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- 961: Jon Bennet Ramsey
- ... to the house that morning, they were told that there was a child missing, and there was a ransom note left behind. Any person with the slightest bit of common sense would believe that a crime has now taken place, especially a police officer. This means, treat the home as a crime scene. This was not done. The home should have immediately been vacated of anyone who need not be there, sealed off, and properly searched. Instead friends and family were allowed in an out as they ... White. During the search of the basement, John Ramsey found his daughter’s body. Why didn’t an officer accompany him on the search? Instead, John found the body, carried it upstairs and disturbed the crime scene. Brutal damage. Some of the police officers claim to have seen a drop of some sort of fluid on Jonbenet’s abdomen as John carried her lifeless body into the living room. This ...
- 962: 1984 2
- ... against the party, but not only does he do it in a different ways but his displeasure with the society leads him on to rebel numerous times. First of all, Winston has committed a thought crime , a crime which is used to prevent the individual from thinking and the penalty for committing a thought crime was death (so he thought). Winston knew he was guilty for the crime but at the same time he assumes that he is not going to be detected or caught, at least in he ...
- 963: Can Computers Understand?
- ... Only special machines that can think can understand. 5) "Mental" states and their resulting actions are products of the center of activity (brain). 6) To understand, thoughts must be produced by the brain. 7) A computer's mental states and events are controlled by a program. 8) The program is not a product of the computer. 9) A computer does not produce "thoughts" in its brain. 10) A computer cannot understand. John Searle addresses the point of the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand, in Mind Brains, and Programs. His main argument ...
- 964: Problems in Air Traffic Control and Proposed Solutions
- ... system failure. Don't think this was an isolated incident though. A partial list of this years ATC radar failures: · Chicago Center lost their primary radar system when the 1970's technology IBM 9020E host computer went down for 29 hours. · ASR-9 radar failure at Miami TRACON possibly due to a lighting strike. Miami switched to a back-up ASR-9 system at Fort Lauderdale. The Fort Lauderdale system then failed just as technicians at Miami brought their radar on-line. Miami failed again forcing controllers to revert to non-radar procedures. · Fort Worth Center's host computer lost power while technicians were replacing some related processing equipment. Back-up radar was on-line for almost three hours. All departures experienced a 60-90 minute delays. · Pittsburgh TRACON briefly lost communication and radar ... air. Radar contact was lost for 5-8 minutes. Everyone from vacationing families to the director of the Federal Aviation Administration recognizes the national air traffic control system is in desperate need of reform. Host computer systems are 20 years old, power supplies are at times unreliable, and facilities are under-manned with over-worked controllers. Moral is low at facilities because of these problems. The main problem that currently ...
- 965: Capital Punishment and Issues
- ... the traditional practices of Islam, beheading or stoning are still occasionally employed as punishment. Effectiveness of Capital Punishment The fundamental questions raised by the death penalty are whether it is an effective deterrent to violent crime, and whether it is more effective than the alternative of long-term imprisonment. Defenders of the death penalty insist that because taking an offender's life is a more severe punishment than any prison term ... those who have not yet been caught but who would be liable to a life term if arrested; and revolutionaries, terrorists, traitors, and spies. Those who argue against the death penalty as a deterrent to crime cite the following: (1) Adjacent states, in which one has a death penalty and the other does not, show no significant long-term differences in the murder rate; (2) states that use the death penalty ... or more homicides, but subsequent research has discredited this finding. The current prevailing view among criminologists is that no conclusive evidence exists to show that the death penalty is a more effective deterrent to violent crime than long-term imprisonment. Moral Concerns The classic moral arguments in favor of the death penalty have been biblical and retributive. "Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis ...
- 966: The Scarlet Letter 3
- ... to bear the infamous scarlet letter. She wears this scarlet letter A to signify that she is an adulteress and an outcast to society. The Puritans of Boston eschew and mock Hester because of her crime and the scarlet letter she bears. The Puritans illustrate this when they force her to stand upon the scaffold with her scarlet letter for long periods of time. Dimmesdale, of Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet ... surrounding him. According to Elaine Kamarack, author of The Comeback Kid Can Do It Again, The core issue is simply too trivial to warrant something so traumatic to the nation. She believes that Clinton's crime is not evil enough to bring about an impeachment. She also writes, "The U.S. Congress would not want to cast a vote inviting into their own lives the kind of scrutiny that Bill Clinton ... with the fact that he cheated on his wife, but more are upset with the fact that he lied to his followers, the American people. The American people do not see adulteration as a horrible crime, like the Americans of the seventeenth century once did. On average, 50 percent of the 633 Americans questioned approved of President Bill Clinton as a person, in contrast to the 43 percent that disapproved ( ...
- 967: Amazon.com
- ... new ways and means of conducting business through something we call technology. Today, in 1999, the number one technique of tying business into technology would be the use of the Internet. The Internet is a computer application that connects tens of thousands of interconnected computer networks around the world. Users are directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month, or pay nothing at all. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty-four hours a day, ...
- 968: Superman and Batman: The Greatest Superheros of All Time
- Superman and Batman: The Greatest Superheros of All Time When society comes crumbling down, and crime starts to take over the world, there are two people who will do whatever they can to make this a better world to live in: Superman and Batman. Superman is an alien from a different planet who has super powers. Batman is just a regular guy with no super powers whatsoever. Even though both are so different, they have something very important in common. They fight crime and uphold justice in their cities. Superman and Batman are undoubtedly the greatest super heroes of all time. Kal-El, Superman's real name, was born on the planet Krypton to his parents Jor-El ... grew up training himself to the peak of physical and intellectual perfection and, at age eighteen, began using his vast fortune to travel the world in search of those who could teach him to fight crime effectively" (Batman 1). When he finally returned from traveling, he was very skilled in combat, both physical and mental. He can also escape from anything, and disguise himself as anything. Bruce tried to fight ...
- 969: Digital Cameras
- Digital Cameras Digital cameras are the newest “got-to-have-it” peripheral for your home computer. These new alternatives to regular cameras supply instant gratification. This gratification is in the form of a digital supply image. You can immediately put an image into a document, print, or send off as e ... So the question is: why buy a camera for that amount of money, when you could by a decent 35mm camera? There are essentially three reasons. First, if you want to bring images into your computer for desktop publishing, web design, or other computer applications, there’s no easier way than capturing the images directly to a digital format. Second, digital cameras do away with film and processing costs, which would make up the price difference over the ...
- 970: Kuwait
- ... into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited." -18th Amendment, Section 1, 1919 Those words initiated the rise of organized crime in America. With the closing of saloons and pubs, speakeasies sprung up like wildflowers around the country. Bootlegging and rum running became underground businesses, while the rise of mob bosses thrived. Mostly associated with the ... Irish. It was not until the 18th amendment, that the Irish became the ashes, and the Italians rose from the flames. While today the Mob, and the Mafia are the common terms associated with organized crime, other terms are also applied. Those being the Outfit, the Syndicate, and La Cosa Nostra. La Cosa Nostra was a phrase coined by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, meaning "this thing of ours". Chicago is perhaps infamous for its role in organized crime, earning a nickname from some as the bootlegging capital of the United States. Chicago was home to notorious gangsters like John Torrio and Al "Scarface" Capone. The geography of the city helped promote and ...
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