I'd mod you higher if you weren't already 5.
I was thinking about this just yesterday and think that this is the most sensible thing to do. I've seen kids ask teachers about Genesis, and if the teacher doesn't handle it well those kids will quit listening and just sit there and steam and complain to their parents. If this is ignored then it's like saying that people's religious beliefs aren't even worth addressing. That not only feels like a slap in the face, it is a slap in the face.
Teachers having preparation for the questions of the students and their parents will smooth teaching evolutionary concepts and in the end will educate people better.
Also, teachers may have their own internal conflicts because of their own religious beliefs and upbringing. The much of the same preparation would also help them in this regard.
The "where to stop" is somewhere between "beyond a reasonable doubt" and "beyond a shadow of a doubt".
While I firmly believe in the auditability of things like this even when the device seems to be on the up and up, from my reading of the material this device has produced some verifiable and unexplained funky results on occasion.
If forensic pathologist were to testify that the only explanation for a particular injury was getting stabbed with a titanium spork, but the defense could find a case where a very similar injury was caused before the invention of the titanium spork, then further information about how the pathologist reached this conclusion would likely become much more important to the case.
In the case of DUI and other traffic enforcement this kind of accountability is needed because more and more city and county revenue is coming from the fines imposed for these offenses.
It is very similar to the voting machine issue, and there have been several attempts to make open source voting systems. Open source systems of this nature make sense as well.
I would have thought that the court(s) would rule that the prosecution had to provide the court (and the defense) with the source code (and schematics, device testing procedures,...) in order to use the results of the test as evidence. It seems to me that the provider of the Intoxilyzer 8000 should be answering to the prosecution and police. The police could then take up with the Intoxilyzer 8000 people their issues with the uselessness of the device if this info weren't provided.
I'm stupid, though, so I could have it all wrong.
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IANAD (I am not a doomsayer), but they still haven't done collisions. That's what might kill us.
So far the tests they've done are akin to crash test engineers making sure that cars can go both ways on the track in preparation for head on collisions. No cars have been smashed yet.
You had me scared there for a little bit. I thought you were going to explain how dispensing with leap times was going to degrade our orbit and make us either fall into the Sun or fling out into deep space.
They said that it used some wrote once ROM, so I'm thinking that they are thinking that since no one could take one of their chips and over write it with the data of another chip completely (b/c of the write once ROM) that it can't be cloned. If this is true then it's totally clone-able since no one ever said that the clone had to even fit into anything resembling the original.
I don't know a lot about RFID, so I'm speculating a lot.
In addition to the no disassembly rule, 3 days seems pretty short for this kind of operation. It probably could be done, but it'd have to be the contestant's top priority and even still it seems short.
Another thing is that one of the data recovery firms that they contacted did agree to give it a try, but it sounded like they didn't know that it was a competition and Mr Contest-Holder took their lack of optimism as "we can't do it".
Also, $40 bucks is at least 100 times too low to pay someone for any advanced data recovery.
I would guess that in most polygamous cultures the man is king of his castle to a large degree, so after marriage the in-laws don't exert that much nag.
I do think that killing without being at risk yourself is new and different. Also going from kill mode to dinner with the family within such a short amount of time and knowing that you're doing it again the next day is probably very new. Typically for US military it's like a whole other life if for no other reason than the travel between the battlefield and home.
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I'd mod you higher if you weren't already 5. I was thinking about this just yesterday and think that this is the most sensible thing to do. I've seen kids ask teachers about Genesis, and if the teacher doesn't handle it well those kids will quit listening and just sit there and steam and complain to their parents. If this is ignored then it's like saying that people's religious beliefs aren't even worth addressing. That not only feels like a slap in the face, it is a slap in the face. Teachers having preparation for the questions of the students and their parents will smooth teaching evolutionary concepts and in the end will educate people better. Also, teachers may have their own internal conflicts because of their own religious beliefs and upbringing. The much of the same preparation would also help them in this regard.
The "where to stop" is somewhere between "beyond a reasonable doubt" and "beyond a shadow of a doubt". While I firmly believe in the auditability of things like this even when the device seems to be on the up and up, from my reading of the material this device has produced some verifiable and unexplained funky results on occasion. If forensic pathologist were to testify that the only explanation for a particular injury was getting stabbed with a titanium spork, but the defense could find a case where a very similar injury was caused before the invention of the titanium spork, then further information about how the pathologist reached this conclusion would likely become much more important to the case. In the case of DUI and other traffic enforcement this kind of accountability is needed because more and more city and county revenue is coming from the fines imposed for these offenses.
It is very similar to the voting machine issue, and there have been several attempts to make open source voting systems. Open source systems of this nature make sense as well.
I would have thought that the court(s) would rule that the prosecution had to provide the court (and the defense) with the source code (and schematics, device testing procedures, ...) in order to use the results of the test as evidence. It seems to me that the provider of the Intoxilyzer 8000 should be answering to the prosecution and police. The police could then take up with the Intoxilyzer 8000 people their issues with the uselessness of the device if this info weren't provided.
I'm stupid, though, so I could have it all wrong.
Just combine the first two letters and start posting more stories about donkey shows --- OMG Donkies!
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IANAD (I am not a doomsayer), but they still haven't done collisions. That's what might kill us. So far the tests they've done are akin to crash test engineers making sure that cars can go both ways on the track in preparation for head on collisions. No cars have been smashed yet.
Goodbye cruel world!
You had me scared there for a little bit. I thought you were going to explain how dispensing with leap times was going to degrade our orbit and make us either fall into the Sun or fling out into deep space.
They said that it used some wrote once ROM, so I'm thinking that they are thinking that since no one could take one of their chips and over write it with the data of another chip completely (b/c of the write once ROM) that it can't be cloned. If this is true then it's totally clone-able since no one ever said that the clone had to even fit into anything resembling the original. I don't know a lot about RFID, so I'm speculating a lot.
Well, did they say the port has to work?
In addition to it's usability, the lack of a screen should also help out on power consumption.
In addition to the no disassembly rule, 3 days seems pretty short for this kind of operation. It probably could be done, but it'd have to be the contestant's top priority and even still it seems short. Another thing is that one of the data recovery firms that they contacted did agree to give it a try, but it sounded like they didn't know that it was a competition and Mr Contest-Holder took their lack of optimism as "we can't do it". Also, $40 bucks is at least 100 times too low to pay someone for any advanced data recovery.
Google Earth sees the pirates before they get close. I'm not sure what Google Boat does then, but it may involve ninjas.
Is that because McCain is nostalgic for the good ol' days before there were books?
I would guess that in most polygamous cultures the man is king of his castle to a large degree, so after marriage the in-laws don't exert that much nag.
Then athletic doping profits could go towards more better medical research!! Or towards more athletic doping research and yachts.
I like my headline better.
I RTFA several days ago and after looking at their forums for a little while the phrase "I'd like to have an argument." came to mind.
I do think that killing without being at risk yourself is new and different. Also going from kill mode to dinner with the family within such a short amount of time and knowing that you're doing it again the next day is probably very new. Typically for US military it's like a whole other life if for no other reason than the travel between the battlefield and home.
Best Buy consumer electronics department staff have larger brains than normal humans on average? Well maybe larger than the average Best Buy shopper.
Why? Is she pregnant?
I wish Alice and Bob would just go ahead and do it already. Everybody knows they have the hots for one another.
Que the space rednecks.
I'm all the time clicking "this is spam" on stuff that Yahoo sends to my yahoo account, but I still get it. What's up with that?