I agree with you. But if the DNA match sperm on the girl's body, then it is pretty damning. You are right that an investigation should take place, but it is hard to explain outside of some type of consensual relationship and the guy not coming forward originally to help the investigation.
What kind of idiot who commits a crime like this would give away their DNA for free? Assuming he is guilty, did he do it because he knew if he didn't, suspicion would fall on him?
It is interesting to see the different attitudes toward volunteering information to the government. If NYC asked something like this, it would be an outrage and participation would be roughly 1% if it moved forward at all.
Your logic is very bad. The US National Ignition Facility is currently the home of the most powerful laser. So, your demise of the US prediction is vastly overstated. Then you have the fact that it is okay for other governments to do great things to. It is called being part of a community instead of being a hermit. Other countries' accomplishments don't detract from ours,
FIRE was founded about 15 years ago by a civil liberties professor. So your "Republican wing" comment is pretty stupid. It promotes free speech on campus, even those that might be the most upstanding or "socially polite". If anything, they are more like the ACLU than RNC.
But yeah, dismiss things out of hand with no factual basis. Then immediately afterward, pat yourself on the back for being an intellectual.
Nice ad hominem. Instead of reading the source and arguing with the points made, you drool on yourself and blabber on about Murdoch.
The fact is that free speech in America has been getting more and more curtailed. Some in a very overt manner (free speech zones). Some in a softer manner (How DARE you suggest that affirmative action is racist, you racist). But the US is not as free as it used to be. No, we are nowhere near a totalitarian state. But freedoms do not go away overnight. If we continue to let the slide continue, we'll be closer to the totalitarian state. Freedoms are hard to get back once they've been ceded.
But thanks for your idiotic response. If anything, it was a nice foil.
I am disappointed in you Slashdot, you have all missed the point. This is clearly part of an evil scheme from Google and you've let it pass as you normally do.
Work with me here. Think evil geniuses. What do they have in common? That's right, a secret lair. Any anyone who has a secret lair needs its defenses. Clearly Google is developing their secret lair RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN. My caps lock underscores the importance and urgency of what I am saying and is cruise control for cool.
So, they have their "cooling water". Only an idiot would believe that. It is clearly a moat. Yes, a medieval moat. The alligator is just the first in their armada of beasts to protect their new evil lair. I have it ON HIGHEST AUTHORITY that they will next be buying some SHARKS and LASERS (more caps locks to convince you of my authority on the subject). You can only imagine what they will do next.
An evil plot SO OBVIOUS BUT SLASHDOT IGNORES IT. Are you outraged? You should be. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be.Once I am back from taking my meds I will tell you more about Google and the trilateral commission. That is if "THEY" don't get me first.
1) Based on the summary numbers, Germany basically has the equivalent of 1.4 Gigawatts of spare capacity. Likely more as I'm sure they don't sell 100% of their excess capacity. This works out to enough to power about 1 million American homes. 2) The cost of the renewable energy looks like it will cost less than the war in Iraq did for the United States.
While the polls still were able to show which side the vote went to, it seemed to me that the final tally ended up being a lot less close than the polls were indicating.
The OP said "that happened faster than expected", since the polls seemed to show it was going to be a long, uncertain night of tallying votes.
Maybe kinds true, but not much. Of those who expressed they would vote for Obama or Romney, the polls showed Barack Obama getting 50.6% of the vote, Romney 49.4%. The not-final results are showing actual number 51.2% vs 48.8% nationwide. Some of this is attributable to "I see my candidate losing, so I don't vote." This phenomenon affects the pacific time zones quite a bit.
State by state in the "swing states", the polls were very accurate. The only ones predicting a long, drawn out affair are the media outlets that benefit from the viewership. Myself, I tuned out after I saw the first eight states or so go down exactly as the pollsters predicted.
So, kudos to the pollsters and the lesson learned for everyone is to trust numbers, don't trust spinsters.
I've never seen the unskewedpolls site before, but it is funny. The take a Rasmussen poll which have consistently skewed toward Republicans in the past two elections, accuses it of liberal bias and then insists on changing the Rasmussen result by 3 points in favor of Romney. Only then can it say that Rasmussen has predicted a Romney win. This would be like the KKK having a bias in favor of black men.
Why does Nate get so much attention, when other sites like electionprojection.com and electoral-vote.com do a similar service, are open on their methods and have had almost perfect results for the past two elections. This past election, those two sites only missed on Florida and that one was truly too close to be 90% confident on one way or another.
Kinda funny how those polls managed to get 49 or 50 states right as well as Washington D.C. That does not support you assertion that they are getting further and further removed from reality.
I would be all for the school allowing the meetings. I would also support gay marriage. Believe it or not, not all of us see a conflict between Christianity and gay marriage.
If the club was "Support Traditional Marriage", I would support the right of the group to use the school but would not support the agenda.
Not really. Two sources of data I user are electionprojection.com and electoral-vote.com. One is run by a liberal, the other by a conservative, but both are data driven based on several polling services. Both has Obama winning 303 electoral votes, Both sources have predicted correctly each state, and I see the possibility of two states going against their prediction (Florida, they predicted for Romney, Va they predicted for Obama). Based on the polls, this election has really been over for a couple months. So, only a media wanting a major even was predicting a long, drawn out affair.
Your assertions are incorrect. And based on your posting history, you have very little understanding of financial markets work, are paranoid against the government and have enough information to think you are educated on a subject. You can ramble on about your beliefs, but it does not make it accurate.
Personal income taxes are legal and are constitutionally allowed. If it were a voluntary contribution, there would have been no need for a constitutional amendment (16th if memory serves). You may argue about interpretation, but ultimately interpretation falls to the Supreme Court and SCOTUS has ruled in favor of the conventional reading which is it permits income taxes.
So, sorry. You can argue your point of view, but it is not backed by truth.
I love the idea of self-driving cars. I will talk about it with people and frequently, I will get the response "the idea of computers driving scares me". My response: "the idea of humans driving cars scares me more".
At no point did I say that doctors and lawyers don't protect their own interest, so calling me naive is correct. The board and bar you refer to may have some similarities to unions but are not unions.
"But arguing that doctors and lawyers are just simple individual actors in a transparent market, succeeding or failing purely by their skills and talents, is naive at best."
Groups geared towards IT pros are "rare"? In what universe? Off the top of my head I can think of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association of Computing Machinery, SAGE, User Groups (most large technology platforms have one), etc.
I have looked for active groups meeting in person in the software development industry in my area, and have come back disappointed. I am certainly open to suggestions. I find most "meet" through forums which is not what I want.
And yes, there are practically unions for lawyers and doctors. Almost every lawyer is a member of their local Bar Association, and most doctors belong to the AMA. Architects and Civil Engineers have the NSPE, Realtors have the NAR, etc. Those groups have immense influence over public policy regarding their professions. (Far more so than say the IEEE or ACM anyway...)
These are not unions. Lobbying groups? Yes. Associations of professionals? Yes. But clearly not a union. Again, I am for associations like this but not unions. Words mean things to me, and the word union indicates collective bargaining which I am against.
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You missed the part in the article where samples were found on her body as well.
I agree with you. But if the DNA match sperm on the girl's body, then it is pretty damning. You are right that an investigation should take place, but it is hard to explain outside of some type of consensual relationship and the guy not coming forward originally to help the investigation.
What kind of idiot who commits a crime like this would give away their DNA for free? Assuming he is guilty, did he do it because he knew if he didn't, suspicion would fall on him?
It is interesting to see the different attitudes toward volunteering information to the government. If NYC asked something like this, it would be an outrage and participation would be roughly 1% if it moved forward at all.
Your logic is very bad. The US National Ignition Facility is currently the home of the most powerful laser. So, your demise of the US prediction is vastly overstated. Then you have the fact that it is okay for other governments to do great things to. It is called being part of a community instead of being a hermit. Other countries' accomplishments don't detract from ours,
If you don't want to RTFA and Wikipedia it
Launch Cost: $60M
Payload: 13,150 kg to LEO, 4,850 kg to geostationary.
Another idiot using an ad hominem attack.
FIRE was founded about 15 years ago by a civil liberties professor. So your "Republican wing" comment is pretty stupid. It promotes free speech on campus, even those that might be the most upstanding or "socially polite". If anything, they are more like the ACLU than RNC.
But yeah, dismiss things out of hand with no factual basis. Then immediately afterward, pat yourself on the back for being an intellectual.
Nice ad hominem. Instead of reading the source and arguing with the points made, you drool on yourself and blabber on about Murdoch.
The fact is that free speech in America has been getting more and more curtailed. Some in a very overt manner (free speech zones). Some in a softer manner (How DARE you suggest that affirmative action is racist, you racist). But the US is not as free as it used to be. No, we are nowhere near a totalitarian state. But freedoms do not go away overnight. If we continue to let the slide continue, we'll be closer to the totalitarian state. Freedoms are hard to get back once they've been ceded.
But thanks for your idiotic response. If anything, it was a nice foil.
I am disappointed in you Slashdot, you have all missed the point. This is clearly part of an evil scheme from Google and you've let it pass as you normally do.
Work with me here. Think evil geniuses. What do they have in common? That's right, a secret lair. Any anyone who has a secret lair needs its defenses. Clearly Google is developing their secret lair RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN. My caps lock underscores the importance and urgency of what I am saying and is cruise control for cool.
So, they have their "cooling water". Only an idiot would believe that. It is clearly a moat. Yes, a medieval moat. The alligator is just the first in their armada of beasts to protect their new evil lair. I have it ON HIGHEST AUTHORITY that they will next be buying some SHARKS and LASERS (more caps locks to convince you of my authority on the subject). You can only imagine what they will do next.
An evil plot SO OBVIOUS BUT SLASHDOT IGNORES IT. Are you outraged? You should be. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be.Once I am back from taking my meds I will tell you more about Google and the trilateral commission. That is if "THEY" don't get me first.
1) Based on the summary numbers, Germany basically has the equivalent of 1.4 Gigawatts of spare capacity. Likely more as I'm sure they don't sell 100% of their excess capacity. This works out to enough to power about 1 million American homes.
2) The cost of the renewable energy looks like it will cost less than the war in Iraq did for the United States.
Draw your own conclusions.
While the polls still were able to show which side the vote went to, it seemed to me that the final tally ended up being a lot less close than the polls were indicating.
The OP said "that happened faster than expected", since the polls seemed to show it was going to be a long, uncertain night of tallying votes.
Maybe kinds true, but not much. Of those who expressed they would vote for Obama or Romney, the polls showed Barack Obama getting 50.6% of the vote, Romney 49.4%. The not-final results are showing actual number 51.2% vs 48.8% nationwide. Some of this is attributable to "I see my candidate losing, so I don't vote." This phenomenon affects the pacific time zones quite a bit.
State by state in the "swing states", the polls were very accurate. The only ones predicting a long, drawn out affair are the media outlets that benefit from the viewership. Myself, I tuned out after I saw the first eight states or so go down exactly as the pollsters predicted.
So, kudos to the pollsters and the lesson learned for everyone is to trust numbers, don't trust spinsters.
I've never seen the unskewedpolls site before, but it is funny. The take a Rasmussen poll which have consistently skewed toward Republicans in the past two elections, accuses it of liberal bias and then insists on changing the Rasmussen result by 3 points in favor of Romney. Only then can it say that Rasmussen has predicted a Romney win. This would be like the KKK having a bias in favor of black men.
Why does Nate get so much attention, when other sites like electionprojection.com and electoral-vote.com do a similar service, are open on their methods and have had almost perfect results for the past two elections. This past election, those two sites only missed on Florida and that one was truly too close to be 90% confident on one way or another.
Kinda funny how those polls managed to get 49 or 50 states right as well as Washington D.C. That does not support you assertion that they are getting further and further removed from reality.
No, we can't. The reading population is not static and I don't see how including it hurts anyone.
Earth masses is not the same as surface gravity. Assuming a similar density, this planet would have roughly twice the gravity as Earth.
Sorry, I will try to do better next time.
I would be all for the school allowing the meetings. I would also support gay marriage. Believe it or not, not all of us see a conflict between Christianity and gay marriage.
If the club was "Support Traditional Marriage", I would support the right of the group to use the school but would not support the agenda.
Not really. Two sources of data I user are electionprojection.com and electoral-vote.com. One is run by a liberal, the other by a conservative, but both are data driven based on several polling services. Both has Obama winning 303 electoral votes, Both sources have predicted correctly each state, and I see the possibility of two states going against their prediction (Florida, they predicted for Romney, Va they predicted for Obama). Based on the polls, this election has really been over for a couple months. So, only a media wanting a major even was predicting a long, drawn out affair.
Your assertions are incorrect. And based on your posting history, you have very little understanding of financial markets work, are paranoid against the government and have enough information to think you are educated on a subject. You can ramble on about your beliefs, but it does not make it accurate.
Personal income taxes are legal and are constitutionally allowed. If it were a voluntary contribution, there would have been no need for a constitutional amendment (16th if memory serves). You may argue about interpretation, but ultimately interpretation falls to the Supreme Court and SCOTUS has ruled in favor of the conventional reading which is it permits income taxes.
So, sorry. You can argue your point of view, but it is not backed by truth.
I love the idea of self-driving cars. I will talk about it with people and frequently, I will get the response "the idea of computers driving scares me". My response: "the idea of humans driving cars scares me more".
Keep telling yourself that. The courts haven't found in favor of anyone making that argument.
At no point did I say that doctors and lawyers don't protect their own interest, so calling me naive is correct. The board and bar you refer to may have some similarities to unions but are not unions.
"But arguing that doctors and lawyers are just simple individual actors in a transparent market, succeeding or failing purely by their skills and talents, is naive at best."
You made this argument up. Shame on you.
One group I did find was Association of IT Professionals for more general professional networking, but was sadly disappointed by what I got...
Groups geared towards IT pros are "rare"? In what universe? Off the top of my head I can think of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association of Computing Machinery, SAGE, User Groups (most large technology platforms have one), etc.
I have looked for active groups meeting in person in the software development industry in my area, and have come back disappointed. I am certainly open to suggestions. I find most "meet" through forums which is not what I want.
And yes, there are practically unions for lawyers and doctors. Almost every lawyer is a member of their local Bar Association, and most doctors belong to the AMA. Architects and Civil Engineers have the NSPE, Realtors have the NAR, etc. Those groups have immense influence over public policy regarding their professions. (Far more so than say the IEEE or ACM anyway...)
These are not unions. Lobbying groups? Yes. Associations of professionals? Yes. But clearly not a union. Again, I am for associations like this but not unions. Words mean things to me, and the word union indicates collective bargaining which I am against.