I had NO CLUE that rocks would spontaneously dustify themselves! I guess uranium ore self-destructs to dust on its own, and then forces that dust up into the air! That is some dangerous stuff indeed!
My Lenovo P71 with a 4K screen has 254 dpi - better than the 220 dpi of those Macbook retina displays. And it has built-in Pantone color correction/calibration so it's always color-perfect.
Lots of content is generated at 4K - and judging from the number of 8K cameras at CES, there will be a lot of 8K content as well. Netflix and cable will still dither it down to 1080p (at best), but for the content creators - you need an 8K screen to edit your 8K video.
Of course flat earthers are wrong. Flat is a two dimensional concept and we clearly do not live in Flatland. Flat Earthers need to change their name to Square Earthers.
There is a direct link between crime and high school graduation; when someone graduates from high school, the odds of them being a criminal drop dramatically. If we're talking about lowering crime rate, the first thing we should do is ensure graduation from high school, since the correlation is so strong.
When the UN is fearmongering about Chernobyl, you know it's just politics. Unfortunately, a man-made disaster like this - and the horror story for "generations to come" - are used by anti-nuke nutters to halt progress towards truly unlimited, clean energy - nuclear.
Funny, the person I was responding to sees it as a reasonable conjecture. What would be your reasoning that the one arrest per month per police officer is NOT the result of their daily dispatch call?
Those States with the fewest votes/Representatives at the Federal level, and with the largest percentage of rural districts, tend to have higher high school graduation rates. If anything, I would suggest that points to more local - rather than State or Federal - control of the schools.
You pointed out nothing. A random list of names of agencies, no links, no citations, nothing. I've provided hard facts that counter your position. Sorry, you're wrong. Proven so. Violent and property crimes are much higher, per capita, in cities and their immediate suburbs than in rural America. Facts are facts, and your wishes don't change them.
Fall asleep at the wheel in your Tesla? That's stupid! I use the AutoPilot so I can peruse Slashdot and answ()&Y%*&P(Y*PPIHSFP(UBBIB:k3018yjnnu233^%%^*
Yep. But focusing on those perps is considered profiling and is verboten, so we have to pay just as much attention to the 87 year old grandmother to make things "fair".
Looks to me that cities and the immediate suburbs are much more dangerous than rural America. Violent crimes and property crimes are twice (or more) likely per capita in cities and their immediate suburbs as compared to rural America.
There are about 240 million 911 calls each year. There are about 900,000 sworn police officers nationwide. That's about 266 calls annually per police officer. Given there are about 240 work days per year (5 per week, 2 weeks vacation, 2 weeks of holidays), that's a little more than 1 call per day. There were about 10,550,000 arrests in 2017, or about 1 per month per police officer. So they're responding to about 22 more dispatches (from 911) than they are arresting. What are the odds your average police officer will only arrest things he sees happening on the street, and not any from the 22 dispatches per month?
So, your contention is that an educational system dominated by Congressional votes from California would work best for Utah and Nebraska? That a system that's geared towards large, urban areas is a sound approach for rural America?
Maybe he posted to point out the fallacy we heard when Chernobyl melted down, that it was going to be an unusable wasteland for 10,000 years. Seems it was pretty much off by a factor around 300 or so...
We should pay more attention to Eisenhower's warning about the Government-Education complex, and how it's feeding off of the US taxpayer as much as the military-industrial complex. For example, the DOD budget in 2016 was $585 billion; Federal and State spending on K-12 education in 2016 was $620 billion. How many people would guess we spend more on education of K-12 than we do on the military?
When DOD cost overruns are found, there is much howling about cutting back to the DOD, increasing oversight, etc. When the educational system fails (as it does), there is handwringing and demand to spend even more. Somehow society has been conditioned to accept failure of the Government-Education complex and reward that failure with even more dollars and apologies.
It is a bit old, but this paper suggests that completing high school results in a significant drop in criminal activity - and that post-secondary education has little impact on criminal behavior (figure 1, page 32). Post-secondary education isn't a driver here - it's K-12, where we dump more than just about any other nation, and we still come well below the OECD average for graduation rates.
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Better yet, the last big feature is so good then talked about it twice. Again. Lol.
I had NO CLUE that rocks would spontaneously dustify themselves! I guess uranium ore self-destructs to dust on its own, and then forces that dust up into the air! That is some dangerous stuff indeed!
My Lenovo P71 with a 4K screen has 254 dpi - better than the 220 dpi of those Macbook retina displays. And it has built-in Pantone color correction/calibration so it's always color-perfect.
Lots of content is generated at 4K - and judging from the number of 8K cameras at CES, there will be a lot of 8K content as well. Netflix and cable will still dither it down to 1080p (at best), but for the content creators - you need an 8K screen to edit your 8K video.
8K was all over CES this year, I can't believe they are doing a stop-gap at 6K. Do either 4K or 8K - and support all the coming media demands for 8K.
Of course flat earthers are wrong. Flat is a two dimensional concept and we clearly do not live in Flatland. Flat Earthers need to change their name to Square Earthers.
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It's OK, the GP doesn't speak Austrian...
There is a direct link between crime and high school graduation; when someone graduates from high school, the odds of them being a criminal drop dramatically. If we're talking about lowering crime rate, the first thing we should do is ensure graduation from high school, since the correlation is so strong.
When the UN is fearmongering about Chernobyl, you know it's just politics. Unfortunately, a man-made disaster like this - and the horror story for "generations to come" - are used by anti-nuke nutters to halt progress towards truly unlimited, clean energy - nuclear.
Funny, the person I was responding to sees it as a reasonable conjecture. What would be your reasoning that the one arrest per month per police officer is NOT the result of their daily dispatch call?
Those States with the fewest votes/Representatives at the Federal level, and with the largest percentage of rural districts, tend to have higher high school graduation rates. If anything, I would suggest that points to more local - rather than State or Federal - control of the schools.
In this entire thread, the only links have been from myself. You've posted nothing other than making provably false statements. Sucks to be you!
You're welcome!
You pointed out nothing. A random list of names of agencies, no links, no citations, nothing. I've provided hard facts that counter your position. Sorry, you're wrong. Proven so. Violent and property crimes are much higher, per capita, in cities and their immediate suburbs than in rural America. Facts are facts, and your wishes don't change them.
Fall asleep at the wheel in your Tesla? That's stupid! I use the AutoPilot so I can peruse Slashdot and answ()&Y%*&P(Y*PPIHSFP(UBBIB:k3018yjnnu233^%%^*
How can a SW engineer actually test the code, given they will never date in the first place?
Yep. But focusing on those perps is considered profiling and is verboten, so we have to pay just as much attention to the 87 year old grandmother to make things "fair".
Looks to me that cities and the immediate suburbs are much more dangerous than rural America. Violent crimes and property crimes are twice (or more) likely per capita in cities and their immediate suburbs as compared to rural America.
There are about 240 million 911 calls each year. There are about 900,000 sworn police officers nationwide. That's about 266 calls annually per police officer. Given there are about 240 work days per year (5 per week, 2 weeks vacation, 2 weeks of holidays), that's a little more than 1 call per day. There were about 10,550,000 arrests in 2017, or about 1 per month per police officer. So they're responding to about 22 more dispatches (from 911) than they are arresting. What are the odds your average police officer will only arrest things he sees happening on the street, and not any from the 22 dispatches per month?
So, your contention is that an educational system dominated by Congressional votes from California would work best for Utah and Nebraska? That a system that's geared towards large, urban areas is a sound approach for rural America?
Maybe he posted to point out the fallacy we heard when Chernobyl melted down, that it was going to be an unusable wasteland for 10,000 years. Seems it was pretty much off by a factor around 300 or so...
It is also the area of ~1,200,000 American football fields. Just to put it into SSUs (Standard Slashdot Units).
That's the problem; we're number 3 in the world in spending per student, and we're 17th out of 22 in the OECD in high school graduation rates.
We should pay more attention to Eisenhower's warning about the Government-Education complex, and how it's feeding off of the US taxpayer as much as the military-industrial complex. For example, the DOD budget in 2016 was $585 billion; Federal and State spending on K-12 education in 2016 was $620 billion. How many people would guess we spend more on education of K-12 than we do on the military?
When DOD cost overruns are found, there is much howling about cutting back to the DOD, increasing oversight, etc. When the educational system fails (as it does), there is handwringing and demand to spend even more. Somehow society has been conditioned to accept failure of the Government-Education complex and reward that failure with even more dollars and apologies.
It is a bit old, but this paper suggests that completing high school results in a significant drop in criminal activity - and that post-secondary education has little impact on criminal behavior (figure 1, page 32). Post-secondary education isn't a driver here - it's K-12, where we dump more than just about any other nation, and we still come well below the OECD average for graduation rates.