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What do you call people from Abu Dhabi, Algiers, Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Moroni, Djibouti city, Kuwait City, Khartoum, Manama, Damascus, Nouakchott, Rabat, Tunis, Riyadh, San'a, Doha, Mogadisho and Muscat? In Arabic, I mean like for example Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.52.208 ( talk) 01:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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Julia Rossi (
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03:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
did the viking's wear leather sandles —Preceding
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92.3.200.159 (
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19:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
This issue was raised in my legal ethics class. We were discussing sex and the law and the subject came to child pornography. One of my students asked me if viewing child pornography was illegal. Of course, I said yes. But then he asked how anyone could prove that someone looked at child porn. And I said that a law enforcement expert would have to look at the pictures and verify that it is indeed child porn. But here's the problem... wouldn't that guy technically be breaking the law too? But in order to charge him, someone else would have to verify that he looked at child porn, ad infinitum. How does this work? -- Goon Noot ( talk) 04:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, don't the officers need to "acquire" (confiscate) the child pornography in order to determine its illegality?
It seems like many of the child pornography laws are based on thoughtcrimes, and because of the huge amount of emotion in the topic, there really isn't any chance of reform, is there?-- Goon Noot ( talk) 06:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
There are plenty of similar instances - for example the police are allowed to confiscate illegal drugs or guns in the course of their duties and it's not against the law.
On the other hand I was reading about a case during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. A policeman had confiscated a barrel of illegal whiskey and afterwards taken it home to share with a few friends. The local judge found out and fined him and confiscated the whiskey. Then the policemen arrests the judge for posession of illegal whiskey and locks him up, hauling him before a judge of a different jurisdiction. DJ Clayworth ( talk) 14:57, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
So should we stop law enforcement people from risky high-speed car chases of reckless driver, fighting with brawlers, kidnapping kidnappers, spying on spies, killing murderers, and robbing robbers of their ill gotten gains? Edison ( talk) 19:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
So is viewing child porn legal, as long as the person viewing it does not "possess" it?--
Goon Noot (
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06:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#The_most_powerful_earthquakes... Moved
Any guesses as to the approximate total number of state legislators there have been in the states of the United States since their statehood? -- Michael White T· C 17:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I had heard somewhere some time ago about a poll that showed somewhere around 1/3 of Americans support "expanding welfare" or something to that effect. Meanwhile, another poll (or the same poll?) found that when the wording used was "giving more money to the poor," or something to that effect, support increased to about 2/3 of Americans. Does anyone know where I might find a source for this? -- Ybbor Talk 20:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
20:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC) 208.111.221.183 ( talk)marriedlife huntingandfishing lawandorder publisedbyyourcompanyin1942
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dorothy
I often hear about how X Percent of Americans (or sometimes a specific sub-set of them) can't find a certain country on a map. Often said country is Iraq. Here are several examples of this:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/02/geog.test/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography.html
My question is: What the heck are the showing people when conducting the survey? Is it a completely blank map of the world? A blank map of the middle east? A filled in map with names, and a time limit?
If it's a blank map, do you get partial credit for hitting a contiguous country, but not recognizing the precise shape of Iraq as opposed to Syria?
What does this classic factoid tell us, if anything about Americans? Is finding a country on a blank map a skill usually taught in school? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.24.148 ( talk) 20:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I am researching "Fraud" commited against the Social Security Addmin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.215.38.41 ( talk) 21:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
How do libraries handle the situation in which different books in their collections were classified based on different editions of the same classification schedule (say Dewey)?
Do they continue to shelf the books based on the originally-assigned classifications, even though changes in the classification schedule would have given some books different classifications? Or do they periodically re-classify (& re-shelf) the books in their collections to reflect changes in the classification schedule? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.241.23 ( talk) 22:51, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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What do you call people from Abu Dhabi, Algiers, Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Moroni, Djibouti city, Kuwait City, Khartoum, Manama, Damascus, Nouakchott, Rabat, Tunis, Riyadh, San'a, Doha, Mogadisho and Muscat? In Arabic, I mean like for example Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.52.208 ( talk) 01:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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Julia Rossi (
talk)
03:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
did the viking's wear leather sandles —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
92.3.200.159 (
talk)
19:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
This issue was raised in my legal ethics class. We were discussing sex and the law and the subject came to child pornography. One of my students asked me if viewing child pornography was illegal. Of course, I said yes. But then he asked how anyone could prove that someone looked at child porn. And I said that a law enforcement expert would have to look at the pictures and verify that it is indeed child porn. But here's the problem... wouldn't that guy technically be breaking the law too? But in order to charge him, someone else would have to verify that he looked at child porn, ad infinitum. How does this work? -- Goon Noot ( talk) 04:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, don't the officers need to "acquire" (confiscate) the child pornography in order to determine its illegality?
It seems like many of the child pornography laws are based on thoughtcrimes, and because of the huge amount of emotion in the topic, there really isn't any chance of reform, is there?-- Goon Noot ( talk) 06:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
There are plenty of similar instances - for example the police are allowed to confiscate illegal drugs or guns in the course of their duties and it's not against the law.
On the other hand I was reading about a case during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. A policeman had confiscated a barrel of illegal whiskey and afterwards taken it home to share with a few friends. The local judge found out and fined him and confiscated the whiskey. Then the policemen arrests the judge for posession of illegal whiskey and locks him up, hauling him before a judge of a different jurisdiction. DJ Clayworth ( talk) 14:57, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
So should we stop law enforcement people from risky high-speed car chases of reckless driver, fighting with brawlers, kidnapping kidnappers, spying on spies, killing murderers, and robbing robbers of their ill gotten gains? Edison ( talk) 19:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
So is viewing child porn legal, as long as the person viewing it does not "possess" it?--
Goon Noot (
talk)
06:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#The_most_powerful_earthquakes... Moved
Any guesses as to the approximate total number of state legislators there have been in the states of the United States since their statehood? -- Michael White T· C 17:32, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I had heard somewhere some time ago about a poll that showed somewhere around 1/3 of Americans support "expanding welfare" or something to that effect. Meanwhile, another poll (or the same poll?) found that when the wording used was "giving more money to the poor," or something to that effect, support increased to about 2/3 of Americans. Does anyone know where I might find a source for this? -- Ybbor Talk 20:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
20:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC) 208.111.221.183 ( talk)marriedlife huntingandfishing lawandorder publisedbyyourcompanyin1942
wouldlikeinformationonthese lithographs
dorothy
I often hear about how X Percent of Americans (or sometimes a specific sub-set of them) can't find a certain country on a map. Often said country is Iraq. Here are several examples of this:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/02/geog.test/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography.html
My question is: What the heck are the showing people when conducting the survey? Is it a completely blank map of the world? A blank map of the middle east? A filled in map with names, and a time limit?
If it's a blank map, do you get partial credit for hitting a contiguous country, but not recognizing the precise shape of Iraq as opposed to Syria?
What does this classic factoid tell us, if anything about Americans? Is finding a country on a blank map a skill usually taught in school? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.24.148 ( talk) 20:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I am researching "Fraud" commited against the Social Security Addmin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.215.38.41 ( talk) 21:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
How do libraries handle the situation in which different books in their collections were classified based on different editions of the same classification schedule (say Dewey)?
Do they continue to shelf the books based on the originally-assigned classifications, even though changes in the classification schedule would have given some books different classifications? Or do they periodically re-classify (& re-shelf) the books in their collections to reflect changes in the classification schedule? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.241.23 ( talk) 22:51, 12 June 2008 (UTC)