If the money spent on tazers and tazer training (and defending tazer death suits) was instead spent on billy clubs and (here's the important part:) close combat classes, officers would generally be better off.
Right, because when someone is charging a cop, it's much better they be allowed to get up close and personal before the cop can begin to disable them with a club than it is to have the cop shoot them at a distance with a taser.
The whole point of both guns and tasers is to keep the person away from the officer.
Yes, yes, the reference is obvious, but considering the educational state of a large percentage of the people in this country, I can guarantee you someone will use that in a discussion somewhere.
Iran is -barely- the size of a single state in terms of people.
Huh? The poster above used CIA figures to show Iran has over 65 million people. What state do you live in that has more than 65 million people? California has just over 35 million and it's the largest.
For reference. Using that chart, Iran has a population larger than the last 21 states combined.
Not a single woman was executed,
Again, huh? Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, 11 women have been executed in this country. In fact, the last woman to be executed was in 2005 in Texas. If you're counting only federal executions, two women have been executed: Ethel Rosenberg and Bonnie Brown Heady.
Funny you should mention this. I took my parents to Chinatown (NYC) a year ago and we stopped in a small store where my mom picked up some dried mushrooms for my sister-in-law. When she went to the counter to pay, just like you observed on the streetcar, there was no lining up. When the person at the counter was done paying for their items, whomever was able to shove their way in first was the next person.
My mother, trying to be polite the whole time, finally shoved her way in, paid for the mushrooms and left in less than 20 seconds.
Afterward, we both discussed the situation as I was in the shop waiting for her to pay (and be my parents tour guide). We both came to the conclusion that it had to be cultural thing because there were no complaints from any of the people trying to pay or from the clerks at the counter. We even observed one or two other non-asian folks force their way in without a second thought, as if it was the most natural thing to do.
Unless you like hearing endless parades of megaphone blasting vans, with high pitched voice women screaming
So long as they play audio from their AV DVDs, I would very much like to hear endless parades of megaphone blasting vans with high pitched voice women screaming.
teenagers "realize that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless".
Wow. I'm totally floored. I would never have guessed that the vast majority of people, more specifically teenagers, don't care when you tweet you're on Main Street and saw a cute girl. Or, in the case of Gabe, taking a shit.
Guess this is another example where not having an MBA is an asset.
I'll give you another example. I have seen products with labels that say something to the effect, 'Assembled in (insert foreign country) of domestic parts'.
Just like your example, it's cheaper to produce the parts in this country, ship them to a foreign country where they're assembled, then ship back the completed item to this country for sale.
Makes you wonder who figured out this round-robin assembly process.
I don't suppose you never heard of the phrase, "Jack of All Trades, Master of None".
If you're going to use the quote, at least get it right:
Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than Master of one
That said, I do agree with you that having VLC do one thing, and do it right EVERY time, is a boon. When we have people who can't play a DVD, we put VLC on their machine and it works. Every time.
Unless they consider these people are still somehow considered members.
Of course they're* still members. You think just because a company goes bankrupt you're no longer part of their services? Oh no. It's like being part of AOL. Once you're in, you're in for life!
*Attention lazy slobs. Note the correct usage of they're. Not their or there. If you think you're** being cute, stabbing at the man for having rules and regulations, or thinking you're on the cutting edge of a new language paradigm, you're not.
**Attention lazy slobs. Note the correct usage of you're. Not your.
If the CTO of a corporation didn't realize a private company, contracted by the government, would not delete his personal information at his request, he shouldn't be a CTO.
ALL data, in whatever form, once in the hands of the government, its entities, subsidiaries and contractors, will exist essentially forever.
Let the age of Total Information Awareness rock on!
*wonders if Aladrin and elrous0 work in my location as both comments are spot on to the way things are in reality*
Working with people who do a job "just good enough", who don't bother documenting, who don't do follow-up, who are just plain lazy, I can attest to the fact that you do burn the good ones out.
What you are talking about is systematic destruction, removal of an option because you (or someone else) does not like it.
Which is still a choice. The couples may have wanted a child with a certain hair and eye color combination, but if subsequent testing showed that despite their choice the cells didn't take the choice and the parents decide not to have the child, the destruction of the cells is still a choice.
Choosing to destroy cells because they're not doing what you wanted them to do is still a choice.
Hell, when they can start letting you pick if you kid is going to be smart and/or athletic...are they gonna can that choice too?
Most likely, it reminds people of at least one country where the government wanted a specific type of person.* That, and if someone didn't like the eye/hair color, they would destroy the blob of cells which some people consider to be a person. And we all know the Pope's stand on this subject.
As far as picking the sex, there are numerous countries where a male child is wanted and if it's a girl, it is killed or sold. This of course has a distinct downside. See this story for tidbits of the situation.
*Funny how those who suffered the most are now demanding their own country be person specific with no "mixed blood".
Given that a driving licence is supposed to be proof of your ability to drive,
If that were true, at least 1/3 of the people in my area would be removed from the road for their inability to drive in something close to a safe or competent manner.
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If the money spent on tazers and tazer training (and defending tazer death suits) was instead spent on billy clubs and (here's the important part:) close combat classes, officers would generally be better off.
Right, because when someone is charging a cop, it's much better they be allowed to get up close and personal before the cop can begin to disable them with a club than it is to have the cop shoot them at a distance with a taser.
The whole point of both guns and tasers is to keep the person away from the officer.
Yes, yes, the reference is obvious, but considering the educational state of a large percentage of the people in this country, I can guarantee you someone will use that in a discussion somewhere.
Especially when you consider half of young Americans can't find New York on a map.
The word you are looking for is Typhoid. It says so right at the top of the article you linked to.
Iran is -barely- the size of a single state in terms of people.
Huh? The poster above used CIA figures to show Iran has over 65 million people. What state do you live in that has more than 65 million people? California has just over 35 million and it's the largest.
For reference. Using that chart, Iran has a population larger than the last 21 states combined.
Not a single woman was executed,
Again, huh? Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, 11 women have been executed in this country. In fact, the last woman to be executed was in 2005 in Texas. If you're counting only federal executions, two women have been executed: Ethel Rosenberg and Bonnie Brown Heady.
For reference (state data).
Other than your calculations for the percentage of executions, the rest of your comments are bupkis.
and wonder if anyone actually sends text messages at the wheel,
Yes. I have personally seen a few people trying to text while driving. Not sitting at a light, while the car is in motion.
The man can throw elephant dung at a screen and his fans will marvel at how original it was he used elephant dung...
If you've ever seen the size of a pile of elephant dung, you'd understand why people marvel that he used elephant dung.
I mean, just look at the size of the toilet that is needed!
Funny you should mention this. I took my parents to Chinatown (NYC) a year ago and we stopped in a small store where my mom picked up some dried mushrooms for my sister-in-law. When she went to the counter to pay, just like you observed on the streetcar, there was no lining up. When the person at the counter was done paying for their items, whomever was able to shove their way in first was the next person.
My mother, trying to be polite the whole time, finally shoved her way in, paid for the mushrooms and left in less than 20 seconds.
Afterward, we both discussed the situation as I was in the shop waiting for her to pay (and be my parents tour guide). We both came to the conclusion that it had to be cultural thing because there were no complaints from any of the people trying to pay or from the clerks at the counter. We even observed one or two other non-asian folks force their way in without a second thought, as if it was the most natural thing to do.
Go figure.
Unless you like hearing endless parades of megaphone blasting vans, with high pitched voice women screaming
So long as they play audio from their AV DVDs, I would very much like to hear endless parades of megaphone blasting vans with high pitched voice women screaming.
is anything like your writing capability, it's no wonder people say you can't code.
I've ran into a vast majority of you who constantly try to say that I can't code as a way of covering your ass.
Editors. When you see something so blatant, please use [sic] after it so people will know it's not you doing the mangling the English language.
or that the parents will sue because there daughter is a dolt.
Says the one who can't use the proper from of 'their'.
teenagers "realize that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless".
Wow. I'm totally floored. I would never have guessed that the vast majority of people, more specifically teenagers, don't care when you tweet you're on Main Street and saw a cute girl. Or, in the case of Gabe, taking a shit.
Guess this is another example where not having an MBA is an asset.
But that assumes there is a easy way to separate the urea from the water and other things that flow down the sewer lines....
Of course there's an easy way. You have one line explicitly for liquid waste and another for solid waste. Problem solved!
I didn't say it would be cheap. I only gave an easy solution to the problem.
Classic example of that,
I'll give you another example. I have seen products with labels that say something to the effect, 'Assembled in (insert foreign country) of domestic parts'.
Just like your example, it's cheaper to produce the parts in this country, ship them to a foreign country where they're assembled, then ship back the completed item to this country for sale.
Makes you wonder who figured out this round-robin assembly process.
I don't suppose you never heard of the phrase, "Jack of All Trades, Master of None".
If you're going to use the quote, at least get it right:
Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than Master of one
That said, I do agree with you that having VLC do one thing, and do it right EVERY time, is a boon. When we have people who can't play a DVD, we put VLC on their machine and it works. Every time.
Unless they consider these people are still somehow considered members.
Of course they're* still members. You think just because a company goes bankrupt you're no longer part of their services? Oh no. It's like being part of AOL. Once you're in, you're in for life!
*Attention lazy slobs. Note the correct usage of they're. Not their or there. If you think you're** being cute, stabbing at the man for having rules and regulations, or thinking you're on the cutting edge of a new language paradigm, you're not.
**Attention lazy slobs. Note the correct usage of you're. Not your.
If the CTO of a corporation didn't realize a private company, contracted by the government, would not delete his personal information at his request, he shouldn't be a CTO.
ALL data, in whatever form, once in the hands of the government, its entities, subsidiaries and contractors, will exist essentially forever.
Let the age of Total Information Awareness rock on!
*wonders if Aladrin and elrous0 work in my location as both comments are spot on to the way things are in reality*
Working with people who do a job "just good enough", who don't bother documenting, who don't do follow-up, who are just plain lazy, I can attest to the fact that you do burn the good ones out.
What you are talking about is systematic destruction, removal of an option because you (or someone else) does not like it.
Which is still a choice. The couples may have wanted a child with a certain hair and eye color combination, but if subsequent testing showed that despite their choice the cells didn't take the choice and the parents decide not to have the child, the destruction of the cells is still a choice.
Choosing to destroy cells because they're not doing what you wanted them to do is still a choice.
Hell, when they can start letting you pick if you kid is going to be smart and/or athletic...are they gonna can that choice too?
Most likely, it reminds people of at least one country where the government wanted a specific type of person.* That, and if someone didn't like the eye/hair color, they would destroy the blob of cells which some people consider to be a person. And we all know the Pope's stand on this subject.
As far as picking the sex, there are numerous countries where a male child is wanted and if it's a girl, it is killed or sold. This of course has a distinct downside. See this story for tidbits of the situation.
*Funny how those who suffered the most are now demanding their own country be person specific with no "mixed blood".
Given that a driving licence is supposed to be proof of your ability to drive,
If that were true, at least 1/3 of the people in my area would be removed from the road for their inability to drive in something close to a safe or competent manner.
Exercise is like sex, when you're doing it your body is spewing dopamine, endorphins, and bodily fluids in all directions.
You mean I need to be vomiting, cumming and having explosive diarrhea to have sex? No thanks.
you could always go to North Korea.
Granted, there are a few other problems you'd have to deal with, just not light pollution.
did they pay this kid?
As a non-programmer, can someone give a brief explanation of what a garbage collector is as it pertains to programming.
Ignore my post. Jumped the gun. While I do have 2 keyboards, they are for IBM terminals and not adaptable for PC use.
*mumbles something about Alzheimer's creeping in*