Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: OT: 'Peer Reviewed' Papers - a new scam!
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 15:33:34 +1000
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 52
Message-ID: <v3933m$1idfo$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v333v5$4hl8$2@dont-email.me>
 <6656385e$6$1258324$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <v35h2b$ood3$1@dont-email.me>
 <66564e31$7$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <1ljc5j1ufi53boeprkt29kslqcg95n293o@4ax.com>
 <66565412$1$1258340$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <l4mc5jpbplmds531km42r4mt0g8udubhan@4ax.com>
 <66568259$7$1258346$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
 <874d5j9naiqf4ec612qcj6jd7hao9ue4rv@4ax.com>
 <66569cf0$0$7070$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v37oai$17q1d$4@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 07:33:46 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d51a066cbca6b09280003e705595f526";
	logging-data="1652216"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+PQLQ3rkD1YPItwsk+2pMDvTZnGfAx8qM="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:fV9C/vU6Gf06Ge9NEkaytvJ/X3w=
In-Reply-To: <v37oai$17q1d$4@dont-email.me>
Content-Language: en-US
Bytes: 3488

On 30/05/2024 3:23 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2024 23:11:45 -0400, bitrex wrote:
> 
>> On 5/28/2024 10:20 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 21:18:18 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/28/2024 6:21 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
>>>>>>> understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
>>>>>>> world, and they need to be managed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's to understand? The rulers of every totalitarian dump that
>>>>>> ever was figured they were doing just that and/or doing the Lords
>>>>>> work, depending.
>>>>>
>>>>> "A conservative is a liberal that has been mugged."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah maybe so,  that's why I'm a leftist, not a liberal.
>>>>
>>>> I've had some bad stuff happen to me in life including being robbed,
>>>> threatened, assaulted, and all that. Life can be hard and scary and
>>>> bad stuff happens sometimes, and you never know when your number might
>>>> be up. What can ya do
>>>
>>> Hire more cops.
>>>
>>>
>> About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
>> while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
>> evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
>> been much different.
>>
>> But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
>> wants lots more cops, too.
>>
>> Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
>> is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
>> explain.
> 
> So.... would you de-fund your local police?

Not the right response - they need to spend more money on hiring better 
people and training them to perform more expertly.

Politicians aren't great at working out how to do this, and prefer to go 
for quantity - which the voters can see - over quality, which is harder 
to exhibit in places where lots of voters can see it.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney