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Started by Barrister, March 28, 2012, 11:18:52 AM

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Malthus

Quote from: Viking on March 29, 2012, 02:38:45 PM
Quote from: HVC on March 29, 2012, 02:36:21 PM
Quote from: Viking on March 29, 2012, 02:27:14 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 29, 2012, 07:45:11 AM
Wow, Viking a douchebag, film at 11pm.

How am I being a douchbag?
Not knowing is the biggest sign :D

That would make everybody a douchbag, both those who think they are and those who think they are not.

I post on Languish. This is an objective sign.  :hmm:
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Malthus

Quote from: Viking on March 29, 2012, 02:35:44 PM
Quote from: HVC on March 29, 2012, 09:01:28 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 29, 2012, 07:45:11 AM
Wow, Viking a douchebag, film at 11pm.
if only he could find jesus he'd be a better person :(




:P

I found Jesus, but I don't know what a Chilean Restraunteur has to do with me being or not being a douchbag.

I was expecting a Big Liebowski reference.  ;)

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Viking

Quote from: Malthus on March 29, 2012, 03:06:24 PM
I was expecting a Big Liebowski reference.  ;)

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I don't get the "The Big Lebowski" love out there. I think it's an ok movie, thats it. 
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

garbon

Who brings a juice box and coke can to a robbery?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on March 29, 2012, 03:21:44 PM
Who brings a juice box and coke can to a robbery?

The same people who bring a truck:  people who are going to be there a while.

Besides, very few thieves have been regarded as smart.

Jacob

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Quote from: garbon on March 29, 2012, 03:21:44 PM
Who brings a juice box and coke can to a robbery?

Well, the juice box was from the fridge there.

Admiral Yi

Hey Beeb, what are the storage procedures so that the DNA on the coke can is preserved?  Just a ziplock, or do you need some kind of refrigeration?

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 29, 2012, 03:45:54 PM
Hey Beeb, what are the storage procedures so that the DNA on the coke can is preserved?  Just a ziplock, or do you need some kind of refrigeration?

I'd have to ask the lab tech myself, but I don't think they actually preserve the actual DNA or the coke can.  They work up the DNA itself, get the results, and those results sit on the file.  Remember this isn't a full DNA sequences - they just work up several thousand markers which are enough to create a unique match.

If they do preserve the DNA, it's in the form of a cotton swab - not the coke can.  No idea if they need a fridge.
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Jacob

Let us know how it goes (within whatever limits are appropriate, of course).

frunk

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 29, 2012, 03:45:54 PM
Hey Beeb, what are the storage procedures so that the DNA on the coke can is preserved?  Just a ziplock, or do you need some kind of refrigeration?

I don't know what the police use, but DNA can last for years without any special preservation efforts, with the biggest risk it being contaminated with other sources of DNA and its own slow natural degradation.  I think preservation such as refrigeration can make it last significantly longer.

Capetan Mihali

Quote from: Barrister on March 29, 2012, 01:54:56 PM
In Canada though we don't have sentencing guidelines, and B&E dwelling house can attract a huge range of sentences, so I think I just take the inevitable uncertainty into account on sentence.

What would you offer in this case if you thought there was no way you could lose at trial?  Conversely, what would you offer if you thought your evidence/witnesses were just strong enough to even pursue the charge?
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garbon

Quote from: Jacob on March 29, 2012, 03:36:08 PM
Quote from: garbon on March 29, 2012, 03:21:44 PM
Who brings a juice box and coke can to a robbery?

Well, the juice can was from the fridge there.

Gotcha, missed that.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Barrister

Quote from: Jacob on March 29, 2012, 03:57:09 PM
Let us know how it goes (within whatever limits are appropriate, of course).

If there is a final disposition it becomes public record, so I can be much less circumspect.

Right now of course I am careful to not reveal any information that might tend to identify the accused.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Razgovory

Just out of curiosity, do you think he did it?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017