No matter how well trained you are, you can't 'fight' someone without the risk of injury. They're trying to use the Taser to maintain a little distance, and not actually have to grapple with the person.
No, I don't have any specific numbers. But there have been several people who died while being subdued. One case in Cincinnati a few years ago, a 400lb man was fighting back with two cops. Turns out he attacked the cops (high on crack) and died of a heart attack, not from any of the blows the cops had to land to subdue him. But if he wasn't fighting, he wouldn't have had the heart attack.
And as far as injury, 3-4 large men with night sticks would seem to be very liable to cause an injury (broken arms, cracked skulls, etc).
One of the problems with tasers is making it strong enough to stop a 350lb male who is high on drugs, while not making it too strong to immediately stop the heart of a 90lb woman.
The best answer, of course, is don't resist. And hire better cops.
In fact, I'll probably move away from here (sweden) asap.
To where? Aside from a private island, a lot of people look at Sweden as the Holy Grail....a western Mecca. If even the Swedes are looking to move out, where is there left to go?
Now we shall see the slow opening of what's been happening for years. Corporations telling governments what to do, and getting it. Google is no different than any other corp, except they are laying their cards out on the table for all to see. "Governments of the world...this is what we want you to do (because it will help our bottom line)", instead of the standard backroom deals.
We would not have posted the 2 (out of 283) that we did if there were personal identifiers on the stubs.We would not have posted the 2 (out of 283) that we did if there were personal identifiers on the stubs.
Your vision of personal and mine are evidently different. "In Parker's pay stub, for the pay period ending Dec. 17, itemized earnings, benefits, leave earnings and deductions are listed and quantified by dollar amount."
I am a fed employee of grade XX-YY. A person of grade XX-YY Step Q makes $ZZ,ZZZ/year. Poof...thats all you, the public, needs to know. Deductions on an identifiable basis? No. Leave earnings (and leave expenditures)? No.
"I don't know what the city is referring to with reference to medical information," Francke said. "Because I've never heard of a pay stub that includes any medical information."
How much I spend (or don't spend) on medical/dental insuranceis personal information.
Your vision of this may differ from mine. But this is mine.
How do you figure? In order for a seismometer to function, it must be anchored to the ground properly, be placed on level ground, and calibrated.
[tinfoil] And precisely how do you know that its actually a functioning seismometer? Instead of just a transmitter that sends out fake signals now and again. [/tinfoil] There is little you can do or show to a TrueBeliever that would "prove" that we landed humans on the moon. All can be explained away. Usually very badly, but they give a good try.
We get telemetry back from the Moon. There's a mirror array up there so that we can bounce a laser off the moon and measure its distance. There's also a seismometer that beams back earthquake data.
Neither of those require a human presence to set them up.
The good news is, this will fail miserably similar to Netzero's old revenue model (when they first started).
Not necessarily. I tried a couple of those 'free' ad supported ISP deals. I think AltaVista was one. A coupe of main problems with it were that it used far too much screen real estate (about 1/3 of the screen was gone, and that the dialup pipe was far too small to handle the amount of traffic all those big ads sucked up. I had a P133 laptop, and the poor thing couldn't keep up. The pipe and CPU were pegged, just trying to manage the ads. Couldn't do anything else with it.
Having said that, Google seems to do quite well with serving ads to the customer. Done right, and they could make it work. Of course, they won't 'do it right', though.
Not $385 per person, think $385 per neighborhood. It says it'll do 4000-6000 liters. Split it among your neighbors, and the cost per family goes way down. Would you drop $50 for a shared neighborhood filtration system, stored away for future use? I prob would.
oh, and I expect the cost on these will come WAY down. This is just the first iteration.
They didn't see it because the Pakistanis (or Indians) were keeping track of satellites and not moving anything when there were unknown ones overhead.
That's been a function of military maneuvers, both operational and training, for a long, long time. "Don't move sensitive stuff when other peoples sats are overhead".
You do realize that I never said anything about it being on or off, just the potential confusion in labeling the pseudo "Off" setting as "Airplane Mode", instead of just a simple "Off".
Many here have commented that there is an 'airplane mode' for the thing, and that's what he should have used. Maybe so, but that is counterintuitive to the average user. He's not on the plane anymore!
If there were a selection called "Hotel Mode" that did the same thing, would you expect him to choose that when boarding an aircraft? No.
How about a simple "Off". Trying to be too cute with the operations makes people like this frustrated. And gives the company bad press.
It's pointless to put a military aircraft in the air *not* fully armed, except maybe for training.
No it's not. Training is what they do all the time. Training is how you get good at the flying part. And a non armed aircraft is where you want 'training' to happen.
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No matter how well trained you are, you can't 'fight' someone without the risk of injury. They're trying to use the Taser to maintain a little distance, and not actually have to grapple with the person.
When the subject is fighting back, which happens quite a lot...what would you have the police do?
No, I don't have any specific numbers. But there have been several people who died while being subdued. One case in Cincinnati a few years ago, a 400lb man was fighting back with two cops. Turns out he attacked the cops (high on crack) and died of a heart attack, not from any of the blows the cops had to land to subdue him. But if he wasn't fighting, he wouldn't have had the heart attack.
And as far as injury, 3-4 large men with night sticks would seem to be very liable to cause an injury (broken arms, cracked skulls, etc).
One of the problems with tasers is making it strong enough to stop a 350lb male who is high on drugs, while not making it too strong to immediately stop the heart of a 90lb woman.
The best answer, of course, is don't resist. And hire better cops.
They should not be used in lieu of muscle and control holds,
People have died using those methods, too. And far more injured.
I think the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" fits their actions.
It's more like cutting off your dick to spite your girlfriend. Your face can't go somewhere and get another nose. Your girlfriend, OTOH...
In fact, I'll probably move away from here (sweden) asap.
To where?
Aside from a private island, a lot of people look at Sweden as the Holy Grail....a western Mecca. If even the Swedes are looking to move out, where is there left to go?
Now we shall see the slow opening of what's been happening for years. Corporations telling governments what to do, and getting it. Google is no different than any other corp, except they are laying their cards out on the table for all to see.
"Governments of the world...this is what we want you to do (because it will help our bottom line)", instead of the standard backroom deals.
A couple more, and it probably can't come up.
We would not have posted the 2 (out of 283) that we did if there were personal identifiers on the stubs.We would not have posted the 2 (out of 283) that we did if there were personal identifiers on the stubs.
Your vision of personal and mine are evidently different.
"In Parker's pay stub, for the pay period ending Dec. 17, itemized earnings, benefits, leave earnings and deductions are listed and quantified by dollar amount."
I am a fed employee of grade XX-YY. A person of grade XX-YY Step Q makes $ZZ,ZZZ/year. Poof...thats all you, the public, needs to know. Deductions on an identifiable basis? No. Leave earnings (and leave expenditures)? No.
"I don't know what the city is referring to with reference to medical information," Francke said. "Because I've never heard of a pay stub that includes any medical information."
How much I spend (or don't spend) on medical/dental insuranceis personal information.
Your vision of this may differ from mine. But this is mine.
Yes, city/state/federal compensation is 'public info'. But there is much more on a pay stub that is very personal info.
Were these actual scans?
PC in a common room of the house, screen facing out into the room. Knowing at any time a parent or sibling may walk past does wonders.
Next step is NoFun(tm). Kid gets caught doing someting mommy doesn't want him to, mommy takes away some priveledge.
You can't fix this with technology. Not on a home budget, anyway.
How do you figure? In order for a seismometer to function, it must be anchored to the ground properly, be placed on level ground, and calibrated.
[tinfoil]
And precisely how do you know that its actually a functioning seismometer? Instead of just a transmitter that sends out fake signals now and again.
[/tinfoil]
There is little you can do or show to a TrueBeliever that would "prove" that we landed humans on the moon. All can be explained away. Usually very badly, but they give a good try.
We get telemetry back from the Moon. There's a mirror array up there so that we can bounce a laser off the moon and measure its distance. There's also a seismometer that beams back earthquake data.
Neither of those require a human presence to set them up.
No, I haven't. But I bet you could process a lot of water in 24 hours if it's going all the time. And that's better than nothing.
The good news is, this will fail miserably similar to Netzero's old revenue model (when they first started).
Not necessarily. I tried a couple of those 'free' ad supported ISP deals. I think AltaVista was one. A coupe of main problems with it were that it used far too much screen real estate (about 1/3 of the screen was gone, and that the dialup pipe was far too small to handle the amount of traffic all those big ads sucked up. I had a P133 laptop, and the poor thing couldn't keep up. The pipe and CPU were pegged, just trying to manage the ads. Couldn't do anything else with it.
Having said that, Google seems to do quite well with serving ads to the customer. Done right, and they could make it work.
Of course, they won't 'do it right', though.
Not $385 per person, think $385 per neighborhood. It says it'll do 4000-6000 liters. Split it among your neighbors, and the cost per family goes way down.
Would you drop $50 for a shared neighborhood filtration system, stored away for future use? I prob would.
oh, and I expect the cost on these will come WAY down. This is just the first iteration.
IE has been end of lifed by Microsoft for quite a while on Macs, and same for MS's office suite.
Some guy named 2008 called from the future. He says you're wrong.
They didn't see it because the Pakistanis (or Indians) were keeping track of satellites and not moving anything when there were unknown ones overhead.
That's been a function of military maneuvers, both operational and training, for a long, long time. "Don't move sensitive stuff when other peoples sats are overhead".
I'm at a loss as to why incineration isn't being touted as the next wave of energy production.
DARPA is working on that.
You do realize that I never said anything about it being on or off, just the potential confusion in labeling the pseudo "Off" setting as "Airplane Mode", instead of just a simple "Off".
Many here have commented that there is an 'airplane mode' for the thing, and that's what he should have used. Maybe so, but that is counterintuitive to the average user. He's not on the plane anymore!
If there were a selection called "Hotel Mode" that did the same thing, would you expect him to choose that when boarding an aircraft? No.
How about a simple "Off". Trying to be too cute with the operations makes people like this frustrated. And gives the company bad press.
A real technological breakthrough would be to find a replacement for the FAA.
Which, due to the incredible amount of crap they handle, would be just as bloated as the FAA. I give it -6 months.
It's pointless to put a military aircraft in the air *not* fully armed, except maybe for training.
No it's not. Training is what they do all the time. Training is how you get good at the flying part. And a non armed aircraft is where you want 'training' to happen.
3.5 Float the extra $100 x 20,000 buyers x 2 months and collect the interest.