So if we don't have a perfect solution we should do nothing?
No, but you shouldn't do anything either just so you can say you have a solution.
This is a bad idea all around, as many other posters have pointed out. 99% of abductions occur at home. It will frustrate and alienate parents. Accuracy issues. No check to see if the parents/grandparents are sex offenders (isn't this what Meagan's Law was designed for?). It encourages lax oversight everywhere else because there's a magic "system" to do the work for them.
Is it a good idea to do everything possible to avoid the kidnapping/abuse of one child?
No, because "blowing up the whole frigging earth" does indeed fall under the "everything possible" category and it will certainly prevent any future abductions from ever occuring.
Go ahead and blather all the rationalizations you want, but efficacy is the main concern, and privacy is a stupid red herring.
So, I guess we can go ahead and tattoo barcodes on the little buggers' arms too, right?//Your godwinning skill has increased due to use.
Is this from the department of obviousness department?
It's like saying that the Chronicles of Narnia DVD is narrowing the lead of the Predator DVD.
DS came out first. Of course sales will be increasing at a slower rate than the PSP, which came out a relatively short time ago. If the article is trying to answer the "what is more popular?" question, the only thing that (should) matter is total sales over the lifetime of the unit, which is a much more difficult beast of a problem.
From the first applicable google hit for "statistics child abductions"
Out-of-the-home abductions occur 45-65 times annually.
So, assuming this program is completely successful, and every child abduction in New Jersey occurs in that one school every year. You've saved just over one child.
Heck, for 120 grand you could probably just buy off all the sex offenders and save them all.
Wait a sec. Aren't porn advocates always calmly arguing their point to the prudes that sex is a good and natural thing and everybody's enjoying themselves? They look like pillars of reasoning compared to the fundies.
Now, wait! Someone's stealing their megahurtz!!!oneone. All of a sudden we have them screaming "Those immoral bastards!"
I was agreeing with you -- that pirating in no way grants anyone a right to steal. What the conglomerates don't seem to realize (so I attempted to make clear) is that the basic human desire to get the best deal possible will always override questions of rights. It's just a hell of alot easier now.
In other words, a man is only as faithful as his options.
It is absolutely unconscionable that game makers are enabling young people--or anyone--to dramatize shooting and killing as a form of entertainment while officers and innocent people are dying in real-life on our streets every day
So, I assume you'll get right onto boycotting the show COPS, right? Because it dramatizes pursuit and police brutality as a form of entertainment while civilians and innocent people are being arrested in real-life on our streets every day.
Wait, the people in charge of the forums did this? What the hell is everyone complaining about?
Every game forum I've ever been on (especially gamefaqs) has helpful topics that can't/won't get stickied and eventually drop off into obscurity. So the admin did the work of collating a bunch of tips into a guide and their users are bitching and moaning about it? Seems to me they were done a favor.
This would be a PR nightmare, even by Microsoft standards.
What keeps them in business is that pretty much anyone over 25 buys a new machine with windows because it's easier. Especially companies. If the mainstream media announced that MS was "locking down" Windows (and they certainly would), it would definitely be enough to make even grandma think twice about getting an upgrade, regardless of how much "safer" it made things.
In logic circles, we call this "arguement by bizzare definition"
To solve is to find a solution. It doesn't have to be the best solution. Technically, jails solve crime.
However, in casual conversation, "solving a problem" means eliminating it, not downgrading it. Why would the author bend over backwords to spin this in Billy's favor?
If the heat from your employees and their machines is say, ten thousand joules, it doesn't matter how you do it -- pumping 10k joules of energy out of the building should always meet with the same result.
Wouldn't supercooling the building in the morning be counter-productive? It would accelerate the air outside trying to re-warm your building. You'd ideally want to keep the place as close to the outside temperature as comfortable to minimize that.
You're saying the average person doesn't get at least week and a half of vacation a year? What kind of slave ships are the rest of you working for?
The kind of work I do is really time-based, so nothing longer than a week. But I get my two weeks and an extra day to play around with no problem. Of course, I'm a consultant and not getting paid when I'm off, but that's not the point:)
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Apparently, the US doesn't take kindly to other countries going cold-turkey on oil.
//I try to get out, and they just puullllll me back in...
Because this is obviously a power-grab leading up to a scenario with an Emperor-for-Life by 2008.
Now excuse me, I need to upgrade my tinfoil hat to a lead war-helm.
Your original statement was ambiguous, then.
once school starts all outside doors are locked
This indicates a new action is taking place. That, prior to school starting, the doors are unlocked.
So if we don't have a perfect solution we should do nothing?
No, but you shouldn't do anything either just so you can say you have a solution.
This is a bad idea all around, as many other posters have pointed out. 99% of abductions occur at home. It will frustrate and alienate parents. Accuracy issues. No check to see if the parents/grandparents are sex offenders (isn't this what Meagan's Law was designed for?). It encourages lax oversight everywhere else because there's a magic "system" to do the work for them.
once school starts all outside doors are locked
That place must be real fun in a fire
Is it a good idea to do everything possible to avoid the kidnapping/abuse of one child?
No, because "blowing up the whole frigging earth" does indeed fall under the "everything possible" category and it will certainly prevent any future abductions from ever occuring.
Go ahead and blather all the rationalizations you want, but efficacy is the main concern, and privacy is a stupid red herring. So, I guess we can go ahead and tattoo barcodes on the little buggers' arms too, right? //Your godwinning skill has increased due to use.
You are right, it won't stop child abductors, but it will stop them there
What a noble sentiment. "Screw your kids, mine are safe!"
Is this from the department of obviousness department?
It's like saying that the Chronicles of Narnia DVD is narrowing the lead of the Predator DVD.
DS came out first. Of course sales will be increasing at a slower rate than the PSP, which came out a relatively short time ago. If the article is trying to answer the "what is more popular?" question, the only thing that (should) matter is total sales over the lifetime of the unit, which is a much more difficult beast of a problem.
From the first applicable google hit for "statistics child abductions"
Out-of-the-home abductions occur 45-65 times annually.
So, assuming this program is completely successful, and every child abduction in New Jersey occurs in that one school every year. You've saved just over one child.
Heck, for 120 grand you could probably just buy off all the sex offenders and save them all.
Sure you're not confusing "mailmen" with "Klingons?"
Wait a sec. Aren't porn advocates always calmly arguing their point to the prudes that sex is a good and natural thing and everybody's enjoying themselves? They look like pillars of reasoning compared to the fundies. Now, wait! Someone's stealing their megahurtz!!!oneone. All of a sudden we have them screaming "Those immoral bastards!"
The circle is now complete.
I was agreeing with you -- that pirating in no way grants anyone a right to steal. What the conglomerates don't seem to realize (so I attempted to make clear) is that the basic human desire to get the best deal possible will always override questions of rights. It's just a hell of alot easier now.
In other words, a man is only as faithful as his options.
It is absolutely unconscionable that game makers are enabling young people--or anyone--to dramatize shooting and killing as a form of entertainment while officers and innocent people are dying in real-life on our streets every day
So, I assume you'll get right onto boycotting the show COPS, right? Because it dramatizes pursuit and police brutality as a form of entertainment while civilians and innocent people are being arrested in real-life on our streets every day.
Right, not having the money for the stuff you want gives you the desire to steal.
My ally is the torrent. And a powerful ally it is...
Starting with barley
In other words, "Forget the orphans, save the beer!"
Wait, the people in charge of the forums did this? What the hell is everyone complaining about?
Every game forum I've ever been on (especially gamefaqs) has helpful topics that can't/won't get stickied and eventually drop off into obscurity. So the admin did the work of collating a bunch of tips into a guide and their users are bitching and moaning about it? Seems to me they were done a favor.
This would be a PR nightmare, even by Microsoft standards.
What keeps them in business is that pretty much anyone over 25 buys a new machine with windows because it's easier. Especially companies. If the mainstream media announced that MS was "locking down" Windows (and they certainly would), it would definitely be enough to make even grandma think twice about getting an upgrade, regardless of how much "safer" it made things.
In logic circles, we call this "arguement by bizzare definition"
To solve is to find a solution. It doesn't have to be the best solution. Technically, jails solve crime.
However, in casual conversation, "solving a problem" means eliminating it, not downgrading it. Why would the author bend over backwords to spin this in Billy's favor?
So, we could've built like 270 of these already if it weren't for the war on terror, right?
//carte blanche, it's a helluva drug...
Informative indeed, I would've never thought of that :)
Thanks for the info
"Precooling" makes no sense at all.
If the heat from your employees and their machines is say, ten thousand joules, it doesn't matter how you do it -- pumping 10k joules of energy out of the building should always meet with the same result.
Wouldn't supercooling the building in the morning be counter-productive? It would accelerate the air outside trying to re-warm your building. You'd ideally want to keep the place as close to the outside temperature as comfortable to minimize that.
100 comments about Nemesis AND Stars and no Resident Evil reference?
"STAAAAAAARRRSS...."
You're saying the average person doesn't get at least week and a half of vacation a year? What kind of slave ships are the rest of you working for?
:)
The kind of work I do is really time-based, so nothing longer than a week. But I get my two weeks and an extra day to play around with no problem. Of course, I'm a consultant and not getting paid when I'm off, but that's not the point
A position involving meditation, beer, and something called "sman"...