I can't find statistics quickly enough, but I'll bet that more households go looking for a washing machine each year than go looking to buy solar panels. Let's see what happens when Joe Sixpack notices that the prices have jumped 30%.
Umm . . . is that maybe a different server on the same network? considering that everybody is using the same number format and routing and message format and all?
No, I don't think "only" "malpractice", I said WAY TOO TRIGGER-HAPPY. There is ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION that the "blue wall of silence" that descends after a police shooting is not just reprehensible and conduct unbecoming an officer, but a criminal conspiracy. There is NO QUESTION that policemen should be held accountable for their actions, especially when those actions violate basic protocols that I was taught in *wartime* - IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET so you don't shoot anyone you wouldn't definitely want to shoot (like your squadmates, or the squad off to your flank). From the story as published, there was no need to shoot yet just because someone's hand was near their waist, that's total bullshit - and we can judge from the fact that none of the other officers involved seemed to think there was any need to shoot, and they supposedly had the guy completely covered. This is clearly the failure of judgment of one policeman, and he should be judged for it.
That said, because we hire policemen to go into dangerous situations for the rest of us, we do need a category like "malpractice", along the lines of a surgeon: the patient dies, though the surgeon had all the best intentions, and witnesses and/or review can't point to any specific thing done wrong that led to the death. But for that to work, we also need ALL policemen to give a complete after-action report and not automatically hide and delay and deny that anything went wrong. The rules that an officer is not questioned for 24 or 48 hours after an incident don't make sense with the lessons of after-action debriefing techniques in other services.
I object to the words "prank" and "prankster". Ordering someone a double anchovy pizza is a "prank". Ordering them an armed SWAT team is incitement to riot.
Agreed, there are separate responsibilities. The 911 operators did nothing wrong, from what I've read. They simply passed along the information from, and reactions to, the call. The policeman on the scene did malpractice (at the least) in that he fired at someone whose hands were empty. The caller is the most guilty IMO precisely because he incited a riot - OK, a killing - with no more compunctions than a gamer machine-gunning pixels.
No. The SWATter *could* and probably *did* anticipate unreasonable actions by the police, because he had incited them with a lurid report of violence and mayhem. Yes, the policeman was way too trigger-happy and shot way too early, which is "malpractice" at the least. The swatter deserves death by slow torture.
It can't be a "completely different type of network" when it's the same reader of the same chips on the same wires. Yes, it's different OPERATING REGULATIONS. And the biggest problem is that the US banks didn't set up PINs like the entire rest of the world, so they'll have to gradually phase them in and confuse people *again*.
The puppet government led by the convert Herod, appointed by the Roman Senate and with the country under Roman Army occupation, executed a political troublemaker. If he was really a god, he shouldn't have been so killable.
Amen. In the generic sense of "What he said!" or "So say we all." As a member of a minority religion, I am very accustomed to accepting and returning holiday greetings that I do not celebrate, taking them as generally celebratory phrases rather than literal ones.
My wife's definition of "enough food for dinner" is what I call "hors d'oeuvres". Are we talking a minimalist 1200 calorie diet that only feeds fashion models, or enough for a football player?
Oh, it would have worked for years, but was not economically viable - it would always be a cost center, never pay for itself. The big newness (as others have pointed out) is that it's worthwhile now.
Announce your spying plans in public! Get everybody hot and bothered about them! And in the background, where people might not notice, do something else that really matters. Have you noticed that there's a tempest in a teapot about something stupid EVERY F'ING TIME something major goes down a few days later?
If someone goes to the trouble of actually tattooing the spelled-out Do Not Resuscitate instruction, then it's not stupid - it's what that person wanted. Why the hell would anyone tattoo themselves with something they don't want? Another poster refers to losing a bet; taking this as the stakes of a bet sounds pretty shortsighted.
I do embedded systems using an RTOS. I can track inputs at the same time as I'm updating a screen and communicating on three RS485 serial lines and a CAN line. How can Apple fail to keep up when they have about 8x as many cycles and 16x as much RAM as I have?
I have multiple email addresses under my real name - work, different email services - and two addresses using variants of "DutchUncle". At some point Facebook started trying to connect them together. Connecting information is their stated business.
Of course none of us use it. Of course we all know about MPC and VLC. But the old lady next door, and lots of other basic users (that I help) who just want to email their grandchildren and watch cat videos, will be confused and perhaps afraid that they broke something or they have a virus. Why remove it stealthily when you could have an excuse for MORE ads about the "new and improved" replacements (yes I know they aren't improved, that's why I put quotes around the obvious marketing line). Why treat your customers badly?
No. Multiple people have already posted why a unified bar is NOT better, including particularly sending whatever stuff I accidentally paste into the URL bar to a search engine. "the search results include your browsing history and URL entry history without sending any of that information to a 3rd party" - WRONG, they senD EVERYTHING to a third party. Pages are pages, searches are searches, how complicated is that? heck, originally I had to navigate to google.com before I could type in a search, now people think a separate section of the address bar is too complicated? You know, elevators are too complicated, so many buttons; let's remove all of those silly floor buttons from elevators, just go "up" and "down". Sounds stupid, right? So why should the entire software industry dumb down to the lowest possible level for the most ignorant users who don't know, and don't care, what the software even does?
Gee, it almost seems like males are less competent at many areas, and have to hide in the anonymity of such things as Anesthesiology and Radiology. Radiology is also known to be a fallback for people in medicine with poor color vision (or used to when X-rays were simple shades-of-gray), a population genetically dominated by males. Poor males.
>>> usually boils down to one of the individuals is an asshole and the other needs thicker skin.
Agreed. And just as the latter should get thicker skin, the former should STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE. For some strange reason, "being an assole" is assumed to be "just the way that person is".
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I can't find statistics quickly enough, but I'll bet that more households go looking for a washing machine each year than go looking to buy solar panels. Let's see what happens when Joe Sixpack notices that the prices have jumped 30%.
Umm . . . is that maybe a different server on the same network? considering that everybody is using the same number format and routing and message format and all?
No, I don't think "only" "malpractice", I said WAY TOO TRIGGER-HAPPY. There is ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION that the "blue wall of silence" that descends after a police shooting is not just reprehensible and conduct unbecoming an officer, but a criminal conspiracy. There is NO QUESTION that policemen should be held accountable for their actions, especially when those actions violate basic protocols that I was taught in *wartime* - IDENTIFY YOUR TARGET so you don't shoot anyone you wouldn't definitely want to shoot (like your squadmates, or the squad off to your flank). From the story as published, there was no need to shoot yet just because someone's hand was near their waist, that's total bullshit - and we can judge from the fact that none of the other officers involved seemed to think there was any need to shoot, and they supposedly had the guy completely covered. This is clearly the failure of judgment of one policeman, and he should be judged for it.
That said, because we hire policemen to go into dangerous situations for the rest of us, we do need a category like "malpractice", along the lines of a surgeon: the patient dies, though the surgeon had all the best intentions, and witnesses and/or review can't point to any specific thing done wrong that led to the death. But for that to work, we also need ALL policemen to give a complete after-action report and not automatically hide and delay and deny that anything went wrong. The rules that an officer is not questioned for 24 or 48 hours after an incident don't make sense with the lessons of after-action debriefing techniques in other services.
I object to the words "prank" and "prankster". Ordering someone a double anchovy pizza is a "prank". Ordering them an armed SWAT team is incitement to riot.
Agreed, there are separate responsibilities. The 911 operators did nothing wrong, from what I've read. They simply passed along the information from, and reactions to, the call. The policeman on the scene did malpractice (at the least) in that he fired at someone whose hands were empty. The caller is the most guilty IMO precisely because he incited a riot - OK, a killing - with no more compunctions than a gamer machine-gunning pixels.
No. The SWATter *could* and probably *did* anticipate unreasonable actions by the police, because he had incited them with a lurid report of violence and mayhem. Yes, the policeman was way too trigger-happy and shot way too early, which is "malpractice" at the least. The swatter deserves death by slow torture.
It can't be a "completely different type of network" when it's the same reader of the same chips on the same wires. Yes, it's different OPERATING REGULATIONS. And the biggest problem is that the US banks didn't set up PINs like the entire rest of the world, so they'll have to gradually phase them in and confuse people *again*.
Huh? The Romans suppressed native language and native religion everywhere they went. That's why half of Europe speaks "Romance" languages.
The puppet government led by the convert Herod, appointed by the Roman Senate and with the country under Roman Army occupation, executed a political troublemaker. If he was really a god, he shouldn't have been so killable.
Amen. In the generic sense of "What he said!" or "So say we all." As a member of a minority religion, I am very accustomed to accepting and returning holiday greetings that I do not celebrate, taking them as generally celebratory phrases rather than literal ones.
My wife's definition of "enough food for dinner" is what I call "hors d'oeuvres". Are we talking a minimalist 1200 calorie diet that only feeds fashion models, or enough for a football player?
It's a UPS for the ENTIRE COUNTRY.
Oh, it would have worked for years, but was not economically viable - it would always be a cost center, never pay for itself. The big newness (as others have pointed out) is that it's worthwhile now.
Announce your spying plans in public! Get everybody hot and bothered about them! And in the background, where people might not notice, do something else that really matters. Have you noticed that there's a tempest in a teapot about something stupid EVERY F'ING TIME something major goes down a few days later?
Wouldn't that be a stupid way to die.
If someone goes to the trouble of actually tattooing the spelled-out Do Not Resuscitate instruction, then it's not stupid - it's what that person wanted. Why the hell would anyone tattoo themselves with something they don't want? Another poster refers to losing a bet; taking this as the stakes of a bet sounds pretty shortsighted.
Are you aware that some people speak native languages other than English?
Who dropped Russia off the list of stories? Which news agency have you been ignoring the most lately?
I do embedded systems using an RTOS. I can track inputs at the same time as I'm updating a screen and communicating on three RS485 serial lines and a CAN line. How can Apple fail to keep up when they have about 8x as many cycles and 16x as much RAM as I have?
And why are we dumping our trash on their heads . .. . . . .
Do you drive a 16-year-old car? At some point it will cost more money to be renovating and repairing the ISS than it would to put up a new one.
I have multiple email addresses under my real name - work, different email services - and two addresses using variants of "DutchUncle". At some point Facebook started trying to connect them together. Connecting information is their stated business.
Of course none of us use it. Of course we all know about MPC and VLC. But the old lady next door, and lots of other basic users (that I help) who just want to email their grandchildren and watch cat videos, will be confused and perhaps afraid that they broke something or they have a virus. Why remove it stealthily when you could have an excuse for MORE ads about the "new and improved" replacements (yes I know they aren't improved, that's why I put quotes around the obvious marketing line). Why treat your customers badly?
No. Multiple people have already posted why a unified bar is NOT better, including particularly sending whatever stuff I accidentally paste into the URL bar to a search engine. "the search results include your browsing history and URL entry history without sending any of that information to a 3rd party" - WRONG, they senD EVERYTHING to a third party. Pages are pages, searches are searches, how complicated is that? heck, originally I had to navigate to google.com before I could type in a search, now people think a separate section of the address bar is too complicated? You know, elevators are too complicated, so many buttons; let's remove all of those silly floor buttons from elevators, just go "up" and "down". Sounds stupid, right? So why should the entire software industry dumb down to the lowest possible level for the most ignorant users who don't know, and don't care, what the software even does?
Gee, it almost seems like males are less competent at many areas, and have to hide in the anonymity of such things as Anesthesiology and Radiology. Radiology is also known to be a fallback for people in medicine with poor color vision (or used to when X-rays were simple shades-of-gray), a population genetically dominated by males. Poor males.
>>> usually boils down to one of the individuals is an asshole and the other needs thicker skin.
Agreed. And just as the latter should get thicker skin, the former should STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE. For some strange reason, "being an assole" is assumed to be "just the way that person is".