Most states have teen consensual sex laws that immunize minors who have sex with other minors from being charged with statutory rape.
Though, if you're 18 and the other person is 17 11 months you can be charged with statutory rape in some states. (Some states have a +2 or +4 year gap. So that a 17 year old can sleep with up to a 21 year old without risking statutory rape issues.)
Prior to the 1950's they used to blame the mother's of autistic children. Say that they had not nurtured their kids properly. Also, the common 'fix' for autism, was to lock them away. This was usually considered a bad parenting thing, instead of an actual mental/medical problem.
100 years ago, we just didn't pay attention to Autism the way we do now. Someone might just have been called "moody, extremely shy, quiet."
Not to mention that all this focus on vaccines and autism misses the boat on Autism entirely.
My son is autistic, and it has nothing to do with his vaccination cycle. The doctor we went to used a more sedate vaccination schedule. He used the safest brands of the vaccines.
More importantly, I can look back at my son's behavior when he was just a baby and say with complete confidence he was Autistic even then.
He did not turn 2, and then have a shot that made him Autistic, he was always Austistic.
You idiots rated this guy insightful? He's just a troll. Autism is not about sugar. My son has autism, (but not ADHD) and it has nothing to do with sugar. Spend sometime with these kids and watch them struggle through life, before you spout your idiotic nonsense.
The only thing Hollywood does is create visual stories. You can complain about there never being anything good or create and yet.
They brought us some amazing movies. Lawrence of Arabia One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Clockwork Orange StarWars(the first one) I am Legend (both versions) The Wizard of Oz and many others. Some of it is crap, but there is definitely some good stuff. Claiming that copyright is bad, is stupid. Certain copyrights are good.
All Heinlein and Asimov and Tolien ever did was create something that's easily reproduceable and distributable. Why should we reward them at all for the years they spent writing. Any jerk with a scanner and a printer can make millions of copies of their books. There's nothing special about them.
Since I've noticed that we have alot of members with early stages of Dimentia.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, as of June 30, 2007, American prisons and jails held 2,299,116 inmates
Nearly one million of those incarcerated in state and federal prisons, as well as local jails, are serving time for committing non-violent crimes.
So, those 'poor marijuana smokers' who are unfairly imprisoned, at most hit 1 million. Though realistically, you're probably talking about less than half that.
SO there are not in fact, "millions of people in jail for marijuana use."
The problem with any law in which criminality is dependent upon the feelings of the victims is that it allows for arbitrary and capricious prosecution. Unlike most criminal laws, which criminalize specific acts (such as robbery, for example), this law allows any exchange of opinions between two people to be turned into a criminal matter should one person feel slighted.
You might think this is extreme, but when a Canadian printer refused to print a flyer because of his moral objections to the content, he was brought before the human rights commission, and fined. How long before:
Boy likes girl. Girl doesn't like boy.
Boy writes love note on girl's MySpace wall.
Girl, embarrassed, rejects boy in a humiliating manner.
Boy attempts suicide.
Girl charged with a federal felony.
This law is a godsend for any geek who wants to get back at that girl who won't have anything to do with him. Or anyone with a vindictive mindset, for that matter.
The legitimacy of the law is suspect when based upon the mere *feelings* of the victim, rather than the actual actions of the perpetrator, are sufficient to induce criminality.
40 year old man pretends to be girl
40 year old man spends gobs of time emotionaly seducing boy
40 year old man tells boy that world would be better off without boy in it
You know, they tried to pass that same bullshit when Kurt Corbain committed suicide. They brought out counsellors and therapists and suicide hotlines because they thought there would be a rash of suicides because 'the hero of our generation' had committed suicide. Forget the idiocy of anyone idolizing Kurt Corbain, it just didn't happen. There was no mass suicides, no real copycats.
Teenagers are not as emotionally fucked up as everyone thinks they are. And certainly, if they were treated with respect and shown that acting like a fucktard had actual consequences, bullying resultant suicides would be alot more rare.
Actually, inciting someone to commit suicide is a crime if they actually succeed, or even if they don't apperently.
From the New York state legal code. "A person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking the latter's life, is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree." Section 2305 adds that incitement is a felony ever if the would-be suicide survives.
If I'm a professor at a University with an open door/email policy. That I tell my students that they're always welcome to email me, even if they're no longer in my class. Then is it unsolicited?
Asians have a much higher average household income. Whites do okay, but certainly 49K a year average does not make them super rich, or able to afford stupidly expensive medicine.
The law they are using is rubbish, and this is a terrible case to be trying. It should get thrown out of court.
That being said.
The defendent should be taken out back and stoned to death Biblical style.
If this had been a man, dealing with this young girl, he would have been charged with some flavor of child molestation law.
I still feel that it should be a crime to commit identity fraud online.
It should be alright to be anonymous. It should be alright to use a clearly fake pseudonum. Halo79 or something. You should not be required to provide your real name. But It should be illegal to out and out lie about who you are. You cannot present yourself to be John Witherspoon, when your name is Nathan Rockwell.
59 year old men, should be chargeable for a crime, for presenting themselves as 17 year old girls, or what have you.
What this woman did should clearly be a crime. But the crime she's actually being charged with is complete Rubbish
Because he had to drive in to work? And because it's company policy to shut the machine down everynight to save energy costs? You should get paid from the time you start you clock in, or start your shift till the time you leave.
If the company doesn't like paying you for the 5 minutes it takes your computer to boot, perhaps they should buy faster computers.
And the person who telecomutes should have their PC boot up around the sametime their alarm goes off which is trivially easy to accomplish these days with most bios.
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Like Heinlein once said.
Violence never solved anything is a blatant lie.
Go ask the Carthegenians if they think violence never solved anything.
Most states have teen consensual sex laws that immunize minors who have sex with other minors from being charged with statutory rape.
Though, if you're 18 and the other person is 17 11 months you can be charged with statutory rape in some states. (Some states have a +2 or +4 year gap. So that a 17 year old can sleep with up to a 21 year old without risking statutory rape issues.)
I know, lets tax executive Bonuses.
You do realize we already pay a tax for bandwidth.
Look at your internet bill.
Prior to the 1950's they used to blame the mother's of autistic children. Say that they had not nurtured their kids properly. Also, the common 'fix' for autism, was to lock them away. This was usually considered a bad parenting thing, instead of an actual mental/medical problem.
100 years ago, we just didn't pay attention to Autism the way we do now. Someone might just have been called "moody, extremely shy, quiet."
Not to mention that all this focus on vaccines and autism misses the boat on Autism entirely.
My son is autistic, and it has nothing to do with his vaccination cycle. The doctor we went to used a more sedate vaccination schedule. He used the safest brands of the vaccines.
More importantly, I can look back at my son's behavior when he was just a baby and say with complete confidence he was Autistic even then.
He did not turn 2, and then have a shot that made him Autistic, he was always Austistic.
I would, but I don't know where the guy lives :)
You idiots rated this guy insightful? He's just a troll. Autism is not about sugar. My son has autism, (but not ADHD) and it has nothing to do with sugar. Spend sometime with these kids and watch them struggle through life, before you spout your idiotic nonsense.
Damn, I wish I had some moderation points today..
Wow, Sony got Appled!
Microsoft, always has been and always will be a slimmy bunch of bastards.
What IBM did though was completely devious and underhanded and showed a complete lack of respect for a working relationship.
The only thing Hollywood does is create visual stories. You can complain about there never being anything good or create and yet.
They brought us some amazing movies.
Lawrence of Arabia
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Clockwork Orange
StarWars(the first one)
I am Legend (both versions)
The Wizard of Oz
and many others.
Some of it is crap, but there is definitely some good stuff. Claiming that copyright is bad, is stupid. Certain copyrights are good.
All Heinlein and Asimov and Tolien ever did was create something that's easily reproduceable and distributable. Why should we reward them at all for the years they spent writing. Any jerk with a scanner and a printer can make millions of copies of their books. There's nothing special about them.
Since I've noticed that we have alot of members with early stages of Dimentia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States#Incarceration_rate
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, as of June 30, 2007, American prisons and jails held 2,299,116 inmates
Nearly one million of those incarcerated in state and federal prisons, as well as local jails, are serving time for committing non-violent crimes.
So, those 'poor marijuana smokers' who are unfairly imprisoned, at most hit 1 million.
Though realistically, you're probably talking about less than half that.
SO there are not in fact, "millions of people in jail for marijuana use."
The problem with any law in which criminality is dependent upon the feelings of the victims is that it allows for arbitrary and capricious prosecution. Unlike most criminal laws, which criminalize specific acts (such as robbery, for example), this law allows any exchange of opinions between two people to be turned into a criminal matter should one person feel slighted.
You might think this is extreme, but when a Canadian printer refused to print a flyer because of his moral objections to the content, he was brought before the human rights commission, and fined. How long before:
This law is a godsend for any geek who wants to get back at that girl who won't have anything to do with him. Or anyone with a vindictive mindset, for that matter.
The legitimacy of the law is suspect when based upon the mere *feelings* of the victim, rather than the actual actions of the perpetrator, are sufficient to induce criminality.
You know, they tried to pass that same bullshit when Kurt Corbain committed suicide. They brought out counsellors and therapists and suicide hotlines because they thought there would be a rash of suicides because 'the hero of our generation' had committed suicide. Forget the idiocy of anyone idolizing Kurt Corbain, it just didn't happen. There was no mass suicides, no real copycats.
Teenagers are not as emotionally fucked up as everyone thinks they are. And certainly, if they were treated with respect and shown that acting like a fucktard had actual consequences, bullying resultant suicides would be alot more rare.
Actually, inciting someone to commit suicide is a crime if they actually succeed, or even if they don't apperently.
From the New York state legal code.
"A person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking the latter's life, is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree." Section 2305 adds that incitement is a felony ever if the would-be suicide survives.
Yes, because the last 8 years have been a glorious crowning acheivement for the Republic.
If I'm a professor at a University with an open door/email policy. That I tell my students that they're always welcome to email me, even if they're no longer in my class. Then is it unsolicited?
More like the BSG Fan equivalent of Highlander 2: the Sickening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Income
do some reading:
Asians have a much higher average household income.
Whites do okay, but certainly 49K a year average does not make them super rich, or able to afford stupidly expensive medicine.
Not at all.
First off, We're not breaking Slashdot's EULA.
Secondly, he has not built up a personal relationship with Lori Drew under false pretenses.
At least, get the facts right.
Had that been my child, Lori Drew would never have made it to trial.
I might make it to trial, but Lori Drew would not.
What if I spent months talking online, making you fall in love with me, and then I said the world would be better off with you dead.
Now, pretend you're an emotionally fragile 16 year old girl. Wait, you probably already do.
You're a complete idiot with no social empathy. Or you think you're way funnier than you actually are.
Assuming a fake identity on the net, probably should be a crime.
It's illegal to have fake id's.
It's a crime to have fake passports.
Anonymous though, should not be.
This girl would not have commited suicide if the person on the other end had been "Anonymous Coward".
But when she pretended to be Peter A Dickhead, that crossed a line.
She broke the law of being a human worth keeping around.
The law they are using is rubbish, and this is a terrible case to be trying. It should get thrown out of court.
That being said.
The defendent should be taken out back and stoned to death Biblical style.
If this had been a man, dealing with this young girl, he would have been charged with some flavor of child molestation law.
I still feel that it should be a crime to commit identity fraud online.
It should be alright to be anonymous.
It should be alright to use a clearly fake pseudonum. Halo79 or something. You should not be required to provide your real name.
But
It should be illegal to out and out lie about who you are. You cannot present yourself to be John Witherspoon, when your name is Nathan Rockwell.
59 year old men, should be chargeable for a crime, for presenting themselves as 17 year old girls, or what have you.
What this woman did should clearly be a crime. But the crime she's actually being charged with is complete Rubbish
Because he had to drive in to work? And because it's company policy to shut the machine down everynight to save energy costs? You should get paid from the time you start you clock in, or start your shift till the time you leave.
If the company doesn't like paying you for the 5 minutes it takes your computer to boot, perhaps they should buy faster computers.
And the person who telecomutes should have their PC boot up around the sametime their alarm goes off which is trivially easy to accomplish these days with most bios.