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Comment Re:Never Again (Score 1) 130

The Xbox 360 is just a Netflix machine to me, that happens to also have stripped down versions of Minecraft & Fallout 3 built in. Since consoles are all garbage compared to computers, it seems contentious to compare them based on hardware quality. All that really matters in the console world is what you are allowed to run on them.

Comment Re:If they're going literal.... (Score 1) 251

I have read some more of your comments, and I think perhaps your problem is inflation. Call everyone a liar, and pretty soon it means nothing even to call a genuine liar, a liar. In a way, you try to spray the word everywhere with innuendo and implication, hoping that it will stick on the people who actually are. Instead you appear as a boy who cries wolf, not quite a liar, but not a purveyor of truth either.

Try thinking of more intelligent insults for people, and I think your persuasion will be more effective.

Comment Re:If they're going literal.... (Score 1) 251

Sure you did. You deliberately asserted that what you had to say was more accurate than the information presented, and proceeded to do a classic slashdot bashing of the officer that busted the operators of the fishing boat for breaking the law, saying the cop made it up.

A lie is a false statement made with the deliberate intent to deceive. While my statement was factually false, it was made based on an inaccurate reading of the articles in question, and presented in good faith. It would seem that declaring all incorrect statements to be lies is a form of hyperbole to you (in true Slashdot fashion) certainly not to be taken seriously.

Comment Re:If they're going literal.... (Score 1) 251

Of course you can't be compelled to testify against yourself (Fifth Amendment), therefore anything you say (including your choice of plea) can't be used to lock you up.

That is my point, the constitution is obstructing to justice... there are probably some police officers and prosecutors who lament it for, "letting guilty criminals walk free".

Also, as a friendly reminder, your 5th amendment protections must be specifically invoked, and will in no way protect you from making a confession or otherwise saying something that you should not.

Comment Re:If they're going literal.... (Score 1) 251

More accurately, here we have a case of a fisherman being accused of keeping undersized fish.

No, that's LESS accurately, because that's not what happened. A crew member testified to the fact that that captain had him chuck the evidence of their illegal fishing. The "outlandish" claim here is yours. Why lie about it? What's your point?

I had not read the other article citing the interrogation of the crew, and subsequent confession. Why lie? I didn't. Consider the day that you might be presumed guilty of something.

Comment Re:If they're going literal.... (Score 2, Insightful) 251

here we have a case of a fisherman keeping an undersize fish.

More accurately, here we have a case of a fisherman being accused of keeping undersized fish. The officer who accused him of doing so left the only evidence whatsoever of the crime with the accused. Upon discovering that the evidence indicated no crime had occurred, he made the outlandish claim that the evidence had been tampered with, having no evidence besides his testimony given as support.

Comment Re:If they're going literal.... (Score 1) 251

Nevermind the consequences if they limit the meaning -- it will be legal to destroy most kinds of evidence in a criminal investigation. It's all A-OK if it didn't contain financial records right? Right?

The argument is whether select sentences from the, "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act", should be allowed to be used to prosecute someone for a crime unrelated in any way to accounting reform, or investor protection.

The federal government, however, argues that the law was clearly written and intended to be a broad anti-obstruction-of-justice law that would fill gaps in the criminal code that had long existed.

A strong argument could be made that not simply confessing, when someone was very obviously guilty, would be obstructing to justice.

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