[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?
    Brian Dunbar 
    brian.dunbar at liftport.com
       
    Thu Mar 30 20:42:07 CST 2006
    
    
  
Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:35:44 -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> 
>>One problem is that you're talking about soft numbers that are easily
>>fudged.  Not cooking the books by the bean counters but ... people
>>lie.
> 
> 
> You don't say! Perhaps the people who come up with the crime statistics
> may also have thought of this problem ?
My point was only that the numbers (crime statistics in this case) are
not as hard as they are for spam emails.
<read, snipped>
> 
> Recorded crime stats are probably relatively accurate.
Probably.  Relatively.  I think we're in agreement here ...
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