Anyway, more likely the original defense counsel was crap than law enforcement somehow railroaded the suspect by suggesting that an earlier time was possible, thus making the alibi moot. That would be like assuming an evil Jessica Fletcher mis-solved the case.
Have you READ the original transcript? Maybe the prosecutor was particularly eloquent, the evidence in his favor, and the evidence against (thus in favor of acquittal) pathetically bad. Just because the defendant hasn't confessed and asked to be locked away for life and a day doesn't mean that the jury is wrong, merely incorrect in this one case (assuming that the defendant made the call which supplied an alibi and not one of his friends or associates). The accused baby killer certainly seemed to the entire jury to be guilty, not just probably so like OJ in Ron Goldman's killing.
Well, it still works at home. Since you are on a special trunk, your POTS line probably doesn't go into a node that is required to handle clicks (or doesn't despite FCC regs, since who would ever complain?), since it is business-only.
Zero (0) or one (1) in the middle digit meant a long distance call, at least in the North American Numbering Plan, until there traditional area codes started splitting (mainly because of cell phones needing so many more), and all the switches needed to be reprogrammed. Humorously, each and every new 8yy area code also needed special reprogramming on the switches, as well.
That may have changed in the last few years since I worked at a telecom, though.
Phone handset type is meaningless; the records are generated by the switches in the central offices.
As late as 1974 we shared a party line with three or four other houses within a mile of us.
Not everyone was raised in Hooterville. I doubt that my parents ever used a party line - certainly not at home, even during the Depression.
I'm amazed these records still exist and still believe that this is probably an exception and that most records of this sort don't still exist, certainly not when there isn't a business interest.
Depends on what phone company you are looking at, but once the records became electronic (i.e., mag tape) it became just a matter of paying for proper storage. I expect that the Bell System kept them around just to give the statisticians at Murray Hill something to practice upon.
> Do you really think "they" are working hard to exonerate a lot of people? That "they" are interested in justice?
If "they" means lawyers for one side or the other, yes. If you think that there is some secret agency dedicated to disproving jury verdicts, well that is clearly nonsense. OTOH, you apparently want all historical records destroyed as soon as possible to hide any evidence therein; Kurt Waldheim would have loved you, as he could have lived out his life as a respected Austrian statesman.
Want to know whom to blame? The fear mongering people who got Carter to put a permanent moratorium on any nuclear construction since the 1980s
Carter was responsible for his own fear-mongering, mistaking his old (and worst) experiences as a nuclear engineer on subs, decades before, for the late 1970s state of the art.
The Appeals Court entering a simple decision, finding for or against the Plaintiff
Which they cannot do. They can settle/correct questions of law, but only an original jury, or judge if no jury, can settle questions of fact and degree of guilt, and these were affected by the errors in the original trial so much that their verdict needed to be set aside and a new trial held.
Technically, an Appeals Court is legally not competent to state that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, except as commentary on their decision.
My Sig spits 40 cal lead... I ignore ACs - be a grown-up, show who you are.
To which non-AC post were you replying?
I assume the AC post asking "Would using Rust help?" was making a joke, like asking about using a beowulf cluster back in the good old days, and it just went completely over posters' heads. The alternative is too disappointing to bear.
This is just more disgusting Republican corporate welfare.
From a Democrat administration? Seriously, this is not partisan politics, this is NASA trying to get money for the Aeronautics portion of their name.
PS: If it is American, it is an SST, not some French word. We were smart enough to kill the boondoggle before building a prototype the last time, and you can expect this will die in the womb, too.
Or the hacker figures out passwords because no one can memorize a truly difficult password, so they use their dead son's name or their wedding anniversary. Seriously, read Feynman's memoirs about his time in the Manhattan Project, where they were so concerned about security that the janitorial staff had to be illiterates, yet he was able to open most safes with just a few tries.
Why? To have an excuse for the French actress to walk around naked and for Steve Railsback to try to break out of being typecast as the Charles Manson character.
Lifeforce - a worthy successor to the Hammer Films oevre.
Welcome to the wonderful world of hard science fiction. And, since Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are bother still alive, you can ask them, either at a Con or via mail/email and find out that another fan has already worked that out, like the tensile strength of the Ringworld floor.
You are forgetting multiple facts: 1) The Imperial laser fires a short burst, only a couple light-feet in duration, from the documentaries, and requires a long recharge so that it cannot serve as a laser hose, unlike an AK. The storm troopers cannot just sweep an arc. Personally, I think that the battle droids were better than the storm troopers of Luke's early adulthood. 2) Accurate shooting is more difficult than Westerns would have you believe. There are multiple stories of cops and suspects exchanging fire, emptying their pistols at each other at point blank range, and neither hitting the other. 3) Leia, at least, can have an unconscious Force field deflecting shots (maybe by confusing the aiming of her attackers); Luke and Vader, Obiwan Kenobi and other full Jedi obviously would have such, as would the secret master villain, Jar Jar Binks. 4) The Death Star was the first crack at its design, and had obvious flaws that a few less-than-genius ship designers would have handled at the start, but it was clearly one genius's project. Modern carriers depend mainly on their Carrier Group (including their planes, of course) for defense, and if you ever visited them, Frank Lloyd Wright's building had major problems as buildings rather than as works of Art that has led to almost all of them being museums of FLW's work rather than homes or office buildings.
Assets, not cash. A minor quibble, but if he had all that much cash, he would already had paid income taxes on that amount, and maybe some of the bitching by ACs would not have been submitted.
The reason that he shouldn't pay taxes on his shares is that his FB shares have not been used in any taxable event (like being sold or conveyed to another). Whether FB is doing anything or paying anything is beside the point; it pays its own bills and/or taxes regardless of the actions of any of its shareholders, even a majority owner (if Z. is).
To assert that he should pay more on non-taxable events, such as just owning his FB shares, is to identify themselves as clients of the government, or wannabe clients at least. Entirely to be expected from ACs.
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Well of COURSE they would keep those records, probably laminated on a wall, somewhere (probably at Verizon :-). Alternately, donated to Rutgers.
Viscous?
Vicious, perhaps?
Anyway, more likely the original defense counsel was crap than law enforcement somehow railroaded the suspect by suggesting that an earlier time was possible, thus making the alibi moot. That would be like assuming an evil Jessica Fletcher mis-solved the case.
Have you READ the original transcript? Maybe the prosecutor was particularly eloquent, the evidence in his favor, and the evidence against (thus in favor of acquittal) pathetically bad. Just because the defendant hasn't confessed and asked to be locked away for life and a day doesn't mean that the jury is wrong, merely incorrect in this one case (assuming that the defendant made the call which supplied an alibi and not one of his friends or associates). The accused baby killer certainly seemed to the entire jury to be guilty, not just probably so like OJ in Ron Goldman's killing.
Well, it still works at home. Since you are on a special trunk, your POTS line probably doesn't go into a node that is required to handle clicks (or doesn't despite FCC regs, since who would ever complain?), since it is business-only.
Zero (0) or one (1) in the middle digit meant a long distance call, at least in the North American Numbering Plan, until there traditional area codes started splitting (mainly because of cell phones needing so many more), and all the switches needed to be reprogrammed. Humorously, each and every new 8yy area code also needed special reprogramming on the switches, as well.
That may have changed in the last few years since I worked at a telecom, though.
Not just before touch tone
Phone handset type is meaningless; the records are generated by the switches in the central offices.
As late as 1974 we shared a party line with three or four other houses within a mile of us.
Not everyone was raised in Hooterville. I doubt that my parents ever used a party line - certainly not at home, even during the Depression.
I'm amazed these records still exist and still believe that this is probably an exception and that most records of this sort don't still exist, certainly not when there isn't a business interest.
Depends on what phone company you are looking at, but once the records became electronic (i.e., mag tape) it became just a matter of paying for proper storage. I expect that the Bell System kept them around just to give the statisticians at Murray Hill something to practice upon.
> Do you really think "they" are working hard to exonerate a lot of people? That "they" are interested in justice?
If "they" means lawyers for one side or the other, yes. If you think that there is some secret agency dedicated to disproving jury verdicts, well that is clearly nonsense. OTOH, you apparently want all historical records destroyed as soon as possible to hide any evidence therein; Kurt Waldheim would have loved you, as he could have lived out his life as a respected Austrian statesman.
Want to know whom to blame? The fear mongering people who got Carter to put a permanent moratorium on any nuclear construction since the 1980s
Carter was responsible for his own fear-mongering, mistaking his old (and worst) experiences as a nuclear engineer on subs, decades before, for the late 1970s state of the art.
The Appeals Court entering a simple decision, finding for or against the Plaintiff
Which they cannot do. They can settle/correct questions of law, but only an original jury, or judge if no jury, can settle questions of fact and degree of guilt, and these were affected by the errors in the original trial so much that their verdict needed to be set aside and a new trial held.
Technically, an Appeals Court is legally not competent to state that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West, except as commentary on their decision.
And best of all, when THE STATE needs your money, they can just reset your accounts to whatever fraction of what you once had.
Ask anyone from Cyprus.
My Sig spits 40 cal lead... I ignore ACs - be a grown-up, show who you are.
To which non-AC post were you replying?
I assume the AC post asking "Would using Rust help?" was making a joke, like asking about using a beowulf cluster back in the good old days, and it just went completely over posters' heads. The alternative is too disappointing to bear.
Well, it is unethical to use non-volunteers in psychological experiments, as well as expensive when they all sue the researchers, afterwards.
This is just more disgusting Republican corporate welfare.
From a Democrat administration? Seriously, this is not partisan politics, this is NASA trying to get money for the Aeronautics portion of their name.
PS: If it is American, it is an SST, not some French word. We were smart enough to kill the boondoggle before building a prototype the last time, and you can expect this will die in the womb, too.
Then we can get started on how big space is, and how much effort matching orbits is... how the Gravity movie was such a bullshit.
Yet they did it during the Gemini Program with computers not much more powerful than today's drugstore calculator. Twice.
Or the hacker figures out passwords because no one can memorize a truly difficult password, so they use their dead son's name or their wedding anniversary. Seriously, read Feynman's memoirs about his time in the Manhattan Project, where they were so concerned about security that the janitorial staff had to be illiterates, yet he was able to open most safes with just a few tries.
In the future, everyone will wear matching clothing. It will be silvery and consist solely of one article.
You are forgetting the capes.
Why? To have an excuse for the French actress to walk around naked and for Steve Railsback to try to break out of being typecast as the Charles Manson character.
Lifeforce - a worthy successor to the Hammer Films oevre.
(2) Science officers with Ph.D. levels of expertise in dozens of fields.
Wikipedia after 200 years, obviously.
It was used on a nebula, not a planet. Before that, it was used on the interior of an asteroid.
Because we can trust the Klingons and Romulans to keep their treaties, without any thought of cheating.
Heck, at least try blaming the Organians, or some such Deus Ex Machina.
Welcome to the wonderful world of hard science fiction. And, since Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are bother still alive, you can ask them, either at a Con or via mail/email and find out that another fan has already worked that out, like the tensile strength of the Ringworld floor.
Obviously, all sophisticated races follow the rules of Frank Herbert, where they divide themselves into subspecies to further evolution.
You are forgetting multiple facts:
1) The Imperial laser fires a short burst, only a couple light-feet in duration, from the documentaries, and requires a long recharge so that it cannot serve as a laser hose, unlike an AK. The storm troopers cannot just sweep an arc. Personally, I think that the battle droids were better than the storm troopers of Luke's early adulthood.
2) Accurate shooting is more difficult than Westerns would have you believe. There are multiple stories of cops and suspects exchanging fire, emptying their pistols at each other at point blank range, and neither hitting the other.
3) Leia, at least, can have an unconscious Force field deflecting shots (maybe by confusing the aiming of her attackers); Luke and Vader, Obiwan Kenobi and other full Jedi obviously would have such, as would the secret master villain, Jar Jar Binks.
4) The Death Star was the first crack at its design, and had obvious flaws that a few less-than-genius ship designers would have handled at the start, but it was clearly one genius's project. Modern carriers depend mainly on their Carrier Group (including their planes, of course) for defense, and if you ever visited them, Frank Lloyd Wright's building had major problems as buildings rather than as works of Art that has led to almost all of them being museums of FLW's work rather than homes or office buildings.
He put 45 billion of his own cash ...
Assets, not cash. A minor quibble, but if he had all that much cash, he would already had paid income taxes on that amount, and maybe some of the bitching by ACs would not have been submitted.
The reason that he shouldn't pay taxes on his shares is that his FB shares have not been used in any taxable event (like being sold or conveyed to another). Whether FB is doing anything or paying anything is beside the point; it pays its own bills and/or taxes regardless of the actions of any of its shareholders, even a majority owner (if Z. is).
To assert that he should pay more on non-taxable events, such as just owning his FB shares, is to identify themselves as clients of the government, or wannabe clients at least. Entirely to be expected from ACs.