So, the British Government is suggesting that people who download things illegally should have their Internet access cut. Whoopee doo, let's deal with those naughty people. Cracked it. Er...not.Firstly, people can easily hide their illegal downloads. Even if ISPs could ban people from using their systems, they'd have to find them first - and that is difficult. Secondly, if it were possible to track offending ISP users, there's no guarantee that the person paying the bill is the offender; illegal "piggy backing" on broadband connections is rife - and difficult to stop when so few people take the necessary precautions. And how do you ban people from downloading at public sites, like free Wi-Fi sites?More troubling, however, is the fact that younger people do not see downloading music as illegal or immoral. They view music as a free resource. They have grown up downloading or "ripping" music. Technically it is illegal, but they don't view it as such. They believe it is their "right" to ha
It has been shown from scientific sources that microwaves from UFOs could account for most physiologicalresponses of witnesses, except for such mundane matters as visual observation and hearing bullets ricochet. For thesenses of hearing, smell, taste, and feel, the formerly puzzling effects were traced to specific mechanisms that arecapable of producing them. Some interactions between microwaves and the sensory organs appear to be mysterious,may be unknown to the general public or even experts in other fields, but are well-established facts. In addition,much information was found to describe the interactions quantitatively. It should be helpful at this point to assemblethat data in Table 1 and analyze the various constraints imposed by the sensory physiology.Scanning down the column of thresholds in Table 1 highlights the extreme sensitivity for hearing a humming2sound at 0.012 mW/cm . It is little wonder that this response frequently causes the witness to look around for thesource and
The use of intelligence evidence in court for the first time could be stalled by demands from intelligence services for a right to veto the use of the transcripts from their secret bugging operations. The CIA is also unhappy that its intercepted phone calls or conversations between suspected terrorists could be produced in British courts. [...]
Josephus: What's the Deal?
By Rook Hawkins
Far too often apologists and evangelicals bring up Josephus as a source for a historical Jesus. This is a continuing error among scholars, and it is fueled by secular scholars who are either persuaded by pseudo-scientific evaluations of the texts, or for reasons dealing only in their presuppositions, such as those discussed above. The Testimonium Flavianum is generally brought up by both apologists and historical Jesus questers more than any other document. Although other supposed mentions of Jesus exist, the subject, so as to not seem as if an Argument from Silence is the only means at which one can attain the position held in this book, will be limited to the Testimonium due to its importance and scope of usage. For this reason, included here in this section is a specific refutation towards the use of this passage, as will be provided ample evidence for its entire dismissal as an interpolation.
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Canadian Tribe Serves Papers on Queen of England."The letter reads, in part:We, as the friends and relatives of tens of thousands of children who died or were murdered in Indian Residential Schools in Canada established and run by your Church of England and the British Crown from 1867 to 1996, do hereby demand that you, Elizabeth Windsor, in your capacity as Queen of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, and Head of the Church of England, publicly disclose the cause of death, and whereabouts of the buried remains, of all children who died in Indian Residential Schools operated by the Church of England in Canada, aka the Anglican Church. [T]his Common Law Notice also requires that you, Elizabeth Windsor, arrange the immediate repatriation without conditions of the remains of these persons to their homes for a proper burial..."Haida building toward prosperous future."Looking beyond the resource-base economy is crucial first step"Mapuche International Link."... MIL's aims and objectives hav
“Quality is value to some person.”Gerald Weinberg,Quality Software Management – Systems ThinkingThis morning, Jason Gorman's blog post title Proof That Value Has Little To Do With Quality? caught my attention. This title contradicts my definition of Quality. To me, Quality is all about value to stakeholders.Quality is not about implementing the best development practices. Quality is not about writing solid code. Quality may not be about impressive features. Quality may have no relation to elegance. Quality may not even be reliable. Quality may be cheap or it may be expensive. Quality may be well planned or it may be haphazard.Quality is all about value. Quality is about value to people that matter.Jason references an interesting article about a web site that started as a learning exercise and "seems to come from the Anti-Perfectionist School of Design", yet is profiting its creator millions of dollars annually. In spite of many flaws, this web site is profitable becaus
Now it can be told! We have obtained video documentation which shows conclusively that Ron Paul voters were TAMPERED with and prevented from casting their votes in the New Hampshire Primary on January 8, 2008:
But will the mainstream media report this story? Noooooooooooo!
If this video disappears within the next day, you know that [...]
I have to browse the net for long hours, and automatically my hard disk is full of useful data, site links, posts and many more. But while browsing there is a lot of junk in the form of ads or pop ups, which is also saved at hard disk. And because of this unwanted storage, [...]
I have to browse the net for long hours, and automatically my hard disk is full of useful data, site links, posts and many more. But while browsing there is a lot of junk in the form of ads or pop ups, which is also saved at hard disk. And because of this unwanted storage, [...]
Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph. D. PresidentIslamic Research Foundation International, Inc.7102 W. Shefford LaneLouisville, KY 40242-6462, USAInsha'Allah I will talk a few words on "Qur'an and Science" which I hope will be beneficial for Dawah work. I am a student of Science and a student of Qur'an Majeed. Although my knowledge of Arabic is basic, Alhamdulillah I have discovered that the scholars have failed to translate the Qur'an faithfully, particularly into the English language. For example Zauj is translated as wife rather than spouse. Alaq is translated as blood clot or congealed blood rather than leech or something that clings. Similarly very few people know the meaning of Nikah or Zina.Science means knowledge or "ILM" in Arabic, or systematic study of Natural Phenomena or Ayah(in Arabic). God or Allah (SWT) says in the Qur'an Kareem "Inna Fi Dalika La Ayathin Li Qaumin Yatha Fakkarun." Meaning these are the Signs for those people whothink. Allah(SWT) asks us to study His creation(Nature)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's top prosecutor says there is enough evidence to prosecute Jacob Zuma, the new head of the ruling ANC, on allegations
"I've no doubt that UFOs are here to stay," said Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. "I'm just not convinced that alien craft are here to stay ... or for that matter, even here for brief visits."First, despite a torrent of sightings for more than a half-century, I can't think of a single, major science museum that has alien artifacts on display," Shostak said. "Contrast this paucity of physical evidence with what the American Indians could have shown you fifty years after Christopher Columbus first violated their sea-space. They could have shown you all sorts of stuff-including lots of smallpox-infested brethren-as proof that they were being 'visited,'" he said.When it comes to extraterrestrial visitors in the 21st century, the evidence is anecdotal, ambiguous, or, in some cases, artifice, Shostak suggested.Calling it "argument from ignorance", Shostak pointed to the claim that aliens must have careened out of control above the New Mexico
I previously wrote in this post that the Dmocrats were starting to change their strategy in regards to the Iraq war. I wrote that because of the recent success in Iraq that the Democrats were moving their talking points from “we can’t win in Iraq” to “Iraq is not making progress politically”, and I now have [...]
Some also contend regarding physical evidence that it exists abundantly but is swiftly and sometimes clumsily suppressed by governments, aiming to insulate a population they regard as unprepared for the social, theological, and security implications of such evidence. See the Brookings Report.There have been allegations of suppression of UFO related evidence for many decades. There are also conspiracy theories which claim that physical evidence might have been removed and/or destroyed/suppressed by some governments. (See also Men in Black) Some examples are: * On July 7, 1947, William Rhodes took photos of an unusual object over Phoenix, Arizona.[61] The photos appeared in a Phoenix newspaper and a few other papers. According to documents from Project Bluebook, an Army counter-intelligence (CIC) agent and an FBI agent interviewed Rhodes on August 29 and convinced him to surrender the negatives. The CIC agent deliberately concealed his true identity, leaving Rhodes to believe both men
Some also contend regarding physical evidence that it exists abundantly but is swiftly and sometimes clumsily suppressed by governments, aiming to insulate a population they regard as unprepared for the social, theological, and security implications of such evidence. See the Brookings Report.There have been allegations of suppression of UFO related evidence for many decades. There are also conspiracy theories which claim that physical evidence might have been removed and/or destroyed/suppressed by some governments. (See also Men in Black) Some examples are: * On July 7, 1947, William Rhodes took photos of an unusual object over Phoenix, Arizona.[61] The photos appeared in a Phoenix newspaper and a few other papers. According to documents from Project Bluebook, an Army counter-intelligence (CIC) agent and an FBI agent interviewed Rhodes on August 29 and convinced him to surrender the negatives. The CIC agent deliberately concealed his true identity, leaving Rhodes to believe both men
The CBS news program 60 Minutes recently aired a story called Evidence of Injustice, which covers the FBI’s retreat from using bullet lead analysis as trial evidence. This is not a case where law enforcement officials faked the data, but where the whole procedure itself was not scientifically based and eventually the FBI realized it. Hundreds of people who have been convicted based on these FBI analyses may have their cases reviewed. Some may now be found innocent.
Besides visual sightings, cases sometimes have an indirect physical evidence, including many cases studied by the military and various government agencies of different countries. Indirect physical evidence would be data obtained from afar, such as radar contact and photographs. More direct physical evidence involves physical interactions with the environment at close range—Hynek's "close encounter" or Vallee's "Type-I" cases—which include "landing traces," electromagnetic interference, and physiological/biological effects. * Radar contact and tracking, sometimes from multiple sites. These are often considered among the best cases since they usually involve trained military personnel and control tower operators, simultaneous visual sightings, and aircraft intercepts. One such recent example were the mass sightings of large, silent, low-flying black triangles in 1989 and 1990 over Belgium, tracked by multiple NATO radar and jet interceptors, and investigated by Belgium's military
Besides visual sightings, cases sometimes have an indirect physical evidence, including many cases studied by the military and various government agencies of different countries. Indirect physical evidence would be data obtained from afar, such as radar contact and photographs. More direct physical evidence involves physical interactions with the environment at close range—Hynek's "close encounter" or Vallee's "Type-I" cases—which include "landing traces," electromagnetic interference, and physiological/biological effects. * Radar contact and tracking, sometimes from multiple sites. These are often considered among the best cases since they usually involve trained military personnel and control tower operators, simultaneous visual sightings, and aircraft intercepts. One such recent example were the mass sightings of large, silent, low-flying black triangles in 1989 and 1990 over Belgium, tracked by multiple NATO radar and jet interceptors, and investigated by Belgium's military
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President Bashar Assad was personally involved in Damascus’ nuclear deal with Pyongyang. Documentary proofs of this, obtained from the presidential bureau and signed by Assad in person, are now in the hands of the US and Israeli intelligence services, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. In one, Assad hands down a specific order in his own handwriting that North Korea not be charged for Syrian goods, including an annual shipment of 100,000 tons of Durham wheat for five years worth a total of $120 million. This is the equivalent of the value of the reactor for producing plutonium up to its most radioactive stage, which North Korea promised Syria.A high-ranking Western intelligence source speaking to DEBKAfile described the evidence against Assad in US and Israeli hands as solid and much closer to a smoking gun than the West has turned up against Iran’s nuclear program. More...
KDFW-FOX4 has forced YouTube to pull the video of Rebecca Aguilar accosting Mr. James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas with what can only be construed as ‘Ambush Reporting’ as he was attempting to get in his car and leave Academy Sports and Outdoors where he had, according to his [...]
1995 - Autor: Godfrey Reggio (Estados Unidos). Duración 8 minutos
Este cortometrage de Godfrey Reggio se focaliza en los ojos de los niños mientras miran la televisión – una actividad donde los aspectos psicológicos están siendo analizados en profundidad en el marco de la controversia actual sobre la utilización de este equipo doméstico. [...]
Analysis of Antarctic ice cores led by Kenji Kawamura, a visiting scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, shows that the last four great ice age cycles began when Earth’s distance from the sun during its annual orbit became great enough to prevent summertime melts of glacial ice. The absence of those melts allowed buildups of the ice over periods of time that would become characterized as glacial periods.Results of the study appear in the Aug. 23 edition of the journal Nature.Jeff Severinghaus, a Scripps geoscientist and co-author of the paper, said the finding validates a theory formalized in the 1940s but first postulated in the 19th Century. The work also helps clarify the role of carbon dioxide in global warming and cooling episodes past and present, he said. “This is a significant finding because people have been asking for 100 years the question of why are there ice ages,” Severinghaus said.A premise advanced in the 1940s known as the Milankovitch th
The evidence continues to mount...An Iranian arms shipment destined for the Taliban was intercepted Sept. 6 by the international force in Afghanistan in what appears to be an escalating flow of weaponry between the two former enemies, according to officials from countries in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.The shipment included armor-piercing bombs known as explosively formed projectiles, the sources said, which have been especially deadly when used as roadside bombs against foreign troops in Iraq. The NATO-led force interdicted two smaller shipments of similar weapons from Iran into southern Helmand province April 11 and May 3."It's not the fact that it's qualitatively different, but this was a large shipment which got people's attention," a U.S. official in Washington said of the most recent interception.
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New evidence may help explain the brute strength of the tyrannosaurid, says a University of Alberta researcher whose research findings demonstrate how a fused nasal bone turned the animal into a "zoological superweapon." "Fused, arch-like nasal bones are a unique feature of tyrannosaurids," said Dr. Eric Snively, a post doctoral research fellow at the U of A. "This adaptation, for instance, was keeping the T. rexes from breaking their own skull while breaking the bones of their prey."Snively and co-authors, number-crunching physicist Donald Henderson from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology and Doug Phillips from the University of Calgary, compared the skulls and teeth of a number of tyrannosaurids to non-tyrannosaurids. In one of the first studies that looked at the structural mechanics of dinosaur skulls, the scientists used CT scans to investigate such factors as tooth, nasal and cranium strength. The research is published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. Tyrannos
Identification of the oldest preserved pieces of Earth's crust in southern Greenland has provided evidence of active plate tectonics as early as 3.8 billion years ago, according to a report by an international team of geoscientists in the March 23 edition of Science magazine. The finding pushes back the date of continent-forming processes previously determined as 2.5 billion years ago to a much earlier era considerably closer to Earth's formation some 4.5 billion years ago. Geochemical analysis of rocks has previously suggested an earlier date for plate tectonics, but this is the first study to find physical evidence of tectonics among Earth's oldest known rock structures, according to Hubert Staudigel of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego."The fact that this rock structure is so well preserved is particularly lucky," Staudigel said. "The materials were formed as seafloor along a spreading center and accreted to a continental plate and just stuck there, surviving almos
Ok, so I have a MySpace account, and most of my listed friends are people that I've met in person, though scattered across the globe. Chances are that I won't be adding anything to my profile that I have to worry about becoming evidence in a legal case. Can information from MySpace even be admitted into court?A First Monday article, MySpace on the record: The admissibility of social website content under the Federal Rules of Evidence, asks that very question, and also looks at other sites such as Craigslist, personal blogs, and eBay.The article sets up some hypothetical fact patterns, and examines some similar real life events, in asking whether or not certain information written on the web can be used in a couple of different criminal prosecutions and a products liability case.It looks in detail at the authentication of that evidence, the application of the hearsay rule, and the best evidence rule. It then applies those rules to the fact patterns created. Nice article.
Not shocking, but noteworthy and food for thought... as reported by Kevin at Real Lawyers Have Blogs, Blogs are being used as impeachment material for witnesses in lawsuits.Along with the ease of publication that Blogs offer, don't forget that they are publication. Might Blogs by their ease of operation allow someone to publish before the complete thought process has been performed? I think so. Might this be a danger in Blogs?Maybe just a danger in people.Rule of thumb... Think... then publish. It is also helpful to run a draft by an associate, first.
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