In the situations that these cameras are used it is a waste of money. They do not deter criminals, they just make the public feel watched and untrusted. To think other wise is to give yourself a false sense of security.
I have a buddy that owns a local restaurant with 16 cameras installed in and outside the building. They are good to dispel employees steeling or goofing off at the wrong times but if you don't know the person before hand they are useless.
Example: my buddy rides his bicycle to work 2 or 3 time a week for exercise. He leaves it next to the dumpster between that and a 8 foot high brick enclousre. The one day he goes out to make his ride home and find the bike missing.So he plays back the tapes (dvr or dvd back-ups) to see the time the guy steels the bike. It was worthless because you can make out who it is other then it was a older guy.
Getting a good shot seemed to be the key, which would be hard with a unmanned camera.
It is not about if there are lower crime rate in areas with more cameras. It is about whether or not the cameras helped in solving crimes. In the grand scheme, both would really go hand in hand. If they are not helping solve crimes how could they prevent them? It was also about whether the cost (200 million pounds) was worth it. I'm not up on money conversion but I think that could have paid for a lot of more proven and effective measures then cameras that don't seem to help much!
Did the Republicans have a 3/5 majority when is was voted to suspend Habeas Corpus the first time? No They where the majority but not by 3/5, the amount needed to pass laws, so apparently there where some dems that voted yea to suspend. There where 6 GOP's that voted yea to resume Habeas Corpus also 1 that didn't vote.
Did you not RTFA of your own link?
That's the problem is people who think one side is so much better then the other, or the lesser of the two evils It does nothing to improve the currant situation, nor does it question the fact of why these two parties are most times the only choice or the only one's that have a chance of making it in to office.
And FWIW, voting without educating yourself on the issues, candidates, or possibly their VOTING HISTORY seems to me to be more of a suicide by politics then voting for one party or the other!
"Let's be realistic, who came up with [the] file, edit, view, help [menu bar]? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?"
I know, I know!!!! This is a trick question isn't it Bill??? Is it Xerox?????
300 years for a foot? Wouldn't evaporation over the same time make that foot unnoticeable? Warmer temperatures would mean higher levels of evaporation I would think.
If you take a glass with ice and fill it to the rim with water, does the melting ice make the water flow over the rim?
So how is it that the cubes of the earth are going to flood us all?
I don't deny global warming, but some of the studies out there don't seem to be based on
multiple factors or do not focus on the real issues (or causes) that might be of concern.
For plumbing (same in electronics) flux is used as a cleaner of the surfaces so that the solder flows correctly. When you wipe the end of the pipe it is so the solder sucks up in to the joint. This would not happen if there wasn't any flux (atleast not well enough for water tightness).
Solder does have flux in it most times, but somtimes it's not nearly enough or it burns out so quickly that having a little extra (not much either)on the componets being soldered can make it easier to make a nice joint. Cold joints Bad, Beer Good!
"What is amazing in this 2006 game is that the "basically amateur" team from Lativia tied the NHL *super-stars*."
I see what your saying but that is not really true. Sandis Ozolinsh one of the best defencemen in the
nhl is playing for Lativia, with a few other NHLer's. Most of the others on the team play for minor league teams, which would be considered professional. It kind of sounded like you where saying that the
US is the only team with NHLer's when there are many teams with stars from the NHL. Canada is a little more loaded with talent then the US team, as is the case in most olympics.
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In the situations that these cameras are used it is a waste of money. They do not deter criminals, they just make the public feel watched and untrusted. To think other wise is to give yourself a false sense of security.
I have a buddy that owns a local restaurant with 16 cameras installed in and outside the building. They are good to dispel employees steeling or goofing off at the wrong times but if you don't know the person before hand they are useless.
Example: my buddy rides his bicycle to work 2 or 3 time a week for exercise. He leaves it next to the dumpster between that and a 8 foot high brick enclousre.
The one day he goes out to make his ride home and find the bike missing.So he plays back the tapes (dvr or dvd back-ups) to see the time the guy steels the bike.
It was worthless because you can make out who it is other then it was a older guy.
Getting a good shot seemed to be the key, which would be hard with a unmanned camera.
No you need to RTFA.
It is not about if there are lower crime rate in areas with more cameras.
It is about whether or not the cameras helped in solving crimes.
In the grand scheme, both would really go hand in hand. If they are not helping solve crimes how could they prevent them?
It was also about whether the cost (200 million pounds) was worth it. I'm not up on money conversion but I think that could have paid for a lot of more proven and effective measures then cameras that don't seem to help much!
All I know is never bet on the.......oh never mind!
Did the Republicans have a 3/5 majority when is was voted to suspend Habeas Corpus the first time?
No
They where the majority but not by 3/5, the amount needed to pass laws, so apparently there where some dems that voted yea to suspend.
There where 6 GOP's that voted yea to resume Habeas Corpus also 1 that didn't vote.
Did you not RTFA of your own link?
That's the problem is people who think one side is so much better then the other, or the lesser of the two evils
It does nothing to improve the currant situation, nor does it question the fact of why these two parties are most times the only choice or the only one's that have a chance of making it in to office.
And FWIW, voting without educating yourself on the issues, candidates, or possibly their VOTING HISTORY seems to me to be more of a suicide by politics then voting for one party or the other!
I'm just a major nerd right now. One day I hope to be a Kernel!
Very few Canadians watch hockey night in Canada on CBC? hmmm don't you guy use "eh" anymore either? Geez never thought that would change eh?
I know, I know!!!! This is a trick question isn't it Bill??? Is it Xerox?????
Ya copying is a road to failure!!!! I think steeling ideas is a better biz model? Just as Xerox, the copy people!
Ya because humans never make mistakes do they?!?
Really, both sides contributed to people not having faith in voting systems just so each could push their own case.
I can't even believe their are people still bring this crap up again and again.
My question to all is "If the Dems where so upset about the elections of 2000, what have then done to ensure that it doesn't happen again?"
Why compare Fahrenheit 911 to what really happens in REAL life? Really, Mr. Moore has been proven
to lie many times (in many movies) to make his false points, his home town has even disowned him in a blue state. That tells you something.
Check it out for yourself http://www.davekopel.org/terror/59Deceits.pdf
If you take a glass with ice and fill it to the rim with water, does the melting ice make the water flow over the rim? So how is it that the cubes of the earth are going to flood us all?
I don't deny global warming, but some of the studies out there don't seem to be based on multiple factors or do not focus on the real issues (or causes) that might be of concern.
For plumbing (same in electronics) flux is used as a cleaner of the surfaces so that the solder flows correctly.
When you wipe the end of the pipe it is so the solder sucks up in to the joint. This would not happen if there
wasn't any flux (atleast not well enough for water tightness).
Solder does have flux in it most times, but somtimes it's not nearly enough or it burns out so quickly that
having a little extra (not much either)on the componets being soldered can make it easier to make a nice joint.
Cold joints Bad, Beer Good!
The IPCC said the average global surface temp increased buy .6 celsius, yes .6c, over the twentieth century.
That's highly unusual?
"What is amazing in this 2006 game is that the "basically amateur" team from Lativia tied the NHL *super-stars*." I see what your saying but that is not really true. Sandis Ozolinsh one of the best defencemen in the nhl is playing for Lativia, with a few other NHLer's. Most of the others on the team play for minor league teams, which would be considered professional. It kind of sounded like you where saying that the US is the only team with NHLer's when there are many teams with stars from the NHL. Canada is a little more loaded with talent then the US team, as is the case in most olympics.