I must have 15 different brands of LED's and CFL's.
2900k is oranger/pinker than incandescent bulbs.
3000k is the same (one brand G7 of LED bulb passes the double blind test with my friends- it was discontinued and some bulbs "buzz" but I've had good luck with them- but ANY 3000k CFL or LED bulb works.).
The 5000k light is too harsh/blue.
But they have a new 3500k at home depot (in red packaging) which produces a very nice quality of light.
Also, a 60 watt bulb is 850 lumens. Anything less isn't really 60 watts.
However... I've found I greatly prefer 900 lumens. I think it is an age thing as younger gamers in our group say it is too bright while those of us near 50 years old find 850 lumens to feel a little dim and 900 lumens to be just right.
Because several european countries are past the research phase and buying 100% of the output of the last breakthru solar (for another year or so too) and installing it in industrial scale solar power plants.
Don't forget your 8 "one day" holidays and two "floating" holidays. Doesn't feel like it- but that's 2 weeks.
And yup- companies increasingly deny vacations or only let you take them in small chunks. I got written up two years ago for taking 6 days in a row. The manager had strongly hinted i should only take 4 days in a row prior to the vacation.
No need to be humans. Be slaves and work 60+ hours a week, 49 weeks a year.
We are on a bad path. Robotics are going to make it worse when they should be making it better.
People do not have to work this hard to survive. When you work your entire life away- unless you love working- you basically didn't live. They took your entire life from you.
It's one of the best systems of slavery ever developed. The slaves are all eager and willing to work until they have black eyes and are dying at their desks before they are even 55 years old.
For bonus points, let's cut back retirement programs and make them work until 70 (if they can get a job) or until their bodies are unable to work any more (maybe disability- maybe out on the streets homeless to die an average of a decade earlier).
It's horrific how much our society has changed over the last 50 years.
Agreed on the first episode. They should probably remake it.
The second episode is only slightly better.
But then episode three starts hitting on all cylinders as a comedy.
And all the sudden, after that the character came alive (partially her acting of the character got better and plus the character grew up and the writing got better). The writers hit the line between goofy and cool more consistently.
There were still some over the line parts (like her ship breaking the way it did in the deathstar 2 bay) (but they seem to like it since they put it in their trailer- I thought it was a bit dumb).
The last episode was quite good tho still not professional level- it was better than the anakin skywalker episode 1,2,3 series (how could so many excellent actors be bullied in to acting so poorly in one series of films)
Despite the fact that lucas has sucked over time, his willingness to allow fan films has been a great positive.
I wish I could give you more. I think I recall that it is a metal resurfacing instead of a full out metal replacement. It's legal there but not here yet and it's clearly superior. It will take another couple years.
You already pay for it if you have health insurance.
And the cost of a person without insurance going to the emergency room or an infection can be $3000 to $4000. And they get such minimal treatment, they often come back a second time. Total bill $7k average.
Meanwhile... Same infection with health care goes to the doctor and gets a Z-Pack or other round of antibiotics. Total bill $300 average.
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The second approach makes a lot more fiscal sense.
Unless we develop the ability to let children, old people and pregnant ladies bleed out or suffocate on their own mucus and die outside of emergency rooms, the first line will be the case.
And that $7k bill goes into the bills of people who can pay or do have health insurance. So the cost of health care is ALREADY socialized. And very inefficiently and at a very high cost.
There is a much superior joint replacement technology available in India which is not yet legal in the US.
As a bonus, the cost of going to india, getting the operation with a dedicated registered nurse, spending two weeks in a luxury hotel afterwards, is less than your deductible and co-pay in the US.
One area where there is a more likely problem is with data selection. It's possible that college girls are more likely to make false accusations than the general population. So you can't extend the results of that one study to the general population.
However, the later comment of the prosecutor is in line with the study and would represent the general population.
However however, as I said, I've never personally known a female to falsely accuse a male of rape (tho I know of three who stopped taking birth control without telling their husbands or boyfriends and getting their agreement).
Of all the women I know well, one was raped and none have falsely accused anyone of rape. No woman I know well has been raped in my lifetime.
And i think you are ignoring a key point above so I'll repeat it.
Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2
--- I.e. FACED with a polygraph test, they suddenly said "I made a false accusation" or AFTER failing a polygraph test, they admitted they had made a false accusation.
So it doesn't really match your scenario above.
I think just like false paternity, that rape is not spread evenly across social groups. I do not seriously believe that 1/3 of the females who went to Harvard were raped.
Rape happens- it has happened in my family-- 40 years ago. A violent one. It's a terrible crime.
False accusations happen. Women have been caught making false accusations for a long time. That is an equally terrible crime. The man is violated and their life is destroyed, they lose their friends, possibly access to their children. The cost to a man falsely accused of rape is extremely high.
I agree with means testing for social security and medicare.
I also agree with the hard cap. It's just realistic. We probably have some kind of hard cap already- it's just hidden by paperwork. You can't spend 10 million bucks (or even 500,000 bucks) on every single medicare patient to give them an extra 90 days of life (or even an extra year of life).
I continue to disagree with you on defense spending. It's ridiculously, absurdly high.
I'll have to think on the state issue-- because people are very mobile over their lifetime and already they move to the most "retiree" friendly state. I.e., high income tax but low sales and property taxes unless they have a really high income- in which case it's a low income tax state. And of course over their life time many people have to move repeatedly just to find jobs. Plus states can fall on hard times just as their retirees reach retirement age. Several are talking about not paying promised retirement benefits. Hence- federal solutions.
There's some argument for making forced retirement accounts like you suggest- just because then unreasonable promises won't be made.
Anyway-- thanks again for a direct answer. That's rare out on the intertubes.:-)
False allegations of rape are believed to be more common than many persons realize. These are the findings of four research studies:
A review of 556 rape accusations filed against Air Force personnel found that 27% of women later recanted. Then 25 criteria were developed based on the profile of those women, and then submitted to three independent reviewers to review the remaining cases. If all three reviewers deemed the allegation was false, it was categorized as false. As a result, 60% of all allegations were found to be false.1 Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2
In a nine-year study of 109 rapes reported to the police in a Midwestern city, Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin reported that in 41% of the cases the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred.3
In a follow-up study of rape claims filed over a three-year period at two large Midwestern universities, Kanin found that of 64 rape cases, 50% turned out to be false.4 Among the false charges, 53% of the women admitted they filed the false claim as an alibi.5
According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, âoein about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI,... the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing.6 It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, and a DNA match alone does not prove that rape occurred. So the 25% figure substantially underestimates the true extent of false allegations.
And according to former Colorado prosecutor Craig Silverman, âoeFor 16 years, I was a kick-ass prosecutor who made most of my reputation vigorously prosecuting rapists.... I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department.... A command officer in the Denver Police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45%.â7
According to the FBI, about 95,000 forcible rapes were reported in 2004.8 Based on the statements and studies cited above, some 47,000 American men are falsely accused of rape each year. These men are disproportionately African-American.9
Some of these men are wrongly convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. Even if there is no conviction, a false allegation of rape can âoeemotionally, socially, and economically destroy a person.â10
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Is rape so common that it's 1/3? Before that 1/4 (the figure that was thrown around when I was growing up) seemed pretty high. No idea-- seems high to me unless you have a very expansive definition of rape- i.e. including where they get drunk or high and then decide afterwards they hadn't really given consent.
I know my female relatives pretty well and the number is more like 1 in 15 and they were all pretty wild and took risks. The one who was raped was doing nothing risky when it happened- she was just alone in an office and it was violent and ugly.
There was a period where there was a very high presumption that if the female made the accusation, then the male did it. I was a bit jaded and disillusioned when I started seeing the false report and recant rates listed up above.
A review of 556 rape accusations filed against Air Force personnel found that 27% of women later recanted. Then 25 criteria were developed based on the profile of those women, and then submitted to three independent reviewers to review the remaining cases. If all three reviewers deemed the allegation was false, it was categorized as false. As a result, 60% of all allegations were found to be false.1 Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2
In a nine-year study of 109 rapes reported to the police in a Midwestern city, Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin reported that in 41% of the cases the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred.3
In a follow-up study of rape claims filed over a three-year period at two large Midwestern universities, Kanin found that of 64 rape cases, 50% turned out to be false.4 Among the false charges, 53% of the women admitted they filed the false claim as an alibi.5
According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, âoein about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI,... the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing.6 It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, and a DNA match alone does not prove that rape occurred. So the 25% figure substantially underestimates the true extent of false allegations.
And according to former Colorado prosecutor Craig Silverman, âoeFor 16 years, I was a kick-ass prosecutor who made most of my reputation vigorously prosecuting rapists.... I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department.... A command officer in the Denver Police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45%.â7
According to the FBI, about 95,000 forcible rapes were reported in 2004.8 Based on the statements and studies cited above, some 47,000 American men are falsely accused of rape each year. These men are disproportionately African-American.9
Some of these men are wrongly convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. Even if there is no conviction, a false allegation of rape can âoeemotionally, socially, and economically destroy a person.â10
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Dash Cams, Polygraph Machines, and other Recording devices. Because humans lie. Eyewitnesses misremember.
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I work for a fortune 500 company.
I must have 15 different brands of LED's and CFL's.
2900k is oranger/pinker than incandescent bulbs.
3000k is the same (one brand G7 of LED bulb passes the double blind test with my friends- it was discontinued and some bulbs "buzz" but I've had good luck with them- but ANY 3000k CFL or LED bulb works.).
The 5000k light is too harsh/blue.
But they have a new 3500k at home depot (in red packaging) which produces a very nice quality of light.
Also, a 60 watt bulb is 850 lumens. Anything less isn't really 60 watts.
However... I've found I greatly prefer 900 lumens. I think it is an age thing as younger gamers in our group say it is too bright while those of us near 50 years old find 850 lumens to feel a little dim and 900 lumens to be just right.
This.
The dream is that developers do not have access to production.
The reality is that PRODUCTION IS NOT DEV.
Companies will not pay the money needed to have dev be a copy of production.
They cut budgets and corners left and right and then schedules. Be creative! Work smarter not harder! Do more with less!
And then they put a 5 day procedure over getting access to production debug mode which requires approval by a half dozen people.
And then scream as the business loses customers who it would not have lost in the past.
We have 70 production environments... the company decided that test would have data from 1 production environment. The results have been as expected.
Aye! This!
Because several european countries are past the research phase and buying 100% of the output of the last breakthru solar (for another year or so too) and installing it in industrial scale solar power plants.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/freeze-drying2.htm
Best I could find that wasn't a freeze dried food sales site (and so suspect).
It says freeze dried food is good for "years and years".
It hasn't been comfortable since we passed 3 billion.
Not really on the robots.
You lease them and they are swapped out instead of repaired. Designed modularly- the broken robot modules can be replaced by another robot.
Really... a singularity type event is on the way. Robots are getting very close to as good as humans and they are cheaper than humans already.
If a phone is made in the USA today, it will be mostly built by robots with only a few humans involved in the process.
Any labor intensive parts that couldn't be done by a robot, will be done over seas.
Otherwise the phones would be 100 to 300 dollars more expensive.
I'd get a kick out of starting projects that way on the internet.
Don't forget your 8 "one day" holidays and two "floating" holidays. Doesn't feel like it- but that's 2 weeks.
And yup- companies increasingly deny vacations or only let you take them in small chunks. I got written up two years ago for taking 6 days in a row. The manager had strongly hinted i should only take 4 days in a row prior to the vacation.
Most "primitive" native tribes "work" about 3 hours a day each.
No need to be humans. Be slaves and work 60+ hours a week, 49 weeks a year.
We are on a bad path.
Robotics are going to make it worse when they should be making it better.
People do not have to work this hard to survive. When you work your entire life away- unless you love working- you basically didn't live. They took your entire life from you.
It's one of the best systems of slavery ever developed. The slaves are all eager and willing to work until they have black eyes and are dying at their desks before they are even 55 years old.
For bonus points, let's cut back retirement programs and make them work until 70 (if they can get a job) or until their bodies are unable to work any more (maybe disability- maybe out on the streets homeless to die an average of a decade earlier).
It's horrific how much our society has changed over the last 50 years.
I know... why did they make any new Sherlock Holmes films after Basil Rathbone?
And what's up with the new british version of Sherlock?
Sure it's good.. but they could have made up something new instead.
The same could be said for Robert Downy Jr. as Sherlock Holmes.
Entertaining-- yes-- but original?
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Actually re-examining the works from different angles, with different constraints, can be interesting.
Hrrmmm, An anonymous person acting like a douche, new that is.
ftfy
Agreed on the first episode. They should probably remake it.
The second episode is only slightly better.
But then episode three starts hitting on all cylinders as a comedy.
And all the sudden, after that the character came alive (partially her acting of the character got better and plus the character grew up and the writing got better). The writers hit the line between goofy and cool more consistently.
There were still some over the line parts (like her ship breaking the way it did in the deathstar 2 bay) (but they seem to like it since they put it in their trailer- I thought it was a bit dumb).
The last episode was quite good tho still not professional level- it was better than the anakin skywalker episode 1,2,3 series (how could so many excellent actors be bullied in to acting so poorly in one series of films)
Despite the fact that lucas has sucked over time, his willingness to allow fan films has been a great positive.
And if a corporation is a person, shouldn't it go to jail when it breaks the law instead of always just fined?
If a corporation steals something- put the corporation in jail for 90 days.
If a corporation kills someone- execute it or put it in jail for "life" (since corporations are immortal- it's a death penalty for a corporation.)
I wish I could give you more.
I think I recall that it is a metal resurfacing instead of a full out metal replacement.
It's legal there but not here yet and it's clearly superior. It will take another couple years.
You already pay for it if you have health insurance.
And the cost of a person without insurance going to the emergency room or an infection can be $3000 to $4000. And they get such minimal treatment, they often come back a second time. Total bill $7k average.
Meanwhile...
Same infection with health care goes to the doctor and gets a Z-Pack or other round of antibiotics. Total bill $300 average.
---
The second approach makes a lot more fiscal sense.
Unless we develop the ability to let children, old people and pregnant ladies bleed out or suffocate on their own mucus and die outside of emergency rooms, the first line will be the case.
And that $7k bill goes into the bills of people who can pay or do have health insurance.
So the cost of health care is ALREADY socialized. And very inefficiently and at a very high cost.
There is a much superior joint replacement technology available in India which is not yet legal in the US.
As a bonus, the cost of going to india, getting the operation with a dedicated registered nurse, spending two weeks in a luxury hotel afterwards, is less than your deductible and co-pay in the US.
One area where there is a more likely problem is with data selection.
It's possible that college girls are more likely to make false accusations than the general population. So you can't extend the results of that one study to the general population.
However, the later comment of the prosecutor is in line with the study and would represent the general population.
However however, as I said, I've never personally known a female to falsely accuse a male of rape (tho I know of three who stopped taking birth control without telling their husbands or boyfriends and getting their agreement).
Believe what you want.
It's just facts to me.
Of all the women I know well, one was raped and none have falsely accused anyone of rape. No woman I know well has been raped in my lifetime.
And i think you are ignoring a key point above so I'll repeat it.
Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2
---
I.e. FACED with a polygraph test, they suddenly said "I made a false accusation" or AFTER failing a polygraph test, they admitted they had made a false accusation.
So it doesn't really match your scenario above.
I think just like false paternity, that rape is not spread evenly across social groups.
I do not seriously believe that 1/3 of the females who went to Harvard were raped.
Rape happens- it has happened in my family-- 40 years ago. A violent one.
It's a terrible crime.
False accusations happen. Women have been caught making false accusations for a long time. That is an equally terrible crime. The man is violated and their life is destroyed, they lose their friends, possibly access to their children. The cost to a man falsely accused of rape is extremely high.
Thanks,
It looks like we have some points of agreement.
I agree with means testing for social security and medicare.
I also agree with the hard cap. It's just realistic. We probably have some kind of hard cap already- it's just hidden by paperwork. You can't spend 10 million bucks (or even 500,000 bucks) on every single medicare patient to give them an extra 90 days of life (or even an extra year of life).
I continue to disagree with you on defense spending. It's ridiculously, absurdly high.
I'll have to think on the state issue-- because people are very mobile over their lifetime and already they move to the most "retiree" friendly state. I.e., high income tax but low sales and property taxes unless they have a really high income- in which case it's a low income tax state. And of course over their life time many people have to move repeatedly just to find jobs. Plus states can fall on hard times just as their retirees reach retirement age. Several are talking about not paying promised retirement benefits.
Hence- federal solutions.
There's some argument for making forced retirement accounts like you suggest- just because then unreasonable promises won't be made.
Anyway-- thanks again for a direct answer. That's rare out on the intertubes. :-)
This is a repeat but it's a cite and you asked for it.
Especially note where the women formally recanted.
http://www.mediaradar.org/research_on_false_rape_allegations.php
False allegations of rape are believed to be more common than many persons realize. These are the findings of four research studies:
A review of 556 rape accusations filed against Air Force personnel found that 27% of women later recanted. Then 25 criteria were developed based on the profile of those women, and then submitted to three independent reviewers to review the remaining cases. If all three reviewers deemed the allegation was false, it was categorized as false. As a result, 60% of all allegations were found to be false.1 Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2 ... the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing.6 It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, and a DNA match alone does not prove that rape occurred. So the 25% figure substantially underestimates the true extent of false allegations.
In a nine-year study of 109 rapes reported to the police in a Midwestern city, Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin reported that in 41% of the cases the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred.3
In a follow-up study of rape claims filed over a three-year period at two large Midwestern universities, Kanin found that of 64 rape cases, 50% turned out to be false.4 Among the false charges, 53% of the women admitted they filed the false claim as an alibi.5
According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, âoein about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI,
And according to former Colorado prosecutor Craig Silverman, âoeFor 16 years, I was a kick-ass prosecutor who made most of my reputation vigorously prosecuting rapists. ... I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department. ... A command officer in the Denver Police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45%.â7
According to the FBI, about 95,000 forcible rapes were reported in 2004.8 Based on the statements and studies cited above, some 47,000 American men are falsely accused of rape each year. These men are disproportionately African-American.9
Some of these men are wrongly convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. Even if there is no conviction, a false allegation of rape can âoeemotionally, socially, and economically destroy a person.â10
---
Is rape so common that it's 1/3? Before that 1/4 (the figure that was thrown around when I was growing up) seemed pretty high. No idea-- seems high to me unless you have a very expansive definition of rape- i.e. including where they get drunk or high and then decide afterwards they hadn't really given consent.
I know my female relatives pretty well and the number is more like 1 in 15 and they were all pretty wild and took risks. The one who was raped was doing nothing risky when it happened- she was just alone in an office and it was violent and ugly.
There was a period where there was a very high presumption that if the female made the accusation, then the male did it. I was a bit jaded and disillusioned when I started seeing the false report and recant rates listed up above.
http://www.mediaradar.org/research_on_false_rape_allegations.php
False allegations of rape are believed to be more common than many persons realize. These are the findings of four research studies:
A review of 556 rape accusations filed against Air Force personnel found that 27% of women later recanted. Then 25 criteria were developed based on the profile of those women, and then submitted to three independent reviewers to review the remaining cases. If all three reviewers deemed the allegation was false, it was categorized as false. As a result, 60% of all allegations were found to be false.1 Of those women who later recanted, many didn't admit the allegation was false until just before taking a polygraph test. Others admitted it was false only after having failed a polygraph test.2 ... the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing.6 It should be noted that rape involves a forcible and non-consensual act, and a DNA match alone does not prove that rape occurred. So the 25% figure substantially underestimates the true extent of false allegations.
In a nine-year study of 109 rapes reported to the police in a Midwestern city, Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin reported that in 41% of the cases the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred.3
In a follow-up study of rape claims filed over a three-year period at two large Midwestern universities, Kanin found that of 64 rape cases, 50% turned out to be false.4 Among the false charges, 53% of the women admitted they filed the false claim as an alibi.5
According to a 1996 Department of Justice report, âoein about 25% of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI,
And according to former Colorado prosecutor Craig Silverman, âoeFor 16 years, I was a kick-ass prosecutor who made most of my reputation vigorously prosecuting rapists. ... I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department. ... A command officer in the Denver Police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45%.â7
According to the FBI, about 95,000 forcible rapes were reported in 2004.8 Based on the statements and studies cited above, some 47,000 American men are falsely accused of rape each year. These men are disproportionately African-American.9
Some of these men are wrongly convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned. Even if there is no conviction, a false allegation of rape can âoeemotionally, socially, and economically destroy a person.â10
----
Dash Cams, Polygraph Machines, and other Recording devices. Because humans lie.
Eyewitnesses misremember.