Your and my definitions of "leniency" just differ. A harsh sentence for a non-murder crime (remember, people were threatened, not actually harmed) should be 15-20 years, not life. Leniency would be something like 1-5 years.
That's the way it works in most of the civilized world outside the US. A system that locks up 1% of its adult residents is broken.
Congress abolished Federal parole in the 1980s. At most, he'll get ~25% credit for time served, which is still essentially a life sentence.
He WAS a violent criminal at one point in his life. Without knowing the background, he might well be able to be rehabilitated. Cases like this are why mandatory minima and lack of parole based on actions in prison are a bad idea.
Obama and his attorneys general were moving towards a fairer sentencing regime. I suspect that Trump and his evil elf from Alabama will undo eight years of progress in that direction.
Yep: and many people in that situation will be bullied into pleading guilty to something (say a felony with no jail time and probation), thus sticking them with a criminal record and making their future lives more difficult. The goal of the American injustice system isn't justice. It's appearing "tough on crime" in a mindless fashion that totals the number of cases closed, the number of people convicted (or bullied into pleading guilty). Basically, "doing something", even if that "something" wastes money and wrecks lives.
Actually, in civilized countries, there IS an expectation of privacy in business records. The EU actually has data retention limits that require deletion of such data after a specific time period. Location data is also considered personal, not strictly a business record.
If someone used cell location data to (say) stalk a celebrity, would the "business record" argument fly? What's wrong with cops having to ask a judge for a warrant? Why should police be given any more power than they need?
The laws are just written and enforced by authoritarian garbage for the most part. The scum WANT cops and prosecutors to be able to bully accused people into a plea bargain under threat of a life sentence, instead of allowing people to exercise their God given right to a jury trial.
The US is far from a "free country" -- it has an authoritarian and Puritanical streak as wide as the country itself.
The accused in the case robbed some Radio Shacks and cell phone stores and (ironically) stole phones. He didn't kill or seriously maim anyone.
How does what amounts to a life sentence make sense for this crime? Especially while pharma CEOs who get people hooked on opioids, polluters who cause cancer clusters, etc walk free.
Answer: it was his punishment for requesting a jury trial, not entering into a plea bargain under threat of a severe sentence. This case embodies a lot of what is wrong with the American injustice system. Even if you have no sympathy for the accused, remember that the taxpayers will be paying to jail him for life, instead of giving him a reasonable sentence and rehabilitating him.
This is money that can be spent on other services or simply returned to the taxpayers. Beyond disgusting.
* Released a lot of prisoners who were being unethically held without trial in a foreign country * Got health care reform passed, so that people that have pre-existing conditions like epilepsy don't have a choice between charity and $2500/mo insurance if self-employed * Started the US on the path of criminal justice, civil forfeiture, and bail reform (yay Eric Holder -- hell of an appointee!)
were able to develop exactly because of "net neutrality" -- even AOL, which had shopping and messaging businesses didn't cut off access to its future competition.
BTW -- (1) You can install custom ROMs on many Android devices that aren't tied to a Google or Apple ID. (2) iPhones? Reliable? Hahahahaha. Maybe they're "reliable", but any device where you have to resort to disassembly or paying more than the cost of an actual battery to replace the battery is hardly "durable."
Frankly, I'd rather... 1. Use regular text/talk. Texting is even free outside the US for many carriers. 2. Crypto currencies? If I want to be anonymous, I'd pay cash. 3 Videos? Watching on a 5" screen -- no thanks, give me a laptop with at least 11-12" screen.
Having a border around the screen protects it (generally the most expensive/fragile part of a phone) from damage better. And makes it easier to design a case that protects the phone.
"Edge-to-edge" is code for planned obsolescence in my book.
Motorola G4 Play and G5 are great. Solid quality, headphone jack, removable battery and SD card-expandable storage, as all phones should have. G4 Play can typically be had for $100-125 US, if not less.
It will just be a buying opportunity for anyone who is smart enough not to have a lot of debt. Property and other assets going down in 2001 and 2008 were just called... buying opportunities.
is after Christmas and New Years' when people's credit card bills from Black Friday come due. Nothing like getting a 50% deal on a scratch-n-dent return or something a pawn shop posts on Craigslist.
Even better, get a 2-3 year old TV which a sheep (baa-baa) just put on Craigslist (or out onto the curb) because they needed the latest, greatest, 8k OLED smart telescreen with camera and mic to listen to your home better..
maybe the outings were a good thing -- it showed the world that celebrities, CEOs, engineers, anyone could be gay and successful. If anything, they contributed a lot to acceptance.
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Your and my definitions of "leniency" just differ. A harsh sentence for a non-murder crime (remember, people were threatened, not actually harmed) should be 15-20 years, not life. Leniency would be something like 1-5 years.
That's the way it works in most of the civilized world outside the US. A system that locks up 1% of its adult residents is broken.
Congress abolished Federal parole in the 1980s. At most, he'll get ~25% credit for time served, which is still essentially a life sentence.
He WAS a violent criminal at one point in his life. Without knowing the background, he might well be able to be rehabilitated. Cases like this are why mandatory minima and lack of parole based on actions in prison are a bad idea.
Obama and his attorneys general were moving towards a fairer sentencing regime. I suspect that Trump and his evil elf from Alabama will undo eight years of progress in that direction.
By this argument, anyone who punches someone in a bar fight should get a life sentence, because the punch COULD have caused death.
Yep: and many people in that situation will be bullied into pleading guilty to something (say a felony with no jail time and probation), thus sticking them with a criminal record and making their future lives more difficult. The goal of the American injustice system isn't justice. It's appearing "tough on crime" in a mindless fashion that totals the number of cases closed, the number of people convicted (or bullied into pleading guilty). Basically, "doing something", even if that "something" wastes money and wrecks lives.
I never said it was OK -- I said that the sentence exceeds the crime.
Actually, in civilized countries, there IS an expectation of privacy in business records. The EU actually has data retention limits that require deletion of such data after a specific time period. Location data is also considered personal, not strictly a business record.
If someone used cell location data to (say) stalk a celebrity, would the "business record" argument fly? What's wrong with cops having to ask a judge for a warrant? Why should police be given any more power than they need?
Bugs? No. They're features.
The laws are just written and enforced by authoritarian garbage for the most part. The scum WANT cops and prosecutors to be able to bully accused people into a plea bargain under threat of a life sentence, instead of allowing people to exercise their God given right to a jury trial.
The US is far from a "free country" -- it has an authoritarian and Puritanical streak as wide as the country itself.
The accused in the case robbed some Radio Shacks and cell phone stores and (ironically) stole phones. He didn't kill or seriously maim anyone.
How does what amounts to a life sentence make sense for this crime? Especially while pharma CEOs who get people hooked on opioids, polluters who cause cancer clusters, etc walk free.
Answer: it was his punishment for requesting a jury trial, not entering into a plea bargain under threat of a severe sentence. This case embodies a lot of what is wrong with the American injustice system. Even if you have no sympathy for the accused, remember that the taxpayers will be paying to jail him for life, instead of giving him a reasonable sentence and rehabilitating him.
This is money that can be spent on other services or simply returned to the taxpayers. Beyond disgusting.
So a lot of the holiday spending that would have occurred between Black Friday and X-mess was shifted to November vs December.
BTW - if you had less money, why did you spend more? Were the things you bought actual necessities?
Obama did a lot of good, like it or not...
* Released a lot of prisoners who were being unethically held without trial in a foreign country
* Got health care reform passed, so that people that have pre-existing conditions like epilepsy don't have a choice between charity and $2500/mo insurance if self-employed
* Started the US on the path of criminal justice, civil forfeiture, and bail reform (yay Eric Holder -- hell of an appointee!)
At an hour's TV time a few times per week, can't say I give a cr@p, at least for $2000 worth of cr@p... :)
were able to develop exactly because of "net neutrality" -- even AOL, which had shopping and messaging businesses didn't cut off access to its future competition.
For what it's worth, my family in rural Virginia had faster Internet access than I could get in NYC for a long time.
Are you a renter?
Motive is cost. Cleaning a smoky apartment is difficult, plus it needs painting, HVAC filters, flooring, etc more often.
Yep, glasses or no, I can't tell the difference between 1080p and 4k at watching distance.
BTW --
(1) You can install custom ROMs on many Android devices that aren't tied to a Google or Apple ID.
(2) iPhones? Reliable? Hahahahaha. Maybe they're "reliable", but any device where you have to resort to disassembly or paying more than the cost of an actual battery to replace the battery is hardly "durable."
Thing is, Motorola phones tend to be easy to root, so you can install the ROM of your choice, including secure/cloudfree versions of Android.
The Lenovo Service Engine thing was easy to remove/disable, BTW, compared to dealing with locked-down ecosystems like Apple's.
Frankly, I'd rather...
1. Use regular text/talk. Texting is even free outside the US for many carriers.
2. Crypto currencies? If I want to be anonymous, I'd pay cash.
3 Videos? Watching on a 5" screen -- no thanks, give me a laptop with at least 11-12" screen.
Having a border around the screen protects it (generally the most expensive/fragile part of a phone) from damage better. And makes it easier to design a case that protects the phone.
"Edge-to-edge" is code for planned obsolescence in my book.
Motorola G4 Play and G5 are great. Solid quality, headphone jack, removable battery and SD card-expandable storage, as all phones should have. G4 Play can typically be had for $100-125 US, if not less.
The next recession?
It will just be a buying opportunity for anyone who is smart enough not to have a lot of debt. Property and other assets going down in 2001 and 2008 were just called ... buying opportunities.
is after Christmas and New Years' when people's credit card bills from Black Friday come due. Nothing like getting a 50% deal on a scratch-n-dent return or something a pawn shop posts on Craigslist.
Even better, get a 2-3 year old TV which a sheep (baa-baa) just put on Craigslist (or out onto the curb) because they needed the latest, greatest, 8k OLED smart telescreen with camera and mic to listen to your home better..
maybe the outings were a good thing -- it showed the world that celebrities, CEOs, engineers, anyone could be gay and successful. If anything, they contributed a lot to acceptance.
"Society" as a concept is vastly overrated if it needs censorship to preserve it.
Under different domain names, just like a certain site beginning in goat... :)
Or is that "pooping up."