I think the idea is that it would eventually render bad cops uninsurable, and thus, unemployable.
Really, though, these are all suggestions to get around the central issue; cops look out for their own, even in the face of blatantly criminal behavior. It's a cultural issue, more than anything.
Argentina isn't desperate and is actually holding on their own, their biggest issue is inflation which is about 25%. So i am surprised to see this story being about Argentina and not Venezuela
Now we venezuelans are indeed in much trouble. The inflation is so high the government doesn't publish it anymore, but is expected to be near 200% per year. Every item you can think of it's scarse since most of them are being imported and the government ran out of dollars since oil price has gone down (and corruption gets getting higher)
We get fingerprinted at supermarkets so we aren't able to buy twice the same item in a week, yet there are people that pay the government and get items and resell them on the black market. I am talking mostly about food, toiler paper and most supplies.
A car here costs more than an apartment, for another example.
Conversion rate is nearly 320 bolivares per USD, while 3 years ago it was about 20 bolivares per USD
Put this another way:
If measles goes through a small town public school with a thousand kids, three of those kids will die. Several will have life-long aftereffects.
If you vaccinate every human being in a large city, *1* will have *some sort* of adverse effect.
If 'reducing possible harm to children' is actually your end goal, there's no way in hell you'd argue against vaccines.
The problem, really, is that there are entire generations who've never seen a playmate die of measles, or have the polio leg braces, or the like.
Yes, this. It seems like the logic here is 'to get a gov't job, you must pass a polygraph test. This man taught people how to skew the results of that test.'
Note that the requirement to get the gov't job isn't 'be truthful and accurate when answering questions about things like criminal history,' but 'pass the polygraph.' Validity of the polygraph doesn't enter into it.
"We shall spread the word of our God by the Sword!" -- heard many times in history.
"We shall spread rational inquiry and the scientific method by the Sword!" -- never heard in history, to my knowledge.
The bible is written that way because it is trying to translate Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek. You can make a readable translation or an accurate translation to English, but not both.
Correct. Personally, I would hope that, when translating what is purported to be 'instruction manual for avoiding eternal damnation, and methods for right thought and living,' they'd go with 'accurate.' This has, however, been objectively proven not to be the case.
It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnson
