He didn't insult us at all. He instead gave us credit for likely being able to figure out that 'emergency number' means 911. You make a good argument against him though.
No. If it comes to fatal accidents, then a single event is good enough to enact a law.
Note: parenthetical comments snipped.
No, a single event is not enough. How many fatal accidents have happened with a guitar in the trunk? Or in a car with exactly three beach towels? When it's obvious that the factor is utterly irrelevant, we point at the example and claim it's silly. When we think that something is a factor we tend to want to do something about it instead of making sure. Logically texting is a clear risk while driving, but if the numbers don't back up that claim then it ain't so.
So the base for your calculation can't and shouldn't be the numbers of accidents in general, but the number of people falling victim to people texting while driving. And this number has indeed increased, from zero in the days before the cell phone to a non-zero number today.
I'll go back to guitars. Pick a guitar model that was created sometime after cars were. Clearly, before that guitar had been manufactured, no one had a fatal accident with one in their trunk, but now it happens sometimes. We must prevent people from having this guitar in their trunk at all costs!
Keep in mind that I don't actually believe that it's safe to text while driving. My complaint is with your methodology.
I think the guy is either full of it or imagining it, but if we pretend for a minute that he's legit, then it could be more of something like "Am I sneezing because of a cold or is there some wifi nearby?"
Think of it like radiation. It affects us badly, but we still use detection gadgets to find it.
There are a number of places named after the tribes who originally inhabited the area. So the name isn't stolen in the sense of copied from some other place with the same name, though it would still be fairly easy to argue that the name is stolen in a different sense.
Regular gasoline in the SW looks like its going for approx $2.40 to $3.00, depending on where you are and where you get it. Diesel is typically more, but generally $0.40 or so more. Where did $5.25 come from?
I agree with you completely. I just wanted to pick on you a little for essentially using correlation to argue that correlation is causation, although it'd be more amusing (and ironic) if you'd been going for the opposite.
In case it isn't clear: correlation, when calculated to account for confounding factors and observed enough to establish significance, is the only way we have to establish causation in the natural world. It is exactly how every accepted scientific "fact" (i.e., theory, which is as close to fact as science can ever get) was established.
Just because correlation has a high correlation with causation does not mean that correlation is causation. Have you considered that some factor other than correlation may be contributing to the causation?
Actually that is not entirely true, when you are 5, 1 year is 20% of your entire time of existence (and significantly more of your remembered existence). When you are 20, 1 year is 0.5% of your entire existence. This continues as you get older and the milestones in your life get further apart.
Nit: Right idea, bad math.
1/5 = 0.2 = 20% 1/20 = 0.05 = 5%
You need to be 200 years old before 1 year is 0.5% of your entire existence.
The report, which was solicited by the Dutch parliament and written by a committee of its members, specifically states that 'news and the gathering of news stories is not free, and the public must be made aware of that.'
It's a shame those newspapers don't have any means of getting this kind of information out to the public.
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And from the page you cited:
Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
Also, you're looking at the total crime category, which lumps wildly dissimilar things together, such as murder and software piracy.
There's a first for everything.
Accidentally modded you 'overrated', replying to remove the mod.
Sounds like the project might have inadvertently discovered the higgs boson at some point in the future.
Garbage trucks smell good. Why is the sanitation industry always associated with the mafia?
Yes, but not because of this.
So it's Starship Troopers?
They'd only get their asses sued for that if anyone finds out. But yeah, the guy's paranoid.
Or, as 'Ert' is a nickname my sister gave me, 'inert' generally refers to hamburgers and beer.
He didn't insult us at all. He instead gave us credit for likely being able to figure out that 'emergency number' means 911. You make a good argument against him though.
No. If it comes to fatal accidents, then a single event is good enough to enact a law.
Note: parenthetical comments snipped.
No, a single event is not enough. How many fatal accidents have happened with a guitar in the trunk? Or in a car with exactly three beach towels? When it's obvious that the factor is utterly irrelevant, we point at the example and claim it's silly. When we think that something is a factor we tend to want to do something about it instead of making sure. Logically texting is a clear risk while driving, but if the numbers don't back up that claim then it ain't so.
So the base for your calculation can't and shouldn't be the numbers of accidents in general, but the number of people falling victim to people texting while driving. And this number has indeed increased, from zero in the days before the cell phone to a non-zero number today.
I'll go back to guitars. Pick a guitar model that was created sometime after cars were. Clearly, before that guitar had been manufactured, no one had a fatal accident with one in their trunk, but now it happens sometimes. We must prevent people from having this guitar in their trunk at all costs!
Keep in mind that I don't actually believe that it's safe to text while driving. My complaint is with your methodology.
In Soviet Russia... ahh... I don't have anything. I best leave it to the professionals.
... the professionals leave it to you?
Here we have at Tucker what is called the "hoe squad" and it is what it sounds like. You get your ass up at dawn and hoe and weed
Sorry, but that is definitely not what "Hoe Squad" sounds like at all.
Best. Woosh. Ever.
boogers (there must be a technical term, please enlighten me)
Dried nasal mucus
I was particularly amused by the !dave tag on the story.
I think the guy is either full of it or imagining it, but if we pretend for a minute that he's legit, then it could be more of something like "Am I sneezing because of a cold or is there some wifi nearby?"
Think of it like radiation. It affects us badly, but we still use detection gadgets to find it.
Thanks.
I take it Av Gas sells for approx $5.25/gallon?
There are a number of places named after the tribes who originally inhabited the area. So the name isn't stolen in the sense of copied from some other place with the same name, though it would still be fairly easy to argue that the name is stolen in a different sense.
What kind of fuel are we talking about?
Regular gasoline in the SW looks like its going for approx $2.40 to $3.00, depending on where you are and where you get it. Diesel is typically more, but generally $0.40 or so more. Where did $5.25 come from?
so long as you play in the NFL, you can kill someone in a DUI crash and do 30 days.
However, you need to be very careful not to shoot yourself in the leg, as that is utterly unforgivable.
I agree with you completely. I just wanted to pick on you a little for essentially using correlation to argue that correlation is causation, although it'd be more amusing (and ironic) if you'd been going for the opposite.
In case it isn't clear: correlation, when calculated to account for confounding factors and observed enough to establish significance, is the only way we have to establish causation in the natural world. It is exactly how every accepted scientific "fact" (i.e., theory, which is as close to fact as science can ever get) was established.
Just because correlation has a high correlation with causation does not mean that correlation is causation. Have you considered that some factor other than correlation may be contributing to the causation?
Actually that is not entirely true, when you are 5, 1 year is 20% of your entire time of existence (and significantly more of your remembered existence). When you are 20, 1 year is 0.5% of your entire existence. This continues as you get older and the milestones in your life get further apart.
Nit: Right idea, bad math.
1/5 = 0.2 = 20%
1/20 = 0.05 = 5%
You need to be 200 years old before 1 year is 0.5% of your entire existence.
The report, which was solicited by the Dutch parliament and written by a committee of its members, specifically states that 'news and the gathering of news stories is not free, and the public must be made aware of that.'
It's a shame those newspapers don't have any means of getting this kind of information out to the public.