No, more like: everybody pretty much knew that the bridge being mounted on a vibrating membrane would affect the sound, but a scientist thoroughly analyzed and modeled the whole setup in order to quantitatively figure out exactly how all the parts and vibrations contributed to the sound. Then a dumbass know-nothing journalist wrote an article that misstated what had actually happened ;-)

And you, apparently, know nothing about the ways employers game the system wrt advertised job titles vs actual duties. If you had friends who are program managers in large tech companies (I do), you'd know that the reason they are forced by upper management to hire H-1B's is most often explicitly to pay a lower wage. As in being told by the big boss "use H-1B's on this contract because we can't afford Americans."

Why, thank you, Your Most Exalted Highness, Prince of Internet Manners.

And that shall conclude my participation in this thread ;-)

I would hope that municipalities would at least be pretty comparable. But this is still something to check to the extent one can. Especially since from time to time a local scandal emerges when police get caught falsifying crime statistics.

Well, your point to which I responded, although wrong in my opinion, was reasonable. One does not necessarily expect that some other culture's understanding of "suicide" and "homicide" could possibly be so very different. Believe me, my posting history here has plenty of flat-out insulting posts with no sort of justification at all. The difference is, I'm a jackass to dumbasses ;-)

Directly, no. It has been way too long since I first learned this for me to remember where.

But googling gets you this news article from today. Can you imagine any police or newspaper in North America, the EU or UK using the phrase "forced family suicide"???

Actually, no they are not pure at all. They are contaminated with cultural interpretation. For instance, and my specific point, Japan's patriarchal society counts things very differently than we in the west do. When a stressed-out man comes home, kills his wife and two children, then himself, we call that a "murder-suicide" and count 3 murders + 1 suicide. In Japan they call it "familial suicide" and count it as 4 suicides.

No, actually ;-)

There seem to be at least a couple of distinct ways of "sensing" the code you're working on. (And I'm not even counting the poor schmucks who are never really able to understand what they're doing.)

Here's hoping they do. Us old farts need all the advantages we can get.

Well, that's just a ridiculous suggestion. How the heck is he supposed to do that when no one else in the world is smart enough to understand his invention???

;-)

Am I confused, or is this the same amoral sack of shit who lied to Congress with a straight face about NSA activities???

Because charging your electric car that fast would require more than 10x the entire power supplied to your whole house. (Not to mention the cabling...)

Are you forgetting that your communications with your lawyer were confidential for centuries before HIPAA piled on its god-awful morass of regulations???

No, it really does not make sense. Take the law firms for example, if you provide your information to a law firm with the intent of suing a hospital or doctor, you are providing it with the intent that it (might) eventually be used in PUBLIC court proceedings. Why should a morass of privacy regulations apply in that situation?

You're so full of shit it's coming out of your mouth instead of your asshole.

When you shoot someone who is in the process of committing an armed crime, there is no question as to whether or not they are actually the guilty party.

Also, usually, you are responding to an actual current, possibly deadly, threat--as opposed to the courts who only consider crimes after the fact, when the accused is detained safely.