Oh fuck off you zealot. Your inability to deal with reality is not my problem, and the reality is this is the training they receive. Go witchunt somewhere else. And for the record, I don't think its right.
Then I guess we have got a serious problem. I'm actually surprised this is news to a lot of people, although I can see why the police wouldn't broadcast it. Once you know what they're doing its not half as intimidating.
She obviously does not react in the same way that OB does, and I'm puzzled as to what you think shows that her "training kicked in" (meaning that she would react in a similar way to OB since they would have similar training).
Eh despite another poster trying to paint them as robots, they are in fact human beings and will react differently until certain situations start occurring or they realise that others think they are occurring. If it was so distasteful to her why didn't she stop it from happening or interfere in some way? Solidarity? Why do you think police officers in every developed country act the same way in crowd control situations? And they do. Unless you're saying that most police officers are congenitally vicious thugs.
And did you see her face about ten seconds later? I have no idea why people take it personally when the reasons for things happening are explained to them. Nobody as far as I can see is defending it, either.
Acting according to training does not imply acting without thought. However you seem determined to get offended no matter what is said, along with that person with mod points who had his two minutes hate rained on, so eh good luck with that.
She only looked embarrassed for a moment, then you will observe the training kicked in. I'm not trying to psychoanalyse individual officers here, just telling you what the process is. You will no doubt see it again and again and again, so it might be helpful keep in mind the reason for it.
Yup, I'm not saying he was justified, but in all likelihood he was just doing exactly as his training dictated. That he's decided to try and make bank at this stage does cast him in a more douche-y light though, he'd have gotten a lot more respect among people who know what's really going on if he'd just let it slide.
He's not entirely blameless, he should grow up and not bother suing people. However, they are trained to create a zone of control, which means they need to make crowds think they are tougher and meaner. Standard police tactics.
That's correct, they didn't. The point of the operation isn't to take out the troublemakers and to give everyone else a big hug, that's impossible, its to ensure that the mob mentality doesn't scent weakness. This is why, I'm not saying it's right, but it is an explanation. Another example was the guy wandering past a police line in the UK a while back, an officer rapped him on the leg for getting too close, and he got a heart attack around the corner. All he was doing was taking a shortcut home, but the officers were just doing what they were trained to do.
Standard crowd control tactics. If you're facing an ugly mob that hugely outnumbers you, the only way to keep things under control is often to convince the crowd that you're uglier. I agree that a lot of LEOs everywhere take the concept to places it shouldn't be though.
Crazy stuff. Police officers are trained to create a zone of control around themselves, which would include things like threatening random passers-by and generally acting like thugs, its standard crowd control tactics, and while very far from acceptable civilised behaviour, it does work. The commenters didn't understand this, and the police officer didn't understand the commenters, and its all going to make bunch of lawyers wealthy. They should all sit down together and get drunk and forget about the whole thing.
Running the engine raises the temperature of the cold source, or heat sink.
Yes, but by how much? If you had a 99% efficient thermoelectric engine, which is theoretically possible as far as I'm aware, wouldn't that mean that the temperature of the cold sink would increase very slowly or by tiny incremements?
The earth can only eliminate thermal waste (biproduct of entropy) at a maximum theoretical rate-
Hang on a minute - you're saying that if for example heat energy is used to create electricity, as in a quantum thermoelectric engine, you'll end up with more heat at the end? I cannae figure that, if the electricity is being produced by thermal energy, how can you end up with x thermal energy going in producing x+y thermal energy + electrical energy? I get that entropy is produced, but how does that then create more heat?
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Oh fuck off you zealot. Your inability to deal with reality is not my problem, and the reality is this is the training they receive. Go witchunt somewhere else. And for the record, I don't think its right.
Then I guess we have got a serious problem. I'm actually surprised this is news to a lot of people, although I can see why the police wouldn't broadcast it. Once you know what they're doing its not half as intimidating.
She obviously does not react in the same way that OB does, and I'm puzzled as to what you think shows that her "training kicked in" (meaning that she would react in a similar way to OB since they would have similar training).
Eh despite another poster trying to paint them as robots, they are in fact human beings and will react differently until certain situations start occurring or they realise that others think they are occurring. If it was so distasteful to her why didn't she stop it from happening or interfere in some way? Solidarity? Why do you think police officers in every developed country act the same way in crowd control situations? And they do. Unless you're saying that most police officers are congenitally vicious thugs.
Are you trying to dehumanise them by constantly referring to machines?
And did you see her face about ten seconds later? I have no idea why people take it personally when the reasons for things happening are explained to them. Nobody as far as I can see is defending it, either.
Where did I say it should be allowed? Lot of people determined to get upset in this thread.
Acting according to training does not imply acting without thought. However you seem determined to get offended no matter what is said, along with that person with mod points who had his two minutes hate rained on, so eh good luck with that.
She only looked embarrassed for a moment, then you will observe the training kicked in. I'm not trying to psychoanalyse individual officers here, just telling you what the process is. You will no doubt see it again and again and again, so it might be helpful keep in mind the reason for it.
Is rapping someone on the leg with a truncheon a normal way to commit murder?
You've got your parties muddled up - I'm not trying to justify it, just telling you how it is.
Thats the point though - they are thinking, just not in a way that's immediately understandable to most people.
Absolutely.
Yup, I'm not saying he was justified, but in all likelihood he was just doing exactly as his training dictated. That he's decided to try and make bank at this stage does cast him in a more douche-y light though, he'd have gotten a lot more respect among people who know what's really going on if he'd just let it slide.
He's not entirely blameless, he should grow up and not bother suing people. However, they are trained to create a zone of control, which means they need to make crowds think they are tougher and meaner. Standard police tactics.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
That's correct, they didn't. The point of the operation isn't to take out the troublemakers and to give everyone else a big hug, that's impossible, its to ensure that the mob mentality doesn't scent weakness. This is why, I'm not saying it's right, but it is an explanation. Another example was the guy wandering past a police line in the UK a while back, an officer rapped him on the leg for getting too close, and he got a heart attack around the corner. All he was doing was taking a shortcut home, but the officers were just doing what they were trained to do.
Standard crowd control tactics. If you're facing an ugly mob that hugely outnumbers you, the only way to keep things under control is often to convince the crowd that you're uglier. I agree that a lot of LEOs everywhere take the concept to places it shouldn't be though.
Crazy stuff. Police officers are trained to create a zone of control around themselves, which would include things like threatening random passers-by and generally acting like thugs, its standard crowd control tactics, and while very far from acceptable civilised behaviour, it does work. The commenters didn't understand this, and the police officer didn't understand the commenters, and its all going to make bunch of lawyers wealthy. They should all sit down together and get drunk and forget about the whole thing.
But if the hot reservoir is at 300 k and the cold one is at 3 k, you get a maximum possible 99%..?
Running the engine raises the temperature of the cold source, or heat sink.
Yes, but by how much? If you had a 99% efficient thermoelectric engine, which is theoretically possible as far as I'm aware, wouldn't that mean that the temperature of the cold sink would increase very slowly or by tiny incremements?
The earth can only eliminate thermal waste (biproduct of entropy) at a maximum theoretical rate-
Hang on a minute - you're saying that if for example heat energy is used to create electricity, as in a quantum thermoelectric engine, you'll end up with more heat at the end? I cannae figure that, if the electricity is being produced by thermal energy, how can you end up with x thermal energy going in producing x+y thermal energy + electrical energy? I get that entropy is produced, but how does that then create more heat?
Desalinization has its own pitfalls; namely, you end up with huge piles of salt
What, you can't sell salt?
Seven percent of US national debt is all China holds. They need us a lot more than we need them, at least for now.
Parsing your data for profit, et cetera...
Or is that okay in free market halfassery?
And yes, he is probably right. China owns most of the United States debt
Seven percent of foreign debt. That is all.