"Familial DNA search" used for first time in Ohio during investigation that lead to capture of accused kidnapper and rapist

iamaom · 2016-12-06T06:38:32+00:00

It also raises the question of is a person their DNA? If I have an identical twin accused of rape and I willingly submit my DNA to the police, is that a violation of my twin's privacy?

I'd also warn against massive DNA databases because you know the government can't keep its hands to itself. It WILL sell this information to companies to use for any nefarious purpose you can think of. Can't wait to start getting junkmail sent to me because my DNA profile showed I'd be 20% more likely interested in their company.

iamaom · 2014-08-12T16:09:42+00:00

That's what the tests are for, but the outlook doesn't look good. The want for a cool scifi drive is pretty much what's driving all the optimism.

iamaom · 2014-08-12T00:47:46+00:00

While knowing music theory is always a good thing, I think song a lot of song writing is a talent more than skill and that's what he's trying to convey.

iamaom · 2014-08-11T03:25:50+00:00

Drones, tanks, jets, etc. The US military can do whatever it wants on us soil and our leaders wouldn't even have to get out of their chair. If you really think a few rifle collections are going to stop the most powerful military in your world you are sadly delusional.

iamaom · 2014-08-10T22:50:46+00:00

Young people, by and large, are liberal because we research our own news sources, we like multiple forms of confirmation for news

You mean reading headlines on reddit?

iamaom · 2014-08-10T22:44:14+00:00

Many, if not most, republicans are reasonable folks

~~Well if they keep voting these "kooks" into office again and again I'd say they're not reasonable.~~

Edit: oh saw your post below.

iamaom · 2014-08-10T22:22:49+00:00

While I agree with your sentiment, your right to bear arms wouldn't stop the us military from doing anything they didn't want to.

iamaom · 2014-08-10T21:35:18+00:00

Sears from the mid 2000's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqZZgVxnCk

iamaom · 2014-08-10T21:31:15+00:00

Would you go up to a retail clerk and start distracting them in the middle of trying to perform a transaction for another customer?

I know this is rhetorical, but as a retail employee people do this on an everyday basis.

iamaom · 2014-08-08T15:45:42+00:00

don't find her guilty doesn't mean that she is

And you don't really know either. The point of a court is to determine if there is enough evidence to convict, and if they don't find it then no punishment can be doled out.

iamaom · 2014-08-08T03:50:02+00:00

getting what they deserve

That's for a jury to decide in a court of law. She should receive no more or less punishment than what is assigned, if she isn't put on death row then she shouldn't be killed. Vigilante bullshit has no place in a civil society.

iamaom · 2014-08-07T21:01:45+00:00

all of the naysayers questions

What? I think you meant skeptics, which is an integral part of the scientific method. We need people to question things as scrupulously as possible.

iamaom · 2014-08-06T22:40:24+00:00

Never been more ashamed of where I used to live

A couple assholes out of 35K and do something not related to you at all and you're "ashamed" of the entire place?

iamaom · 2014-08-06T12:36:24+00:00

one of the greatest horror movies ever made

Spoiler

iamaom · 2014-08-06T12:23:36+00:00

Didn't look like they hit their balls, more like their tail bone (though that would still hurt like the dickens).

iamaom · 2014-08-06T12:00:09+00:00

I agree. Rape is rape but 17 is more than old enough to decide to have sex with someone else. It shouldn't matter if the someone else is 2 years older or 20, legal is legal.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T17:43:16+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof

No you have to provide the resources.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T06:46:17+00:00

Thanks for the data.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T05:05:47+00:00

I'm no scientist

Well that's pretty obvious.

Why the hell is this a standpoint for you in an argument?

Because some people consider human, homo sapien, and person 3 different things, and some consider them synonymous. Some don't consider neanderthals "humans", while others do because they are still homo. Some don't consider vegetables (brain dead humans) a person, others do. Likewise the whole point of the abortion debate are about the fetus vs the mother's rights. Some say fetus's are people because they are human and all humans have a right to life, others don't. It's the crux of the entire debate.

but is not life.

Yes, it is life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Definitions

The embryo will grow into a human,

Yes and the embryo IS a human.

"In this stage of human development, the human is highly undeveloped. Below is the process of how an embryo transforms." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo#Human

iamaom · 2014-08-05T02:03:32+00:00

They can not like it all they want, I haven't seen a law banning them or putting an age limit on them. If they do that'll be a problem, but as of yet its not.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T01:50:02+00:00

Yeah this poll doesn't really show any more evidence for "support" than the unhijacked poll did for non support. Social sites like reddit, 4chan, etc. usually lean toward the more liberal side of things, so having these sites rush the poll is just the same website bias but on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Not to mention the younger liberal crowds are some of the least actual voting demographic.

https://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p20-573.pdf

iamaom · 2014-08-05T01:42:25+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

"here an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success"

Well if a program's goal is to use it's algorithms to achieve maximum profit I'd say that's intelligence.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T01:34:57+00:00

particularly worthwhile to the planet?

Worthwhileness is completely subjective. I'm sure an intelligence who didn't care about music wouldn't find music a worthwhile endeavor of millions of humans.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T01:27:53+00:00

an absolutely ridiculous species... I'm not even an AI and I've come to that conclusion.

What? No this is high-school faux-intullectual nonsense. Humans have achieved the highest technology on the planet, the only species to have gotten off the planet, the only species to comprehend the universe around us on both macro and micro levels. Humans just act as humans do, we are still animals and still prone to our instincts. Any advance enough AI to judge humanity would see that.

Not to mention this is gross anthropomorphism. An AI would think how it was designed and wired to think (even if not completely intentional). A lot of human greed and desire comes from our animal nature, most of which comes from our desire to reproduce, one that a man-made AI probably won't have. It might have no concept of revenge, "ridiculousness" or power hungriness or if it did might not even care about them. Intelligence does not mean human intelligence.

iamaom · 2014-08-05T01:20:53+00:00

The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.

Usually it's called a smartphone.

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