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No. The writer qualified that sentiment with the word "apparently", thereby mocking the justice system.

Thanks, Lee, for your response.

Hi Lee : once what is legal? Additional Comments: You have dodged my question. I will repost it here :" So, in place of putting a check mark in the box of your prefferd choice, are you going to write somewhere on the paper that " I will not vote for the ban on smoking"?" Integrity, man, integrity.

Your decision is a........non-decisioon! Let's look at context. You yourself said that if you were an MP and a bill was introduced to ban marijuana/smoking you would not vote for it. Imagine you are sitting in parliament and then your name is called for your vote or, if secrecy is important, a piece of paper is given to you to write your vote. There is a reason why the alternatives are given - to avoid ambiguity of answers by MPS. In fact this method of alternatives is given in most surveys for precisely the same reason. So, in place of putting a check mark in the box of your prefferd choice, are you going to write somewhere on the paper that " I will not vote for the ban on smoking"?

It clearly is difficult for you to make a choice between alternatives offered you - in this case "yea", "nay" or "abstain". Once again, I remind you that integrity is under discussion.

Oh!, I see. I wonder why it is so difficult for you to be positive ( in the sense of voting) instead of negative ( in the sense of not voting).

Excuse me, what is right?

Please read what you wrote earlier, quoted below: "If I was an MP and a bill was introduced to ban cigarettes........." So, you are in parliament, a bill has been introduced to ban cigarette smoking and you won't vote for that bill. I repeat : are you going to abstain or vote against it? Please understand that I am not looking to pick a fight. Integrity, ironically, is what is being discussed here. Let us say your name is called out to get your vote - a "yea" or a "no". From your post, you are not going to vote "yea". What will your vote be then? Cheers.

I am lost here - would you abstain from voting or would you vote against that bill?

I am preparing for work and so I will give my response when I come back in the evening.

Craig, some people's thought processes are difficult to fathom and kmwq, in this particular instance, is just one example. After Gabriella had diplomatically and skillfully shut down the thread, here comes kmwq, AFTER 11 DAYS, to reopen it and complain that he hates that same thread! If kmwq was rational when he reopened that thread, then he clearly had an ulterior motive. Seldom have I come across such irrational thought but then the person with an ulterior motive never lets an opportunity escape them to vent their thoughts even if they will sound infantile in the process. Cheers.

Still, you not only read it but responded to it.

Miss/Sir : I will use your own number of 100% to show how easily numbers can be used to deceive the unwary and so cause these to behave in some desired way. Let us suppose that an escort has seen fifty clients of whom one is a black man and that it is only this black man who has asked to be her pimp. Then, we can make the statement that 100% of the black men she has seen want to be her pimp: ( 1/1 x 100 = 100%) You see how meaningless the figure of 100% is? It is so because it is based on only 1 black man ( not even considering the number of escorts). You employed the number 100% to strenghthen your argument and so make the maximum impact on cerbites. Your analysis is no different from a newspaper headline that screams that gun-related homicides has increased 100% over two successive years. Such a headline is needlessly alarmist and I bet that the number of people who are alarmed on seeing it will drop sharply when they actually read the accompanying article and see the raw numbers of 1 and 2 deaths for those years in a city of population half a million. Be careful in your statistical analysis; always make sure that they rest on a solid foundation before passing the conclusions you draw from them as fact. Regards.

England did well. Its progress to the round of 16 depends on its match with Uruguay. Very difficult for me to predict which team will take the cup as the teams are now virtually at the same level and so victory or defeat depends on a team making mistakes.

To portrat all black men, unjustifiably, in a negative light. Why communicate something you have heard, not something you directly experienced, as truth especially when that "truth" has the potential to harm people?