Isn't the ISS due to be retired and deorbited (albeit in a controlled manner) before long anyway? (View Post)

Yes, the process of trying to extract a meaningful decision on a complex topic from a group a laypeople with little to no understanding of the field seems completely absurd to me. (View Post)

Yes, and it seems to work perfectly well. The conviction (hah!) that you have to have a prosecution and a defence pitted against each other in order to determine guilt isn't the axiom that many … (View Post)

It would be interesting to know which approach leads to the greater number of miscarriages of justice with regard to those subsequently determined to have been incorrectly convicted or acquitted. (View Post)

Yes, that does sound interesting. In truth, I have little knowledge of the legal systems of the UK or of other countries. But it does seem to me to be strange to insist that our way of doing things i… (View Post)