That's basically what they did here since "the federal indictments name eight people in eight states who allegedly were students at the school and recruited additional students to enroll."
Those were the people who were allegedly helping these people fake the transcripts to commit this fraud.
The article looks to have made it sound like ICE employed them, but I don't believe that is the case. It seems more likely they (the recruiters) were acting independently getting international students to transfer to the fake school knowing it wasn't a legit school (hence the "pay to stay" statement) and helping them with that process while unaware it was actually setup by ICE.
If you are setting up a sting, wouldn't you want it to look legit as possible? ICE is part of DHS so it makes sense they would add it to their own list if the goal was to catch people attempting to exploit the program. If a student enrolled in this institution, it wouldn't have taken long for them to realize this was a sham and transfer out if they were truly seeking education. I believe it wasn't entrapment because ICE only set up the fake university, they didn't actually recruit people to it. That was other "students/recruiters" who were enrolled and helping others out to join (hence the indictments of the 8 recruiters).
Also in there was this in the article:
>Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for ICE in Detroit, told local news station WXYZ that the students had entered the United States legally on F-1 visas after being accepted to legitimate schools and had later transferred to the University of Farmington.
If they were accepted to legit schools and then transferred to this one it seems likely that they weren't seeking education, but a means to stay here, which would be in violation of the visa.
I had this happen to me once with a bigger piece of wood I was cutting. He's right you have no time to react and the board is gone and flew 30 feet into the wall behind the saw. My hands were no where near as close to the blade as his were since it was a 12" wide board, but certainly freaked me out. He is lucky though that he didn't get cut.
There was a guy last year trying to post a video like this and he used a high speed camera.
When he went to edit the footage, he discovered to his horror that when the board kicked, it nearly sucked his fingers into the blade. Missed by less than an inch. The final edit ended up being mostly a message of "learn from my mistakes". Basically I learned that there's never a good time to have a kickback, even if you're trying to make an educational video.
This exact thing happened to me as well in High School "woodshop" class. The entire class and even the teacher called me "kickback" for rest of the year.
I don't think any of us realized at the time just how close I was to injury.
The blade of a standard 10" table saw rotates at very close to 100mph (150 fps). Of course, the teeth of the blade point such that they will maximally engage the wood if it gets loose. So anything of small-to-moderate size will accelerate to as much as 100mph. Using 150 fps, it will depart the 2-foot table of the saw in about 15 milliseconds, so (like the author of the video, and me, once) you will only understand what happened after it's over.
The usual reaction is to stare dumbly at your hands, and then stock up on push sticks, push pads, and work holding jigs ;-).
Yeah, it's crazy. I would never have imagined a table saw being able to throw large pieces of wood with such force. I had kickback on an 8-foot long 2x4. It wanted to throw that thing like it was a golf ball.
I probably avoided a broken rib thanks to having all the safety features of the saw on. Beam ended up jammed into the guard instead of jammed into my chest. So many people leave those things off because they're inconvenient. Glad I didn't.
I had a lighter board kickback on me while cutting a grove. It hit me in the side of my gut and then proceeded to fly back another 25 feet into the street in front of my house.
The kickback happened because the blade was so shallow. As I pushed the board into the blade, it rode up on top of the blade. The answer is more downward pressure, but I was using two push sticks to guide it through and didn't have the leverage to provide that pressure. Luckily, I was in a completely stable position and at no time were my hands anywhere near the blade, but it was still pretty scary.
Curious if anyone knows how they calculate drive days. For example the first drive on their report (hgst 4tb) has a count of 50 but total days of 23069. If I take the 50 by the days it should be 18250, so not sure where the extra 4k in days is coming from. Retired drives or something?
I think it is over the time they have had the drive, not over the reporting interval. It's a measure of the age of the drives. Assuming their drives are operating 24/7, that means that those particular 50 drives have been in service an average of 461 days.
I'd expect on next year's report, those particular drives will show up as 49 drives with around 42000 drive days, assuming they aren't replaced by then.
If that is the case then wouldn't the Annualized Failure Rate be based of the year total not the drive days if it is total days in service? For example the drive count(50)/drive days(23,236) gives the AFR of 1.58% which equals out their numbers. The drive days is more than the total amount possible for that year.
This is what I don't get. Prime was pretty good a few years ago and then they really messed it up with the update. It has hints of dark patterns where it seems like they intentionally try to hide prime videos in hopes you'll pay for the rental. Even the playback options are bad if you need to ff or rewind. It reminds me of VHS days of guessing how far you need to go only to get it wrong.
This is the nail for me. Their original content has been lackluster at best and for them to be pushing that as the reason for the price hike is no good. It was the reason for the last few hikes as well and nothing has changed. There have been a few that are interesting to watch (stranger things of course), but for every one that is good there are at least 20 that are garbage. If they want to put out original content fine, but they need to go for quality not quantity like they are. It's like they don't say no to anything people create under netflix. This on top of the fact that in the last 2 years and into this year they've basically butchered their catalog of tv/movies from other companies (fox,disney, ect..) to where if those are the things I want to watch I might as well go else where. I'm not saying that's their fault, but I'm sure they could strike a deal with these media companies if they like vs spending the money on originals that are just there to fill the UI.
Originals can be shown worldwide. They'll have to get a worldwide license for other content.
A huge chunk of international content are original stand ups because they're easy to make. The amount of licensed content available in my country is pretty negligible.
You're more than welcome to make modifications to my quote that you feel would change the context and I'll even update my comment. It's mostly word for word but I did it pretty fast and just with two listens so it's not 100%, but as close as I felt it needed to be too relay his message.
I agree, but I'd take work together to find common ground first over work faster. I think in some respects when they work faster or in complete agreement we get things passed that are not in the best interest of the american people/values (Patriot act comes to mind).
