If you keep your hand on the shifter, you're doing it wrong.

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You of course have a right to plead guilty up front and take your sentence, what they shouldn't have the right to do is bully you into thinking the sentence you are getting from them is any worse than you would at jury trial.

No, I didn't ignore it. Read what I wrote again. I do not believe it's an actual benefit and I explained why.

Plea deals have no benefit. A remorseful criminal that pleads guilty have a lot of benefit. A guilty person who pleas into a lighter sentence and has no remorse does not lead to justice being served. An innocent person who fears they might lose despite their innocence and takes a plea deal into any sentence feels let down by the system and does not lead to justice being served. A guilty person who feels remorse and pleads guilty and takes their just sentence is what you're looking for, and those rarely come out of one side using threats and bargains to get them.

Yes, we do. We have a right to a trial by a jury. Every one of us. That includes stupid criminals. The alternative, where an officer or a lawyer or anyone else that decides a persons fate without due process is ripe for abuse. Really nasty and bad abuse.

So in the case of rape we should just find the accused guilty without a 'pointless' trial rather than permit them the right to have their crimes proven? We're not talking about accused that are going to plead guilty on their own free will, we're talking about accused that are being strong armed into a guilty plea, innocent or not, because it's cheaper.

That's not showing that downloading is illegal.

It doesn't until they get into hardware being made to support such things in ways to preclude you making modifications to your own hardware and software because they fear their system is breakable. That's the path they are on now and the sooner we take a stand against it the better.

That depends on the person. While you are perfectly fine making assumptions about this particular individual, I ask you to consider that perhaps you don't know this individual and not everyone conforms to your generalizations. I knew women in my high school that were perfectly capable in raising children, but I also recognize that it's not the norm.

It's not clear to me who you mean by 'such people'. Do you mean fathers that would do what the father in the anecdote did? Do you mean people like me that recognize that not everyone conforms to my worldview and it's sort of arrogant to assume everyone does? Remember, you don't know this girl like you might know your daughter(s), if any.

That would depend on the child.

I don't know her and I'm not comfortable assuming I know her motivations due to statistics. That gets into really scary territory.

You are saying that her father is a horny teenager?! I don't understand that logic, sorry. I've been to high school and there were all sorts of people there, from the irresponsible horny teenager to the multi-millionaire self-made business-women at 17.

I am offended by your certainty because that's the kind of reasoning that says "well, she's Asian, she's 17, she lives in Burbank, she drives a BMW, hence she is X, Y, and Z for certain because statistically that's most likely". Let people be themselves, not a statistic.

I don't have any children.

I overlooked in my preview that Slashdot ate the less-than sign before the '10%'. I meant of course 'down to < 10%'.

Just look out for those that will automate generation of junk low-priority issues to get that percent of high-priority issues down to 10% so they can file their high-priority issue.

Sorry, I meant Artraze not apatheon.

You make quite a few assumptions.

1) How do you know she's decided to be a slut?
2) How do you know she's interested in higher education?
3) How do you know she's career-minded?
4) How do you know she's selected the father irresponsibly?

Let people live their lives how they want to. If you are willing to ascribe names like slut and assume irresponsibility to a complete stranger over the internet, I wonder what sort of reactions you would have to your own children. I think you considered the same angle as apatheon, only from the side of the father rather than the daughter who didn't feel comfortable sharing her life decisions with her controlling parent.

I am not. I was grandfathered in a while back and yes my contract ended, but I renewed it to get the 4S. I still have my grandfathered unlimited plan, but a two-year contract.