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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiglaf The reason they are open book tests are because they are on the internet. You can't catch the cheaters therefore, you make what would have been cheating permissible so as to avoid punishing the honest folk. However, this also requires a time limit and/or a more difficult test. What I really want to know is what would be preferable in this case, a curve or set scale (90%+=A, 80-89%=B, etc.)? I took open...

Quote: The judgment is also in stark contrast to a bill aimed at banning the use of DMB and mobile phones in a moving vehicle, which is pending at the National Assembly. One would expect this law to be brought forward rather faster than it has been up to now. (Given that the law being upheld is one designed to stop arbitrary changes to rules - according to the article - this ruling may well not be overturned by higher courts.) Quote: ...a...

Quote: Originally Posted by j. d. worthington Not knowing much about how the traffic works in Korea, I will only say that, from what I have heard from various sources about Rome, and have seen in Mexico... I shudder to think what things would be like with such a ruling there..... Given the way traffic is over HERE, J.d. consider what teles in your car getting legalized would be like then. It's an ugly world we live in and as the human...

Quote: Originally Posted by mosaix Excellent post DG. I've often pondered the use of exams - just how do they relate to the workplace? Imagine arriving at work on your first day and your employer saying "OK there's your desk, sit down and get on with it. Of course you're not allowed access to any manuals, you have to do it all from memory. If I catch you looking anything up - you're fired". Exams...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rufio Respectfully I think you're missing the point, which is that our livestock agriculture is extremely resource and land intensive, which clearly wouldn't apply to an African herdsman or somesuch. I don't think anyone has ever starved to death because they were vegetarian anyway. Did i say being vegetarian made anyone starve ? I said its not the answer to the problem for people that dont live in...

Re: Give up meat? Most meat is very good. The one I dislike most is probably turkey. It's rubbish that at Christmas instead of having tastier chicken, or excellent pork or brilliant venison we end up eating bloody turkey. We should try goose, perhaps. Not had that for ages.

Quote: Originally Posted by Connavar My earlier post was to people that were talking like why eat meat at all when everyone can afford to eat green which isnt true globally. Were you referring to Lord Stern, Conn? No-one on this thread has said that people in the third world could just switch to a meat free diet. For my part, I specifically stated in my post that people in the Western world were the ones who ate meat by choice, and I...

Drachir made a very good point about Crown Attorneys in Canada and in the UK. They are not elected, and judges are not elected. Crown Attorneys are hired by the Attorney General of the Province, who is elected to the Legislature, and then appointed to that cabinet post by the Premier of the province. If you are a crappy Crown Attorney, then you don't advance and you get fired. If you are a good Crown Attorney, you advance, even though...

Not knowing much about how the traffic works in Korea, I will only say that, from what I have heard from various sources about Rome, and have seen in Mexico... I shudder to think what things would be like with such a ruling there.....

The concepts actually are different. The evidence in question is about another wrong-doer. You are confusing the evidence with the parties who are hiding it. Neither of them, the guy who really did it or the prosecutors or police who hid the evidence are witnesses "against" the defendant, and he has no right to "confront" them in his trial. He may only confront them in another trial where they are...