We have the second amendment and being a cop isn't a particularly dangerous job and not dangerous really at all once you account for traffic accidents. We had the second amendment back when most all cops carried a 38 special 6 shot revolver and it was a relatively safe job then as well. Prior to 1934 their adverseries could easily and legally get their hand on fully automatic weapons, no $200 tax stamp and no CLEO approval, and cops were still fairly safe. If we had strict gun control I suspect whatever small cop shooting criminal element there is wouldn't be deterred in using firearms against a cop given that by definition they've already demonstrated a willingness to break the law.
What vastly superior weapons do you think are routinely used against cops? The USMC gave me a bolt action rifle and a pistol and sent me off traipsing around Fallujah while a war was going on, and I didn't feel outgunned. I doubt the average cop faces much more danger than I did and the statistics bear that out.
I'm not for cops not having guns I just think the training and tools they receive don't reflect the reality of their jobs. You are more likely to run into a mentally ill homeless guy than a machine gun toting psychopath, so stop fretting over which drop leg rig lets you transition to your secondary the fastest and spend that time figuring out how to do the actual job that you'll actually be doing.
As perplexing as it is for me to disagree with someone who links to Jeff Cooper, even if it is Wikipedia, the idea that cops need to be better armed for safety reasons is far overblown.
In the US being a cop is safer than being a fisherman. And the relatively few cops who are hurt or killed on the job get it from traffic accidents, not suspects shooting them or beating them or the like. So if you really want to help keep cops safe you should argue to abolish high speed chases. But since traffic accidents don't play well on TV but 2 guys robbing a bank in body armor does, the change cops get is an AR they'll never used in the trunk of their cruiser while they choke slam the guy who on the verge of a diabetic coma because they haven't been trained well enough to recognize he isn't drunk.
They'll shoot that AR once a year, when they qual, and that is it.
I'm usually someone's guest at the SHOT show. In the five years I've been going the cop supply people have slowly merged to become indistinguishable from the military supply people, pitching SWAT level gear as indispensible for every beat cop out there. This is almost all pointless chest thumping. Most of that gear will never be used.
I go through a lot of Apple hardware in the course of my business. Any time I have a problem I try to walk into an Apple store to get it taken care of. Their face to face CS is excellent, over the phone is pretty much the same as everyone else.
This is not unusual for companies that position themselves as high end brands. If you can pull it off, pretend you are going to buy a Cartier watch in a Cartier store and they'll outfit you with a Cohiba to smoke and some high end scotch to drink while you make up your mind. Free shoe shine. Ridiculous stuff.
People yell at the CS rep who answers the phone, but deep down they know that person isn't the architect of their circumstances. Even if you followed the Slashdot logic and held Steve Jobs personally responsible for this specific exploding iPod, it isn't like you can just walk into his office off the street.
I don't know how CAFOs are run in the EU, but in the US antibiotics in feed are common in poultry CAFOs, at least according to Purdue, and these pork folks lobbying to keep them in use.
Your not having heard of ethylene gas being used to ripen tomatoes matters very little to me.
As for beef, marbling isn't the only thing that matters to the palate. I've had properly fed, properly handled, properly prepared Angus plenty of times, and I prefer Hereford. I prefer caribou venison over both though, so maybe I am odd.
And I did not write "growth hormone" I wrote "chemicals". In the US growth hormones are illegal to use with chickens and turkeys, have been for a long time. "Chemicals", it will surprise you to learn, include antibiotics. Those are added to fowl feed often to keep them in good health despite extremely high population densities inside CAFOs. You don't even have to inject it, they eat the stuff right up.
Pigs do too. Again CAFOs need chemical food additives otherwise the animals will all die.
And as with cattle, swine and fowl breeds are selected for fast growth over quality. Tamworth hogs make tastier bacon, but Wal-Mart doesn't compete on taste.
I'm surrounded my what you are calling micro-farmers. They can't possibly compete with large scale farms on price, so they differentiate on flavor and seem to be having success with that.
Some organic product will actually last longer than their alternatives. Milk is one but the reason has less to do with the way it is produced than with they way it is handled after (Pasteurization versus UHT). The big longevity advantages usually come from the fact that micro-farms serve a smaller area and thus their products don't spend as much time in transit to the customer. If a tomato is properly ripened in California on the same day as one in Story, Indiana, the one from Story is going to last longer in my kitchen because I'm going to get it sooner.
You may already know this, but you wrote "I think" so I get an opening. Most tomatoes you buy in supermarkets are picked green and reddened with Ethlyene gas. That turns them bright red but doesn't change them structurally so they are still somewhat hard and transport well. They also don't develop as much fructose and taste like crap.
With beef the Angus craze gives me a laugh. Advertising has led people to think that as long as you buy Black Angus beef you are getting the best steak around. But the benefits of Angus cattle accrue mostly to the people selling the beef, since their main difference is that they put on weight faster than other breeds. The pork industry is actually worse off in this regard. Chickens and Turkeys less so on the flavor side but more so on the pump-them-full-of-chemicals-so-they-grow-fast side.
No actually, carbohydrates can't really be classfied in such a generic way.
You can classify them by glycemic index and say that maybe someone who sits at a desk all day and in front of a TV all night doesn't have a need for any food with a high GI (ie - converted into useful energy quickly). But, an example from the bike race I just came back from watching, a Tour de France rider certainly does. So do most other athletes and anyone else who is fairly lean but active.
Fad diets tend to dumb everything down. And in order to sell themselves they have to tell you that you can eat lots of food and still lose weight. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of thermodynamics should know that is false, but aparently enough people slept through 3rd grade science that such claims can still make money. Anyway, to stave off a rant, a lot more headway could be made by getting people to understand what happens to food once they eat it than by making generic lists with headings EAT and DO NOT EAT.
I don't know how large a company KIRO 7 is, but using the phrase "alarming number of" instead of "15", to sensationalize a story, is certainly unethical.
This doesn't give Apple a pass but we have no way of knowing what they've done internally to address the problem. Could be nothing. Regardless, I don't blame them for not wanting the story widely reported in the media.
The book industry is still pretty big and it seems to be growing. Electronic books are maybe 10% of sales last I read. The primary business of one of the internet's biggest retailers is paper books.
And I'm not sure what you mean by 'traditional media' but television and the rest of Hollywood continue to do well. Some things have changed, for sure, but most of the business is still in the hands of the people it was in before in internet.
Why would anyone think that paying by the mile would reduce the amount I'm driving?
I doubt anyone in this situation has concerned themselves with you specifically, but I imagine they base their expectations on the rise in gasoline prices a couple of years having shown that its price elasticity of demand wasn't quite what everyone thought. Since demand for gasoline dropped sooner than expected it is true that cost per mile will eventually force people to cut back on driving.
I find it funny that the 'Group Program Manager' for UI design puts together a typically garbage littered powerpoint slide show to explain UI changes. That thing has less information density than a cereal box label, is full of chartjunk graphs and chartjunk flowcharts, seems obsessed with changing background colors on a slide by slide basis, and continues the bullet point soundbyte meme as nauseum.
The sole redeeming feature is that once he got rolling he used a lot of actual screenshots. I'm amazed the ribbon came out as decent as it did.
That is something along the lines of what Dan Duchaine describes in his book Body Opus. Essentially Atkins priciples applied to athletes who aren't 'fat'.
It is very useful for reducing body fat while maintaining muscle mass, or at least for me it was. Several friends and I did cycles of his diet for months on end while in the USMC and none of us suffered for it. We weren't diabetics of course but our blood ph never wacked out.
A 10s of thousands offer would be outbribed I think.
According to this an $18 million contract would require a bribe of a boat + 100k. Presumably 240k cash would work as well. Those are 2005 dollars though.
Because the sort of person who requires a bribe in exchange for awarding a contract probably doesn't care who has a foot in the door, they care only about the bribe.
Duke Cunningham made lists and, although there were some advantages of scale in his bribe menu, there were no 'foot in the door' clauses.
You don't get space on the NYT site, or front page Slashdot, by noting that standalone GPS sales are down 29 percent. If you use that data to make some ridiculous assumption that standalone GPS will soon go extinct, you get space in the business section so you can be read by people who's business models are based on continual expansion of a given market.
And space on sites where technology is seen as a juggernaut that crushes everything in its path.
People are still making really nice orienteering compasses.
You can still buy new quad maps of most anywehere on earth.
I am not positive, but you can probably still buy sextants.
In the summer here we have a pretty heavy tree canopy and most GPSs take forever to find their position, if they can at all. A friend of mine runs a restaurant at the end of a trail out of a National Forest and he gets a lot of lost GPS equipped hikers and riders stopping for directions. While these people have no local knowledge to destroy they also won't build any on repeat trips if they just use GPS.
But navigating with a compass and map is an excellent skill to build. At the very least you learn to navigate by looking at what is around you rather than starting at a screen. On a recent trip to the DRC I followed some locals through some of the heaviest jungle I've ever seen and tried to keep up with our location via compass and map, no GPS signal available. These guys took us pretty much straight to our location. They claim they navigate by remembering landmarks. I imagine that is the kind of local knowledge you build from not watching your GPS screen and instead paying attention to the subtleties of what is around you, because that whole trip looked all the same to me.
I prefer the old Slashdot, just after karma was implemented but before all of the anti-trolling/anti-crapflooding countermeasures. It certainly was more entertaining and it was eaiser to use, even for non-trolls.
Here I am a user who has never done any actual trolling, yet I have to wait XX number of seconds between posts. If I want to comment anonymously I have to wait who knows how long between each. Hours? I can't make short posts no matter how useful. Can't use all caps even when appropriate. Can't make the same post twice.
Back in the day I could do all those things. Sure we had penis birds everywhere if you browsed a -1 and Shoeboy got a +5 Funny FP on every article, but that was a small price to pay for freedom. Another ancilliary benefit was that people usually recognized actual trolls rather than got trolled by them. If you were in doubt you could crosscheck a post at inchfan.
Page widening and goatse links did more to wreck the place than any actual trolls.
He certianly benefitted from good timing, but Broadcast.com was a profitable venture on its own before Yahoo bought it. He also had enough financial skill to sort the good offers from the bad. It isn't like everyone in the dot com business made out like bandits.
Consider that Slashdot sold to Andover in the same time frame, then on to LNUX not long after that. Cuban owns the Mavs and Taco's LNUX shares probably wouldn't buy an ice cream cone.
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Oh I understand just fine.
We have the second amendment and being a cop isn't a particularly dangerous job and not dangerous really at all once you account for traffic accidents. We had the second amendment back when most all cops carried a 38 special 6 shot revolver and it was a relatively safe job then as well. Prior to 1934 their adverseries could easily and legally get their hand on fully automatic weapons, no $200 tax stamp and no CLEO approval, and cops were still fairly safe. If we had strict gun control I suspect whatever small cop shooting criminal element there is wouldn't be deterred in using firearms against a cop given that by definition they've already demonstrated a willingness to break the law.
What vastly superior weapons do you think are routinely used against cops? The USMC gave me a bolt action rifle and a pistol and sent me off traipsing around Fallujah while a war was going on, and I didn't feel outgunned. I doubt the average cop faces much more danger than I did and the statistics bear that out.
I'm not for cops not having guns I just think the training and tools they receive don't reflect the reality of their jobs. You are more likely to run into a mentally ill homeless guy than a machine gun toting psychopath, so stop fretting over which drop leg rig lets you transition to your secondary the fastest and spend that time figuring out how to do the actual job that you'll actually be doing.
As perplexing as it is for me to disagree with someone who links to Jeff Cooper, even if it is Wikipedia, the idea that cops need to be better armed for safety reasons is far overblown.
In the US being a cop is safer than being a fisherman. And the relatively few cops who are hurt or killed on the job get it from traffic accidents, not suspects shooting them or beating them or the like. So if you really want to help keep cops safe you should argue to abolish high speed chases. But since traffic accidents don't play well on TV but 2 guys robbing a bank in body armor does, the change cops get is an AR they'll never used in the trunk of their cruiser while they choke slam the guy who on the verge of a diabetic coma because they haven't been trained well enough to recognize he isn't drunk.
They'll shoot that AR once a year, when they qual, and that is it.
I'm usually someone's guest at the SHOT show. In the five years I've been going the cop supply people have slowly merged to become indistinguishable from the military supply people, pitching SWAT level gear as indispensible for every beat cop out there. This is almost all pointless chest thumping. Most of that gear will never be used.
I go through a lot of Apple hardware in the course of my business. Any time I have a problem I try to walk into an Apple store to get it taken care of. Their face to face CS is excellent, over the phone is pretty much the same as everyone else.
This is not unusual for companies that position themselves as high end brands. If you can pull it off, pretend you are going to buy a Cartier watch in a Cartier store and they'll outfit you with a Cohiba to smoke and some high end scotch to drink while you make up your mind. Free shoe shine. Ridiculous stuff.
Because it isn't effective?
People yell at the CS rep who answers the phone, but deep down they know that person isn't the architect of their circumstances. Even if you followed the Slashdot logic and held Steve Jobs personally responsible for this specific exploding iPod, it isn't like you can just walk into his office off the street.
Not according to People v. Clark.
Best comment possibly ever.
Since I just posted in this story I'm going to sprinkle all 5 of my mod points across your previous 5 comments.
In San Francisco you can only open carry your "oscilloscope".
I don't know how CAFOs are run in the EU, but in the US antibiotics in feed are common in poultry CAFOs, at least according to Purdue, and these pork folks lobbying to keep them in use.
And here is the New York Time on the matter. Purdue again. Some probably biased special interest group. Virginia Department of Health. And here is an EPA ruling where I conveniently highlighted the word Antibiotic to make it easier for you to find.
Your not having heard of ethylene gas being used to ripen tomatoes matters very little to me.
As for beef, marbling isn't the only thing that matters to the palate. I've had properly fed, properly handled, properly prepared Angus plenty of times, and I prefer Hereford. I prefer caribou venison over both though, so maybe I am odd.
And I did not write "growth hormone" I wrote "chemicals". In the US growth hormones are illegal to use with chickens and turkeys, have been for a long time. "Chemicals", it will surprise you to learn, include antibiotics. Those are added to fowl feed often to keep them in good health despite extremely high population densities inside CAFOs. You don't even have to inject it, they eat the stuff right up.
Pigs do too. Again CAFOs need chemical food additives otherwise the animals will all die.
And as with cattle, swine and fowl breeds are selected for fast growth over quality. Tamworth hogs make tastier bacon, but Wal-Mart doesn't compete on taste.
The post that led to this mentions meat, and for those 'huge' has a clear definition.
I'm surrounded my what you are calling micro-farmers. They can't possibly compete with large scale farms on price, so they differentiate on flavor and seem to be having success with that.
Some organic product will actually last longer than their alternatives. Milk is one but the reason has less to do with the way it is produced than with they way it is handled after (Pasteurization versus UHT). The big longevity advantages usually come from the fact that micro-farms serve a smaller area and thus their products don't spend as much time in transit to the customer. If a tomato is properly ripened in California on the same day as one in Story, Indiana, the one from Story is going to last longer in my kitchen because I'm going to get it sooner.
You may already know this, but you wrote "I think" so I get an opening. Most tomatoes you buy in supermarkets are picked green and reddened with Ethlyene gas. That turns them bright red but doesn't change them structurally so they are still somewhat hard and transport well. They also don't develop as much fructose and taste like crap.
With beef the Angus craze gives me a laugh. Advertising has led people to think that as long as you buy Black Angus beef you are getting the best steak around. But the benefits of Angus cattle accrue mostly to the people selling the beef, since their main difference is that they put on weight faster than other breeds. The pork industry is actually worse off in this regard. Chickens and Turkeys less so on the flavor side but more so on the pump-them-full-of-chemicals-so-they-grow-fast side.
No actually, carbohydrates can't really be classfied in such a generic way.
You can classify them by glycemic index and say that maybe someone who sits at a desk all day and in front of a TV all night doesn't have a need for any food with a high GI (ie - converted into useful energy quickly). But, an example from the bike race I just came back from watching, a Tour de France rider certainly does. So do most other athletes and anyone else who is fairly lean but active.
Fad diets tend to dumb everything down. And in order to sell themselves they have to tell you that you can eat lots of food and still lose weight. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of thermodynamics should know that is false, but aparently enough people slept through 3rd grade science that such claims can still make money. Anyway, to stave off a rant, a lot more headway could be made by getting people to understand what happens to food once they eat it than by making generic lists with headings EAT and DO NOT EAT.
I don't know how large a company KIRO 7 is, but using the phrase "alarming number of" instead of "15", to sensationalize a story, is certainly unethical.
This doesn't give Apple a pass but we have no way of knowing what they've done internally to address the problem. Could be nothing. Regardless, I don't blame them for not wanting the story widely reported in the media.
How were they right?
The book industry is still pretty big and it seems to be growing. Electronic books are maybe 10% of sales last I read. The primary business of one of the internet's biggest retailers is paper books.
And I'm not sure what you mean by 'traditional media' but television and the rest of Hollywood continue to do well. Some things have changed, for sure, but most of the business is still in the hands of the people it was in before in internet.
Why would anyone think that paying by the mile would reduce the amount I'm driving?
I doubt anyone in this situation has concerned themselves with you specifically, but I imagine they base their expectations on the rise in gasoline prices a couple of years having shown that its price elasticity of demand wasn't quite what everyone thought. Since demand for gasoline dropped sooner than expected it is true that cost per mile will eventually force people to cut back on driving.
I find it funny that the 'Group Program Manager' for UI design puts together a typically garbage littered powerpoint slide show to explain UI changes. That thing has less information density than a cereal box label, is full of chartjunk graphs and chartjunk flowcharts, seems obsessed with changing background colors on a slide by slide basis, and continues the bullet point soundbyte meme as nauseum.
The sole redeeming feature is that once he got rolling he used a lot of actual screenshots. I'm amazed the ribbon came out as decent as it did.
That is something along the lines of what Dan Duchaine describes in his book Body Opus. Essentially Atkins priciples applied to athletes who aren't 'fat'.
It is very useful for reducing body fat while maintaining muscle mass, or at least for me it was. Several friends and I did cycles of his diet for months on end while in the USMC and none of us suffered for it. We weren't diabetics of course but our blood ph never wacked out.
Guess what the intended market for this is.....and that is the used price.
A 10s of thousands offer would be outbribed I think.
According to this an $18 million contract would require a bribe of a boat + 100k. Presumably 240k cash would work as well. Those are 2005 dollars though.
Because the sort of person who requires a bribe in exchange for awarding a contract probably doesn't care who has a foot in the door, they care only about the bribe.
Duke Cunningham made lists and, although there were some advantages of scale in his bribe menu, there were no 'foot in the door' clauses.
You don't get space on the NYT site, or front page Slashdot, by noting that standalone GPS sales are down 29 percent. If you use that data to make some ridiculous assumption that standalone GPS will soon go extinct, you get space in the business section so you can be read by people who's business models are based on continual expansion of a given market.
And space on sites where technology is seen as a juggernaut that crushes everything in its path.
People are still making really nice orienteering compasses.
You can still buy new quad maps of most anywehere on earth.
I am not positive, but you can probably still buy sextants.
Orienteering course.
In the summer here we have a pretty heavy tree canopy and most GPSs take forever to find their position, if they can at all. A friend of mine runs a restaurant at the end of a trail out of a National Forest and he gets a lot of lost GPS equipped hikers and riders stopping for directions. While these people have no local knowledge to destroy they also won't build any on repeat trips if they just use GPS.
But navigating with a compass and map is an excellent skill to build. At the very least you learn to navigate by looking at what is around you rather than starting at a screen. On a recent trip to the DRC I followed some locals through some of the heaviest jungle I've ever seen and tried to keep up with our location via compass and map, no GPS signal available. These guys took us pretty much straight to our location. They claim they navigate by remembering landmarks. I imagine that is the kind of local knowledge you build from not watching your GPS screen and instead paying attention to the subtleties of what is around you, because that whole trip looked all the same to me.
I am of a differing opinion.
I prefer the old Slashdot, just after karma was implemented but before all of the anti-trolling/anti-crapflooding countermeasures. It certainly was more entertaining and it was eaiser to use, even for non-trolls.
Here I am a user who has never done any actual trolling, yet I have to wait XX number of seconds between posts. If I want to comment anonymously I have to wait who knows how long between each. Hours? I can't make short posts no matter how useful. Can't use all caps even when appropriate. Can't make the same post twice.
Back in the day I could do all those things. Sure we had penis birds everywhere if you browsed a -1 and Shoeboy got a +5 Funny FP on every article, but that was a small price to pay for freedom. Another ancilliary benefit was that people usually recognized actual trolls rather than got trolled by them. If you were in doubt you could crosscheck a post at inchfan.
Page widening and goatse links did more to wreck the place than any actual trolls.
He certianly benefitted from good timing, but Broadcast.com was a profitable venture on its own before Yahoo bought it. He also had enough financial skill to sort the good offers from the bad. It isn't like everyone in the dot com business made out like bandits.
Consider that Slashdot sold to Andover in the same time frame, then on to LNUX not long after that. Cuban owns the Mavs and Taco's LNUX shares probably wouldn't buy an ice cream cone.