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High Earning Spammers Face Tougher Sentences
netbuzz writes "More big-time spammers may find themselves doing longer stretches behind bars if a federal judge's first-of-its-kind sentencing decision in a Denver case becomes widely applied. In a sense, these spammers would be hoisted on their own profits, as language in CAN-SPAM allows the use of their profits instead of the difficult-to-measure financial damage they cause in establishing a prison sentence. The Denver spammer earned $250,000 — and a 20% longer prison stint — using this approach."
Spammers represent a large illicit underground economy, I somehow doubt most spammers are on the up and up with their taxes. Thus many of these laws are just the revenue service finding extra things to press this group. There are several groups you ought never fuck with. The Taxman, The mailman, and The FDA.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Because freedom of speech is not the freedom to force others to listen.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
You actually need to get excited to get a woody with Viagra ; it's one of the things that made the drug so ideal for it's market. All the other medical solutions for erectile dysfunction require mechanical components, or needles, and produce "unnatural" erections which are "up" before they are desired and sometimes persist long past their useful life. Viagra is by far the most elegant solution, in both it's pharmaceutical action and it's function ; the erection is as close to natural in behaviour as you are going to get.
Putting him on it in a solitary cell just guarantees that he'll be able to get a good boner to whack off with whenever he likes.
I suggest putting him in a cell with "Bubba", and injecting him with enough prostaglandin (in the penis) to give him an erection that lasts for many hours... and is, alas, the last he'll ever have in his life. Then he goes through the exquisite mental torture of deciding whether to use it for the last time on Bubba, or never have sex again. I guess you can call me cruel and unusual.