B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:05 Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:26 Robert Newson wrote:
>>>
>>>> From today's Metro
>>>>
>>>
> (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=40133&in_page_id=2):
>>>>
>>>> ``A computer user is suing Microsoft for £100,000 because his PC's
>>>> Internet Explorer program did not delete records of the pornography he
>>>> viewed...''
>>>>
>>>> According to the EULA, all he's entitled to is $5.00 (or something like
>>>> that), not the $200,000 he's seeking. If he wins [wc]ould it open the
>>>> floodgates for compensation for the effects of Zombies[1], etc?
>>>>
>>>> [1] I get numerous attempts by Windwos zombies at cracking my Linux box.
>>>
>>> Ah yes, but:-
>>>
>>> "But he suffered 'great embarrassment' when his porn history was found by
>>> police, who arrested him in Connecticut on weapons charges, including
>>> allegations of selling illegally modified firearms and possessing
>>> bomb-making equipment"
>>>
>>> Myself, I'd have thought that his "embarrassment" over his porn history
>>> would be the least of his worries......
>>>
>>
>> Oh man, you don't understand the US at all! ;-)
>
> Heh:-)
> I guess the way it works there is that you serve 200 years for the porn, and
> *then* they fry you for the murders, right?
Almost, you get fried for the murders and /then/ you have to do the 200
years for the pr0n... :-)
>
> Takes me back many years to a story about a guy getting a total (consecutive
> sentences) of 160 years hard labour (labor, that is).
>
> He apologised to the judge, and told him that he thought it very unlikely
> that he'd complete the sentence.
>
> The judge was quite touched, and being a very fair, reasonable and merciful
> chap, smiled and told him that he would be quite acceptable to the court if
> he simply did his best.....
>
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