Posted by Haltse on January 5, 2008 – 8:45 am
Filed under General, Work
Trying to work out a problem that should have been a module in the role playing game, and now form of government, Paranoia.
Here’s the scenario.
Prevent future mistakes by recalling the path taken and the process that led to your current pickle.
Do so without past actions having negative values attached, e.g showing responsibility for a poor decision which leads to the B word, blame.
A mentally common tragedy , or a tragedy of the mental commons?
Why was it done this way?
Where’s the supporting work for the above answer?
Why didn’t we attempt to generate the supporting info?
I have two goals at work. Improve the areas I can, advocate for those I can’t yet improve and ,there’s no place I’d rather be since I found Serenity( prayer except I’ll swap god for Eris),pass on those that have a low value of success in relation to the effort to implement them.
Goal two gather bio survival tickets by being effective in the former.
I’ve yet to find a method of investigating the past decisions that are separate from the decision makers.
So far it’s going all Hal 9k on me.
Posted by Haltse on January 4, 2008 – 10:49 pm
I was interested to find out that excess produce we may grow such as Thyme can’t be sold in Glendale, without a license. How much for this privilige? $150. That’s outrageous you think? Oh my we’re not even started .
All applicants for this license need to visit the Tax and
License Division in person for fingerprinting and background checks, as
well as submission of specific documentation before the license will be
issued. All applicants will need to provide proof that they are over 18
years of age. Processing time for this type of license is generally 4
to 6 weeks. An appointment is needed for fingerprinting and a fee of $
30.00 is charged.
Maybe that’s why illegal drugs are so prevalent the school system doesn’t provide literate people to fill out all the paperwork. Has to be that.
So we’re finished k?
You fucking wish. Now I need a sales tax they want their 1.8% after all. That’s another application and Kerching.. A fee. Yep to give the town money, you have to first give them money allowing you to give them O h fuck it. Glendale is out for any small business activity
Posted by Haltse on January 4, 2008 – 12:20 am
Today was my second real day back at work after the new year. It was to last oh about 2 hours before I had to head out to meet Erin at the ER. Dobhran had began shaking in distress and was having considerable pain issues while running a fever. Looks like he had very early pneumonia and was taking an adverse reaction , drugs, breathing treatment and some antibiotics to take home. He sacked out, letting me get some work done.
Which is great since I couldn’t get up the “important” story about Facebook taking action against screen scraping and could have spent all day shouting at the screen. Really on days like this it’s hard to get the Golgafrincham B Ark out of my head.
Posted by Haltse on January 2, 2008 – 10:10 pm
Greetings.
Happy new year, at least one of the many calenders that are out there. I prefer the dragons and fireworks
myself to the irony of the “timeless” Dick Clark looking like didn’t go down
to Georgia, but over to Switzerland instead and lost a watch building contest
with “Old Harry”, but I digress. Let’s start out 2008 with a positive message.
I am positive that elections are a great excuse to get more people blog, vlog
, ne demagogue this upcoming election with a torrent of user generated content
seeded by MSM sources ( Oh dear I’ve gone negative early… )
Posted by Haltse on January 1, 2008 – 10:00 pm
One of my more reckless discussions is that of questioning how effective DUI and other drug laws are when enforced. Is the cure worse than the disease? While many of these questions are not designed to provoke or offend ( I assure you the theological stuff is ) and are training wheels for my arguments which usually I’m 90 percent sure I can justify to myself. I’m just trying to get to the other 9%. ( I have to leave 1% open after all)
Statewide holiday task force reports 2,828 DUI arrests
“A total of 2,828 DUI arrests were made during a statewide holiday
drunken-driving task force …. 6 percent more than the 2,663 arrests
during a comparable period in 2006.”,”
In the latest effort, authorities stopped 36,901 drivers and issued
11,361 citations for traffic offenses other than driving under the
influence, Mulleneaux said.”
Here we go again. In Arizona about 7% of those stopped are charged DUI 93% are not. Despite figures showing that police looking for dui via traditional patrols is more effective than the roadblocks and assorted gimmicks it just doesn’t play as well to the cameras. From Tennessee. Roving patrols took about 19 hours per drunk based on observed behavior. Checkpoints based on the suspicion that you are driving a car on the road the checkpoint is on took 29 hours.
Sadly roving patrols aren’t as photogenic as a checkpoint. They don’t tell the people that aren’t infringing just what they are doing about dui , but making them wait, stop and interact with the nice officer certainly gets that point across.
I am not saying these checkpoints are not stopping people from driving, study after study shows they have an effect … but at the expense of more effective methods. About 10% of the people arrested for DUI are caught at checkpoints during the holiday crackdowns then why not stop the PR crap and actually get down to the effective keeping of the peace?
This is not a local phenomena. Check out the experiences in Florida, Ohio and an aggregate of studies conducted. Same message from state to state.It’s not about their effectiveness as primary enforcement it’s the appearance to be seen to act rather than acting effectively that’s annoying me. While you shouldn’t be trading safety for security it would be nice at least if we were getting what we thought
So please don’t pretend you care about DUI yet insist we need to haul over anyone making a trip just to get 7% of those stopped. Oh and the 4th amendment you have to toss out too for your safety at the expense of the rest I’d rather keep. 7% arrested doesn’t equal convicted either. The real numbers could be a lot less
K? Thx Bai.
