Everything about that sentencing logic is awful... that guy should have been a "dangerous offender" or whatever the American equivalent is, because clearly he represents an ongoing risk to the public, and should never be let out.

That'll be the key... so many movies these days have terrible CGI when they should have just shot the damn thing properly with a camera in well-lit sets, and done minimal post-production later.

For a terrible (although not sci-fi) example see "The Great Gatsby."

I've done it twice... and both times it worked it out great, although the first 3 months are rough because you don't have a network, and it's kinda depressing not to have group to call up on weekends. Stick at it, go to social functions every time, get everyone's phone number, plan events rather than wait for invites,…

My bad, linked too quick.

Ah damn.... my bad, linked too quick.

Classic, Attenborough on sloths: Youtube link.

You also wonder... like installing nation-wide networked fingerprinting machines that all connect to a central database, and then monitoring the system and enforcing it... that all sounds really expensive. Couldn't you use that money to invest in food production?

Yeah, if he's in any way still associated with the reserves, you can expect that they'll also want to jettison his racist ass... he's a a caricature of the worst qualities one could find in a police officer or military-in-a-policing-role person.

The freedom from word order is certainly nice, but as a second language speaker it does us no favours when listening to something ambiguous spoken quickly. "Wait, what's the subject? Did the man bite the dog or the did the dog bite the man?" :)

You figure that the forensics involved would be a) faster and b) completely contradictory to the story of the officers. The fact that it took until August (6 months) before the autopsy results were released (with the simple conclusion of where the bullet entered and exited) seems highly unprofessional...

The police…

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I wonder though if like a better system would be to create weights based on commentator history... like if an account is three months old and still active, it's far less likely to randomly post spam, and I think it's pretty safe to say that an account that's still active (and unbanned) after a year/years it's probably…

In Germany it's pretty common for students to be slightly older... and 25 is really young. The first three years of my undergrad (went right from highschool) I made such bad research work, that had I not taken an extra year, I don't think I would have made it to grad school (and yet at the time I thought it was all…

A common complaint is that prosecutions of police officers are rarely successful, and punishments of officers who abuse their position are light, rather than outright dismissal. Do you think changes are needed to the way police officers are investigated and punished? Do you think police unions play a negative role in…

When I moved countries and switched to a really budget "unlimited data but really crappy speed" plan, I actually was surprised by how little it affected me. Realistically I'm at a place with wifi for most of the day... so yeah, I can't watch Youtube on the train, big deal. If your workplace didn't allow cell-phone…

It will be interesting to see if younger generations are smarter about social media (i.e. understanding how public it is), or if rules will be enacted in certain career fields, that you just can't have Facebook/Twitter. Any people have insight into how for example, it works for military members?

Sometimes the gods of "not in your region" are good... they protect you from yourself.

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I think there's probably interesting research to be made about different types of "viral" for internet and social media. This commercial in particular has the quality that like sure, your parents would send you in a chain email, but despite it's reddit success I don't really see it having really big mass appeal for…