Federal Appeals Court Says Sex Offender's Computer Ban Unfair

crimeandpunishment writes "A federal appeals court says a 30-year computer restriction for a convicted sex offender was too stiff a punishment. The man, who was caught in an Internet sex sting, had been ordered not to own or even use a computer." The D.C. Circuit Court's opinion in the case against Mark Wayne Russell is available as a PDF; slightly longer coverage from the Courthouse News Service.

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Oh, snap!

[earlymon]

First he's convicted for being stiff by using a computer to try to get a 13 year-old girl - and now the appeals court got stiff with the lower court and said, "That's stiff, give him his computer back."

Gee - it's a stiff fucking mystery what could possibly come next in this drama.

Re:Eh?

[Z00L00K]

It's likely that he did exist, but it's not certain that he did do or say everything that's stuck to him.

However he may have done and said things that hasn't made it into the bible too.

Since we only have the bible and for variations of the life of Jesus as evidence we can at least say that since there are four variations of a story it's likely that he did exist, and some parts are common for all, but then each variation incorporates things that are missing in the others. Some of them may stick to truth while others can be fabricated.

Also keep in mind that the history was written down a few decades after his death. (At least there is no evidence for any written texts before something around year 70)

As for the statement - look at: http://bible.cc/john/8-7.htm - but it's of course possible that it is a statement stuck to him later. Even the bible can have undergone revisions through history. And at a time when things were copied by hand the copier may intentionally or unintentionally have left things out, maybe because he (as far as we know it was only men doing this at the time) thought it was unimportant or opposed his view of the world or just a mistake. Another copier may of course have incorporated a small segment like this for one reason or another. It may be that this episode did in fact occur, but that the oral path was different and therefore was passed in later and just had to go somewhere. It can of course also have been a much later addition to create a statement in difference from the general culture that bred Islam. Or even added after the time when Islam started to be a power to count on.