The Irony of It All...
Apparently, this guy is too involved with his own work.
The author of two books on stupidity has been charged with trying to meet a teenager on line for the purpose of sex...
Welles now faces a charge in Lantana, Florida, with using the computer to set up a date with a 15-year-old girl. But the "girl" was really a 40-year-old undercover detective.
Showing posts with label Stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stupidity. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2002
A dumb idea that doesn't work... and if it worked? It would still be dumb.
Clayton's takedown of the benefits of ballistics 'fingerprinting' is worthwhile reading.
Using current crime statistics, he has done some math, and assuming that we lived in a fantasyland where:
- ballistics 'fingerprinting' works perfectly
- every single legal firearm in the country has been registered, and the information is regularly updated
- even firearms that have been stolen are in the database
- every bullet used in a crime is recoverable, and in good enough shape for the police to run a match...
If all these most unlikely circumstances were achieved, we would get the following improvements in clearance:
78 additional rifle murders solved;
2033 additional handgun murders solved;
0 additional murders solved with all other weapons.
In other words, even if ballistics fingerprinting worked, it still wouldn't be worth the money and effort involved. And it doesn't work. So its just a waste of money that could be used towards better things...
Clayton's takedown of the benefits of ballistics 'fingerprinting' is worthwhile reading.
Using current crime statistics, he has done some math, and assuming that we lived in a fantasyland where:
- ballistics 'fingerprinting' works perfectly
- every single legal firearm in the country has been registered, and the information is regularly updated
- even firearms that have been stolen are in the database
- every bullet used in a crime is recoverable, and in good enough shape for the police to run a match...
If all these most unlikely circumstances were achieved, we would get the following improvements in clearance:
78 additional rifle murders solved;
2033 additional handgun murders solved;
0 additional murders solved with all other weapons.
In other words, even if ballistics fingerprinting worked, it still wouldn't be worth the money and effort involved. And it doesn't work. So its just a waste of money that could be used towards better things...
Friday, October 11, 2002
Thinning the Herd...
I shouldn't get a giggle out of this, but what an ignominious what to die.
People who live in trees, lie down in the middle of the road, chain themselves to structures, stage hunger-strikes, etc. are engaging in adult-style temper-tantrums. We shouldn't coddle them, we should treat them in a manner consistent with the maturity of their actions. Since they're acting like 4 year olds, we should send them to their room without supper.
The key sentence in this article came at the end:
In perhaps the most famous tree sit, Julia "Butterfly" Hill spent two years 180 feet up in a 1,000-year-old redwood in Northern California to save it from being cut down for lumber.
She came down in 1999 after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to leave the tree standing in return for $50,000 to make up for lost logging revenue.
Yep. Don't want someone who owns a tree to cut it down? Why not try buying it?
I shouldn't get a giggle out of this, but what an ignominious what to die.
People who live in trees, lie down in the middle of the road, chain themselves to structures, stage hunger-strikes, etc. are engaging in adult-style temper-tantrums. We shouldn't coddle them, we should treat them in a manner consistent with the maturity of their actions. Since they're acting like 4 year olds, we should send them to their room without supper.
The key sentence in this article came at the end:
In perhaps the most famous tree sit, Julia "Butterfly" Hill spent two years 180 feet up in a 1,000-year-old redwood in Northern California to save it from being cut down for lumber.
She came down in 1999 after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to leave the tree standing in return for $50,000 to make up for lost logging revenue.
Yep. Don't want someone who owns a tree to cut it down? Why not try buying it?
Thursday, October 03, 2002
Did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?
One of the most beautiful things about the blogosphere is that when a blogger makes an error, they're normally quick to correct it. .... or everyone else will for them. The phrase 'fact-check your ass' comes to mind.
So maybe major media organizations should do themselves a favor and hire some bloggers to fact-check their reporters before they report, in all seriousness, that "the WHO says blondes are going extinct."
... no really, its by the same scientist who wrote the study proving that a guy really can die from blue-balls.
One of the most beautiful things about the blogosphere is that when a blogger makes an error, they're normally quick to correct it. .... or everyone else will for them. The phrase 'fact-check your ass' comes to mind.
So maybe major media organizations should do themselves a favor and hire some bloggers to fact-check their reporters before they report, in all seriousness, that "the WHO says blondes are going extinct."
... no really, its by the same scientist who wrote the study proving that a guy really can die from blue-balls.
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Stupid Teenagers...
Katie Sierra apparently doesn't see the humor in her attempts to start an 'anarchy club'. Especially when you consider the following statement: On the morning of Oct. 23, 2001, Katie asked Mann if she could start an anarchy club, so that like-minded or curious students could gather, have reading and discussion groups and do community service. She'd spent all weekend working on a Constitution and Manifesto for the club. "This anarchist club will not tolerate hate or violence," says her Manifesto. "It is our final goal to dispel myths about anarchism, especially the belief that anarchy is chaos and destruction." (Italic emphasis mine)
Katie, I'm sure someone has asked you to already, but could you please read the definition of an anarchist? You can say all you like that anarchy isn't about chaos and destruction, but if you do so, you are no longer talking about anarchy. It's hard enough to get concepts across in a language like English, its even harder when today's kids (and a lot of leftists... see the lefty definition of handgun control) refuse to actually pair the words they use with their accepted definitions.
I can say that I'm a pedophile, and that I support pedophilia, but that pedophilia isn't about the sexual exploitation of young children... but then I'd sound dumb. Think about it, Katie.
Katie Sierra apparently doesn't see the humor in her attempts to start an 'anarchy club'. Especially when you consider the following statement: On the morning of Oct. 23, 2001, Katie asked Mann if she could start an anarchy club, so that like-minded or curious students could gather, have reading and discussion groups and do community service. She'd spent all weekend working on a Constitution and Manifesto for the club. "This anarchist club will not tolerate hate or violence," says her Manifesto. "It is our final goal to dispel myths about anarchism, especially the belief that anarchy is chaos and destruction." (Italic emphasis mine)
Katie, I'm sure someone has asked you to already, but could you please read the definition of an anarchist? You can say all you like that anarchy isn't about chaos and destruction, but if you do so, you are no longer talking about anarchy. It's hard enough to get concepts across in a language like English, its even harder when today's kids (and a lot of leftists... see the lefty definition of handgun control) refuse to actually pair the words they use with their accepted definitions.
I can say that I'm a pedophile, and that I support pedophilia, but that pedophilia isn't about the sexual exploitation of young children... but then I'd sound dumb. Think about it, Katie.
Stupid Women...
Ira Einhorn, an environmentalist activist who brutally murdered his girlfriend over 20 years ago, is finally set to stand trial for his evil deeds. This man beat nearly to death, and then locked in a steamer trunk and left for dead, his girlfriend, who was trying to end their five year relationship at the time.
This is all old news, obviously... but I saw an article in the Washington Post titled Judge: No Immunity for Einhorn Wife that gave me pause.
This monster has a wife? Some stupid woman, knowing that he was a violent, convicted murderer - whose victim was a woman he was in a love relationship with - married him?!? The article doesn't say, but I hope to god that they never bred. Such a combination of violent evil, with willfull stupidity would only pollute the gene pool further.
Ira Einhorn, an environmentalist activist who brutally murdered his girlfriend over 20 years ago, is finally set to stand trial for his evil deeds. This man beat nearly to death, and then locked in a steamer trunk and left for dead, his girlfriend, who was trying to end their five year relationship at the time.
This is all old news, obviously... but I saw an article in the Washington Post titled Judge: No Immunity for Einhorn Wife that gave me pause.
This monster has a wife? Some stupid woman, knowing that he was a violent, convicted murderer - whose victim was a woman he was in a love relationship with - married him?!? The article doesn't say, but I hope to god that they never bred. Such a combination of violent evil, with willfull stupidity would only pollute the gene pool further.
Stupid Parenting Ideas 101
Richard and Jennete Killpack are victims of the weird ideology that rejects anything traditional, instead substituting unproven, unconventional methods to achieve results. So, when their adopted daughter was apparently having trouble 'bonding' with them, they adopted a policy of forcing her to request everything, even food and water. As if that policy weren't loony enough, they also would force an excess of anything she 'snuck' from them without requesting it... like water. Key passage in the article:
"She had a very severe problem of sneaking and lying ... to the point of even damage to herself," he said Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show." "They made the suggestion that whatever she sneaked or wanted, that you would do that in excess."
After she took water in June, he said they asked her to drink three 8 ounces glasses of water. After about 12 ounces, he said, she threw temper tantrums, and then followed their request to do exercises and take a time out.
"She started to complain her head was dizzy. I asked her to come over to me, and she basically passed out in our arms," he said on NBC's "Today" show.
"Her death was a tragic, tragic accident," Jennete Killpack said.
But prosecutors said evidence shows Cassandra was forced to drink so much water it lowered the concentration of sodium in her blood, causing fatal brain swelling. The Killpacks' lawyer, Philip Danielson, said unbeknownst to her parents, Cassandra's sodium level was depleted before she drank the water.
So they forced her to drink so much water that it killed her, because she didn't ask for a glass of water first. The real tragedy in this story is that Cassandra was four years old. That's right, they were doing this to a four year old girl. Who cares if a child at the age of four lies? They don't even make much sense, that young! Just as sad is that there are people out there who are ignorant enough to try a whackjob theory like this on their children. And because bad things work in threes... its truly sad that someone decided they were fit to adopt children in the first place, when they treat their children as less than humans, to be experimented on.
These people obviously aren't fit to be responsible for any living creatures. The other two children in their care (one adopted, one biological) are in foster care now, and even as messed up as the foster care system tends to be, I'm thinking they're better off than with these morons.
Richard and Jennete Killpack are victims of the weird ideology that rejects anything traditional, instead substituting unproven, unconventional methods to achieve results. So, when their adopted daughter was apparently having trouble 'bonding' with them, they adopted a policy of forcing her to request everything, even food and water. As if that policy weren't loony enough, they also would force an excess of anything she 'snuck' from them without requesting it... like water. Key passage in the article:
"She had a very severe problem of sneaking and lying ... to the point of even damage to herself," he said Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show." "They made the suggestion that whatever she sneaked or wanted, that you would do that in excess."
After she took water in June, he said they asked her to drink three 8 ounces glasses of water. After about 12 ounces, he said, she threw temper tantrums, and then followed their request to do exercises and take a time out.
"She started to complain her head was dizzy. I asked her to come over to me, and she basically passed out in our arms," he said on NBC's "Today" show.
"Her death was a tragic, tragic accident," Jennete Killpack said.
But prosecutors said evidence shows Cassandra was forced to drink so much water it lowered the concentration of sodium in her blood, causing fatal brain swelling. The Killpacks' lawyer, Philip Danielson, said unbeknownst to her parents, Cassandra's sodium level was depleted before she drank the water.
So they forced her to drink so much water that it killed her, because she didn't ask for a glass of water first. The real tragedy in this story is that Cassandra was four years old. That's right, they were doing this to a four year old girl. Who cares if a child at the age of four lies? They don't even make much sense, that young! Just as sad is that there are people out there who are ignorant enough to try a whackjob theory like this on their children. And because bad things work in threes... its truly sad that someone decided they were fit to adopt children in the first place, when they treat their children as less than humans, to be experimented on.
These people obviously aren't fit to be responsible for any living creatures. The other two children in their care (one adopted, one biological) are in foster care now, and even as messed up as the foster care system tends to be, I'm thinking they're better off than with these morons.