Keep computers out of elections. They are far too easy to tamper with in ways most elections officials are incapable of detecting.
Paper ballots and any other form are also imperfect, but at least they physically exist and if properly guarded and supervised by election observers, they are reasonably difficult to rig, assuming you get rid of absentee ballots for everyone who is able bodied and require a signed doctors excuse on a prescription pad for the disabled.
What we need is an honest, non-profit version of Yelp that helps you know if the business is good at what it does and customer service... Oh wait, we do have that, its called the BBB.
I refuse to use Yelp or Google because both are easily gamed by businesses and damaged by one or two unhappy asshole customers.
ummm... RTFA I said "50,000 people in the US alone have died from Cdiff in the last 10 years." In my more recent post, I point out that in 2011 alone, there were 500,000 cases of CDI, so in 10 years, that would be 5,000,000 cases of CDI. So my ballpark number of 50,000 deaths was a fatality rate of about 1%. Put down your crack pipe and step away from the keyboard... http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news...
Furthermore, I know that in 1999 there were very few CDI, but the cases and fatalities rose dramatically over the last 17 years, and between 2006 and 2016 the deaths were between 8,000 and 29,000 per year, see here: http://slideplayer.com/slide/3... This easily adds up to over 50,000 deaths between 2006 and 2016, so again, I think you need to leave off whatever you have been smoking for a while.
Furthermore, you might want to educate yourself a bit instead of talking out of your ass about things which you are clearly ignorant "If infections had a 60% death rate I would be probably dead 20 times now." NO RTFA, PRE ANTIBOITCS MOST SERIOUS INFECTIONS WERE FATAL...
"Before antibiotics, 90% of children with bacterial meningitis died. Among those children who lived, most had severe and lasting disabilities, from deafness to mental retardation. Strep throat was at times a fatal disease, and ear infections sometimes spread from the ear to the brain, causing severe problems. Other serious infections, from tuberculosis to pneumonia to whooping cough, were caused by aggressive bacteria that reproduced with extraordinary speed and led to serious illness and sometimes death."
This is honestly a necessary evil in personal politics. If you are going to have individual seats where voters elect their specific representative (as opposed to a parliamentary system, where voters only get to vote for party and then party politics selects the representatives), then you have to define the districts, and the districts must each contain X number of people, where population densities vary along with regional political leanings.
This asinine court ruling will probably be overturned since gerrymandering is just a reality and the only question is who does it.
Armed police outside of voting places? Sounds like a good idea to me. Feel free to have your own poll watchers with cameras to watch the cops. Police are representatives of the government entrusted with enforcing the laws, and criminal activity (you know, the black panthers with clubs roaming outside of other polling places) tends to flee in the face of the police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I want lot's of armed police who have just attended a seminar on the laws around polling places as well as citizens recording the police at every polling place. I would be happy to see a few cops at my polling place. The only people who have something to fear from the cops are criminals...
Except that most utility poles are on public property (street shoulders, sidewalks, etc) and are owned by government approved monopolies. So explain to me how the electric utility, who is supposed to make their money exclusively through the selling of electricity under monopoly fiat approved by the government is getting screwed by being forced to share sections of their poles that are un-usable to them for electricity (specifically the region around 14' up the pole used for phone, cable and data).
The reality is that every utility holds a government mandated monopoly, and free market/property rights do not apply in that circumstance in the same way it applies to you and me. With special treatment (monopoly) comes more regulation, restriction and fewer rights (more restriction). At least that is the way it used to be (and should still be).
They don't need to use eminent domain, just existing utility easement laws in most states and municipalities allow creations of easements (unilateral use of private property) for the common good, in this case utility poles for competitive internet access. The utility can retain ownership of the poles, but the municipality can grant an easement to whomever it wants and it doesn't cost the municipality anything.
I was a fan of WD for a long time, I even had a couple of their NAS My Book Live drives, which were quite nice for the price and were accessible directly over the LAN, but the new "My Cloud" drives require crappy software to work and require to always be online to work, both deal killers for me. These days I only buy HGST drives (yes, I know WD owns them, but they are still made by a different group).
This is actually textbook punishment of a victim of discrimination escalating to management. He highlighted illegal, textbook discrimination (at least in California) at Google and was harassed and eventually fired for it. I would take his case in a minute. If he is smart he will also bend Google over in the court of public opinion. They will be begging him for a settlement if he plays his cards right.
Well said. I also had a front row seat. The Dims have proven the old addage "you can fool most of the people most of the time", along with "Tell a lie loud enough, long enough and the people will believe it."
The little shits on here convinced that the Republican party is the party of racists and the KKK don't even know the actual history of the 1960s, they just slurp up whatever their teacher/professor squeezes out for them... sad.
Furthermore, to all the Dims, please show me a list of all of the Republican Klan members (I can show you a list as long as my arm 3 names wide of confirmed Democrats who were, many after 1964). The reality is no one except the Dims even care about race any more. Great, you are black/white/asian/etc. Who cares what color your skin is, show me who you are (FYI if you dress with your pants around you ankles, black, brown or white, that shows who you are by your own choice).
Thank you, I have heard that bullshit line far too many times from Democrats trying to drape themselves in the civil rights movement, which they first fought bitterly against, and then flipped and try now to claim the moral high ground on. F---ing sick joke.
So you met one cop on a bad day (the guy he arrested before you probably puked on him) and you judge all 900,000 cops to be guilty of "multiple insane flat-out murders, rapes, coverups, evidence tamperings, and misappropriations." I am sorry that you had a bad experience, but that hardly indicates reality. Police officers are far less likely to commit crimes than the general public, but they are still humans and have bad days, and some small few will become criminals (which is what IA is for).
What we need in this country is for all of the foolish people who think the cops are a net evil to sign a waver. You can bitch on the cops all you want, but this waiver also takes you off their list, so when someone is breaking into your house at 3am, or your neighbor hears someone beating you to death with a baseball bat, they don't come to your rescue, often risking their lives in the process.
The police are people, just like you and I and most of them have families that they want to make it home to at the end of their shift. I grew up next door to a cop. I played with his kids, and sometimes he would tell us stories. He had seen a lot of crazy things in his career, and survived multiple close calls. If a cop didn't treat you any better than anyone else, I'm sorry, but it doesn't mean cops are bad, it might mean your parents didn't raise you to respect authority. Cops have a difficult job to do, don't make it harder for them, and don't be surprised if you don't get special treatment because you are white or "educated"...
1. Oral Vancomycin is only marginally absorbed, in IV form it can damage multiple organs and patients must be monitored closely. Orally it can damage your intestinal lining for the same reason, it is less damaging than the CDI though, considering CDI can kill you. Metronidazole can damage nerve endings, causing peripheral neuropathy and other bad things.
2. The problem with Trehalose is that it is not as quickly/easily absorbed by the body. The net effect is that this sugar makes it all the way through your GI. If it were all absorbed in the first 6" of small intestine, there would be no easy fuel for these virulent strains of Cdiff to feed on and they would have a much harder time competing with the other strains of GI bacteria, and might not cause a CDI at all... That is kind of the point, 1/3 of the world population carries Cdiff, but the rest of your GI bacteria keep it under control. People have been using broad spectrum antibiotics since penicillin in the 1940s without Cdiff infection, but something changed around the year 2000 we started to see an epidemic of CDI. The theory was that new antibiotics were better at killing all the GI bacteria and that was the cause, but it was supposition without evidence or scientific proof. Now we potentially have another culprit.
In 2011, the CDC pegged almost 500,000 cases of CDI with 29,000 deaths. It is deadly shit (sorry for the pun), especially for the elderly. The only reason pneumonia is not as deadly is because of antibiotics. It used to kill a much higher percentage of those infected.
A little Googling will reveal that Trehalose is about 11x more expensive than sugar, so this is not a financial play, it is used because of some unique gel behavior as it gets dehydrated, and it's stability at high temperatures. It naturally occurs in Shiitake mushrooms, among other things (15-25% by dry weight). It is also only half as sweet as table sugar, so you have to use more to achieve the same sweetness.
This is exactly it. The teenagers and bums who are stealing the bikes and keeping them or destroying them would never do that to their own bikes, but because it is essentially a free for all, they don't care.
I do like the Shanghai concept of unlocking the bike using your cell phone. There is obviously still some room for fraud, but certainly if you unlock the bike with your own phone, you are not going to be an ass and damage or destroy the bike because Google can set the law after your for vandalism or theft.
My guess is also that all of this crime is being committed by a few hundred people.
Yes and no. What they propose is happening is that Cdiff, which something like 30% of the world's population carries in their GI, has become an infectious problem (Cdiff infection, or CDI) in the last 15 years because of the following process: First, a patient takes life saving antibiotics for a medical problem. Without antibiotics something like 60% of infections are fatal (the bad old days before penicillin was discovered). Those antibiotics wipe out the infection, but also the good GI bacteria, but Cdiff is able to make an impervious spore form that is immune to all known antibiotics except for Metronidazole and Vancomycin (which are both not normally given for infections, Vancomycin especially has some very nasty side effects). Once the patient is better and they discontinue antibiotics, the Cdiff can flourish in the absence of other bacteria. It produces some very nasty toxins, one that destroys cells as well as a systemic poison that can kill you (toxin A and B).
The new discovery is that it is not just the absence of healthy bacteria in the GI that triggers CDI, but the presence of this food additive Trehalose that was previously thought to be safe, because the body doesn't absorb it very well (though it does get absorbed): "Trehalose is nutritionally equivalent to glucose, because it is rapidly broken down into glucose by the enzyme trehalase, which is present in the brush border of the intestinal mucosa of omnivores (including humans) and herbivores." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The bottom line is now that we know that Trehalose is a aggravating risk factor for CDI, any foods that contain it should be required to carry a large warning label on the front of the package (like cigarettes) describing the danger, if it is not banned altogether as a food additive. At the same time, the companies that are profiting from the manufacture and sale of Trehalose are looking at a serious lawsuit, since about 50,000 people in the US alone have died from Cdiff in the last 10 years.
There will be no human trials, other than to ban Trehalose for patients during and for a month after treatment with antibiotics (typical incidence time frame for CDI). If the cases of Cdiff drop precipitously, especially in high risk patients, that will be all the confirmation required.
My statement above will be life saving if followed by half the idiots who posted on this thread who think the cops are murdering savages who shoot people for the fun of it. Cops do exercise restraint, but they are also people who want to go home to their families, and when they enter a felony warrant/active threat situation, they anticipate encountering lethal force from the bad guys. Restraint in that situation will get them killed. So they are looking for two things: threats and victims. They are prepared to shoot threats and protect victims, because even a fraction of a second hesitation might mean their life or the life of a partner or a victim's life. Are they perfect? No, but they do a hell of a job that is quite difficult, and if you are ever in an active shooter or hostage situation, you will be praying for SWAT to save your ass, and if you make it out alive, chances are you will have them to thank.
The issue at hand (SWATing) should be made a federal crime equivalent to attempted murder (or murder if anyone dies) and we should have tools in place such that any phone call placed to emergency lines is traceable back to it's actual origin, and anyone who performs a swating should be prosecuted very publicly, so that word gets around it is no joke and not worth the chance you will get caught.
So you are saying that the repeat criminal who is more likely to be armed and/or resist arrest is less likely to be shot by SWAT than Joe Sixpack? Please cite your statistical evidence for this. This kind of talking out your ass is what actually gets people shot.
You freeze and wait for clarification. Slowly put your hands on your head and interlace your fingers. The thing that gets most people shot is what they do with their hands. Your odds of being shot with your hands on your head are essentially zero. Put them there and leave them there until you are in handcuffs. Let the police get your ID and search you before moving your hands from that pose (we are talking about a felony arrest here where the cops think you could be guilty of a serious crime, not your average traffic stop). If you make quick movements or move your hands closer to pockets or other out of view concealment where a weapon might be, your odds of getting shot skyrocket, though these days you are more likely to get tasered.
Please cite your evidence that police and especially SWAT (who execute felony warrants all the time) are not properly trained. What qualifications or special evidence do you have that the rest of the world does not, because the facts do not support you irresponsible, inaccurate assertion.
According to the FBI UCR, the total number of arrests (not traffic stops but arrests) in 2015 was 10,797,088. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t... Out of all those arrests, approximately 965 were fatally shot. Of those, 564 were armed with a gun, 281 had a weapon of some kind, only 90 were unarmed and essentially all of them were attacking officers, resisting arrest or attempting to flee.
OTOH, there have only been about 54 unjustified police killings in the last 10 years, or about 5 per year So the actual numbers say if you are being arrested, you have a roughly 5 in 11 million chance of being unjustifiably killed by police. I will take those odds any day.
So you live in your fantasy world where 5 unjustified killings per year makes 11 million arrests super dangerous and the cops are loose cannons who are going to shoot you on sight. I will live in the real world where statistics are a thing and cops are still the good guys.
Your will never get shot for looking at the cops, especially if your hands are going up slowly. Cops care about what your hands are doing, not your eyes.
Please cite this recent history with cops of which you speak... The hands up don't shoot bullshit in Ferguson turned out to be a complete lie based on multiple testimony by eyewitness blacks who were too scared initially to come forward.
The factual statistics show that your odds of being shot by a cop are actually very low. If you are compliant it is virtually zero (your odds of dying from a bee are higher). Resisting arrest on the other hand will get you shot more often.
How I got modded -1 flame bait and you got +5 is ridiculous and a sign that some sock puppet accounts need to be nuked...
Regarding your question, it is simple. Cops are people too, who want to make it home to see their families. The main thing they care about is what you are doing with your hands. Moving your hands against orders is a sure way to get shot. Another way to get shot is putting your hands where the officers can't see them. In any felony arrest, the best thing you can do is freeze, wait for the initial couple of seconds of confusion and then verbally and then physically comply with officers commands SLOWLY. Quick movements are also very dangerous and liable to get you shot. Moving like a sloth may aggravate the cops if they feel you aren't complying fast enough, but they won't shoot you over it.
The stats clearly show that cops are doing their jobs and by a massive margin (something like 98%) are good people trying to protect the innocent from criminals. Your chances of being shot by a Cop on the job are miniscule. Your chances of being shot by a cop resisting arrest during a felony or high risk arrest (like a Swatting) are much higher.
1. When the cops tell you to do something, you do it. The place to argue is in court, not when confronted with (a) police officer(s). The dead guy would probably have been fine if he did this (excluding a ND by the cops).
2. I have been saying for years now that the federal government needs to step in and pass a law that requires real traceability for all digital/TTY/VOIP/cell calls using some kind of trace/real identity handshake system. Make it a federal crime to spoof caller ID information on par with mail fraud. The system could work many different ways. However it might be implemented, the goal would be similar to a universal ID, at least as far as phones go, that is tied to a real, verified person and a real, physical address. Any call that could not be verified by the phone system would be blocked and not go through. As an added bonus, you could really block all the asshole telemarketers who spoof random local phone numbers, since for their calls to go through, they would have to use a real phone number that they actually own on the caller ID, or show up as a blocked caller ID. Either way for the call to go through, the phone company would know exactly who actually called you every single time. There is no good reason to conceal your identity from the phone company or the government when placing an emergency call.
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Keep computers out of elections. They are far too easy to tamper with in ways most elections officials are incapable of detecting.
Paper ballots and any other form are also imperfect, but at least they physically exist and if properly guarded and supervised by election observers, they are reasonably difficult to rig, assuming you get rid of absentee ballots for everyone who is able bodied and require a signed doctors excuse on a prescription pad for the disabled.
What we need is an honest, non-profit version of Yelp that helps you know if the business is good at what it does and customer service... Oh wait, we do have that, its called the BBB.
I refuse to use Yelp or Google because both are easily gamed by businesses and damaged by one or two unhappy asshole customers.
ummm... RTFA I said "50,000 people in the US alone have died from Cdiff in the last 10 years." In my more recent post, I point out that in 2011 alone, there were 500,000 cases of CDI, so in 10 years, that would be 5,000,000 cases of CDI. So my ballpark number of 50,000 deaths was a fatality rate of about 1%. Put down your crack pipe and step away from the keyboard... http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news...
Furthermore, I know that in 1999 there were very few CDI, but the cases and fatalities rose dramatically over the last 17 years, and between 2006 and 2016 the deaths were between 8,000 and 29,000 per year, see here: http://slideplayer.com/slide/3... This easily adds up to over 50,000 deaths between 2006 and 2016, so again, I think you need to leave off whatever you have been smoking for a while.
Furthermore, you might want to educate yourself a bit instead of talking out of your ass about things which you are clearly ignorant "If infections had a 60% death rate I would be probably dead 20 times now." NO RTFA, PRE ANTIBOITCS MOST SERIOUS INFECTIONS WERE FATAL...
Quoting from this article: https://www.healthychildren.or...
"Before antibiotics, 90% of children with bacterial meningitis died. Among those children who lived, most had severe and lasting disabilities, from deafness to mental retardation.
Strep throat was at times a fatal disease, and ear infections sometimes spread from the ear to the brain, causing severe problems.
Other serious infections, from tuberculosis to pneumonia to whooping cough, were caused by aggressive bacteria that reproduced with extraordinary speed and led to serious illness and sometimes death."
For more fun reading, you can see how mideval medicine was during WW1, which was pre antibiotics https://www.omicsonline.org/op...
This is honestly a necessary evil in personal politics. If you are going to have individual seats where voters elect their specific representative (as opposed to a parliamentary system, where voters only get to vote for party and then party politics selects the representatives), then you have to define the districts, and the districts must each contain X number of people, where population densities vary along with regional political leanings.
This asinine court ruling will probably be overturned since gerrymandering is just a reality and the only question is who does it.
Armed police outside of voting places? Sounds like a good idea to me. Feel free to have your own poll watchers with cameras to watch the cops. Police are representatives of the government entrusted with enforcing the laws, and criminal activity (you know, the black panthers with clubs roaming outside of other polling places) tends to flee in the face of the police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I want lot's of armed police who have just attended a seminar on the laws around polling places as well as citizens recording the police at every polling place. I would be happy to see a few cops at my polling place. The only people who have something to fear from the cops are criminals...
Except that most utility poles are on public property (street shoulders, sidewalks, etc) and are owned by government approved monopolies. So explain to me how the electric utility, who is supposed to make their money exclusively through the selling of electricity under monopoly fiat approved by the government is getting screwed by being forced to share sections of their poles that are un-usable to them for electricity (specifically the region around 14' up the pole used for phone, cable and data).
The reality is that every utility holds a government mandated monopoly, and free market/property rights do not apply in that circumstance in the same way it applies to you and me. With special treatment (monopoly) comes more regulation, restriction and fewer rights (more restriction). At least that is the way it used to be (and should still be).
They don't need to use eminent domain, just existing utility easement laws in most states and municipalities allow creations of easements (unilateral use of private property) for the common good, in this case utility poles for competitive internet access. The utility can retain ownership of the poles, but the municipality can grant an easement to whomever it wants and it doesn't cost the municipality anything.
I was a fan of WD for a long time, I even had a couple of their NAS My Book Live drives, which were quite nice for the price and were accessible directly over the LAN, but the new "My Cloud" drives require crappy software to work and require to always be online to work, both deal killers for me. These days I only buy HGST drives (yes, I know WD owns them, but they are still made by a different group).
This is actually textbook punishment of a victim of discrimination escalating to management. He highlighted illegal, textbook discrimination (at least in California) at Google and was harassed and eventually fired for it. I would take his case in a minute. If he is smart he will also bend Google over in the court of public opinion. They will be begging him for a settlement if he plays his cards right.
Well said. I also had a front row seat. The Dims have proven the old addage "you can fool most of the people most of the time", along with "Tell a lie loud enough, long enough and the people will believe it."
The little shits on here convinced that the Republican party is the party of racists and the KKK don't even know the actual history of the 1960s, they just slurp up whatever their teacher/professor squeezes out for them... sad.
Furthermore, to all the Dims, please show me a list of all of the Republican Klan members (I can show you a list as long as my arm 3 names wide of confirmed Democrats who were, many after 1964). The reality is no one except the Dims even care about race any more. Great, you are black/white/asian/etc. Who cares what color your skin is, show me who you are (FYI if you dress with your pants around you ankles, black, brown or white, that shows who you are by your own choice).
Thank you, I have heard that bullshit line far too many times from Democrats trying to drape themselves in the civil rights movement, which they first fought bitterly against, and then flipped and try now to claim the moral high ground on. F---ing sick joke.
So you met one cop on a bad day (the guy he arrested before you probably puked on him) and you judge all 900,000 cops to be guilty of "multiple insane flat-out murders, rapes, coverups, evidence tamperings, and misappropriations." I am sorry that you had a bad experience, but that hardly indicates reality. Police officers are far less likely to commit crimes than the general public, but they are still humans and have bad days, and some small few will become criminals (which is what IA is for).
What we need in this country is for all of the foolish people who think the cops are a net evil to sign a waver. You can bitch on the cops all you want, but this waiver also takes you off their list, so when someone is breaking into your house at 3am, or your neighbor hears someone beating you to death with a baseball bat, they don't come to your rescue, often risking their lives in the process.
The police are people, just like you and I and most of them have families that they want to make it home to at the end of their shift. I grew up next door to a cop. I played with his kids, and sometimes he would tell us stories. He had seen a lot of crazy things in his career, and survived multiple close calls. If a cop didn't treat you any better than anyone else, I'm sorry, but it doesn't mean cops are bad, it might mean your parents didn't raise you to respect authority. Cops have a difficult job to do, don't make it harder for them, and don't be surprised if you don't get special treatment because you are white or "educated"...
1. Oral Vancomycin is only marginally absorbed, in IV form it can damage multiple organs and patients must be monitored closely. Orally it can damage your intestinal lining for the same reason, it is less damaging than the CDI though, considering CDI can kill you. Metronidazole can damage nerve endings, causing peripheral neuropathy and other bad things.
2. The problem with Trehalose is that it is not as quickly/easily absorbed by the body. The net effect is that this sugar makes it all the way through your GI. If it were all absorbed in the first 6" of small intestine, there would be no easy fuel for these virulent strains of Cdiff to feed on and they would have a much harder time competing with the other strains of GI bacteria, and might not cause a CDI at all... That is kind of the point, 1/3 of the world population carries Cdiff, but the rest of your GI bacteria keep it under control. People have been using broad spectrum antibiotics since penicillin in the 1940s without Cdiff infection, but something changed around the year 2000 we started to see an epidemic of CDI. The theory was that new antibiotics were better at killing all the GI bacteria and that was the cause, but it was supposition without evidence or scientific proof. Now we potentially have another culprit.
In 2011, the CDC pegged almost 500,000 cases of CDI with 29,000 deaths. It is deadly shit (sorry for the pun), especially for the elderly. The only reason pneumonia is not as deadly is because of antibiotics. It used to kill a much higher percentage of those infected.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news...
A little Googling will reveal that Trehalose is about 11x more expensive than sugar, so this is not a financial play, it is used because of some unique gel behavior as it gets dehydrated, and it's stability at high temperatures. It naturally occurs in Shiitake mushrooms, among other things (15-25% by dry weight). It is also only half as sweet as table sugar, so you have to use more to achieve the same sweetness.
This is exactly it. The teenagers and bums who are stealing the bikes and keeping them or destroying them would never do that to their own bikes, but because it is essentially a free for all, they don't care.
I do like the Shanghai concept of unlocking the bike using your cell phone. There is obviously still some room for fraud, but certainly if you unlock the bike with your own phone, you are not going to be an ass and damage or destroy the bike because Google can set the law after your for vandalism or theft.
My guess is also that all of this crime is being committed by a few hundred people.
Yes and no. What they propose is happening is that Cdiff, which something like 30% of the world's population carries in their GI, has become an infectious problem (Cdiff infection, or CDI) in the last 15 years because of the following process: First, a patient takes life saving antibiotics for a medical problem. Without antibiotics something like 60% of infections are fatal (the bad old days before penicillin was discovered). Those antibiotics wipe out the infection, but also the good GI bacteria, but Cdiff is able to make an impervious spore form that is immune to all known antibiotics except for Metronidazole and Vancomycin (which are both not normally given for infections, Vancomycin especially has some very nasty side effects). Once the patient is better and they discontinue antibiotics, the Cdiff can flourish in the absence of other bacteria. It produces some very nasty toxins, one that destroys cells as well as a systemic poison that can kill you (toxin A and B).
The new discovery is that it is not just the absence of healthy bacteria in the GI that triggers CDI, but the presence of this food additive Trehalose that was previously thought to be safe, because the body doesn't absorb it very well (though it does get absorbed): "Trehalose is nutritionally equivalent to glucose, because it is rapidly broken down into glucose by the enzyme trehalase, which is present in the brush border of the intestinal mucosa of omnivores (including humans) and herbivores." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The bottom line is now that we know that Trehalose is a aggravating risk factor for CDI, any foods that contain it should be required to carry a large warning label on the front of the package (like cigarettes) describing the danger, if it is not banned altogether as a food additive. At the same time, the companies that are profiting from the manufacture and sale of Trehalose are looking at a serious lawsuit, since about 50,000 people in the US alone have died from Cdiff in the last 10 years.
There will be no human trials, other than to ban Trehalose for patients during and for a month after treatment with antibiotics (typical incidence time frame for CDI). If the cases of Cdiff drop precipitously, especially in high risk patients, that will be all the confirmation required.
My statement above will be life saving if followed by half the idiots who posted on this thread who think the cops are murdering savages who shoot people for the fun of it. Cops do exercise restraint, but they are also people who want to go home to their families, and when they enter a felony warrant/active threat situation, they anticipate encountering lethal force from the bad guys. Restraint in that situation will get them killed. So they are looking for two things: threats and victims. They are prepared to shoot threats and protect victims, because even a fraction of a second hesitation might mean their life or the life of a partner or a victim's life. Are they perfect? No, but they do a hell of a job that is quite difficult, and if you are ever in an active shooter or hostage situation, you will be praying for SWAT to save your ass, and if you make it out alive, chances are you will have them to thank.
The issue at hand (SWATing) should be made a federal crime equivalent to attempted murder (or murder if anyone dies) and we should have tools in place such that any phone call placed to emergency lines is traceable back to it's actual origin, and anyone who performs a swating should be prosecuted very publicly, so that word gets around it is no joke and not worth the chance you will get caught.
So you are saying that the repeat criminal who is more likely to be armed and/or resist arrest is less likely to be shot by SWAT than Joe Sixpack? Please cite your statistical evidence for this. This kind of talking out your ass is what actually gets people shot.
You freeze and wait for clarification. Slowly put your hands on your head and interlace your fingers. The thing that gets most people shot is what they do with their hands. Your odds of being shot with your hands on your head are essentially zero. Put them there and leave them there until you are in handcuffs. Let the police get your ID and search you before moving your hands from that pose (we are talking about a felony arrest here where the cops think you could be guilty of a serious crime, not your average traffic stop). If you make quick movements or move your hands closer to pockets or other out of view concealment where a weapon might be, your odds of getting shot skyrocket, though these days you are more likely to get tasered.
Please cite your evidence that police and especially SWAT (who execute felony warrants all the time) are not properly trained. What qualifications or special evidence do you have that the rest of the world does not, because the facts do not support you irresponsible, inaccurate assertion.
According to the FBI UCR, the total number of arrests (not traffic stops but arrests) in 2015 was 10,797,088. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t... Out of all those arrests, approximately 965 were fatally shot. Of those, 564 were armed with a gun, 281 had a weapon of some kind, only 90 were unarmed and essentially all of them were attacking officers, resisting arrest or attempting to flee.
OTOH, there have only been about 54 unjustified police killings in the last 10 years, or about 5 per year So the actual numbers say if you are being arrested, you have a roughly 5 in 11 million chance of being unjustifiably killed by police. I will take those odds any day.
So you live in your fantasy world where 5 unjustified killings per year makes 11 million arrests super dangerous and the cops are loose cannons who are going to shoot you on sight. I will live in the real world where statistics are a thing and cops are still the good guys.
Your will never get shot for looking at the cops, especially if your hands are going up slowly. Cops care about what your hands are doing, not your eyes.
Please cite this recent history with cops of which you speak... The hands up don't shoot bullshit in Ferguson turned out to be a complete lie based on multiple testimony by eyewitness blacks who were too scared initially to come forward.
The factual statistics show that your odds of being shot by a cop are actually very low. If you are compliant it is virtually zero (your odds of dying from a bee are higher). Resisting arrest on the other hand will get you shot more often.
How I got modded -1 flame bait and you got +5 is ridiculous and a sign that some sock puppet accounts need to be nuked...
Regarding your question, it is simple. Cops are people too, who want to make it home to see their families. The main thing they care about is what you are doing with your hands. Moving your hands against orders is a sure way to get shot. Another way to get shot is putting your hands where the officers can't see them. In any felony arrest, the best thing you can do is freeze, wait for the initial couple of seconds of confusion and then verbally and then physically comply with officers commands SLOWLY. Quick movements are also very dangerous and liable to get you shot. Moving like a sloth may aggravate the cops if they feel you aren't complying fast enough, but they won't shoot you over it.
The stats clearly show that cops are doing their jobs and by a massive margin (something like 98%) are good people trying to protect the innocent from criminals. Your chances of being shot by a Cop on the job are miniscule. Your chances of being shot by a cop resisting arrest during a felony or high risk arrest (like a Swatting) are much higher.
Two points:
1. When the cops tell you to do something, you do it. The place to argue is in court, not when confronted with (a) police officer(s). The dead guy would probably have been fine if he did this (excluding a ND by the cops).
2. I have been saying for years now that the federal government needs to step in and pass a law that requires real traceability for all digital/TTY/VOIP/cell calls using some kind of trace/real identity handshake system. Make it a federal crime to spoof caller ID information on par with mail fraud. The system could work many different ways. However it might be implemented, the goal would be similar to a universal ID, at least as far as phones go, that is tied to a real, verified person and a real, physical address. Any call that could not be verified by the phone system would be blocked and not go through. As an added bonus, you could really block all the asshole telemarketers who spoof random local phone numbers, since for their calls to go through, they would have to use a real phone number that they actually own on the caller ID, or show up as a blocked caller ID. Either way for the call to go through, the phone company would know exactly who actually called you every single time. There is no good reason to conceal your identity from the phone company or the government when placing an emergency call.