Just like ENRON bookkeeping
At 5:50PM 1/15/03, "L.D. Best" wrote:
>I just realized the most basic, underlying, and generally overlooked
>truth about statistics:
>
> Statistics are only as valid as the reason they are being generated,
> processed, and kept.
>
>Sounds simple doesn't it? But t
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:50:42 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> If all current members of this list choose to do the following
> This list will effectively be cancelled.
> Anyone who might be interested may now STOP sending messages to this list.
> And begin sending them here instead.
> [EMAIL
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:51:53 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
> To Europeans the US is a very violent society. But maybe Hollywood is to
> blame for this... our view is formed by at least 50% of all pictures in
> cinema or TV originated from the US.
FWIW,
In the entire 250 year history of
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:06:35 +1300, "skywalker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Got a response from Michael, unfortunately not a very encouraging one, this
> problem has being going on for months, how hard is he trying and if he does
> not have the time or expertise to fix it then the list should be
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:36:11 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:51:47 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> to Sam Ewalt: I noticed one line with weird characters in one of your
> messages
>> in this thread and am curious how those weird characters got there. Here is
>> the excerp
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> The statistics at the above URL could be easily misinterpreted
> because many homicides are not crimes.
Police shooting criminals are also "homicides."
--
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I just realized the most basic, underlying, and generally overlooked
truth about statistics:
Statistics are only as valid as the reason they are being generated,
processed, and kept.
Sounds simple doesn't it? But think about it for a few seconds.
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL cop
Hi Samuel and David,
the interpration of the figures is rather difficult.
I did download the pages mentioned.
first thing I was interested in was: death by firearms = 30,708 (1998)
but since it is not possible to know from the statistics how many
casualties are by suicide by a f
John,
First thing I noticed about your large image of the middle picture is
that it is relatively low quality, very grainy. Did you use a digital
camera to take it, or did you scan a photograph?
I'm asking because it makes a difference in what the "first step" is --
which I've been struggling wi
Hi David,
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:28:56 -0500, david gunnells wrote:
> Hello Ron,
> Maybe you'd be interested in these:
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~confiles/
> specifically, this page:
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~confiles/confiles.html
Thanks for that David. :)
I finally got it
Killing in self-defense is rare in this country, and I doubt the
statistics are available which would separate the instances of LEO vs.
civilian. As a percentage of total homicides, I doubt it would be
statistically significant.
As to killing "by accident," and having it classified *initially* a
Got a response from Michael, unfortunately not a very encouraging one, this
problem has being going on for months, how hard is he trying and if he does
not have the time or expertise to fix it then the list should be cancelled,
that would fix it.
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Polak
Hi again Ron,
I hope I'm letting you know in time, that it's no longer necessary to try
to find the best manual size reduction method.
I just tried out EasyThumb. Unfortunately it requires Windoze, but its
results are great. It's freeware from Fooke's Software in Switserland.
Thanks again for
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:45:16 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Really quick non-quoted reply on monastic v. communist societies
> 1. A communist society is not headed up by a single individual, elected
> or not, who has the power of "life or death" -- membership or dismissal
> or condemnation to an eter
Hello Sam,
They can be misinterpreted until you do more research.
;) Here is a snippet on the methodology for the homicide
statistics:
"Homicide as defined here includes murder and nonnegligent
manslaughter which is the willful killing of one human
being by another. Excluded are deaths cause
London, January 14, 2003. A police officer was stabbed to death during a
raid in connection with the ricin poison investigation. Scotland Yard Chief
Inspector, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, stated that this conclusively proves
knives are dangerous weapons and kill. Commencing January 1, 2004,
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:51:47 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> to Sam Ewalt: I noticed one line with weird characters in one of your
messages
> in this thread and am curious how those weird characters got there. Here is
> the excerpt, quoted without adding any line-prefix character:
> Ameri
Ron Clarke wrote:
>A thought ! Would you like me to see if I can get your "large"
> graphic down to the size you want to display it at ?
>Just give me the URL and I will have a go. :)
Hi Ron,
I just reloaded my altered homepage and new.htm onto my server. New.htm
is basically a copy
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, david gunnells wrote:
> Hello Bastiaan,
>
>Here are the statistics for the violent crime rate in
> the U.S.:
>
> http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm
>
>Remember, there are both high and low violent crime
> rates in the U.S., it just depends on which geographi
Hello Bastiaan,
Here are the statistics for the violent crime rate in
the U.S.:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm
Remember, there are both high and low violent crime
rates in the U.S., it just depends on which geographical
locations you choose to focus on. ;)
Here are the s
Thomas, semi-automatic small calibre weapons were, and are, legal in
most places where you can have guns at all anymore.
What happened is that our Congress decided to define "assault rifle" ...
posession of which is against Fed law ... and being semi-automatic and
holding X number of rounds with "
Excerpt from Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Several years ago one of the suburbs of Atlanta was having
> problems with crime, so they passed a very controversial law
> that everyone must own a gun. Crime dropped 83% within a
> month of passage.
Was this city by any chance Kennesaw GA? They h
> I haven't seen anything where you were not able to delete mail which contained
> a string in the headers ... so simply search for arachne.cz in the mail
> headers.
> CU, Ricsi
Actually, it is not necessary to look all through the headers, just the
Return-Path or equivalent line is sufficient, s
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:59:54 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that virtually all of the headers indicate that they
> are from "Ronald Bleckendorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, even when the message
> is signed by Glenn, Bastiaan, and others?
: Somehow... Ronald resent every message righ
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