Just a hunch but I'm going to say the panic stems from this single line right here: " I was then able to download every member statement".
Probably better off just doing only spot checking in the future - not sure what benefit was gained from automating it to grab everything it could. It only takes one example of accessing something you shouldn't have access to show there's a hole somewhere.
"To me, if you are in a situation where you have to make that decision, you need more police, and better community service."
That to me really is the root of the issue. No town should *need* a "superhero". But if citizens are feeling that their local government isn't providing an adequate amount of resources to combat what appears to be a very real problem then these guys might just be the temporary stop gap that's required.
However, one point you touch on is that these guys aren't regulated in the same way cops are (/should be). What I find ironic though that someone else mentioned is that this guy might actually get a heftier punishment for doing the same thing an officer recently did at the recent protests (pepper spraying folks that were clearly not being aggressive in the slightest).
And don't get me wrong - I'm not some cop-hater. I wholeheartedly respect what they do and absolutely love the good ones that do their jobs. But I also realize they simply cant be everywhere all the time.
And yeah, given the response we're seeing in these articles by the police even after seeing the video ourselves it just shows precisely what these guys are trying to change.
From another article I read they wouldn't even hear about the hit and run you see on the video let alone everything else that's clearly an altercation going on.
From what I researched a while back the issue was that the fuel efficiency issue they ran into was that they opted to go the sports car route - thus more horsepower. If I recall correctly the elliptical was able to get more torque and was better suited for that desire. However, circular rotaries, and by all means correct me if I'm mistaken, were supposed to be able to handle higher rpms, get better fuel economies, but had shit for torque.
What drives me nuts, pun intended, is you hear about various different types of engine designs out there that sound pretty promising but never get off the ground. Are they really just not able to do the job we want them to do? Is it lack of funding? Where's the next "disruptive technology" in regards to combustion engines? Or is hybrid/electric tech really the direction it had to go?
I won't lie - I was/am in the similar boat. Since we're sharing anecdotes...
Everyone told me early on I was some genius kid and yadda yadda yadda. But at that age you have no idea what that means. All it meant was more homework that I didn't want to do and preferred to just go outside and play (as most kids would). My parents didn't push me and my dad's requirement was "just pass and get the hell out" (in his loving way of course). Of course I figured out quickly what the bare minimum was that'd be required to pass. In other words - I opted for efficiency in order to maximize play time.
When I went to high school I didn't even attempt honors classes as I didn't think I could handle it. The kids I saw from there were hard-working, studious, overachieving bastards and I envied their work ethic something fierce. Then I took chemistry with Mrs. Newton. One thing I wasn't shy about was asking questions in a topic I had huge interest in and chemistry was one of them. Often she couldn't answer my questions but always followed through with her promise of "but I will find out for you!".
Eventually she told me a Mr. Franklin wanted to chat with me. Turns out he was who she was always going to for help with my questions. He basically said "you're going to take my honors physics and AP chemistry classes." Well...ok, sure, I'll give it a whack. Got an A in physics - the work load was pretty much the same as the standard classes I found. But AP was nearly double the work and I soon figured out I could sleep through class and still pass the exams. By the end of the year I passed my AP exam to get the college credit, passed the final exam with a 90-something but failed the class with a 65. I sat next to the girl who became the valedictorian for my graduating class. She flipped out on me telling me how I didn't deserve any of this and how she had to work 6 hours a night on this stuff just to pass (she got an A for the year).
Mind you - this was a girl I respected like crazy. Brilliant, brilliant person. I just had no idea what she had to go through to get there. That was about when I figured out what talent I had pissed away. I thought everyone absorbed info that easily. I graduated with a 2.4 GPA in high school. I deserved every bit of that.
Then I went to the local community college and got a 3.5 my first semester. The difference? No/barely any homework.
What I really gained from this experience was a respect for those who work their asses off to get where they are. I also learned I work far, far better with positive reinforcement. I know I made my own bed, so I'll lie in it, that's fine. The one thing I would have changed if I could would be to have parents who were more supportive and nudged slightly harder. Take me out for ice cream or something any time I had a really good semester or something, you know?
With that all said - if this kid has some genuine interest and drive - support him 100%. But don't push so hard he can't function in the outside world on his own without being told what to do or so hard that he just crumbles away and his abilities become useless.
As for the 40 hours tech = 3 day work week, that just makes me cry a little on the inside. I've got to say I've been damned fortunate I haven't gotten snared into that one.
Happiness is what I'd measure out. Also - something not mentioned is at what stage of your career you're in.
As for happiness - is your commute time stripping you of valuable time with your family? I have a similar commute and I'm used to it - but I also have some flexibility with my hours and can work from home at times. Those little perks there make up for the commute for me.
As for salary - is that 7k going to make a huge difference to you? After taxes&benefits (based on USA rates) that'll be roughly 400/mo or translates to a little over 3.36/hr before taxes. Huge difference if you're making 100k/yr vs 30k/yr.
Another thing - does this new job open up any new doors for you? In my case - I've plateaued in regards to what I can learn and do here so that's my main motivation for wanting to look elsewhere.
For me I'd measure out my priorities. I'm in my early-mid stages of my career so I still have a fair amount of momentum to be used up. Commute isn't a huge priority. Salary I can stand to remain the same. I'm just not learning/doing much else, thus not allowing much else I can add to my resume, and that's the kicker for me.
My initial thought was trying to clear out a place like NYC out of the way of all the falling debris, but protecting populations from our infrastructure like you mention (including natural gas as someone else mentioned) seems more reasonable.
Not to be overly cynical but 30-40 minutes to brace for a major earthquake? While I see this being helpful I can't see saving thousands of lives - at least not in the immediate future.
However, since you can't exactly evacuate a major city in that time - could a "earthquake shelter" be created? That seems like the most reasonable route to go if it's something that can be engineered to withstand some crazy forces - including buildings falling on it.
You know...I never knew that wasn't how it was spelled until today. I've always just heard it verbally and never bothered to check (I rarely use the term myself). Lo and behold, slashdot has taught me something yet again!
Anywho - I wouldn't hold that too much against them. It's not as bad as the their/they're/there and so on which SHOULD be common knowledge.
Funfact according to the internet: lo is short for look. The entire phrase has been replaced by "yo - check it!"
I love these kind of threads so much when they pop up. When I first started reading slashdot I was just starting my adventures ripping apart computers and not really doing much with myself. Now I've got a wife, kid, and a career in IT. Slashdot has gone from teaching me how to nerd to teaching me how to parent!:)
Something that irked me was lack of continuation. After so many sequels you'd kind of like to see some of the same faces instead of having to readjust to everyone all over again. Dirge of Cerberus was kind of a nice spinoff like that IMHO.
Something else that kills me with the FF series now is how friggin long it takes to play. I'm pretty sure I got up to roughly 200+ hours in FF12 and finally said "fuck this noise". FF8 I think may have been around 80 and that pushing it. There was actually a/. article on this recently and it was suggested that gamers were wanting longer and longer games. Really? Am I just a weird guy who'd like to beat a game in a handful of solid weekends instead of a whole damned year's worth?
Well we have come up with some other fairly crazy treatments that were successful. Hell - penicillin is a decent example. Let's treat infections with mold. On the surface - sure it sounds wacky.
Not that I'm outright supporting this guy's claim but just because it sounds odd doesn't mean it must be false.
The value added here is probably time & convenience. It's kind of a pain to schedule appointments, then have to wait sometimes up to an hour to be seen, and then be herded in and out once you finally are seen.
It's kind of like the difference between getting a hooker vs. getting married.;)
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Thanks for a moment of sanity.
"She did not have any children herself"
I think I discovered the reason she lived so long! ;)
Just a hunch but I'm going to say the panic stems from this single line right here: " I was then able to download every member statement".
Probably better off just doing only spot checking in the future - not sure what benefit was gained from automating it to grab everything it could. It only takes one example of accessing something you shouldn't have access to show there's a hole somewhere.
"To me, if you are in a situation where you have to make that decision, you need more police, and better community service."
That to me really is the root of the issue. No town should *need* a "superhero". But if citizens are feeling that their local government isn't providing an adequate amount of resources to combat what appears to be a very real problem then these guys might just be the temporary stop gap that's required.
However, one point you touch on is that these guys aren't regulated in the same way cops are (/should be). What I find ironic though that someone else mentioned is that this guy might actually get a heftier punishment for doing the same thing an officer recently did at the recent protests (pepper spraying folks that were clearly not being aggressive in the slightest).
And don't get me wrong - I'm not some cop-hater. I wholeheartedly respect what they do and absolutely love the good ones that do their jobs. But I also realize they simply cant be everywhere all the time.
At a minimum you should at least be able to see the car speed by and hit someone. Pretty sure I didn't make that up.
Full video here: http://vimeo.com/30307440
And yeah, given the response we're seeing in these articles by the police even after seeing the video ourselves it just shows precisely what these guys are trying to change.
From another article I read they wouldn't even hear about the hit and run you see on the video let alone everything else that's clearly an altercation going on.
From what I researched a while back the issue was that the fuel efficiency issue they ran into was that they opted to go the sports car route - thus more horsepower. If I recall correctly the elliptical was able to get more torque and was better suited for that desire. However, circular rotaries, and by all means correct me if I'm mistaken, were supposed to be able to handle higher rpms, get better fuel economies, but had shit for torque.
What drives me nuts, pun intended, is you hear about various different types of engine designs out there that sound pretty promising but never get off the ground. Are they really just not able to do the job we want them to do? Is it lack of funding? Where's the next "disruptive technology" in regards to combustion engines? Or is hybrid/electric tech really the direction it had to go?
I won't lie - I was/am in the similar boat. Since we're sharing anecdotes...
Everyone told me early on I was some genius kid and yadda yadda yadda. But at that age you have no idea what that means. All it meant was more homework that I didn't want to do and preferred to just go outside and play (as most kids would). My parents didn't push me and my dad's requirement was "just pass and get the hell out" (in his loving way of course). Of course I figured out quickly what the bare minimum was that'd be required to pass. In other words - I opted for efficiency in order to maximize play time.
When I went to high school I didn't even attempt honors classes as I didn't think I could handle it. The kids I saw from there were hard-working, studious, overachieving bastards and I envied their work ethic something fierce. Then I took chemistry with Mrs. Newton. One thing I wasn't shy about was asking questions in a topic I had huge interest in and chemistry was one of them. Often she couldn't answer my questions but always followed through with her promise of "but I will find out for you!".
Eventually she told me a Mr. Franklin wanted to chat with me. Turns out he was who she was always going to for help with my questions. He basically said "you're going to take my honors physics and AP chemistry classes." Well...ok, sure, I'll give it a whack. Got an A in physics - the work load was pretty much the same as the standard classes I found. But AP was nearly double the work and I soon figured out I could sleep through class and still pass the exams. By the end of the year I passed my AP exam to get the college credit, passed the final exam with a 90-something but failed the class with a 65. I sat next to the girl who became the valedictorian for my graduating class. She flipped out on me telling me how I didn't deserve any of this and how she had to work 6 hours a night on this stuff just to pass (she got an A for the year).
Mind you - this was a girl I respected like crazy. Brilliant, brilliant person. I just had no idea what she had to go through to get there. That was about when I figured out what talent I had pissed away. I thought everyone absorbed info that easily. I graduated with a 2.4 GPA in high school. I deserved every bit of that.
Then I went to the local community college and got a 3.5 my first semester. The difference? No/barely any homework.
What I really gained from this experience was a respect for those who work their asses off to get where they are. I also learned I work far, far better with positive reinforcement. I know I made my own bed, so I'll lie in it, that's fine. The one thing I would have changed if I could would be to have parents who were more supportive and nudged slightly harder. Take me out for ice cream or something any time I had a really good semester or something, you know?
With that all said - if this kid has some genuine interest and drive - support him 100%. But don't push so hard he can't function in the outside world on his own without being told what to do or so hard that he just crumbles away and his abilities become useless.
Thanks for the conversion!
As for the 40 hours tech = 3 day work week, that just makes me cry a little on the inside. I've got to say I've been damned fortunate I haven't gotten snared into that one.
Happiness is what I'd measure out. Also - something not mentioned is at what stage of your career you're in.
As for happiness - is your commute time stripping you of valuable time with your family? I have a similar commute and I'm used to it - but I also have some flexibility with my hours and can work from home at times. Those little perks there make up for the commute for me.
As for salary - is that 7k going to make a huge difference to you? After taxes&benefits (based on USA rates) that'll be roughly 400/mo or translates to a little over 3.36/hr before taxes. Huge difference if you're making 100k/yr vs 30k/yr.
Another thing - does this new job open up any new doors for you? In my case - I've plateaued in regards to what I can learn and do here so that's my main motivation for wanting to look elsewhere.
For me I'd measure out my priorities. I'm in my early-mid stages of my career so I still have a fair amount of momentum to be used up. Commute isn't a huge priority. Salary I can stand to remain the same. I'm just not learning/doing much else, thus not allowing much else I can add to my resume, and that's the kicker for me.
But I hear the chicks are HOT!
Well put!
My initial thought was trying to clear out a place like NYC out of the way of all the falling debris, but protecting populations from our infrastructure like you mention (including natural gas as someone else mentioned) seems more reasonable.
Not to be overly cynical but 30-40 minutes to brace for a major earthquake? While I see this being helpful I can't see saving thousands of lives - at least not in the immediate future.
However, since you can't exactly evacuate a major city in that time - could a "earthquake shelter" be created? That seems like the most reasonable route to go if it's something that can be engineered to withstand some crazy forces - including buildings falling on it.
My logical advice: choose a better wife next time. Maybe a male instead.
I find it hard to believe an estimation like this could even consider a $10 dollar difference not within margin of error. Pretty much non-news here.
You know...I never knew that wasn't how it was spelled until today. I've always just heard it verbally and never bothered to check (I rarely use the term myself). Lo and behold, slashdot has taught me something yet again!
Anywho - I wouldn't hold that too much against them. It's not as bad as the their/they're/there and so on which SHOULD be common knowledge.
Funfact according to the internet: lo is short for look. The entire phrase has been replaced by "yo - check it!"
I tried digesting it but came up with about the same. I don't think my attention span is great enough for me to ever be a lawyer though.
It's amazing what innocence is going for these days.
Thanks for the tip. Now if I ever could find a free weekend again.... ;)
I love these kind of threads so much when they pop up. When I first started reading slashdot I was just starting my adventures ripping apart computers and not really doing much with myself. Now I've got a wife, kid, and a career in IT. Slashdot has gone from teaching me how to nerd to teaching me how to parent! :)
Something that irked me was lack of continuation. After so many sequels you'd kind of like to see some of the same faces instead of having to readjust to everyone all over again. Dirge of Cerberus was kind of a nice spinoff like that IMHO.
Something else that kills me with the FF series now is how friggin long it takes to play. I'm pretty sure I got up to roughly 200+ hours in FF12 and finally said "fuck this noise". FF8 I think may have been around 80 and that pushing it. There was actually a /. article on this recently and it was suggested that gamers were wanting longer and longer games. Really? Am I just a weird guy who'd like to beat a game in a handful of solid weekends instead of a whole damned year's worth?
They really just waited too damned long to finish the project and now a lot of the hype is gone... :(
Well we have come up with some other fairly crazy treatments that were successful. Hell - penicillin is a decent example. Let's treat infections with mold. On the surface - sure it sounds wacky.
Not that I'm outright supporting this guy's claim but just because it sounds odd doesn't mean it must be false.
No no, you have it backwards!
The value added here is probably time & convenience. It's kind of a pain to schedule appointments, then have to wait sometimes up to an hour to be seen, and then be herded in and out once you finally are seen.
It's kind of like the difference between getting a hooker vs. getting married. ;)