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  1. Re:So he was rewarded for hiding her body? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    there are certain things you have to do to get your parole
    1 you have to accept responsibility for your crime
    2 you have to rehabilitate, that means religion, AA and or narc-anon, group therapy ect.
    3 go a while without a minor and years without a major ticket.
    4 get a good reference from the warden and a guard your in frequent contact with,
    5 finish High school and do some college or job training.
    Then of course your almost automatically turned down the 1st couple times, and the Governor can still stop you on a whim after all of that.

  2. Re:So he was rewarded for hiding her body? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    While it's easy to support capital punishment on an emotive levels, on a rational levels we know we'll never get it right; besides for the one's that really deserve, it's really letting them off too easy.

  3. Re:Fuck You, Hans Reiser on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    We are not doing that to them, they are doing that to themselves. Get a clue, when you commit a crime, eventually you will be locked up with people just like you. Think about it if you rape a women, most likely you'll spend 5 to 7 with a hundred or a thousand people who are inclined to engage in violent forced sex. If you murder you'll be incarcerated with people who will fly into a violent rage for little or no reason or even just because they can. If you piss off the wrong guard, he's a little slow in calling for backup or even pays somebody a little green money or a joint to put you in the dispensary.

    Be Good, don't go to prison, life will be a lot easier.

  4. Re:Fuck You, Hans Reiser on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    So your saying that killing a Mother trying to protect her kids from a narcissistic whack-job is better than a assassin killing for pay or a bank robber killing anarmed cop in a botch robbery?

  5. Re:Fuck You, Hans Reiser on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    nah if you punk-out easy, have good muscle control and clean toilet with out complaint somebody will let you be their bitch and protect you especially if your not a whiny bitch.

  6. Re:My experince with the law on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    we operated as
    DEFCON 4 meant 48 hours,
    DEFCON 3 meant 2 hour,
    DEFCON 2 meant 2 minutes,
    DEFCON 1 meant 15 seconds until WW III started.
    The DEFCON of the forces as a whole was one thing and it determined how many units would be at which state, the higher the DEFCON status for the forces, the more likely an individual unit would be at a heightened state. You knew things were getting intense when they pulled units out of maintenance mode and 48 hour alert into 2 hour alert with out dropping units out of 2 minute alert into 48 hour alert for maintenance.

  7. Re:I think he got a pretty good deal out of it on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Boy that sure teaches us what happen when move out of our mother's basements don't it!

  8. Re:Try to be objective, everybody. on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Most prison systems classify prisoners, so it's pretty likely the Reiser will be incarcerated with other violent criminals. I'd assume that given Rieser's reputation for inter=personal skills, the thought of being released into general population with the bloods, crypts, ms13 and aryan nations would be enough to make him spill his guts in the hopes of getting assigned somewhere other than max.

  9. Re:Try to be objective, everybody. on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Some charges are so emotionally intense and politically incorrect that it's almost impossible for them to not turn into a witch-hunt like anything to do with pedophilia or child-porn. Imagine trying defend your self against the word of a vindictive and emotionally disturbed 13 year old in front of a jury who is likely to assume guilty until proven innocent to save the children.

  10. Re:Try to be objective, everybody. on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    I was talking to a guy that had done 7 years for 2nd degree murder and I asked him how many people in prison were guilty he told me it ran like this
    25% are innocent,
    25% are guilty of what they were in for,
    50% were innocent of what they were in for but had done things that would have gotten them the same sentence anyways.

  11. Re:Try to be objective, everybody. on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually it would be "Work for Hire" and the state would own the copyrights. If he were incarcerated in Michigan, he'd get $0.28/hr and after they take out for child support that would leave him with $7.00 a month, that doesn't buy much soap or deodorant. If he gets sick he is quickly introduced to the fact that the "free medical" is realy medicade and a $3.00 co-pay is almost half a months wages! oh yeah the strongest pain med he's going to get is OTC for us, imagine going through abdominal surgery and recovering on motrin.

  12. Re:Try to be objective, everybody. on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The last half-dozen or so times this story popped up there was always a few threads dedicated to the certainty of his guilt vs. the reasonable doubt. The conviction was far from being without controversy. But when a body was produced, you had some that held this as proof that the "reasonable doubt" argument was faulty.

    The eventual discovery of the state of reality doesn't validate or invalidate the quality of predictive arguments made preceding the discovery of the state of reality. in other words you don't get points for being right by accident.

  13. Re:Great sentiment... on Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered how hard or easy it is for them to change the modems configurations on the fly? My comcast connection sure seems to behave weird if I'm on youtube or certain sites too long. Sometimes it just goes out and comes back without intervention on my part and sometimes A full reboot is needed and others I just have to renew the DHCP on the router.

  14. Re:cascade overloads possible? on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    I loved that blackout,I was just getting ready to hit submit on a slashdot post and everything went out; My neighbor said a car hit a power pole! It was quiet, the sky was dark, just beautiful.

  15. Re:The summary doesn't match TFA. on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    DC and AC line both have IR loses, a given amount of current over a line with a given resistance result in the lose of a given amount of power. AC lines also have reactive losses such as inductive losses caused by the lines building and collapsing a magnetic field.

  16. Re:The Feds on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    From 1956 to 1962, approximately 10,000 children in Africa and Europe were born with severe malformities, including phocomelia, because their mothers had taken thalidomide during pregnancy.[2]

    The impact in the United States was minimized when Frances Oldham Kelsey refused FDA-approval for an application from Richardson Merrell to market it saying it needed more study. Richardon Merrell gave the tablets to doctors with the understanding that it was still under investigation. Only 17 children in the U.S. were born with the defects.[3]

    In 1962, the United States Congress enacted laws requiring tests for safety during pregnancy before a drug can receive approval for sale in the U.S.[4] Other countries enacted similar legislation, and thalidomide was not prescribed or sold for decades. Thalidomide

    It's a safe guess that because of the extra testing required for usage during pregnancy, that the Thalidomide has prevented many more birth defects that it caused.

  17. Re:Moving it across the country? on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    That's true in my neighborhood we're a major supplier to the NE power-grid we're running a short connector to the grid from a new wind-farm going in up in the thumb but most locations aren't that convenient. We've got several coal-fired base plants, a handful of gas-fired peaking plants, we even have a plant that started out as a nuclear and was converted to run refinery waste before it was finished; so we have plenty of transmission capacity but most places don't; out west most systems are decrepit.

  18. Re:Priorities on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 1

    It don't like Firefox 3 either in any OS either, firefox 2 is so like last month you think they get hip.

  19. Re:Priorities on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 1, Insightful

    in an effort to be totally fair to the Candidate B. Hussein Obama, they are not blocking Linux, they just want DRM so we can't post embarrassing video on youtube or paste a jackass's head on the candidate or chop the speach apart and paste back together into something insanely funny.

  20. Re:So what? on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Free (as in beer) web design and hosting was probably enough to buy them out.

  21. Re:Doesn't matter to me on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul dude, and Colin Powell for VeeP write it in dude, peace out

  22. Re:Ignoring the real problem on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    In Michigan a lot of people get by with a heat pump and a large pond to provide a heat sink/source. An arrangement like that is often call a geothermal heat source.

  23. Re:"Crafty chick" on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    oh no it was on a cheesey AM Talk Radio station and one of the dental amaglams was leaky and rectified the signal and fed it directly into my auditory nerves! I did do it on purpose!

  24. Re:Ftw. on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    One of the ladies at work calls everybody dude, so I started calling her dudette, she started giving me "The Look"; luckily I've been married for a while so I have some resistance to "The Look" built up over the years.

  25. Re:"Crafty chick" on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You just don't get it, if your a conservative male that sings the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and invents an environment saving patented technology that take 5 years to commercialize your a scum of the Earth fat cat capitalist pig lackey of the big oil companies and the military-industrial complex; but if your a liberal female that sings the "Kumbaya" and invents an environment saving patented technology that take 5 years to commercialize your the savior of the Planet.