I can't find any sources right now, but it is a matter of fact (unless the newspapers I've read are lying) that several countries have been denied withdrawal of their gold from the reserves in the US. Since the introduction of FIAT money, these withdrawals are perfectly justifiable, but the US don't want to hear of it.
Given the known variability of the population of DNA
Which is one of the major flaws. Lewontin cites a case where a native american was convicted for murder based on dna evidence. A more thorough examination revealed that the "known variability" of the population didn't coincide with the variability of dna in this geographic area.
Also the main point made by the NRC wasn't that the theoretic basis of the tests were flawed, but that the conditions of the tests vary from lab to lab, and that there is no national standard assuring the quality of the results. That is, there is a standard of course, but it's up to the labs to follow it.
Using DNA to test for a positive match is a sham. The National Research Council have admitted that much (remember the New York Times controversy when NRC released their report on DNA profiling in investigative work?)
After heavy pressure from various law enforcement agencies, they revised their report to say that it might be appropriate if the labs doing the tests were under strict national quality assurance (which they still aren't).
There have been several cases where a positive DNA match later turned out to indicate nothing more than that a person belonged to a certain group of the population. And there have been convictions that have been revoked because of this.
But imagine what would happen if the NRC published their original report? Thousands of convicts would want their cases retrialed. So that isn't going to happen. And dna profiling continues to be court admissable evidence.
For a good book on the topic, look for "Biologhy as Ideology: The Doctrine Of DNA" by Richard C. Lewontin, professor of biology at Harvard University.
Btw, did you know that the US is one of the few countries in the world where a lie detector test is court admissable?
To make more americans vote, we'll have to have televised realtime counters, so that people can see that their votes actually make a difference (of course it's just an illusion, but the US needs more voters to justify calling themselves a representative deomcracy).
Yeah, some of the results mention the experiment (and it was 15 into 5 and 3, not 14 into 2 and 7 by the way), but I can't find any news from the same people.
That doesn't work as intended. Many malconfigured servers send with envelope from user@blah.somedomain.com, and blah.somedomain.com doesn't have an MX record. But the from: field in the actual header says user@somedomain.com, and will work.
Hands up if you don't own a couple of random window boxes on the net..
That's what I thought.. it's very nice to have an anon proxy or two if you ever need it.
But storing child pron on them is kinda lame. The elite 0wnerz like myself would never do something like that (except if it's maybe a non personal server or anything, so that nobody would get the blame).
The only objective reporting out of the Iraq campaign (not officially a war you know), came from Fox News and Rush Limbaug.
Don't listen to the bloody leftist CNN or New York Times. American soldiers have not commited war crimes, and anyway if Europe tries to charge one of them with anything, we will liberate them. The president said so himself.
NASA more or less have confirmed that there have been copulation in space on their missions. Don't remember the name of the program, but it was sent on Discovery.
And you don't have to be a crack whore to enjoy sex in new places (space for example). That's just your puritan American upbringing talking.
I hate to reply to my own posts, but I got to confess, this is a troll.
As much as we Americans pity the rest of the world, this still was a bit over the edge. And the Australians have it particularily bad, so you shouldn't pick on them. Shame on me.
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From the linked article:
and is not always judicially acceptable
So? Most countries have banned them as court admissable at all.
Don't give me any ideas you worthless American.
I can't find any sources right now, but it is a matter of fact (unless the newspapers I've read are lying) that several countries have been denied withdrawal of their gold from the reserves in the US. Since the introduction of FIAT money, these withdrawals are perfectly justifiable, but the US don't want to hear of it.
It's my opinion that the US legal system is a prosecutors dream. It's tailormade to get swift convictions.
Why they would allow something as (proven) unreliable as lie detector tests, is beyond me.
On the other hand, if you have the money to buy the good lawyers, you get plenty of drama and close scrutiny of the technicalities.
Given the known variability of the population of DNA
Which is one of the major flaws. Lewontin cites a case where a native american was convicted for murder based on dna evidence. A more thorough examination revealed that the "known variability" of the population didn't coincide with the variability of dna in this geographic area.
Also the main point made by the NRC wasn't that the theoretic basis of the tests were flawed, but that the conditions of the tests vary from lab to lab, and that there is no national standard assuring the quality of the results. That is, there is a standard of course, but it's up to the labs to follow it.
Yeah, I heard Donald Kaufman already picked this one up.
He will be hard pressed to beat his blockbusting "The 3" though.
Using DNA to test for a positive match is a sham. The National Research Council have admitted that much (remember the New York Times controversy when NRC released their report on DNA profiling in investigative work?)
After heavy pressure from various law enforcement agencies, they revised their report to say that it might be appropriate if the labs doing the tests were under strict national quality assurance (which they still aren't).
There have been several cases where a positive DNA match later turned out to indicate nothing more than that a person belonged to a certain group of the population. And there have been convictions that have been revoked because of this.
But imagine what would happen if the NRC published their original report? Thousands of convicts would want their cases retrialed. So that isn't going to happen. And dna profiling continues to be court admissable evidence.
For a good book on the topic, look for "Biologhy as Ideology: The Doctrine Of DNA" by Richard C. Lewontin, professor of biology at Harvard University.
Btw, did you know that the US is one of the few countries in the world where a lie detector test is court admissable?
How fast does it really need to be?
To make more americans vote, we'll have to have televised realtime counters, so that people can see that their votes actually make a difference (of course it's just an illusion, but the US needs more voters to justify calling themselves a representative deomcracy).
Good work on his part then. Too bad he can't see any of his acheivements though.
I went to battle MC Escher, but drew a blank
Hehe.. nice one.
Yeah, some of the results mention the experiment (and it was 15 into 5 and 3, not 14 into 2 and 7 by the way), but I can't find any news from the same people.
Or tryptamines.. mmm..
Just wait and see till you graduate.
The real world is all about fronting, not about keeping it real.
Well, it would be better, wouldn't it?
This is ActiveDesktop from Microsoft reimplemented. Not very hooray, is it?
those guys who managed to factor "14" into 7 and 2 with Shors algorithm on an actual quantum computer implementation?
Heard anything more from them? I googled, but couldn't find anything.
That doesn't work as intended. Many malconfigured servers send with envelope from user@blah.somedomain.com, and blah.somedomain.com doesn't have an MX record. But the from: field in the actual header says user@somedomain.com, and will work.
Hands up if you don't own a couple of random window boxes on the net..
That's what I thought.. it's very nice to have an anon proxy or two if you ever need it.
But storing child pron on them is kinda lame. The elite 0wnerz like myself would never do something like that (except if it's maybe a non personal server or anything, so that nobody would get the blame).
Are you out of your right mind?
The only objective reporting out of the Iraq campaign (not officially a war you know), came from Fox News and Rush Limbaug.
Don't listen to the bloody leftist CNN or New York Times. American soldiers have not commited war crimes, and anyway if Europe tries to charge one of them with anything, we will liberate them. The president said so himself.
Yes, and watching American televsion has nothing in common with torture.
It's no wonder that you're square motherfuckers. That ammount of advertising would be excessive to anybody but the comatose.
Is a first post filter.
FP Bitches!
NASA more or less have confirmed that there have been copulation in space on their missions. Don't remember the name of the program, but it was sent on Discovery.
And you don't have to be a crack whore to enjoy sex in new places (space for example). That's just your puritan American upbringing talking.
I don't want to compromise me or my country.
Extreme cowardness and capital punishment is the American way, no thank you.
It is also true.
Both Jesus and Karl Marx were dirty damn jews.
I hate to reply to my own posts, but I got to confess, this is a troll.
As much as we Americans pity the rest of the world, this still was a bit over the edge. And the Australians have it particularily bad, so you shouldn't pick on them. Shame on me.
That is interesting.
The country I live in asked to get some (most) of their gold back from the US, and got a resounding "NO F*ING WAY" as an answer.
Might is right.