Re: Why Buy a Converter?

Bruce Tomlin <bruce#fanboy.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:bruce#fanboy.net-F66A64.12504329042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> In article <Xns9A8E82735395Fjyanikkuanet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Jim Yanik <jyanik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> >> All the CSI shows.
>> great shows,but short on real practices. they always show Florida
>> cars as having TWO license plates[we have only ONE],get DNA results
>> in less than a day,talk about Florida guns being "registered" to an
>> owner;FL has no gun registration.
> 
> ...and even if you accept that they had registration, when you look up
> a gun by its SERIAL NUMBER, the computer's flashy LCARS-style
> interface has to slowly flip through pages of data on unrelated people
> before finding a match.

IMO,the registration stuff is a propaganda attempt to get people to call 
for gun registration to be enacted;get them believing that it solves 
crimes.

I also laugh when a CSI holds up a mangled bullet and says "it looks like
a 
9mm",or "like a .38",without measuring the bullet diameter;many bullets
are 
different by only a few thousands of an inch. Nobody could discern the 
differences by eyeball.And how they pull a hollow point bullet from a hard

wall and it's nearly intact,no expansion or breakup.Makes reading the 
striations so easy....

> 
> Do they do that "infinitely zoomable videotape" cliche in CSI? I 
> remember a cop show a while back where they zoomed in on a video to
> look into the side mirror of a car to identify someone's face.
> 

yeah,such amazing resolution on the surveillance cameras!  ;-)

-- 
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
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