Non-IT News Thread

scottalanmiller

And bottom line, if you are going to make up your own meanings, the government has been empowered to do whatever they want. That's the empowerment.

scottalanmiller

You've got a Smoky the Bear problem here. Only YOU can prevent forest fires. The only person with the power to change this situation are the people who choose to misuse the words. When you misuse words, you make the government able to mislead you without lying. But the government can't make this happen, only the people choosing to play semantic games can do so. Stop those games, and the government, as well as marketers, become weak. Both prey on people wanting words to mean what they want, rather than what they do.

scottalanmiller

The thing is that there are three major possibilities in the driving into a crowd case...

Drunk, asleep, dead, dementia or other "accidental" killing. This happens.
Hate or focused crime where someone is trying to hurt the people in question.
Terrorism where the goal isn't to hurt the people involved but to scare those that were not involved.

scottalanmiller

Example.....

Blowing up Westboro Baptist Church would likely be a normal crime, not terrorism, because chances are someone was trying to kill the people there NOT to scare other people.

Blowing up a random church is likely an act of terrorism hoping to scare churchgoers in general.

scottalanmiller

The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.

scottalanmiller

This is well worth watching...

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-40343887/costa-rica-s-president-luis-guillermo-sols-swallows-wasp

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.

From the reports so far, sounds like the only dead person is the bomber. They evacuated before it went off.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.

From the reports so far, sounds like the only dead person is the bomber. They evacuated before it went off.

That's good news at least, except for the damage to the train station.