mrestko

If you read the article, in at least one instance someone ended up with a broken jaw. That much force is definitely enough to kill someone, it would just depend where they were hit and their baseline health. Imagine a child standing next to the machine when it fell apart. Or an older person getting hit in the head.

Well there's this infamous interaction which is shown to most U.S. officers during their training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSELcrJ7Kw

Admittedly, the officer starts the interaction with a command rather than a cheery, "aright mate," but I'm not certain that would have changed the outcome. The murderer later said during questioning that he killed the officer, "because he let me."

There is a very different dynamic in the US with regard to authority compared to the UK. I do think that US police have become too militarized. In particular with regard to the military-style raids discussed in the original article. However, I'm not certain that US cops can simply assume the attitudes of British cops without wider cultural transformation in the country at large.

I think the general public is unaware of how dangerous physical altercations are. The antisepsis of staged fight scenes on TV make it seem like any well-trained person can recover from a tussle and be back to normal by the next scene. In the real world, it only takes seconds for a struggle to turn fatal, even discarding the presence of any other weapons.

In the case of a police officer carrying a gun, all physical fights have to be assumed to be fights to the death. If the officer gets knocked out, there is now a loaded weapon on the table that is no longer under the control of the officer.

(Edited to fix typos.)

> "Planning to Execute Occupy Protesters With Sniper Teams"

One hit on Google to your usage here. Please provide a citation.

I thought Bump was a pretty cool idea. It's a shame that it didn't take off.

I live right by here and had actually noticed an odd sign in the window of that shop referencing some problem with car key fobs and that "the police are aware". Maybe I'll stop by and take a picture tomorrow if I have time.

Sounds like alcohol might have been involved.

Didn't you hear? "Climate change is weaponizing the atmosphere."

Aye, which supports the argument I was trying to make even more strongly. We will not realistically replace drug discovery as currently practiced in academia and industry with open source efforts.

The resources required to work on open source software: a computer for maybe $200-$300, an internet connection, and curiosity. The resources required to discover a new therapy and prove that it is safe and effective: Literally hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for tools and equipment needed for biotechnology research and to fund the salaries of the researchers and support staff. Hundreds more to run large scale clinical trials.

He does write about this in one of his books (although I've forgotten which one). He tells a story about arguing with a colleague and coming to the conclusion that "trivial" in the context of mathematics is often used to simply mean "it is proven" not that it is necessarily trivial to arrive that the solution.

His videos are wonderful.

Got in a shouting match with a cabbie once in Chicago for this same thing and when I opened the door to get out after he insisted repeatedly his machine wasn't working, he threatened to kill me if I didn't pay. Then, when I threatened to call the cops, his machine immediately started working.

There's no maybe. You're weird. Nearly all maps we're exposed to growing up have North at the top of the page. However, you would be right at home in this segment of West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU

I was not aware of that. Thanks for clarifying.

The amount forgiven is counted as income for that year and is taxed as such. I believe this is what the preceding commenter was asking about.

They should use real video on their homepage instead of CGI. I immediately thought this had to be a scam until I watched the Smarter Every Day video linked in the commments.

I don't think your Groupon experience is representative.

It's funny, this is the exact opposite advice I've heard from most business owners. They all have recommended learning enough accounting to make sure that you understand what's going on with your books so that you're never fully trusting someone else to handle your money.

I believe the issue is overall capacity. Sure, you can up transaction fees and get your transaction processed rapidly. But that's not a sustainable strategy if bitcoin continues to rise in popularity. Since total capacity isn't increased, you will have more and more people competing for what capacity exists and this will lead to ever-escalating fees.

A few more examples would have been nice.

I believe adding ".LOG" to the beginning of file also automatically inserts the date each time you open the file so you can use it as a journal. I don't have access to Windows right now to test that though.

Other nerdy folks will be happy to grant that an icon is merely that and not intended to be a perfect embodiment of a molecule.

No offense but "ew". The demo page is hideous and I don't see how you can easily do graphics with that. Maybe it's fine for making slides for people to look at later, but for actual presentations slides, that looks like a recipe for PowerPoint hell.

LibreOffice Impress is horrifically bad. The Undo function is unreliable which is an enormous data-destroying pain in the ass when editing a presentation. The tools for editing text and vector graphics are also inconsistent and buggy.

Then don't use it. It's clearly designed for a specific use case and there's no reason to expect that use case to apply to every user of email.

Most heinous example of poor kerning in a professional publication: http://i.imgur.com/Z1869gK.jpg

Yeah, but why start with an exceedingly painful one except to needlessly inflict pain and suffering on students. Better to lay the groundwork with a friendlier language, learn the basics, and then move on to the more complicated gottchas (at least in my amateur opinion).

Wow, he has interesting handwriting.

Why did you use the archive.org link?