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[scriver]

Probably because it's newsworthy. People have killed other people over dogs pooping on their lawn, but that won't be something you'll ever read about.

Err, no, not in Sweden >_> Single assaults aren't important enough to be brought up by news here as anything but notices in the local pages. So it would be actual life experience I base that on, as anecdotal as it might be.

[kaijyuu]

Well I ain't saying it's common, and it's usually a "straw that broke the camel's back" sort of deal, but I'd be willing to bet there have been murders for trivial reasons, even in Sweden, relatively recently.

Original point still stands: a murder committed on the pretense of a controversial issue will get far, far more publicity than others. If you're basing your opinion on personal experience rather than what you've heard about from others, then yeah I can't say anything about that other than what you already did about it being anecdotal.

/shrug



Anywho, can't really say much more without more information on the incident in question, and I doubt Euld has keeping this forum informed as a high priority when he's got a friend in a coma

[lordcooper]

Fuck.  This is easily among the worst things that have ever happened to Britain.

[Lord Dullard]

Fuck.  This is easily among the worst things that have ever happened to Britain.

Welcome to Oceania.

[kaenneth]

Fuck.  This is easily among the worst things that have ever happened to Britain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfghLQE3F4

[Delta Foxtrot]

I am uncomfortable with this idea. Does privatizing the police force really bring the needed savings? Will those savings be attained without degrading the quality of services provided?

[Lord Dullard]

I am uncomfortable with this idea. Does privatizing the police force really bring the needed savings? Will those savings be attained without degrading the quality of services provided?

Potentially, yes. They already do things like privatize public school employees here in America. My mother, for instance, works for a school system through a private company. The savings are not in the wages, which are comparable to what she'd be getting from the government. The savings are because they slash all of the benefits - no health care, dental care, retirement, etc.

[Delta Foxtrot]

*snip* The savings are because they slash all of the benefits - no health care, dental care, retirement, etc.

Ah, should have added decent pay and benefits to my previous post. I understand that the economic climate is harsh these days and one has to save where they can, but I can't say that I value when the cuts are made at the expense of average and below average earners.

[Lord Dullard]

*snip* The savings are because they slash all of the benefits - no health care, dental care, retirement, etc.

Ah, should have added decent pay and benefits to my previous post. I understand that the economic climate is harsh these days and one has to save where they can, but I can't say that I value when the cuts are made at the expense of average and below average earners.

Agreed, but those are the only people that Washington is interested in throwing under the bus in the name of monetary savings. Both parties are too beholden to the upper crust to do anything serious about the deterioration of the economic ladder. And, considering our two presidential candidates this year, that's unlikely to change anytime in the near future.

[Frumple]

Of course, there's somewhat larger problems than savings involved with making police and prison systems for profit. It's just... it's not something you want to have happen. You make your system such that it wants more criminals and incarcerated, not less. That's not good, for some painfully obvious reasons.

P.S. The US's prison system says Hi. Maybe Britain can see if they can throw a larger percentage of their population in prison than we have. It's not causing any problems at all! One of these post script sentences is a blatant lie.

[RedKing]

Simple problem to solve England's football hooliganism problem:

Hire all the hooligans as police officers. Problem solved, no more hooligans! You're welcome.

[Nadaka]

Newb developers:

1: not consistently following camel case convention.

2: being inconsistent for the same file/report name.

3: being unaware the test/deployment servers do not run windows.

4: being unaware that windows is pretty much the only OS with case INsensitive file paths.

Testers:
1: "We got a 500 error, trollol" is insufficient information to ever fix anything.

2: there is a reason the error page you see has a stacktrace on it.

3: Why are you not on IM?

4: the proper response to "what time did this happen?" is not: "I did it again, its still happening".

5: can you possibly give me enough information to get logs of your issue from the helpdesk?

6: "Chantilly" is not the url of your test server.

[RedKing]

Dude...I wanna be a tester where you work. Cause it sounds like I could smoke the competition.

[nenjin]

being unaware that windows is pretty much the only OS with case INsensitive file paths.

Go easy on that one, it's an easy assumption to make.

[Leafsnail]

Right, so, tech issue.

Today my 1600x900 screen decided to start turning itself off.  Or rather, a couple of seconds after switching the screen on it seems to lose the backlight (you can still kindof see the page if you shine a torch at it and squint hard but it's not really workable).  It's kindof odd - the backlight must still be working since turning it off and on (briefly) restores it, although I guess some circuitboard somewhere could've come loose.  Anyone ever had something like this?  Coincidentally the first occurance of this was straight after putting in the Konami Code for GG's link in the Happy Thread earlier, although that's probably just a coincidence.