RE: WSJ: NSA Computer Upgrade
At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:46:24 -0500, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Aluger commanded:
I'd like to see a cite to this.
New York Times, March 11, 2001, page 1:
"According to the American Association of Blood Banks, 280,000 paternity tests were conducted in 1999, three times as many as a decade earliet. And in 28 percent of the tests, the man tested was found not to be the father."
A skewed figure, in that the sample is taken from cases in which there is already a dispute, not the population at large, as the quote initially suggested. Of course that smaller pool will have a higher incidence of "not dad" findings. They are having the test done because they suspect "not dad" problems. It's like saying that 28% of blood tests showed prostate cancer, without disclosing that all of the tested parties asked for the test because they couldn't piss a single stream. Duh. Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com
Men usually got a hangup about paternity, and many don't want to know the truth, so the 28% is surely way low, in particular to protect the kids and the wives and to keep the men in harness. Them's the facts of biology and culture and healthy workplace economies. Same for being snooped on: most deny it's happening, or that it's as great as claimed by the paranoids, or so what, I got nothing to hide. Still, best to watch and accuse everybody else, support your LEA. Same for being on cypherpunks -- a list for trolling and snooping and accusing -- and denying the truth of these -- if it's anything. Same for the Internet as for your kids -- now get to work, sucker, your sweetie's on the phone to your best friend breathing help me plonk that limp lamer. This comedy's being logged worldwide, as always, laughing gas. Religion is counterintelligence for the disbelievers at what's staring them in the face grinnning I love you daddy. Never, ever have your blood tested, nor your brain. Keep your head up where the sun don't go. Read the papers, call what you see lies, distortions of your motherless bastardy.
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