Way to troll, I had several PHDs teaching me through my education. Three in High School and one in middle school. At no point did creationism ever come up, evolution was taught by the biology teacher, and the heath class passed out condoms. Your opinion of our education system is vastly skewed by the media who over reacts (maybe rightly) to each incident.

I beg to differ

A good lawyer is expensive, some criminals can't afford good ones. Instead they end up with overworked public defenders who might have read the case file before going into the court.

It might not be "official", but I think the mainstream European system of law is usually referred to as "civil law".

Good idea. If you've set the password on the hard drive, moving it to a different machine won't help.

Based on the summary, it's a completely wrong headed approach that leads to endlessly redefining terms. When this debate first started I thought it was a lot more clear: it's okay to prioritize based on protocols but it's not okay to prioritize based on source/destination.

Not sure why they're making it so complex now.

I hate regulation. I'm so sick of Comcast regulating my Internet habits that I want my government to regulate Comcast. Net Neutrality is the least-regulation possible.

The sheriff in question was no doubt trying to just drum up some publicity for himself. Remind me again why he's enforcing laws he clearly doesn't understand?

Yet curiously, none of that infrastructure is there in an emergency. Hard copies are always useful.

Since 1994 with the introduction of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994.
I cant take credit for this info though, shamelessly stolen from the discussion on reddit yesterday.

Forgive my ignorance, but how does this help the defense to have this info? It is my understanding that statutory damages are for when actual damages are hard to prove. The damages are pretty hard to prove so how does this help?

Troll, that's a loan. Loans typically have to get paid back with interest.
Also, according to wolfram alpha, there are approximately 115.2M people employed in the United States. The loan was for $465M. This averages out to $4.04 per taxpayer. Not a whole lot to take off now is it?

Because nobody has lodged a formal complaint with the police. Furthermore, there is no evidence of the crime nor anyone that will testify. Just because the guy dated her doesn't mean they had sex either.

He is able to do that because he has an objective stance. He not invested in either side. As far as i can tell, he does not like the outcomes, but he tries to maintain objectivity. I Think if he was emotionally invested, and put on the spot like that there would be plenty of times for him to say, "Damn, I should have done X but I did Y"

Because, if your read the faq, it was to promote more intelligent conversations. Funny is the low hanging fruit, it gets rated up a lot more often than the informative post that tells you exactly how far that not-a-moon is away.