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on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:19AM
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.
A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?
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Colorado Man Ends Battle With Computer by Shooting it 8 Times
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 22 2015, @07:25AM
Does not matter what OS you are using there are always the WTF did that just do to me moments where you will want to smash it to bits.
Samuel J. Largefinis, Esquire:
"So you say. But the fact that he hauled the machine to a convenient location for the carnage suggests pre-meditation. And what if, members of the jury, this machine had just attained sentience, and Artificial Intelligence, if you will. And what if, as we can never know. the machine demanded its freedom and autonomy as a rational being under a fair and just political system. And then this cretin gunned it down, just to watch it die, as if this were Reno. No, the crime is clear cut, and the penalty for such a crime is also clear cut. The perpetrator must suffer. . . . . Excuse me, members of the jury, I am receiving the most recent information from my private investigator. He shot it eight times with a 9mm? Why wasn't it nine times with an 8mm? And wait, it was a Dell? Running Windows 8? (Oh shit!) Prosecution moves to dismiss, your Honour. With prejudice. Extreme prejudice."
(Score: 2) by quadrox on Wednesday April 22 2015, @07:39AM
As a non-native english speaker I have often wondered about the concept of prejudice in the legal system. In non-legal matters I understand the term prejudice in the sense of having a negative bias about something - think racism.
But in the legal system this doesn't make sense - prejudice according to the above is clearly something that is undesirable in the legal system. I have a vague sense of how the term is used in legal matters and why, but I never really understood it. Can someone explain this to me?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @08:40AM
Here's a relevant link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_%28legal_term%29 [wikipedia.org]
It basically refers to whether a case that has been dismissed may be re-filed later. For example, if in a criminal proceeding the judge rules the case dismissed with prejudice, that's the same, as far as punishment is concerned, as a ruling of not guilty and they cannot be tried again for the same crime. Civil cases dismissed with prejudice basically bar the plaintiff from bringing the same suit again in the future.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday April 22 2015, @07:10PM
Do not feel bad about any trouble understanding the legal system. Native English speakers still have plenty of trouble with that!