There has been a big drive to manipulate crime statistics across the country, particularly in sophisticated law enforcement environments like NYC.
The problem is that government keeps a lot of data. In NYC, the police said the crime rate was going down. However, the hospitals and NYC Health said that there were more victims of assault and other violent crimes turning up at the ER. Turns out that the police were changing their definition of what gets counted as an assault, etc., to make it look like crime was decreasing. Many assaults were classified as 'harrassment' and therefore were no longer violent crimes. Viola.. crime's gone!
This question is irrelevant as the Constitution does NOT give our Federal government any power to do anything about these problems.
Are you high?
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"
SCOTUS redrew the map and declared that Liberty and Ellis Islands were in New York (for tax purposes), despite the fact that they're clearly on NJ's side of the river. Look how the border goes all loopy around Liberty and Ellis Islands on Google Maps..
Actually, SCOTUS ruled that the un-tourist parts of Ellis Island belong to New Jersey, but the visitors center and ferry area belong to NY. What a joke.
There's a certain level of trust required for capitalism to thrive.
The scams you talk about are no different from the snake-oil scams of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the USA. What ended them? It wasn't trust. It was government regulation.
That post was a stupid bit of gloating from Kos.. not surprising coming from him as he has a habit of knee-jerk posts. There's no proof that leads one to believe that OSM is a 'front' for the Chinese. A headline list that is clearly automatically generated does not constitute proof.
It's not like you can't have another truck towing a generator following the truck towing the portable datacenter.
Depending on the state's regulations, it may be like you can't have a generator following the trailer. Such a generator would be quite large and would not fall into many states' definitions of construction or emergency generators and would require permits.
I don't get Face the Nation over my local CBS station, but both NBC's Meet the Press and ABC's This Week program are hosted by former Democratic Party aparatchiks with no major experience in journalism prior to taking the helm at their respective high prestige posts?
George S. did work for the Clinton Administration, of course, but he also put in 5 years at ABC before getting the 'This Week' chair. Granted, it's not a great bio, but you make it sound like he went directly from the Oval Office to the anchor chair.
Russert worked as a lawyer in New York State government. He put in 7 years at NBC before getting the 'Press' chair.
Neither of the two have journalism degrees.
We are supposed to believe both are presenting a 'balanced' view of politics?
But the heart of it, I think the Post, whether left or right, practices GOOD journalism.
You mean the paper whose managing editor and star reporter sat on a potentially criminal story for over 2 years and continually downplayed the scandal that he had an integral part in?
Oooh... now we're serious! We've started the meta-argument about who's using more logical fallacies in the argument proper!
No, it was really just a fancy way of saying "stop being a dick".
I'm really not trying to be a jerk here, and I realize that the whole KJV 4000 year old thing was probably just a slip up
You are most certainly trying to be a jerk because I clearly said 400 years in my post. You added the extra zero in your mind, and translation is a form of writing.. unless there's a one-to-one translation book out there that I've somehow missed.
The fact is that some parts of the Bible are OBVIOUSLY not intended to be literal.
Right. I have no problem with that.. you kind of mis-construed my 'everything' comment, but that's completely understandable, as it was an exaggeration. Parables are 'double meaning' on a grand scale. The problems I have with double meaning are when you get down to individual words and phrases, like the issue in my original post. There's a point where 'non-literal' becomes 'inventing something that wasn't there'.
You conveniently ignored the main question of my post: Why is the literal reading of that phrase not proper, besides the reason that you don't agree with it?
Interesting, as 'black coffee' was one of the few terms that we would not question.. although I do remember someone requesting black coffee and being baffled as to why I did not add sugar.
Not really much for literary criticism, are you? Sure one conventional meaning is to die...But I think that the alternative reading is just as strong.
Why is the literal reading not proper, besides the reason that you don't agree with it? Why does it seem like everything in the Bible has double or triple meaning? Was the vocabulary that much smaller 2,000 years ago? Or even 400 years ago when the KJV was written?
The verse repeated at least three times in the New Testament "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." is not just a cool-sounding phrase.
But unless you believe in it, it is just a cool sounding phrase.
It's a description of how, in voluntarily giving of your self to a greater cause - you can find something greater than what you find in a life dedicated to gratifying your own desires.
Your quote says "lose his life for my sake". That, in just about any reading, means dying. It's talking about martyrdom, from my perspective. Not making sacrifices to the church like going on missions, not helping others, but dying. Dead. So you die for Jesus, and you can "find something greater". So once again, it only progresses beyond a cool sounding phrase if you believe in it.
And, to me, you also pretty much changed the meaning of the quote in your description. It's not that "you can find something greater than what you find in a life dedicated to gratifying your own desires," it's that you can find something greater than what you find in a life where you don't die for Jesus.
There are a lot of great ideas in most any religion, but they're always shrouded in devotions to other concepts, rather than just "doing good".
Yeah, but when I use the microwave to heat water, I don't call it "microwaved water".. or "stovetop water" for the range. It's hot. It doesn't matter how you heat it up.
The coffee case wasn't a "perceived difference" in temperature. They sold coffee that was hot enough to cause third-degree burns. They sold coffee hotter than their competitors and they knew from past experience that their coffee was too hot.
Ugh.. the term "regular coffee" needs to be retired. When I worked at Dunkin' Donuts, whenever someone said 'regular' they were always asked "Do you mean regular as in non-decaf, or regular as in cream and 2 sugars?" The answers always varied.. "oh no, use milk" "no, just one sugar" "no, don't add anything"
A Google News hit count is not the public consciousness. I stand by my assertion that the Sony matter is not well known outside of slashdot and similar circles.
Yes, looking at the profit/revenue ratio is a good indicator. However the point of my post wasn't really to say "the oil companies are making a ton of money".. it was only to dispute that comparing oil profits with government revenues is a good argument.
Thats money you and I could have spent elsewhere.
Not necessarily. This is always the argument used by anti-taxers.. "I could have spent that money" blah blah.. ignoring the benefit that they get from the tax revenue. Everyone assumes that they get zero benefit from taxes, then they bitch when taxes are cut and services go out the door with them.
Repairing roads isn't sexy and it doesn't get you votes.
Actually pothole repair probably would have been on McGreevey's platform in New Jersey, if he had run for re-election. There was a lot of publicity around pothole repair in the 03-04 winter. In places where roads are pretty much maxed out, repairing roads is an issue.
But, what's your point? Gas taxes should be cut and the transportation system goes to shit?
Much like in the recent backlash at Sony, people are not going to sit idly when a company does something stupid.
You've gotten confused again. You see, the people on slashdot are not representative of the population in general. Therefore, while the Sony matters (and other issues) are red-hot on this site, they are not well known outside of slashdot and similar sites. Yes, there were a few mainstream news articles on the Sony issue, but by and large it went by unnoticed.
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I don't think WS is a good example. After all, he wrote his works on the assumption that they would be performed, not read.
There has been a big drive to manipulate crime statistics across the country, particularly in sophisticated law enforcement environments like NYC.
The problem is that government keeps a lot of data. In NYC, the police said the crime rate was going down. However, the hospitals and NYC Health said that there were more victims of assault and other violent crimes turning up at the ER. Turns out that the police were changing their definition of what gets counted as an assault, etc., to make it look like crime was decreasing. Many assaults were classified as 'harrassment' and therefore were no longer violent crimes. Viola.. crime's gone!
This question is irrelevant as the Constitution does NOT give our Federal government any power to do anything about these problems.
Are you high?
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"
SCOTUS redrew the map and declared that Liberty and Ellis Islands were in New York (for tax purposes), despite the fact that they're clearly on NJ's side of the river. Look how the border goes all loopy around Liberty and Ellis Islands on Google Maps..
Actually, SCOTUS ruled that the un-tourist parts of Ellis Island belong to New Jersey, but the visitors center and ferry area belong to NY. What a joke.
remind yourself why the Statue of Liberty is in New York
It's not. It's in New Jersey, despite what the Supreme Court likes to think.
I still play classic 8-bit Nintendo games (and often wonder why I paid $20 or $30 for some of them when they were first released).
Maybe because that's what they cost? In fact, I seem to remember $20-30 as being cheap.
There's a certain level of trust required for capitalism to thrive.
The scams you talk about are no different from the snake-oil scams of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the USA. What ended them? It wasn't trust. It was government regulation.
That post was a stupid bit of gloating from Kos.. not surprising coming from him as he has a habit of knee-jerk posts. There's no proof that leads one to believe that OSM is a 'front' for the Chinese. A headline list that is clearly automatically generated does not constitute proof.
It's not like you can't have another truck towing a generator following the truck towing the portable datacenter.
Depending on the state's regulations, it may be like you can't have a generator following the trailer. Such a generator would be quite large and would not fall into many states' definitions of construction or emergency generators and would require permits.
I don't get Face the Nation over my local CBS station, but both NBC's Meet the Press and ABC's This Week program are hosted by former Democratic Party aparatchiks with no major experience in journalism prior to taking the helm at their respective high prestige posts?
George S. did work for the Clinton Administration, of course, but he also put in 5 years at ABC before getting the 'This Week' chair. Granted, it's not a great bio, but you make it sound like he went directly from the Oval Office to the anchor chair.
Russert worked as a lawyer in New York State government. He put in 7 years at NBC before getting the 'Press' chair.
Neither of the two have journalism degrees.
We are supposed to believe both are presenting a 'balanced' view of politics?
No. 'Balanced' and 'unbiased' are myths.
But the heart of it, I think the Post, whether left or right, practices GOOD journalism.
You mean the paper whose managing editor and star reporter sat on a potentially criminal story for over 2 years and continually downplayed the scandal that he had an integral part in?
Oooh... now we're serious! We've started the meta-argument about who's using more logical fallacies in the argument proper!
No, it was really just a fancy way of saying "stop being a dick".
I'm really not trying to be a jerk here, and I realize that the whole KJV 4000 year old thing was probably just a slip up
You are most certainly trying to be a jerk because I clearly said 400 years in my post. You added the extra zero in your mind, and translation is a form of writing.. unless there's a one-to-one translation book out there that I've somehow missed.
The fact is that some parts of the Bible are OBVIOUSLY not intended to be literal.
Right. I have no problem with that.. you kind of mis-construed my 'everything' comment, but that's completely understandable, as it was an exaggeration. Parables are 'double meaning' on a grand scale. The problems I have with double meaning are when you get down to individual words and phrases, like the issue in my original post. There's a point where 'non-literal' becomes 'inventing something that wasn't there'.
You conveniently ignored the main question of my post: Why is the literal reading of that phrase not proper, besides the reason that you don't agree with it?
Interesting, as 'black coffee' was one of the few terms that we would not question.. although I do remember someone requesting black coffee and being baffled as to why I did not add sugar.
Not really much for literary criticism, are you? Sure one conventional meaning is to die...But I think that the alternative reading is just as strong.
Why is the literal reading not proper, besides the reason that you don't agree with it? Why does it seem like everything in the Bible has double or triple meaning? Was the vocabulary that much smaller 2,000 years ago? Or even 400 years ago when the KJV was written?
This time, leave out the ad hominems. Thanks.
The verse repeated at least three times in the New Testament "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." is not just a cool-sounding phrase.
But unless you believe in it, it is just a cool sounding phrase.
It's a description of how, in voluntarily giving of your self to a greater cause - you can find something greater than what you find in a life dedicated to gratifying your own desires.
Your quote says "lose his life for my sake". That, in just about any reading, means dying. It's talking about martyrdom, from my perspective. Not making sacrifices to the church like going on missions, not helping others, but dying. Dead. So you die for Jesus, and you can "find something greater". So once again, it only progresses beyond a cool sounding phrase if you believe in it.
And, to me, you also pretty much changed the meaning of the quote in your description. It's not that "you can find something greater than what you find in a life dedicated to gratifying your own desires," it's that you can find something greater than what you find in a life where you don't die for Jesus.
There are a lot of great ideas in most any religion, but they're always shrouded in devotions to other concepts, rather than just "doing good".
Yeah, but when I use the microwave to heat water, I don't call it "microwaved water".. or "stovetop water" for the range. It's hot. It doesn't matter how you heat it up.
Sounds like you're young and lucky. Keep up the good work!
Steamed water? Now that's a fucking stupid term.
Here we go again..
The coffee case wasn't a "perceived difference" in temperature. They sold coffee that was hot enough to cause third-degree burns. They sold coffee hotter than their competitors and they knew from past experience that their coffee was too hot.
Ugh.. the term "regular coffee" needs to be retired. When I worked at Dunkin' Donuts, whenever someone said 'regular' they were always asked "Do you mean regular as in non-decaf, or regular as in cream and 2 sugars?" The answers always varied.. "oh no, use milk" "no, just one sugar" "no, don't add anything"
Their servers, their rules.
That doesn't make their actions 'cool'.
A Google News hit count is not the public consciousness. I stand by my assertion that the Sony matter is not well known outside of slashdot and similar circles.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Yes, looking at the profit/revenue ratio is a good indicator. However the point of my post wasn't really to say "the oil companies are making a ton of money".. it was only to dispute that comparing oil profits with government revenues is a good argument.
Thats money you and I could have spent elsewhere.
Not necessarily. This is always the argument used by anti-taxers.. "I could have spent that money" blah blah.. ignoring the benefit that they get from the tax revenue. Everyone assumes that they get zero benefit from taxes, then they bitch when taxes are cut and services go out the door with them.
Repairing roads isn't sexy and it doesn't get you votes.
Actually pothole repair probably would have been on McGreevey's platform in New Jersey, if he had run for re-election. There was a lot of publicity around pothole repair in the 03-04 winter. In places where roads are pretty much maxed out, repairing roads is an issue.
But, what's your point? Gas taxes should be cut and the transportation system goes to shit?
Much like in the recent backlash at Sony, people are not going to sit idly when a company does something stupid.
You've gotten confused again. You see, the people on slashdot are not representative of the population in general. Therefore, while the Sony matters (and other issues) are red-hot on this site, they are not well known outside of slashdot and similar sites. Yes, there were a few mainstream news articles on the Sony issue, but by and large it went by unnoticed.