It's not possible to not convict innocent people. There are always going to be outlier cases in which the person is innocent, but all the evidence points to them.
This is shown by the phrase "beyond reasonable doubt". It's not "beyond any doubt". There can still be a possibility that the person was innocent, and you should still convict in our current legal system. You may not like it, but that's how every legal system basically works.
Why is this modded up? It's nothing to do with the story. In England, just about every single city is on the coast, so that's not relevant. We also know about flash floods too, which, due to our climate, occur relatively regularly. Only last fortnight or so, we had flood warnings near where I live. If you find a house in the UK that's not at risk of flooding, it's on top of a hill.
I've got a big dog, too... a large munsterlander, 40kg. Unfortunately, he's the biggest wuss you'll ever meet. Burglars don't know that, though, and he's got a good bark, if he even notices anyone has arrived.
The only car I've ever gone off the top of the speedo was an old mini clubman. It was a very long hill, and the speedo did only go up to 90, though. That car had amusingly bad all round drum brakes, and its oil consumption was approximately half its petrol consumption.
I've gone a little faster than that in my Integra type R... 15 to 150 in top gear (to be fair, it doesn't really like chugging at 15 in top, but it can do it ok - 20mph is fine though... 15mph is about 900rpm iirc).
And more importantly, I think, even the best court systems we have do and will convict innocent people. This is unavoidable. We just have to make sure we minimise the innocent conviction rate as much as possible.
GP : On the other hand, if you really are guilty, and you testify that you didn't do it, but evidence comes out that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you did it (caught on high-quality tape, for example), then you should be charged with perjury as well as with the original crime, shouldn't you?
No, no, and all kinds of no. People can be wrong and convinced they are right. There have been numerous rape cases for example, where victims have sworn blind that the accused was the person who raped them. Later DNA evidence cleared the accused, and they convicted someone else. Do you think the rape victim should be charged with perjury?
Criminals often rationalise their actions to such an extent they believe they were the victim, and are often pretty confused, and often have poor legal advice - in none of these cases have they perjured themselves necessarily. Perjury is a pretty well defined crime for a reason.
I'm a lorry driver... and GP is right. Very few drivers actually pay for their fuel any more, and if they're from the same company, they wouldn't bother rotating. I certainly never have deliberately sat in a convoy - it's a lot harder to drive when you can't see all the road in front of you. Sometimes you'll get trucks that constantly overtake each other, because one is quicker up hills, the other is quicker on the flat, but they don't do it deliberately.
I don't get this... I don't let anyone sit on my arse, ever. If someone does get too close, in the overtaking lane, when I'm looking to overtake someone in a queue, I pull over. It's their problem, and I'm not going to be a part of it. I only sit on the arse of others when they do not pull over for no reason (actually, generally I undertake them, carefully).
I don't drive _that_ fast... generally about 80 when cruising in the UK, which is technically illegal, but what loads of other people do, and police won't do you for it (most of the time).
Seriously, people, if someone is sitting on your arse... pull over. Don't complain about it... they're more likely to die than you. You lose nothing.
The main problem with flying cars is the power they use.... keeping stuff above the earth requires too much energy... they're possible now, but not really desirable.
To many people religion is the core of their very being.
My belief people should be treated equally is pretty much to the core of my being. Wearing a hat isn't, but not being granted a privilege some have is. Non-religious people don't really care about the hat, they care about the principle.
10 cables? I've got a grand total of 5 coming out of my desktop : Power, DVI/HDMI, RJ45, mouse, keyboard. I have in the past dropped that to 4 when I got rid of the wired network and used wireless, but I like the speed of a wired network generally. My monitor has a power cable too, I guess...
Circumcision is a possible health benefit, and has few side effects. I'm against habitual circumcision too, but going stark raving sexual maiming about it doesn't help.
I was circumcised when I was about 4, I think... I had a tight foreskin. I remember it, but don't miss it.
Not her responsibility. As long as she's not doing it for publicity, then it's her choice, she has no obligation to the American public or other transgenders.
Why do you think so many rape victims commit suicide? Even after months or years of therapy and trying to forget?
It's a horrible experience. Some people can't deal with it.
At least if the person is killed, the torment is over.
My torment was over years ago... it was tough getting over it, but I did, and am glad to be alive.
I certainly wish my attacker had been raped in prison, and then killed, so my tax dollars doesn't keep him alive.
I feel nothing but pity for my attacker. He never went to prison, by the way, his punishment was being deported back to his own country. I don't hate him any more, I don't care about him at all. I used to want revenge, but I figured out it was hurting me more than it would hurt him.
If you can't appreciate that, you obviously have no experience in the subject, and can take your self-righteous indignation and shove it up your ass.
I do have experience of this. You're the one with the self righteous indignation. You're the one claiming murder is almost equivalent to rape. I'm a happy, relatively well adjusted person now.
Also, I resent the fact that you imply that no one can comment on the issue unless they have been raped. People are allowed opinions on stuff that has not actually happened to them.
Desktops are cheaper, but outside of very specialised applications, laptops are good enough for most uses. In fact, modern smartphones are good enough.
Desktops are not only cheaper, they are better. Games are not specialised applications.
Good graphics cards are big. Most people don't need them, true, but PC gaming is still very much alive - Diablo 3 has sold about 15 million copies. That's about a half _billion_ dollars right there, for one game.
People have been predicting the death of the desktop for decades, whether due to consoles, laptops, mobiles, whatever. It's never going to happen while good graphics cards and processors need a lot of cooling, and therefore are big.
The only reason laptops haven't taken over from desktops is that you can't make a laptop do what a desktop does for a similar price, and in some cases not at all. Good luck getting similar performance from a phone.
Moderation systems with anonymous comments allow everyone to say what they want. If the community downmod it, so be it. The posts are still posted, people can still read them.
In the UK businesses claim back VAT they have spent at the end of the year. This does add a metric crapload of paperwork throughout the year for all the stuff you need to claim back on. The advantage of VAT over sales tax is that it is harder to avoid, in theory.
My last employer I gave 2 months notice... just because I thought it'd help them fill my job in that time. I knew I was going to leave, and had no ill will towards them. They were happy with it, and aside from the occasional "are you sure you want to leave", everything was fine.
I hate corporation culture with a passion, and didn't give notice because of that... I gave long notice because I thought my co-workers would possibly suffer if I didn't.
I'm not defending the Vista launch... it was a disaster. I agree with you that Vista certified hardware could not run Vista well. My system could, does, and has silly uptime.
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It's not possible to not convict innocent people. There are always going to be outlier cases in which the person is innocent, but all the evidence points to them.
This is shown by the phrase "beyond reasonable doubt". It's not "beyond any doubt". There can still be a possibility that the person was innocent, and you should still convict in our current legal system. You may not like it, but that's how every legal system basically works.
Why is this modded up? It's nothing to do with the story. In England, just about every single city is on the coast, so that's not relevant. We also know about flash floods too, which, due to our climate, occur relatively regularly. Only last fortnight or so, we had flood warnings near where I live. If you find a house in the UK that's not at risk of flooding, it's on top of a hill.
I've got a big dog, too... a large munsterlander, 40kg. Unfortunately, he's the biggest wuss you'll ever meet. Burglars don't know that, though, and he's got a good bark, if he even notices anyone has arrived.
The only car I've ever gone off the top of the speedo was an old mini clubman. It was a very long hill, and the speedo did only go up to 90, though. That car had amusingly bad all round drum brakes, and its oil consumption was approximately half its petrol consumption.
I've gone a little faster than that in my Integra type R... 15 to 150 in top gear (to be fair, it doesn't really like chugging at 15 in top, but it can do it ok - 20mph is fine though... 15mph is about 900rpm iirc).
Courts aren't perfect, not being corrupt or ignorant is not enough to make them infallible. (gah... too many negatives, hope that makes sense)
And more importantly, I think, even the best court systems we have do and will convict innocent people. This is unavoidable. We just have to make sure we minimise the innocent conviction rate as much as possible.
GP : On the other hand, if you really are guilty, and you testify that you didn't do it, but evidence comes out that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you did it (caught on high-quality tape, for example), then you should be charged with perjury as well as with the original crime, shouldn't you?
No, no, and all kinds of no. People can be wrong and convinced they are right. There have been numerous rape cases for example, where victims have sworn blind that the accused was the person who raped them. Later DNA evidence cleared the accused, and they convicted someone else. Do you think the rape victim should be charged with perjury?
Criminals often rationalise their actions to such an extent they believe they were the victim, and are often pretty confused, and often have poor legal advice - in none of these cases have they perjured themselves necessarily. Perjury is a pretty well defined crime for a reason.
Small step, easy to make, cost efficient and nobody can say that 150 km/h limits the freedom of motorists.
I can... lots of people do track days.
I'm a lorry driver... and GP is right. Very few drivers actually pay for their fuel any more, and if they're from the same company, they wouldn't bother rotating. I certainly never have deliberately sat in a convoy - it's a lot harder to drive when you can't see all the road in front of you. Sometimes you'll get trucks that constantly overtake each other, because one is quicker up hills, the other is quicker on the flat, but they don't do it deliberately.
I don't get this... I don't let anyone sit on my arse, ever. If someone does get too close, in the overtaking lane, when I'm looking to overtake someone in a queue, I pull over. It's their problem, and I'm not going to be a part of it. I only sit on the arse of others when they do not pull over for no reason (actually, generally I undertake them, carefully).
I don't drive _that_ fast... generally about 80 when cruising in the UK, which is technically illegal, but what loads of other people do, and police won't do you for it (most of the time).
Seriously, people, if someone is sitting on your arse... pull over. Don't complain about it... they're more likely to die than you. You lose nothing.
Autonomous cars would have to cope with human driven cars... in which case, they'd be pretty easy to troll. I know I would :P.
The main problem with flying cars is the power they use.... keeping stuff above the earth requires too much energy... they're possible now, but not really desirable.
To many people religion is the core of their very being.
My belief people should be treated equally is pretty much to the core of my being. Wearing a hat isn't, but not being granted a privilege some have is. Non-religious people don't really care about the hat, they care about the principle.
10 cables? I've got a grand total of 5 coming out of my desktop : Power, DVI/HDMI, RJ45, mouse, keyboard. I have in the past dropped that to 4 when I got rid of the wired network and used wireless, but I like the speed of a wired network generally. My monitor has a power cable too, I guess...
Circumcision is a possible health benefit, and has few side effects. I'm against habitual circumcision too, but going stark raving sexual maiming about it doesn't help.
I was circumcised when I was about 4, I think... I had a tight foreskin. I remember it, but don't miss it.
While personally I used Manning had terrible judgment that got a lot of people killed,
Which people did Manning get killed?
Not her responsibility. As long as she's not doing it for publicity, then it's her choice, she has no obligation to the American public or other transgenders.
You ever been raped? You ignorant asshole.
Yes.
Why do you think so many rape victims commit suicide? Even after months or years of therapy and trying to forget?
It's a horrible experience. Some people can't deal with it.
At least if the person is killed, the torment is over.
My torment was over years ago... it was tough getting over it, but I did, and am glad to be alive.
I certainly wish my attacker had been raped in prison, and then killed, so my tax dollars doesn't keep him alive.
I feel nothing but pity for my attacker. He never went to prison, by the way, his punishment was being deported back to his own country. I don't hate him any more, I don't care about him at all. I used to want revenge, but I figured out it was hurting me more than it would hurt him.
If you can't appreciate that, you obviously have no experience in the subject, and can take your self-righteous indignation and shove it up your ass.
I do have experience of this. You're the one with the self righteous indignation. You're the one claiming murder is almost equivalent to rape. I'm a happy, relatively well adjusted person now.
Also, I resent the fact that you imply that no one can comment on the issue unless they have been raped. People are allowed opinions on stuff that has not actually happened to them.
Desktops are cheaper, but outside of very specialised applications, laptops are good enough for most uses. In fact, modern smartphones are good enough.
Desktops are not only cheaper, they are better. Games are not specialised applications.
Good graphics cards are big. Most people don't need them, true, but PC gaming is still very much alive - Diablo 3 has sold about 15 million copies. That's about a half _billion_ dollars right there, for one game.
People have been predicting the death of the desktop for decades, whether due to consoles, laptops, mobiles, whatever. It's never going to happen while good graphics cards and processors need a lot of cooling, and therefore are big.
The only reason laptops haven't taken over from desktops is that you can't make a laptop do what a desktop does for a similar price, and in some cases not at all. Good luck getting similar performance from a phone.
so it sounds like your an idiot.
Yup, it sounds like he's the idiot.
Moderation systems with anonymous comments allow everyone to say what they want. If the community downmod it, so be it. The posts are still posted, people can still read them.
Requiring people to register limits discourse.
There's a reason for anonymous voting, you know.
In the UK businesses claim back VAT they have spent at the end of the year. This does add a metric crapload of paperwork throughout the year for all the stuff you need to claim back on. The advantage of VAT over sales tax is that it is harder to avoid, in theory.
My last employer I gave 2 months notice... just because I thought it'd help them fill my job in that time. I knew I was going to leave, and had no ill will towards them. They were happy with it, and aside from the occasional "are you sure you want to leave", everything was fine.
I hate corporation culture with a passion, and didn't give notice because of that... I gave long notice because I thought my co-workers would possibly suffer if I didn't.
I'm not defending the Vista launch... it was a disaster. I agree with you that Vista certified hardware could not run Vista well. My system could, does, and has silly uptime.