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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
July 29, 2004
Category: misc
The Akron Beacon Journal reports that a trial on whether punch card ballots were constitutional has been delayed. Why? Read on: ACLU lawyers complained Wednesday that the state's last-minute filing hadn't given them enough time to study the evidence---a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:27 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2004
Category: misc
Some weeks ago Lott wrote this article, where he dismissed concerns about fraudulent electronic voting as "conspiracy theories". As far as I can tell Lott has no expert knowledge about computers, and rather than do any research into the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2004
Category: Kellermann
Kellermann's studies on guns frequently get criticized by people who do not seem to have read them. The latest to do so is Michael Krauss, who writes Notwithstanding all this data, the press gave extraordinary publicity to a 1993...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:26 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 24, 2004
Category: Australia
Matthew Yglesias and Mark Kleiman have both written about the Assault Weapons Ban. I agree with Yglesias that the ban doesn't make sense since it bans weapons by name rather than by some characteristic that makes them dangerous. I've...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: meta
After a comment spambot left spam on over a hundred of my posts, I've decided to close comments on posts older than 60 days. I had to write a small plugin to do this. Blosxom users can get it...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 18, 2004
Category: files
[Note: This is a copy of a document found at this link on John Lott's website on April 25, 2005. I have added critical commentary, written in italics like this. Tim Lambert ]...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 7:12 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2004
Category: UK
I've been having a discussion with Kevin Baker about his claim that self-defence in the UK is practically illegal. The discussion started when Carl Lindsay was convicted of manslaughter after killing an intruder who was trying to rob him....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:17 AM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 10, 2004
Category: politics
The cover story in the Spectrum section of the Sydney Morning Herald is Paul "Magic Water" Sheehan's review of Fahrenheit 9/11. Fahrenheit 9/11 isn't opening in Australia until July 29, and Sheehan appears not to have seen it. So...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:10 PM • 33 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
July 9, 2004
Category: McKitrick
Mann, Bradley and Hughes have published some corrections to the supplementary information for the famous hockey stick graph showing the temperature record of the last 1000 years. They say that the errors do not affect their published results. This...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:05 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 3, 2004
Category: Australia
After reviving my first ever online post. I've dug up my first ever post on guns. Phil Ronzone posted this to soc.culture.australian: Of even more interest is the TREMENDOUSLY larger per capita rape numbers in the "non-violent peace loving"...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
Tom Giovenetti, the president of the Institute for Policy Innovation has responded to my story on the Microsoft-funded think tanks attack on open source. It's rather an odd response---he's angry that I dared to suggest that they were funded...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:23 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 1, 2004
Category: links
Sadly No gives Lott's latest op-ed the short shrift it deserves. Update: Hunt Stilwell also writes about the stupidity of Lott's argument....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 6:28 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: meta
Well, I now have 500 posts here, and only 399 are about Lott. The first post I made to this blog was on Jan 12, 2003, but to confuse things I just put up my first ever Usenet post...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:44 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: cherry picking
Lehrer and Lott have recycled their previous cherrypicking exercise into an article in the Investor's Business Daily falsely claiming that gun control in Britain, Canada and Australia have lead to "historic increases in crime". Mostly they repeat their previous...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:22 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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