You are missing the other things he did. The messages he sent out to others, sharing the broadcast, sending out tweets, IM's, and more. His culpability comes not in recording the sex, but in distributing it and publishing it in a negative way. Just because you don't forsee the outcome of your actions does not mean that you are not responsible, at least partially, for the outcome.

I think the punishment is appropriate. He, and others and lets be honest punishment is about determent, will think twice about doing things like this because they don't want the news, the fines, and the jail time.

To be honest, if he had not been such a douchebag in court and in the limited time he was in public he probably would have gotten less. Hard to have sympathy for someone who was cold, calculating, and who's only response thus far has essentially been "its not my fault, I should be able to do what I want".

Interesting, because I just talked my way out of my fourth ticket yesterday!

I was driving around on an expired vehicle registration- our retarded state has it expire on the day of your birthday and not the end of the month. Lets just say that I spent my birthday in New Orleans on Bourbon street so there was no way I was going to make it to get it re-registered.

Before the officer (not a cop, never call them a cop) got to my car I had my license, registration and proof of insurance there. I also made sure both me and my passenger had our hands on the steering wheel or laps in plain sight.

He asked me if I know why he stopped me, I told him I did not (I did) and he told me why. I apologized and said I thought that it expired at the end of the month.

He went to his car, checked & saw I had no infractions or warrants out, came back & showed me on the registration where it says on the day & not the end of the month. I thank him and said "then yes sir I am on an expired vehicle registration- I understand".

He gave me a verbal warning, I thanked him & told him to be safe out there. He smiled, said thank you & have a good evening.

Same thing went down with three speeding issues- 70 in a 55 (twice) and 85 in a 70.

Just be respectful, dont waste their time by not having your paperwork ready, put them in a safe situation, have the music down & hands visible, be honest- "yes officer you probably pulled me over for doing 70 in the 55" and most are decent people... most.

IANAL but I work for some! It depends on who is doing the leaks. The members of the grand jury are usually not restricted from speaking about the proceedings, just witnesses, and others involved in the process. So... if the person(s) doing the tweeting are on the Grand Jury or being told by people on the Grand Jury then he is barking up the wrong tree and likely to be burned by this. The best way for a judge to handle this (as far as I can see) is if the subpoena is not on its face baseless then the judge should request the info, review it him/ her self and see if it warrants further action. That way at worse some people at Twitter and the Judge know who the people are. Not the AG or anyone who can retaliate/ strike back. If the judge find there is cause based on who the person is the issue can be carried forth in the appropriate way: the courts, the bar association, etc.

As a gay man I can tell you that you are patently WRONG. When you and your wife co-sign on a mortgage it is as a single taxed entity- mine is not.

If you are called into court your wife can not be called to testify against you against her will- my boyfriend can.

For $50 you can get all the paperwork you need to be a single legal & financial entity. Last year it cost me and my partner over $1000 to get what we can.

The medical insurance I get from my company for my boyfriend is taxed & any money I "give" him to pay for things is taxed as income. You and your wife do not have this problem.

Constitutional amendments ensure that when they look at our paperwork they are not allowed to view it as a marriage or "like a marriage".

If your wife is in a hospital and needs life saving actions taken the fact your marriage covers it all. I have to have SEVEN different Medical Powers of Attorney to get near equivalence in just 46 of the states. Even then mine can be challenged because there is no reciprocity across state lines, yours can not.

My boyfriend and I are not allowed to get the same benefits tax wise you and your wife can. Only one of us can claim the tax deduction on the house, the other is left to pay higher taxes. If we switch it back & forth each year we get audited by the IRS- an increased cost. They are NOT ALLOWED to look at us as a couple, so they can not just skip the audit.

Upon the death of one of us the ENTIRE estate of the other will be taxed as it passes to the other. Yours will not be. So we loose equity and value.

I have listed several civil, medical, and financial ways in which paperwork WILL NOT cover cover everything.

So, what you don't seem to realize is that you don't know what your talking about.

Oh, and MOST states is not EVERY state like yours.

Funny how the MPAA and others want the government out of their business and insist on letting "market forces" decide what is going to be served by the MPAA members. However when they want other companies to do things they want a government mandate!

If the MPAA thinks this is really a valuable proposition, then let them recruit consumer electronics manfs and marked the equipment as able to get "special early release movies". If users like this they will purchase the equipment and it will become a defacto standard.

I say we use their arguments against government regulations against them, just quote them.

-JLKirk

Did not work for me. I got tired of my Mom having problems & bought her a Mac. It took only three months for her to be really frustrated by the difficulty she was having in getting things to work software wise- she did not want to learn a different app, she wanted to use the same one her friends had. Then there was the case of software she wanted not being available- especially apps that require data exchanges with others. She does genealogy work for the family but it went poorly on the MAC.

What ended up happening was she got Parallels from the Apple store (their recommendation) and now she just has problems with the Windows on her Mac. Now she just has a very expensive PC... *sigh*

The point- make sure moves to Ubuntu & MAC will work for your users. If you are not the ONLY person they talk to about their PC then a change in OS may not work.

I think you missed his point. Many feel we need to regulate the banks so that we don't let them get so big that a failure of one would bring down our economy or other banks and sectors in mass. One of the basic tenants of the Free Market/ Capitalist system is to ensure competition. If we let a bank get so big that it is a cornerstone or major support of our entire economy (CitiBank, Bank of America, etc) then letting it fail is not as reasonable or acceptable a premise because the pain is no longer on the investors but the population as a whole. We have seen in this economic collapse that allowing financial institutions to become interwoven and then having them make up a large segment of our economy means that a failure in one part can bring it all down. However, if we limit the bank size (like they used to be for 50 years) to a smaller percentage of deposit and loan market and don't let them insure their own loans or be in insurance then if we let them fail they hurt the risky investors (as intended) and not the entire nation.

Personally, neither system seems very good to me, however the limited size of banks seems the least objectionable IMHO.