Denying a FOI may be a good reason to do so. Such as protecting protecting confidential information.
Read about this a couple-three days ago.
No, this is not so nefarious as wanting to keep things secret from the public. Suing the requester is a tactical move designed to make sure the government doesn't have to pay the requester's legal fees.
If the requester sues the government to get release of the records, and wins, the government is on the hook for the requester's legal fees.
If the government sues the requester and loses (same effect as previous case, in regards to the records in question), the government is NOT liable for the requester's legal fees.
The Trump administration is by far the biggest spike,
The biggest spike? Let's see, a quick Google shows it spiked from 2560 in October 2016 to...2595 in March 2017.
Note that both of those numbers are about triple the number for October 2015.
A few more quick Googles, and I find that, while the problem has gotten a lot more media attention since Trump became President, the problem started back after 9/11, and has continued a steady rise during both the last two Administrations, with essentially no change since Trump got the job (no change, in this case, means the trends have pretty much continued, almost like it was being done by the bureaucracy, rather than the policymakers)....
I'm curious why the key number in headline is half an hour, since TFS mentions "10 minutes", "12 minutes", numbers like that.
Does the headline writer think we have 20 minute hours?
Did TFS writer manage to misquote TFA?
Or did whatever standards body controls this sort of thing redefine the hour when I wasn't looking? It would certainly be nice if our 8 hour workday was redefined down to 160 minutes or so. And think of the paychecks if we work the usual amount of time and get paid for 24 (20 minute) hours every day!
91% accuracy? That's enough for plausible denyability.
91% accuracy...let's assume that gay men are 10% of all men. So this program will correctly identify 82% of men as straight, and misidentify 8% of straight men as gay. Similarly, it'll identify ~9% of men as gay correctly, and 1% of them as straight (incorrectly)
So, it'll show ~83% of men as straight and 17% as gay. And half of the gays it identifies will be straight.
And considerably worse for Lesbians. Much less Bi's...
In other words, not terribly useful.
90% accurate sounds like it's really good. But it's only meaningful if the distribution is pretty much even (half straight and half gay gives a pretty solid indicator with this program, but 90+% straight and 10-% gay, not so much). Since it's not an even split between gay and straight, this is a waste of time at this point. Maybe when they get accuracy to 99.9%, they'll have something worth reporting....
The last few hurricanes have been and still are breaking records all over the place, so how can you reasonably argue that intensity is not increasing?
Which last few are those? Harvey and Irma? How about Jose and K(whatever it's called?)? Or A(whatever) through G(whatever)? Were you bothering to include them?
Or last year's storms? Anyone even remember any of them? Year before? Any year since Katrina? Any of the other storms that year?
Selective memory is a thing, people. You remember the big, flashy things, and forget the overwhelming majority of pedestrian things...
Won't argue that you can't launch an ICBM into the Sun. Hell, it's easier to send a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri than to Sol.
DeltaV to reach the sun is essentially Earth's orbital speed.
DeltaV to reach AlphaCent is essentially Solar escape speed less Earth's orbital speed, which translates to (SQRT(2) - 1)*Earth's orbital speed.
Which still doesn't "orders of magnitude" make.
Oh, and it would actually take about 1000x as much fuel, assuming you could squeeze that much fuel into the same rocket. Now, that's "orders of magnitude" more fuel. But not "orders of magnitude" more speed.
The delta-V need to reach the sun is orders of magnitude higher than what is needed for a sub-orbital attack.
Ummm, no. deltaV to reach the Sun is on the order of 30Km/s. DeltaV for that ICBM is on the order of 6km/s. A factor of five does not "orders of magnitude higher" make....
B) It doesn't matter how much you wash it, it still pollutes horribly even if you ignore the CO2 mainly due to sulphur dioxide and particulates in the smoke.
Plus the radioactives. Mustn't forget that. Yes, there are radioactive elements in coal. Which typically go up the smokestack in a coal plant. Because coal stack scrubbers aren't actually designed to deal with uranium and thorium, which you find in tiny amounts in coal (and tiny amounts multiplied by a metric-fuckton of coal being burned adds up to more radioactives released into the air than nuclear power has ever managed).
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Read about this a couple-three days ago.
No, this is not so nefarious as wanting to keep things secret from the public. Suing the requester is a tactical move designed to make sure the government doesn't have to pay the requester's legal fees.
If the requester sues the government to get release of the records, and wins, the government is on the hook for the requester's legal fees.
If the government sues the requester and loses (same effect as previous case, in regards to the records in question), the government is NOT liable for the requester's legal fees.
And you can prove this assertion, I assume?
So, a Chinook helicopter, then? The kind that's been in use for heavy lifting for, oh, 50 years or so?
I saw what you did there....
And I wonder if they can spell "delirious" reliably....
Bad joke! Bad!! On the other hand, how many people remember the Jetsons these days?
Read that one last year.
Right now, rereading Mote in God's Eye. Pournelle just died, so it seemed like the thing to do.
The biggest spike? Let's see, a quick Google shows it spiked from 2560 in October 2016 to...2595 in March 2017.
Note that both of those numbers are about triple the number for October 2015.
A few more quick Googles, and I find that, while the problem has gotten a lot more media attention since Trump became President, the problem started back after 9/11, and has continued a steady rise during both the last two Administrations, with essentially no change since Trump got the job (no change, in this case, means the trends have pretty much continued, almost like it was being done by the bureaucracy, rather than the policymakers)....
Good rule of thumb: if there are two people involved, it's probably not private or anonymous. But it might be.
If there are three or more involved, it's definitely not private or anonymous.
Note that this rule applies throughout history, and probably well back into prehistory.
I'm curious why the key number in headline is half an hour, since TFS mentions "10 minutes", "12 minutes", numbers like that.
Does the headline writer think we have 20 minute hours?
Did TFS writer manage to misquote TFA?
Or did whatever standards body controls this sort of thing redefine the hour when I wasn't looking? It would certainly be nice if our 8 hour workday was redefined down to 160 minutes or so. And think of the paychecks if we work the usual amount of time and get paid for 24 (20 minute) hours every day!
Pretty much impossible legally. That's why they're Limited Liability Corporations, after all.
In fact, that's the whole point of a Corporation - to make the corporation liable, and not its employees (like, you know, the CEO)....
Yeah, when a (presumed) College graduate can't spell "peers" correctly, it'll be hard for him/her/it to catch up with said peers...
Or were you talking about people living down by the docks? If so, never mind....
91% accuracy...let's assume that gay men are 10% of all men. So this program will correctly identify 82% of men as straight, and misidentify 8% of straight men as gay. Similarly, it'll identify ~9% of men as gay correctly, and 1% of them as straight (incorrectly)
So, it'll show ~83% of men as straight and 17% as gay. And half of the gays it identifies will be straight.
And considerably worse for Lesbians. Much less Bi's...
In other words, not terribly useful.
90% accurate sounds like it's really good. But it's only meaningful if the distribution is pretty much even (half straight and half gay gives a pretty solid indicator with this program, but 90+% straight and 10-% gay, not so much). Since it's not an even split between gay and straight, this is a waste of time at this point. Maybe when they get accuracy to 99.9%, they'll have something worth reporting....
Which last few are those? Harvey and Irma? How about Jose and K(whatever it's called?)? Or A(whatever) through G(whatever)? Were you bothering to include them?
Or last year's storms? Anyone even remember any of them? Year before? Any year since Katrina? Any of the other storms that year?
Selective memory is a thing, people. You remember the big, flashy things, and forget the overwhelming majority of pedestrian things...
3 & 4 above seem to imply that anyone who gets hold of a voter registration card will be able to vote on the owner's behalf.
Was this intended? If so, you might want to rethink this proposed standard....
SO, what about the other 0.98% who are neither the wealthy nor the people? That's what I want to know!
DeltaV to reach the sun is essentially Earth's orbital speed.
DeltaV to reach AlphaCent is essentially Solar escape speed less Earth's orbital speed, which translates to (SQRT(2) - 1)*Earth's orbital speed.
Which still doesn't "orders of magnitude" make.
Oh, and it would actually take about 1000x as much fuel, assuming you could squeeze that much fuel into the same rocket. Now, that's "orders of magnitude" more fuel. But not "orders of magnitude" more speed.
"A millennia"? And here I thought "millennia" was the plural of "millennium"....
White Sox last time, now the Red Sox? What's with teams named after socks?
Ummm, no. deltaV to reach the Sun is on the order of 30Km/s. DeltaV for that ICBM is on the order of 6km/s. A factor of five does not "orders of magnitude higher" make....
...Lack of AI could lead to Third World War.
See, I can do it too, Elon. With about as much actual, you know, evidence as you used....
Until a hurricane rolls over it and sends the solar panels out to sea in many small chunks, maybe....
Plus the radioactives. Mustn't forget that. Yes, there are radioactive elements in coal. Which typically go up the smokestack in a coal plant. Because coal stack scrubbers aren't actually designed to deal with uranium and thorium, which you find in tiny amounts in coal (and tiny amounts multiplied by a metric-fuckton of coal being burned adds up to more radioactives released into the air than nuclear power has ever managed).
In a word, "no"....
Hmm, twice the number of electric cars, four times the population. I'm not seeing that as quite the leading edge....