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If I have a grouped frequency distribution is it ok to use the standard deviation or should I stick to median and interquartile range for summary statistics? I'm not sure if the intervals mean that I have lost too much information for the sd to work.

2006-09-30 10:27:17 · 4 answers · asked by statstastic 2 in Mathematics

I just did 100, felt good to be able to do that many. It took me a while to work up to that. So if you have a huge number, I'd like to hear it, and if you can only do 3 or so, don't be embarassed!

2006-09-30 10:27:14 · 9 answers · asked by professional student 4 in Diet & Fitness

2006-09-30 10:27:09 · 26 answers · asked by KK 1 in Marriage & Divorce

and tells me he isnt sure if he loves me or not, or other variations of this, this year he said he was in love with a girl he works with and then told me differently said he just got angry at me for catching him up in a lie and told me this intentionally to hurt me, they are best friends, he works with her, talks to her on messenger, all the time calls her and talks and says that she is his best friend and that nothings going on or ever went on with them. It sort of makes me feel bad that he gets along better with her then me, shes like the female version of him and they are so much alike... I try to keep the jealousy from interfering with our relationship and allow him to call her and stuff, Im even trying to be friends with the girl, anyway my question is, do you think that because of these breakdowns that he is going to leave me eventually in time because I feel that he might and im preparing myself for the worst, and should I think somethings going on and

2006-09-30 10:26:59 · 14 answers · asked by beautifullybroken 2 in Marriage & Divorce

i believe in sand dunes

2006-09-30 10:26:59 · 8 answers · asked by braddingsarah 2 in Music

Bush Given Authority To Sexually Torture American Children
The "horror of the shrieking boys" gets a rubber stamp from the boot-licking U.S. Congress & Senate as America officially becomes a dictatorship

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 29 2006

Slamming the final nail in the coffin of everything America used to stand for, the boot-licking U.S. Senate last night gave President Bush the legal authority to abduct and sexually mutilate American citizens and American children in the name of the war on terror.

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.

Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."

Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explains: "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."

We have established that the bill allows the President to define American citizens as enemy combatants. Now let's take it one step further.

Before this article is dismissed as another extremist hyperbolic rant, please take a few minutes out of your day to check for yourself the claim that Bush now has not only the legal authority but the active blessings of his own advisors to torture American children.

The backdrop of the Bush administration's push to obliterate the Geneva Conventions was encapsulated b y John “torture” Yoo, professor of law at Berkeley, co-author of the PATRIOT Act, author of torture memos and White House advisor.

During a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel, John Yoo gave the green light for the scope of torture to legally include sexual torture of infants.

Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?

Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

Click here for the audio.

So if the President thinks he needs to order children's penises to be put in vices, there is no law that can stop him and after last night's vote, the Senate and Congress, exemplified by sicko 16-year-old boy groomer Mark Foley (R-FL) , has graciously provided Bush its full support for kids around the world to be molested in the name of stopping terror.

Yoo's comments were made before the passage of the torture legislation last night. Up until that point Bush had merely cited his role as dictator-in-chief as carte-blanche excuse for ordering torture - now his regime have the audacity to openly put it in writing - going one step further than even the Nazis did.

Again, for those who are still deluded into thinking the extent of the "pressure" is loud music and cold water being thrown over Johnny Jihad in Ragheadistan, consider for a moment the fact that your own Congress and President who, according to the Constitution, are mandated to serve you, have just legalized abducting your kids from your home and electric shocking their genitals.

Now that the criminals have declared themselves outside of the law does that mean we'll see Bush barbecuing babies on the White House lawn? Of course not, but the policy of torturing children in front of their parents has already been signed off on by the Pentagon and enacted under the Copper Green program and it happened at Abu Ghraib .

Women who were arrested with their children were forced to watch their boys being sodomized with chemical glow sticks as the cameras rolled. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that the U.S. government is still withholding the tapes because of the horror of the "soundtrack of the shrieking boys" and their mothers begging to be killed in favor of seeing their children raped and tortured.

Your government has just lobbied for and Congress has passed legislation to discard the Geneva Conventions and mandate all this.

Pedophiles nationwide should rejoice - they can comfortably take a stroll down to the local swimming pool, grab whoever they like, drag them home, rape and torture them, and then in their defense cite the U.S. government as an example of how one should conduct themselves.



The bill also retroactively gives Bush, the Neo-Cons or any of their henchmen immunity from war crimes charges dating back to September 11 . Ask yourself why they would be so careful to protect themselves from accusations of war crimes.

Could that possibly be because they are knowingly committing war crimes?

The legislating of torture itself should be a criminal act. All laws that contradict the U.S. Constitution are null and void. It was once a law that black people were slaves.

Only by engaging in civil disobedience and refusing to tolerate or acknowledge the laws of a criminal regime that has greased the skids for sexually torturing kids can we ever have a hope of returning America to its past glory.

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2006-09-30 10:26:56 · 13 answers · asked by rc 3 in Other - Politics & Government

My CD drive has failed and I am going to need to take my computer in to have it fixed. I have financial records and things of that nature that I don't want anyone to get there hands on. Is my data safe? Will Apple be going through the things on my hard drive? Should I back everything up and then do a secure erase on things?

I am a long time PC user and I am used to Dell who has you pull the hard drive before sending the computer off.

2006-09-30 10:26:50 · 8 answers · asked by Kev 2 in Security

My right ear has this stuffy feeling to it, i did some reading and its the estuchian tube, I've tried blowing my nose with my nostrils closed but only the left ear gets the poppin effect, not the right (which is what i need), i tried swalloing, but that that doesnt help, I've tried yawing (countless times) not helping, i've tried cleaning it with a q-tip, not helping, what can i do i dont want to have to see a doctor but at the moment i dont have any other resort....shud i wait for it go on its own...i've even tried ear drops....HELP me with helpful tips please

2006-09-30 10:26:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Medicine

wood will be used as bearers for a deck

2006-09-30 10:26:48 · 3 answers · asked by paul q 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

2006-09-30 10:26:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dogs

I love my neighbors to the north!

Here's why:

Two Canadian guys, Mike and Rob were on the roof, laying tile, when a sudden gust of wind came and knocked down their ladder.
"I have an idea," said Mike. "We'll throw you down, and then you can pick up the ladder."

"What, do you think I'm stupid? I have an idea. I'll shine my flashlight, and you can climb down on the beam of light."

"What, do you think I'm stupid? You'll just turn off the flashlight when I'm halfway there."

2006-09-30 10:26:41 · 14 answers · asked by ? 6 in Polls & Surveys

the switch is hard to turn, will not turn to acc, and my glow plugs won't work?

2006-09-30 10:26:39 · 2 answers · asked by bubba 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

I am stumped with what is a DO or DON'T when it comes to hanging picture frames on the walls in my home. Question part 1. I don't know if I should choose the color of the frame based on it enhancing the picture or should I choose a frame color based on how it will match the things in my rooms. For example I have light colored wood tables in my family room but the pictures I want to hang would look gorgeous in something dark like a cherrywood frame. Should I follow throughout with matching colors to the other wood furniture in the room or go with what makes the pictures pop? Part 2. When you come in my front door there is a long hallway in which I want to hang pictures all the way across. Do I match all the frames on the wall for one uniform look or can I use clusters of same color but broken up in to sections along the wall like with a few feet in-between? Same question for my staircase walls! I thank you in advance for you advice!! :)

2006-09-30 10:26:38 · 6 answers · asked by . 4 in Decorating & Remodeling

2006-09-30 10:26:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

someone keeps harrassing me so i sent him an email saying i would kill him, he sent me an email saying Yans will permanently delete me and that the police will come to house to arrest me. Is that possible?

2006-09-30 10:26:34 · 10 answers · asked by TRACER 1 in Polls & Surveys

ok well i made a mistake of taking out a personal loan for school and living expenses i paid off school paid off rent for a year and got a car.. well the car died, so i had to sell it and get a new one then that one died and i had to borrow money from my mother to get a new one and beleive me these cars were not worth fixing both needed new engines. so anyways i work at a crappy pizza joint and i only make $7.00/hr i just got pulled over the other night and got 3 tickets expired tags, no proof of insurance, and busted tail light, all none moving violations but i still have no money to renew my car get insurance pay all the fines and pay rent, & utilities this month with only doing 25 hours a week at 7.00/hr i really dont know what to do i have very poor credit from all the loans i got for school and my mothers already sent me thousands of dollers is there any advice? or should i just find a better paying job?

2006-09-30 10:26:17 · 10 answers · asked by Crazy confused 1 in Financial Aid

2006-09-30 10:26:15 · 10 answers · asked by Sher 1 in Alternative Medicine

what is round.has a whole.people can put their finger in the whole.and every one that used it enjoys it.

what is it??????

2006-09-30 10:26:15 · 8 answers · asked by boricua(787) 3 in Jokes & Riddles

ok so i live i nyc and my parents want 2 move to indiana and my sister and dad are buying plane tickets to go there and buy a home to live in and i asked if me and my older sister can stay here and they dont listen plszzzzzzzzzzzzz help meeeee i i always cry i hate tht place psslllll

if you cant help plsz tell me how to kill myself with out hurting myself and with homemade materials

2006-09-30 10:26:12 · 10 answers · asked by ;p 5 in Family

2006-09-30 10:26:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

And what did HIYATA! Mean? (The word that changed the Guy into Ultraman)
I know it was a Loooooonnnnnnggggg Time Ago!

2006-09-30 10:26:06 · 8 answers · asked by D B 4 in Polls & Surveys

Tim Wakefield had a couple losing streak this season. On is recent, after he came out of the injury, which the reason of losing is pretty obvious.

However, he had another losing streak in the beginning of the season, that was when Doug Mirabelli was traded to the Padres. As soon as Mirabelli returned in May, Wakefield's record began to get better.

Ok, I know Doug's hitting suck, but do you think he is one of the best Knuckleball catcher?

2006-09-30 10:26:05 · 5 answers · asked by tienyutai 3 in Baseball

2006-09-30 10:26:04 · 3 answers · asked by braddingsarah 2 in Music

I'm cooking Hamburger Steaks and fried potatos; with mac and cheese, peas and bisquits..Brownies for dessert.....

2006-09-30 10:25:59 · 30 answers · asked by ? 5 in Polls & Surveys

I AM!

2006-09-30 10:25:57 · 30 answers · asked by jawaii5 2 in Horoscopes

well all you nay sayers can eat your words the Cardinals proved they are the class of the central (look out Pond Scum Mets)

2006-09-30 10:25:57 · 6 answers · asked by Ricky Lee 6 in Baseball

I have a 7 months old babygirl who just started touching all that she can reach. I tell her NO, but she does not seem to get it. can someone give me an idea of what to do? thanks

2006-09-30 10:25:52 · 13 answers · asked by scorpionbeat 2 in Family

2006-09-30 10:25:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

I've seen many guys adjust their "package" in public and nobody seems to care so I was wondering if the same rules apply to women. If a woman adjusts her breasts in her bra is it rude?

2006-09-30 10:25:49 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Prompted by an insightful question by the very honourable Jim Darwin, I propose that creationists are the devil's pawns, since they seek to deceive people to follow their man-made false beliefs, instead of accepting the direct evidence of god's own handiwork - The nature of living organisms themselves, as revealed by many different kinds of evidence, which all testify to any honest person the evolutionary origins of life.

Should we therefore castigate creationists as the enemies of God, and followers of The Horn-ed, Pointy-Tailed One ...?

2006-09-30 10:25:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality