I suspect many of the "burnout cases" are from a lot more than weed. I know it's anecdotal but I've smoked regularly (like daily) for more than 35 years and I'm what you might call a well-educated, affluent, suburb dwelling geek, husband of 20 years and proud parent of two well-adjusted, successful kids. I further suspect I am not that unusual. In fact, in my career of media distribution, I would say at least 85% of the senior execs (and as many of the junior execs and associates) are regular smokers.
It's all a matter of decisions and planning. If I choose to roll up a fat spliff of sour diesel after dinner, why does that automatically make me a "burnout" any more than the neighbor who has a glass of Glenmoragie at the same time? Yet, there are FAR more alcoholics than burned out weed heads, and no one calls for that to be criminalized. Didn't work when it was...
It's all about controlling your pleasures, be they weed, alcohol, sex or gambling, and not letting them control you. There is no reason whatsoever for weed to be illegal.
Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?
And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.
But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.
Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.
Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.
Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.
So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.
Are you kidding? I just came through the federal court system, and I highly doubt you understand "the way sentencing is done in the US."
Sure Booker made sentencing guidelines advisory, but judges by and large go by the sentencing tables, and AUSA's will scream blue murder if judges downwardly depart without a damn good reason,. And, Asperger's is not a good reason, only 5K1.1 motions work for them. (e.g being a rat.)
Federal sentencing is very formulaic and due to the insanity of the grand jury farce system, anyone can end up looking at INSANE time for what might seem to you to be an innocuous crime. And the Government has NO issue whatsoever with making up charges, so they can conveniently drop them later in a plea bargain.
Need an example? I was indicted for five life terms, plus 105 years for causing damage to a portable toilet. I am dead serious. I was forced to sign for five years, and did 52 months (good time) in a very unpleasant FCI in Ohio, and am still on home confinement right now.
This guy is probably charged with a violation, 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2) which refers to US Sentencing Guideline 2B1.1 (Larceny, Embezzlement, and Other Forms of Theft; Offenses Involving Stolen Property; Property Damage or Destruction; Fraud and Deceit; Forgery; Offenses Involving Altered or Counterfeit Instruments Other than Counterfeit Bearer Obligation of the United States) It has a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years or more.
The Oracle trimaran that recently won the America's Cup had no problem exceeding wind speed due to aerodynamics, and the insanely cool carbon fiber wing that added to sail volume and power, and allowed them to use a fixed-shape sail - a huge advantage. They had no problem sailing between 16 and 24 knots upwind in 5 to 10 knots of wind—that’s 2.5 times wind speed.
They went even quicker periodically, and had a five knot downwind advantage. The first race report shows that the Oracle trimaran was able to almost constantly fly both outer and center hulls (amazing on a boat this big.,.I sail Hobies and this shit is HARD) and execute some slick pre-race maneuvers (which is how you really win sailing races).
So yes, sailboats have been exceeding wind speed for a while, but not by 250%..until now. When a car does that, I'll be impressed.
Well, Sarah has figured out the real reason for the Gulf oil spill, and that reason is those of us who actually care about the environment.
No really, she's serious. We just need to let the oil companies drill unrestricted pretty much wherever and whenever they want, sans restictions and we wouldn't have these problems. Thank God we have a genius like Sarah to tell us unwashed slobs what the truth is.
Here's an interesting one. In my recent federal criminal action, the Government presented multiple Usenet postings they claimed I wrote. They blathered on about "since my name was on it, it was clearly my work." My lawyers (ptui!) hadn't a clue so I asked to address the Court.
I asked the AUSA how he knew they were my writing, and his answer was "well, your name is on it." I then gave a short soliloquy about Usenet propagation, headers and nntp, just until I saw the glaze staring to form on the judge's eyes. I asked the Government to produce headers, and even if they did, to prove that it was actually me using the IP in question, neither of which they could do.
The evidence was disallowed, as it should have been.
With this in mind, how could this law firm prove that it was me that actually downloaded the movie? What with wifi and all them nasty stealers of bandwidth, exactly how could you prove to even a preponderance standard (the civil standard) that it was me who did the deed?
After my recent experience with the federal courts, I might actually opt to fight pro se if they came after me. Let's see what a thoroughly confused jury might come up with, hm?
Many years ago, when I was a Usenet junkie, I frequented the abortion newsgroups and argued endlessly, pro-choice of course. (hey it was the 90's..I was bored.) I did some research and wrote this treatise on the incredible changes that occur in the circulatory system at birth.
For example, did you know that first expansion of the lungs actually reverses blood flow in sections of the central circulation? It's actually quite cool. In fact, as I wrote.."Immediately following birth, the umbilical vessels constrict. The arteries close first, and if the umbilical cord is not clamped or severed for a minute or so, blood continues to flow from the placenta to the newborn through the umbilical vein, adding to the newborn's blood volume."
Ok, yet another prison reference. During my time in the Feds over the past few years, I got to see a lot of tattoos, some of them very, very good. The technique for making the gun is pretty simple, (use this for the motor) but I was surprised to find that stolen inkjet cartridges were by far the preferred ink source. The going rate for a tat was $50 in stamps or commissary, but a new, unused inkjet cartridge went for another $75. Color? Double.
And the artists insisted on printer ink. (I always wondered if it was sterile...) They must have a reason.
Ok, as I've posted, I just finished a five year bid in the Feds. When I was first arrested, I was held at the very miserable Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island. I had not gone to trial nor plead out, so was not a convicted criminal at the time.
My Judge ordered a cardiac study done, as I was having heart problems, so I was sent to a fed medical center at FMC Devens as a pre-trial detainee. The day I arrived I was required to give a DNA specimen, which they get with a finger stick and blood drops on a card. I mentioned I was pre-trial, but was told if I refused, I would be "four pointed" (cuffed to a metal bunk by all four limbs) and the specimen taken by force. This is the usual course for people arrested (but not convicted) in the Feds. Some may have had different experiences, but I was one of many I met with similar treatment.
I'm using 5.0.375.29 beta on an Air running 10.6.3 over wifi.
Went to cheese.com (the #1 resource for cheese!) and the zoom held.
Additionally, when I opened a new tab in non-incognito mode, the zoom STILL held, so there is definitely some communication between regular and incognito windows.
I'm devastated that my secret cheese browsing is now public.
Um, English isn't your first language, is it? Lessee..
"all the ex-cons I know say they haven't been treated fairly. "
I suspect you don't know many ex-cons.
"hah! You are a loser! You disagree with me so neener neener ROFL pwned!!!"
???
I also see you failed to quote my "whining" or my bleats of unfairness, preferring to spout some psychic obfuscatory rubbish about nonexistent "implicit" statements to which you alone are privy.
Only from people who actually believe what they see on TV. Prison can be very violent, but that stupid "don't bend over for the soap" stuff doesn't happen.
That may be because you were in Federal Prison. My friends dad was a big wig in the DOJ for New Jersey and he told me that the Federal Prison system is far better then the other ones (Not sure what it would be referred to, state prison?).
Of course, YMMV. Correct me if I am wrong or not, droopus.
Absolutely true. State prisons are MUCH worse. After all, the murderers and rapists go to state, not feds.
I spent a few weeks in a state holdover before my case went federal and I feared for my life every day.
I'm not looking for, or interested in your, or anyone else's fucking sympathy.
Horseshit. Your very first post was whining for sympathy because they made you work rather than giving you a cushy job because of your MCSE.
Really? Where did I "whine?" I only mentioned the BOP did not consider skills when assigning jobs. Actually, I had no interest in working for UNICOR. I worked less than 5 minutes a day for my $5.25 a month. UNICOR slaves work 6 - 8 hour days for their $.40 an hour. My point was almost NO ONE really works in a fed prison. Learn to read, hmm?
And, FTR, I haven't used any knowledge from my MCSE in many, many years. Rather pointless nowadays.
Then you whined for sympathy because you "didn't fully deserve to be there" and because "you weren't treated fairly". (I take both with a huge grain of salt because virtually every ex con I know says the same thing.)
Exactly where did I say "I didn't fully deserve to be there?" Or that "I wasn't treated fairly?" Show me the quote from this thread, mmkay? The system is fucked up, indeed, but you are simply making shit up, for whatever reason I cannot fathom.
And I suspect you know very few (if any) ex-cons. Otherwise you would have a tiny understanding of the system, which you clearly do not have.
You seem to be yet another person that assumes what you learn from your tv education is immutable truth. Once again...3% of the world's population, 25% of its prison inmates. Do you not understand this? Do you really think the US is a nation of felons?
Ah, yes, now I see. That statistic proves that everything we've ever known is a lie, all prisoners are innocent, you by extension are completely innocent, we should start a revolution against that dadblasted gummint!, and whine whine whine bitch bitch bitch INJUSTICEZ0RZ!!!
Um, and I say this exactly where? I neither said nor alluded to anything you just wrote. In fact, generalizations are something I assiduously avoid.
We've got no particular reason to believe you one way or the other here. We don't even have any reason we should believe that you spent even a second in a federal prison. As far as we're concerned, you're just another dime-a-dozen zomg i hate teh government type we get here in Slashdot, bringing in stories about a guy you knew who knew a guy whose brother knew a guy who INJUSTICEZ0RZ!!! And if you DID spend time in a federal prison, why should we believe you were in there unjustly?
And, again, where did I say this? Oh, you need to clean some of that spittle off your little netbook screen. There you go...
Why should we listen at all to you whinging about your MCSE, in fact? What the hell does THAT matter? Hans Reiser was, in all probability, far more brilliant and creative with his programming talents than you could ever dream to be, and yet he murdered his wife and got busted for it. lawl wut a waste of his taletz lawlright? INJUSTICEZ0RZ!
I whinged exactly where? I simply demonstrated that the BOP does not make use of specific skills in their assignation of jobs. For example, your talent as a screaming fruitcake would not automatically assign you to suicide watch or anything.
And how would you possibly have the slightest knowledge of my coding skills?
Now see? There's more spittle. Give it another wipe. Good lad.
Unless you've got some magic evidence in your favor that teh evul gummints! don't WANT us to see, maaaaaan that obviously didn't make it to court, we. just. don't. care.
"We?" Is that the royal "we?" Or are there more than a few people in that head of yours?
BTW, which makes the better hat? Reynolds Wrap, Alcoa, or just generic "foil?"
No, it wasn't. Nor was it drug dealing, terrorism, sedition, rape, murder, bank robbery, kidnapping, pedophilia, or anything that might be considered a crime against the united states.
LOL.."peddling pot" does not get you into the feds unless you have 50,000 pounds of it.
You seem to be yet another person that assumes what you learn from your tv education is immutable truth. Once again...3% of the world's population, 25% of its prison inmates. Do you not understand this? Do you really think the US is a nation of felons?
I'm not looking for, or interested in your, or anyone else's fucking sympathy. I'm trying to tell you to wake up, and watch out for yourself.
Only from people who actually believe what they see on TV. Prison can be very violent, but that stupid "don't bend over for the soap" stuff doesn't happen. In fact, even suggesting it is a good way to get shanked.
CSI, Law and Order, Prison Break, etc are utter propaganda.
B) Was treated fairly and justly by the US Justice system.
No disrespect intended at all, but you have much to learn. I hope your lesson isn't as difficult as mine was. The justice system in this country is insane and grossly unfair.
The US has 3% of the world's population and 25% of it's prison population. Numerically and per capita, we have the highest prison population on the planet...and that includes China..a tougher regime that is three times our size.
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I suspect many of the "burnout cases" are from a lot more than weed. I know it's anecdotal but I've smoked regularly (like daily) for more than 35 years and I'm what you might call a well-educated, affluent, suburb dwelling geek, husband of 20 years and proud parent of two well-adjusted, successful kids. I further suspect I am not that unusual. In fact, in my career of media distribution, I would say at least 85% of the senior execs (and as many of the junior execs and associates) are regular smokers.
It's all a matter of decisions and planning. If I choose to roll up a fat spliff of sour diesel after dinner, why does that automatically make me a "burnout" any more than the neighbor who has a glass of Glenmoragie at the same time? Yet, there are FAR more alcoholics than burned out weed heads, and no one calls for that to be criminalized. Didn't work when it was...
It's all about controlling your pleasures, be they weed, alcohol, sex or gambling, and not letting them control you. There is no reason whatsoever for weed to be illegal.
Bet you didn't know this. As I've posted, I just spent a few years at lovely (cough) FCI Elkton in Ohio. As with most BOP facilities, Elkton has a UNICOR "factory" where inmates work for up to $1 per hour, (though most make much, much less) to turn out furniture (Living in a dorm? It's probably got UNICOR furniture), mattresses, fencing, various types of wire, signs, lockers, filters, even prescription eyewear. And they also make guided missile components, batteries, injection molds, even power transformers and equipment. Wanna see a list?
And of course, they can compete with real companies, at insanely low prices because of near-slave labor. Nike has nothing on UNICOR.
But wait! There's more! Yes, UNICOR will handle all your sensitive documents and assign hundreds of barely trained drooling inmates (anyone with computer skills is banned from the work, as you would expect from the Government. I worked there for two weeks till they found out I had skills and banned me from the factory.) to take your paper documents (like Patent applications), use 1980's scanners and then get inmates to "fix" the scans manually on cutting edge Pentium 4 computers, discarded as "e-waste" by the US Government.
Need OCR/Coding/Indexing? No other company can touch our prices. And sure! You can trust our Luddite sex offenders not to talk about the contents of your patent to, say, a competitor.
Oh, the XML? They sub that out, since no Federal inmate is allowed by statute to write even markup code.
Or, maybe you have tons of sensitive paper documents that need electronic imaging? We will hand your precious records to our cadre of drug dealers (remember, if they've so much as written an email, they are forbidden! Only the very worst and stupidest for us!) and let them copy each one by hand. They won't take any. Really. Nope.
So! You can trust the USPTO with your work of a lifetime, they'll take care of it and secure it with all the power of the US Government.
How about the largest population of incarcerated individuals on the planet? True.
So, what is it...are we, as Americans just naturally felonious, or...maybe, the justice system, um, sucks?
Are you kidding? I just came through the federal court system, and I highly doubt you understand "the way sentencing is done in the US."
Sure Booker made sentencing guidelines advisory, but judges by and large go by the sentencing tables, and AUSA's will scream blue murder if judges downwardly depart without a damn good reason,. And, Asperger's is not a good reason, only 5K1.1 motions work for them. (e.g being a rat.)
Federal sentencing is very formulaic and due to the insanity of the grand jury farce system, anyone can end up looking at INSANE time for what might seem to you to be an innocuous crime. And the Government has NO issue whatsoever with making up charges, so they can conveniently drop them later in a plea bargain.
Need an example? I was indicted for five life terms, plus 105 years for causing damage to a portable toilet. I am dead serious. I was forced to sign for five years, and did 52 months (good time) in a very unpleasant FCI in Ohio, and am still on home confinement right now.
This guy is probably charged with a violation, 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2) which refers to US Sentencing Guideline 2B1.1 (Larceny, Embezzlement, and Other Forms of Theft; Offenses Involving Stolen Property; Property Damage or Destruction; Fraud and Deceit; Forgery; Offenses Involving Altered or Counterfeit Instruments Other than Counterfeit Bearer Obligation of the United States) It has a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years or more.
Calculate his (or any) federal sentence here.
It drives me fucking NUTS when people think they understand the US court/justice system because they watch Law and Order.
The Oracle trimaran that recently won the America's Cup had no problem exceeding wind speed due to aerodynamics, and the insanely cool carbon fiber wing that added to sail volume and power, and allowed them to use a fixed-shape sail - a huge advantage. They had no problem sailing between 16 and 24 knots upwind in 5 to 10 knots of wind—that’s 2.5 times wind speed.
They went even quicker periodically, and had a five knot downwind advantage. The first race report shows that the Oracle trimaran was able to almost constantly fly both outer and center hulls (amazing on a boat this big.,.I sail Hobies and this shit is HARD) and execute some slick pre-race maneuvers (which is how you really win sailing races).
So yes, sailboats have been exceeding wind speed for a while, but not by 250%..until now. When a car does that, I'll be impressed.
Well, Sarah has figured out the real reason for the Gulf oil spill, and that reason is those of us who actually care about the environment.
No really, she's serious. We just need to let the oil companies drill unrestricted pretty much wherever and whenever they want, sans restictions and we wouldn't have these problems. Thank God we have a genius like Sarah to tell us unwashed slobs what the truth is.
That unrestricted oil drilling is safe, clean and green!
In most states, audio free video is legal without consent.
It's audio surveillance hat has a federal expectation of privacy.
So, if the video has no audio, how can the eavesdropping/wiretapping law apply?
Take your foot off his head.
I HATE lawyers.
Even the law firm's name sounds like a Tom Wolfe invention. I loved the name he came up with in A Man In Full:
Clockett, Paddit, Skinnum and Glote.
ROFL.
Here's an interesting one. In my recent federal criminal action, the Government presented multiple Usenet postings they claimed I wrote. They blathered on about "since my name was on it, it was clearly my work." My lawyers (ptui!) hadn't a clue so I asked to address the Court.
I asked the AUSA how he knew they were my writing, and his answer was "well, your name is on it." I then gave a short soliloquy about Usenet propagation, headers and nntp, just until I saw the glaze staring to form on the judge's eyes. I asked the Government to produce headers, and even if they did, to prove that it was actually me using the IP in question, neither of which they could do.
The evidence was disallowed, as it should have been.
With this in mind, how could this law firm prove that it was me that actually downloaded the movie? What with wifi and all them nasty stealers of bandwidth, exactly how could you prove to even a preponderance standard (the civil standard) that it was me who did the deed?
After my recent experience with the federal courts, I might actually opt to fight pro se if they came after me. Let's see what a thoroughly confused jury might come up with, hm?
I HATE fucking lawyers.
So that would indicate to me that Microsoft produces abetting technology. Shit, I can see in my own windows on a Bing bird's eye view w/Silverlight.
This, to me, is the same as guys who put up these. Nah, providing the tools is ok, just don't actually use them right?
Grand jury time!
Many years ago, when I was a Usenet junkie, I frequented the abortion newsgroups and argued endlessly, pro-choice of course. (hey it was the 90's..I was bored.) I did some research and wrote this treatise on the incredible changes that occur in the circulatory system at birth.
For example, did you know that first expansion of the lungs actually reverses blood flow in sections of the central circulation? It's actually quite cool. In fact, as I wrote.."Immediately following birth, the umbilical vessels constrict. The arteries close first, and if the umbilical cord is not clamped or severed for a minute or so, blood continues to flow from the placenta to the newborn through the umbilical vein, adding to the newborn's blood volume."
But the reversing blood flow stuff is amazing.
Ok, yet another prison reference. During my time in the Feds over the past few years, I got to see a lot of tattoos, some of them very, very good. The technique for making the gun is pretty simple, (use this for the motor) but I was surprised to find that stolen inkjet cartridges were by far the preferred ink source. The going rate for a tat was $50 in stamps or commissary, but a new, unused inkjet cartridge went for another $75. Color? Double.
And the artists insisted on printer ink. (I always wondered if it was sterile...) They must have a reason.
Ok, as I've posted, I just finished a five year bid in the Feds. When I was first arrested, I was held at the very miserable Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island. I had not gone to trial nor plead out, so was not a convicted criminal at the time.
My Judge ordered a cardiac study done, as I was having heart problems, so I was sent to a fed medical center at FMC Devens as a pre-trial detainee. The day I arrived I was required to give a DNA specimen, which they get with a finger stick and blood drops on a card. I mentioned I was pre-trial, but was told if I refused, I would be "four pointed" (cuffed to a metal bunk by all four limbs) and the specimen taken by force. This is the usual course for people arrested (but not convicted) in the Feds. Some may have had different experiences, but I was one of many I met with similar treatment.
So this bill seems to be nothing new.
Bwah, so we eat Cracker Barrel for a week. This is about our pr0n privacy!
Excellent comeback, my compliments.
Exactly as reported.
I'm using 5.0.375.29 beta on an Air running 10.6.3 over wifi.
Went to cheese.com (the #1 resource for cheese!) and the zoom held.
Additionally, when I opened a new tab in non-incognito mode, the zoom STILL held, so there is definitely some communication between regular and incognito windows.
I'm devastated that my secret cheese browsing is now public.
Um, English isn't your first language, is it? Lessee..
"all the ex-cons I know say they haven't been treated fairly. "
I suspect you don't know many ex-cons.
"hah! You are a loser! You disagree with me so neener neener ROFL pwned!!!"
???
I also see you failed to quote my "whining" or my bleats of unfairness, preferring to spout some psychic obfuscatory rubbish about nonexistent "implicit" statements to which you alone are privy.
Is that the sound of tin foil millinery I hear?
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Only from people who actually believe what they see on TV. Prison can be very violent, but that stupid "don't bend over for the soap" stuff doesn't happen.
That may be because you were in Federal Prison. My friends dad was a big wig in the DOJ for New Jersey and he told me that the Federal Prison system is far better then the other ones (Not sure what it would be referred to, state prison?).
Of course, YMMV. Correct me if I am wrong or not, droopus.
Absolutely true. State prisons are MUCH worse. After all, the murderers and rapists go to state, not feds.
I spent a few weeks in a state holdover before my case went federal and I feared for my life every day.
Horseshit. Your very first post was whining for sympathy because they made you work rather than giving you a cushy job because of your MCSE.
Really? Where did I "whine?" I only mentioned the BOP did not consider skills when assigning jobs. Actually, I had no interest in working for UNICOR. I worked less than 5 minutes a day for my $5.25 a month. UNICOR slaves work 6 - 8 hour days for their $.40 an hour. My point was almost NO ONE really works in a fed prison. Learn to read, hmm?
And, FTR, I haven't used any knowledge from my MCSE in many, many years. Rather pointless nowadays.
Then you whined for sympathy because you "didn't fully deserve to be there" and because "you weren't treated fairly". (I take both with a huge grain of salt because virtually every ex con I know says the same thing.)
Exactly where did I say "I didn't fully deserve to be there?" Or that "I wasn't treated fairly?" Show me the quote from this thread, mmkay? The system is fucked up, indeed, but you are simply making shit up, for whatever reason I cannot fathom.
And I suspect you know very few (if any) ex-cons. Otherwise you would have a tiny understanding of the system, which you clearly do not have.
Why so angry?
You seem to be yet another person that assumes what you learn from your tv education is immutable truth. Once again...3% of the world's population, 25% of its prison inmates. Do you not understand this? Do you really think the US is a nation of felons?
Ah, yes, now I see. That statistic proves that everything we've ever known is a lie, all prisoners are innocent, you by extension are completely innocent, we should start a revolution against that dadblasted gummint!, and whine whine whine bitch bitch bitch INJUSTICEZ0RZ!!!
Um, and I say this exactly where? I neither said nor alluded to anything you just wrote. In fact, generalizations are something I assiduously avoid.
We've got no particular reason to believe you one way or the other here. We don't even have any reason we should believe that you spent even a second in a federal prison. As far as we're concerned, you're just another dime-a-dozen zomg i hate teh government type we get here in Slashdot, bringing in stories about a guy you knew who knew a guy whose brother knew a guy who INJUSTICEZ0RZ!!! And if you DID spend time in a federal prison, why should we believe you were in there unjustly?
And, again, where did I say this? Oh, you need to clean some of that spittle off your little netbook screen. There you go...
Why should we listen at all to you whinging about your MCSE, in fact? What the hell does THAT matter? Hans Reiser was, in all probability, far more brilliant and creative with his programming talents than you could ever dream to be, and yet he murdered his wife and got busted for it. lawl wut a waste of his taletz lawlright? INJUSTICEZ0RZ!
I whinged exactly where? I simply demonstrated that the BOP does not make use of specific skills in their assignation of jobs. For example, your talent as a screaming fruitcake would not automatically assign you to suicide watch or anything.
And how would you possibly have the slightest knowledge of my coding skills?
Now see? There's more spittle. Give it another wipe. Good lad.
Unless you've got some magic evidence in your favor that teh evul gummints! don't WANT us to see, maaaaaan that obviously didn't make it to court, we. just. don't. care.
"We?" Is that the royal "we?" Or are there more than a few people in that head of yours?
BTW, which makes the better hat? Reynolds Wrap, Alcoa, or just generic "foil?"
No, it wasn't. Nor was it drug dealing, terrorism, sedition, rape, murder, bank robbery, kidnapping, pedophilia, or anything that might be considered a crime against the united states.
Mail me at my nym at gmail and I'll discuss. B)
LOL.."peddling pot" does not get you into the feds unless you have 50,000 pounds of it.
You seem to be yet another person that assumes what you learn from your tv education is immutable truth. Once again...3% of the world's population, 25% of its prison inmates. Do you not understand this? Do you really think the US is a nation of felons?
I'm not looking for, or interested in your, or anyone else's fucking sympathy. I'm trying to tell you to wake up, and watch out for yourself.
Only from people who actually believe what they see on TV. Prison can be very violent, but that stupid "don't bend over for the soap" stuff doesn't happen. In fact, even suggesting it is a good way to get shanked.
CSI, Law and Order, Prison Break, etc are utter propaganda.
Uh huh. And everyone that ends up in prison:
A) Deserves fully to be there, and
B) Was treated fairly and justly by the US Justice system.
No disrespect intended at all, but you have much to learn. I hope your lesson isn't as difficult as mine was. The justice system in this country is insane and grossly unfair.
The US has 3% of the world's population and 25% of it's prison population. Numerically and per capita, we have the highest prison population on the planet...and that includes China..a tougher regime that is three times our size.