People are saying that someone who falsely accuses rape (which happens very, very frequently) doesn't suffer as much as the victim, who has done nothing legally wrong and just wants to go back to their life.
"Nearly 60% of rape/sexual assault victims did not report their victimization to the police in 2006, according to National Crime Victimization Survey data."
"95 percent of sexual assaults that were reported were determined to be substantiated with sound evidence." - this according to the FBI
Before you make claims about how often false reporting actually happens, it's worth looking at the statistics. Talk to somebody who works at a rape crisis center or DV shelter, and you'll see that, while they typically agree with you that false reporting spoils our justice system for the VAST MAJORITY of legitimate victims (men and women), they'll also cite the above statistics and many more which prove that it's a rapist's world, not a victim's world.
Your friend's story is moving, and the institution involved acted very prematurely in kicking him out. They likely did this because they're so afraid to talk about assault openly that they'd rather stigmatize it using him as an example in the hope that it will all just go away and they'll never have to think about it again.
Here's a newsflash - assault won't go away until we don't allow it any more as a society. Go visit the link above. Think about those statistics, and then think about your behavior and how it might be enabling for potential perpetrators. Have you ever stood by and done nothing while somebody you know, or somebody at a frat party you were standing next to, made plans to get a girl drunk and "nail" her? You just allowed a potential rape to happen, and you're at fault for not informing the fellow that he was planning a rape.
It's time to stop blaming victims, and start talking about these issues openly and calmly instead of with the irrational bias of fear and uncertainty.
I always thought that what computers were missing was the pull chain for starting the engine. Now it'll be just like using the lawnmower!
BBBBRRRRBRBRBRRBBRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
"5x faster. 36% brighter. Capable of burning a 17" hole through your pants. Now that's an iLife!"
Smokin!
Seriously, though, if the 15" runs hot, these must be almost literally smoking at 1" thick.
It's funny that Americans think that French people actually say "Sacre Bleu!" I lived in Montpellier, France last year with my girlfriend who taught English. She said "sacre bleu!" to a classroom full of 4th-graders, and they gave her the Big Blank Stare. After some polling of our French friends, we discovered that nobody, at least, nobody in Montpellier, had ever heard of that phrase. Except the Americans. They all thought it was pretty funny.
So I hope the site is in English, because it probably won't get a lot of French visitors.
GOTO is essential -- all processors use it at their lowest levels (it goes by the name JMP in assembly language, though.)
All other types of branching or looping are just syntactic sugar.
What you're forgetting is that the lack of GOTO statements in higher level languages is a classic example of "let the compiler do the hard work." GOTO, or JMP statements, are indeed used at the machine level, because regular programmers shouldn't have to worry about the thousands of ways you can obfuscate your control flow by using GOTOs in a higher-level language.
Also, Dijkstra didn't just offhandedly comment that GOTOs are bad. He had a proof. The use of GOTOs in a higher level language severely complicates the concept of continuations, and destroys the provability and soundness of a program.
Besides making strange bicycles and writing books on and in Mathematica, Stan Wagon makes tremendous mathematical snow figures. Check out his web page at (you guessed it): stanwagon.com
PS. As a Macalester student, I get to ride it daily. Its license plate reads "Catenary."
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People are saying that someone who falsely accuses rape (which happens very, very frequently) doesn't suffer as much as the victim, who has done nothing legally wrong and just wants to go back to their life.
http://barcc.org/information/facts/stats
"Nearly 60% of rape/sexual assault victims did not report their victimization to the police in 2006, according to National Crime Victimization Survey data."
"95 percent of sexual assaults that were reported were determined to be substantiated with sound evidence." - this according to the FBI
Before you make claims about how often false reporting actually happens, it's worth looking at the statistics. Talk to somebody who works at a rape crisis center or DV shelter, and you'll see that, while they typically agree with you that false reporting spoils our justice system for the VAST MAJORITY of legitimate victims (men and women), they'll also cite the above statistics and many more which prove that it's a rapist's world, not a victim's world.
Your friend's story is moving, and the institution involved acted very prematurely in kicking him out. They likely did this because they're so afraid to talk about assault openly that they'd rather stigmatize it using him as an example in the hope that it will all just go away and they'll never have to think about it again.
Here's a newsflash - assault won't go away until we don't allow it any more as a society. Go visit the link above. Think about those statistics, and then think about your behavior and how it might be enabling for potential perpetrators. Have you ever stood by and done nothing while somebody you know, or somebody at a frat party you were standing next to, made plans to get a girl drunk and "nail" her? You just allowed a potential rape to happen, and you're at fault for not informing the fellow that he was planning a rape.
It's time to stop blaming victims, and start talking about these issues openly and calmly instead of with the irrational bias of fear and uncertainty.
I always thought that what computers were missing was the pull chain for starting the engine. Now it'll be just like using the lawnmower! BBBBRRRRBRBRBRRBBRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
Every time you hear some news about what the NSA is "thinking about doing", you can rest assured that they already did it, last year.
"5x faster. 36% brighter. Capable of burning a 17" hole through your pants. Now that's an iLife!" Smokin! Seriously, though, if the 15" runs hot, these must be almost literally smoking at 1" thick.
It's funny that Americans think that French people actually say "Sacre Bleu!" I lived in Montpellier, France last year with my girlfriend who taught English. She said "sacre bleu!" to a classroom full of 4th-graders, and they gave her the Big Blank Stare. After some polling of our French friends, we discovered that nobody, at least, nobody in Montpellier, had ever heard of that phrase. Except the Americans. They all thought it was pretty funny. So I hope the site is in English, because it probably won't get a lot of French visitors.
The name of the university at which Stephanie Schuckers works is Clarkson University, not Clarkston. It's in my hometown. Gotta represent.
All your base are belong to Google.
Yeah, because we all watch porn for the personalities.
GOTO is essential -- all processors use it at their lowest levels (it goes by the name JMP in assembly language, though.) All other types of branching or looping are just syntactic sugar.
What you're forgetting is that the lack of GOTO statements in higher level languages is a classic example of "let the compiler do the hard work." GOTO, or JMP statements, are indeed used at the machine level, because regular programmers shouldn't have to worry about the thousands of ways you can obfuscate your control flow by using GOTOs in a higher-level language.
Also, Dijkstra didn't just offhandedly comment that GOTOs are bad. He had a proof. The use of GOTOs in a higher level language severely complicates the concept of continuations, and destroys the provability and soundness of a program.
Besides making strange bicycles and writing books on and in Mathematica, Stan Wagon makes tremendous mathematical snow figures. Check out his web page at (you guessed it):
stanwagon.com
PS. As a Macalester student, I get to ride it daily. Its license plate reads "Catenary."