Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-14-2010

[andrewducker]

• Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 are retired
  (tags: windows support software)
• Digital ad portrayed Catholic Queen as flesh-eating zombie
  (tags: religion advertising uk)
• Stupid reasons why game publishers passed on a "Joe Danger"
  (tags: business gaming publishing)
• Privacy fears over gay teenage database
  (tags: privacy gay usa)
• RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales
  (tags: music copyright business economics marketing riaa accounting media)
• Appeals Court Strikes Down Indecency Rule
  (tags: freespeech usa media law)
• Vintage LGBTQ photographs
  (tags: lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer photography)
• Apple deleting message threads about Consumer Reports/iPhone 4 on their forums
  (tags: apple iphone StreisandEffect)
• What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain
  (tags: caffeine science)
• Proof of the Laffer Curve
  (tags: tax uk)
• US attorney vows to continue pursuit of Roman Polanski. Swiss blame the Americans, of course.
  (tags: usa switzerland RomanPolanski)
• French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in public
  (tags: religion france EpicFail rights)
• Yorks cops charge Segway rider under 1835 road law
  (tags: segway road transport uk)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the Polanski thing was the fault of the US Justice Department and the LA County DA's office - both of which refused to turn over documentation required by Swiss law in any deportation case.

What particularly bugged them is that a transcript exists of the original plea bargain negotiated in the judge's chambers with Polanski's attorney and the District Attorney.

This transcript has been kept under seal for more than three decades - and there is a general assumption that the judge told Polanski that if he plead guilty he did his stint in the psychiatric hospital the judge would not send him to jail.

If so, the US Justice Department would have a strong incentive to keep that transcript sealed because it would make it impossible to sentence Polanski to any additional jail time.

And, to be honest, I can't think of any other reason why they would not provide that normally public document to Swiss authorities if it didn't completely undermine America's case to put him in jail.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

My old PC is still on Win2000...

*sigh* I'll have to get XP :(

[andrewducker]

I hear Linux is good :->

[andrewducker]

It does seem like a screw-up by the US, doesn't it?

And everybody gets to blame everyone else!

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

At the end of the day extradition of a non US national should be taken very, very seriously. And, unless the request is flawless should probably be denied. Particularly when you are talking about a Holocaust survivor and someone whose family was the victim of a serial killer.

Yes, I think Polanski should have gone to jail for what he did to that girl, but I also believe in the rule of law and subscribe to the "let 100 guilty men go free rather than convict one innocent man theory."

The thing is that by rejecting his extradition it will encourage the US justice system to prosecute other sex crimes the right way, rather than leaving gaping holes in their evidence path.

And let me tell you in an American citizen was sitting in New York and Germany wanted him extradited but didn't give us the proper paperwork we would have told Germany to fuck off as well.

[andrewducker]

Yup, agreed on all counts.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Ugh!

First, now I have a mac for work it's purely a games machine. Secondly, ugh -- I could just stab myself with needles and get the overall effect of the UI.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I love the vintage LGBT pics!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

See, I'm conflicted on the whole Polanski thing.

On one hand, he should go to jail for rape.
On the other, we're talking about putting someone in a *US* prison, which is something civilised countries do not do, and we're talking about putting an old man who is a sex offender in a crime against a child who is *famous* in a US prison, which is even worse.