In written evidence to the Commons Justice Select Committee, published today, the Bar Council said:
Although some constituencies from the writing and publishing communities
in their written evidence to the advisory panel expressed concerns about remote downloading; worrying that the technology would lack the necessary «friction» that a library visit provides when borrowing a printed book, it would be counter-intuitive not to recognize the technological ease of remote downloading and the likely consumer demand for it.
Gove says
in his written evidence that he never discussed details regarding the BSkyB bid or other media ownership issues with Murdoch.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made
in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.
In written evidence presented ahead of the committee, Dr Kogan pointed out that the personality scores provided to Cambridge Analytica's parent firm SCL were «highly inaccurate».
In written evidence provided to the committee today Facebook says it has been helping ongoing investigations into «the Cambridge Analytica issue» that are being undertaken by the UK's Electoral Commission and its data protection watchdog, the ICO.
Another piece of information Facebook has included
in the written evidence is the claim that it does not believe AIQ used Facebook data obtained via Kogan's apps for targeting referendum ads — saying it used email address uploads for «many» of its ad campaigns during the referendum.
Not exact matches
The arbitrator
in the flight attendants» case
wrote that «absent of compelling
evidence,» he was «loath to award breakthrough items.»
Further
evidence comes from the interesting fact that the parchment version of the Declaration of Independence that is on display and kept
in the United States National Archives wasn't actually
written until July 19th; this being a copy of the approved text that was announced to the world on July 4th, with about 150 - 200 copies being made on paper and distributed on that date (26 of which are still around today, thus pre-dating what is now generally thought of as the «original»).
«It is well established that
evidence of purpose beyond the face of the challenged law may be considered
in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims,» the judges
wrote on Thursday.
«The
evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,»
wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official,
in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.
While, fresh but scaling startups tend to drag their feet until they see clear
evidence of issues, prolonging upgrading may cause unnecessary and costly headaches like missed billing opportunities, inventory
write - offs, efficiency gaps
in operations or even fraud.
That's based on technical analysis (an investing strategy with both its pros and cons) from Fundstrat technical strategist Robert Sluymer, who
wrote in that same note: «Our expectation is Bitcoin will begin to show
evidence of bottoming short - term closer to $ 5,873.»
«Although the Government points to the fact that Congress and the Executive identified the seven countries named
in the Executive Order as countries of concern
in 2015 and 2016, the Government has not offered any
evidence or even an explanation of how the national security concerns that justified those designations, which triggered visa requirements, can be extrapolated to justify an urgent need for the Executive Order to be immediately reinstated,» the judges
wrote.
«Defendants have not denied any of these statements or produced any
evidence, beyond the text of the EO itself, to support their contention that the EO was primarily motivated by national security concerns,» Brinkema
wrote in her opinion.
«Based on
evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted
in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,»
wrote professors of Indiana University
in a paper published
in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.
In any event, Stefan and Gueguen
write, the results provide further
evidence that «human interaction between two strangers can be influenced by subtle cues of physical appearance.»
«For example, high - quality engineers or scientists may be more interested
in joining a company started by an entrepreneur who previously started a company
in a good industry and year if they believe (justifiably given the
evidence) that this track record increases the likelihood of success,» they
write.
The report's author, Professor Sir John Beddington,
wrote that «commonly held negative perceptions surrounding HFT are not supported by the available
evidence» but said that «policymakers are justified
in being concerned about the possible effects of HFT on instability
in financial markets.»
Sotomayor
wrote that the prosecutor «tapped a deep and sorry vein of racial prejudice that has run through the history of criminal justice
in our nation,» and that he had attempted to «substitute racial stereotype for
evidence.»
If you're interested
in more details on the
evidence for these two theories, check out Nixon's complete
write up.
«While I am not aware of
evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases
in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid
wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and «high ranking sanctioned individuals»
in Moscow over the summer as
evidence of «significant and disturbing ties» between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.
From the
evidence that has been published by The Guardian and The Observer this weekend, it seems clear that he has deliberately mislead the Committee and Parliament by giving false statements,» Collins
wrote in a statement to the press.
«I will be
writing to Mark Zuckerberg asking that either he, or another senior executive from the company, appear to give
evidence in front of the Committee as part our inquiry.
«Within the United States, a wide array of empirical
evidence indicates that more guns
in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director,
wrote in Private Guns, Public Health.
«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the
evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics,
wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier
in August.
Stockholder recommendations for candidates to the Board must be directed
in writing to Tesla, Inc., 3500 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, Attention: General Counsel / Legal, and must include the candidate's name, home and business contact information, detailed biographical data and qualifications, information regarding any relationships between the candidate and Tesla within the last three years and
evidence of the nominating person's ownership of Tesla stock.
In Schroepfer's
written evidence to the committee Facebook says it has unearthed some suggestive links between Cambridge Analytica / SCL and Aggegrate IQ: «
In the course of our ongoing review, we also found certain billing and administration connections between SCL / Cambridge Analytica and AIQ», it notes.
«Based on the extensive public comments and
evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors
in individual retirement accounts (
in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,»
wrote the Justice Department lawyers.
«Even beyond the trade secrets Waymo listed at the outset of this case, the new
evidence indicates that there is other proprietary information, contained
in the new documents, that made its way to Defendants,» Alphabet
wrote in a new filing.
High - level Justice Department officials and a magistrate judge had to conclude there was probable cause that Cohen had
evidence of a federal crime, that he could not be trusted to hand over
evidence voluntarily, and that there was reason to believe Cohen had voided his attorney - client privilege by «engaging
in crime or fraud,» attorney Ken White
writes.
«There was no
evidence presented at the hearing that Mr. Zachary Cruz had threatened anyone during this arrest, that he resisted
in anyway, or that he was uncooperative with police,» he
wrote.
Ackman's allegations aren't
evidence that Herbalife committed fraud, so investor Abdul Awad and two pension funds that joined his suit can't show that losses they suffered were caused by the company's alleged misrepresentations, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer
in Los Angeles
wrote in a March 16 ruling.
: Right now, Donald Trump is the Republican Party,
writes Peter Beinart, and there's little
evidence that rank - and - file party members will challenge him
in 2020.
McClatchy reporters Peter Stone and Greg Gordon
write that Special Counsel Robert Mueller «has
evidence» that Cohen did,
in fact, make a «late - summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign.»
To sort through the empirical
evidence, as happened
in the course of my
writing the book, is to find many reasons for concern over secularization — including, for starters, the unhappy fact that the rise of «nones» will reduce charitable donations to good causes.
So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill
in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who
wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other
evidence than «it just can't be accident».
In terms of Jesus you really must look at the
evidence, nothing was
written about jesus contemporary to his times.
Since the majority of all investigated hypotheses are false, if positive and negative
evidence were
written up and accepted for publication
in equal proportions, then the majority of articles
in scientific journals should report no findings.
Tryggve N. D. Mettinger
in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising Gods»
in the Ancient Near East
wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie
evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.»
My above little song and dance I
wrote doesn't reflect the mounds of
evidence that we have
in which I would favor over god, who does not have any
evidence of exisiting, so I posit that since you believe that it would make total sense that god would appear
in the middle of the woods, drop a watch and then disappear and it actually being possible shows me the delusion
in which you have caught yourself
in.
And then all the rest of the «massive»
evidence that Christians say they have for their god is either the earliest fragments of these same man -
written stories, or the later musings and writings of other people
in their cult about the original writings.
«By further reflecting that the clearest
evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe
in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels can not be proved to have been
written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ
in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve
in Christianity as a divine revelation.
(By the way, a book
written two thousand years ago,
in a dead language, that got edited three hundred years after its parts were
written, and also conflicts with itself, is not
evidence... any more than Spiderman comics are
evidence that there exists a man with Spidey senses).
The
evidence indicates that the
written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then
in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand
evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»
In a statement, the police department said they will be investigating thoroughly into this matter, and if the investigation produces evidence that someone in the police department wrote the comment, «swift, strong and decisive disciplinary action will be taken.&raqu
In a statement, the police department said they will be investigating thoroughly into this matter, and if the investigation produces
evidence that someone
in the police department wrote the comment, «swift, strong and decisive disciplinary action will be taken.&raqu
in the police department
wrote the comment, «swift, strong and decisive disciplinary action will be taken.»
Not believing that anthropogenic global warming is happening despite a mountain of empirical
evidence to the contrary because of what was
written in a book a very long time ago.
It really bothers me how many people out there are so closed minded that they dismiss reality and
evidence in exchange for the ramblings of a 2000 story
written by men.
historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical
evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical
evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians
writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving
evidence of Jesus's life
in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus
in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just
written in a book, and stuck
in your head... you have a right to believe
in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...