He is facing federal charges as well. I imagine they will put him into supermax, or at least protective custody. It would look bad if this high profile guy died in prison.

Bill Ayers? Black Panthers? Long time since they had real power, but these guys aren't apologizing.

Newsflash: people say dumb shit on the internet.

I was going to say that sounds more like a White Nationalist / Aryan Nations type view but you had to throw in rich. Now I've no idea which ideology you are talking about, because the extreme right tends to support working class families.

    That's the thing about the tea party, there's no tea and no party. Anything one self-described tea partier says can be pinned on the "movement" or whatever it is. This is why I choose not to associate with that label, even though I support smaller government.

Whatever let's hurry up and ban carrying a gun within 1000 ft of a congressperson. And looking at them so nobody can get the "hornies."

Replying to myself: That said, his other messages seem to reveal his intent and "motive" clearly enough ("my assasination", "kill the *expletive*," written on her letter, etc.)

Even if the FBI did not subpoena his postings, I imagine the defense would. Anything to elucidate how crazy this dude actually is.

Yes, he's obviously guilty but his mental state and motive will come into play in the sentencing phase where any messages/postings may be relevant.

That may be a disadvantage for the computer, actually. Good players are known to buzz in immediately on their strong categories and take the few seconds allowed to come up with the response. On the other hand, Watson could do the exact same thing, and presumably do so faster than any human.

I noticed the stations selling pure gas were outside the city quite a bit. Hence my 50mi perimeter.

Few in urban areas have a need to power older farm equipment so I suppose this makes sense.

Um I can't find ethanol free within 50 mi of me. Do you have to go somewhere special?

The effective tax rate on the rich in 1963 was around 24%.

It went up under Reagan IIRC.

Speaking of the Northwest, I was in Alaska and encountered 2 areas where iPhones worked and my Sprint Android phone did not.

I asked one dude (whose phone was working) whether it was GSM or CDMA. He said it was an iPhone. I didn't even try to explain...

Civilian courts mainly try those accused domestically. Frankly they lack the resources and probably the will to deal with nebulous international issues.

While the US seems intent on enforcing the rule of law in occupied territories, it is unable to in many cases. For most, trying these fighters in their home countries' makes little sense.

I do not deny that in this case both the innocent and guilty find themselves in a difficult legal situation, but I am not ready to acknowledge that a US civil court is the best place to resolve it.

I don't think the GP and his ilk are even serious at this point. Perhaps this argument made sense when they were merely asking us to remove the shoes. There is no defense for irradiating the nutsack.

True, but there do exist those attacking our soldiers abroad. Trying them in civilian court makes no sense to me. What is your solution?

Royalty free.

I didn't RTFA and the summary doesn't make it clear, but it sounds like at least one possibility is that Oracle intends to charge for the premium JVM, which would need to run on each server.