Aging can cause a decrease in retain sensitivity: "Cells in the retina that are responsible for normal color vision decline in sensitivity as we age, causing colors to become less bright and the contrast between different colors to be less noticeable. ... In particular, blue colors may appear faded or "washed out." While there is no treatment for this normal, age-related loss of color perception, you should be aware of this loss if your profession (e.g. artist, seamstress or electrician) requires fine color discrimination."
<< Says a habitual coffee drinker who came to the habit late in life, and who is very happy he's moderately dependent on a substance which is highly unlikely to kill him >>
Coffee will do more than not kill you; it was recently found to confer a "reduced risk of dying from heart disease and certain other causes"!
<< Compared with abstainers, nonsmokers who drank a cup of coffee a day had a 6 percent reduced risk of death, one to three cups an 8 percent reduced risk, three to five cups a 15 percent reduced risk, and more than five cups a 12 percent reduced risk. There was little difference whether they drank caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. The association persisted after controlling for age, alcohol consumption, B.M.I. and other health and diet factors. >>
Thought this was the most interesting part of the review:
<< When Mr. Jobs harangues his staff, when he puts the company ahead of his supposed friends, when he shows little regard for his family in the service of building what’s next, he implicitly holds an ace card with the audience who knows how things eventually turned out. Sure, he may have been terrible to be around, but in the end, wasn’t he right about the importance of that dent in the universe? And if he hadn’t been as obnoxious about his aims, would the dent have been as large? >>
The trick with using technology to assess "driving while texting" is that texters are often the passengers in the car. Waze tries to deal with moving typers by having an alert that pops up thatsays (roughly), "You can't enter text while moving" - but has a button that says, "It's ok, I'm a passenger."
The trick with a $75 fine for texting while moving is passengers. If you're willing to ban texting entirely while moving though, using technology to assess small fines could work!
I'm not proposing trying to figure out who is driving and who is riding. Once a person got caught breaking the law, he can't use his phone while moving; passenger or driver is not important at this point.
The key is to training new habit and making it stick, according to the article, is to make punishment moderate, certain, and immediate. We can't do that across the board due to the limitations of technology, legitimate use, privacy concerns, presumption of innocence and so on. But we sure can do that to those who broke the law, especially when they opt into it.
NCMEC has protocols around how to report the images/video, and how to delete it on your end.
I would highly recommend against calling the FBI. You should work with NCMEC, as they have experience working with this stuff and their CyberTipline is one of the major ways that Congress has mandated that online service providers should report this stuff. Plus talking to law enforcement employed by the federal government has a host of risks associated with it:
<< Its my beliefe that if debt should be assumed commonly, it will break up the EU because no voters in any country would agree to this. >>
But that's exactly what happened in the early days of the founding of the US, when Alexander Hamilton negotiated the Funding Act of 1790: "The Funding Act authorized the federal government to receive certificates of state war-incurred debts and to issue federal securities in exchange."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Act_of_1790
Without the Funding Act, the state governments would've defaulted on their Revolutionary War debt. By assuming the debt of the states, the US greatly strengthened their collective borrowing ability and also brought the states closer together into the union.
If you WANT a "United State of Europe" then yes, common debt makes sence. But in that case all nations lose their sovereignty and absolutly no nation in the EU has voted on this, and not a single one would agree to this.
I, for one, am against a United States of Europe and theirfore Im against common debt.
If we want to attempted such a project we should start by democratically asking people if they want it, not just imposing it. That EU doing this now would essentially be taking away sovereignty in a undemocratic way, and theirfore it would be tyranny.
Other posters are correct; you are obligated under US law to report child porn to the NCMEC CyberTipline.
The fine for not complying started off fairly low, but has been increased in subsequent legislation. In my experience though, NCMEC is mostly just interested in getting regular reports uploaded to their system. I met with them once, and they have a rough sense for how many reports should be sent over for a site of a certain activity/traffic level, and if the number of repots is zero... then they know you're not in compliance.
Their reporting interface is beyond awful though. Maybe they've improved it in recent years; when I last saw it, everything had to be uploaded and reported manually.
Would it be enough to report content flagged by other users as CP? Is there a requirement to review content before submission? That's not something I'd ever want to do. I don't think that I'd want to pay someone else to do it either.
As I understand it, there's no requirement to review content before submission. My understanding is that once someone has flagged or reported it to you, you're mandated to report it.
