When I take shortcuts because I am in a hurry, I try to leave breadcrumbs. I put comments that start with the string "FIXME" and then write a quick sentence or two explaining how I would do it if I had more time. Then later, when I do have time, I can just grep for "FIXME" and find a list of things that need to be fixed. Those comments save me a lot of time, because I have an explanation from when it was still fresh in my mind, preventing many "WTF moments".
Because Google is an advertising company, and denying access to their partners would be like cutting their nose off.
That makes no sense. Google is not making money from spam calls. The spammers are bypassing Google, so it would be to Google's advantage to help block them.
The US has had these nukes in the public eye for at least a year now.
Not only that, but the general trend of replacing big nukes with smaller more accurate nukes has been going on for decades. America's nuclear arsenal peaked in the 1960s, and has been declining ever since. The size of our modern arsenal is a tiny fraction of the peak.
Why would police disclose that they're able to do this?
The police did not make an official statement about it. The information leaked out. The ability to decrypt was implied in a court document. It may have also been a cop or two bragging to a journalist "off the record".
Next up, they should sue Booz Allen (Snowden's employer) for violating the rights of millions of Americans, along with any other corporation that sold goods or services to the NSA/CIA/FBI/TSA.
Probably cops/criminilsation are needed considering the "screw you" approach of students when called for shocking behaviour.
If this was true, then police in schools would be correlated with better behavior, and less crime in the surrounding community. Reality is the opposite."Screw you" attitudes can be met with detention, suspension, or expulsion. Those are all administrative measures that don't involve pushing children into the maw of the criminal justice system.
AFAICT, you said: 1) we have more cops now than ever before, and 2) we have less crime than ever before, which leads you to postulate 3) more cops leads to more crime.
This does not follow.
Not every jurisdiction has increased the number of police, and not every jurisdiction has experienced the same fall in crime. If you look at individual cities and counties, there is a delayed correlation between adding cops and seeing crime go up (or at least decline less than other jurisdictions).
This week's Economist has an article about cops in schools. Schools that add cops to their staff tend to use those cops to enforce classroom discipline and criminalize unruly behavior. So kids that would otherwise get detention, or a parent-teacher conference, instead get taken to jail, and sucked into the juvenile justice system, which turns them into permanent delinquents, that cause more trouble in the school and the surrounding neighborhood, sucking more kids into trouble as the system spirals downward. So how does the system respond? MORE COPS!!!!
Grease can also be used as an animal feed supplement. My chickens love bacon grease, or used frying oil mixed with their feed. I don't understand why anyone would just dump perfectly good grease. It should be easy to find someone to take it, and possibly even pay for it.
My guess is that the grease is just a cover story, and the real purpose of the cameras is something else entirely.
How about getting rid of the mafia? Gangsters in general?
The Mafia, and gangsters in general, make nearly all their money on drugs, prostitution, etc. The way to get rid of them to just legalize these activities.
there's just the fact that OVERZEALOUS police are going: child alone = child in danger = get governement involved
The root problem is that crime rates have dramatically declined, yet we have more police than ever before. So we have too many cops with not enough "real" crime to deal with, so they just hassle people instead. People need to understand that more cops leads to more crime, not less, and stop voting for increases in policing, When you get a flyer in the mail saying a politician is endorsed by the police union, you should vote for the other guy.
This is just to be clear that a parent can't be charged with neglect for allowing their kid to walk alone.
No, it just means they can't be charged with a Federal crime, by the FBI, Secret Service, or other Federal agency. This does not effect state or local law enforcement, unless you believe that kids walking to school are engaging in interstate commerce.
BTW, some kids manage to get through Junior High (and High School) without having sex. Something about self control, and having a bit of it.
I made it through HS without having sex. It is one of the biggest regrets of my life. I missed out on a lot, and it was awkward when my college girlfriend found out that I had never done it before.
But what do the North Koreans think that they can possibly achieve by broadcasting propaganda to the South?
You might be surprised. There are a fair number of North Korea sympathizers in South Korea, especially in the Jeonju region, where the Kim family originates. Before and during WW2, Kim Il Sung led the resistance to the Japanese, and many people, North and South, saw him as a national hero. When the Americans occupied South Korea in 1945, they kept the existing government, which consisted entirely of Koreans that had collaborated with the Japanese, and were detested by most Koreans. When the Korean war started in 1950, many southerners rallied to Kim's effort to unify the nation. Following the war, there was still many people in SK that saw NK as the "true" Korea. Also, NK was actually more prosperous than SK until around 1970 or so, and both governments were repressive. After that, the SK economy took off, they became a democracy, and support for NK faded, but it has not entirely disappeared.
You miss the point. No leader of any large organization makes all decisions.
They do set policies and expectations. The bureaucrat that made this decision appears to have assumed his duty was to deny any request and then make up a reason to justify it. If Christie was the type of politician that believed in transparency, he would have made it clear that information should be public unless there was a very good reason to withhold it. This, along with BridgeGate, is an indicator of the type of politician Christie is. I, for one, am very happy to see his poll numbers at low single digits.
Because you're basically saying "You have no self control, have sex, we adults understand, here have a HPV Vaccine"
HPV is recommended for girls at age 11. There is no reason to even mention sex at that age. When my daughter got her shot, I just told her that it would prevent cervical cancer, and left it at that. I was prepared to explain what a cervix is, but she didn't ask.
No vaccine is 100% effective, and some vaccines are far less than perfectly effective. The primary benefit of vaccines is not individual immunity, but herd immunity, that prevents a disease from spreading through a population.
Is my grand ma criminal for having her computer infected and possibly infecting other?
If her negligence is harming others, then she should be held liable.
If you take a former playmate's advice on vaccinations, maybe the herd could do without you.
Well, HPV is sexually transmitted, so the vaccine makes sex safer, thus encouraging people to have sex. So her expertise may be relevant. But, seriously, some people actually oppose this vaccine because they think it encourages teenagers to be more promiscuous.
One could argue that there always is a javascript capable browser available these days
One could also argue that these browsers can connect to the Internet, where there are many, many programming environments available. My kids started with Scratch. They are now learning Javascript using the Khan Academy sandbox. Basic is a horrible first language. Microsoft did the world a favor by removing it. But Satya Nadella had nothing to do with that either way.
You can't even get Federal approval for such a thing in 5 years
Tesla Autopilot, which automates most highway driving, is already approved and available to consumers. A driver is required to be in the seat, but the car mostly drives itself. Here is a video of some idiot riding in the backseat while his Tesla drives down a busy highway.
And the technology isn't even close to being done.
You might want to get a better grip on reality. Tesla Autopilot is already 80% of the way there, and the other 20% may not be available to consumers yet, but it has had millions of miles of testing
Income inequality has risen since at least Reagan, don't act like it's something new.
It also has a lot to do with the economic cycle. High income people make most of their money from investments, so their income plummets when the economy goes into recession and the stock market falls. When the economy recovers, and the stock market goes up (as it has under Obama), then high income people benefit disproportionately.
Aren't military medals supposed to be for noble things like bravery, heroism, or honour?
I served in the military, and was awarded several medals. None of them were for bravery, heroism, or honour. Most of them were for being in the right place at the right time, such as the SASM and the NDSM. I also got a NAM, or "atta boy medal" for doing my job during a peacetime deployment.
I don't see any reason drone operators shouldn't get a medal of their own. They are doing more to earn it than I did.
Not all dictatorships are closed. Pinochet may have tortured, imprisoned, or shot all his opponents, but he also opened Chile's economy, championed free trade, and created broad prosperity.
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When I take shortcuts because I am in a hurry, I try to leave breadcrumbs. I put comments that start with the string "FIXME" and then write a quick sentence or two explaining how I would do it if I had more time. Then later, when I do have time, I can just grep for "FIXME" and find a list of things that need to be fixed. Those comments save me a lot of time, because I have an explanation from when it was still fresh in my mind, preventing many "WTF moments".
Because Google is an advertising company, and denying access to their partners would be like cutting their nose off.
That makes no sense. Google is not making money from spam calls. The spammers are bypassing Google, so it would be to Google's advantage to help block them.
The US has had these nukes in the public eye for at least a year now.
Not only that, but the general trend of replacing big nukes with smaller more accurate nukes has been going on for decades. America's nuclear arsenal peaked in the 1960s, and has been declining ever since. The size of our modern arsenal is a tiny fraction of the peak.
Why would police disclose that they're able to do this?
The police did not make an official statement about it. The information leaked out. The ability to decrypt was implied in a court document. It may have also been a cop or two bragging to a journalist "off the record".
What's next?
Next up, they should sue Booz Allen (Snowden's employer) for violating the rights of millions of Americans, along with any other corporation that sold goods or services to the NSA/CIA/FBI/TSA.
Probably cops/criminilsation are needed considering the "screw you" approach of students when called for shocking behaviour.
If this was true, then police in schools would be correlated with better behavior, and less crime in the surrounding community. Reality is the opposite."Screw you" attitudes can be met with detention, suspension, or expulsion. Those are all administrative measures that don't involve pushing children into the maw of the criminal justice system.
AFAICT, you said: 1) we have more cops now than ever before, and 2) we have less crime than ever before, which leads you to postulate 3) more cops leads to more crime.
This does not follow.
Not every jurisdiction has increased the number of police, and not every jurisdiction has experienced the same fall in crime. If you look at individual cities and counties, there is a delayed correlation between adding cops and seeing crime go up (or at least decline less than other jurisdictions).
This week's Economist has an article about cops in schools. Schools that add cops to their staff tend to use those cops to enforce classroom discipline and criminalize unruly behavior. So kids that would otherwise get detention, or a parent-teacher conference, instead get taken to jail, and sucked into the juvenile justice system, which turns them into permanent delinquents, that cause more trouble in the school and the surrounding neighborhood, sucking more kids into trouble as the system spirals downward. So how does the system respond? MORE COPS!!!!
The nitroglycerin can also be used to make nitrocellulose
Actually, nitrocellulose is made from ... cellulose. So the government should be watching for anyone using wood or paper.
Grease can also be used as an animal feed supplement. My chickens love bacon grease, or used frying oil mixed with their feed. I don't understand why anyone would just dump perfectly good grease. It should be easy to find someone to take it, and possibly even pay for it.
My guess is that the grease is just a cover story, and the real purpose of the cameras is something else entirely.
How about getting rid of the mafia? Gangsters in general?
The Mafia, and gangsters in general, make nearly all their money on drugs, prostitution, etc. The way to get rid of them to just legalize these activities.
there's just the fact that OVERZEALOUS police are going: child alone = child in danger = get governement involved
The root problem is that crime rates have dramatically declined, yet we have more police than ever before. So we have too many cops with not enough "real" crime to deal with, so they just hassle people instead. People need to understand that more cops leads to more crime, not less, and stop voting for increases in policing, When you get a flyer in the mail saying a politician is endorsed by the police union, you should vote for the other guy.
This is just to be clear that a parent can't be charged with neglect for allowing their kid to walk alone.
No, it just means they can't be charged with a Federal crime, by the FBI, Secret Service, or other Federal agency. This does not effect state or local law enforcement, unless you believe that kids walking to school are engaging in interstate commerce.
BTW, some kids manage to get through Junior High (and High School) without having sex. Something about self control, and having a bit of it.
I made it through HS without having sex. It is one of the biggest regrets of my life. I missed out on a lot, and it was awkward when my college girlfriend found out that I had never done it before.
But what do the North Koreans think that they can possibly achieve by broadcasting propaganda to the South?
You might be surprised. There are a fair number of North Korea sympathizers in South Korea, especially in the Jeonju region, where the Kim family originates. Before and during WW2, Kim Il Sung led the resistance to the Japanese, and many people, North and South, saw him as a national hero. When the Americans occupied South Korea in 1945, they kept the existing government, which consisted entirely of Koreans that had collaborated with the Japanese, and were detested by most Koreans. When the Korean war started in 1950, many southerners rallied to Kim's effort to unify the nation. Following the war, there was still many people in SK that saw NK as the "true" Korea. Also, NK was actually more prosperous than SK until around 1970 or so, and both governments were repressive. After that, the SK economy took off, they became a democracy, and support for NK faded, but it has not entirely disappeared.
You miss the point. No leader of any large organization makes all decisions.
They do set policies and expectations. The bureaucrat that made this decision appears to have assumed his duty was to deny any request and then make up a reason to justify it. If Christie was the type of politician that believed in transparency, he would have made it clear that information should be public unless there was a very good reason to withhold it. This, along with BridgeGate, is an indicator of the type of politician Christie is. I, for one, am very happy to see his poll numbers at low single digits.
Because you're basically saying "You have no self control, have sex, we adults understand, here have a HPV Vaccine"
HPV is recommended for girls at age 11. There is no reason to even mention sex at that age. When my daughter got her shot, I just told her that it would prevent cervical cancer, and left it at that. I was prepared to explain what a cervix is, but she didn't ask.
Can the "other people" just can vaccinated?
No vaccine is 100% effective, and some vaccines are far less than perfectly effective. The primary benefit of vaccines is not individual immunity, but herd immunity, that prevents a disease from spreading through a population.
Is my grand ma criminal for having her computer infected and possibly infecting other?
If her negligence is harming others, then she should be held liable.
If you take a former playmate's advice on vaccinations, maybe the herd could do without you.
Well, HPV is sexually transmitted, so the vaccine makes sex safer, thus encouraging people to have sex. So her expertise may be relevant. But, seriously, some people actually oppose this vaccine because they think it encourages teenagers to be more promiscuous.
One could argue that there always is a javascript capable browser available these days
One could also argue that these browsers can connect to the Internet, where there are many, many programming environments available. My kids started with Scratch. They are now learning Javascript using the Khan Academy sandbox. Basic is a horrible first language. Microsoft did the world a favor by removing it. But Satya Nadella had nothing to do with that either way.
You can't even get Federal approval for such a thing in 5 years
Tesla Autopilot, which automates most highway driving, is already approved and available to consumers. A driver is required to be in the seat, but the car mostly drives itself. Here is a video of some idiot riding in the backseat while his Tesla drives down a busy highway.
And the technology isn't even close to being done.
You might want to get a better grip on reality. Tesla Autopilot is already 80% of the way there, and the other 20% may not be available to consumers yet, but it has had millions of miles of testing
Income inequality has risen since at least Reagan, don't act like it's something new.
It also has a lot to do with the economic cycle. High income people make most of their money from investments, so their income plummets when the economy goes into recession and the stock market falls. When the economy recovers, and the stock market goes up (as it has under Obama), then high income people benefit disproportionately.
Aren't military medals supposed to be for noble things like bravery, heroism, or honour?
I served in the military, and was awarded several medals. None of them were for bravery, heroism, or honour. Most of them were for being in the right place at the right time, such as the SASM and the NDSM. I also got a NAM, or "atta boy medal" for doing my job during a peacetime deployment.
I don't see any reason drone operators shouldn't get a medal of their own. They are doing more to earn it than I did.
It is a dictatorship. Of course it is closed.
Not all dictatorships are closed. Pinochet may have tortured, imprisoned, or shot all his opponents, but he also opened Chile's economy, championed free trade, and created broad prosperity.
Greece is also thinking of landing on the moon "when their fiscal situation improves"
Greece would need a lot more than just money. They don't have the expertise, technology, or infrastructure. Russia has all of those.
Yes, with uncontested air superiority it would be a steamroll.
We had uncontested air superiority in Iraq, and we still lost the war.