Even a little bit of reading on Mayer reveals that while technically female, she is messed up mentally and fairly inhuman.
She's very likely the classic "sociopath at the top".
Under our current set of laws (and under laissez faire capitalism) sociopaths are very effective leaders except when they realize they can make more money killing a profitable company than keeping it alive.
I've seen the last case... it was like "Hmmm, if they live, I get 3 years salary for 3 years work.. but if I kill them, I get 3 years salary for 1 years work and then get to go somewhere else."
As a manager, the only way to really know if you are really utilizing your people is when they start failing. Otherwise, they might have more capacity.
If you have a set amount of work to do, then you can measure who is finishing the work with quality and efficiency but even those measures are ineffective because not all work is the same. So if it is repetitive work you can rotate it around and maybe catch the total gold brickers.
If you work with them on a daily basis and gather status from them - you can get some indication for who is doing a lot of work and who is not doing a lot of work. When we interviewed people said they had worked on 2-3 projects. At our company, on our team we were working 10-15 projects per person upper (management cut corners and missed a lot of SAP blueprinting) and we were graded on "all done or fail" basis.
Now... two things did happen.
1) After two years upper management laid almost everyone off (~80%) and brought in Infosys. The nasty bit... after two years of 70 hour weeks- we found out this had been in Legal for two years. I.e. they planned to use us up like batteries from the start and then toss us.
2) Of the 20% of the people retained. Over half are gone. The SAP project is stalled until Infosys comes up to speed. And the surprise was this: Infosys didn't have enough trained resources. I hear a lot of $200 an hour contractors have been brought in... sort of negating the savings of laying everyone off. I expect it will resume moving again in the summer.
So this is off topic from the remote worker (oh btw, they DID lay off every single remote employee while staffing up a bunch of people in india so watch out for being a remote employee because of the extra risk).
This is the third major company that has done this that I'm aware of so my advice is if your company is going to SAP and they bring in Infosys- there is a very high risk that the plan is to lay you off right after all the hard work unless you are on enterprise architecture.
The good news is- most of the people who god laid off found work in under 90 days working 45 hours a week. Moral: They should have left when management first called for them to work 70 hours unless they had been offered huge (and I'm talking a years salary) bonuses.
The bad did not do as much work as the local workers and would disappear for 15 minutes at a time. What were they doing? Going for a walk? Who knows.
The good had higher productivity than the local workers. Never saw much success with teams with too many remote workers. I'm sure it works great for brilliant people but for normal people, it was difficult to have adhoc meetings or expedite things.
Of course this was for working conditions with too much work. It was hard to do it locally (70 hour weeks). Almost impossible to do it remotely.
I think artificial estrogens from oil based pesticides are also to blame.
As is poor nutrition from "empty" foods like farm raised salmon vs wild salmon.
So multiple causes. But if you have a couple people who both have a hereditary problem and they use artificial means to reproduce, it's logical that their offspring is more likely to have problems too. And not improbable that the problems will be worse.
It's 1200 square feet + 500 square foot converted garage and a carport. And add another 500 square feet un conditioned patio and then another 200 square foot storage shed. It cost $68,000 in 1998 (and $155,000 today). Those built in 1950 were about 1200 sq feet but were on quarter acre lots because land was so damn cheap.
Your point is valid about smaller houses but 400 square feet is overdoing it a bit.:-)
And the car was new. At least my grandpa's was all the way back to 1946. New cars much more often than today. They drove all over the country in those cars too.
Agree on the appliances but add a spanking new 9" black and white TV and a refrigerator. Definitely a clothesline and iron.
Cold cereal, eggs and bacon - possibly at the K&P store counter.
You are probably right that the $3 doctor is that bad.
But the $12 doctor (as compared to our $50 doctor) is often equally trained and has a higher level of trained nursing staff.
You can go to india and china and guam and taiwan and get very high quality care for about 15 to 20% of the price as in the U.S. And stay in a luxury hotel quality hospital room for a couple weeks instead of being punted out after 3-4 days like in the U.S.
Sharpe said that whether or not the French study settled the debate over falling sperm counts, it was *unquestionable* that across northern Europe, *one in five, and perhaps more*, young men has a sperm count low enough to impair their fertility. That matters more today than 30 years ago, when women were having children at a younger age.
http://www.malehealthcenter.com/c_fertility.html Over the past 30 years, fertility among married couples in the U.S. has dropped dramatically. During the '60s, between 7 and 8 percent of couples reported problems conceiving; today that number has risen to between 25 and 30 percent.
No single cause can explain this decline, but it appears that average sperm counts have been falling over the past couple of decades. Again, medical science can't say exactly why sperm counts might be dropping, but we do know a number of things that can affect them:
So why care about the muddy picture, if babies are still being born? So far, there has been no global shortage of babies â" but in 30 percent of the cases of infertility, there is a male factor, said Wendie Robbins, a professor at the UCLA School of Nursing. Male infertility is suspected in about 70 percent of cases in Israel.
"Many times, there is just no cause that people can find for infertility," she said, adding that she was surprised how interested the men in a new study of hers were about increasing their fertility. "People underestimate how much men are interested in optimizing the possibilities for their offspring." (Robbins and colleagues recently found in a study partially funded by the California Walnut Commission that eating walnuts may boost sperm quality.)
Deonandan says there are two reasons why the sperm situation should be taken seriously. "If the decline is real, then an essential aspect of the human animal is being changed very rapidly in only a few generations," he told LiveScience.
It's worse than that. Our reproductive fitness is dropping rapidly.
We increasingly need a lot of assistance in order to procreate.
Every time someone uses fertility procedures to make a baby, that baby is very likely to have fertility problems.
Male sperm counts have dropped by 95% since 1900. However some of this is probably due to false estrogens from oil based pesticides so it might clear up whenever we stop using them.
This is somewhat true. I lived on half of what I made and bought a $80k house (now $155k with inflation) and was able to retire at 51. The last three years were brutal tho. 70-80 hour weeks or be fired.
If all we did was say you can't exempt employees who do not directly supervise at least three other employees, we'd probably drop 1% off of unemployment right there.
Fortunately... 12 million net extra boomers ( 24 million total) were born 1945-1953 and they are going to retire 2013 to 2020.
And actually a lot already retired in 2010 and 2011. Between 2001 and 2009 social security went up by 5 million people from about 28mil to 33 mil. In 2010 and 2011 social security went up by 5 million people from 33 mil to 38 mil.
It looks like half of people stop working by 60. Only 15% of men and under 10% of women keep working past 65 currently.. maybe they would keep working until 67 but companies are massively discriminating on age and abusing h1b's. In any case, most of that 10% and 15% working are in positio8s with low physical stress and high education requirements.
Also (at least in the U.S.) I'm not free to buy many products in other countries and bring them back. It's like I pay a 1000% tax because I live in america.
Not everything is marked up this much. TV type items seem to only be 100%.
Productivity has risen so much since 1950 that we should be able to work 4 hour days.
With automation and robotics, we have a time rapidly approaching when there won't be enough work to go around if we insist on full time. There isn't enough work to go around now with some people working 60 hours a week.
Listen- capital thinks they create jobs. But Henry Ford knew... it is people with money to BUY things that creates jobs. If you don't hire anyone in France at 1st world wages, pretty soon you won't be able to sell your expensive tires there. You'll have to sell them at the prices you sell them in China.
For comparison- movies that cost $20 in the US cost $2.50 in China. A visit to the doctor for $50 in the US runs $3 in China. Heart surgery that costs $100k in the US runs about $16k in China.
So if you don't hire french workers, pretty soon you'll have to sell your $20 tires with $2 profit for $3 dollars with $.30 cents profit.
At least they don't view I.P. addresses the same as a fingerprint any more.
That was a howler.
And yes, I agree that the heroic measures the leach is using point to illegal activity.
You might actually be able to inform the FBI or Homeland defense department about someone in your neighborhood going to great efforts to secretly use other people's wireless connections to hide the way they are using the internet.
Until new age discrimination laws are passed that actually have some teeth, this will continue.
And even when they are-- automation and robotics are ramping up to replace workers.
We are headed towards a potential paradise which is more likely to play out like hell.
Under 50% of humans will be needed to produce enough for everyone to live well.
But we won't give anything to the 50% who can't find a job producing.
And so it will be hellish and possibly lead to violence.
Should be okay through 2020. Labor is going to tighten up about 1 million a year through 2016 and then 2 million a year from 2017 to 2030. By 2020, enough extra people leave the workforce to completely erase the entire current unemployment rate (12 million).
I've been able to retire at 50.
a) I lived on half of what I made and saved the rest. b) I got a $150k house instead of a $250k house (actually got it for $68k back in 1998) c) I did NOT always keep a new car. d) Despite all that, and a couple good years in the market (+35%), I still didn't have enough until my mom passed. But a lot of us 50+ year olds have parents who are going to pass in the next 10 years.
The weird thing is-- once enough companies lay off people to hire cheap overseas labor, they are going to destroy their own market as no one will be able to buy their products. It should be deflationary on prices at the least. But-- the fed policies are going to lead to inflation eventually. Be interesting to see how those two forces balance each other out.
But seriously... by 2030- you should see many jobs performed by ordinary humans automated.... driving... landscaping... manufacturing... even fast food restaurants.
Because pot and cocaine are illegal and we aggressively prosecute crimes and imprison people. Once they've been imprisoned, it's very hard for them not to continue to be criminals- which means they get incarcerated again.
Pot should be legal as booze.
Cocaine should be legal via special dispensaries in licensed locations. i.e. picture a room at a club where you go, have a line of cocaine and you can't take the coke out of the room- if you do, the club loses it's license.
Our drug war consumes billions, ALSO puts billions of dollars into criminal gang hands, and incarcerates our citizens at higher rates than the rest of the world.
Pot is largely safe- if your family has a predisposition to psychosis you are looking at a 1.6% higher chance of developing psychosis.
Cocaine is largely safe- but can kill you on the first dose. Odds appear to be 1:10000. I'd never touch the stuff. BUT-- I worked with a room full of older consultants and had older relatives who did back in the 70's and 80's. Your odds of being badly messed up by cocaine are actually about the same as alcohol addiction- about 3-5%. And a large part of that is actually self medication for the constant dread from low testosterone that starts at age 43 in about 1/4 of all men. If you had hormone replacement therapy, the addiction rate for booze and cocaine would both be substantially lower (pretty much just people with real mental problems and with shitty childhoods).
He's right tho. It's literally impossible to have perfect justice
It's why we should not have the death penalty unless there is 100% certainty ( i.e. something like a video of you doing it AND you agree you did it and even then I tend towards imprisonment).
For lessor crimes, perfection is too high a standard. You can mess with the odds so it's 1:100, 1:1000, 1:10000 but then "Spire3661" is going to have to pay higher taxes for a more expensive justice system.
If you don't have a working justice system, then Spire3661 gets robbed, murdered or raped so a less than perfect justice system is better than no justice system.
This is the perfect example of the dilemma of higher expense for more accurate justice. A million euros is a lot of tax money.
It used to be part of the reason we had a death penalty too. It costs $31,000 per year for a non death penalty inmate. You don't have to pay for a person that's dead. But.. over the last 50 years, it's become very expensive to execute someone. So it's also cheaper to just put them away for life without parole. And if you were mistaken, you can let them out and give them some cash as compensation.
And I was able to legally get a copy through a work program for $10 bucks (complete package too- not just the student version).
I started back with version Openoffice 1.04... which sucked.and then went to 2.0 which sucked and then went to 3.0 which was kind of painful and then 3.1 came out and it wasn't too bad and then 3.2 came out and it was good. By the time i finished converting documents to it, I found it easier to use than the latest version of Microsoft office (which broke ALL the menu's I was used to).
Then 3.4 came out and it wouldn't PRINT some of the drawings I made. I could still export them to PDF and then print them- but it's annoying. And it's STILL not completely fixed in 4.0. Basically if you have transparency + bezier curves, you are screwed.
So I use 3.2 to print the drawings. I still find microsoft to be too annoying since they broke everything.
And it looks like they doubled down with Windows 8, breaking things even more.
I have to make a special effort to get gasoline. Every pump has "up to 10%".
But what started this curiosity was that back around 2003, after a couple years of getting 245-265 miles per tank, I suddenly got a little over 300 miles per tank. And the tank after that got over 265 miles.
I tried various ways to get back the mileage and none worked. Then I tried pure gasoline and the mileage was back over 300. We only have about 20-30 pure gasoline stations in this very big state however.
If they gave me a choice tho, it would be worth 30 cents more per gallon.
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Even a little bit of reading on Mayer reveals that while technically female, she is messed up mentally and fairly inhuman.
She's very likely the classic "sociopath at the top".
Under our current set of laws (and under laissez faire capitalism) sociopaths are very effective leaders except when they realize they can make more money killing a profitable company than keeping it alive.
I've seen the last case... it was like "Hmmm, if they live, I get 3 years salary for 3 years work.. but if I kill them, I get 3 years salary for 1 years work and then get to go somewhere else."
If you resign- no unemployment benefits.
As a manager, the only way to really know if you are really utilizing your people is when they start failing. Otherwise, they might have more capacity.
If you have a set amount of work to do, then you can measure who is finishing the work with quality and efficiency but even those measures are ineffective because not all work is the same. So if it is repetitive work you can rotate it around and maybe catch the total gold brickers.
If you work with them on a daily basis and gather status from them - you can get some indication for who is doing a lot of work and who is not doing a lot of work. When we interviewed people said they had worked on 2-3 projects. At our company, on our team we were working 10-15 projects per person upper (management cut corners and missed a lot of SAP blueprinting) and we were graded on "all done or fail" basis.
Now... two things did happen.
1) After two years upper management laid almost everyone off (~80%) and brought in Infosys. The nasty bit... after two years of 70 hour weeks- we found out this had been in Legal for two years. I.e. they planned to use us up like batteries from the start and then toss us.
2) Of the 20% of the people retained. Over half are gone. The SAP project is stalled until Infosys comes up to speed. And the surprise was this: Infosys didn't have enough trained resources. I hear a lot of $200 an hour contractors have been brought in... sort of negating the savings of laying everyone off. I expect it will resume moving again in the summer.
So this is off topic from the remote worker (oh btw, they DID lay off every single remote employee while staffing up a bunch of people in india so watch out for being a remote employee because of the extra risk).
This is the third major company that has done this that I'm aware of so my advice is if your company is going to SAP and they bring in Infosys- there is a very high risk that the plan is to lay you off right after all the hard work unless you are on enterprise architecture.
The good news is- most of the people who god laid off found work in under 90 days working 45 hours a week. Moral: They should have left when management first called for them to work 70 hours unless they had been offered huge (and I'm talking a years salary) bonuses.
The bad did not do as much work as the local workers and would disappear for 15 minutes at a time. What were they doing? Going for a walk? Who knows.
The good had higher productivity than the local workers.
Never saw much success with teams with too many remote workers.
I'm sure it works great for brilliant people but for normal people, it was difficult to have adhoc meetings or expedite things.
Of course this was for working conditions with too much work. It was hard to do it locally (70 hour weeks). Almost impossible to do it remotely.
Not me.
I think artificial estrogens from oil based pesticides are also to blame.
As is poor nutrition from "empty" foods like farm raised salmon vs wild salmon.
So multiple causes. But if you have a couple people who both have a hereditary problem and they use artificial means to reproduce, it's logical that their offspring is more likely to have problems too. And not improbable that the problems will be worse.
Dud... I live in a house built in 1955.
It's 1200 square feet + 500 square foot converted garage and a carport. And add another 500 square feet un conditioned patio and then another 200 square foot storage shed. It cost $68,000 in 1998 (and $155,000 today). Those built in 1950 were about 1200 sq feet but were on quarter acre lots because land was so damn cheap.
Your point is valid about smaller houses but 400 square feet is overdoing it a bit. :-)
And the car was new. At least my grandpa's was all the way back to 1946. New cars much more often than today. They drove all over the country in those cars too.
Agree on the appliances but add a spanking new 9" black and white TV and a refrigerator.
Definitely a clothesline and iron.
Cold cereal, eggs and bacon - possibly at the K&P store counter.
You really need to research medical tourism.
You are probably right that the $3 doctor is that bad.
But the $12 doctor (as compared to our $50 doctor) is often equally trained and has a higher level of trained nursing staff.
You can go to india and china and guam and taiwan and get very high quality care for about 15 to 20% of the price as in the U.S. And stay in a luxury hotel quality hospital room for a couple weeks instead of being punted out after 3-4 days like in the U.S.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/dec/05/sperm-count-fall-is-it-real
Sharpe said that whether or not the French study settled the debate over falling sperm counts, it was *unquestionable* that across northern Europe, *one in five, and perhaps more*, young men has a sperm count low enough to impair their fertility. That matters more today than 30 years ago, when women were having children at a younger age.
http://www.malehealthcenter.com/c_fertility.html
Over the past 30 years, fertility among married couples in the U.S. has dropped dramatically. During the '60s, between 7 and 8 percent of couples reported problems conceiving; today that number has risen to between 25 and 30 percent.
No single cause can explain this decline, but it appears that average sperm counts have been falling over the past couple of decades. Again, medical science can't say exactly why sperm counts might be dropping, but we do know a number of things that can affect them:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/sperm-study-declining-quality_n_1837200.html
This article provides some support for your position.
Some areas are experiencing declines in sperm count and quality but others are not.
As the article says...
So why care about the muddy picture, if babies are still being born? So far, there has been no global shortage of babies â" but in 30 percent of the cases of infertility, there is a male factor, said Wendie Robbins, a professor at the UCLA School of Nursing. Male infertility is suspected in about 70 percent of cases in Israel.
"Many times, there is just no cause that people can find for infertility," she said, adding that she was surprised how interested the men in a new study of hers were about increasing their fertility. "People underestimate how much men are interested in optimizing the possibilities for their offspring." (Robbins and colleagues recently found in a study partially funded by the California Walnut Commission that eating walnuts may boost sperm quality.)
Deonandan says there are two reasons why the sperm situation should be taken seriously. "If the decline is real, then an essential aspect of the human animal is being changed very rapidly in only a few generations," he told LiveScience.
It's worse than that. Our reproductive fitness is dropping rapidly.
We increasingly need a lot of assistance in order to procreate.
Every time someone uses fertility procedures to make a baby, that baby is very likely to have fertility problems.
Male sperm counts have dropped by 95% since 1900. However some of this is probably due to false estrogens from oil based pesticides so it might clear up whenever we stop using them.
There is a difference.
This is more like a human losing sensitivity to skunk or ammonia smells for the rest of their life... after smelling them once.
It is really more akin to some humans who have unhealthy very bad digestive systems until they get a stomach parasite infection.. once.
Then they are fine the rest of their lives.
Texas.
You can also get a chiro adjustment for $29 and Dentist cleaning + Xrays for $69.
This is somewhat true. I lived on half of what I made and bought a $80k house (now $155k with inflation) and was able to retire at 51. The last three years were brutal tho. 70-80 hour weeks or be fired.
If all we did was say you can't exempt employees who do not directly supervise at least three other employees, we'd probably drop 1% off of unemployment right there.
Fortunately... 12 million net extra boomers ( 24 million total) were born 1945-1953 and they are going to retire 2013 to 2020.
And actually a lot already retired in 2010 and 2011. Between 2001 and 2009 social security went up by 5 million people from about 28mil to 33 mil. In 2010 and 2011 social security went up by 5 million people from 33 mil to 38 mil.
It looks like half of people stop working by 60. Only 15% of men and under 10% of women keep working past 65 currently.. maybe they would keep working until 67 but companies are massively discriminating on age and abusing h1b's. In any case, most of that 10% and 15% working are in positio8s with low physical stress and high education requirements.
Year Births Retirement Deaths Immigration Using SS Y2Y Change SS VS Births
1935 2,155,105 2000 2,403,000 900,000 28,498,945 724,268 1,430,837
1936 2,144,790 2001 2,416,000 1,000,000 28,836,774 337,829 1,806,961
1937 2,203,300 2002 2,443,000 1,000,000 29,190,137 353,363 1,849,937
1938 2,266,900 2003 2,448,000 600,000 29,531,611 341,474 1,925,426
1939 2,265,598 2004 2,397,615 800,000 29,952,465 420,854 1,844,744
1940 2,229,100 2005 2,448,017 900,000 30,460,836 508,371 1,720,729
1941 2,328,000 2006 2,426,264 1,000,000 30,976,143 515,307 1,812,693
1942 2,577,300 2007 2,423,712 1,100,000 31,527,728 551,585 2,025,715
1943 2,664,300 Retire ~66
1944 2,500,500 2008 2,471,984 Pending 32,273,651 745,923 1,754,577
1945 2,421,200 2009 2,437,163 Pending 33,514,013 1,240,362 1,180,838
1946 2,900,900 2010 2,468,435 Pending 36,067,000 2,552,987 347,913
1947 3,229,500 2011 2,468,435 Pending 38,486,000 2,419,000 810,500
1948 3,021,700 2012 Pending Pending Pending Pending
Notably.. France had an even BIGGER baby boom than the U.S. which lasted until 1975.
And notably China also has a massive "worker age" crunch coming up.
Also (at least in the U.S.) I'm not free to buy many products in other countries and bring them back. It's like I pay a 1000% tax because I live in america.
Not everything is marked up this much. TV type items seem to only be 100%.
The movies have gone up fast. I read multiple articles saying they were $2.50 per dvd as recently as spring 2011.
Productivity has risen so much since 1950 that we should be able to work 4 hour days.
With automation and robotics, we have a time rapidly approaching when there won't be enough work to go around if we insist on full time. There isn't enough work to go around now with some people working 60 hours a week.
Listen- capital thinks they create jobs. But Henry Ford knew... it is people with money to BUY things that creates jobs. If you don't hire anyone in France at 1st world wages, pretty soon you won't be able to sell your expensive tires there. You'll have to sell them at the prices you sell them in China.
For comparison- movies that cost $20 in the US cost $2.50 in China. A visit to the doctor for $50 in the US runs $3 in China. Heart surgery that costs $100k in the US runs about $16k in China.
So if you don't hire french workers, pretty soon you'll have to sell your $20 tires with $2 profit for $3 dollars with $.30 cents profit.
At least they don't view I.P. addresses the same as a fingerprint any more.
That was a howler.
And yes, I agree that the heroic measures the leach is using point to illegal activity.
You might actually be able to inform the FBI or Homeland defense department about someone in your neighborhood going to great efforts to secretly use other people's wireless connections to hide the way they are using the internet.
This situation became inevitable.
Until new age discrimination laws are passed that actually have some teeth, this will continue.
And even when they are-- automation and robotics are ramping up to replace workers.
We are headed towards a potential paradise which is more likely to play out like hell.
Under 50% of humans will be needed to produce enough for everyone to live well.
But we won't give anything to the 50% who can't find a job producing.
And so it will be hellish and possibly lead to violence.
Should be okay through 2020. Labor is going to tighten up about 1 million a year through 2016 and then 2 million a year from 2017 to 2030. By 2020, enough extra people leave the workforce to completely erase the entire current unemployment rate (12 million).
I've been able to retire at 50.
a) I lived on half of what I made and saved the rest.
b) I got a $150k house instead of a $250k house (actually got it for $68k back in 1998)
c) I did NOT always keep a new car.
d) Despite all that, and a couple good years in the market (+35%), I still didn't have enough until my mom passed. But a lot of us 50+ year olds have parents who are going to pass in the next 10 years.
The weird thing is-- once enough companies lay off people to hire cheap overseas labor, they are going to destroy their own market as no one will be able to buy their products. It should be deflationary on prices at the least. But-- the fed policies are going to lead to inflation eventually. Be interesting to see how those two forces balance each other out.
But seriously... by 2030- you should see many jobs performed by ordinary humans automated.... driving... landscaping... manufacturing... even fast food restaurants.
A large part of the problem is that inflation has inflated what used to be misdemeanors into felonies.
Stealing $250 in 1961 was the same value as stealing $2500 today.
We've over criminalized minor crimes. If we don't start adjusting the limits, by 2060, 1961's $25 crime will be a felony.
Because pot and cocaine are illegal and we aggressively prosecute crimes and imprison people. Once they've been imprisoned, it's very hard for them not to continue to be criminals- which means they get incarcerated again.
Pot should be legal as booze.
Cocaine should be legal via special dispensaries in licensed locations. i.e. picture a room at a club where you go, have a line of cocaine and you can't take the coke out of the room- if you do, the club loses it's license.
Our drug war consumes billions, ALSO puts billions of dollars into criminal gang hands, and incarcerates our citizens at higher rates than the rest of the world.
Pot is largely safe- if your family has a predisposition to psychosis you are looking at a 1.6% higher chance of developing psychosis.
Cocaine is largely safe- but can kill you on the first dose. Odds appear to be 1:10000. I'd never touch the stuff. BUT-- I worked with a room full of older consultants and had older relatives who did back in the 70's and 80's. Your odds of being badly messed up by cocaine are actually about the same as alcohol addiction- about 3-5%. And a large part of that is actually self medication for the constant dread from low testosterone that starts at age 43 in about 1/4 of all men. If you had hormone replacement therapy, the addiction rate for booze and cocaine would both be substantially lower (pretty much just people with real mental problems and with shitty childhoods).
He's right tho. It's literally impossible to have perfect justice
It's why we should not have the death penalty unless there is 100% certainty ( i.e. something like a video of you doing it AND you agree you did it and even then I tend towards imprisonment).
For lessor crimes, perfection is too high a standard. You can mess with the odds so it's 1:100, 1:1000, 1:10000 but then "Spire3661" is going to have to pay higher taxes for a more expensive justice system.
If you don't have a working justice system, then Spire3661 gets robbed, murdered or raped so a less than perfect justice system is better than no justice system.
This is the perfect example of the dilemma of higher expense for more accurate justice.
A million euros is a lot of tax money.
It used to be part of the reason we had a death penalty too. It costs $31,000 per year for a non death penalty inmate. You don't have to pay for a person that's dead. But.. over the last 50 years, it's become very expensive to execute someone. So it's also cheaper to just put them away for life without parole. And if you were mistaken, you can let them out and give them some cash as compensation.
If you read the article, this was a series of events.
It's implausible that the DNA accidentally got on the scene multiple times.
I like the conspiracy angle. It puts them away for a while and shows them that they are not invulnerable.
Ironically, you can use Openoffice to fix broken Word documents.
You open them, then resave them as a word doc and that often fixes them.
If not- look for overlapping grey lines around images and text boxes. Changing it so the lines don't overlap often fixes crashes.
I use both.
Over time, I use microsoft office less and less.
And I was able to legally get a copy through a work program for $10 bucks (complete package too- not just the student version).
I started back with version Openoffice 1.04... which sucked.and then went to 2.0 which sucked and then went to 3.0 which was kind of painful and then 3.1 came out and it wasn't too bad and then 3.2 came out and it was good. By the time i finished converting documents to it, I found it easier to use than the latest version of Microsoft office (which broke ALL the menu's I was used to).
Then 3.4 came out and it wouldn't PRINT some of the drawings I made. I could still export them to PDF and then print them- but it's annoying. And it's STILL not completely fixed in 4.0. Basically if you have transparency + bezier curves, you are screwed.
So I use 3.2 to print the drawings. I still find microsoft to be too annoying since they broke everything.
And it looks like they doubled down with Windows 8, breaking things even more.
And lots of people can get it for under $100.
I have to make a special effort to get gasoline. Every pump has "up to 10%".
But what started this curiosity was that back around 2003, after a couple years of getting 245-265 miles per tank, I suddenly got a little over 300 miles per tank. And the tank after that got over 265 miles.
I tried various ways to get back the mileage and none worked. Then I tried pure gasoline and the mileage was back over 300. We only have about 20-30 pure gasoline stations in this very big state however.
If they gave me a choice tho, it would be worth 30 cents more per gallon.