Sweden has taken in way more immigrants than our systems can swallow, this means the system as a whole is leaking.
This has lead to lots of segregated areas where there is no future, just people living on welfare getting nowhere in life, as much as 60% of kids fail to even finish High School in these areas, even thou they get 3x-4x of the funding compared to other schools in "good areas". And you get NOWHERE in Sweden without education.
The vast majority of the immigrants is also men which has skewed the male/female ratio in certain age groups.
The violence we see now is mainly from second-generation immigrants because they have no real connection with their home country and they have no real connection with Sweden either since they have grown up in areas where there are no Swedes.
These aimless young men + a system that have failed them + a fast growing gangster culture that promises money and respect + no real consequences for young criminals (4years max for murder, rape is a couple of months maybe if anything at all) leads to a very fast growing criminal networks / gangs.
The gangs now also have an endless supply of young men willing to do whatever it takes since we a constantly taking in more people even thou the system is showing no signs of being better at integration people.
I wanna be very clear thou, this is not due to race/skin-color or other racist bullshit, it is simply input vs output, ANY system in the known universe that gets overburden crashes or starts behaving in unfavourable ways and that is where we are now.
By pulling the break, give the system time to adjust and come up with efficient ways of integrating the people already in the country and when we start to see positive numbers then we can start taking in more people again.
I wrote "young criminals" I should be more clear, the gangs often use people below the age of 18 to commit murders since you then you get 4 years juvenil but are usually out before that due to 2/3 rule. There is even a saying in these circles: "Att brösta en 4:a för att bli en 100-gubbe" meaning Do the 4 years and become a 100-man, in other words commit a murder and you get respect and will be taken care of when you get out.
No paper trail? I'm pretty certain they already use email and digital documents. Allowing them to hotdesk (as this is essentially what it is) is hardly a way to prevent employees establishing a paper trail.
Indeed, I worked for a financial company that had a 90-day default purge on all e-mails and chat. You could drag some e-mails to a retention folder ( limited in overall size ) but as far as I recall that only protected them for another finite span of time.
Anything that needed a longer persistence had to be typed-up into a document and stored in Sharepoint, which was more manageable in terms of legal discovery than individual e-mails.
> Here was a democratically conducted vote for which >50% of a population voted "Leave".
50% of those who voted, not of the population. The turnout was ~70%; of that ~51% voted to leave.
So for every 10 eligible voters, 7 bothered to turn up. Of those seven 3.5 voted to leave; 35% of the electorate voted leave unless my maths and assumptions are incorrect.
> You're choosing Apple over all the existing car manufacturers?
Yes. Much like smartphones and tablets, they hadn't done much in the space until they exploded on the scene after sitting back and watching everyone else get things wrong. That's what they're really good at -- seeing what others do wrong and not repeating those mistakes.
Unlike tablets though, it's a lot harder to hide when you're making a car. They've already secured a test track and they're hiring vehicle engineers.
Apple had always been involved in that space. The Newton, the eMate, the collaboration with Motorola, and (obviously) the iPod, were all in the same type of device. The latter even had scheduling, contacts and downloadable games which you could buy the iTunes Store, before the iPhone was released.
What did they do in the music player space before the iPod?
What did they do in the phone space before iPhone?
What did they do in the tablet space before the iPad?
How about the watch?
If Apple makes a car--and I'm not totally convinced they will--the "they aren't just going to come in here and do this thing they've never done before" response is sounding awfully stupid these days.
Apple's Newton platform ran on multiple devices with touchscreens, including phones and PDAs which could connect to the Internet and send/receive text messages.
In fact, the current VP of iPad Product Marketing was one of the Newton's marketing product champions.
Apple are very good at the shiny brand thing. Most cars over $20k work just fine these days and a lot of why people pay 2 or 3x that is for status. I can see that working for Apple.
I haven't read the submission yet, neither am I fully up to speed on the topic, but I'm going to go all meta on you and ask what a pseudo-intellectual is?
There are two definitions. The first describes one who believes himself to be both intelligent and thoughtful, but fails to recognize his deficiency in at least one of those two habits. The second describes one who is both intelligent and thoughtful, from the perspective of one who fails to recognize his deficiency in at least one of those two traits.
Determining which definition is in use, in a given case, is not always straightforward.
Not much. Zero-confirmation transactions are quite hard to revert, so they are widely accepted for small instant purchases.
Here's how you normally do it: send a transaction with fairly recent inputs with a zero mining fee. If you are lucky, it will propagate slowly and will reach the merchant sooner than 50% of the network nodes see it. When the merchant sees your transaction, he ships you the product, then you immediately send out double-spending transaction with standard mining fees (sent to your own address). It will propagate much faster and probably will end up mined before the first one.
Fraud with zero-confirmed transactions is most likely in some fully-automated schemes like lotteries, where repeated attempts to reverse the payment pay off immediately.
10 minutes is a rough guideline on how long it takes the network to confirm a payment, and verify that a transaction is not a double-spend or otherwise invalid. For large payments you'd want to wait longer because a theoretical attacker would have more incentive and resources to construct a double-spend.
I think oleganza is referring to the fact a new block should be generated roughly every 10 minutes, and until the transaction has been confirmed you can attempt a double-spend.
