Re: Why Buy a Converter?

Jim Yanik wrote:
> 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!  ;-)
> 


Even more sad, some criminal juries have been prone to acquit a 
defendant if the DA can't produce similar damning evidence.  They're 
like, "what's wrong with our law enforcement - CSI does it all the 
time?"  Been there, heard that.

-- 
jer
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