realistically you should probably be modded redundant, since I think there's very few people who aren't aware of England's role in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
Really, Mr. I'm not an American. Please open your mind a bit beyond your little corner of the Universe.
What role did the French play in the American Revolution? How about the American Civil War? Bet you don't know without looking it up.
How's this: What country successfully invaded the United States and burned down its Capitol? (Hint: It ain't Al Qaeda)
See, while your average American citizen could probably answer all three of those questions off the top of their head, I would suspect that most non-Americans, unless they were true history buffs, would know the answer at all.
Exactly where do you draw the threshhold of "reasonable doubt"?
Well, 'reasonable doubt' means just that -- some amount of uncertainty that exists because a person of average intelligence could be lead to believe in that uncertainty for various reasons.
Not having a body doesn't count much these days as 'reasonable doubt,' as plenty of jurors can imagine scenarios in which the body would not be found.
A lack of strong evidence could represent a reasonable doubt. While they found blood in Reiser's vehicle, it was only trace amounts and those trace amounts could be explained by circumstances other than 'he murdered her and dragged the body around in his car'.
However, I think what probably did him in was the eyewitness testimony, particularly that of his son, who changed his story from 'Hans and Nina left separately' to 'Hans and Nina left together and only Hans came back'. In the minds of the jurors, that must have seemed particularly damning.
OTOH, a different set of jurors might have seen it differently -- after all, the boy did change his story, so they might think "how do we know which time he told the truth?"
I dunno. But I think he did it. So what do I know?
The man who killed several people made that claim but neglected to check one minor detail. Specifically, he forgot to ensure that the people he claimed to have murdered were actually dead.
Yes, that's what I meant by 'couldn't tell police who he'd murdered'. Some of the people he had named were, indeed, alive and well -- so maybe he just didn't know who he killed? Or maybe he never killed anybody and just claimed that he did. Seems like the last statement rings the most true to me, being the simplest explanation.
there are so many ways to dispose of a body such that there is no way anyone on Earth will ever find it again.
Indeed. In other somewhat recent events, it took them MONTHS to find Lacie Peterson's body (which was NEVER fully recovered nad suffered so much damage, the only thing they could identify was her unborn child), and they were fully prepared to launch a case against her husband and convicted murderer Scott Peterson with or without a body. When they did find it -- in the same waters where he claimed to have been fishing at the time of her death, well, it just made things easier. But they were prepared to toss Scott Peterson in prison even if the courts threw out the body as evidence (which I think they did, IIRC).
When I can just look it up at any moment, I'm not really trying to memorize it.
Learning has little to do with memorization, despite what the public school system in the United States would seemingly like it's star pupils to think. True learning requires the use of insight to apply known information -- either memorized or 'looked up' -- to a given situation.
It's one thing to be able to rattle off the equation E=mc^2, but knowing how, when, where and why to apply it are equally important to understanding the concept.
if you're willing to consider writing as technology
Well, the word technology comes from the Greek works techne, meaning 'art' and logia, meaning 'skill'. In modern day useage, we mean that it is the practical application of knowledge. Certainly writing requires knowledge (of both the language and subject matter) and is a practical application of that knowledge and associated arts and skills. So, yeah, I'd say writing is a technology.
Is Slashdot making us stupid? We've lost the ability to come up with new jokes, instead preferring to spread the same old memes about hot grits, Natalie Portman being naked and petrified, welcome our new Google overlords, and saying that In Soviet Russia, YOU make Google stupid.
Oh well, I guess all are brain are belong to Slashdot.
Honestly, I don't see how this invalidates his work. Surely the code didn't drive him to commit murder.
Are you sure? Have you ever looked at that source? Hell, I almost murdered my wife after spending 15 minutes reading it, never mind trying to write the code!
There's no proof that the friend murdered several people. He just claimed to have done, but couldn't seem to tell police whom he had murdered or where any bodies were.
Sure, maybe Hans really did murder his wife, but I've never bought the friend's story.
Probably market pressure made them change their tune. iTunes is now the biggest online source of music sales in the business and sometimes you just can't argue with numbers.
Sure, requiring you to go to a licensed notary and have a credit card application notarized might not make it so easy to get credit, but it would also make it harder to get credit in your name. Even a notary might not be robust enough. Almost anybody with a relatively clean criminal record can be a notary in most states -- you pay like $50, tell the judge you want to be a notary, they pull a background check and if you have no felonies or major larcenies on your record -- well, there you go -- the judge will sign theo order making you a notary. You'll have to get your own seal, of course, and these usually are like around $100.
Yep. And just because companies must notify consumers of a breach doesn't mean any sign that they'll actually do it. Sex offenders are required to notify the sex offender registry when they move. Not all sex offenders do that, either.
Weak dollar == higher energy (read: oil and natural gas) prices. More $$$ spent in energy means less money for businesses and consumers alike -- this leads to less discretionary income (less for toys) and to fewer jobs (more unemployment). It's a viscious cycle which started with mortgage market collapsing, which was a result of rich people wanting to get richer by selling subprime mortgages to foreign investors -- without caring so much as to whether those people could pay those mortgages and without explaining that to the foreign investors.
Now think about it and you'll Whom you have to thank for this mess.
It wouldn't be so bad, but they never bother to translate American English into British English, so really, what's the point in waiting? How many people live in the U.K. whose mother tongue is other than English? Would these people prefer a title that was translated into their mother tongue?
Also, the differences between American English and British English are entirely insignificant, so why bother translating?
no one is saying you have to buy an x86 cpu. SPARC and PPC work and do a good job. If Intel has solidified a market dominance that's pushed out OTHER architectures, that's more to do with Microsoft than it is to do with Intel.
Hey! Stop ruining our Intel-bashfest with such irrelevant things as "facts" and "common sense"!
real psychologists who actually know something about the human mind
My wife is a real psychologist. Maybe I'll ask her what she thinks.
Anyway, to say real psychologists know something about the human mind is perhaps an overstatement. Psychology is a young field of study that is a soft science -- that is, there are little or no cold, hard facts behind the theories of psychology. One theory is about as good as another.
Psychology theories are, at best, just an 'educated guess'. They are not like true scientific theories, where things can be proven out mathematically.
"Let's make this illegal so it would be a crime to frame an innocent person."
I never said we should make anything illegal. You called me moron, yet you claim I said things that aren't written in my posts.
I merely said that it does matter that since, eventually, people won't be able to tell the difference, we need some solution for this and a slew of other problems that logically extend from "I can make a picture of anything I want and it will look real." use your imagination, it's not just about child porn.
The solution need not be more laws. It might be technological nature. In fact, it would probably have to be technological in nature.
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Agreed
Really, Mr. I'm not an American. Please open your mind a bit beyond your little corner of the Universe.
What role did the French play in the American Revolution? How about the American Civil War? Bet you don't know without looking it up.
How's this: What country successfully invaded the United States and burned down its Capitol? (Hint: It ain't Al Qaeda)
See, while your average American citizen could probably answer all three of those questions off the top of their head, I would suspect that most non-Americans, unless they were true history buffs, would know the answer at all.
Not having a body doesn't count much these days as 'reasonable doubt,' as plenty of jurors can imagine scenarios in which the body would not be found.
A lack of strong evidence could represent a reasonable doubt. While they found blood in Reiser's vehicle, it was only trace amounts and those trace amounts could be explained by circumstances other than 'he murdered her and dragged the body around in his car'.
However, I think what probably did him in was the eyewitness testimony, particularly that of his son, who changed his story from 'Hans and Nina left separately' to 'Hans and Nina left together and only Hans came back'. In the minds of the jurors, that must have seemed particularly damning.
OTOH, a different set of jurors might have seen it differently -- after all, the boy did change his story, so they might think "how do we know which time he told the truth?"
I dunno. But I think he did it. So what do I know?
*Whoooooooosh*
It's one thing to be able to rattle off the equation E=mc^2, but knowing how, when, where and why to apply it are equally important to understanding the concept.
Is Slashdot making us stupid? We've lost the ability to come up with new jokes, instead preferring to spread the same old memes about hot grits, Natalie Portman being naked and petrified, welcome our new Google overlords, and saying that In Soviet Russia, YOU make Google stupid.
Oh well, I guess all are brain are belong to Slashdot.
There's no proof that the friend murdered several people. He just claimed to have done, but couldn't seem to tell police whom he had murdered or where any bodies were.
Sure, maybe Hans really did murder his wife, but I've never bought the friend's story.
Oh, sure, blame it on the black guy. That's what they always do.
Nope, not Israel, nope not the Palestinians, nope not Iran....it was
Britian and France.
Look it up.
Probably market pressure made them change their tune. iTunes is now the biggest online source of music sales in the business and sometimes you just can't argue with numbers.
LOL! Im in ur account, stealin' ur identity!!!!
Yep. And just because companies must notify consumers of a breach doesn't mean any sign that they'll actually do it. Sex offenders are required to notify the sex offender registry when they move. Not all sex offenders do that, either.
What do you think is driving the recession?
Weak dollar == higher energy (read: oil and natural gas) prices. More $$$ spent in energy means less money for businesses and consumers alike -- this leads to less discretionary income (less for toys) and to fewer jobs (more unemployment). It's a viscious cycle which started with mortgage market collapsing, which was a result of rich people wanting to get richer by selling subprime mortgages to foreign investors -- without caring so much as to whether those people could pay those mortgages and without explaining that to the foreign investors.
Now think about it and you'll Whom you have to thank for this mess.
Ding! It's controlled by three separate, yet intertwined virtual monopolies.
Also, the differences between American English and British English are entirely insignificant, so why bother translating?
Intel missed their monthly bribe payment?
Major buzzkill, man.
My wife is a real psychologist. Maybe I'll ask her what she thinks.
Anyway, to say real psychologists know something about the human mind is perhaps an overstatement. Psychology is a young field of study that is a soft science -- that is, there are little or no cold, hard facts behind the theories of psychology. One theory is about as good as another.
Psychology theories are, at best, just an 'educated guess'. They are not like true scientific theories, where things can be proven out mathematically.
I merely said that it does matter that since, eventually, people won't be able to tell the difference, we need some solution for this and a slew of other problems that logically extend from "I can make a picture of anything I want and it will look real." use your imagination, it's not just about child porn.
The solution need not be more laws. It might be technological nature. In fact, it would probably have to be technological in nature.
Yeah, well, try telling him that. Anyway, if it were totally stupid and pointless, people wouldn't do things like post instructions for doing so with lame.