How can background information be healthy in all cases. It could be more damaging towards the accused if he/she is innocent.
The jury is already entering the courtroom with its own load of preconceptions and opinions. You have to trust the jury is capable of re-evaluating the situation fairly based on evidence provided in the courtroom. That's the only important issue.
If not, you're not going to get a fair trial even if you do lock the jury up and blindfold them and plug their ears and keep them out-of-touch with the outside world.
The court should stop fooling itself and accept that jurors enter the courtroom knowing things they're not supposed to, and accept that it's fighting the impossible fight.
How can you achieve this without having them locked up in rooms 24hours for the duration of a trial?
You accept that it's impossible to prevent the flow of information to an individual. You accept that jurors enter the courtroom with a load of prejudicial preconceptions that never get revealed during pre-trial juror questioning. You accept that a certain level of background information is normal for a juror to have and is probably healthy because it implies the jurors do more with their time than sit home watching Days of Our Lives. A jury of my peers is not a jury of uneducated, ill-informed people who lack critical thinking skills.
This is an example of how obsession with a web site can make someone feel negative content is being seen by everyone, instead of being buried in a haystack. Sure, the jurors can hop on a search engine and find the info, but they can also stroll on down to the corner library and locate it in newspaper records. The root issue is one of controlling juror action.
But hey, some of us prone to unpopular opinion will also say the judicial system is whack. All too frequently injustices occur in jury verdicts because past criminal records (i.e., chronic conduct) was suppressed by the judge under the pristine notion that past conduct has no bearing on a person's present day actions. Imagine if the business world operated that way (not checking references, not caring about previous job performance).
Universities usually provide web server space as a 'courtesy' to students for 'educational purposes.' It's a stretch to say what this student did was part of his university education.
Sure, you can stretch the meaning of 'educational' to mean virtually anything you do in life, but that kind of excuse doesn't fly with a school administrator. An administrator feels he has far better things to do with his time than to get the school embroiled in an international debate because one student wants to make a point while using university resources. The student could just as easily make his point off-campus.
If Mulder leaves, have the alien conspiracy shift to strip clubs. Scully goes undercover to investigate. Turns out the strippers are using innocent club customers for deviant sexual encounters to produce hybrid offspring to combat the government's own hybrid project. Byers, Langly and Frohike play starring roles as they willingly provide their seed in an undercover operation.
Oh you nattering naybobs... After setting the self destruct, Picard stayed on board to save a friend and fight the Borg. It was a valiant act of loyalty, friendship, courage and character -- and Picard saved the ship after all.
I stand by the quote. It takes courage and character to stand up to Microsoft, and you need loyal friends supporting you.
I had been an early adopter of the Sony Mavica, sold on floppy disk storage... but after you've tried bulk storage, you never go back.
I'm a fan of the Kodak DC290, which uses compact flash cards for image storage (which I can also swap into my handheld PC). I own a DC265, which is 1.5 years old, takes 1536 x 1024 images, and its output has been fine for print publications (except glossy stuff). The camera came with a 16MB card, which takes about 40 photos at max quality. I bought a 40 meg card and get about 100 photos, which gives me all the storage I need, with no need to carry around 140 floppy disks! (Plus, the average user doesn't need max quality, for web or screen output. I could easily take hundreds of photos at lower quality.)
Kodak owners should join the digita mailing list which is excellent for peer technical support. The DC220, 260, 265, and 290 cameras run the Digita operating system, which allows you to write custom configuration scripts (for example, quickly set your camera for certain lighting conditions you encounter frequently). The only major drawback with the Kodak (and most digitial cameras) is that it cannot go fully manual like the Mavica and has only the standard 3X zoom. But, I gladly trade that for Kodak's many other merits (and I'll buy a zoom lens if it ever becomes really important). Its auto settings and white balancing make it really easy for me to hand this camera to my mom or other helpless person and still get nice photos. The DC290 is currently selling in the $680 range at shopper.com. (dang, my DC265 originally cost $800!)
I have the same thing, except a little worse in Win95. The splash screen comes up for a split second, then nothing, and Netscape is not in memory. And of course it's not listed by Windows as a program to uninstall...
the point is that we could have had this long ago if M$ had played nice. They didn't.
If it's all Microsoft's fault for not playing nice, then you'd think Corel could at least make Word Perfect import Word documents perfectly even if Word doesn't do the same in reverse. No one seems truly devoted to compatibility across platforms. I have a heck of a time just getting a Mac to spit out a document as ASCII (don't give me this 'Plain Text' garbage!).
Am I the only person that has a grip on reality here? Are we talking about the same Microsoft which has taken over the desktop, web browser, office suite, and mid-range server market and whose market share continues to grow?
Oh no, no. You're mistaken. When I set up SimCity on my Linux desktop I made sure all you little people were using Linux like me. There might be a handful of Microsoft refugees hiding somewhere in the city, but I'll snuff them out soon.
Exactly. We still live in a business world where Word Perfect files get improperly converted with formatting problems in Word (or whatever format). To ensure what I see on my screen is exactly what you see on your screen we employ all sorts of alternative formats (PDFs, etc.) and file conversions.
For the portion of the world that shares documents, a common OS and common applications have been a Godsend, even if God himself turned out to be evil.
The point is that users do not want to worry about sharing files between OS types and flavors of software. They want everything to be seamless and consistent. Until our programs work that way, there is value in having a dominant OS and dominant suite of software applications.
Microsoft is so entrenched it will be years before its influence wanes. Hell, it will still be years before the hype around Internet-everywhere becomes a reality. Pundits still push the myth that everyone owns a cell phone. Sorry guys.
The PET was wonderful innovation for its built-in tape player, but here we are 22 years later and still no cup holder on my keyboard! Even movie theatres have made vast strides in ergonomics!
Oh quit your balking. With spill-resistant keyboards on the market, there's no excuse. By now my keyboard should be keeping my coffee cup warm and my Coke can cool.
Maybe motion picture class keyboards will be the one positive thing to come out of the DVD brouhaha.
Why does Congress need to tell people their e-mail addresses? No one requires it. Here's what they should do:
If you send e-mail to your Congressman, you receive an autoresponse explaining that the Congressman does not receive direct e-mail. You are encouraged to submit your feedback through a comment form on the Congressman's web site.
Your e-mail is archived for legal reasons, perhaps with one staffer reading through it to check for death or bomb threats -- but no replies are sent.
A comment form on the Congressman's web site requires you to supply your contact info, mailing address, etc. Asking for your identity will stop a lot of the less serious users -- even though it's simple to lie, a lot of people leave at this point.
On the form, explain that every comment is read, but most are not replied to, most replies are sent via snail mail (further encouraging the user to submit truthful contact info), and thank the user.
No one can expect all e-mails to receive personal replies. It's not practical. And it's not practical for the government to blindly receive and respond to communications which are so easily forged. They need a middle ground.
Dang, as if it's not hard enough for us Catholics to enter a dark, cramped confessional, kneel with our heads down, and talk to a man dressed in black behind a room separator.
Now we have to endure the slow progression of messages at the web confessional, waiting and watching as messages slowly take you on a bread-crumb trail to your thoughts.
Welcome
In the next few pages...
Here is an opportunity...
By the grace of God...
And the whole thing is presented on a blue puffy-cloud sky background, like they're Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Or maybe it's supposed to scare you into repentance with the resemblance to the Windows boot screen.
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In the little town of Springfield, Nelson Muntz is lifting his finger toward Redmond and saying, "Ha ha!"
The jury is already entering the courtroom with its own load of preconceptions and opinions. You have to trust the jury is capable of re-evaluating the situation fairly based on evidence provided in the courtroom. That's the only important issue.
If not, you're not going to get a fair trial even if you do lock the jury up and blindfold them and plug their ears and keep them out-of-touch with the outside world.
The court should stop fooling itself and accept that jurors enter the courtroom knowing things they're not supposed to, and accept that it's fighting the impossible fight.
I'm going to trademark the taste of boogers in conjunction with my finger.
You accept that it's impossible to prevent the flow of information to an individual. You accept that jurors enter the courtroom with a load of prejudicial preconceptions that never get revealed during pre-trial juror questioning. You accept that a certain level of background information is normal for a juror to have and is probably healthy because it implies the jurors do more with their time than sit home watching Days of Our Lives. A jury of my peers is not a jury of uneducated, ill-informed people who lack critical thinking skills.
That's beside the issue. Web sites can be just as inaccurate, if not more so, than newspapers. The root issue remains controlling juror action.
But hey, some of us prone to unpopular opinion will also say the judicial system is whack. All too frequently injustices occur in jury verdicts because past criminal records (i.e., chronic conduct) was suppressed by the judge under the pristine notion that past conduct has no bearing on a person's present day actions. Imagine if the business world operated that way (not checking references, not caring about previous job performance).
Sure, you can stretch the meaning of 'educational' to mean virtually anything you do in life, but that kind of excuse doesn't fly with a school administrator. An administrator feels he has far better things to do with his time than to get the school embroiled in an international debate because one student wants to make a point while using university resources. The student could just as easily make his point off-campus.
If Mulder leaves, have the alien conspiracy shift to strip clubs. Scully goes undercover to investigate. Turns out the strippers are using innocent club customers for deviant sexual encounters to produce hybrid offspring to combat the government's own hybrid project. Byers, Langly and Frohike play starring roles as they willingly provide their seed in an undercover operation.
I stand by the quote. It takes courage and character to stand up to Microsoft, and you need loyal friends supporting you.
"They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here!" -Jean-Luc Picard
Dictionary.com defines whippersnapper as "A person regarded as insignificant and pretentious." Is this not how hackers were originally viewed?
I'm a fan of the Kodak DC290, which uses compact flash cards for image storage (which I can also swap into my handheld PC). I own a DC265, which is 1.5 years old, takes 1536 x 1024 images, and its output has been fine for print publications (except glossy stuff). The camera came with a 16MB card, which takes about 40 photos at max quality. I bought a 40 meg card and get about 100 photos, which gives me all the storage I need, with no need to carry around 140 floppy disks! (Plus, the average user doesn't need max quality, for web or screen output. I could easily take hundreds of photos at lower quality.)
Kodak owners should join the digita mailing list which is excellent for peer technical support. The DC220, 260, 265, and 290 cameras run the Digita operating system, which allows you to write custom configuration scripts (for example, quickly set your camera for certain lighting conditions you encounter frequently). The only major drawback with the Kodak (and most digitial cameras) is that it cannot go fully manual like the Mavica and has only the standard 3X zoom. But, I gladly trade that for Kodak's many other merits (and I'll buy a zoom lens if it ever becomes really important). Its auto settings and white balancing make it really easy for me to hand this camera to my mom or other helpless person and still get nice photos. The DC290 is currently selling in the $680 range at shopper.com. (dang, my DC265 originally cost $800!)
Aha! ...further evidence that journalists hate Steven Speilberg and do not watch his movies.
Oh please. The Internet is a fad, just like talkies.
I have the same thing, except a little worse in Win95. The splash screen comes up for a split second, then nothing, and Netscape is not in memory. And of course it's not listed by Windows as a program to uninstall...
If it's all Microsoft's fault for not playing nice, then you'd think Corel could at least make Word Perfect import Word documents perfectly even if Word doesn't do the same in reverse. No one seems truly devoted to compatibility across platforms. I have a heck of a time just getting a Mac to spit out a document as ASCII (don't give me this 'Plain Text' garbage!).
Exactly. We still live in a business world where Word Perfect files get improperly converted with formatting problems in Word (or whatever format). To ensure what I see on my screen is exactly what you see on your screen we employ all sorts of alternative formats (PDFs, etc.) and file conversions.
For the portion of the world that shares documents, a common OS and common applications have been a Godsend, even if God himself turned out to be evil.
The point is that users do not want to worry about sharing files between OS types and flavors of software. They want everything to be seamless and consistent. Until our programs work that way, there is value in having a dominant OS and dominant suite of software applications.
Microsoft is so entrenched it will be years before its influence wanes. Hell, it will still be years before the hype around Internet-everywhere becomes a reality. Pundits still push the myth that everyone owns a cell phone. Sorry guys.
Oh quit your balking. With spill-resistant keyboards on the market, there's no excuse. By now my keyboard should be keeping my coffee cup warm and my Coke can cool.
Maybe motion picture class keyboards will be the one positive thing to come out of the DVD brouhaha.
- If you send e-mail to your Congressman, you receive an autoresponse explaining that the Congressman does not receive direct e-mail. You are encouraged to submit your feedback through a comment form on the Congressman's web site.
- Your e-mail is archived for legal reasons, perhaps with one staffer reading through it to check for death or bomb threats -- but no replies are sent.
- A comment form on the Congressman's web site requires you to supply your contact info, mailing address, etc. Asking for your identity will stop a lot of the less serious users -- even though it's simple to lie, a lot of people leave at this point.
- On the form, explain that every comment is read, but most are not replied to, most replies are sent via snail mail (further encouraging the user to submit truthful contact info), and thank the user.
No one can expect all e-mails to receive personal replies. It's not practical. And it's not practical for the government to blindly receive and respond to communications which are so easily forged. They need a middle ground.Now we have to endure the slow progression of messages at the web confessional, waiting and watching as messages slowly take you on a bread-crumb trail to your thoughts.
Welcome
In the next few pages...
Here is an opportunity...
By the grace of God...
And the whole thing is presented on a blue puffy-cloud sky background, like they're Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts. Or maybe it's supposed to scare you into repentance with the resemblance to the Windows boot screen.