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Comment: Re:Focus all you want... (Score 1) 207

by Delarth799 (#43488539) Attached to: Kobo CEO Says Not Selling Washing Machines Key To Overtaking Amazon
Which is kind of ironic considering their cloud vending came from their retail business. Amazon used to have tons of extra server power set aside which was just used keep the site running smoothly during the insane blitz of online shoppers during the holiday season. Of course that only lasted for a month or so out of the year so they began to lease out that extra server power during all the months it wasn't in use.

Comment: Re:The big rush (Score 1) 175

by Delarth799 (#43487585) Attached to: A Critique of the Boston Bombing News Coverage (Video)
I remember a quote from a while back that said "We don't have reporters these days, only stenographers" Which is true more and more each day. Almost nobody fact checks anymore they just spew it out as fast as they can write it down. Sure some of the more local places are better but the bigger news companies its getting rarer and rarer.

Comment: Re:British Nurse Suicide (Score 5, Interesting) 430

by Delarth799 (#42612699) Attached to: After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors
This was originally posted on ThinkProgress but I will post it here to put that 35 years into perspective for those who don't quite get it. He also was reported to have refused the plea bargain so the full book would have been thrown at him so to speak.

Manslaughter: Federal law provides that someone who kills another human being “[u]pon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion” faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if subject to federal jurisdiction. The lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of only six years.

Bank Robbery: A person who “by force and violence, or by intimidation” robs a bank faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. If the criminal “assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device,” this sentence is upped to a maximum of 25 years.

Selling Child Pornography: The maximum prison sentence for a first-time offender who “knowingly sells or possesses with intent to sell” child pornography in interstate commerce is 20 years. Significantly, the only way to produce child porn is to sexually molest a child, which means that such a criminal is literally profiting off of child rape or sexual abuse.

Knowingly Spreading AIDS: A person who “after testing positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and receiving actual notice of that fact, knowingly donates or sells, or knowingly attempts to donate or sell, blood, semen, tissues, organs, or other bodily fluids for use by another, except as determined necessary for medical research or testing” faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

Selling Slaves: Under federal law, a person who willfully sells another person “into any condition of involuntary servitude” faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, although the penalty can be much higher if the slaver’s actions involve kidnapping, sexual abuse or an attempt to kill.

Helping al-Qaeda Develop A Nuclear Weapon: A person who “willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources . . . to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years.”

Violence At International Airports: Someone who uses a weapon to “perform[] an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation that causes or is likely to cause serious bodily injury” faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years if their actions do not result in a death.

Comment: Re:Refreshing (Score 2) 758

by Delarth799 (#42481367) Attached to: Anti-GMO Activist Recants
People are all too often told that they are or can never be wrong or believe that if they are somehow wrong they have failed, so they grow up ignoring anything that might prove them "wrong" because they cannot accept the fact that maybe they are to some extent. There is nothing bad about finding out you are incorrect but most people, especially in America, seem to have this notion otherwise...

Comment: Re:I call... (Score 1) 285

by Delarth799 (#42455245) Attached to: Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices
You've never seen what the average accounting and legal department in a medium to large size business can print off in a single day have you? Some of these departments can easily go through 30 to 100+ sheets of paper a day per person since people don't usually do a great job of proofreading things so they hit print X copies and then they will see something is wrong so they have to reprint another X copies to fix the mistake. It really does add up.

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