In 2004, VIctoria Snelgrove was hit in the eye with a pepper spray bullet by the Boston Police as part of crowd control (for a non-riotous crowd that was not responding to their commands). She subsequently died of her injury.

Non-lethal ICA? No such thing.

Unless you are part of a protest group (organised or not) with more than about 25K members, you probably won't. The Party knows that people blowing off steam are not a threat, but are easy to turn into people who are a threat.

I don't disagree with this, but I wonder why you think that this means it has more liberty. Unless you happen to be one of the ones that controls most of the capital, of course.

What's wrong with our system is that corporate shills call anyone who suggests any restraint on corporate behavior a "socialist", and enough people are scared that only bloodless corporate tools can get elected.

We vote like a bunch of pussies, and we get the government we deserve.

How did you get to 90% if you're only using 2.5-5% per year?

a) I'm not at 90%; as it happens I'm at around 50%. I said when I reach 90% it will take a year or 2 to reach 95%

b) I didn't start at 0% and then average a couple percent a year. I was at 30-40% within a week of setting up the new home PC.

I copied my 10,000 track music library. So 50GB or so right there. And another several thousand digital images, scans, and so forth. I have a small library of ISOs I keep on the drive worth another 20-30GB. A handful of movies. A couple dozen games and large applications installed... the steam folder alone is 300GB. (And I have only a fraction of my library installed; but its the fraction I always go back to plus what's new that I'm playing now. So although its was 250GB+ within a week of setting up the PC... its only grown another 50GB in the last couple years.

And now that its all set up, it grows, but not especially quickly. I add a few hundred audio tracks, and a few hundred photos a year, email, documents, tax records, etc... everything else is fairly steady state.

That's because you use ridiculously vaguye language like "easy to transmit". You need to specify the conditions under which the potential transmission takes place. What peoiple don't realize is just how primitive conditions are in Africa, and what a difference it makes. These are countries where medical providers re-use latex gloves, sometimes even hypodermic needles. Granted, this guy was part a medical mission that probably had all the protective equipment, but you have to keep in mind that the primitive conditions that preceded them meant that there have been some TEN THOUSAND cases in the region.

It's immensely labor intensive to take care of an Ebola patient, especially with the precautions required by close contact., but the overwhelming numbers introduces yet another deadly risk factor: fatigue.

So yes, I suppose you could say the medical personnel who contracted Ebola are stupid because they made a mistake under pressure. But what about the rest of us? This epidemic should never have got big enough to pose a global concern. It was our choice to cut the CDC's emergency preparedness budget to a billion dollars below the FY 2002 mark.

Jeez, mods, way too much speculation (much of which is wrong) to be a "+5" post...

First, it was in fact L1 visas for short term inter-company work.

The real problem was that EFI paid their Indian employees their existing wages (plus boarding, per diem, and bonuses) while they were in the US. Since US employment law states otherwise, yes, they screwed up, and it's good that they were forced to pay them more. But it's bullshit to call this "slave labor", etc, because of the wage since these employees went back to India with the same wage they were already getting (and no food/lodging costs during that time).

On the other hand, what *is* disturbing is the claims that they worked 120+ hours a week while in the US. I'm almost skeptical of that number as that is literally less than 7 hours a day off the job which isn't enough time for a good night's sleep - but even more or less forcing 100+ hours for an hourly employee, working in a foreign country with likely little say over their duties or conditions seems borderline criminal to me...

do we have any pieces by Bennett Haselton on the Ebola outbreak or diseases in general?

Indeed, perhaps he could present us with 'A Modest Proposal' that came to him whilst reading the messages in his alphabits.

No, we are approaching a time when the robots *can* do all that for us.

The question is, will they be *cheaper*, which is really all that matters to those having their ditches dug. For $10 per hour, robots may become competitive, but for $1.21 per hour, pretty sure humans will be cheaper for quite a while...

Absolutely not, never said that. Unknowingly buying stolen or counterfeit goods is (almost always) not a criminal act or the buyer's fault, but it also doesn't give them any claims of ownership over the stolen goods. It's a crappy situation, but it happens all the time.

I'd say it's a LOT like counterfeit currency - even more so than something like counterfeit clothes, etc. That currency has value to the owner until it's discovered that it is counterfeit, in which case it loses value. It's up to the owner to go after whoever gave them the counterfeit currency/goods to be recompensed.

And this isn't all that complicated, really. A hardware manufacturer buys chips and builds them into computers and other devices. If they used counterfeit chips, they are liable and will be required to fix the situation, or face a veritable shitstorm of lawsuits, etc. Of course, reputable manufacturers are not going to buy generic chips from a shady supplier, and hospitals and corporations don't buy computers from unknown manufacturers with no warranties, etc either (so the hospital example is totally bogus unless you have an actual citation to the contrary).

When buying stolen or counterfeit goods, it's always been caveat emptor. The fault is in the counterfeiter and the integrator/manufacturer who didn't check their suppliers, of course, but anyone in the chain will be affected, especially the end user left holding the bag.

I agree it totally sucks.. but buying stolen property, no matter how many steps removed from the crime, isn't going to get much sympathy from a legal standpoint.

And have there been "regular devices at retail stores" that have used these chips? If it's a shady unlabeled device from an unknown anonymous manufacturer, sure, you'll be SOL, but if you bought something from a reputable manufacturer you better bet they will be providing refunds, etc if they built hardware with counterfeit chips...
 

It used to be $499, then went up to $599 for a few years, now back to $499. Which is all beside the original point: there is not a high barrier to entry for the Mac. And it has a lot of additional value to a lot of people: simple for the beginner, and an entire open-source UNIX for the advanced user, combined with high-quality parts and great service, a big ecosystem of software and services, and almost no viruses or threats to worry about, and a lot of folks (me included) think life is too short to deal with Windows at home.

If there was ever a reason for @SavedYouAClick, this summary is it.

You know, most of the time, the truth lies right in the middle of the fighting sides. Having seen two kids fighting over a toy a time or two, it is the toy that ends up suffering (broken, destroyed, damaged etc). Slapping the kids across the back of the head, and taking away the toy is often the only "real solution". Being a parent isn't easy, but the grownups sometimes need to simply smack the back of heads and issue a timeout.

And when it is the grownups are acting like children, the parent role becomes the easy target. "Don't tell me how to think or what to do". Please don't make excuses.

Note: I'm not taking sides in the GG debate. I have no idea what it actually is. Except that it involves Gamers who often act like little children.