is a meaningless junk phrase in linguistics. If speakers of the language do not understand it, it is not correct. The only question then is whether they are writing in the same language (answer left as an exercise to the reader).
"Reasonable suspicion" is a yes/no question: could a reasonable person conclude that these facts are indicative of a crime? If the answer is "yes" (and yes, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for "car emits radiation" that would make that scenario criminal)
No there isn't, and that's what you're too fucking dense to see. The odds are handily 10 million to 1 against (again, Poisson distributions, this is simple stats, like dice rolls). There isn't a reasonable person alive who would say "Oh, a one in ten million chance he's guilty of something? Pull that fucker over." There's a lot of stupid, ignorant people who don't understand what the actual odds are, and you seem to think that reasonable equals stupid and ignorant, but that doesn't make it so.
To put this in a simpler frame for your weak brain meats: There's a one in 10 million chance a glowing radioactive man is a nuclear terrorist. There is a one in one hundred chance a random person is an actual convicted felon. You have actually lowered the bar for police intervention so low as to justify pulling everyone over at random for no reason--which would be more likely to catch criminals than pulling over glowing people would be to catch terrorists.
How can you be so stupid as to not see this and still manage to operate a computer? You have effectively declared that a 1 in 10 million chance meets reasonable suspicion. That means that the 1 in 100 chance that someone has a prior felony (a much better predictor of future criminal activity) also meets reasonable suspicion. Which means you've rationalized subjecting every American citizen to random checks at any time for no reason (which again, is more likely to catch criminals than the bar you set for reasonable suspicion).
Stop being a moron. They shouldn't investigate unless they're a helluva lot more than 0.000000025% sure, which is more along the lines of actual reasonable suspicion. 40+ million patients, or 0, yes that's right ZERO, nuclear terrorists? Based on those numbers we can easily say there's a 95% chance that the odds of him being a terrorist based solely on the presence of ionizing radiation are at least than 10.8 million to 1 against (based on the assumption that the frequency of terrorists carrying nuclear materials follows a Poisson distribution).
This isn't searching for the 1 in a million glowing people radioactive terrorist--it's the one of out 10 million glowing people.
Given how rare it is for people's cars to give off radiation, and the potential for such radiation to indicate that a catastrophic crime is about to be committed, a police officer would be highly negligent if he didn't stop and investigate such a car.
I sometimes wonder how my country got so fucked. Then I see ignorant bullshit like this, and I don't wonder anymore.
It's because people as ignorant as you are running the show. It is NOT rare for cars to give off radiation. These kinds of medical tests are NOT rare. Radiation has NEVER ONCE been evidence of a catastrophic crime about to occur, nor has any crime EVER occurred where radiation detected in advance would have been evidence. Repeat after me: no such crime has EVER occurred. It's a Hollywood fantasy. Only a water-brained cauling fool would buy your argument. Turns out that's over 50% of my countrymen.
I would bet hard money you could run an experiment similar to this but instead send the information forward in time, faster than light.
And those of us who actually know what we're talking about would be happy to take your money.
If you transported one of a pair of more stable molecules that were entangled then constantly manipulated there states wouldn't that information travel faster than light even though the particles themselves cannot travel from place to place faster than light?
In a word: no. The particles would not remain entangled.
Also, if you took a stable wormhole and transported one end at the speed of light for an extended period of time. Then sent something through one side of the wormhole to another you could theoretically instantly skip the time betwen, allowing for either faster than light travel, or travel back in time.
Also no. That's not how wormholes (theoretically) work. They do not 'skip' time in between. They are alternate continuous routes through space and time.
The idea that relativity allows for violating causality is laughable. Relativity ASSUMES causality. Without causality, General Relativity would fall apart.
Sorry, but, your conspiracy theory not withstanding, the Saudis have very little clout. They depend on the oil revenue to prop up their monarchy, and without it they would collapse very quickly. They're not as precarious as some other petro-states (because they're somewhat better managed financially), but all the same they can't really use the oil as an effective geopolitical bargaining chip on small issues. On something major where the financial risk is rewarded sure, but not on things like extradition treaties or mutual spying.
It grates badly enough on old ears to hear "they" and "them" be used for singular
Only if you're a moron. The practice dates back to at least Chaucer, presumably earlier since it's unlikely he invented it. 'They' has been the gender neutral singular since Middle English. It's a lot older than you are, so I can only conclude that it grates on your ears because you never read any proper literature in the English language (like Shakespeare, Jane Austen, or George Bernard Shaw). The idea that it shouldn't be the gender neutral singular is a fabrication of 19th century assholes. Don't be like them.
I wear a suite to a job interviews (even though I dislike it, since it is a bit of a deception, I'm a slob) since I want the job and I know most people judge you on such shallow things, I think they shouldn't but they do. But I want the job so I suck it up.
How does one wear a suite? And which suite is it? I imagine wearing the Honeymoon Suite would go over....interestingly.
You know what carpet bombing a country full of innocent people does? Turn it into Laos. You know what Laos has? Lots of poor, hungry people with leftover explosives to spare. Yeah, let's carpet bomb the Saudis. That won't backfire.
The only way cocaine is more harmful than a bomb blowing up an airplane (which would kill a couple hundred people instantly...not over months but instantly) is if someone where to say...start a war over it(way to go USA)
Flying back from Manila I have to say that Filipino airport security is both more stringent, more serious, and more professional. They searched EVERY carry on by hand, and they did it quickly, professionally, and without incident (granted, in Manila they search every hand bag carried into the shopping malls too and there are armed guards with shotguns on many corners). It was a little unnerving (lots of armed guards), but less so than TSA checkpoints. Everything they were doing made sense, and was done seriously. Overdone, and still unnecessary, but it wasn't the senseless theater that the TSA is.
It's not freaky at all. America is, and has always been, a fundamentally fascist country. The Constitution is an aberration, not the cultural norm. Don't believe me? Look at the history of every internal, domestic conflict in this country. Every last one of them are tinged with the constant abuse of state authority by merging it with corporate (in the sense of social collectives that Mussolini meant in his often misinterpreted statement that fascism is the merger of the state and the corporation) interests.
Respect for the Constitution and a legacy of social independence born from the frontier experience of the 19th century that carried with it a tradition of weak corporatism (again, in Mussolini's sense of the word) has prevented American fascism from devolving into Totalitarianism (like Mussolini's Italy, or Nazi Germany), but that doesn't make the country and the culture any less fascist. Now that the frontier experience (and it's associated attitude of independence from social organization) is a long dead memory, expect that inherent fascism to inexorably head towards totalitarianism.
During all of this, literally hundreds of people stood by watching and did nothing. So I guess we did see the "true colors of this nation" as you said. It's the color of terrorized weaklings.
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is a meaningless junk phrase in linguistics. If speakers of the language do not understand it, it is not correct. The only question then is whether they are writing in the same language (answer left as an exercise to the reader).
"Reasonable suspicion" is a yes/no question: could a reasonable person conclude that these facts are indicative of a crime? If the answer is "yes" (and yes, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for "car emits radiation" that would make that scenario criminal)
No there isn't, and that's what you're too fucking dense to see. The odds are handily 10 million to 1 against (again, Poisson distributions, this is simple stats, like dice rolls). There isn't a reasonable person alive who would say "Oh, a one in ten million chance he's guilty of something? Pull that fucker over." There's a lot of stupid, ignorant people who don't understand what the actual odds are, and you seem to think that reasonable equals stupid and ignorant, but that doesn't make it so.
To put this in a simpler frame for your weak brain meats: There's a one in 10 million chance a glowing radioactive man is a nuclear terrorist. There is a one in one hundred chance a random person is an actual convicted felon. You have actually lowered the bar for police intervention so low as to justify pulling everyone over at random for no reason--which would be more likely to catch criminals than pulling over glowing people would be to catch terrorists.
How can you be so stupid as to not see this and still manage to operate a computer? You have effectively declared that a 1 in 10 million chance meets reasonable suspicion. That means that the 1 in 100 chance that someone has a prior felony (a much better predictor of future criminal activity) also meets reasonable suspicion. Which means you've rationalized subjecting every American citizen to random checks at any time for no reason (which again, is more likely to catch criminals than the bar you set for reasonable suspicion).
The poisoning of Litvinenko was not a terrorist attack. Political assassinations are not the same thing.
Except that in your delusional mind a one in 10 million chance constitutes reasonable suspicion.
Stop being a moron. They shouldn't investigate unless they're a helluva lot more than 0.000000025% sure, which is more along the lines of actual reasonable suspicion. 40+ million patients, or 0, yes that's right ZERO, nuclear terrorists? Based on those numbers we can easily say there's a 95% chance that the odds of him being a terrorist based solely on the presence of ionizing radiation are at least than 10.8 million to 1 against (based on the assumption that the frequency of terrorists carrying nuclear materials follows a Poisson distribution).
This isn't searching for the 1 in a million glowing people radioactive terrorist--it's the one of out 10 million glowing people.
Given how rare it is for people's cars to give off radiation, and the potential for such radiation to indicate that a catastrophic crime is about to be committed, a police officer would be highly negligent if he didn't stop and investigate such a car.
I sometimes wonder how my country got so fucked. Then I see ignorant bullshit like this, and I don't wonder anymore.
It's because people as ignorant as you are running the show. It is NOT rare for cars to give off radiation. These kinds of medical tests are NOT rare. Radiation has NEVER ONCE been evidence of a catastrophic crime about to occur, nor has any crime EVER occurred where radiation detected in advance would have been evidence. Repeat after me: no such crime has EVER occurred. It's a Hollywood fantasy. Only a water-brained cauling fool would buy your argument. Turns out that's over 50% of my countrymen.
Who else spent a while trying to figure out what do-graping is?
I would bet hard money you could run an experiment similar to this but instead send the information forward in time, faster than light.
And those of us who actually know what we're talking about would be happy to take your money.
If you transported one of a pair of more stable molecules that were entangled then constantly manipulated there states wouldn't that information travel faster than light even though the particles themselves cannot travel from place to place faster than light?
In a word: no. The particles would not remain entangled.
Also, if you took a stable wormhole and transported one end at the speed of light for an extended period of time. Then sent something through one side of the wormhole to another you could theoretically instantly skip the time betwen, allowing for either faster than light travel, or travel back in time.
Also no. That's not how wormholes (theoretically) work. They do not 'skip' time in between. They are alternate continuous routes through space and time.
The idea that relativity allows for violating causality is laughable. Relativity ASSUMES causality. Without causality, General Relativity would fall apart.
Who owns all the oil?
No one? Venezuela has the most proven reserves though, if that's what you mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Estimated_reserves_by_country
Who's the USA's best friend in the middle east?
Israel.
Sorry, but, your conspiracy theory not withstanding, the Saudis have very little clout. They depend on the oil revenue to prop up their monarchy, and without it they would collapse very quickly. They're not as precarious as some other petro-states (because they're somewhat better managed financially), but all the same they can't really use the oil as an effective geopolitical bargaining chip on small issues. On something major where the financial risk is rewarded sure, but not on things like extradition treaties or mutual spying.
Soon we'll be sending all women to Saudi Arabia to have their heads cut off.
As soon as the Saudis have the geopolitical clout to make that demand anyway.
It grates badly enough on old ears to hear "they" and "them" be used for singular
Only if you're a moron. The practice dates back to at least Chaucer, presumably earlier since it's unlikely he invented it. 'They' has been the gender neutral singular since Middle English. It's a lot older than you are, so I can only conclude that it grates on your ears because you never read any proper literature in the English language (like Shakespeare, Jane Austen, or George Bernard Shaw). The idea that it shouldn't be the gender neutral singular is a fabrication of 19th century assholes. Don't be like them.
I wear a suite to a job interviews (even though I dislike it, since it is a bit of a deception, I'm a slob) since I want the job and I know most people judge you on such shallow things, I think they shouldn't but they do. But I want the job so I suck it up.
How does one wear a suite? And which suite is it? I imagine wearing the Honeymoon Suite would go over....interestingly.
Let the grubby bastards fend for themselves.
You're assuming that wasn't the joke in the first place.
I mean, you might have caps on your phones and mobile devices, but not on home (wired) connections...?
Been living under a rock these days? Nearly all wired broadband connections are capped (though some are just soft caps).
You know what carpet bombing a country full of innocent people does? Turn it into Laos. You know what Laos has? Lots of poor, hungry people with leftover explosives to spare. Yeah, let's carpet bomb the Saudis. That won't backfire.
...and newly hired by the TSA.
The only way cocaine is more harmful than a bomb blowing up an airplane (which would kill a couple hundred people instantly...not over months but instantly) is if someone where to say...start a war over it(way to go USA)
Bonus points if they blow up planes with missiles (which are just flying bombs) in the course of said war: http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/862-sinaloa-cartel-sought-anti-aircraft-missiles
I wouldn't suck dick for cocaine either. That sort of thing's purely recreational.
No, guards.
What's so hard about apt-get install whatthefuckeverelseyouwantinstead?
Flying back from Manila I have to say that Filipino airport security is both more stringent, more serious, and more professional. They searched EVERY carry on by hand, and they did it quickly, professionally, and without incident (granted, in Manila they search every hand bag carried into the shopping malls too and there are armed guards with shotguns on many corners). It was a little unnerving (lots of armed guards), but less so than TSA checkpoints. Everything they were doing made sense, and was done seriously. Overdone, and still unnecessary, but it wasn't the senseless theater that the TSA is.
we should throw out or TVs and unplug the internet
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It's not freaky at all. America is, and has always been, a fundamentally fascist country. The Constitution is an aberration, not the cultural norm. Don't believe me? Look at the history of every internal, domestic conflict in this country. Every last one of them are tinged with the constant abuse of state authority by merging it with corporate (in the sense of social collectives that Mussolini meant in his often misinterpreted statement that fascism is the merger of the state and the corporation) interests.
Respect for the Constitution and a legacy of social independence born from the frontier experience of the 19th century that carried with it a tradition of weak corporatism (again, in Mussolini's sense of the word) has prevented American fascism from devolving into Totalitarianism (like Mussolini's Italy, or Nazi Germany), but that doesn't make the country and the culture any less fascist. Now that the frontier experience (and it's associated attitude of independence from social organization) is a long dead memory, expect that inherent fascism to inexorably head towards totalitarianism.
During all of this, literally hundreds of people stood by watching and did nothing. So I guess we did see the "true colors of this nation" as you said. It's the color of terrorized weaklings.
Quoted for fucking emphasis.