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And did you seriously just reference John Lott, and then use the phrase "well researched" in the same sentence? You dumbass: That's like citing Senator Inhofe as your source for global warming data.

If you would reference Lott, you should a bit about him first:

From ( http://www.armedwithreason.com... ):

Lott’s work is filled with bizarre results that are inconsistent with established facts in criminology.

According to Lott’s data, for example, rural areas are more dangerous than cities. FBI data clearly shows this is not the case. Lott’s model finds that both increasing unemployment and decreasing the number of middle-aged and elderly black women would produce substantial decreases in the homicide rate, conclusions that are so bizarre that they should cast doubt on the entire study.

From ( http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~la... , basically 47 pages of why "correlation is not causation"):

Only 20% of permits were issued to women, but the male and female homi-
cides rate went down by the same amount and the reduction in the rape rate
was similar to the decrease in assaults. Lott speculates that guns are four
times as effective for females. While this is not impossible it seems more
likely that the decreases were caused by some other factor that applied to
males and females equally.

Or from my favorite:

The empirical studies of right-to-carry laws preceding Lott and Mustard’s study may be flawed,2" but if these studies have any value, they suggest that right-to-carry laws and high gun ownership levels either have no significant effect on crime or else increase it Both Ludwig and Black and Nagin conclude that no credible empirical evidence supports the judgment that right-to-carry laws deter crime. At this point, there is essentially no reason for an intelligent consumer of social science research to accept the Lott and Mustard findings.

Of course the right-to-carry cure for violence worked for the Hatfields and McCoys. It worked for Bernhard Goetz. It worked on the American frontier. It is being copied in Rwanda today. According to John Lott and David Mustard, right-to-carry can work for us too.

http://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/v...

Although let's be honest, you didn't look into shit, and you never actually read Lott's research either. (Helpful link: http://www.johnlott.org/ )

You just picked up the name from the NRA or some other group of idiots.

This is in no small part because the South is the only part of the country that really has black people everywhere. Look at this or this (for the second one, you'll need to select View More Maps and choose Black Population). Outside the South, black people live in cities. In the South, they live in small towns, in rural areas, and yes, in cities, but there's just a lot more interaction between whites and blacks, and they are inhabiting distinct cultures (if you don't believe me, compare the Real Housewives of Atlanta to those of anywhere else - maybe Orange County.

Humans are wired to be racist the same way we're wired to be tribal - it takes a sustained, conscious effort to overcome. The Czechs and the Slovaks decided to part ways, and they are so ethnically similar that they speak mutually intelligible languages. The fact that we have taken an incredibly toxic environment of mutual distrust and hatred and turned it into a mere dozen instances of "nigger" in the span of fifty years is an incredible accomplishment. Racism is a lot less common in the North, but so are the actual black people with whom a white person might have a negative interaction that would serve to justify (in their mind) a racist belief.

Especially when litigatory IS a word, in common usage for over 150 years. http://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=vulr

A word that, at least in the example you give, is not used the way you used it. Inconceivable.

Especially when litigatory IS a word, in common usage for over 150 years.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=vulr

Here's baptist disribution in the US.

Baptists are numbered at 100 million worldwide, but I would argue that baptists in the US have a different belief system. The Southern Baptist Convention has 16 million members.

Contrasted with this is all of Christianity at over 2 billion, and over half of that are Catholics. Here's an actual breakdown by the numbers if you are interested.

It's probably about time to mention the fact that the expansion Machine Access Code is in wide use, even if it is not the expansion you like.

Examples;

• UCSF ITFS: Wireless Networking and Security Standards: Legacy host based authorization systems utilizing the machine address code (MAC) may continue to be used until June 30th 2010
• Bluetooth essentials for programmers: 1.2.1: "Identical to the Machine Access Code (MAC) address for Ethernet"
• Source: Computer Crime Research Center, for another user's Ethernet address (known as a MAC or Machine Address Code)
• Book of the Dead, Patricia Daniels Cornwell; "Sandman's IP doesn't correspond to any MAC at the port. That's the Machine Address Code. Whatever computer the Sandman is using to send his e-mails, it doesn't seem to be one at the port,"
• Symantec.com, "When a host wants to join an IP Multicast group, it sends an Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) join message specifying its Machine Address Code (MAC) address and "
• Valparaiso University, Finding Windows System information, " 5. The Ethernet Address will be listed as the Physical Address. Machine Address Code (MAC)"
• PostgreSQL: A comprehensive guide, Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas; pg 106; "The acronym MAC stands for one of the following: Machine Address Code, Media Access Control, or Macaroni and Cheese"
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• Temple University, "Please note that you must first register the machine address code (MAC) of your laptop with Computer and Media Services before you can take advantage of this service. "
• Pharmacology Information Technology, "To register your computer, you'll need to know your computer's Machine Address Code (MAC) address, basically the serial number of your ethernet port."
• Chaminade Univeristy, "Examples of information which we receive, and may store, include (although are not necessarily limited to) the Internet protocol (IP) address used to communicate with us; the Machine Address Code (MAC) number of your computer"
• eHow: How to Find the Machine Address Code on a PowerMac

Why on earth do these things appear to have screensavers?

Perhaps so that people who glance at your device when it's lying on the table won't be able to know what you're reading? You may not want people to know how far along you are in your novel.

Actually, some sodas do list it on the cans/bottles.

Sprite, Dr Pepper and A&W Root Beer do.

I guess it varies from company to company.

Oh, and as where I got my info... http://www.valpo.edu/organization/psme/labs/teache rs/2003/JScaffeine.pdf

And yes, I know it's referring to 1999 data. I can't see the amount of sodium benzoate in sodas going up horribly since then, though.

My wife just finished here 4 year BS degree as an EE. She was one of the top students at a very respectable school (Valparaiso University) and hasn't found a EE job since she graduated in May. The school's placement assistance program can't find anything for her either. Honestly, I would recommend either ME, or nursing. Nursing sounds like a joke, but you can go from there to being a doctor. Plus, you'll always be able to find places in your area that needs someone with nursing experience.
... but, I'd go Mechanical

You mean something like this?

It's a port to Java of the Quake engine which was never completed because of pressure put on the developers by ID Software. When I first saw it a couple of years ago, I was quite impressed!