Presumption of innocence in the metro/subway

If you are a man, probably you've had this commonplace little experience in life. When you take the metro/subway and you're waiting for the train on a passenger platform, you absentmindedly or unawarely move a little too close to a woman and stand there. The woman subtly adjusts the position of her handbag on her shoulder and makes sure that it's safe from your possible fetching or something.

See, the woman can have Reasonable Doubt that you would possibly steal her purse or something, yet you have the presumed innocence as stated in the legal principle of Presumption of Innocence. So the train finally arrives, and you two step onto it and then you move away from the woman which possessed a pinch of Reasonable Doubt about your behavior a moment ago. And this episode of Presumption of Innocence finishes.

You see, this whole notion of Presumption of Innocence intrigues me. There's a catch though. If "the burden of proof rests on who asserts, not on who denies" (see the first paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence ), why do some defendants in some legal cases have to provide alibis to the courts which they are judged in?

The fall is drizzling and raining away.

There naturally exists a bubble of conceit for everyone.

It seems that only through interactions with the outside world, accompanied by introspection, one can shed that bubble of conceit.

It seems that in the English-speaking world, The Economist is the most laudable news magazine, be it in the U.K. or U.S.A.

Music video - Andre Rieu - La vie est belle

Whatever the criticism has been for André Rieu, a popular Dutch violinist (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Rieu#Reception), it must be lauded that he performs his music with class.

When one begins to have one or even more children, his willingness to take risks in life normally decreases, more or less.

Now I have a toddler. However, my willingness to take risks may have not been blunted at all. One important reason is that I'm somewhat well prepared. For one thing, with a somewhat remote background of being a linguistically disadvantaged immigrant in Canada from China, I had already invested an enormous amount of time and effort into elevating my English proficiency, in order to preempt the case in which an insufficient English level would hamper my competing in the market, before my baby was born.

I like the crispy fizzling sounds once I put green vegetables into the heated oil in the frying pan.

I don't know much about the Western laws at all. But it seems that there are two sorts of trespasses, one is criminal trespasses, and the other normal ones.

It seems that some divorced women don't respect their ex-husband's visitation rights.

Life must be overly complex and unsatisfactory for those ex-husbands.

It seems that Samsung hasn't done anything significant yet to whet Western media's interest in its budding Bada mobile OS.

When you come short, it's a perfect time for you to stop and think.

All things wax and wane. Wall Street is no exception. Wall Street is obviously waning.

People in finance will be floored, probably.

It takes more than a decade to make it as a really good software developer.

I don't know. Some of the words by Yang Li (李阳) are odd nowadays.

For instance, see this article: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ent/2011-09/27/c_122092575.htm .

I think he deserves to be chided.

The drizzle was falling onto the street space. Last night set today's pace.

The figurative cutpurse Oliver Twist is perpetuated in mankind's memory by Charles Dickens. Astray children deserve attention, thanks to Dickens.

The Montreal Gazette is a news enclosure which is generally not deep enough.

Software development is usually composed with too many layers of imperfect abstractions.

The other day, I watched a video clip in which a medical researcher cut across a whole brain matter which had been taken out of a dead person and boxed and then delivered to the Brain Bank at Boston University.

Ah, that's ghastly. I skipped the scientific scene.

The U.S., Russia, Japan, China, India, et al. have all begun to develop the 5th-generation jet fighters long ago.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_jet_fighter#Aircraft .

Will that set a precedent for future arm races among the militarily powerful countries? After all, this world has become no less unstable.

One thing I've noticed in the above web link is that no country in South America has joined the race to develop 5th-gen jet fighters. That intrigues me.