, sure. But does it warrant locking him up? Probably not. IMO they should use stings like this merely to flag and monitor people so that if they do try and take action, THEN you arrest them. What they're doing isn't any different from going after people who get off on CGI kiddie porn. How in the world that makes sense I'll never understand. No actual kids were harmed, so there's no actual crime.
Two words:
Firefly
Stargate
If they brought those two back they'd have thousands of customers for life.
Idiots! Should have bought the rights to Firefly.
Fully agree. At 7" it needs to undercut the iPad, so maybe $299 for a WiFi only and maybe $399 for a 3G or 4G capable version. For the 10" model they need to look at $499 for the WiFi only version, and maybe $599 for the 3G/4G model--at that's at the high end IMO. And of course as generations progress those prices need to come down by $50-100 a year if they're going to continue with the 6 month product cycles. "Off brand" tablets like the Archos will need to be even cheaper, which they've already demonstrated is possible with a $300 10" model. Once decent alternatives become more widespread HP and Apple will have no choice but to lower the ceiling on their non-flagship models. If the 7" Galaxy Tab is even made a year from now I expect it to be in the $199 range if they have any hope of it being competitive with what will be on the market, although this is HP and Apple we're talking about here so I'm not holding my breath.
That's the exact point The Atlantic made when they covered this story. The big whopping question feminists cannot or will not answer is:
Why should anyone care?
Like many other aspects of society women have equal opportunity, in this case to create and edit articles. We must not fault Wikipedia because women won't take the initiative. It's much the same with regards to male dominated careers. Instead of pumping millions into special incentives programs specially made to benefit only women, we should actually let the chips fall where they may. Success comes with risk, and quite frankly women don't take the same risks men do. You need not look any further than the rates of war dead, homeless, and on the job deaths. Men take the risks and subsequently men make up the bulk of life's successes AND failures with 98% of the war dead, a little over 75% of the US's homeless, and 96% of those killed on the job. On the other end of the spectrum they make up the bulk of the CEOs, politicians, and so on.
Bottom line, feminism was supposed to be about equal opportunity, NOT equal result.
So does this make the age of the universe 3.3 trillion years old?
I once read a story about a company who had a widget making machine. One day the machine breaks and they have to call in a specialist to fix it. An hour later the specialize arrives and they take him to the machine. He looks it over for a minute, pulls out a wrench, and turns a bolt. The machine springs back to the life and the specialist hands the company rep his bill. The rep is astounded when he reads it and exclaims, "$5005.00?! But it just took you a minute! How can you charge so much?" The specialist replied, "It's 5 dollars to come down and turn the bolt, but $5000 for knowing which one to turn." My point is that companies need to realize that superusers/admins get paid what they do and have the responsiblity they hold for a reason. Looking for a "quick fix" and trying to cheap out is just going to get egg on your face and put your company's infrastructure at risk later. My suggestion to employers is to make sure they do adequate background/security checks on the people they're handing the keys to the company to.
The studio and network liked the show, it was just too expensive to make right now with the studios in the financial bind they're in.
I was just thinking about something like this last night. I wonder why aluminum foil couldn't just be folded and inserted in a similar manner?
"I'll wait for a 7 inch." That's what she said!
Quiet theaters here I come!
Looks like the recession is due for one more person to lose their job. Instead of creating laws & regulations on public safety based on research and reasoned debate over what's truly in the public's best interest we've got a zealot dictating what should and shouldn't be based on nothing more than personal belief. He's got to go.
And? The punishment needs to fit the crime. One person. 20something songs. The damage is marginal and so should be the punishment. Now if it were a large-scale counterfeiting ring then I'd see the need for a large fiscal punishment. Against a single person with a handful of songs in a shared folder? Bitch please! Use some common sense here folks.
When are people going to wise up and ask the question of how much would it have cost if she'd actually stolen the CDs in question? That should be the basis for what her punishment should be, plus maybe something extra as punishment. Looking at shoplifting laws would be a good place to start.
"...the first clinical trials of new drugs based on the findings could begin within two to five years." Am I the only one that wouldn't mind a moratorium on this sort of reporting. Let us know when the clinical trials are starting, or perhaps when it's hitting the market. Otherwise it's a bunch of false hope with little in the way of practical application in any meaningful timeframe.