At least my coin flip gets it right 50% of the time. If they have negative predictive power, does that mean we can simply invert all their predictions and be right 70% of the time? snerk...;)
Some of us don't fit well onto your one-dimensional political scale. My personal opinions dont stick me in a corner with any group I've been able to identify. I'd rather not pigeonhole myself that way, either. Some of us like to take views from as many sides as we can get, do our own analysis, and compare. This doesn't make me a "moderate"; it makes me a person with my own, informed, opinion. If liberal, conservative, and moderate were indeed used in their very most basic dictionary definitions, I might fit in somewhere--but you and I both know that those words are heavily overloaded with secondary connotations.
I don't think it's really a government problem, either. I did suggest social solutions, ones to be implemented at the level of the individual or a business owner. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that, as much as I dislike the implications, the technology is here to stay, and we'll be forced to adapt much sooner than 20 years from now.
This is the adjustment phase, where people get in bar brawls, shopkeepers put up signs, legislators argue, inventors invent countermeasures...and eventually we'll be in the acceptance phase. What that will be like, I really can't say (sorry, my oracle is broken). I do think that beating people up over it isn't very productive, however.
Technological countermeasures are likely to be the only thing (short of government intervention, which I haven't recommended) preventing individual instances of being "glassed", but I think they're unlikely to be adopted in the long-term.
Whoosh. When you beat THEM up, and THEY whine, the government goes after YOU, not THEM. That's why you don't martyr them. You think the government is against the idea of people walking around with these all the time, sending data over networks they can tap? It's one of the best presents they could've asked for, and you want to take it away? Good luck not going to jail...
Do the rest of humanity a favor and stop asking people to make assumptions, especially FUD assumptions. The parent has experience with this person above--why should they change their opinion of their ability and performance in the workplace?
More importantly, the poster DID NOT say they "choose to believe that this particular person was never a criminal" but rather that the charge is so common as to be virtually useless for assignment of actual guilt, without further information. To take ANY side AT ALL, either for or against, without further evidence beyond the name of the charge and the inclusion on the sex offendor registry, is to make an assumption. The parent, presumably, was not present at the trial, and so would not have been exposed to that information.
DO NOT interpret this as a defense of anyone in particular. This is a defense of the idea that you should not make assumptions about a person based on incomplete evidence. Otherwise, you're lumping in high school kids dating each other with violent rapists and middle aged people molesting children.
It is illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit money.
It is overbroad to suggest that it is illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit money. See North Korea vs. United States. Perhaps you meant it's illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit its own money? Even then, a government might choose to counterfeit their own money (poorly, perhaps) to discredit another nation (false flag attack). That is a contrived scenario, but meant to illustrate your comment was far too broadly stated.
Intaglio does NOT engrave the NOTE. With intaglio, the PLATE is etched, and the ink deposited into the depressed/etched areas. The PAPER is then laid over it, and a roller is used to make contact between the paper and the upper surface of the ink. The paper pulls the ink away from the plate, leaving a raised layer of ink on the paper. You may perhaps be thinking of embossing or debossing, where the surface of the paper itself is altered.
Embossing alters the surface of the paper, while intaglio deposits ink on the surface. They can be used to achieve similar effects, but they are NOT the same process. One results in a non-flat surface stock, inks later used being irrelevant to the process in general, and the other results in a flat stock with a layer of ink sitting atop the flat stock.
It's good that you recognize it finally. But a more apt analogy is that everyone drives to work in a car, and you drive a tank down the middle of the road.
Some of us still use AIM as a primary means of communication. It's common, and supports OTR out-of-the-box for several clients, making it the easiest way to convince non-technical users to encrypt their chats.
You speak up. Repeatedly, over and over again. You work laboriously for the Dept. of Redundancy Dept. to tell people the message you believe in, and you hope someone agrees with you. If it really is madness, it will come to a head and solve itself--so long as people are willing to speak out and persuade their fellows.
Personally, I feel that we should hold government employees, especially law enforcement, and corporations to a HIGHER standard, with HIGHER penalties. With great power comes great responsibility and great consequences.
Ask the Ukrainians how that's going. The Berkut have been attacking infirmaries, Red Cross aid stations, shooting medics, and kidnapping patients. They took a boy and raped him with a knife in his ass. Another video shows a man being forced to pose naked in the snow in different poses, surrounded by jackboots taking pictures and jeering. They shot a young man with an armor piercing round not intended for humans. Snipers have shot protestors. The Berkut have set ambushes, including fake calls for help, where they would attack the responders. The death toll continues to climb. This is all going on RIGHT NOW. You can watch videos of these things on YouTube, you can watch live feeds from local TV crews online.
Why the hell would you care how much someone had? It should be legal. Why can't you grow it in your garden out back? Why can't you have a jungle of it? Being a dealer should not be criminal. Make it legal and then insist that they pay their income tax like everyone else. Worked to get Al Capone. (Oh, but then the economy would stagnate and we'd lose all this prison revenue! Can't have that happen...)
As for that firearm, causality addresses that point:
In many US states, an otherwise perfectly legal firearm becomes an illegal firearm the moment a person is in possion of both it and some weed.
In 1986, Tom King, Director of the University of Nevada Oral History Program, interviewed several men who had labored on the construction of Hoover Dam that told him a number of bodies lie buried in it. "These stories were made somewhat plausible by the authority of the tellers, themselves dam workers, and by our knowledge that building the dam was indeed an extremely hazardous enterprise," according to King, "however, further questioning revealed that none of the storytellers had actually witnessed such a tragedy or knew the identity of any of the victims. This was not surprising: the tellers believed what they were saying, but their stories were folklore--there are no bodies in the dam."
Actually, the dam was poured in relatively small sections, so about all a fallen worker had to do to get his face clear of the rising concrete was to stand up. Officially, 96 dam workers died of various causes, and 112 persons unofficially, but none were permanently buried in concrete.
The closest any worker came to being buried was on November 8, 1933 when the wall of a form collapsed sending hundreds of tons of recently-poured concrete tumbling down the face of the dam. One worker below narrowly escaped with his life, however W.A. Jameson was not so lucky and was covered by the rain of debris. Jameson was the only man ever buried in Hoover Dam, and he was interred for just 16 hours before his body was recovered. His remains were shipped to Rock Hill, South Carolina, where a brother and sister lived.
A structural engineer interviewed for a Discovery Channel documentary on Hoover Dam argued that it would be sheer folly to leave a worker buried in the dam. A decomposing body would jeopardize the dam's structural integrity and risk the multi-million dollar project including property and lives downstream on the Colorado River.
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At least my coin flip gets it right 50% of the time. If they have negative predictive power, does that mean we can simply invert all their predictions and be right 70% of the time? snerk... ;)
This is a stupid question; I whooshed on the joke. Can someone explain it to me, please?
Some of us don't fit well onto your one-dimensional political scale. My personal opinions dont stick me in a corner with any group I've been able to identify. I'd rather not pigeonhole myself that way, either. Some of us like to take views from as many sides as we can get, do our own analysis, and compare. This doesn't make me a "moderate"; it makes me a person with my own, informed, opinion. If liberal, conservative, and moderate were indeed used in their very most basic dictionary definitions, I might fit in somewhere--but you and I both know that those words are heavily overloaded with secondary connotations.
I don't think it's really a government problem, either. I did suggest social solutions, ones to be implemented at the level of the individual or a business owner. Frankly, I'm of the opinion that, as much as I dislike the implications, the technology is here to stay, and we'll be forced to adapt much sooner than 20 years from now.
This is the adjustment phase, where people get in bar brawls, shopkeepers put up signs, legislators argue, inventors invent countermeasures...and eventually we'll be in the acceptance phase. What that will be like, I really can't say (sorry, my oracle is broken). I do think that beating people up over it isn't very productive, however.
Technological countermeasures are likely to be the only thing (short of government intervention, which I haven't recommended) preventing individual instances of being "glassed", but I think they're unlikely to be adopted in the long-term.
And you would have suggestions on how to implement that sharp yank with any actual effectiveness?
Crickets.
And lost puppies and kitties up trees! Won't someone think of the puppies?
Whoosh. When you beat THEM up, and THEY whine, the government goes after YOU, not THEM. That's why you don't martyr them. You think the government is against the idea of people walking around with these all the time, sending data over networks they can tap? It's one of the best presents they could've asked for, and you want to take it away? Good luck not going to jail...
Do the rest of humanity a favor and stop asking people to make assumptions, especially FUD assumptions. The parent has experience with this person above--why should they change their opinion of their ability and performance in the workplace?
More importantly, the poster DID NOT say they "choose to believe that this particular person was never a criminal" but rather that the charge is so common as to be virtually useless for assignment of actual guilt, without further information. To take ANY side AT ALL, either for or against, without further evidence beyond the name of the charge and the inclusion on the sex offendor registry, is to make an assumption. The parent, presumably, was not present at the trial, and so would not have been exposed to that information.
DO NOT interpret this as a defense of anyone in particular. This is a defense of the idea that you should not make assumptions about a person based on incomplete evidence. Otherwise, you're lumping in high school kids dating each other with violent rapists and middle aged people molesting children.
And preferably that rotate between those faces and randomly generated other ones every few minutes, to really screw with the tracking.
No photos? You even have a Wiki page!
Try any gas station in New England during the winter. You can pick one up for a buck.
With ubiquity comes desensitization.
It is illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit money.
It is overbroad to suggest that it is illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit money. See North Korea vs. United States. Perhaps you meant it's illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit its own money? Even then, a government might choose to counterfeit their own money (poorly, perhaps) to discredit another nation (false flag attack). That is a contrived scenario, but meant to illustrate your comment was far too broadly stated.
Intaglio does NOT engrave the NOTE. With intaglio, the PLATE is etched, and the ink deposited into the depressed/etched areas. The PAPER is then laid over it, and a roller is used to make contact between the paper and the upper surface of the ink. The paper pulls the ink away from the plate, leaving a raised layer of ink on the paper. You may perhaps be thinking of embossing or debossing, where the surface of the paper itself is altered.
Embossing alters the surface of the paper, while intaglio deposits ink on the surface. They can be used to achieve similar effects, but they are NOT the same process. One results in a non-flat surface stock, inks later used being irrelevant to the process in general, and the other results in a flat stock with a layer of ink sitting atop the flat stock.
Well said, sir.
Literally.
It's good that you recognize it finally. But a more apt analogy is that everyone drives to work in a car, and you drive a tank down the middle of the road.
Some of us still use AIM as a primary means of communication. It's common, and supports OTR out-of-the-box for several clients, making it the easiest way to convince non-technical users to encrypt their chats.
Politicians lie and you can't believe a word out of their mouth. News at 11.
You speak up. Repeatedly, over and over again. You work laboriously for the Dept. of Redundancy Dept. to tell people the message you believe in, and you hope someone agrees with you. If it really is madness, it will come to a head and solve itself--so long as people are willing to speak out and persuade their fellows.
Personally, I feel that we should hold government employees, especially law enforcement, and corporations to a HIGHER standard, with HIGHER penalties. With great power comes great responsibility and great consequences.
Ask the Ukrainians how that's going. The Berkut have been attacking infirmaries, Red Cross aid stations, shooting medics, and kidnapping patients. They took a boy and raped him with a knife in his ass. Another video shows a man being forced to pose naked in the snow in different poses, surrounded by jackboots taking pictures and jeering. They shot a young man with an armor piercing round not intended for humans. Snipers have shot protestors. The Berkut have set ambushes, including fake calls for help, where they would attack the responders. The death toll continues to climb. This is all going on RIGHT NOW. You can watch videos of these things on YouTube, you can watch live feeds from local TV crews online.
This is your future.
As for that firearm, causality addresses that point:
In many US states, an otherwise perfectly legal firearm becomes an illegal firearm the moment a person is in possion of both it and some weed.
In 1986, Tom King, Director of the University of Nevada Oral History Program, interviewed several men who had labored on the construction of Hoover Dam that told him a number of bodies lie buried in it. "These stories were made somewhat plausible by the authority of the tellers, themselves dam workers, and by our knowledge that building the dam was indeed an extremely hazardous enterprise," according to King, "however, further questioning revealed that none of the storytellers had actually witnessed such a tragedy or knew the identity of any of the victims. This was not surprising: the tellers believed what they were saying, but their stories were folklore--there are no bodies in the dam."
Actually, the dam was poured in relatively small sections, so about all a fallen worker had to do to get his face clear of the rising concrete was to stand up. Officially, 96 dam workers died of various causes, and 112 persons unofficially, but none were permanently buried in concrete.
The closest any worker came to being buried was on November 8, 1933 when the wall of a form collapsed sending hundreds of tons of recently-poured concrete tumbling down the face of the dam. One worker below narrowly escaped with his life, however W.A. Jameson was not so lucky and was covered by the rain of debris. Jameson was the only man ever buried in Hoover Dam, and he was interred for just 16 hours before his body was recovered. His remains were shipped to Rock Hill, South Carolina, where a brother and sister lived.
A structural engineer interviewed for a Discovery Channel documentary on Hoover Dam argued that it would be sheer folly to leave a worker buried in the dam. A decomposing body would jeopardize the dam's structural integrity and risk the multi-million dollar project including property and lives downstream on the Colorado River.