Not all are bad, but some are bad. (Maybe most are bad.)
2. Crime happens.
Yes. But crimes committed by police and prosecuters generally go unpunished.
3. People get caught for it.
Police arrest people. The correlation between a crime being commited and an arrest of the person responsible for that particular crime is very low.
4. By far, nost of them actually did do it. IMHO, of course. DNA evidence is not the last and only word in solving a crime. 'by a preponderance of the evidence' is the key phrase. All the DNA in the world doesn't help a crooked cop/prosecutor/judge if you were on the other side of town having dinner.
You are implying that it is impossible for the police and prosecuters to frame people for crimes they didn't commit which has been shown to be false by actual cases. I seriously doubt that more than 20% of the people in jail are actually guilty of the crimes that put them there. And yes, I am including people who plead guilty.
I boycotted my local cable company because there weren't enough new shows on that I like.
I am not interested in seeing any more shows about the following professions: Physicians, police, fire fighters, nurses/EMTs/other medical professionals including coroners, attorneys, judges, private detectives, journalists of any kind, or military personnel.
Until the media companies agree to my demands, I will not have cable or watch over the air broadcasts.
OK, suppose you make a family movie and post it on the web.
When I tried that, the MPAA said that the movie "My Kid's Birthday" by me was a subconscious imitation of "Silence of the Lambs" and they said I had to pay royalties.
If the police and prosecutors were putting *some* innocent people in prison, why would I not believe that in the age of DNA evidence, this evidence would not be planted by police? (i.e. a continuation of past "framing" behavior.)
You are right. In fact, I recall that the the premature announcement of the Newton was the thing that kick started the whole PDA business. Immediately devices like the EO, the Zoomer, the MagicCap, etc. started hitting the market. Newton was scrambling to beat the Palm Zoomer to market.
I live in Wilsonville (close to Portland). I've lived in many other areas in the country. Actually, the weather here is generally really nice in the summer. Between May and October, it is not too hot (usually) or too cold, not raining (usually), and not humid.
The winters are rainy, but compared to other places I've lived its a lot nicer. I've lived in Oklahoma (central), Missouri (Springfield and St. Louis), and Houston, TX.
Houston has a lot of rain in the winter, too. But in the summer, it is far too hot to enjoy the weather outside.
In Oklahoma it is always either far too cold or far too hot to enjoy the outdoors. Same for Missouri.
I love the weather in the northwest. It may only be good weather for half the year, but for that half its great.
Please realize that we eastern nations are as, if not more, civilized as the western nations.
India, yes. I would bet whatever you want that India would not be the first to use nuclear weapons. Indians are totally normal people and have a long track record of being totally normal people.
The current government of Pakistan will also not launch a first strike. I am less sure of this than of the previous statement, but I'm willing to believe that.
No, what people in the west are worried about is the fact that the government of Pakistan is very unpopular with the Pakistani people. They are a dictatorship in an arab country. We're looking at the example of Iran and we know that the jihadist's can very well overthrow such a government.
The scenario most people are afraid of is a bunch of crazy muslims taking over Pakistan and using its nukes for a first strike against Israel and/or India. Obviously Israel or India would be justified in striking back. That's bad news for everyone.
I find it rather unsurprising that they wouldn't make a huge fuss about the 20th anniversary of the Mac. Why, you ask?
The "old Apple" used to love to look backwards and do things like celebrate anniversaries (20th Anniversary Mac, many "special edition" products like the clear Newton 110, etc.). Unfortunately, I think looking at the past 20 years of the Mac, while there have been some great milestones, there have also been a lot of missed opportunities. I think the current management at Apple understands this better and is more focused on the next 20 years of the Mac.
It's kind of ironic that Steve Jobs has much better business sense than the "business" people they put in charge of Apple originally because they didn't think Steve Jobs could really run Apple. Man, has he proven those folks wrong!
Scott Knaster wrote some notable books on debugging Macintosh software. One was titled, "How to Write Macintosh Software". They were pretty good books back in the day.
Not only that, but what if the "new" computer you are buying has been opened, modified, reboxed, and sold to you? Do you trust the store where you bought it, or just buy on price? This doesn't have to be totally the store's fault either (but could be).
Also, what if someone on the inside were to modify the master disk used to image the hard drives at a factory. Sure it might make the news and eventually you'd hear about it, but it still wouldn't be fun to be one of the people affected?
That's the best part. She drives a Ford F-250 with an extended cab, extended bed, jacked up on lifters with 4 wheel drive and the largest gasoline engine that Ford makes. I'm not making this up - this monstrosity is the vehicle she picked out when I let her go down to pick out a car.
Yes, on the whole their predictions are right. On the other hand, you'd think they could factor in both the relevant fact that she is a female and the even more relevant fact of her previous 12 accidents when setting her rate.
My wife has been in at least 12 accidents since she started driving at age 26. She is currently 36. All of these accidents were her fault. She has received at least 8 tickets that I know about. Some of these were for causing an accident. She also had her car towed once for parking it in a totally insane place. She's been pulled over for suspected drunk driving many times (she is always cold sober) because she wobbles all over the road. She also changes lanes without checking.
I have been in 3 accidents since starting to drive at age 16. I am currently 33. None of these accidents were my fault (twice rear-ended on the freeway and one broadsided by someone who ran a stop sign.) I have had four traffic tickets in the past 15 years. In my opinion, these were in places where the town purposely changed the speed limit erratically to generate revenue.
All my tickets were for speeding whereas very few of my wife's tickets were for speeding - mostly they were for reckless driving.
Guess who has the lower insurance rate (and always has had a lower rate)? My wife. Not two weeks ago, she crashed the side of her car into a poll while parking. Since the cost to repair the car is in excess of $3,000, we're turning this into the insurance company. I still have to pay the deductable. (My wife has never been able to hold a job.) So, the insurance company told us that this would not affect our rates. Then, they even gave her a *good driver* discount.
Do I get a good driver discount? Of course not, I'm a male.
Then, she got another letter from an insurance company that was dripping with praise about what a great driver she is and that they would like to have her as a customer. This was a few days ago. Arrrgggg!!!
No, it's because there isn't anything out there that we can't get much, much cheaper here on Earth. Metals, minerals, lebensraum, you name it.
One thing we can get in space that we can't get on Earth - reliable, detailed, scientific data about the solar system, and other comic phenomenon. So, the one thing that is worthwhile to go out and get is scientific information. And that's the one thing we are getting with missions like Huygens/Cassini.
I hope you'll take this as the exception that proves your point.
Actually, I have had some visibility into Microsoft's anti-spam projects. I had an anti-spam technology that my business partner was pitching to them to fund.
They actually have a lot of really good people working hard on the problem. The reason why they are not having more success is because they don't want to find a solution that stops Spam, they want to find a solution that stops Spam AND locks you into Microsoft proprietary technology.
My stuff would stop spam, but had a couple of downsides: requre everyone to change email clients, require existing vendors to rewrite email clients, would require millions to develop, and would not allow any vendor to lock you into a proprietary format, therefore there is no way to make vast profits.
Plus, by annoucing that Microsoft would solve Spam (Bill G. did that), it makes it really hard to get outside funding because people don't want to compete with Microsoft.
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1. Not all cops and prosecutors are bad
Not all are bad, but some are bad. (Maybe most are bad.)
2. Crime happens.
Yes. But crimes committed by police and prosecuters generally go unpunished.
3. People get caught for it.
Police arrest people. The correlation between a crime being commited and an arrest of the person responsible for that particular crime is very low.
4. By far, nost of them actually did do it. IMHO, of course. DNA evidence is not the last and only word in solving a crime. 'by a preponderance of the evidence' is the key phrase. All the DNA in the world doesn't help a crooked cop/prosecutor/judge if you were on the other side of town having dinner.
You are implying that it is impossible for the police and prosecuters to frame people for crimes they didn't commit which has been shown to be false by actual cases. I seriously doubt that more than 20% of the people in jail are actually guilty of the crimes that put them there. And yes, I am including people who plead guilty.
I boycotted my local cable company because there weren't enough new shows on that I like.
I am not interested in seeing any more shows about the following professions: Physicians, police, fire fighters, nurses/EMTs/other medical professionals including coroners, attorneys, judges, private detectives, journalists of any kind, or military personnel.
Until the media companies agree to my demands, I will not have cable or watch over the air broadcasts.
OK, suppose you make a family movie and post it on the web.
When I tried that, the MPAA said that the movie "My Kid's Birthday" by me was a subconscious imitation of "Silence of the Lambs" and they said I had to pay royalties.
How many cases is the DNA available, though?
If the police and prosecutors were putting *some* innocent people in prison, why would I not believe that in the age of DNA evidence, this evidence would not be planted by police? (i.e. a continuation of past "framing" behavior.)
Think of the app you want, then push the button and out pops the app.
That pretty much works today if all you ever think of is "Silly Balls".
would be carrying a rifle and fighting as part of an army to liberate the country from the bunch of gangsters currently running it.
Perhaps failure has been defined as anything the PC bigots chronically complaign about.
You are right. In fact, I recall that the the premature announcement of the Newton was the thing that kick started the whole PDA business. Immediately devices like the EO, the Zoomer, the MagicCap, etc. started hitting the market. Newton was scrambling to beat the Palm Zoomer to market.
I live in Wilsonville (close to Portland). I've lived in many other areas in the country. Actually, the weather here is generally really nice in the summer. Between May and October, it is not too hot (usually) or too cold, not raining (usually), and not humid.
The winters are rainy, but compared to other places I've lived its a lot nicer. I've lived in Oklahoma (central), Missouri (Springfield and St. Louis), and Houston, TX.
Houston has a lot of rain in the winter, too. But in the summer, it is far too hot to enjoy the weather outside.
In Oklahoma it is always either far too cold or far too hot to enjoy the outdoors. Same for Missouri.
I love the weather in the northwest. It may only be good weather for half the year, but for that half its great.
Tell them your address is "123 Fake Street".
Good job. Too bad more clerks aren't like you were.
Also, what's RCMP?
Sorry about saying Pakistan is arab. Obviously this is incorrect.I meant to say "Islamic".
Please realize that we eastern nations are as, if not more, civilized as the western nations.
India, yes. I would bet whatever you want that India would not be the first to use nuclear weapons. Indians are totally normal people and have a long track record of being totally normal people.
The current government of Pakistan will also not launch a first strike. I am less sure of this than of the previous statement, but I'm willing to believe that.
No, what people in the west are worried about is the fact that the government of Pakistan is very unpopular with the Pakistani people. They are a dictatorship in an arab country. We're looking at the example of Iran and we know that the jihadist's can very well overthrow such a government.
The scenario most people are afraid of is a bunch of crazy muslims taking over Pakistan and using its nukes for a first strike against Israel and/or India. Obviously Israel or India would be justified in striking back. That's bad news for everyone.
It's not India that I'm afraid of at all.
I find it rather unsurprising that they wouldn't make a huge fuss about the 20th anniversary of the Mac. Why, you ask?
The "old Apple" used to love to look backwards and do things like celebrate anniversaries (20th Anniversary Mac, many "special edition" products like the clear Newton 110, etc.). Unfortunately, I think looking at the past 20 years of the Mac, while there have been some great milestones, there have also been a lot of missed opportunities. I think the current management at Apple understands this better and is more focused on the next 20 years of the Mac.
It's kind of ironic that Steve Jobs has much better business sense than the "business" people they put in charge of Apple originally because they didn't think Steve Jobs could really run Apple. Man, has he proven those folks wrong!
Scott Knaster wrote some notable books on debugging Macintosh software. One was titled, "How to Write Macintosh Software". They were pretty good books back in the day.
What master of business administration is going to go around (in the USA) using English that makes him look like a hillbilly
You mean besides the Preseident?
Not only that, but what if the "new" computer you are buying has been opened, modified, reboxed, and sold to you? Do you trust the store where you bought it, or just buy on price? This doesn't have to be totally the store's fault either (but could be).
Also, what if someone on the inside were to modify the master disk used to image the hard drives at a factory. Sure it might make the news and eventually you'd hear about it, but it still wouldn't be fun to be one of the people affected?
Yikes!! I do hope the ballot box remained intact and none of the voters were injured.
Sorry. I meant "pole" instead of "poll".
make/model of your wife's car
That's the best part. She drives a Ford F-250 with an extended cab, extended bed, jacked up on lifters with 4 wheel drive and the largest gasoline engine that Ford makes. I'm not making this up - this monstrosity is the vehicle she picked out when I let her go down to pick out a car.
Yes, on the whole their predictions are right. On the other hand, you'd think they could factor in both the relevant fact that she is a female and the even more relevant fact of her previous 12 accidents when setting her rate.
What if the music/movie industry was willing to put in a watermark that could be easily detected, but not easily removed?
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has sought to ban illegal downloading on any state computers, including those owned by the state university systems.
Wait a second! He wants to ban illegal downloading. Wouldn't illegal downloading, by definition, already be illegal? So why is there a need to ban it?
Is he planning to make it double illegal or something?
My wife has been in at least 12 accidents since she started driving at age 26. She is currently 36. All of these accidents were her fault. She has received at least 8 tickets that I know about. Some of these were for causing an accident. She also had her car towed once for parking it in a totally insane place. She's been pulled over for suspected drunk driving many times (she is always cold sober) because she wobbles all over the road. She also changes lanes without checking.
I have been in 3 accidents since starting to drive at age 16. I am currently 33. None of these accidents were my fault (twice rear-ended on the freeway and one broadsided by someone who ran a stop sign.) I have had four traffic tickets in the past 15 years. In my opinion, these were in places where the town purposely changed the speed limit erratically to generate revenue.
All my tickets were for speeding whereas very few of my wife's tickets were for speeding - mostly they were for reckless driving.
Guess who has the lower insurance rate (and always has had a lower rate)? My wife. Not two weeks ago, she crashed the side of her car into a poll while parking. Since the cost to repair the car is in excess of $3,000, we're turning this into the insurance company. I still have to pay the deductable. (My wife has never been able to hold a job.) So, the insurance company told us that this would not affect our rates. Then, they even gave her a *good driver* discount.
Do I get a good driver discount? Of course not, I'm a male.
Then, she got another letter from an insurance company that was dripping with praise about what a great driver she is and that they would like to have her as a customer. This was a few days ago. Arrrgggg!!!
No, it's because there isn't anything out there that we can't get much, much cheaper here on Earth. Metals, minerals, lebensraum, you name it.
One thing we can get in space that we can't get on Earth - reliable, detailed, scientific data about the solar system, and other comic phenomenon. So, the one thing that is worthwhile to go out and get is scientific information. And that's the one thing we are getting with missions like Huygens/Cassini.
I hope you'll take this as the exception that proves your point.
Actually, I have had some visibility into Microsoft's anti-spam projects. I had an anti-spam technology that my business partner was pitching to them to fund.
They actually have a lot of really good people working hard on the problem. The reason why they are not having more success is because they don't want to find a solution that stops Spam, they want to find a solution that stops Spam AND locks you into Microsoft proprietary technology.
My stuff would stop spam, but had a couple of downsides: requre everyone to change email clients, require existing vendors to rewrite email clients, would require millions to develop, and would not allow any vendor to lock you into a proprietary format, therefore there is no way to make vast profits.
Plus, by annoucing that Microsoft would solve Spam (Bill G. did that), it makes it really hard to get outside funding because people don't want to compete with Microsoft.