edison_carter

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by edison_carter 11y ago
> I don't really understand why other manufacturers can't make a MBA... Lenovo's Carbon X1 is that machine for me. I carried an Air (running Debian) for a couple of years. I've since replaced it with a Carbon X1, and
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by edison_carter 11y ago
Exactly. I work for defense attorneys, and they deal with a huge amount of private, protected, highly-confidential data. I honestly don't know how we can keep implementing Microsoft solutions... have been debating switching everything
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by edison_carter 11y ago
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by edison_carter 11y ago
You might be surprised. I'd say that child pornography is often punished more harshly than child rape. The justice system weights the crime of consuming child pornography by the number of images the defendent is in "possession&q
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by edison_carter 11y ago
You're right; there is tremendous pressure from both district attorneys and judges to cop a plea. Trials piss everyone off because they are "such a waste of time." Criminal defense attorneys have to contend not just with the
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by edison_carter 12y ago
But.. what about parallel construction? We know that the NSA is feeding tips to, among others, the DEA and ATFE -- they're just pretending to find out about criminal activity in other-than-blanket-surveilance ways. The practice is so c
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by edison_carter 12y ago
Not quite. The role of the defense is much as you describe; to advance every conceivable argument, etc. The role of the prosecutor is intended to be a seeker of truth, however, which doesn't always mean aggressively seeking conviction.