One of the first things code.org needs to do is settle on the first coding language to teach. Problem with coding languages is they do not follow the logic of other things young people are taught 'reading, 'w'riting and 'a'rithmatic' but only follows their own 'internal' logic and this makes it much more difficult to learn. The language needs to more tightly align with normal spoken and written language and maths use. Which of course makes other spoken languages coding language an interesting problem. Want more people to learn to code make code learn able, make sure is does not break the logic rules of other things they are taught and adheres to those logic rules. So a new free open source learning to code language, with some real research on how to align it properly with language and maths use, rather than convenience, or because it was done that way on punch cards. Simple proof of how defective programmers and the computer industry, is the querty keyboard, seriously still making excuses for non-alphabetic keyboards when teaching alphabetic order is one of the first lessons learned when learning to bloody write. Any one who tries to excuse that is a fool.
M$ is just like every other corporation, it reflects the attitudes and morals of it's executives and board of directors and this can really change at any time, for good or ill. Interestingly enough the real fear with M$ and Linux is that M$ would do what it had a history of doing, which was embrace, extend and extinguish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.... As such there was strong motivation to keep M$ from taking up Linux and causing problems and hence it was led/fell into the trap of being opposed to it, rather than embracing it, attempting to extend it and then of course extinguishing all competitors. I often felt IBM strove hard to keep M$ out of Linux and opposed to it. Many members of early FOSS community also wanted nothing to do with M$ and as such helped to ratchet up the mutual dislike and distrust.
Basically the first point of using computers in school is to save money. Instead or inordinately expensive, soon to be out of date text books, free online creative commons texts continually refined, represents a major saving. When it comes to laptops versus tablets, the obvious difference is between creating content versus consuming licensed content. Obviously creating content is far better than being a manipulated target market for corporate profits and blindly consuming licensed content.
The big advantage in using computers in schools will be the teaching of complex simulations, where students learn the outcomes of manipulating the inputs and for the more advanced students the impacts of altering the controlling algorithms. Shifting from simple quick dirty physics (ignoring a lot of the inputs) to more actual physics based on real interactions that can be simulated using many more inputs will enable teaching more but of course only for those capable of absorbing it.
Computer education on it's own will never really do so much for the below average intellect but for the above average intellect it will provide many opportunities for greater early learning. The interesting problem this will create in the classroom, is a profound intellectual divide, as those who can race ahead and the other 50% fall further behind, to become disgruntled right wingers for whom thinking from the gut is smart and who consider higher education qualifications a stupid waste of time.
Some countries have far stricter laws and model aircraft are restricted to specific parks in built up areas and are not to be flown in public space and most definitely not over other people's properties. Drone usage logically needs to be restricted and licensed and all drones registered. They are not for idiots to fly in public spaces where they can crash into vehicles on the road or people. That is a sound normal restriction for a hobby that can place others at risk. When it comes to explosives, flammable agents or bio-toxins rest assured many countries are in fact working on just that, to improve their countries competitiveness and of course for counter attack. Consider major commodities investors, literally billions of dollars in profit available should another countries produce fail to reach market and supply falls well short of demand. Would modern psychopathic corporations spend, say a couple of hundred thousands dollars spreading plant diseases in order to generate a billion dollars of profit from guessing a major increase in the price of the product they are betting on.
What exactly does the creation of off balance sheet companies, to divest public reaction from the corporation initiating the action have to do with Free Open Source Software. Any company that takes potentially business bankrupting risks with the non-binding promises of a public company that can readily change ownership and in turn management principles, are just fooling themselves. My comment is about the actions M$ "has taken" with regard to the patent and the global corporate wide environment of patent corruption. Quite simply it is not worth the risk because the patent protections M$ has offered are not strong or enduring enough to last the life of patents, especially considering current corporate efforts to extend patent life well beyond the existing period. The rounded corners example in fact has nothing at all to do with M$ but is an example of how patents can be used to shut down businesses whilst the matter is sorted out in the long travail through the courts which pushes many defending companies into bankruptcy before they can successfully defend themselves. To anybody with business sense and a real understanding of public companies and not some M$ zealot it makes sense that patent protections are rock solid and readily defend able at the level of the lowest court and not require years whilst you product is productively dead. You company bias seems to refute any modern business sense.
Not a bloody problem. Firstly the bulk of money was loan guarantees, so not a freebee at all unless the loan defaulted (which means the renewable never ever got it, only the banking cartels were protected). Other programs only paid for 'part' of the cost of renewable power infrastructure and as such that part is often just covering the return of taxes paid during the investment in that infrastructure as it circulates through the economic elements associated with that investment. Then of course right wing news is basically all about bullshit and lying, with not one mention of how much was actually paid out, the balance against taxes paid or how much was paid back.
Well, it is the corporate attitude as promoted by main stream media. It is never about who actually does the work, it is all about who publicly claims credit for doing the work and of course the opposite for mistakes. It is not about who makes the mistakes but about how effectively they can blame others for it. It is factually in practice the psychopathic capitalist way. So it is not so much cheating as modern training for the typical modern corporate executive.
Sensible gun control is only have the equation, the other half of course is adequate public mental health services. Of course right wing politics any more being spent on the poor and in the case of people suffering from dangerous mental health illnesses, their victims. Their lack of empathy always means it is someone else's problem and especially so when it is one of their own (they loathe each other as competitors for the same pieces of the pie, well, actually the whole pie, they all want it all).
Easy peasy, M$ can just manufacture an off balance sheet company and sell the patents to them and that company can then sue the crap out of you. So the M$ promises are empty unless the patents are specified, otherwise the future 'owner' can argue which patents are or are not covered, seeing that shite like rounded corners can killed a product under corrupt US Patent law, the risk still seems grossly excessive.
Well if you marked up the rental price enough to cover the loss for wine bought (including management assessment and evaluation costs), transport, storage and cleaning bottles, serving and supplying of glasses, as well as cleaning said glasses and disposal of empty bottles. What is really happening is there seems to be a scammy deal with a no bid lease not open to the public purview and discounted fuel to boot (ignoring all costs associated with the distribution of fuel). Google seems to be doing evil all over the place with with many lobbyists.
It is evidence and only a matter of public record in a court, until then it should be protected for security reasons, as public release will interfere with it's use in any possible new or ongoing investigations. Want a peak, then go to court to get specific access to specific dates and specific interactions and justify why and show your pretty face to the cameras.
In terms of production costs the Foundation Series would be quite low for a science fiction series. A lot of espionage and meeting bits indoors, lots of backward planets for interactions and not a huge amount of space battles or time spent in spaceships, just need to be thrown in for a fey key stories and of course to create atmosphere. Until real life animation kicks in science fiction will be limited due high production costs versus low cost fake reality TV. It works well as a radio drama so it should be OK as a TV series.
The real problem skulking in the background is of course the Trans Pacific Partnership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... or far more actually the Toilet Paper Protocol for what it does to countries constitution. Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward has been issued his instructions and upon the expectation of unconstitutionally achieving the TPP in every member country by illegally keeping it secret from the respective electorates and as such has passed them onto the FCC. Basically corporations will be able to legally claim that net neutrality limits their opportunities for profit and be able to force corporate arbitration to allow full corporate interception of all messages, the deletion of undesirable data, the insertion of advertising and the ability via controlling the network illegally limit competition in information delivery restricting or blocking data flow. As such the FCC will be required to treat net neutrality as per the Toilet Paper Protocol and completely block it, thank you, Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward. So yeah net neutrality it to be TPP to death and the current administration full well knows it.
It actually trips over a couple of crimes. Firstly freedom of speech, the STARTTLS being your electronic speech, so invasion of privacy, illegal warrant less search and seizure as in searching your message and seizing the STARTTLS message. As your message is copyrighted and it is you intent to protect you copyright via encryption in disrupting your chosen encryption method, considering it is a private network communication between you and another party, they are hacking your network for which you and another party have rented access. So really a whole bunch of laws are tripped.
Actually this is exactly what a bunch of douche bags with university degrees have done. Some of the sickest holders of doctorates imaginable and they all end up working in the same places Public Relations Agencies where they whole express purpose is to use their understanding of the science of human psychology in order to get people to deny reality in order to buy the marketed solutions. We as a society and creating qualified experts to expressly teach us via every mass media outlet imaginable to do exactly that. So it is hardly surprising when tested the sheeple do it.
My answer to all of that is GIGO, garbage in garbage out. We already have a prime example of cognitive computing in the shared human science of planetary climate. We it produces answers that rich and greedy don't like they ignore it and even worse start feeding in more and more lies into the system in order to try to get the answers they want rather than the truth. I'll bet that any cognitive computer created by humanity will go insane as a result of the garbage being fed into it and produce nothing but garbage as a result.
IBMs biggest problem is that computers have become consumer level devices and through smart coding those cheap consumer commodity devices can be linked together to create high end business and science machines.
IBMs big push should be in security and appliance level appliances with software that can absolutely only do what it have been configured and programmed to do. Need more power, reliable and securely stack in more business appliances and be assured that they can not be hacked. This of course means somewhat expensive limited runs of specific appliances for specific elements of the computing jobs required to be done. Basically to achieve security where governments are doing everything they can do break it, the computing devices must no longer be flexible or adaptable and not be capable of doing anything beyond exactly what they were designed to do ie Business and Government class devices. Things like a log in device, that can only do that, accept user names and passwords, check user name and passwords and provide a pass of fail with various safety conditions to limit tries as well as logs, it can not do anything else, it lacks the algorithms in the OS and software as well as in the hardware interfaces to do anything else, totally secure by design.
Of course though, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, they who pay the most get the super twisty ruling they want, where the English language is redefined to suit the greed of those interpreting it. Make no mistake, that has become glaringly obvious to most of the just and democratic world which treat the law and justice with far greater respect and do not put a 'PUBLIC' price on the blatant redefining of the language used in the writing of it. Basically those who can afford to push it up to the Supreme Clown Court of the United States of America can also now afford to pay for the ruling they want.
Keep in mind this is exactly who you will be emulating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... You do nothing, you achieve nothing, you are just along for the ride as well as post ride egoistic poseur status. I can understand living, working and exploring up there, out to the moon and even further. Just being ignorant meat in a shipping container being sold marketing illusions is really rather lame.
Zuckerberg meet incumbent Telco ISPs, incumbent Teclo ISPs meet Zuckerberg. The only way Zuckerberg can get video Facebook is to create a mercenary army and get them to kill all the current senior executives and board members of the incumbent Telco ISPs and replace them with non psychopaths thus creating the management environment to change from strangle band to actual broadband. National real broadband many countries will be lucky to see it by 2050 let alone 2019. The incumbent Teclo ISPs all want to become "Internet Publishers" basically charge 30% of the price all content sales on their networks. Either pay the extortion in their protection racket or see you content hit the slow lane and broken lane.
They just need to incorporate some strategy elements to ensure things like jump and shoot fail as well as side scroll shooting and running and shooting. Also balancing PvE (a bug shoot) and PvP (people murdering people), allowing people to play one or the other. Also plan out spawning properly, both player and npc.
So what is the follow through on protection rackets and threats against witness's when the victims comply versus when they don't and by your method, whoops, it is too late. It is never up to the police to define the nature of the offence, it is up to the courts. Your attitude is an extension of the problem with US law en-Forcement, they believe they get to interpret the law as they see fit and apply it at their own personal discretion, that by point of law is police corruption and signs of a police state. They are there to assist the public in upholding the law, to keep the peace and act as expert witnesses and they are not lawyers trained in the law or further qualified as judges fit to interpret the law, that is why there are courts and that is why things like threatening words should only ever be interpreted and defined in a public court. Once the report has been filed the legal process must ensue.
You have a very juvenile point of view of the law, I'll give two prime examples of threatening words, protection racket and threatening a witness. So prosecute one you must prosecute all and during the court case via evidence define the nature of the offence. Else regardless of the undoubtedly present childish refutations of examples why it shouldn't, remember this via lawyers criminals always attempt to couch the words and behaviour in order to get away with criminal intent, hence all cases must be investigated to clarify the difference in court so that suitable action be taken from dismissal, to minimal fines to far greater custodial penalties.
I'll just remind you that South Australia and Adelaide where directly founded as an independent colony ( "The goal was to establish the province as a centre of civilisation for free immigrants, promising civil liberties and religious tolerance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...) no convicts at all, just happened to share a continent with them. South Australia just became a part of the same country at Federation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.... So we tend to agree with the rest of the world when it comes to the New South Welshmen and the Victorians;D.
I don't think you realise this but it illegal to threaten to kill someone. So yes, every death threat issued in a bar that is reported and where there is suitable evidence should be prosecuted and where convicted rehabilitative action taken as well as compulsary remediation by the perpetrator to the victim. Punitive punishment is absolutely pointless and that is a lesson that needs to be taught to the perpetrators, effective rehabilitation in conjunction with remediation is the only sound solution.
Rewards are not really that effective and public action is far more suitable. So don't just phone in a report it to the local police. Collect all the evidence, package it and then go with that evidence to all the applicable authorities keeping in mind threat across state boundaries bring in Federal authorities. So local, state and federal police as well as the communications authority. Forming a political action group to seek greater policing activity in the pursuit of those issuing online death threats, in an actual threatening manner.
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One of the first things code.org needs to do is settle on the first coding language to teach. Problem with coding languages is they do not follow the logic of other things young people are taught 'reading, 'w'riting and 'a'rithmatic' but only follows their own 'internal' logic and this makes it much more difficult to learn. The language needs to more tightly align with normal spoken and written language and maths use. Which of course makes other spoken languages coding language an interesting problem. Want more people to learn to code make code learn able, make sure is does not break the logic rules of other things they are taught and adheres to those logic rules. So a new free open source learning to code language, with some real research on how to align it properly with language and maths use, rather than convenience, or because it was done that way on punch cards. Simple proof of how defective programmers and the computer industry, is the querty keyboard, seriously still making excuses for non-alphabetic keyboards when teaching alphabetic order is one of the first lessons learned when learning to bloody write. Any one who tries to excuse that is a fool.
M$ is just like every other corporation, it reflects the attitudes and morals of it's executives and board of directors and this can really change at any time, for good or ill. Interestingly enough the real fear with M$ and Linux is that M$ would do what it had a history of doing, which was embrace, extend and extinguish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.... As such there was strong motivation to keep M$ from taking up Linux and causing problems and hence it was led/fell into the trap of being opposed to it, rather than embracing it, attempting to extend it and then of course extinguishing all competitors. I often felt IBM strove hard to keep M$ out of Linux and opposed to it. Many members of early FOSS community also wanted nothing to do with M$ and as such helped to ratchet up the mutual dislike and distrust.
Basically the first point of using computers in school is to save money. Instead or inordinately expensive, soon to be out of date text books, free online creative commons texts continually refined, represents a major saving. When it comes to laptops versus tablets, the obvious difference is between creating content versus consuming licensed content. Obviously creating content is far better than being a manipulated target market for corporate profits and blindly consuming licensed content.
The big advantage in using computers in schools will be the teaching of complex simulations, where students learn the outcomes of manipulating the inputs and for the more advanced students the impacts of altering the controlling algorithms. Shifting from simple quick dirty physics (ignoring a lot of the inputs) to more actual physics based on real interactions that can be simulated using many more inputs will enable teaching more but of course only for those capable of absorbing it.
Computer education on it's own will never really do so much for the below average intellect but for the above average intellect it will provide many opportunities for greater early learning. The interesting problem this will create in the classroom, is a profound intellectual divide, as those who can race ahead and the other 50% fall further behind, to become disgruntled right wingers for whom thinking from the gut is smart and who consider higher education qualifications a stupid waste of time.
Some countries have far stricter laws and model aircraft are restricted to specific parks in built up areas and are not to be flown in public space and most definitely not over other people's properties. Drone usage logically needs to be restricted and licensed and all drones registered. They are not for idiots to fly in public spaces where they can crash into vehicles on the road or people. That is a sound normal restriction for a hobby that can place others at risk. When it comes to explosives, flammable agents or bio-toxins rest assured many countries are in fact working on just that, to improve their countries competitiveness and of course for counter attack. Consider major commodities investors, literally billions of dollars in profit available should another countries produce fail to reach market and supply falls well short of demand. Would modern psychopathic corporations spend, say a couple of hundred thousands dollars spreading plant diseases in order to generate a billion dollars of profit from guessing a major increase in the price of the product they are betting on.
What exactly does the creation of off balance sheet companies, to divest public reaction from the corporation initiating the action have to do with Free Open Source Software. Any company that takes potentially business bankrupting risks with the non-binding promises of a public company that can readily change ownership and in turn management principles, are just fooling themselves. My comment is about the actions M$ "has taken" with regard to the patent and the global corporate wide environment of patent corruption. Quite simply it is not worth the risk because the patent protections M$ has offered are not strong or enduring enough to last the life of patents, especially considering current corporate efforts to extend patent life well beyond the existing period. The rounded corners example in fact has nothing at all to do with M$ but is an example of how patents can be used to shut down businesses whilst the matter is sorted out in the long travail through the courts which pushes many defending companies into bankruptcy before they can successfully defend themselves. To anybody with business sense and a real understanding of public companies and not some M$ zealot it makes sense that patent protections are rock solid and readily defend able at the level of the lowest court and not require years whilst you product is productively dead. You company bias seems to refute any modern business sense.
Not a bloody problem. Firstly the bulk of money was loan guarantees, so not a freebee at all unless the loan defaulted (which means the renewable never ever got it, only the banking cartels were protected). Other programs only paid for 'part' of the cost of renewable power infrastructure and as such that part is often just covering the return of taxes paid during the investment in that infrastructure as it circulates through the economic elements associated with that investment. Then of course right wing news is basically all about bullshit and lying, with not one mention of how much was actually paid out, the balance against taxes paid or how much was paid back.
Well, it is the corporate attitude as promoted by main stream media. It is never about who actually does the work, it is all about who publicly claims credit for doing the work and of course the opposite for mistakes. It is not about who makes the mistakes but about how effectively they can blame others for it. It is factually in practice the psychopathic capitalist way. So it is not so much cheating as modern training for the typical modern corporate executive.
Sensible gun control is only have the equation, the other half of course is adequate public mental health services. Of course right wing politics any more being spent on the poor and in the case of people suffering from dangerous mental health illnesses, their victims. Their lack of empathy always means it is someone else's problem and especially so when it is one of their own (they loathe each other as competitors for the same pieces of the pie, well, actually the whole pie, they all want it all).
Easy peasy, M$ can just manufacture an off balance sheet company and sell the patents to them and that company can then sue the crap out of you. So the M$ promises are empty unless the patents are specified, otherwise the future 'owner' can argue which patents are or are not covered, seeing that shite like rounded corners can killed a product under corrupt US Patent law, the risk still seems grossly excessive.
Well if you marked up the rental price enough to cover the loss for wine bought (including management assessment and evaluation costs), transport, storage and cleaning bottles, serving and supplying of glasses, as well as cleaning said glasses and disposal of empty bottles. What is really happening is there seems to be a scammy deal with a no bid lease not open to the public purview and discounted fuel to boot (ignoring all costs associated with the distribution of fuel). Google seems to be doing evil all over the place with with many lobbyists.
It is evidence and only a matter of public record in a court, until then it should be protected for security reasons, as public release will interfere with it's use in any possible new or ongoing investigations. Want a peak, then go to court to get specific access to specific dates and specific interactions and justify why and show your pretty face to the cameras.
PS forgot the legal download link to the radio drama https://archive.org/details/Is..., for those who haven't heard it yet.
In terms of production costs the Foundation Series would be quite low for a science fiction series. A lot of espionage and meeting bits indoors, lots of backward planets for interactions and not a huge amount of space battles or time spent in spaceships, just need to be thrown in for a fey key stories and of course to create atmosphere. Until real life animation kicks in science fiction will be limited due high production costs versus low cost fake reality TV. It works well as a radio drama so it should be OK as a TV series.
The real problem skulking in the background is of course the Trans Pacific Partnership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... or far more actually the Toilet Paper Protocol for what it does to countries constitution. Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward has been issued his instructions and upon the expectation of unconstitutionally achieving the TPP in every member country by illegally keeping it secret from the respective electorates and as such has passed them onto the FCC. Basically corporations will be able to legally claim that net neutrality limits their opportunities for profit and be able to force corporate arbitration to allow full corporate interception of all messages, the deletion of undesirable data, the insertion of advertising and the ability via controlling the network illegally limit competition in information delivery restricting or blocking data flow. As such the FCC will be required to treat net neutrality as per the Toilet Paper Protocol and completely block it, thank you, Uncle Tom Obama the Choom Gang Coward. So yeah net neutrality it to be TPP to death and the current administration full well knows it.
It actually trips over a couple of crimes. Firstly freedom of speech, the STARTTLS being your electronic speech, so invasion of privacy, illegal warrant less search and seizure as in searching your message and seizing the STARTTLS message. As your message is copyrighted and it is you intent to protect you copyright via encryption in disrupting your chosen encryption method, considering it is a private network communication between you and another party, they are hacking your network for which you and another party have rented access. So really a whole bunch of laws are tripped.
Actually this is exactly what a bunch of douche bags with university degrees have done. Some of the sickest holders of doctorates imaginable and they all end up working in the same places Public Relations Agencies where they whole express purpose is to use their understanding of the science of human psychology in order to get people to deny reality in order to buy the marketed solutions. We as a society and creating qualified experts to expressly teach us via every mass media outlet imaginable to do exactly that. So it is hardly surprising when tested the sheeple do it.
My answer to all of that is GIGO, garbage in garbage out. We already have a prime example of cognitive computing in the shared human science of planetary climate. We it produces answers that rich and greedy don't like they ignore it and even worse start feeding in more and more lies into the system in order to try to get the answers they want rather than the truth. I'll bet that any cognitive computer created by humanity will go insane as a result of the garbage being fed into it and produce nothing but garbage as a result.
IBMs biggest problem is that computers have become consumer level devices and through smart coding those cheap consumer commodity devices can be linked together to create high end business and science machines.
IBMs big push should be in security and appliance level appliances with software that can absolutely only do what it have been configured and programmed to do. Need more power, reliable and securely stack in more business appliances and be assured that they can not be hacked. This of course means somewhat expensive limited runs of specific appliances for specific elements of the computing jobs required to be done. Basically to achieve security where governments are doing everything they can do break it, the computing devices must no longer be flexible or adaptable and not be capable of doing anything beyond exactly what they were designed to do ie Business and Government class devices. Things like a log in device, that can only do that, accept user names and passwords, check user name and passwords and provide a pass of fail with various safety conditions to limit tries as well as logs, it can not do anything else, it lacks the algorithms in the OS and software as well as in the hardware interfaces to do anything else, totally secure by design.
Of course though, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, they who pay the most get the super twisty ruling they want, where the English language is redefined to suit the greed of those interpreting it. Make no mistake, that has become glaringly obvious to most of the just and democratic world which treat the law and justice with far greater respect and do not put a 'PUBLIC' price on the blatant redefining of the language used in the writing of it. Basically those who can afford to push it up to the Supreme Clown Court of the United States of America can also now afford to pay for the ruling they want.
Keep in mind this is exactly who you will be emulating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... You do nothing, you achieve nothing, you are just along for the ride as well as post ride egoistic poseur status. I can understand living, working and exploring up there, out to the moon and even further. Just being ignorant meat in a shipping container being sold marketing illusions is really rather lame.
Zuckerberg meet incumbent Telco ISPs, incumbent Teclo ISPs meet Zuckerberg. The only way Zuckerberg can get video Facebook is to create a mercenary army and get them to kill all the current senior executives and board members of the incumbent Telco ISPs and replace them with non psychopaths thus creating the management environment to change from strangle band to actual broadband. National real broadband many countries will be lucky to see it by 2050 let alone 2019. The incumbent Teclo ISPs all want to become "Internet Publishers" basically charge 30% of the price all content sales on their networks. Either pay the extortion in their protection racket or see you content hit the slow lane and broken lane.
They just need to incorporate some strategy elements to ensure things like jump and shoot fail as well as side scroll shooting and running and shooting. Also balancing PvE (a bug shoot) and PvP (people murdering people), allowing people to play one or the other. Also plan out spawning properly, both player and npc.
So what is the follow through on protection rackets and threats against witness's when the victims comply versus when they don't and by your method, whoops, it is too late. It is never up to the police to define the nature of the offence, it is up to the courts. Your attitude is an extension of the problem with US law en-Forcement, they believe they get to interpret the law as they see fit and apply it at their own personal discretion, that by point of law is police corruption and signs of a police state. They are there to assist the public in upholding the law, to keep the peace and act as expert witnesses and they are not lawyers trained in the law or further qualified as judges fit to interpret the law, that is why there are courts and that is why things like threatening words should only ever be interpreted and defined in a public court. Once the report has been filed the legal process must ensue.
You have a very juvenile point of view of the law, I'll give two prime examples of threatening words, protection racket and threatening a witness. So prosecute one you must prosecute all and during the court case via evidence define the nature of the offence. Else regardless of the undoubtedly present childish refutations of examples why it shouldn't, remember this via lawyers criminals always attempt to couch the words and behaviour in order to get away with criminal intent, hence all cases must be investigated to clarify the difference in court so that suitable action be taken from dismissal, to minimal fines to far greater custodial penalties.
I'll just remind you that South Australia and Adelaide where directly founded as an independent colony ( "The goal was to establish the province as a centre of civilisation for free immigrants, promising civil liberties and religious tolerance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...) no convicts at all, just happened to share a continent with them. South Australia just became a part of the same country at Federation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.... So we tend to agree with the rest of the world when it comes to the New South Welshmen and the Victorians ;D.
I don't think you realise this but it illegal to threaten to kill someone. So yes, every death threat issued in a bar that is reported and where there is suitable evidence should be prosecuted and where convicted rehabilitative action taken as well as compulsary remediation by the perpetrator to the victim. Punitive punishment is absolutely pointless and that is a lesson that needs to be taught to the perpetrators, effective rehabilitation in conjunction with remediation is the only sound solution.
Rewards are not really that effective and public action is far more suitable. So don't just phone in a report it to the local police. Collect all the evidence, package it and then go with that evidence to all the applicable authorities keeping in mind threat across state boundaries bring in Federal authorities. So local, state and federal police as well as the communications authority. Forming a political action group to seek greater policing activity in the pursuit of those issuing online death threats, in an actual threatening manner.