Check out that 15 year old Volvo lifestyle!

Hey, they're pretty good for collisions.

In a way, Hastert was involved in organize crime. Like Capone (etc) that's not what bagged him. He screwed up. A CPA or attorney would have warned him.

Hastert was a tool in many schemes, IMHO, the extortion being just one part of it.

I'm with you. It would be a massive effort. I would be happy to contribute to making that effort, and the analysis that would follow, year after year.

Why we don't have open government finance reporting at all levels is sheer chicanery.

You miss my point.

It's about openness in transactions. The situations are analogous, not congruent.

I was replying to this: There is nothing illegal about paying blackmailers

Private property can also be the context for untold and massive greed. Not all the time, but government costs money, and good government costs good money. The screws currently turned on state governments across the country have resulted in massive deficits, and only the bankers win, in that game.

I don't like crooked cops, either. Getting the "capo" was the way to dry up a huge supply of illegal talent. Beyond racketeering, murder, extortion, and the other multitudes of crimes, it also destabilized neighborhoods, families, and more.

All you have to do is the reporting. If you don't, there is a presumption that you're laundering money. Why do we have more CPAs in the US than you can shake a stick at? This very reason. Yeah, lots of fudging gets done. That's another thread.

Then he should have told the FBI the truth when they asked what the money was for. Or simply said, "I choose not to give a statement." Lying to the Feds is beyond fucking stupid. That's their "gotcha" card and it baffles me that so many seemingly intelligent people fall into such an easily avoidable trap.

There's a right to remain silent. I suggest using it....

We agree that equal enforcement is a good idea. It's not a witch hunt. Others have also been caught in this trap as well.

Oddly enough, I'm currently working with injectors from a 1990 mustang (which I'm trying to put into a datsun inline four to go in a triumph spitfire.) These definitely have an open/close lag. Maybe I should get some more recent ones, based on what you've said.
It's easy to find flow at full open, and from that I can derive how much it should flow at 50% duty cycle. From that I can characterize, at least somewhat, what the on and off times are by the delta from expected, but from the data I have, it appears that the on and off ramps are fuel pressure dependent as well. (Which isn't too much of a surprise, but a lot more complicated.) Plus there's an entirely different subplot involving the voltage I use to drive the coil: like stepper motors, I can overdrive the coil briefly to get a faster response, but have to decay down to a much lower holding current to not cook the coil, aka peak-and-hold.

We must disagree.

We did indeed pass and have enforced, a lot of legislation that's helped reduce corruption. No, it's not stopped,and SuperPACs allow bribery on a huge scale. But the RICO Act, along with a long list of others, have helped keep things somewhat open and at least partially above board. They're not thoroughly successful. If Hastert had done the reporting, he wouldn't be in deep crap at this point, his secrets intact for better and worse. The reporting has a purpose: keep large transfers from skirting reporting in taxes.... like taking your annual profits to a tax haven, and so forth.

The man otherwise, appears to be a skunk for this and many other reasons.

Back in the 20s and 30s in the US, the mob ran roughshod over the land. The only way devised to corral them-- because of massive corruption on local, state, and federal levels-- was to invoke tax laws. It worked. It got Capone, and a bunch of the mob.

Hastert is caught in a similar pickle. Meet the reporting requirements; they're designed to trap this, and other kinds of illicit behavior. Trillions of dollars have left the USA, some of it legally (Apple Computer) and some of it not. The laws were designed to trap floods of untracked cash (Dennis Hastert's payments). It worked. I want the law; I want the reporting requirements; don't presume you understand the motivations of /.ers.

No it shouldn't. If gender is a predictor of ability then the probability distributions are BY DEFINITION not independent. If therefore you use the knowledge of gender after evaluating ability then you are treating them as independent variables when you combine them. This is mathematically bogus.

Actually, that's just mathematically simplistic. Here's what your reasoning does not account for: There are leanings, abilities and competencies that do not exist in isolation from other influences. Gender can be one of those. Therefore, to the extent that affect is possible, it is a valid consideration.

It could be a positive for either sex.

For instance, the air force has definitively determined that females are significantly better at maintaining more comprehensive situational awareness in complex aerial situations. This is because of a real world gender-based difference in information processing.

On the other hand, if one was hiring a bouncer, the competencies lean strongly the other way.

There will be outliers, of course, but that's why we need to think about these things rather than operate by rote. The law, unfortunately, but needfully (due to blind prejudice), specifies decision by rote. This is why many parts of the decision making process have gone missing from public view.

See here

What evil is Google perpetrating, exactly?

In this case (there are certainly others), they are using deceptive reporting to mislead people on the current state of affairs. Ask yourself why they would do this. The answer isn't "because they are angels."

What they should do is publish relevant and clear statistics on the issue instead of attempting to obfuscate the relevant issues at hand.

Try to keep up. It's really not that difficult.