Gosh, I don't know whose attributes I would rather have. GWB, who can overcome any challenge with brazen stupidity; Rain Man, who can count cards and frighten small town waitresses; Tiger Woods, who can sleep with many women like he is a random celebrity; Sport Guy, who does sport guy things.
I've taken Geology, Historical Geology and Geophysics. So I would wager I have a far greater grasp on how and what is occurring 4-5k feet down after the well head drilled through basaltic rock started gushing out 200k barrels a day that it is going to take a fuck load more than 11 tons of explosives to seal that well or it would of already happened.
If the Commies had not taken over Russia, I wonder what would of happened? Would they of had some sort of Constitutional Monarchy like Britain? They would of pry tried to take on the tanks on horseback, that did not work too well for the Poles.
11 tons is not going to do much to a wellhead other than pry enlarge it. Two things a nuke has going for it are size and temperature, neither one of which is extent in known conventional explosives. Which is not to say the government does not have stuff out there that could do this, but they would pry rather use a nuke itself than the magic crap they use to detonate it.
You can still buy explosives for agricultural, artistic and even personal uses in most states. I dated someone who used explosives to form sculptures out of scraps of rusty metal and she had a permit and used all of her explosives inside.
If shallow graves can be told apart from the native terrain w/ Lidar over a period of 1 week, 1 month, 1 year etc, than it might work. You would pry need to do a full body farm treatment on it though.
I hope someone is keeping tabs on how much the Chinese government owes us in IP violations if it wants to remain in the WTO and most favored nation. I'm pretty damn sure it is a fuckload more than we owe than in loans.
No study has ever proven this for fMRI only lie detectors. People can control stress through training that is well proven and makes lie detectors useless for judicial duties but fMRIs have far more backing atm. The amount of people who can control the flow of blood in their brain during stimulation that would mimic the 'correct' is unknown but less than 20%.
What if they choose to have the fMRI done? You can still have lie detectors admitted in some jurisdictions so why shouldn't the defense be allowed to use this tool? No one is forcing anyone to do the fMRI in this case.
A fMRI is not a lie detector test it is more of a memory test, so unless the criminal is delusional or has those morphological differences I mentioned in my first post he is not going to get off.
Well perhaps we need a check on the jury's seemingly endlessly ability to be lured into convicting innocent people out of motley assortment of prejudices and 'gut-feelings'. You can't tell me the fact that across the world minority conviction rates are higher for the same crimes because of anything but bigotry. Don't even start with the idea of ever person having the right to appeal, which can take years if not decades to overturn a wrongful conviction.
If this technology can get to 9X.x% accuracy in the near future I would like it to at least be used to prevent people from having to go to trial or have charges brought against them in the first place. District Attorneys have far too much power right now to prosecute people charge them with 5 crimes that can result in years in prison and 10's pf thousands of dollars for petty crimes like vandalism and than have them plea down to 30 days in jail and a 1000 dollar fine.
My friend in his last year of college was walking home from his art studio down town with all of his art supplies in a backpack near a bank downtown. A rent a cop came out of nowhere and started accusing him of vandalizing the property and started manhandling him and moments later the real cops showed up and arrested him. Why, well he had marker pens in his backpack that were the same type used to write anti-capitalist graffiti on the bank's ATM and someone had superglued the deposit door shut. He was held over night was forced to call his parents for bail, had all of his art supplies confiscated, charged with 3 misdemeanors that could of landed him in jail for 2 years, fought all the charges with a private attorney his parents paid for, lost all the charges got 6 months in jail and a 3500 dollar fine, appealed the conviction, found evidence that another bank in the area after he was arrested had the same graffiti done to it while he was with his parents 100 miles away, went to trial and the judge spent 3 days grilling him on his political activities before overturning the convictions. He got back his art bag, everything was either broken in half or torn and it smelled like feet because it had been locked up with his shoes for over a year at this point. He told me it took over 25,000 dollars to prove he was innocent and if he did not have well off parents he would of been in jail.
Public defenders in this country on average handle over 500 cases a year whereas a DA handles half that, something has to change or more and more of us are going to be going to jail as innocent men. In NYC the average case load of a public defender is 720 cases a year.
Do you have any studies that conclude or even allude to the possibility of gaming a fMRI ? From a layman's point of view from someone who has read over some of the literature it has more to do with the morphological differences of the patient's brain than the psychological/personal profile of the individual.
If it is better than what we have for false convictions than why prefer human prejudice/error over machine error. It seems to me one of those is far more likely to improve than the other and I'm not talking about Homo Sapien's ability to use critical thinking skills when confronted with conflicting emotive/subjective versions of events.
Also it is would only be a portion of the evidence which the case depends upon currently for it to reach a verdict. Anyone who compares this to lie detector machines does not understand that lie detectors are little better than a coin toss. This when properly used has been shown to top out at 90%.
We lived in VA for awhile when I was growing up. One of the things I remember all too well is the bigotry and all the kids calling each other homosexual epithets constantly. Moving there from California where such behavior was unusual was quite a shock. I've been going to gay night clubs for decades to watch the cabarets and I doubt I have heard the word gay, queer and fag as many times in all the clubs combined than I did those two semesters in VA.
Its like these hipster kids saying that meat quality from factory farms is worse than before, but before factory farms there was almost no consistency in meat at all. So what they are saying is they want to back to a time when every ham was different.
I live in Oregon and have access to all organic butcheries and the only two meats I think are worth the premium are whole chicken ( no 20% salt water by weight ) and nitrite-free lunch meats.
I would imagine a 'bad sector' would happened to the Apple engineer who liked the taste of German beer so much that he lost an Apple prototype while Steve Jobs was still alive.
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Gosh, I don't know whose attributes I would rather have. GWB, who can overcome any challenge with brazen stupidity; Rain Man, who can count cards and frighten small town waitresses; Tiger Woods, who can sleep with many women like he is a random celebrity; Sport Guy, who does sport guy things.
My vote is Rain Man. I like institutional food.
I personally can't wait for the first awkward weeks of democracy when they start releasing North Korean porn.
I've taken Geology, Historical Geology and Geophysics. So I would wager I have a far greater grasp on how and what is occurring 4-5k feet down after the well head drilled through basaltic rock started gushing out 200k barrels a day that it is going to take a fuck load more than 11 tons of explosives to seal that well or it would of already happened.
I predict old people will come out of their homes searching for entertainment.
If the Commies had not taken over Russia, I wonder what would of happened? Would they of had some sort of Constitutional Monarchy like Britain? They would of pry tried to take on the tanks on horseback, that did not work too well for the Poles.
I'm pretty sure sausage and beer would work for the vast majority of stereotype Germans, and those are the ones we want to kill right?
What is this an episode of the 'W'enture brothers? I don't want to die some virgin henchman.
11 tons is not going to do much to a wellhead other than pry enlarge it. Two things a nuke has going for it are size and temperature, neither one of which is extent in known conventional explosives. Which is not to say the government does not have stuff out there that could do this, but they would pry rather use a nuke itself than the magic crap they use to detonate it.
You can still buy explosives for agricultural, artistic and even personal uses in most states. I dated someone who used explosives to form sculptures out of scraps of rusty metal and she had a permit and used all of her explosives inside.
If shallow graves can be told apart from the native terrain w/ Lidar over a period of 1 week, 1 month, 1 year etc, than it might work. You would pry need to do a full body farm treatment on it though.
I hope someone is keeping tabs on how much the Chinese government owes us in IP violations if it wants to remain in the WTO and most favored nation. I'm pretty damn sure it is a fuckload more than we owe than in loans.
No study has ever proven this for fMRI only lie detectors. People can control stress through training that is well proven and makes lie detectors useless for judicial duties but fMRIs have far more backing atm. The amount of people who can control the flow of blood in their brain during stimulation that would mimic the 'correct' is unknown but less than 20%.
What if they choose to have the fMRI done? You can still have lie detectors admitted in some jurisdictions so why shouldn't the defense be allowed to use this tool? No one is forcing anyone to do the fMRI in this case.
A fMRI is not a lie detector test it is more of a memory test, so unless the criminal is delusional or has those morphological differences I mentioned in my first post he is not going to get off.
Well perhaps we need a check on the jury's seemingly endlessly ability to be lured into convicting innocent people out of motley assortment of prejudices and 'gut-feelings'. You can't tell me the fact that across the world minority conviction rates are higher for the same crimes because of anything but bigotry. Don't even start with the idea of ever person having the right to appeal, which can take years if not decades to overturn a wrongful conviction.
If this technology can get to 9X.x% accuracy in the near future I would like it to at least be used to prevent people from having to go to trial or have charges brought against them in the first place. District Attorneys have far too much power right now to prosecute people charge them with 5 crimes that can result in years in prison and 10's pf thousands of dollars for petty crimes like vandalism and than have them plea down to 30 days in jail and a 1000 dollar fine.
My friend in his last year of college was walking home from his art studio down town with all of his art supplies in a backpack near a bank downtown. A rent a cop came out of nowhere and started accusing him of vandalizing the property and started manhandling him and moments later the real cops showed up and arrested him. Why, well he had marker pens in his backpack that were the same type used to write anti-capitalist graffiti on the bank's ATM and someone had superglued the deposit door shut. He was held over night was forced to call his parents for bail, had all of his art supplies confiscated, charged with 3 misdemeanors that could of landed him in jail for 2 years, fought all the charges with a private attorney his parents paid for, lost all the charges got 6 months in jail and a 3500 dollar fine, appealed the conviction, found evidence that another bank in the area after he was arrested had the same graffiti done to it while he was with his parents 100 miles away, went to trial and the judge spent 3 days grilling him on his political activities before overturning the convictions. He got back his art bag, everything was either broken in half or torn and it smelled like feet because it had been locked up with his shoes for over a year at this point. He told me it took over 25,000 dollars to prove he was innocent and if he did not have well off parents he would of been in jail.
Public defenders in this country on average handle over 500 cases a year whereas a DA handles half that, something has to change or more and more of us are going to be going to jail as innocent men. In NYC the average case load of a public defender is 720 cases a year.
Do you have any studies that conclude or even allude to the possibility of gaming a fMRI ? From a layman's point of view from someone who has read over some of the literature it has more to do with the morphological differences of the patient's brain than the psychological/personal profile of the individual.
If it is better than what we have for false convictions than why prefer human prejudice/error over machine error. It seems to me one of those is far more likely to improve than the other and I'm not talking about Homo Sapien's ability to use critical thinking skills when confronted with conflicting emotive/subjective versions of events.
Also it is would only be a portion of the evidence which the case depends upon currently for it to reach a verdict. Anyone who compares this to lie detector machines does not understand that lie detectors are little better than a coin toss. This when properly used has been shown to top out at 90%.
There are people with serious diseases doing the same thing. Prisoners in the United States are the only group that has mandated health care.
We lived in VA for awhile when I was growing up. One of the things I remember all too well is the bigotry and all the kids calling each other homosexual epithets constantly. Moving there from California where such behavior was unusual was quite a shock. I've been going to gay night clubs for decades to watch the cabarets and I doubt I have heard the word gay, queer and fag as many times in all the clubs combined than I did those two semesters in VA.
Those paying LaLa user accounts are pry worth at least 200 bucks a year with iTunes and really where are they going to go now?
Windows Mobile with skyfire is pry the best flash platform for mobile flash viewing, atm.
Its like these hipster kids saying that meat quality from factory farms is worse than before, but before factory farms there was almost no consistency in meat at all. So what they are saying is they want to back to a time when every ham was different.
I live in Oregon and have access to all organic butcheries and the only two meats I think are worth the premium are whole chicken ( no 20% salt water by weight ) and nitrite-free lunch meats.
What the fuck are you talking about? There are numerous problems with tree farms but the quality of wood is hardly one of them.
Last week I went down to Home Depot and got 20 feet of 4x8 with no knots in them whatsoever for a dollar less a foot than it was a year ago.
I would imagine a 'bad sector' would happened to the Apple engineer who liked the taste of German beer so much that he lost an Apple prototype while Steve Jobs was still alive.
They used to have a frigging army and they still have an intelligence agency.