Posts by Stephen Judd
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Yes. This has become required reading. Thank you very much.
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I think it's also worth reading the indictment against Ross Ulbricht in the case of the Silk Road bust. As you get into it it becomes clear how the Feds identified him partly through some pretty stupid giveaways and partly through requisitioning things from Google and other providers. See from about page 24 on.
As an irrelevant aside, this is where taking Murray Rothbard seriously gets you. Austrian economics devotees be warned.
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Hard News: On Telly, Telly Off, in reply to izogi,
the dollar savings on retail, energy and maintenance
And flat screens don't smash up like glass CRTs.
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As long as we're digressing into police grammar, can someone explain something to me? Why in the last few years have police suddenly, inexplicably started putting simple narratives into the perfect tense rather than the simple past? Eg: the suspect has entered the property and then he has broken a window. He has then ...
Did some particuarly influential copper invent this bizarre style and it spread?
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Done. I've got a lot out of PA over the years and look forward to many more.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Keir Leslie,
You realise that was something I tweeted just the other day? Or is that some sort of ironic zing? In any case, what gets funded when there isn't enough money to go around matters, so for me this isn't a matter of striking a more-rational-than-thou pose so much as trying to have a consistent and reasonable basis for funding. I have a problem funding things that extensive review has failed to find evidence for, eg acupuncture, when we could be spending it on things where there is evidence, and I don't think that's unreasonable.
* I may be in favour of funding some kinds of pilot programmes for which there is currently no evidence, in the hope that we might then get some, but that's a different issue.
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The best controlled studies show a clear pattern – with acupuncture the outcome does not depend on needle location or even needle insertion. Since these variables are what define "acupuncture" the only sensible conclusion is that acupuncture does not work. Everything else is the expected noise of clinical trials, and this noise seems particularly high with acupuncture research. The most parsimonious conclusion is that with acupuncture there is no signal, only noise.
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Bart Janssen,
IT only exists because scientists created it for our own needs
Yes, the success of companies like ISM only emphasises that.
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I note Judith Collins' childish use of "Cunners", a trait shared with the rightwing blog sewer and also IIRC Gower and Garner.
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And what I came here to say: sorry to hear this Russell, and I hope something equivalently neat comes along soon. You did good work.