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Comment Morning vs Evening (Score 1) 121

Standard time gives you a greater chance of having daylight in the morning before you have to go to work, but more likely dark when you come home in the evening.

Daylight Saving time gives you a greater chance of having daylight in the evening after you get home from work, but more likely dark when you are heading in to work.

For many people, in the dead of winter it is dark when they go to work, and dark when they come home so it makes no difference. Many others have flexible work schedules and can go in late or leave early as it suits their needs.

But most people still work the traditional factory/office shift of 8 or 9 am to 5 pm. People work when they are told, because they need the money.

So, fight it out. Morning people vs evening people. Sunset vs sunrise. Where do YOU want to experience daylight? GO!

Comment Re:Not Flock (Score 1) 124

But Flock (or other technology) is fuel or at least a catalyst to such "bad police".

It is a database. The police could have just as easily searched the DMV records for cars registered to owners in the area and picked a patsy to frame.

This story is all about bad policing and improper supervision by prosecutors/courts (even if the cops arrested her they could not have held her that long without the approval of the court.)

Flock is bad. Their entire business model of privatized surveillance should be outlawed -but it is not the problem in this case.

Comment Re:Something is not completely adding up (Score 1) 68

They were intentionally studying ways to weaponize the plague. Russia has extensive bioweapon labs.
(to be ready to defend against it when someone else released their weaponized version of the pneumonic plague.... purely defensive research, of course -pinky swear!)

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Submission + - Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: It might be reasonable to think that there's an indelible link between the heart and the body it resides in â" the processes that affect one inevitably affect the other.

But a new preprint, uploaded to bioRxiv and yet to be peer-reviewed, suggests that this may only be true up to a point. Take the heart out of the body and put it in a new one, and something incredible happens.

The transplanted heart begins to take on the biological age of its new owner.

Older hearts transplanted into younger recipients appear to become biologically younger, while younger hearts placed in older bodies show signs of accelerated aging.

Comment Re:We already tried it (Score 4, Informative) 90

I was a kid in the 70s. I walked to school (by myself) in the dark many mornings. Daylight savings time would not have prevented that.

Kids don't walk to school now. They are not alone in the dark without protection from the boogeymen and wild animals, freezing in the cold and wet. Parents chauffer them to school and back. Times have changed.

We are also not working the same rigid schedules we were then. School hours were set to allow parents to get their kids off to school before their shift at the factory / office. School does not have to start at 8am.

Comment Re:short sighted (Score 2) 55

If people are b****ing about Flock cameras, what about the cameras on most street signals.

Most of what you see are not cameras, they are sensors. The ones that are cameras don't generally record -they provide a live feed of traffic conditions to the monitoring station where traffic signal timing is adjusted to keep the flow going. In most jurisdictions the laws that allowed the installation of these cameras specifically banned recording or using them for any purpose other than live monitoring of traffic flow. There are also red-light violation cameras that take static shots of violators and issue automated citations. Nothing like Flock.

~The more you know!

Comment Re:Excessive fine under 8A? (Score 1) 38

Cruel and Unusual punishment includes excessive fines.

The question becomes "What constitutes an excessive fine?"
The answer is "A fine that is not in keeping with what others have been fined for similar violations."

We know what other fines have been levied in the past, but what constitutes a "similar violation"?
If there is not a clear answer, then it becomes a matter of "What fines were levied against other big companies?"

This is what gets argued on appeal. "Was the violation similar? In scope if not type? What was the penalty?"
"Microsoft paid this, Google paid that, Tik-Tok paid this, Oracle paid that, etc."

Big penalties always go down on appeal.

Comment Re:This shit needs to stop (Score 1) 19

Devils Advocate: Students who choose to enroll in this program at this location do so because it gives them an in at Microsoft and an opportunity for a high paying job when they graduate. They will be familiar with the Microsoft campus, already live nearby, know people at Microsoft, and be trained in what Microsoft is looking for in new hires in their field.

Comment Re:Piece of shit (Score 5, Informative) 51

The reason they fired the generals was because they refused to swear allegiance to the man over the nation. They are purging anyone who does not pledge personal loyalty.

It is an attempt to remove the final check on the power of the executive.

"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. Why can't you be like the German generals?"

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