Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
Enlightenment

Submission + - "Web site" term eludes judge

An anonymous reader writes: LONDON (Reuters) — A British judge admitted on Wednesday he was struggling to cope with basic terms like "Web site" in the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet. Judge Peter Openshaw broke into the questioning of a witness about a Web forum used by alleged Islamist radicals. "The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really understand what a Web site is," he told a London court during the trial of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws. Prosecutor Mark Ellison briefly set aside his questioning to explain the terms "Web site" and "forum." An exchange followed in which the 59-year-old judge acknowledged: "I haven't quite grasped the concepts."

Comment Lets see... legal standpoint from a non lawyer... (Score 1) 823

Ok, so ... how to rip this apart...
1... She's 27, this was 2005.. making her... 25 ... drinking age in the US is 21... making her 4 yrs older than the legal limit... now, I'm not a major in math (so my math here could be... ok, so it's not wrong :P) but surely... being over the legal age makes one legally allowed to drink at a party ..
2... she's drinking coolaid. (proove it)
3... There has to be some obscure state law where she is allowing pirates to consume rum after 7pm or something! I mean, hell in Morrisvill, PA You need a permit to wear make-up if your a woman Here
4... It should not be the place of the educational intitution to decree what is morally acceptable for an adult, it is for society as a whole to judge ... if she went to work in a school and offered a child some alcohol then fine, sack her... but until then she's done nothing wrong (innocent until proven guilty!)
I'm sure someone will add more funny reasons why this is going to get laughed out of court.. should be entertaining to see :)

Slashdot Top Deals

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich

Working...