It's their core strategy.

Check injury rates, not just fatalities. According to http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/o..., the only work with higher national injury rates is nursing care.

A few seconds searching Google for "fired police rehired" turns up hundreds of examples, and rehiring as a matter of policy or as a result of arbitration.

Domestic disputes, one of the most dangerous duties for police, will get slower responses. People, especially bettered women and children as the most frequent victims, will die. Those are often cases where tempers are already flaring, and blaming, harassing, or trying to sue the officer who escorts a victim to shelter or helps the victim file charges is commonplace. Those are the kinds of cases where _limited_ immunity for the officers on the scene makes good sense.

There is a useful description of such immunity at http://www.criminaldefenselawy....

"Burma Shave"

I would not bet that way. There are pnumerous private security companies, and even mercenary companies listed as "security contractors", who pay very nice hiring bonuses for trained policemen. And for tough districts short of capable policemen, such as Ferguson, Missouri this year, they're going to be taking whatever they can get.

> There is no such thing as "excess supply of labor": if labor is cheap enough

I'm sorry to contradict you, but _where_ are you getting this nonsense? "Labor costs" that drop below a sustenance level kill workers, and even prevent the workers from participating in the local economy. Between those two limitations, and all the others, one can certainly have an "excess supply of labor". It's especially apparent in seasonal farm labor when drought or blight ruins the crops, and it was certainly a problem for winter food supplies in harsh climates.

Please, actually work as a farm worker, a fast food attendant, a cab driver, or try to feed a family on a minimum wage before you make such absurd claims,

> The reason those store fronts are empty is because your town/city is keeping the cost of doing business high

This is, once again, complete nonsense. "The town/city" is not keeping the expenses high as a matter of tax or licensing policy. There simply isn't enough street traffic to support so many vendors, especially when modern consumers so easily order goods online from around the world. And for the service industries, such as hair and nail salons, they need parking, foot traffic, and customers who can attend their salons when the businesses are open.

According to your stated theory "That is, increasing supply lowers prices but it also increases volume, also for labor.". It ignores the _caps_ on volume of business, caps due to capital supply limitations, due to available numbers of customers and frequency of service, and due to the minimum costs of keeping the workers alive.

Again, I don't know where you're getting these ideas. They're refuted by the most casual reviews of economic disasters, such as the Great Depression in the USA, or famines such as the Irish Potato Famine or the mass starvations of North Korea of the 1990's. There was no "labor shortage", people would work for less than a survival wage or survival diet and starve to _death_ as they struggled to outlast the famines and poverty.

> That is, increasing supply lowers prices but it also increases volume, also for labor.

Except when it doesn't. "Supply increases volume" only when then suppliers _believe_ that there is a profit available, and excess supply often saturates the market. Otherwise, all the empty storefronts I see on one block on my way to work would be filled with active hair salons, unlike the three competing salons on that block that are all going out of business.

You can get a much, much larger effect by attaching a much larger, more easily manufactured and testable actual solar sail. Either approach has interesting difficulties if the object is tumbling, since the attachment points for a solar sail or an actual elevated shield would need to be at the axes of rotation with joints that can handle spinning. And any mishandling of the forces could change the tumbling and cause the object to precess. But that seems far, far simpler than stopping the tumbling completely: that would require far more fuel and complex ongoing course corrections. And the resources to control tumbling might be easily overwhelmed by uneven melting and outgassing from any comet like body.

In fact,please permit me to revise my earlier suggestion of tilting the light sale to steer. Caught early enough, I think that a large solar sail providing even a small amount of solar braking would work just as well, with less complexity, to avoid an Earth impact. Delta vee is delta vee, and unless it were applied miraculously precisely to re-aim the dangerous body at Earth, even a random thrust should be enough.

ICBM's have guidance systems. Asteroids and comets do not, and space is _large_. Even a very, very slight "delta vee" early in the trajectory will make it miss a planet quite easily.

Solar sails are light payload, the forces involved are modest and cumulative rather than requiring a single controlled thrust under extreme circumstances, and need only modest anchorage or very modest netting to attach to the asteroid. They can provide continuous thrust for the lifespan of the sail, rather than a single high energy event, so they're much safer to build and to handle and much, much safer to test. Attached early enough, they should easily shift an asteroid or comet enough to avoid a crash. And properly constructed, they could be used to guide the object to almost any orbit desired, including guiding it to L4 or L5 to be a resource.

I suspect that you're over specifying. The last "Sparcstations" were manufactured 15 years ago, and the market has changed profoundly. As soon as you nail down the spec as "a modern Sparcstation" and try to pass that to a purchasing agent or a vendor, it will confuse them and you as they try to fulfill your needs.

I suggest that you move at least a decade in architecture. Look at a modern CAD or graphics workstation as examples, or even high end gaming systems. Use top notch network components, flash drives for high speed local work, top notch video cards for a high resolution and high refresh rate display, with enough RAM to handle bulky software or even VM's for relevant work unavailable in the host operating system, and you have a very powerful Linux or even UNIX workstation that pays for the hardware costs in responsiveness and day to day efficiency.

And like the old UNIX workstations surrounded by serial ports in the days of Sparcstations and IRIX hosts, most people don't need one on their desk. Most personnel can work with a modest laptop or netbook for email and web accdess and an office suite, with only occasional access to the high powered hardware.

Discard the specialized CPU's if you'd like to get work done and your architecture supported for the next five years. Itanium is, effectively, a dead end: none of the major Linux or UNIX systems consider it their primary architecture. Sparc64, the key Fujitsu supported architecture, never even exceeded 1 GHz: there is no _point_ to spending more time and money on those uncommon architectures unless they offered ground breaking performance. That hasn't been the case for over a decade.

Without getting into personal anecdotes and non-disclosure material? That can get difficult.

A fast check of HP and Dell show that for roughly $4000, either can deliver a high end workstation with dual 256 GB flash drives, 10 Gig ethernet cards, top-of-the-line graphics cards, and 3.6 GHz quad-core CPU's. That''s a pretty effective definition for a modern graphics workstation.

Mythical or not, those old religious stories are at the foundation of much of Western society and cannot simply be ignored because they are not "rational". The ideas that a "chosen people" can and should engage in genocide, in wars of invasion, and even in the religious sacrifice of their own children is at the core of most modern civilizations. Even the Christians partake wholeheartedly in it, when their god "sacrificed his own sone for our sins".

If you're suggesting that a completely rational moral standard could not possibly include murdering children simply because it is rational, oh, my. A completely "rational" moral stance could be: "My culture is so superior that we can and should engage in wars of invasion to elevate others to our culture. And it is better to kill their young, especially the young men, lest they rise up in revolt and continue their struggle against our superior culture:" Such "rational" approaches include the Central African Repucllic now, Rwanan genocide, Kurdish genocide, Armenian genocide, and Jewish genocide of the last century, the genocide in North and South America since their discovery by Europe since the 15th century, and the history of most military powers since recorded history began.

I'm not suggesting it's moral, effective, or wise. I'm saying that it can be quite rational.

Since much of the advertisement content comes from a large but trackable number of hosted web servers and "content delivery networks" such as Akamai. Many of these web services have well defined URL's used to access their traffic, so quite a lot of filtering can be done by thoughtfully configuring proxies at the ISP, which need to handle and to cache this content anyway. The content stored in the proxy can also, itself be analyzed: HTTPS encryption doesn't help with avoiding that particular man-in-the-middle vulnerability.

The ISP's have big interest in this because _they_ pay for the bandwidth upstream, and for the infrastructure to handle that bandwidth. If they can deliver what their customers want without the relatively huge overhead of all the third-party advertising spew on web pages, I'm sure it's worth some thought and even some infrastructure to support this. And the advertisers are not their clients, their users are their clients. Most users would welcome halving or even eliminating most advertising, just as most television viewers welcomed the 'MyChoice' and the various DVR manufacturers including features to skip commercials.