Believe it or not, the police don't seem to think they should be killed in the line of duty, and take actions to reduce the chance of that happening.
I think you'll find that most of the populace agree with the police on this, and have no issue with them mitigating the risks they face.
That doesn't excuse unnecessary use of force, unnecessary use of lethal force or fucking murdering a man stood in his own doorway following police instructions.
If there is any hint of corruption they are all to blame.
When the police stop tolerating the corruption amongst their own ranks people may stop believing their all corrupt.
I'm not going to reply to most of your comments, because they're well stated and I understand (and in some cases agree with) your position. Just a couple of bits though.
some sort of ethical basis. The trouble is, the world isn't really one big, global market
Fuck the ethics, it's the fairness of it. The labour market is one big global market, so why aren't the others.
you're welcome not to buy it at whatever higher price it's offered at, or you can move to China and pick it up for $3
Unfortunately I'm not allowed to take advantage of globalisation as a consumer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for the reason I stopped buying physical music media.
(I now buy my music from a Ukrainian website, as they sell it at a price I feel is fair and reasonable)
a lot of people's idea of a "fair" price is wildly out of proportion to average production costs and return
Companies are competing with centuries of existing music, books and visual arts, and decades of cinema.
I don't have to pay £8 for a book from my local charity shop yet I'm expected to pay that for one from Amazon. Even worse, I'm expected to pay £8+VAT for the digital version that doesn't have physical printing costs, or the packing and delivery overheads. Meanwhile I can go to Project Gutenberg and access several years worth of reading material absolutely for free.
EA want me to pay £40 for a computer game, then continue paying them through microtransactions to play it. Or I could build up a backlog of 140 games I haven't even yet played but acquired for an average of £5 each.
A fair price may not reflect the investment being put into creating this material, but that isn't the fault of the consumer. Meet the market demand at a fair price point instead of bitching that you can't reap excessive profits from your customers.
Of course they would like it cheap/free, but that's probably not a fair price
I'm happy to pay full price. I just want that price to be identical to the one being paid in China. I'm competing with those guys for work, my salary is lower because of that competition and yet they get to enjoy a far lower cost of entertainment that makes it easier for them to work for less.
If your product is only worth $3 in China then don't go pretending it's worth more than $3 to me.
Virgo is 45 days long while Scorpio is just 7 days
Most people adopt the convention that each sign lasts for approximately a calendar month, so no, you're talking utter fucking nonsense.
And when called about the lousy maths, next day they yanked the press release from the company site and argued that was just a joke. No problem, right?
Right. Because it was just a fucking joke designed to win them some free publicity, and it succeeded.
Incidentally I suspect birth date does materially factor in insurance risk, at least in the UK, due to the dates of the school year.
Only a person's driving record should be considered.
So someone living in a low crime rural location in Norway should pay the same price as someone living in a favela in Sao Paolo?
Someone that takes their car on track days and commutes 80 miles each way should pay the same as someone that works from home and never goes on a motorway?
Someone that drives a Maserati should pay the same as the driver of a Ford Fiesta?
Insurance companies disagree with you.
If they don't have accidents and driving offenses on their record
..then you can't use those to assess risk, and instead you use other factors demonstrated to have an impact, such as
Causation really does require correlation but not the other way around.
You're assuming actuaries give a shit about causation.
But..
What's the causal link between accidents and email domain?
Hotmail users have made a poor choice of email provider, thus demonstrating their sub-optimal decision making capabilities. Those will in turn lead to reduced maintenance of their vehicle, poorer judgement while driving it and a greater likelihood of an accident, as demonstrated by actual accident rates.
Of course, it's possible that I just made all of that up. But you can bet that Admiral's actuaries did the fucking analysis.
in most cases men have been on the receiving end of the historical advantage
Car insurance: Men were paying much more than women, even though women have more accidents per mile.
Life insurance: Men were paying more, because they were more likely to die.
Pensions: Men were receiving more, because they were more likely to die.
So the only historical advantage was the amount paid out per month by a pension, but that advantage needs to be offset by the shorter period for which a man can claim a pension.
You're basically saying that dying at a younger age is a historical advantage. I think this makes you a feminist.
Being translated, this means he's still as big a media whore as ever: much like certain other people I could mention, there is absolutely nothing he will not say or claim if he thinks there's a few headlines in it.
That doesn't mean he's wrong, and it isn't relevant to whether the NZ authorities illegally caused him $6.8bn of losses.
The man still owes money to hundreds of New Zealand tradespeople who've been gullible enough to do various jobs of work for him.
It's pretty fucking hard to pay people when your financial assets have been stolen from you.
I can easily believe this guy is a total cock but that's the thing with justice: It applies to everybody.
Collective ganging up on the civilian population is bad and illegal. The scum in blue should not do it
I can agree with that too. It doesn't invalidate my point.
Any cop who says their job is dangerous should be immediately shot to prove that they will not end up dead on the street, they end up dead because they are too stupid.
I disagree with this hyperbole though. How about just fucking educating and training them instead?
Well, a primary reason for upgrading Lightroom is support for newer camera models.
The new features seldom justified the cost but the software is good enough that being able to use it with the new toy was worth the expense.
That's likely to be the thing that triggers me into either ditching Lightroom or signing up to the subscription service. I'll make that decision based on the competition available when I buy a new camera.
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Believe it or not, the police don't seem to think they should be killed in the line of duty, and take actions to reduce the chance of that happening.
I think you'll find that most of the populace agree with the police on this, and have no issue with them mitigating the risks they face.
That doesn't excuse unnecessary use of force, unnecessary use of lethal force or fucking murdering a man stood in his own doorway following police instructions.
If there is any hint of corruption they are all to blame.
When the police stop tolerating the corruption amongst their own ranks people may stop believing their all corrupt.
Or we could charge the idiots that made the call and the bigger idiot that shot and killed an innocent man.
No fucking mulligan, he didn't have to shoot, he chose to shoot and he needs to face prosecution for his illegal lethal assault.
Then why the fuck is an innocent man dead?
You and I have very fucking different definitions for 'wrong'.
they get a bit of levity
We all like a good giggle at work, but most of us don't fucking laugh about the poor innocent cunt we just murdered.
Why should the shooter be held responsible when the ONLY reason he was there
Because fuck the reason he was at the premises and look at the purpose of him being there. It's not to shoot innocent men.
He should be held responsible because he fucking murdered someone.
So prosecution the murdering shit that pulled the trigger and maybe his colleagues will demand some proper fucking training.
I'm not going to reply to most of your comments, because they're well stated and I understand (and in some cases agree with) your position. Just a couple of bits though.
some sort of ethical basis. The trouble is, the world isn't really one big, global market
Fuck the ethics, it's the fairness of it. The labour market is one big global market, so why aren't the others.
you're welcome not to buy it at whatever higher price it's offered at, or you can move to China and pick it up for $3
Unfortunately I'm not allowed to take advantage of globalisation as a consumer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for the reason I stopped buying physical music media.
(I now buy my music from a Ukrainian website, as they sell it at a price I feel is fair and reasonable)
a lot of people's idea of a "fair" price is wildly out of proportion to average production costs and return
Companies are competing with centuries of existing music, books and visual arts, and decades of cinema.
I don't have to pay £8 for a book from my local charity shop yet I'm expected to pay that for one from Amazon. Even worse, I'm expected to pay £8+VAT for the digital version that doesn't have physical printing costs, or the packing and delivery overheads. Meanwhile I can go to Project Gutenberg and access several years worth of reading material absolutely for free.
EA want me to pay £40 for a computer game, then continue paying them through microtransactions to play it. Or I could build up a backlog of 140 games I haven't even yet played but acquired for an average of £5 each.
A fair price may not reflect the investment being put into creating this material, but that isn't the fault of the consumer. Meet the market demand at a fair price point instead of bitching that you can't reap excessive profits from your customers.
Of course they would like it cheap/free, but that's probably not a fair price
I'm happy to pay full price. I just want that price to be identical to the one being paid in China. I'm competing with those guys for work, my salary is lower because of that competition and yet they get to enjoy a far lower cost of entertainment that makes it easier for them to work for less.
If your product is only worth $3 in China then don't go pretending it's worth more than $3 to me.
Virgo is 45 days long while Scorpio is just 7 days
Most people adopt the convention that each sign lasts for approximately a calendar month, so no, you're talking utter fucking nonsense.
And when called about the lousy maths, next day they yanked the press release from the company site and argued that was just a joke. No problem, right?
Right. Because it was just a fucking joke designed to win them some free publicity, and it succeeded.
Incidentally I suspect birth date does materially factor in insurance risk, at least in the UK, due to the dates of the school year.
Although don't buy a red car anyway, as you're far more likely to get pulled over by the police when they're playing car snooker.
Yet I recall IE users getting charged more for insurance.
Yes, the more affluent get charged more.
Not just affluent, but as a group also willing to pay over the odds.
Only a person's driving record should be considered.
So someone living in a low crime rural location in Norway should pay the same price as someone living in a favela in Sao Paolo?
Someone that takes their car on track days and commutes 80 miles each way should pay the same as someone that works from home and never goes on a motorway?
Someone that drives a Maserati should pay the same as the driver of a Ford Fiesta?
Insurance companies disagree with you.
If they don't have accidents and driving offenses on their record
..then you can't use those to assess risk, and instead you use other factors demonstrated to have an impact, such as
what email they use
They're detrimental to your sex life, if that counts?
Causation really does require correlation but not the other way around.
You're assuming actuaries give a shit about causation.
But..
What's the causal link between accidents and email domain?
Hotmail users have made a poor choice of email provider, thus demonstrating their sub-optimal decision making capabilities. Those will in turn lead to reduced maintenance of their vehicle, poorer judgement while driving it and a greater likelihood of an accident, as demonstrated by actual accident rates.
Of course, it's possible that I just made all of that up. But you can bet that Admiral's actuaries did the fucking analysis.
Gender absolutely is a protected class in the UK for insurance purposes.
Proving that the insurance company discriminated on that factor is however bloody difficult.
in most cases men have been on the receiving end of the historical advantage
Car insurance: Men were paying much more than women, even though women have more accidents per mile.
Life insurance: Men were paying more, because they were more likely to die.
Pensions: Men were receiving more, because they were more likely to die.
So the only historical advantage was the amount paid out per month by a pension, but that advantage needs to be offset by the shorter period for which a man can claim a pension.
You're basically saying that dying at a younger age is a historical advantage. I think this makes you a feminist.
Someone slams their breaks on heavily all the time
Does that actually correlate well with accident rates though?
Most of my heaviest brake use is me avoiding some other cunt and thus not having an accident.
Or perhaps, just maybe, possibly, he was describing how you factor this one variable into your multivariate analysis.
Control for all other factors, see which email providers are used by the most expensive drivers.
12 miles is about the round-trip distance to a place I like getting breakfast, so I can fuck the environment on both fronts.
The University of Manchester is a prestigious organisation but I really would prefer them to spend their time doing something useful.
Leader of country makes speech to position it at the forefront of technology growth industry.
This is hardly news.
She's also sticking with the 'A and B' branding. Strong and Stable didn't work out, lets see how Safe and Ethical pans out.
Being translated, this means he's still as big a media whore as ever: much like certain other people I could mention, there is absolutely nothing he will not say or claim if he thinks there's a few headlines in it.
That doesn't mean he's wrong, and it isn't relevant to whether the NZ authorities illegally caused him $6.8bn of losses.
The man still owes money to hundreds of New Zealand tradespeople who've been gullible enough to do various jobs of work for him.
It's pretty fucking hard to pay people when your financial assets have been stolen from you.
I can easily believe this guy is a total cock but that's the thing with justice: It applies to everybody.
People with MBA degrees are no more or less innovative or creative than any other category.
People able to innovate and also run a large company don't need an MBA.
Merely deciding to get one implicitly rules you out of having both capabilities.
Collective ganging up on the civilian population is bad and illegal. The scum in blue should not do it
I can agree with that too. It doesn't invalidate my point.
Any cop who says their job is dangerous should be immediately shot to prove that they will not end up dead on the street, they end up dead because they are too stupid.
I disagree with this hyperbole though. How about just fucking educating and training them instead?
I fear you may have replied to the wrong person.
Well, a primary reason for upgrading Lightroom is support for newer camera models.
The new features seldom justified the cost but the software is good enough that being able to use it with the new toy was worth the expense.
That's likely to be the thing that triggers me into either ditching Lightroom or signing up to the subscription service. I'll make that decision based on the competition available when I buy a new camera.