By that logic we should probably have sent food instead of soldiers to Iraq.

Does the old saying "gimme liberty or gimme death" tell you something? There are people who value their freedom higher than their life. Granted, they become rare...

I am so tired of it phrased this way as it makes it sound. You make it sound like Obama brought in this secret treaty with him to screw everyone for the media interests benefit. The treaty was started long before the current president was in office. So yes its same boss but same agenda.

With that many tries she should have been able to choose random answers and still pass the test with a 60% a long time ago

"Poverty is very often linked to ethnicity *specifically*"

More generically, it is linked to immigration date plus the ability to integrate in society.

There used to be Irish ghettos in America. There wasn't as much resistance to their integration, so those ghettos disappeared.

The resistance to African American integration due to racism, and the very long duration of that resistance, meant that the African American community (inner cities, etc..) had created a new city culture, that sadly, is largely stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty.

I've watched many documentaries on that vicious cycle, and at this point, it has very little to do with racism. That culture that was created, almost as a defense mechanism to racism, seems to be now holding itself back.

From what gather, the most effective programs in the ghettos tend to get kids involved at a very early age in community development and pride, and tend to try to help the family as a whole, not just the kid. Unfortunately, those inner city programs are very underfunded for the task they have in front of them.

I was one of the people that had a very bad experience with SORBS.

My company got a new ISP with an external block. I'm sure at some point that block had been used as a dynamic range. I had not set a PTR record (because the IP of the mail server changed at the last second), my PTR and A record for that mail server were not set to 12 hours (seriously, who does that?), and I was banned on the SORBS list. I had an SPF record, you could obviously see that I'm part of a legitimate organization, and it would have taken maybe 2 minutes of work for an physical admin to realize that this was a mistake.

It took two support tickets with SORBS, 5 calls to my ISP, and around 10 days to get off the list. In the meantime, we could not contact certain people using it. And what's worse is that the only solution that the admin of SORBS had was to get everyone to stop using the SORBS list. I think that the TTL requirements are the worst part of their solution.

In my opinion, an unattended, automated black list is worse than the problem of too much spam. You are blocking valid mails, and because you are blocking it at the IP level, the end user doesn't even see it show up in their spam bucket many times. If SORBS had a single admin, checking their email once a day, they could easily filter out some of these issues.

I encouraged several anti-spam vendors to stop using their services for this reason, through the different companies that we interact with. There are several other blacklists that do their job well, there is no need to use an unattended blacklist.

Yeah not remembering parts of my drive happens to me quite often. I think kind of thing only happens on commonly driven routes, like your daily route to work and back. My route is 20/80 city/highway and the highway portion has one set of lights, one 90 turn, a couple minor bends and 1 or 2 stop signs. It's very easy for the mind to wander, especially since there is very little of interest to look at, unless you're really into checking out how well Farmer Joe's crops are doing. It's quite a boring drive so it's also unfortunately quite easy to catch yourself drifting off to sleep if you're tired. I find that when I struggle to stay awake during the drive home, I'm not usually tired anymore when I get out of the car, probably because I'm no longer sitting in a nice comfy seat doing something that requires little to no input... straight road, so no need to steer and with the car on cruise no need to keep my foot on the accelerator.

Do they make cars with emergency brakes anymore? My last 4 cars have only had a parking brake, that manually activates the rear brakes. In my current car, the rear brakes are so pathetically small that I doubt they would do much. The drum brake in my previous car might have done it, but that car was front wheel drive with a big weight imbalance. I'm pretty sure the rears would have locked up before they slowed the car down at all.

Not only that but if texting wasn't available, would the fatality rate have been even lower than it is? Increases in safety, better highway design, etc may have reduced the fatality rate much more than texting has increased it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fix the problem...

You make a very good point. I did change it to wikipedia, but i think that i will change it back now. Otherwise I would be out of a job in about a week. Or is this fate? The first article that came back for me was about beer!

Actually, I think you inherit California's debt. That is why Halcyon had to file for chapter 11.

Not as long as they are making money

What's the signal for "Windows has crashed and I have to wait for it to reboot"?

You're making a common mistake in applying statistics to an individual.

It doesn't really matter to my personal survival what is the death rate per mile for the entire population.

My risk assessment takes into account my own personal driving skills, the vehicle I drive and it's relative merits in it's current operating environment and a multitude of other factors.

My reaction times aren't what they were when I was a teenager, but my ability to detect and avoid dangerous situations is much better than most people. That much is obvious to me when I'm a passenger.

The average driver is only minimally engaged with his vehicle.

So I'd say that generally speaking, my odds are better than most people's are when I'm driving.

OTOH - my odds are probably better than most people in an air crash that's not immediately fatal to all on board, as I'm perfecting willing to claw my way over women and children to get to an egress point.

That's what initially surprised me about the argument that sloppiness was good.

However, isn't it (unfortunately) reasonable to assume that even highly trained and disciplined humans will occasionally allow their planes to crash into each other when we are designing air traffic control systems and protocols?

Which leads to the argument that sloppiness on a few-dozen meter scale is actually good for the air traffic control system, finding a compromise between laser accuracy and Big Sky theory that allows for inevitable human failure?

I'd be interested to see how stable your windows 7 boot camp partition becomes after you fire it up with Fusion 3; when I fired up my XP boot camp partition in Fusion 2 a while back the instance of XP I ran went through the process of recognising all the hardware changes / installing new drivers at startup then kept freezing every couple of seconds whenever I tried to use it - it never went back to the way it was before I did that - I ended up having to reinstall my boot camp partition all over again.