At the time of most abortions, the "child" you refer to is actually not even remotely viable even with the most advanced medical care available on the planet, and in many cases it's little more than a clump of cells. Calling it a "child" is disingenuous at best.
I totally ruin these loser's days. I have a long list of questions I ask them, and if they don't get 3 right then they "fail" and I'm "forced" to hang up on them. Here are just a few, feel free to use them.:)
Question: How can a man go eight days without sleep? Answer: It is not a problem, he doesn't need to sleep during the day, he sleeps at night, you fucking idiot.
Question: Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Answer: Mt. Everest. It just wasn't discovered yet, you fucking idiot.
Question: How many cubic feet of dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? Answer: None, there is no dirt in a hole, you fucking idiot.
Question: A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a hair on his head got wet. How come? Answer: He was bald.
Question: If a plane crashes on the border of The United States and Mexico, where would the survivors be buried? Answer: Nowhere, you don't bury survivors, you fucking idiot.
Question: A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat, you fucking idiot.
Question: If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become? Answer: Wet, you fucking idiot.
Question: You're a bus driver. At the first stop 4 people get on. At the second stop 8 people get on, at the third stop 2 people get off and, at the fourth stop everyone got off. The question is what color are the bus driver's eyes? Answer: The same as yours, because you're the bus driver, you fucking idiot.
Question: What can you never eat for breakfast? Answer: Dinner.
Question: A guy is condemned to death. He has to choose a room. Room #1: A fiery inferno. Room #2: 50 Assassins with loaded guns. Room #3: A room full of hungry lions that haven't eaten in 3 months. Which room is the safest? Answer: Room #3, because the lions would be dead if they didn't eat for 3 months, you fucking idiot.
Question: You have a cup placed on a table. You are pointing towards the North and the cup is facing towards the South. On which side is the cup's handle? Answer: No matter in which way the cup is facing, it's handle will always be on the outside.
Question: Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg is white" or "The yolk of the egg are white?" Answer: Neither is correct. Egg yolks are yellow, not white, you fucking idiot.
Question: Is it legal for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina? Answer: No, because he is alive, you fucking idiot.
Question: Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1964 pennies? Answer: Because 1968 pennies are four more than 1964 pennies, you fucking idiot.
Question: John's father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty...Guess what would be the name of the fifth? Answer: John, of course.
Question: Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive? Answer: Stop imagining.
Question: If I have 10 apples and you take 5, what do you have? Answer: You have two broken arms, because NO ONE TAKES MY FUCKING APPLES.
So National Review’s Kevin Williamson and Jason Villalba, the Republican state representative from Texas are "pretty far out into the weeds"?
Basically you admitted that I was right, but you didn't like the sources...which in the end is still admitting I was right.
Face it- there are plenty of people making the "Bernie = Hitler" statement, and contrary to your assertion, you don't have to go far to find them.
A simple google search for "bernie like hitler" brings back about 1,980,000 results...so it's not like this claim is obscure or hard to find. It's being made by all sorts of people, some of whom are hardly far out into the weeds".
In reality, the president has tons of control over Wall Street and gas prices.
However, sometimes things don't go the president's way, such as the current oil glut, which Obama wishes wasn't happening as he wants high gas prices.
So in other words, even though he has "tons of control", sometimes "things don't go the president's way", meaning he doesn't really have "tons of control".
In other words, he controls it except when he doesn't. Have I got that right?
you would be shocked. there are plenty of people like me who mod based on content and dont even look at usernames.
That's the way I do it. I don't care who the poster is, I mod up or down based on what they've written. If that jackass APK ever wrote a useful post, I'd mod it up (I'll admit this is a very low-probablility event, but still...).
The mod system is kinda odd, but seems to be accurate/effective over the long term (just my opinion). Not having even a 1-minute grace period to edit a post seems more backward to me than any other missing feature.
Ok, so what is your excuse for when the Democrats controlled congress and they could steam roll anything they wanted through.
What makes you think I'd have or want an excuse for that? It's wrong no matter which side does it. If we had a Republican president and the Democrats were obstructing him the way the Republicans have obstructed Obama, you'd hear me decrying that just as loudly.
Thanks. I have several real ones myself, I just wanted to play with a virtual one on my phone and compare it to the physical ones I've got to see how accurate it was.
But since the compass app appears to want access to my entire life story including my birth certificate and a stool sample, I'll just have to make do with the old-fashioned real-world version.:)
Unfortunately, it has become such common practice to request "kitchen sink" permissions that it's nigh impossible to find useful apps that don't do so.
^^^THIS.
100% agreed....I recently wanted to install a compass on my phone, mostly to play with but also because it could conceivably be useful someday. And it wanted access to my photos, contact list, battery stats, bluetooth service, audio settings, "read frame buffer", SMS, calendar, voicemail and a bunch of other shit I can't even recall....for a compass app.
Why in the world would a compass need access to my photos, voicemail, calendar and contact list?
In the end, I didn't install it. Unfortunately Android doesn't allow fine-grained permissions. (Yes, I know about CyanogenMod, but it's not available for my phone.)
"Industry experts say the unique track width necessitates custom-made wheel sets, brake assemblies and track repair vehicles."
Of course it does, which is why sticking with a entrenched standard sometimes makes perfect sense. Rail infrastructure is one of those standards.
I remember some debate about this from waaaaaay back when, and most people who understood the change thought it was idiotic and pointless.
Some of the claims used to support the non-standard rail-width were that the wider rails would provide a smoother, more stable ride.
The difference in rail-width is only about 10 inches (56.5" compared to 66") and there is no real evidence that the smoothness of the ride or stability is significantly better. It was all bullshit from the get-go.
No one was complaining about the smoothness or stability of standard rail cars, it was made up out of whole cloth as a "problem" to be "solved". But there never WAS a problem. It would have been just as valid to claim that the wider rails "would keep tigers from eating the passengers".
More than a few people predicted the current problems (spare parts issues, expensive custom fixes, etc) and they were told to shut up and "stop impeding progress", basically. They were ignored, but now I guess they're getting the last laugh.
Our current President has been impossible to work with, so in return Congress has largely refused to work with him
Bullshit. The Republicans in Congress have opposed practically every goddamn thing he's put forth, starting with "make him a one-term president", to refusing to consider anything he's proposed even when it was something they originally came up with. And now the Republicans won't even consider holding hearings on a Supreme Court nominee, which is their fucking job.
The Republicans shut down the government rather than work with him, or did that little fact slip your memory?
So don't give me this fucking horsecrap about how he's been "impossible to work with", it's just plain bullshit. The obstructionism Obama has received has exceeded anything I've seen in 50+ years of watching our government at work. Form the Birtherism crap to the "he's a Muslim" nonsense, this Congress has been blatantly partisan in the extreme.
Yeah, everyone always forgets the President is in charge of the budget. Oh wait, I have that backwards.
And don't forget the two big levers on his desk, marked "Gas Prices" and "Stock Market", which everyone apparently believes he can yank back and forth at will.
The fact is that the president controls almost nothing. He has some influence, but not much. In most cases he deserves neither the blame nor the credit for most of what goes on in the country.
The president has to work very hard to make things better, and making things better is an uncertain outcome, even with the best of intentions.
The sad corollary to that is that it's easy to fuck stuff up and make things worse. Making things worse is blissfully easy. It should be the other way around, but it's not.
Please note that this applies to every president who's ever held the reins of power, from George Washington on up, and it'll apply to every one of them in the future as well.
I don't see anyone claiming Hillary is literally going to be Hitler. I don't see anyone saying that about Bernie either.
Actually, lots of right-wing figures are saying it.
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker has said that Bernie Sanders is "going to be like Hitler". Not that Bakker is a reputable source by any stretch, but he's said it. Bakker said that Sanders’ support from young people proves that the U.S. is transforming into Nazi Germany.
“One of the most popular politicians right now is a socialist,” Bakker said. “And who is his biggest following? The young people of America, from the colleges. Maybe you understand a little bit what it felt like to live when Hitler was reigning and the church had to sit by and keep watching it and watching until millions, tens of millions — they had to build factories to kill people. All it takes is a couple bombs and all of America will be dead within a year, less than a year, just months.”
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Also, earlier this month, the conservative National Review’s Kevin Williamson drove a steamroller over this line in the sand. Williamson’s article, “Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism,” which was published two weeks ago but became available on the conservative magazine’s website on Monday, is not a model of clarity. It bounces between criticism of Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ trade policies and quotes from some of Sanders’ least thoughtful supporters. Yet, as the title of the article suggests, Williamson does come to a bold conclusion — Bernie Sanders is a literal Nazi who is leading a literal Nazi movement in the United States.
Williamson lays this thesis out in one paragraph: "In the Bernieverse, there’s a whole lot of nationalism mixed up in the socialism. He is, in fact, leading a national-socialist movement, which is a queasy and uncomfortable thing to write about a man who is the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. But there is no other way to characterize his views and his politics."
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Conspiratorial right-wing radio host backing frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign, Alex Jones, is comparing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to Hitler and calling for violent attacks against his supporters. Alex Jones’ boosterism of Trump has turned to a violent obsession with one Democratic candidate and a determined campaign to smear “Creature Bernie Sanders.”
“This is the most gang mentality, dumbed-down, it’s like, ‘We want to elect Hitler, he says he’ll invade France and give us free stuff,'” Jones ranted about the Sanders campaign last week.
Jones has described Sanders as “a hardcore commie who wants to put me in a forced relocation camp like Mao Zedong”:
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Jason Villalba, the Republican state representative from Texas’ 114th district in Dallas County, recently tweeted an image comparing Bernie Sanders‘ professed Democratic socialism to World War II-era Nazism. Accompanying the tweet’s text was an image comparing Sanders’ Democratic socialism to Adolft Hilter‘s Nazism. http://www.mediaite.com/online...
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So yes, there are people saying "Bernie is the next Hitler". They may be cranks, but they are saying it and they're saying it loudly and proudly. They're not hinting about it, they're declaring it with certainty.
Now that would be amusing. I do find it baffling. They *proved* that it *probably* isn't in his grave. So, in other words, they didn't really prove anything. *sighs*
Do you really think "they" are working hard to exonerate a lot of people? That "they" are interested in justice?
Did I say that in my post, or did I stutter?
Some people ARE interested in justice, but not nearly enough. Yes, the system is pretty fucked up and broken, but this is what we have to live with right now.
If you want to reform the justice system, have at it, I'm all for it. I'd love to see some sweeping changes from the bottom right up to the top.
People..... PLEASE... just destroy all those stupid records and data you have policy/access to... all they do is turn you into the DEVIL marking other innocents with your sin.
Except in this case, where the records led to the exoneration of an innocent man.
Exactly. Sometimes it's to the benefit of justice. Not often, but his instance would seem to be enough to justify it.
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Aborting a child is murder.
At the time of most abortions, the "child" you refer to is actually not even remotely viable even with the most advanced medical care available on the planet, and in many cases it's little more than a clump of cells. Calling it a "child" is disingenuous at best.
I totally ruin these loser's days. I have a long list of questions I ask them, and if they don't get 3 right then they "fail" and I'm "forced" to hang up on them. Here are just a few, feel free to use them. :)
Question: How can a man go eight days without sleep?
Answer: It is not a problem, he doesn't need to sleep during the day, he sleeps at night, you fucking idiot.
Question: Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest. It just wasn't discovered yet, you fucking idiot.
Question: How many cubic feet of dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
Answer: None, there is no dirt in a hole, you fucking idiot.
Question: A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a hair on his head got wet. How come?
Answer: He was bald.
Question: If a plane crashes on the border of The United States and Mexico, where would the survivors be buried?
Answer: Nowhere, you don't bury survivors, you fucking idiot.
Question: A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat, you fucking idiot.
Question: If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
Answer: Wet, you fucking idiot.
Question: You're a bus driver. At the first stop 4 people get on. At the second stop 8 people get on, at the third stop 2 people get off and, at the fourth stop everyone got off. The question is what color are the bus driver's eyes?
Answer: The same as yours, because you're the bus driver, you fucking idiot.
Question: What can you never eat for breakfast?
Answer: Dinner.
Question: A guy is condemned to death. He has to choose a room. Room #1: A fiery inferno. Room #2: 50 Assassins with loaded guns. Room #3: A room full of hungry lions that haven't eaten in 3 months. Which room is the safest?
Answer: Room #3, because the lions would be dead if they didn't eat for 3 months, you fucking idiot.
Question: You have a cup placed on a table. You are pointing towards the North and the cup is facing towards the South. On which side is the cup's handle?
Answer: No matter in which way the cup is facing, it's handle will always be on the outside.
Question: Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg is white" or "The yolk of the egg are white?"
Answer: Neither is correct. Egg yolks are yellow, not white, you fucking idiot.
Question: Is it legal for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina?
Answer: No, because he is alive, you fucking idiot.
Question: Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1964 pennies?
Answer: Because 1968 pennies are four more than 1964 pennies, you fucking idiot.
Question: John's father has five sons named Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty...Guess what would be the name of the fifth?
Answer: John, of course.
Question: Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?
Answer: Stop imagining.
Question: If I have 10 apples and you take 5, what do you have?
Answer: You have two broken arms, because NO ONE TAKES MY FUCKING APPLES.
So National Review’s Kevin Williamson and Jason Villalba, the Republican state representative from Texas are "pretty far out into the weeds"?
Basically you admitted that I was right, but you didn't like the sources...which in the end is still admitting I was right.
Face it- there are plenty of people making the "Bernie = Hitler" statement, and contrary to your assertion, you don't have to go far to find them.
A simple google search for "bernie like hitler" brings back about 1,980,000 results...so it's not like this claim is obscure or hard to find. It's being made by all sorts of people, some of whom are hardly far out into the weeds".
In reality, the president has tons of control over Wall Street and gas prices.
However, sometimes things don't go the president's way, such as the current oil glut, which Obama wishes wasn't happening as he wants high gas prices.
So in other words, even though he has "tons of control", sometimes "things don't go the president's way", meaning he doesn't really have "tons of control".
In other words, he controls it except when he doesn't. Have I got that right?
Seriously, what an asshole.
What would really be shocking is if it didn't send data back to some Chinese mothership somewhere.
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Beat me to it.
Yes, this certainly is shocking news, who could have seen this coming?
$9,000 for a giant-ass tablet?
Ha ha, what a piece of shit. I'm sure we'll see them on the Home Shopping Surplus Channel this time next year.
But I bet they'll be a kick-ass tax write-off, just like the Surface was a year or so ago.
you would be shocked. there are plenty of people like me who mod based on content and dont even look at usernames.
That's the way I do it. I don't care who the poster is, I mod up or down based on what they've written. If that jackass APK ever wrote a useful post, I'd mod it up (I'll admit this is a very low-probablility event, but still...).
The mod system is kinda odd, but seems to be accurate/effective over the long term (just my opinion). Not having even a 1-minute grace period to edit a post seems more backward to me than any other missing feature.
Ok, so what is your excuse for when the Democrats controlled congress and they could steam roll anything they wanted through.
What makes you think I'd have or want an excuse for that? It's wrong no matter which side does it. If we had a Republican president and the Democrats were obstructing him the way the Republicans have obstructed Obama, you'd hear me decrying that just as loudly.
Thanks. I have several real ones myself, I just wanted to play with a virtual one on my phone and compare it to the physical ones I've got to see how accurate it was.
But since the compass app appears to want access to my entire life story including my birth certificate and a stool sample, I'll just have to make do with the old-fashioned real-world version. :)
That you like it that way is a good reason to put it in that position. It is not a reason why you like it.
Some people are hard of hearing; you're hard of thinking.
To recap, the reason I want it at the bottom is because I like it there.
I'm sorry if you're having trouble understanding this, but I can type slower if you need me to.
Unfortunately, it has become such common practice to request "kitchen sink" permissions that it's nigh impossible to find useful apps that don't do so.
^^^THIS.
100% agreed....I recently wanted to install a compass on my phone, mostly to play with but also because it could conceivably be useful someday. And it wanted access to my photos, contact list, battery stats, bluetooth service, audio settings, "read frame buffer", SMS, calendar, voicemail and a bunch of other shit I can't even recall....for a compass app.
Why in the world would a compass need access to my photos, voicemail, calendar and contact list?
In the end, I didn't install it. Unfortunately Android doesn't allow fine-grained permissions. (Yes, I know about CyanogenMod, but it's not available for my phone.)
Oh well, no compass for me.
Nope. You still haven't answered the question, which was "why" not "what".
Again, the "why" is because I like it that way. No other reason is necessary.
"Industry experts say the unique track width necessitates custom-made wheel sets, brake assemblies and track repair vehicles."
Of course it does, which is why sticking with a entrenched standard sometimes makes perfect sense. Rail infrastructure is one of those standards.
I remember some debate about this from waaaaaay back when, and most people who understood the change thought it was idiotic and pointless.
Some of the claims used to support the non-standard rail-width were that the wider rails would provide a smoother, more stable ride.
The difference in rail-width is only about 10 inches (56.5" compared to 66") and there is no real evidence that the smoothness of the ride or stability is significantly better. It was all bullshit from the get-go.
No one was complaining about the smoothness or stability of standard rail cars, it was made up out of whole cloth as a "problem" to be "solved". But there never WAS a problem. It would have been just as valid to claim that the wider rails "would keep tigers from eating the passengers".
More than a few people predicted the current problems (spare parts issues, expensive custom fixes, etc) and they were told to shut up and "stop impeding progress", basically. They were ignored, but now I guess they're getting the last laugh.
Our current President has been impossible to work with, so in return Congress has largely refused to work with him
Bullshit. The Republicans in Congress have opposed practically every goddamn thing he's put forth, starting with "make him a one-term president", to refusing to consider anything he's proposed even when it was something they originally came up with. And now the Republicans won't even consider holding hearings on a Supreme Court nominee, which is their fucking job.
The Republicans shut down the government rather than work with him, or did that little fact slip your memory?
So don't give me this fucking horsecrap about how he's been "impossible to work with", it's just plain bullshit. The obstructionism Obama has received has exceeded anything I've seen in 50+ years of watching our government at work. Form the Birtherism crap to the "he's a Muslim" nonsense, this Congress has been blatantly partisan in the extreme.
Yeah, everyone always forgets the President is in charge of the budget.
Oh wait, I have that backwards.
And don't forget the two big levers on his desk, marked "Gas Prices" and "Stock Market", which everyone apparently believes he can yank back and forth at will.
The fact is that the president controls almost nothing. He has some influence, but not much. In most cases he deserves neither the blame nor the credit for most of what goes on in the country.
The president has to work very hard to make things better, and making things better is an uncertain outcome, even with the best of intentions.
The sad corollary to that is that it's easy to fuck stuff up and make things worse. Making things worse is blissfully easy. It should be the other way around, but it's not.
Please note that this applies to every president who's ever held the reins of power, from George Washington on up, and it'll apply to every one of them in the future as well.
I don't see anyone claiming Hillary is literally going to be Hitler. I don't see anyone saying that about Bernie either.
Actually, lots of right-wing figures are saying it.
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker has said that Bernie Sanders is "going to be like Hitler". Not that Bakker is a reputable source by any stretch, but he's said it. Bakker said that Sanders’ support from young people proves that the U.S. is transforming into Nazi Germany.
“One of the most popular politicians right now is a socialist,” Bakker said. “And who is his biggest following? The young people of America, from the colleges. Maybe you understand a little bit what it felt like to live when Hitler was reigning and the church had to sit by and keep watching it and watching until millions, tens of millions — they had to build factories to kill people. All it takes is a couple bombs and all of America will be dead within a year, less than a year, just months.”
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Also, earlier this month, the conservative National Review’s Kevin Williamson drove a steamroller over this line in the sand. Williamson’s article, “Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism,” which was published two weeks ago but became available on the conservative magazine’s website on Monday, is not a model of clarity. It bounces between criticism of Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ trade policies and quotes from some of Sanders’ least thoughtful supporters. Yet, as the title of the article suggests, Williamson does come to a bold conclusion — Bernie Sanders is a literal Nazi who is leading a literal Nazi movement in the United States.
Williamson lays this thesis out in one paragraph:
"In the Bernieverse, there’s a whole lot of nationalism mixed up in the socialism. He is, in fact, leading a national-socialist movement, which is a queasy and uncomfortable thing to write about a man who is the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. But there is no other way to characterize his views and his politics."
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Conspiratorial right-wing radio host backing frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign, Alex Jones, is comparing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to Hitler and calling for violent attacks against his supporters. Alex Jones’ boosterism of Trump has turned to a violent obsession with one Democratic candidate and a determined campaign to smear “Creature Bernie Sanders.”
“This is the most gang mentality, dumbed-down, it’s like, ‘We want to elect Hitler, he says he’ll invade France and give us free stuff,'” Jones ranted about the Sanders campaign last week.
Jones has described Sanders as “a hardcore commie who wants to put me in a forced relocation camp like Mao Zedong”:
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Jason Villalba, the Republican state representative from Texas’ 114th district in Dallas County, recently tweeted an image comparing Bernie Sanders‘ professed Democratic socialism to World War II-era Nazism. Accompanying the tweet’s text was an image comparing Sanders’ Democratic socialism to Adolft Hilter‘s Nazism. http://www.mediaite.com/online...
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So yes, there are people saying "Bernie is the next Hitler". They may be cranks, but they are saying it and they're saying it loudly and proudly. They're not hinting about it, they're declaring it with certainty.
At least the anti-vaxxers can take credit for resurrecting diseases we thought had been eradicated.
That's right, thanks to the anti-vaxxer idiots, Measles, Mumps, Whooping Cough, and Chicken Pox are showing up once again.
Thanks, anti-vaxxer fuckheads, thanks a lot for your stupid anti-science delusions which now put everyone's children at risk.
Now that would be amusing. I do find it baffling. They *proved* that it *probably* isn't in his grave. So, in other words, they didn't really prove anything. *sighs*
I know, I winced when I saw this headline.
"50% of the time it works every time!"
"Researchers Prove Shakespeare's Skull Probably Isn't In His Grave"
WTF? How do you "prove" something "probably isn't"?
English, motherfucker, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
This seems to be more reliably attributed to Oscar Wilde.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." -- Abraham Lincoln
Do you really think "they" are working hard to exonerate a lot of people? That "they" are interested in justice?
Did I say that in my post, or did I stutter?
Some people ARE interested in justice, but not nearly enough. Yes, the system is pretty fucked up and broken, but this is what we have to live with right now.
If you want to reform the justice system, have at it, I'm all for it. I'd love to see some sweeping changes from the bottom right up to the top.
People..... PLEASE... just destroy all those stupid records and data you have policy/access to...
all they do is turn you into the DEVIL marking other innocents with your sin.
Except in this case, where the records led to the exoneration of an innocent man.
Exactly. Sometimes it's to the benefit of justice. Not often, but his instance would seem to be enough to justify it.
It's just a case of human packratting, only to be ABUSED later just because it's available and they can.
People..... PLEASE... just destroy all those stupid records and data you have policy/access to...
I bet that Seattle man would disagree. If not for this "forever" mode of data retention he'd still be in prison.