I am liberal and in favor of gun control. But long guns are not the problem. They
1) Are too big to easily hide, attracting the attention of cops. So crooks don't like to carry them.
2) Are too big to easily commit suicide with.
3) Are too big for young children to easily play with.
As a direct result of this, long guns kill less than 500 people a year.
Pistols, however, are used by criminals, by people committing suicide, and by kids playing around with them. As a direct result, over 30,000 people die every year after being shot with a pistol.
1) People that prefer inexpensive, fast cars drive poorly and as a result get more tickets.
2) But cops are not smart enough to realize that inexpensive, fast cars are prime targets.
By definition, if you are correct, than smart cops should begin to profile and pay extra attention to those cars, which means that YES, the cops ARE targeting you for the car your drive.
There are only three real possibilities: 1) even distribution, 2) uneven distribution caused by profiling, or 3) uneven distribution caused by a combination of self-selection and profiling.
There is no real possibility of just having self-selection without profiling.
1) If you don't get certain very expensive medical care, you DIE. So if you can't afford it you, you are likely to consider stealing someone else's medical insurance. Death makes people consider doing things they wouldn't otherwise do.
2) Many patients with health issues have a lot more important things to think about than finances. Or worse, the patient might be dead, so they can't complain against the charges.
3) Many providers actively avoid talking about finances. Not only do they know about point 2 above, but they also fear that if they talk too much about the finances, you will realize how badly they are screwing you over and might actually look for reasonably prices services.
So when you steal the Identity of a patient with serious medical problems, there is an inbuilt set of honest people willing to buy the information you stole, the victims may not be in the best shape to investigate, and no one else wants to look to deeply into it.
#1 I never made the statement you think I did. I never said you can record on your property, I said you could record if you put a sign up. Even in the toilet. If someone puts a sign up stating "YOU MIGHT BE RECORDED", then the people in the toilet have no expectation of privacy, not even in the toilet. Granted, the court will probably require a very big sign if you put it in the toilet. Also, no person would ever use such a toilet, unless they were an exhibitionist or a porn star.
Audio is NOT the problem. The problem is the lack of the sign. Ever call a customer support line? They often say "Calls may be recorded for purposes of quality control."
When you inform them you are or 'may' be recording, you are allowed to record audio
But generally allow for signs granting notice to allow you to record.
If you put a sign up in ALL your cars stating "Warning, some cars of this model may be have cameras that can recorded you." where the driver may see it, that would probably make it legal.
I repeat the part of my comment that you did not understand "Yeah, most of them will last a lot longer than the printed date, because chances are you won't buy them and install them on the day they make them."
I am talking about bulbs that should have lasted 2 years of constant use, 12 years of actual, use, but I had to replace 8 months after I bought them.
If they had a 2 year past manufacture date guarantee, it would solve my problem.
But to be honest, I did not even try to return the curly bulb 8 months after I bought it. But I seriously doubt a normal retailer would have accepted it's return.
So that is why I want a guarantee printed on the bulb, based on constant use from date of manufacture. To get the manufacturer to stand behind their product, not screw everyone over ridiculously.
If the bulb was rated for 5 years, than it would be guaranteed for 5 years after the manufacture date. As I said earlier "Yeah, most of them will last a lot longer than the printed date, because chances are you won't buy them and install them on the day they make them."
If the bulb can't last longer than 5 years from the manufacture date, it is obviously FLAWED.
From what I read, the law looks like a blatant violation of the First Amendment. You can't stop people from taking pictures.
The worst part is that they COULD accomplish their legal goals without violating the Constitution.\
The way to do this simple:
1)Make the law "SHALL ISSUE" rather than "May Issue". This means the government would not be able to refuse to issue said license
2) Make the law a sliding scale, based on the size of equipment. I.E. Camera phones and similar stuff weighing ounces could be free, while equipment weighing up to 1 lb could cost $100, Over 1 lb could cost $500 per pound of equipment. Equipment would include lighting, filters, lenses, cases for all of this, power supplies, light meters, generators, film, filters, supports and mounts (including tripods and monopods), etc etc.
If they did this, they would not have offended anyone, stopped the wild abuses they claim are occuring, and end up making MORE money.
Create a SINGLE algorythm to generate a password based on the item/program.
Start with a core that involves a Capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a symbol. You want it be about 7 letters long, something like this:
Sp1tab$
ALL your passwords will start with that. Next decide if you are going to use the first, second, last, or second to last letter.. Let's go with "first"
Add the "first" letter of the name of the device/software for which you are using a password. Then add the "first" letter of your username.
Conclusion: Using this system, my password for slashot would be:
Sp1tab$sg
My password for my Dell Laptop, with a username of "Me" would be:
Sp1tab$dm
If something says 'no symbols', drop the $.
If something says "at least 10 characters (haven't seen that yet), then add a 0.
You now have ONE not that hard to remember word, plus a few simple rules to figure out what the password is.
The only problem with this system is obnoxious requirements to change your password every X days, combined with prevents from reusing parts of old passwords. To solve that problem, Try continuously raising the number you inserted in the core password.
Every year, past 70, take up a new extreme sport.
One day you will simply forget to pull the parachute cord.
Go out with a bang, doing something that will make the news "80 year old surfs Tsunami"
Note, I speak from experience, that youtube video is only ONE of several possibilities. In my case, I had a high powered microwave and had it on high for five minutes.
The liquid inside boiled to steam and the container (glass bottle) was not strong enough to contain it. It burst, sending shards of glass into the microwave. None came out the other side, but it deformed the structure of the microwave and broke it.
to do any extrapolation. With just a single data point (humanity), you are just making wild guesses.
For all we now, dark matter (the most common form of matter), which we have never seen or studied, has variations as significant as normal matter, and therefore can support life, but only inside very radioactive areas, where they can feed.
Not to mention we really need to to take a look at a couple of the ice moons and see if life does well living on moon with a frozen surface and a hot core providing energy. That could very well be the most common form of life sustaining location in the universe, and it could very well survive in places where atmospheric planets like earth could not.
The very best we can do is make an estimate on where DNA based life forms may thrive on atmospheric planets..
When they attempt to use science to prove things that real science shows is false.
When they try to use the scientific method to prove intelligent design, global warming is a hoax, or that vaccines cause autism. My favorite "Big Pharma" conspiracy (as offered up by cracked.com), is that:
Big Pharma has secretly funded Jenny McCarthy to create the anti-vax movement because they make pennies on vaccines, but thousands on treating people that get the actual disease.
It's not about me discarding data that doesn't fit, it's about usefulness.
Look, lets say I have a test that determines who who should go to Harvard and who should go to community college. If the test says 41% of people should go to Harvard, that is useless.
If 41% of people are experience activity X, than that means that X is NOT THAT BAD. Otherwise people would take steps to avoid that experience.
Say we were were talking about people getting "Cragled" in Central Park. If 41% of people are getting "Cragled" in Central Park, than one of two possibilities:
Either "Cragled" is a horrible thing, and the newspapers are going to immediately start reporting about it, while cops stake out Central Park, and everyone in the world refusing to go into Central Park. If that does not happen, than that means that "Cragled" is not such a bad thing.
Most importantly, Sexual Assault suffers from psychological issues. The same activity could be called 'flirting" if both people like it, while it is Sexual Assault under other circumstances.
If you are not bothered by the activity, then it is flirting. If you are bothered by it, it becomes sexual assualt.
More importantly, ridiculously paranoid people do not have the right to stop those of us that like to flirt from flirting, simply because you can't tell the difference between flirting and sexual assault. If neither of me nor the girl I am flirting with at work are bothered by the behavior, then let us do it and stop trying to call us nasty names and kill our fun.
Rape is RAPE, Consensual sex is CONSENSUAL SEX, and the same goes for Sexual Harassment and Flirting. The mere fact that you can't tell the difference does not mean the rest of us have to stop doing the things we like to do.
2) If the men have a significant response rate, then just maybe that means the problem is YOUR QUESTION IS TOO VAGUE, rather than both genders experiencing sexual issues.
The mere fact that this article claims that 40+% of men experience 'sexual harassment', proves that their definition of 'sexual harassment' is not reasonable - the kind of thing only a PC fool trying to prove a problem exists would use.
Similarly, 6% of men experience sexual assault seems on the high side, though not as ridiculous as the 41% claiming harassment.
The only thing going on here is idiots using bad definitions for their poll.
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1) Are too big to easily hide, attracting the attention of cops. So crooks don't like to carry them.
2) Are too big to easily commit suicide with.
3) Are too big for young children to easily play with.
As a direct result of this, long guns kill less than 500 people a year.
Pistols, however, are used by criminals, by people committing suicide, and by kids playing around with them. As a direct result, over 30,000 people die every year after being shot with a pistol.
1) People that prefer inexpensive, fast cars drive poorly and as a result get more tickets.
2) But cops are not smart enough to realize that inexpensive, fast cars are prime targets.
By definition, if you are correct, than smart cops should begin to profile and pay extra attention to those cars, which means that YES, the cops ARE targeting you for the car your drive.
There are only three real possibilities: 1) even distribution, 2) uneven distribution caused by profiling, or 3) uneven distribution caused by a combination of self-selection and profiling.
There is no real possibility of just having self-selection without profiling.
1) If you don't get certain very expensive medical care, you DIE. So if you can't afford it you, you are likely to consider stealing someone else's medical insurance. Death makes people consider doing things they wouldn't otherwise do.
2) Many patients with health issues have a lot more important things to think about than finances. Or worse, the patient might be dead, so they can't complain against the charges.
3) Many providers actively avoid talking about finances. Not only do they know about point 2 above, but they also fear that if they talk too much about the finances, you will realize how badly they are screwing you over and might actually look for reasonably prices services.
So when you steal the Identity of a patient with serious medical problems, there is an inbuilt set of honest people willing to buy the information you stole, the victims may not be in the best shape to investigate, and no one else wants to look to deeply into it.
Audio is NOT the problem. The problem is the lack of the sign. Ever call a customer support line? They often say "Calls may be recorded for purposes of quality control."
When you inform them you are or 'may' be recording, you are allowed to record audio
If you put a sign up in ALL your cars stating "Warning, some cars of this model may be have cameras that can recorded you." where the driver may see it, that would probably make it legal.
I am talking about bulbs that should have lasted 2 years of constant use, 12 years of actual, use, but I had to replace 8 months after I bought them.
If they had a 2 year past manufacture date guarantee, it would solve my problem.
But to be honest, I did not even try to return the curly bulb 8 months after I bought it. But I seriously doubt a normal retailer would have accepted it's return.
So that is why I want a guarantee printed on the bulb, based on constant use from date of manufacture. To get the manufacturer to stand behind their product, not screw everyone over ridiculously.
If the bulb was rated for 5 years, than it would be guaranteed for 5 years after the manufacture date. As I said earlier "Yeah, most of them will last a lot longer than the printed date, because chances are you won't buy them and install them on the day they make them."
If the bulb can't last longer than 5 years from the manufacture date, it is obviously FLAWED.
The worst part is that they COULD accomplish their legal goals without violating the Constitution.\
The way to do this simple:
1)Make the law "SHALL ISSUE" rather than "May Issue". This means the government would not be able to refuse to issue said license
2) Make the law a sliding scale, based on the size of equipment. I.E. Camera phones and similar stuff weighing ounces could be free, while equipment weighing up to 1 lb could cost $100, Over 1 lb could cost $500 per pound of equipment. Equipment would include lighting, filters, lenses, cases for all of this, power supplies, light meters, generators, film, filters, supports and mounts (including tripods and monopods), etc etc.
If they did this, they would not have offended anyone, stopped the wild abuses they claim are occuring, and end up making MORE money.
I want a required "Good till" date printed on them, that guarantees they last at least X days, just like soda.
Yeah, most of them will last a lot longer than the printed date, because chances are you won't buy them and install them on the day they make them.
But still, if a curly bulb is supposed to last 5 years, and it dies one year after you install it, there should be an easy way to get a refund.
That is, it should be illegal for people to sell a car with a starter blocker unless it has this feature.
Yes, with this new product, you the fashion and cosmetic industry will be able to make videos with models whose waist is thinner than their ankes.
Start with a core that involves a Capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a symbol. You want it be about 7 letters long, something like this:
Sp1tab$
ALL your passwords will start with that. Next decide if you are going to use the first, second, last, or second to last letter.. Let's go with "first"
Add the "first" letter of the name of the device/software for which you are using a password. Then add the "first" letter of your username.
Conclusion: Using this system, my password for slashot would be:
Sp1tab$sg
My password for my Dell Laptop, with a username of "Me" would be:
Sp1tab$dm
If something says 'no symbols', drop the $.
If something says "at least 10 characters (haven't seen that yet), then add a 0.
You now have ONE not that hard to remember word, plus a few simple rules to figure out what the password is.
The only problem with this system is obnoxious requirements to change your password every X days, combined with prevents from reusing parts of old passwords. To solve that problem, Try continuously raising the number you inserted in the core password.
That's kind of like planting evidence of tax evasion on a convicted murderer.
It's for replacement parts. You don't pay $50 for a new watergun that retails for $30. You buy a new $5 trigger for your broken super soaker.
Every year, past 70, take up a new extreme sport. One day you will simply forget to pull the parachute cord. Go out with a bang, doing something that will make the news "80 year old surfs Tsunami"
But they make really good pressure containers. Which is why my microwave oven EXPLODED.
The liquid inside boiled to steam and the container (glass bottle) was not strong enough to contain it. It burst, sending shards of glass into the microwave. None came out the other side, but it deformed the structure of the microwave and broke it.
Also, don't put your phone in gas oven, or on a hot griddle.
Similarly, don't touch anything hot enough to cook, and don't stick a knife into your gut.
For all we now, dark matter (the most common form of matter), which we have never seen or studied, has variations as significant as normal matter, and therefore can support life, but only inside very radioactive areas, where they can feed.
Not to mention we really need to to take a look at a couple of the ice moons and see if life does well living on moon with a frozen surface and a hot core providing energy. That could very well be the most common form of life sustaining location in the universe, and it could very well survive in places where atmospheric planets like earth could not.
The very best we can do is make an estimate on where DNA based life forms may thrive on atmospheric planets..
When they try to use the scientific method to prove intelligent design, global warming is a hoax, or that vaccines cause autism. My favorite "Big Pharma" conspiracy (as offered up by cracked.com), is that:
Big Pharma has secretly funded Jenny McCarthy to create the anti-vax movement because they make pennies on vaccines, but thousands on treating people that get the actual disease.
Is slavery wrong?
Is the First Amendment a good idea?
Is the Second Amendment a good idea?
Are civil/gay/religious rights a good idea?
Etc. etc. Important things matter and people care about them. That's why we call them 'important'.
Look, lets say I have a test that determines who who should go to Harvard and who should go to community college. If the test says 41% of people should go to Harvard, that is useless.
If 41% of people are experience activity X, than that means that X is NOT THAT BAD. Otherwise people would take steps to avoid that experience.
Say we were were talking about people getting "Cragled" in Central Park. If 41% of people are getting "Cragled" in Central Park, than one of two possibilities:
Either "Cragled" is a horrible thing, and the newspapers are going to immediately start reporting about it, while cops stake out Central Park, and everyone in the world refusing to go into Central Park. If that does not happen, than that means that "Cragled" is not such a bad thing.
Most importantly, Sexual Assault suffers from psychological issues. The same activity could be called 'flirting" if both people like it, while it is Sexual Assault under other circumstances.
If you are not bothered by the activity, then it is flirting. If you are bothered by it, it becomes sexual assualt.
More importantly, ridiculously paranoid people do not have the right to stop those of us that like to flirt from flirting, simply because you can't tell the difference between flirting and sexual assault. If neither of me nor the girl I am flirting with at work are bothered by the behavior, then let us do it and stop trying to call us nasty names and kill our fun.
Rape is RAPE, Consensual sex is CONSENSUAL SEX, and the same goes for Sexual Harassment and Flirting. The mere fact that you can't tell the difference does not mean the rest of us have to stop doing the things we like to do.
But but but she said the mole makes my bald head look GOOD! He he he
And disconnect them from this end? If he doesn't want us, why should we offer ourselves up to him?
2) If the men have a significant response rate, then just maybe that means the problem is YOUR QUESTION IS TOO VAGUE, rather than both genders experiencing sexual issues.
The mere fact that this article claims that 40+% of men experience 'sexual harassment', proves that their definition of 'sexual harassment' is not reasonable - the kind of thing only a PC fool trying to prove a problem exists would use.
Similarly, 6% of men experience sexual assault seems on the high side, though not as ridiculous as the 41% claiming harassment.
The only thing going on here is idiots using bad definitions for their poll.