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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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pnh102

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Prove It

It is incumbent upon the government to show us even ONE prosecution of a criminal that failed due to not having this information.

ArrayList
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ArrayList

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it's impossible to prove a negative.

pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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said by ArrayList:

it's impossible to prove a negative.

It is impossible to prove an untestable negative condition. But for any other type of negative condition, provided that the universe of testable conditions is a closed one, such conditions can and are proven. It happens in computer science every day.

But my proposal is certainly not untestable. Surely law enforcement can provide a list of cases in which a lack of text message logs resulted in an accused person being acquitted. I'd even apply the same test to these of unmanned aerial drones by state and local law enforcement.