This is really a bipartisan problem. On one hand you have the Democrats, who care very little about freedom, and on the other hand the Republicans, who care little about freedom. It doesn't matter who's in office if they come from one of those two parties. It's unfortunate that people have such tunnel vision when it comes to politics. Problems won't get solved if you don't recognize the problem, but immediately shout "it's their fault, it's their fault!" "He's an idiot!"
Even if I were on trial for resisting arrest, whether or not I was resisting illegal use of force would absolutely be admissible. And a past history of this behavior would also be admissible in certain circumstances.
Also, getting the officer in 'hot water' would mean that the officer would be on trial. He may not be charged if it were one isolated incident, but with this database it may be found that it wasn't isolated. If this were the case, the other incidents in the database would be investigated.
If this worked, what I'd really like about it is an increase of accoutability of government officials/agents. Is it so bad to have a police officer or elected official needing to make sure he/she's not doing anything wrong? I know there would be abuses, but nothing should happen until claims are investigated.
You're too damned anal. Of course there would be some steps in between getting information on a serial abuser and getting something done about him. Do I have to include:
1. fold ticket, put in pocket.
2. Shut door.
3. Release parking brake.
4. Put car into first gear.
5. Use some other gears, occasionally brake.
6. Drive home. ... A bunch of other trivial steps.
7. Find out that bunghole police officer has habit of abusing power.
8. Do some research, contact other victims.
9. Take results to court, to D.A., etc.
10. Person who broke the law, if they did, gets in hot water.
There may be some other trivial steps I left out. Hope you can handle it.
Are you this way at work? Do people have to spell out the extremely obvious for you to understand anything? How do you get anything done?
I think this could be very useful. There are likely many people in positions of government power that are abusing that power, but since they are relatively obscure, they don't get much notice. For instance, you get pulled over by a police officer that is abusive and he gives you a ticket that you don't deserve. You go home, do a search in this system and you get a whole list of crap that this person has done. You could carry this into court and get this person in some hot water.
Having found myself in such a position, I would have loved to have had this.
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Would that be Hilary Rosen, Carly Fiorina, and Hillary Clinton?
Ugggh! That link revealed to me that we both graduated from the same school. Surprisingly, there is an "honor code" at BYU that all students have to agree to. Apparently it didn't sink in.:S
It's really simple - this is democracy in action. If an elected official does a horrible job, or at least the majority of the electorate thinks so, he can be replaced. He can be on the replacement ballot and if he gets a plurality of the vote, he gets his job back. This is a good thing. It gives us, the people, the chance to pass judgement on those who have been given very key responsibilities that affect our daily lives.
Students can spent considerable amounts of time with their teachers. It may be a math teacher that a student identifies with who could help motivate him to do better in his other studies.
Actually, what I was referring to was a check on the performance of the teacher. From my experience, there were teachers who were clueless or who just didn't care enough to notice the things that needed to be noticed. If a teacher's boss were asking them about each of the students they were responsible for, then they'd have to have an answer. If one of the flagged students was fine, the teacher could say so and explain why. If a student was having problems, that teacher would have to explain what he/she was doing to help or what could be done. Such an accountability review would quickly indicate a counselor/teacher who has a problem, and also be a motivator for the teachers to pay attention.
This is true, its easy for someone in close contact with the kids to notice, but not for an administrator. If a principal could interview a guidance counselor/teacher while referencing a list of those who have been tagged "at risk", then there could be a better chance of making sure some kids get attention who would have otherwise fallen through the cracks.
The $65 an hour for a programmer in the US and $20 for one elsewhere both include infrastructure, benefits, and management. I doubt that, even though you're working at home, our corporate culture would be willing to cut down on the management part. Unfortunately, this is a good example of the whacked out way our executives figure things. They figure in their salary into the cost of their domestic employees, but not into the cost of overseas employees. This biases things in favor of those overseas.
Cringeley's Snapster is somewhat similar to what's already been done with video rentals. There's a company around called Cleanflicks that buys videos, edits stuff that they think is questionable, then rents them. Hollywood got very hot over this and hit them hard with the lawyers. (Of course the artists had a problem with the censorship, this probably could be the subject of another thread.) Hollywood actually lost. The way their activities were covered under fair use was by having anybody who wants to rent pay a membership fee, turning them into part owners of all of the material. This precedent seems encouraging.
We keep getting hung up on the technical and security issues involved in electronic voting, but we keep forgetting what it would be replacing. Hand counts are not accurate, and machine counts have problems. The reason "hanging chads, etc." should be disregarded is because if they aren't, people will be hand-counting. Machines may have flaws, but everyone is biased, whether we like to admit it or not. I think working toward a better solution for electronic voting is exactly what we need to do.
Yeah, gerrymandering sucks, but it's a two-way street. The Democrats did it in Texas in the past, and now when they're getting the short end of the stick, they bail. This two party system has some drawbacks, but they're even worse when one or both of those parties abuse the system. Even more so when one of those parties tends in general toward the spineless, honorless, cowardly.
I was discussing this with an old time video guy at work and he said that films are already displayed multiple times per frame. They just flash the picture across the projection light multiple times. Is this true? He's pretty old, may be senile.
I've always thought this is a pretty cool feature of some watches. The perpetual rotor in a Rolex seems like about the same thing. It would be nice if the same concept could be used to create electrical energy for a mobile phone/pda or other computing device.
You could be right about a significant portion of the difference between male and female spatial abilities being the result of differences in recreational activities and societal pressures, but does this really contradict the premise of the article?
It seems to me that whenever differences between the genders are brought up in today's socio-political environment, the tendency is to say men and women aren't different and then to give a good explanation of why they are different. It seems that you're trying to make the point that it's social and not bioligical. In the context that this article is being written it doesn't really matter. We're different!
I know there are many things that overseas workers can do just as well, however I've seen a big problem with the "get the lowest wage" attitude in today's American management philosophy. There are many situations where the less technically savvy CEO directs an even more clueless middle manager to take advantage of some cheap labor. For some reason, neither of them have the ability to analyze the actual cost of such a move. I've seen this with outsourcing, hiring new grads, and just plain hiring a person who will take less (whether immigrant or otherwise). An engineer with years of experience in the required technology, with commensurate salary, is laid off and replaced by someone with little or no experience. The new engineer takes a while to spin up, or fouls up the code and the schedule slips. This has happened to the point where the company pays millions in penalties for late delivery, all the while management is boasting lower expenses.
I don't think this is really a problem with immigrants getting paid less, or overseas outsourcing. It is really a problem with how the performance of management in most corporations is measured. They make bad decisions that result in lower profits for the company, but they still get bonuses. This whole h1b thing that Sun did is probably a good example of this.
As far as the cop-out "be good at what you do and there will always be a demand for your skills." In general, being very good at what you do doesn't mean that there will be demand out there because those doing the hiring and firing are not really qualified to determine the true value of your skills.
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This is really a bipartisan problem. On one hand you have the Democrats, who care very little about freedom, and on the other hand the Republicans, who care little about freedom. It doesn't matter who's in office if they come from one of those two parties. It's unfortunate that people have such tunnel vision when it comes to politics. Problems won't get solved if you don't recognize the problem, but immediately shout "it's their fault, it's their fault!" "He's an idiot!"
Also, getting the officer in 'hot water' would mean that the officer would be on trial. He may not be charged if it were one isolated incident, but with this database it may be found that it wasn't isolated. If this were the case, the other incidents in the database would be investigated.
If this worked, what I'd really like about it is an increase of accoutability of government officials/agents. Is it so bad to have a police officer or elected official needing to make sure he/she's not doing anything wrong? I know there would be abuses, but nothing should happen until claims are investigated.
1. fold ticket, put in pocket.
2. Shut door.
3. Release parking brake.
4. Put car into first gear.
5. Use some other gears, occasionally brake.
6. Drive home.
7. Find out that bunghole police officer has habit of abusing power.
8. Do some research, contact other victims.
9. Take results to court, to D.A., etc.
10. Person who broke the law, if they did, gets in hot water.
There may be some other trivial steps I left out. Hope you can handle it.
Are you this way at work? Do people have to spell out the extremely obvious for you to understand anything? How do you get anything done?
I think this could be very useful. There are likely many people in positions of government power that are abusing that power, but since they are relatively obscure, they don't get much notice. For instance, you get pulled over by a police officer that is abusive and he gives you a ticket that you don't deserve. You go home, do a search in this system and you get a whole list of crap that this person has done. You could carry this into court and get this person in some hot water.
Having found myself in such a position, I would have loved to have had this.
Would that be Hilary Rosen, Carly Fiorina, and Hillary Clinton?
Ugggh! That link revealed to me that we both graduated from the same school. Surprisingly, there is an "honor code" at BYU that all students have to agree to. Apparently it didn't sink in. :S
Oops. That would be Myriad Genetics, the buggers who patented a breast cancer indicator and want lots of $ to test for it.
Hope these guys don't find out about it.
It's really simple - this is democracy in action. If an elected official does a horrible job, or at least the majority of the electorate thinks so, he can be replaced. He can be on the replacement ballot and if he gets a plurality of the vote, he gets his job back. This is a good thing. It gives us, the people, the chance to pass judgement on those who have been given very key responsibilities that affect our daily lives.
Students can spent considerable amounts of time with their teachers. It may be a math teacher that a student identifies with who could help motivate him to do better in his other studies.
Actually, what I was referring to was a check on the performance of the teacher. From my experience, there were teachers who were clueless or who just didn't care enough to notice the things that needed to be noticed. If a teacher's boss were asking them about each of the students they were responsible for, then they'd have to have an answer. If one of the flagged students was fine, the teacher could say so and explain why. If a student was having problems, that teacher would have to explain what he/she was doing to help or what could be done. Such an accountability review would quickly indicate a counselor/teacher who has a problem, and also be a motivator for the teachers to pay attention.
This is true, its easy for someone in close contact with the kids to notice, but not for an administrator. If a principal could interview a guidance counselor/teacher while referencing a list of those who have been tagged "at risk", then there could be a better chance of making sure some kids get attention who would have otherwise fallen through the cracks.
The $65 an hour for a programmer in the US and $20 for one elsewhere both include infrastructure, benefits, and management. I doubt that, even though you're working at home, our corporate culture would be willing to cut down on the management part. Unfortunately, this is a good example of the whacked out way our executives figure things. They figure in their salary into the cost of their domestic employees, but not into the cost of overseas employees. This biases things in favor of those overseas.
Aren't they all?
Cringeley's Snapster is somewhat similar to what's already been done with video rentals. There's a company around called Cleanflicks that buys videos, edits stuff that they think is questionable, then rents them. Hollywood got very hot over this and hit them hard with the lawyers. (Of course the artists had a problem with the censorship, this probably could be the subject of another thread.) Hollywood actually lost. The way their activities were covered under fair use was by having anybody who wants to rent pay a membership fee, turning them into part owners of all of the material. This precedent seems encouraging.
We keep getting hung up on the technical and security issues involved in electronic voting, but we keep forgetting what it would be replacing. Hand counts are not accurate, and machine counts have problems. The reason "hanging chads, etc." should be disregarded is because if they aren't, people will be hand-counting. Machines may have flaws, but everyone is biased, whether we like to admit it or not. I think working toward a better solution for electronic voting is exactly what we need to do.
Yeah, gerrymandering sucks, but it's a two-way street. The Democrats did it in Texas in the past, and now when they're getting the short end of the stick, they bail. This two party system has some drawbacks, but they're even worse when one or both of those parties abuse the system. Even more so when one of those parties tends in general toward the spineless, honorless, cowardly.
Calculus doesn't really happen naturally, but is a very good method for describing things that do.
The worst of the bunch, Fritz Hollings is a Democrat. This is not a republican vs. democrat issue. It's us against them!
I put a foot in Montana once, but it hurt, so I took it out.
I was discussing this with an old time video guy at work and he said that films are already displayed multiple times per frame. They just flash the picture across the projection light multiple times. Is this true? He's pretty old, may be senile.
I've always thought this is a pretty cool feature of some watches. The perpetual rotor in a Rolex seems like about the same thing. It would be nice if the same concept could be used to create electrical energy for a mobile phone/pda or other computing device.
It seems to me that whenever differences between the genders are brought up in today's socio-political environment, the tendency is to say men and women aren't different and then to give a good explanation of why they are different. It seems that you're trying to make the point that it's social and not bioligical. In the context that this article is being written it doesn't really matter. We're different!
If they raise the fees, Congress will probably just keep the increase and funnel it into policing copyright infringements for the RIAA.
I don't think this is really a problem with immigrants getting paid less, or overseas outsourcing. It is really a problem with how the performance of management in most corporations is measured. They make bad decisions that result in lower profits for the company, but they still get bonuses. This whole h1b thing that Sun did is probably a good example of this.
As far as the cop-out "be good at what you do and there will always be a demand for your skills." In general, being very good at what you do doesn't mean that there will be demand out there because those doing the hiring and firing are not really qualified to determine the true value of your skills.