it's not just the sentencing guidelines, it's the absurd laws. Every single person is guilty of at least 20-50 different federal laws at any one time. Before you know what happened, they have you stacked up threatening you with 20 to life. The jury trial is not supposed to protect just the innocent, but the guilty, and the guilty that did no harm to society, By making the process open. The DA is a political office, and some DA's once elected, want high conviction rates. How do you do that? By going after the poor that can't defend themselves. A lot of these people might not have been living upstanding uplifting lives. Might of had some gray areas, doesn't mean they did what they were accused of. ".I could get a jury trial for a speeding ticket if I wanted" Maybe you could, but I was refused one. And in some states they are defacto not done anymore. Why don't you lie some more you whitebred elitist?

It's got to be more then $5000 for a federal case. Cases involve much more then the jury trial hours. There is the pretrial, with evidence hearings, etc. this stuff drags on for months or years before you get a jury. Unless you are rich, you are hiring a hourly rate lawyer, and it's going to be $150 an hour at least. including office hours billed. If you are lucky you might get legal aid or a firm to take the case pro bono, but those are super rare. And most legal aid, or student lawyers are just not very good.

Just make the DoJ pay the innocents FULL costs in any jury case that does not result in a guilty conviction. This would A:make them focus on real cases that matter. B:give everyone that is innocent incentive to go to trial.

Except facts don't lie and facts show christian parents that use abstinence only education have higher abortion rates and higher pregnancy rates. Stick your head in the sand if you want, but the facts are sex education decreases abortion and pregnancy rates in teens.

I note most of the historic references from the link were from the middle ages-pre Renaissance mostly. I wonder if in roman times if people got along better, and were apparently more productive for it, due to sleeping once? I for one, don't wish to replicate much of the post roman pre-enlightenment days in any respects. I mean if it was so natural, couldn't they find a a reference for it beyond homer in antiquity or biblical texts?

You are a tool. How can you support such a system which such great abuse of power possible?

Fact is, even thou netflix only thinks it is only going to lose1 million of it's 25 million subscribers with the price increases last 12 months, meaning it actually is, or would have been INCREASING profits, sense the stock price took a 50% dive, the CEO is under huge need to make a change.

Does everyone see how retarded this is?

I know it's never going to happen, but we need to move back to a very long term only stock market investment rules view

I don't think you understand the library exemptions to copyright and the reasons for and the benefits to society

note the article was about real names, logging in you still had a pseudonym before. Which it least protects you from random backlash, if not from a determined corrupt government, which could likely track you down with your logged AC IP anyway if they really really wanted to

Steam is Digital distribution, so of course it's up to you to make copies of your hard drive for back up's like any DD system. 'Activate a product' What are you talking about? You have to log in to Purchase and download a product, so of course it's already activated at that point. But once it's on your harddrive you don't need steam to play any non-Valve game that you bought through steam, just launch the *.exe.

no, this is wrong. sorry. You Can Launch Most Steam Games Without Steam. but nice try. Go try it

Most steam games don't have DRM. Most you can play even after you cancel a steam account. and even the ones that do have drm (none that I own, I have 20+ steam games) it's not really the shitty kind of drm, relativity. Also steam lets you re-download your entire library to a new computer free of charge.

or we could finally kill the redundant cable tv connection and have EVERYthing through the internet, as it should be. That way when the internet gets better, everything else does too. So much silly redundancy in infrastructure. Besides netflix+downloading computer updates while Skyping while your kids are doing the same thing in two different rooms. It adds up.

You act like there is only one true way for FLOSS software/ It doesn't make sense for stuff like firefox to be tested in the wild. It might for other products,

there is everything wrong with it. No one wants to back a project when it has the perception of a pet product. Examples might include, Mozilla, Microsoft, apple, not wanting to spend development cycles adding function in a very fast market; Even more then that thou is the companies not wanting to port their wed app products to new code, hiring/training new people. Start-in-your basement style companies don't want to spend the time either. Because it's a pet product. So even if it is a great product, it won't get adapted from your track record of the last 50 failed ones you canceled or didn't support or push to get adapted. There is sort of a window for new products like this, you need people to sign up for them mentally so you need company backing to market, and polish the image of the product, Like how every new apple product update is treated like a new form of gold. Like how Steve Jobs spend _10 minutes_ in the product launch keynote talking about how they added folders to iOS, like it was a revolution. Just releasing products into the wild gives your brand a bad image.