It is reasonable to believe that a law enforcement officer who displays this type of character has other victims. Ones that lived, but got incarcerated. Therefore it is reasonable to believe that some of them are still in fact incarcerated, and that incarcerating Goines might put them in contact, with some, well let's say educational opportunities.
I believe that this is the scenario that the AC was hoping...nay praying for.
Those are all nice depictions. I wonder, however, what an electron microscope shot of the actual virus looks like. In color and nicely lit would be nice, but beggars can't be choosers. Oh, and public domain of course.
I recommend you go and read a large number of articles about the FCC or net neutrality that discuss why net neutrality is actually important. Take note that those reasons aren't based upon ideology (i.e. libertarianism), but on the impact on the market (monopolies) and the marketplace (consumers). Take politics as you will, but note that net neutrality was implemented under a Democratic administration and much of the FCC's power was given over under a Republican administration, neither of which is likely to have libertarian leanings.
It's what I heard, which might be different from what they said
FBI documentation of interviews is a joke. They aren't allowed to record these interviews, but take notes instead. The thing is, what is the delta between what the 'suspect' says and what the FBI agent writes down? For all we know, the agent is making out their shopping list. And given the things pointed out in this article, could we even be sure that that shopping list is accurate, or an act of fantasy?
So if interviews are some of the basis for these so called 'Woods' documents, how could they be called 'scrupulously accurate'?
A politician making disingenuous, self-serving yet ideologically (his own) harming statements due to an extreme ignorance of the subject matter (or blindness caused by that ideology). Who woulda thought?
"The court sees no reason to empanel a new jury on the issue of damages, because Clark did not demonstrate at trial the existence of any compensable injury."
For this I blame Clark's lawyer for not adding in time spent in jail, possibly lost wages, and psychological impact injury for being tormented by an out of control cop, etc.. We don't know who the lawyer was, possibly an inexperienced public defender, or worse someone he paid that just didn't do a complete job.
This decision was from a court of appeals, and the case was remanded back to the trial court for "further proceedings". It ain't over. Now whether the trial court has the chutzpah to charge the officers for the perjury they failed to recognize the first time around remains a question. Somehow I doubt they will because to do so would further demonstrate their lacking at their first attempt.
Re: The good, the bad, and the ugly...all at the same time.
Dang, I forgot the point of the article. If the one voice tells all sides, honestly, then the moderators job becomes actually doable. Otherwise we get the mess we have today.
The good, the bad, and the ugly...all at the same time.
The WHO, CDC and Surgeon General may have been speaking from the knowledge that there was a shortage of appropriate masks, and wanted to reserve available supplies for the health care community. It was still bad advice. It would have been better for them to be honest, and tell us that there was a shortage and the better path would be to reserve them for the health care community, until the shortage could be remedied. Actions like this will reduce the public's willingness to accept their advice in the future, something they really don't want to have happen.
Along those lines, I took a look at Amazon's face mask offerings this morning. Many products were listed as being reserved for the health care community, while others that were listed as N95 compliant, and available. One interesting thing I noticed was that the vast majority of the available offerings were being shipped from China. The one that wasn't, listed as being shipped from NY State was a new vendor, and therefore smacked of a hoarder who had just opened his doors. I did not place an order with any of them, though I was looking because I wanted to.
If the government wants us to trust them in this crisis, they need to tell us, with one voice (other than the Mis-speaker in Chief) both the good news and the bad news (full disclosure is important and nothing should be classified), and realistically let us know what they are doing about the bad along with time frame ranges about when they think progress will be made in those areas. Both sides are necessary. Leaving out the bad parts makes them less believable. Not having a comprehensive, total country plan (Florida being the example pointed out most recently) to curb the virus doesn't speak well for them.
Then, when that is in place, work out how they will deal with the economic impact without cronyism (I would say appearance of, but we actually need a severe lack of cronyism) later. It looks like we have at least another 30 days of social distancing/shelter in place to look forward to which should allow them plenty of time to come up with something viable.
Along that 30 more days line, I think it is important that we do that, but I also don't think it will stop the virus. I do think it will turn the trend of increased infections drastically downward. It will take longer than 30 days for them to come up with a viable vaccine, at the very least because of the length of time to do proper testing, even at accelerated rates.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2020 @ 5:32pm
In the world of everything should be owned.
Spin, spin, spin could be taken as turn, turn, turn, which in the world of copyright should give The Byrds, or possibly Pete Seeger a reason to sue. I wonder how much they could get, it seems these organizations have them some deep, deep pockets.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2020 @ 5:20pm
Re: 'Now say it with me: One... two... three...'
Oh, they get counting, they just get lost when they run out of fingers and toes. Besides, they aren't allowed to use sophisticated electronic devices, like tape recorders during witness questioning, so adding machines are out as well.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2020 @ 7:34am
What resources got depleted?
"Efforts like these could conceivably result in more efficient law enforcement activity, directing already-depleted resources to areas in need of the most attention."
What depletion was that? Was there a significant layoff of police officers? Did some whole departments disappear? Did the Dept. of Defense stop selling/giving their out of date (but shockingly over the top for the use intended) equipment to peace officers? Was there a downturn in civil asset collections that tend to fund more civil asset collections?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2020 @ 5:28am
Re: Re: Sharing and anonymization
The coronavirus is spread by contact or near contact with someone who is a carrier. When person A is found to have symptoms, rather than wait for an absolute diagnosis, track down all the people person A has been in contact with in the prior two weeks and get them checked, or better still quarantine them for some time period, like two weeks. Then, as a precaution, track down all the people those tracked from person A have had contact with in the prior two weeks. To do this, one needs location history, either by word of mouth or some other means. If everyone (and I mean everyone) has a location tracker on their person, it becomes easy. Word of mouth might miss someone, say behind or off to the side the person being backtracked.
But to reiterate, what else is done with, and how long it is kept is a big problem for these data.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2020 @ 1:27pm
Sharing and anonymization
Sharing location information is a necessary evil, and anonymization would be pointless as the purpose of such a program is to identify those who have been infected and with whom they have come in contact with, up to two weeks or so prior to their diagnosis. Both will be necessary for the program to be effective.
The thing is, using such data for other purposes, as well as the destruction of the data when no longer needed for pandemic purposes is what is at question. Unfortunately we have yet to see an example of either a private entity or government who would not take advantage of such a treasure trove of data for more than nefarious, or plainly economic purposes. Trust has gone down the proverbial rabbit hole, with many examples giving evidence for mistrust rather than trust.
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Re: Re:
It is reasonable to believe that a law enforcement officer who displays this type of character has other victims. Ones that lived, but got incarcerated. Therefore it is reasonable to believe that some of them are still in fact incarcerated, and that incarcerating Goines might put them in contact, with some, well let's say educational opportunities.
I believe that this is the scenario that the AC was hoping...nay praying for.
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PR vs Reality
Those are all nice depictions. I wonder, however, what an electron microscope shot of the actual virus looks like. In color and nicely lit would be nice, but beggars can't be choosers. Oh, and public domain of course.
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Re:
I recommend you go and read a large number of articles about the FCC or net neutrality that discuss why net neutrality is actually important. Take note that those reasons aren't based upon ideology (i.e. libertarianism), but on the impact on the market (monopolies) and the marketplace (consumers). Take politics as you will, but note that net neutrality was implemented under a Democratic administration and much of the FCC's power was given over under a Republican administration, neither of which is likely to have libertarian leanings.
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Appropriate Rewards
May their so, so insightful investment strategies fail miserably. Either that, or they get fined into bankruptcy.
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It's what I heard, which might be different from what they said
FBI documentation of interviews is a joke. They aren't allowed to record these interviews, but take notes instead. The thing is, what is the delta between what the 'suspect' says and what the FBI agent writes down? For all we know, the agent is making out their shopping list. And given the things pointed out in this article, could we even be sure that that shopping list is accurate, or an act of fantasy?
So if interviews are some of the basis for these so called 'Woods' documents, how could they be called 'scrupulously accurate'?
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Hmmph
A politician making disingenuous, self-serving yet ideologically (his own) harming statements due to an extreme ignorance of the subject matter (or blindness caused by that ideology). Who woulda thought?
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Incomplete work
For this I blame Clark's lawyer for not adding in time spent in jail, possibly lost wages, and psychological impact injury for being tormented by an out of control cop, etc.. We don't know who the lawyer was, possibly an inexperienced public defender, or worse someone he paid that just didn't do a complete job.
On the post: Court Tells Lying Cops That Someone Asserting Their Rights Isn't 'Reasonably Suspicious'
Re:
This decision was from a court of appeals, and the case was remanded back to the trial court for "further proceedings". It ain't over. Now whether the trial court has the chutzpah to charge the officers for the perjury they failed to recognize the first time around remains a question. Somehow I doubt they will because to do so would further demonstrate their lacking at their first attempt.
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Re: The good, the bad, and the ugly...all at the same time.
Dang, I forgot the point of the article. If the one voice tells all sides, honestly, then the moderators job becomes actually doable. Otherwise we get the mess we have today.
On the post: How Do You Moderate COVID-19 Misinformation When It's Coming From Official Sources?
The good, the bad, and the ugly...all at the same time.
The WHO, CDC and Surgeon General may have been speaking from the knowledge that there was a shortage of appropriate masks, and wanted to reserve available supplies for the health care community. It was still bad advice. It would have been better for them to be honest, and tell us that there was a shortage and the better path would be to reserve them for the health care community, until the shortage could be remedied. Actions like this will reduce the public's willingness to accept their advice in the future, something they really don't want to have happen.
Along those lines, I took a look at Amazon's face mask offerings this morning. Many products were listed as being reserved for the health care community, while others that were listed as N95 compliant, and available. One interesting thing I noticed was that the vast majority of the available offerings were being shipped from China. The one that wasn't, listed as being shipped from NY State was a new vendor, and therefore smacked of a hoarder who had just opened his doors. I did not place an order with any of them, though I was looking because I wanted to.
If the government wants us to trust them in this crisis, they need to tell us, with one voice (other than the Mis-speaker in Chief) both the good news and the bad news (full disclosure is important and nothing should be classified), and realistically let us know what they are doing about the bad along with time frame ranges about when they think progress will be made in those areas. Both sides are necessary. Leaving out the bad parts makes them less believable. Not having a comprehensive, total country plan (Florida being the example pointed out most recently) to curb the virus doesn't speak well for them.
Then, when that is in place, work out how they will deal with the economic impact without cronyism (I would say appearance of, but we actually need a severe lack of cronyism) later. It looks like we have at least another 30 days of social distancing/shelter in place to look forward to which should allow them plenty of time to come up with something viable.
Along that 30 more days line, I think it is important that we do that, but I also don't think it will stop the virus. I do think it will turn the trend of increased infections drastically downward. It will take longer than 30 days for them to come up with a viable vaccine, at the very least because of the length of time to do proper testing, even at accelerated rates.
This reminds me of a part of the Tibetan Memory Trick from Flo and Eddie but also known as the Announcers Test, and here is Jerry Lewis's version.
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Over eager legal beagles
Is that a new breed of dog, or some lesser species? They seem to be breeding exponentially.
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Re: Re: In the world of everything should be owned.
Pete Seeger wrote the song, maybe he got it from the Bible. The Byrds might have claim to some copying of their recording.
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In the world of everything should be owned.
Spin, spin, spin could be taken as turn, turn, turn, which in the world of copyright should give The Byrds, or possibly Pete Seeger a reason to sue. I wonder how much they could get, it seems these organizations have them some deep, deep pockets.
/s
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Re: 'Now say it with me: One... two... three...'
Oh, they get counting, they just get lost when they run out of fingers and toes. Besides, they aren't allowed to use sophisticated electronic devices, like tape recorders during witness questioning, so adding machines are out as well.
On the post: FOIA'ed DOJ Report Points Out The Downsides Of Relying On 'Predictive Policing' To Fight Crime
Predictive Policing Analogy
Darts, which represent the actions take by police.
Dart Boards, which are segmented with high crime areas represented in the larger segments.
Blind Folded Dart Throwers, which is how police management determines where to deploy their assets.
Score keeping, which is the analysis of the studies done to date.
What could go wrong is that someone will claim their predictive policing worked, and that someone else will believe them.
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What resources got depleted?
What depletion was that? Was there a significant layoff of police officers? Did some whole departments disappear? Did the Dept. of Defense stop selling/giving their out of date (but shockingly over the top for the use intended) equipment to peace officers? Was there a downturn in civil asset collections that tend to fund more civil asset collections?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Sharing and anonymization
Where did I say it had to be cellphones?
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Re: Re: Sharing and anonymization
The coronavirus is spread by contact or near contact with someone who is a carrier. When person A is found to have symptoms, rather than wait for an absolute diagnosis, track down all the people person A has been in contact with in the prior two weeks and get them checked, or better still quarantine them for some time period, like two weeks. Then, as a precaution, track down all the people those tracked from person A have had contact with in the prior two weeks. To do this, one needs location history, either by word of mouth or some other means. If everyone (and I mean everyone) has a location tracker on their person, it becomes easy. Word of mouth might miss someone, say behind or off to the side the person being backtracked.
But to reiterate, what else is done with, and how long it is kept is a big problem for these data.
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Re:
MPAA, RIAA, Authors Guild, etc., or their country counterparts. Just don't expect a coherent, comprehensive, all inclusive answer.
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Sharing and anonymization
Sharing location information is a necessary evil, and anonymization would be pointless as the purpose of such a program is to identify those who have been infected and with whom they have come in contact with, up to two weeks or so prior to their diagnosis. Both will be necessary for the program to be effective.
The thing is, using such data for other purposes, as well as the destruction of the data when no longer needed for pandemic purposes is what is at question. Unfortunately we have yet to see an example of either a private entity or government who would not take advantage of such a treasure trove of data for more than nefarious, or plainly economic purposes. Trust has gone down the proverbial rabbit hole, with many examples giving evidence for mistrust rather than trust.
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