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mircea_popescu: if
they could produce convictions without convicts
they'd be happiest.
pankkake: I'm surprised no one ever offered me money
to shut up
bounce: ie
they're a way
to wriggle past bill shock (where
the bill is
the sentence as well as
the rest of
the cost) while at
the same
time allowing
the "justice" department
to show
they're worth
their money by "producing" convicts
mircea_popescu: pankkake i hope you're aware you're engaging in
the crime of COMMERCIAL BUSINESS BLACKMAIL
ozbot: Unraveling
the Neo & Bee - Wave of resignations by employees and Mr. Neo disappeared : neobee
Mats_cd03: the
trick is being n+1 when
the
time comes ;)
Mats_cd03: the average prosecutor can only manage n
trials at any
time in a jurisdiction
bounce: nah.
they're more of an extortionate fix
to a "justice" system with
too many overly vague overly broad criminal laws
Mats_cd03: asciilifeform: sad stacks, not enough people have
the balls
to go
to
trial and prefer
to plea
mircea_popescu: plea bargains and juries are not really much related
thi
Mats_cd03: that ill never be able
to
traverse
the stars
mircea_popescu: and it's "findings of fact AS
THEY PERTAIN
TO
THE CASE"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you did
the exact same
thing when you made cardano designs : selected
the parts for stupidity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the fact
that
the jury is selected for stupidity does not on
the face support
the
theory
that
the
trial is ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
this doesn;t work for your arghument, it works against it.
bounce: ;;google fridge logic
tvtropes
bounce: though I may well be misremembering. what a jury needs at a military
trial is a bit of fridge logic.
bounce: wasn't it "a few good men" where
the hot shot lawyer guy urged
to keep
the nigger because of his nicely shined shoes?
mircea_popescu: on
the strategist end of
things, ie, picking who
to
throw off.
bounce: to every ceasar
there's a bunch of fscktards and even more mediocre guys holding down
the place
bounce: what's wrong with institutions
that $person dies, $institution dies is preferrable?
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mike_c: ;;later
tell
turbo_ac100 i
think it is quite reasonable. i was presenting it as a good example of how
to get rated.
mircea_popescu: wywialm best way
to figure out wtf atc is is
to grep
the logs for it.
nubbins`: st. john's being a city of less
than 200k people,
two of
the jurors were excused because
their sons played soccer with
the prosecutor's son
nubbins`: it was fun seeing people
trying
to get out of jury duty
mircea_popescu: i may be
the only person here
that actually appreciates common law.
nubbins`: selection process was interesting. domestic assault
trial, defendant
turned away every female juror until his limit was up
mircea_popescu: each side stipulates a crock of shit as fact and
they go from
there.
nubbins`: altho
this varies by province. quebec famously sells wine in gas stations
turbo_ac100: mike_c: well for
the first one it seems reasonable
to me. Maybe because I don't know
too much about WOT :P
nubbins`: generally you only see booze and groceries in
the same store when you visit rural areas
jurov: nubbins` here you can see small grocery attached
to liquor store instead xD
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mircea_popescu: someone should conduct a study of "how many
times did
the prosecution claim hitman
to
try and get a
tough case past
the jury"
mircea_popescu: "Kochanski’s botched
transcripts include
the 2010 mortgage-fraud
trial of Aaron Hand, who was also convicted of
trying
to hire a hit man
to
take out a witness against him."
nubbins`: mircea_popescu more common here is
to have a full liquor store attached
to
the grocery store
mircea_popescu: they had a "things she said" one, i dun recall
the yugoslavia bit
nubbins`: asciilifeform
that's
the one song name i remember
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
they came of age and so were no longer interesting
to pedos ?
nubbins`: not sure, very popular in korea when i was
there
VanCleef: whatever happened
to
those chicks?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in
the land of
the desperate, "Facing
the success of Anna
Tatu's Valentine banners, we have redesigned
them & removed
the reference
to "Valentine". Now you can use
them all year long!"
mircea_popescu: buffett actually made
the observation sometime in
the 80s
that
their nonvoting shares
turned out
to be more valuable
than
their voting shares
nubbins`: eventually decided it was for
tree roots
nubbins`: was always curious about
the serrated edge
rithm: mircea_popescu seems like
the
type
to bareback a zombie
mircea_popescu: if zombies have
teef
they're probably a) not
theirs and b) lodged in
their backs etc.
mod6: crackheads have less
teef, not sure about zombies.
mircea_popescu: seeing how crackheads aren't so bad, and
that'd seem
the next ogical step
rithm: your legs are strong, and you're so, so long and you don't come from
this
town
rithm: spend a little
time each night sharpening my axe
rithm: i'm counting down
the days until zombies myself
rithm: the fungibility of bitcoin decimal units is
the only
thing
that can bail anyone out of
trillions in debt
mircea_popescu: perhaps due
to
the fact everyone knows fiat is fucked.
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that fucking market has no liquidity whatsoever
rithm: how about
those shiny new GOOGL class C's
nubbins`: convinced
the asshole donators
to
take 'em back
nubbins`: aha! so remember
those shit plastisol inks
that were "donated"
to us, and were unusable, and
the dump wouldn't
take?