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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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(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.