Which shows that officers aren't as likely as some to die on the job, it says nothing of how likely they are to be killed through intentional acts of directed violence. The parents stat that half were accidental also does nothing to clear up the issue. The original posting stated that officers sometimes die when situation get out of hand, I don't think he was talking about slipping in the shower at the station.
Perhaps you should set up your own fork then, because the prevailing mindset of the distros and the community as a whole seems to point towards greater simplicity and market penetration, neither of which will happen if the solution to security threats is "fix it yourself".
I hate track pads, glossy screens, and burning my legs, but that's the future of laptops at the moment.
Geneva IV as it has been interpreted by European courts essentially counts everyone who isn't a uniformed fighter a civilian to ensure that the basic human dignities are extended to as many people as possible.
By their definitions the U.S. could be argued to have more legal ground deploying the military to fight street gangs in Los Angeles than killing pirates, as street gangs are generally organized hierarchical units, clearly labelled, engaged in violence in the furtherance of other illegal acts, with territory in which they have recognized authority, legitimate or not.
On the other hand, most of the countries who engage in military actions these days are pretty good about making the laws say what they like, or say nothing at all.
1) Pretty sure intentional blinding is frowned upon, especially that under the Geneva Convention IV convention pirates (as well as insurgents) have been argued by some to be civilians.
2) Most nations have laws preventing their civilian shipping from being armed. Which is ridiculous, because you know what has more range, accuracy, and effect than a net launcher? A rifle.
I haven't lived in Germany, but I've listened to lectures from an MP and a member of the highest courts about the role of the parliament in their use of force for what it's worth.
The Parliament is almost entirely all powerful in most matters, this is seen as the way to make sure that the governance of the people is done in a democratic fashion as the people making all the choices are representative of the vote of the people. In name it's a "two key" system, although the members of parliament are happy to admit that their key is infinitely bigger. This becomes more interesting in our very recent past, when their courts (which are not elected) suddenly amended the constitution granting parliament a whole new range of powers in dealing with foreign policy that traditionally did not exist.
The biggest difference between Germany and the U.S. (and the U.K., France, Russia, China, and a host of others) is that the entire German governance is based explicitly on the rule of law. In a very real sense the actions of the first half of the 1900s have made them understandably hesitant to give any real power to their executives, or to make it too east to become embroiled in potentially violent situations. Nothing wrong there. What I take offence to, is the placing of a very broad definition of human dignity above the rights of the individual to to express their opinions. This of course was put into place to stop the persecution of weaker groups, but gives the parliament very broad powers to define what speech is offensive to society as a whole. The problem with this is that the criminalizing of divergent viewpoints has served to unite a lot of fringe viewpoints, and the very people that the rules were meant to stop have been gaining power because they feel there's no place for their views in the open.
The public results for most people aren't too terribly different, but the theory of what a good nation is and how to attain it are very different. I know the post is kind of scattered, but it's a broad question.
Speaking from my store (as that's the only one I'm intimately knowledgeable about) an average weekday would gross the store approximately $85K, a weekend closer to $120K, for the Christmas shopping season pop the numbers up about 30%, but take into account keeping the store open 2-3 more hours a day, adding 20-30 new employees (normally around 200 full and part time) as well as increased hours for all of the part timers who otherwise wouldn't be working on given days. Day after Thanksgiving would usually pull around $490K if you look at the numbers, it's not a make or break figure. Payroll hours are budgeted based on sales so if the store isn't making it's numbers people just get sent home. Some days are better than others, but the store is generally in the black. Being in a university town we got almost the same bonus from kids shopping for dorm furnishings, though that's a shorter season.
I'd be interested to know about smaller retailers that make up the low volume with higher margins though.
As someone who spent many years in retail, the Christmas season is a big money maker but it in no way accounts for the majority of any retailers profits. Calling it "Black Friday" is, for many retailers, an entirely recent thing and as best I know it's making reference to other days such as Black Tuesday for the panic and chaos associated with ever earlier opening and more stress and violence. Major retailers rarely operate at a loss, and they certainly didn't start while I've been in the job market.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
I think they could certainly make the argument that this constitutes aiding our enemies if they intentionally sold inferior products to the armed forces. The largest reason that treason is so rarely prosecuted is the requirement of witnesses, of which I can only imagine they could find a few here, which isn't required for espionage charges. That said, I don't think they'll charge them with treason, but I would argue that if they had a mind to there's nothing stopping them.
Yes, and if you have a fever and a headache there's a good chance you've "got swine flu" too, except that you've actually just got a really bad hangover and a prescription for Tamiflu.
That's the problem I've had with the explosion of reported cases of swine flu. From what I'm told the phone lines aren't even manned by anyone who works in the health care industry, and there's roughly a 100% chance that if you call in with anything remotely flu like you'll be a reported case of swine flu before you get off the phone.
I stated the mortality rate was almost twice as high for common cancers. Hoover states breast cancer at 88%, and prostate cancer at 604%, Manhatten states the UK average for all cancer mortality at 60% higher in men (45% vs 66%) They're stating two different things, but both refute your claim.
As for the French data, (which is your source by the way, taken from your link provided even if they graphed it wrong) I'm neither a statistician nor a medical doctor, though my first guess would be that the figures above are based on the five year prognosis of persons who have been diagnoses with cancer and are being treated, the French data merely states deaths.
As to your final comment I don't think anyone who's familiar with the rampent fraud (and everything close to it) would ever take the monetary figures on health care spending as any kind of useful data. I say that not to defend the system, we still pay more regardless, just to state that the numbers don't mean much more than that we're being defrauded. The superiority of the system is debateable, one cost more, one saves more lives. How much is a life worth? Not my question to answer. I just hope you accept that the UK has higher cancer mortality rates and stop posting otherwise.
I thought about that, then I remembered the two trucks full of explosives that were driven through these checkpoints and used to blow up two governement buildings full of people.
And, per TFA, you never know about all those times people drive past you with AKs in the trunk that you didn't find. Like gambling, one success erases every single huge glaring failure.
If you visit their historical museum they're pretty open about it being oil money during the gas crisis in the 1970s (before which there was next to nothing where Dubai currently sits), trade money from being a low tariff port through most of the 90s, and currently speculation and tourism. Seems pretty logical to me.
Take this as anecdotal, as it obviously is, but I've heard from multiple people serving in Iraq and Afganistan that one of the largest problems the've faced with the training of some of their replacements is convincing them of the neccessity to aim things like mortars. Obviously if it's the universe's will to find the bomb or to put the mortar on target why bother? It just makes me take a step back, fairly or not, for a moment to ask myself whether people putting their faith in a system (or war paint that makes them immune to bullets, potions that make them invincible, herbs that can see into the future) actually makes it effective.
Actually, there isn't. The mortality rate for common cancers such as prostate and breast cancer are almost twice as high in the UK. You don't even have to cherry pick search results! You will be satisfied that they do mention the early screening in the US, they also mention that 20% of treatable cancers become untreatable while sitting on waiting lists.
Sadly I couldn't find the article I was looking for that also shows that the UK has more deaths caused by coronary disease as well. Shucks.
Too bad it all broke down when you let the Scots start speaking it too and everyone else started calling it "British English". (Not that I think what the Scots speak is anything close.)
I hadn't noticed that anyone had replied to this so I hope you actually get a chance to read.
"Special tools" would be the measuring cups that I have seen that have gram measurements printed on the inside because as I said the volume of 100g of flour is different than the volume of 100g of rice. Since not everyone has scales to measure these things and even if they did it wouldn't be any faster unless you're particularly good at estimation I consider this a flaw in the way recipes are written in metric. Metric has a measurement of volume, why not use it?
Printing out a fake SS card would take me about 10 minutes. Printing out a fake SS card with a valid SSN that doesn't come back as a dead person is much much much harder. The U.S. government used to run a system that ran checks into this automatically, it was conveniently shut down for being far too effective.
One of the other results (the first one that comes up for me actually) claims that in testimony presented to Congress Postol's methodology was called out as flawed based on the fact that three or eight Patriots were launched at every incoming missle and his video analysis is done per interceptor fired completely ignoring the massive odds against more than one interceptor making a hit. The Isreali's independent analysis puts the success rate at 50%.
And to cook in metric you need special tools because 200g of rice isn't the same as 200g of flour. Of course it makes perfect sense to take a volume, convert it to a mass(calculated by weight), and then convert it back to a volume.
Neither of which is at all relevent to the story, and I hope we both get modded down.
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Which shows that officers aren't as likely as some to die on the job, it says nothing of how likely they are to be killed through intentional acts of directed violence. The parents stat that half were accidental also does nothing to clear up the issue. The original posting stated that officers sometimes die when situation get out of hand, I don't think he was talking about slipping in the shower at the station.
Perhaps you should set up your own fork then, because the prevailing mindset of the distros and the community as a whole seems to point towards greater simplicity and market penetration, neither of which will happen if the solution to security threats is "fix it yourself".
I hate track pads, glossy screens, and burning my legs, but that's the future of laptops at the moment.
Geneva IV as it has been interpreted by European courts essentially counts everyone who isn't a uniformed fighter a civilian to ensure that the basic human dignities are extended to as many people as possible.
By their definitions the U.S. could be argued to have more legal ground deploying the military to fight street gangs in Los Angeles than killing pirates, as street gangs are generally organized hierarchical units, clearly labelled, engaged in violence in the furtherance of other illegal acts, with territory in which they have recognized authority, legitimate or not.
On the other hand, most of the countries who engage in military actions these days are pretty good about making the laws say what they like, or say nothing at all.
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Actually armed men seem to do just fine. The only mistake they made was negotiating.
1) Pretty sure intentional blinding is frowned upon, especially that under the Geneva Convention IV convention pirates (as well as insurgents) have been argued by some to be civilians. 2) Most nations have laws preventing their civilian shipping from being armed. Which is ridiculous, because you know what has more range, accuracy, and effect than a net launcher? A rifle.
I haven't lived in Germany, but I've listened to lectures from an MP and a member of the highest courts about the role of the parliament in their use of force for what it's worth.
The Parliament is almost entirely all powerful in most matters, this is seen as the way to make sure that the governance of the people is done in a democratic fashion as the people making all the choices are representative of the vote of the people. In name it's a "two key" system, although the members of parliament are happy to admit that their key is infinitely bigger. This becomes more interesting in our very recent past, when their courts (which are not elected) suddenly amended the constitution granting parliament a whole new range of powers in dealing with foreign policy that traditionally did not exist.
The biggest difference between Germany and the U.S. (and the U.K., France, Russia, China, and a host of others) is that the entire German governance is based explicitly on the rule of law. In a very real sense the actions of the first half of the 1900s have made them understandably hesitant to give any real power to their executives, or to make it too east to become embroiled in potentially violent situations. Nothing wrong there. What I take offence to, is the placing of a very broad definition of human dignity above the rights of the individual to to express their opinions. This of course was put into place to stop the persecution of weaker groups, but gives the parliament very broad powers to define what speech is offensive to society as a whole. The problem with this is that the criminalizing of divergent viewpoints has served to unite a lot of fringe viewpoints, and the very people that the rules were meant to stop have been gaining power because they feel there's no place for their views in the open.
The public results for most people aren't too terribly different, but the theory of what a good nation is and how to attain it are very different. I know the post is kind of scattered, but it's a broad question.
Speaking from my store (as that's the only one I'm intimately knowledgeable about) an average weekday would gross the store approximately $85K, a weekend closer to $120K, for the Christmas shopping season pop the numbers up about 30%, but take into account keeping the store open 2-3 more hours a day, adding 20-30 new employees (normally around 200 full and part time) as well as increased hours for all of the part timers who otherwise wouldn't be working on given days. Day after Thanksgiving would usually pull around $490K if you look at the numbers, it's not a make or break figure. Payroll hours are budgeted based on sales so if the store isn't making it's numbers people just get sent home. Some days are better than others, but the store is generally in the black. Being in a university town we got almost the same bonus from kids shopping for dorm furnishings, though that's a shorter season.
I'd be interested to know about smaller retailers that make up the low volume with higher margins though.
As someone who spent many years in retail, the Christmas season is a big money maker but it in no way accounts for the majority of any retailers profits. Calling it "Black Friday" is, for many retailers, an entirely recent thing and as best I know it's making reference to other days such as Black Tuesday for the panic and chaos associated with ever earlier opening and more stress and violence. Major retailers rarely operate at a loss, and they certainly didn't start while I've been in the job market.
Wiki'd just in case.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
I think they could certainly make the argument that this constitutes aiding our enemies if they intentionally sold inferior products to the armed forces. The largest reason that treason is so rarely prosecuted is the requirement of witnesses, of which I can only imagine they could find a few here, which isn't required for espionage charges. That said, I don't think they'll charge them with treason, but I would argue that if they had a mind to there's nothing stopping them.
Yes, and if you have a fever and a headache there's a good chance you've "got swine flu" too, except that you've actually just got a really bad hangover and a prescription for Tamiflu.
That's the problem I've had with the explosion of reported cases of swine flu. From what I'm told the phone lines aren't even manned by anyone who works in the health care industry, and there's roughly a 100% chance that if you call in with anything remotely flu like you'll be a reported case of swine flu before you get off the phone.
Actually, there are fewer cancer deaths in the UK per capita than the USA.
Remember that? The topic I replied to?
Since all medical statistics seem to contradict each other
No, they all say your statement was false, each and evey one of them, including the link you provided.
I stated the mortality rate was almost twice as high for common cancers. Hoover states breast cancer at 88%, and prostate cancer at 604%, Manhatten states the UK average for all cancer mortality at 60% higher in men (45% vs 66%) They're stating two different things, but both refute your claim.
As for the French data, (which is your source by the way, taken from your link provided even if they graphed it wrong) I'm neither a statistician nor a medical doctor, though my first guess would be that the figures above are based on the five year prognosis of persons who have been diagnoses with cancer and are being treated, the French data merely states deaths.
As to your final comment I don't think anyone who's familiar with the rampent fraud (and everything close to it) would ever take the monetary figures on health care spending as any kind of useful data. I say that not to defend the system, we still pay more regardless, just to state that the numbers don't mean much more than that we're being defrauded. The superiority of the system is debateable, one cost more, one saves more lives. How much is a life worth? Not my question to answer. I just hope you accept that the UK has higher cancer mortality rates and stop posting otherwise.
The data they're citing is not reflected by the graph, nor does it agree with you.
http://www.irdes.fr/EcoSante/DownLoad/OECDHealthData_FrequentlyRequestedData.xls
I thought about that, then I remembered the two trucks full of explosives that were driven through these checkpoints and used to blow up two governement buildings full of people.
And, per TFA, you never know about all those times people drive past you with AKs in the trunk that you didn't find. Like gambling, one success erases every single huge glaring failure.
If you visit their historical museum they're pretty open about it being oil money during the gas crisis in the 1970s (before which there was next to nothing where Dubai currently sits), trade money from being a low tariff port through most of the 90s, and currently speculation and tourism. Seems pretty logical to me.
Take this as anecdotal, as it obviously is, but I've heard from multiple people serving in Iraq and Afganistan that one of the largest problems the've faced with the training of some of their replacements is convincing them of the neccessity to aim things like mortars. Obviously if it's the universe's will to find the bomb or to put the mortar on target why bother? It just makes me take a step back, fairly or not, for a moment to ask myself whether people putting their faith in a system (or war paint that makes them immune to bullets, potions that make them invincible, herbs that can see into the future) actually makes it effective.
Actually, there isn't. The mortality rate for common cancers such as prostate and breast cancer are almost twice as high in the UK. You don't even have to cherry pick search results! You will be satisfied that they do mention the early screening in the US, they also mention that 20% of treatable cancers become untreatable while sitting on waiting lists. Sadly I couldn't find the article I was looking for that also shows that the UK has more deaths caused by coronary disease as well. Shucks.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649#_edn1
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_wsj_american_cancer_care_beats_the_rest.htm
Too bad it all broke down when you let the Scots start speaking it too and everyone else started calling it "British English". (Not that I think what the Scots speak is anything close.)
I hadn't noticed that anyone had replied to this so I hope you actually get a chance to read.
"Special tools" would be the measuring cups that I have seen that have gram measurements printed on the inside because as I said the volume of 100g of flour is different than the volume of 100g of rice. Since not everyone has scales to measure these things and even if they did it wouldn't be any faster unless you're particularly good at estimation I consider this a flaw in the way recipes are written in metric. Metric has a measurement of volume, why not use it?
Printing out a fake SS card would take me about 10 minutes. Printing out a fake SS card with a valid SSN that doesn't come back as a dead person is much much much harder. The U.S. government used to run a system that ran checks into this automatically, it was conveniently shut down for being far too effective.
It doesn't in my terrarium.
One of the other results (the first one that comes up for me actually) claims that in testimony presented to Congress Postol's methodology was called out as flawed based on the fact that three or eight Patriots were launched at every incoming missle and his video analysis is done per interceptor fired completely ignoring the massive odds against more than one interceptor making a hit. The Isreali's independent analysis puts the success rate at 50%.
And to cook in metric you need special tools because 200g of rice isn't the same as 200g of flour. Of course it makes perfect sense to take a volume, convert it to a mass(calculated by weight), and then convert it back to a volume.
Neither of which is at all relevent to the story, and I hope we both get modded down.