Re: **** tha police

Glenn Dowdy <glenn.no.dowdy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 
> "Guillermo el Gato" <devnull@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:mqvj14pdumcgqppvnk5edsdoa673a2aq94@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:57:29 -0400, "D.F. Manno"
>> <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <67mpeeF2p91flU5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >What determines if a trial like that has a jury?  I suppose
>>>> >the question
>>>> >would actually apply to all trials, unless there are
>>>> >categories where jury
>>>> >or nonjury are mandated.
>>>>
>>>> Under Canadian rules, the defendant has the right to choose
>>>> whether he wants a trial by judge and jury or by judge alone.
>>>
>>>Several years ago, Pennsylvania voters approved an amendment to
>>>the state constitution giving the _prosecution_ the right to a
>>>trial by jury, thereby perverting the reason trial by jury
>>>exists. 
>>>
>>>Behind the amendment were most of the state's 67 district
>>>attorneys, who claimed they needed the option to cir***vent
>>>"lenient" judges who were "hostile" to prosecutors.
>>>
>>>And the voters bought it. Idiots.
>>
>> That's the thing about the common man. He's so common.
>>
> As our sup****t manager says, "Half of everyone is below
> average". 

Only if you're using the median as the average.  Or it's a 
symmetric, unimodal distribution.