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Be Careful What You Download - Or Go To Jail...
TaoPhoenix:
I like the mad libs idea. ;D
-40hz (December 07, 2012, 10:40 AM)
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It's done! Alpha A0! See the Spoof NANY thread in the basement! ;D
SeraphimLabs:
Could have aided a terrorist
But that's presuming that the person handling said material was in fact a terrorist.
Which they had not yet established certainty of, therefore could have aided a terrorist is of no significance in court unless the material in question was in the hands of a convicted terrorist. It completely breaks the rules if material that would be of use to a possible terrorist was held as evidence that someone was a terrorist, because that breaks logic.
At least that is how the court system is apparently supposed to work. I watched a guy almost get away with murder because the evidence was presented on the assumption that he was indeed capable of murder, and that had not been previously established.
app103:
But, said the judge, the material could have aided a terrorist and such serious offences would always carry a prison sentence.
-Renegade (December 07, 2012, 07:33 AM)
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Or how about a knife, any knife, including that one in the kitchen you use for cutting vegetables. We are all murderers based on this logic, because those knives can be used to kill people, which is a serious offense and would always carry a prison sentence. And technically, it is possible to kill someone with a spoon, too, so everyone with a spoon should also be locked up.
Renegade:
But, said the judge, the material could have aided a terrorist and such serious offences would always carry a prison sentence.
-Renegade (December 07, 2012, 07:33 AM)
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Or how about a knife, any knife, including that one in the kitchen you use for cutting vegetables. We are all murderers based on this logic, because those knives can be used to kill people, which is a serious offense and would always carry a prison sentence. And technically, it is possible to kill someone with a spoon, too, so everyone with a spoon should also be locked up.
-app103 (December 08, 2012, 03:27 AM)
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+1
Incidentally, the top murder weapon is???
Believe it or not...Baseball bat.
40hz:
In some respects we're moving towards a future very much like the one depicted in the cyberpunk TV series Max Headroom. Fun universe Max lives in: Media networks have become what passes for government. Heavily armed and anonymized network-owned police units operate with impunity, and are feared for their brutality and free use of deadly force. Court trials take the form of televised game shows. All TV sets are (by law) kept permanently on. All personal computing and communication is done through closely monitored info-appliances. All financial transactions and purchases and done using "credit sticks" which guarantees any person can be easily tracked at any time. Those persons who go out of their way to appear in no database (called "Blanks" in the series) are a marginalized and persecuted minority.
One of the more interesting ideas presented in the series was how criminal prosecution worked. Criminal profiling had become so widely accepted and unquestioned that anyone matching the profile of a given crime could be punished for it - regardless of whether or not they had actually done it.
Seems a lot less farfetched today than it did back in 1987 huh? :huh:
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