I don't know what you guys are talking about, but George Pell was removed from the Pope's advisory council the other day, as was reported by all the media.
I think it's fairly reasonable to treat each set of crimes individually. If the jury knows that someone did a similar crime (or even a completely different crime) then they will be biased against the defendant. And it degrades the idea of innocent until proven guilty.
yeah, i get why that second sentence is treated the way it is, but it's still a weird legal fiction
like a lot of law, it sort of makes sense from the law's own internal logic that's been growing in weird ways for centuries
but it's still a kinda unwieldy idea when you think about it
I think it's fairly reasonable to treat each set of crimes individually. If the jury knows that someone did a similar crime (or even a completely different crime) then they will be biased against the defendant. And it degrades the idea of innocent until proven guilty.
yeah, i get why that second sentence is treated the way it is, but it's still a weird legal fiction
like a lot of law, it sort of makes sense from the law's own internal logic that's been growing in weird ways for centuries
but it's still a kinda unwieldy idea when you think about it
Especially when we have things like three strikes for shoplifting. George Pell deserves not to have his career-spanning sexual assaults coverup debacle referenced in his next trial about his career-spanning sexual assaults debacle, but some Aboriginal kid definitely deserves jail time no matter what if they get caught shoplifting three times, based on them having done it twice before.
But they still wouldn't bring it up in court. The police can't just point at the defendant and say "they've been caught shoplifting twice already." It'd make it ridiculously easy to secure a conviction. The three strikes rule, while awful, affects sentencing, not the trial itself.
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Hey all.
Have a very merry time celebrating with friends and loved ones, if you celebrate, and look after yourselves. Wishing each and every one of you nothing but the absolute best for 2019 and beyond. My door is always open.
My plane took off one hour late from LA, somehow managed to land two hours late, and we have just spent ... 45 minutes on the tarmac "waiting for a gate to open up"
I have already had to change my bus booking three times while I sit here, and since we didn't touch down until twenty minutes before the first one I booked left, I missed the change window and had to pay for a whole new ticket. Someone owes me forty bucks. Maybe God.
Edit: oh apparently there's an "IT issue" with the plane at our gate and nobody knows when it's gonna be fixed. Awesome.
Has anyone leapt up and yelled "Excuse me? Excuse me! Have they tried turning it off and on again?" much to the delight and merriment of the other passengers?
I knew it was a bad sign when we landed from the city side and not the harbour side. Flying over mascot is the equivalent of walking under eight hundred ladders.
Edit: plane! Is! Moving! After fifty-five minutes
I don't think anyone is feeling sufficiently witty to reference the it crowd. Some people may actually be dead.
It's a shame that no one has invented some sort of zig-zag'd platform that could be put up at an angle to the side of the plane, from the ground to just under the door, that might let passengers alight the plane. Perhaps some sort of large, box shaped conveyance to ferry people to the terminal could then be deployed to ease the burden of the walk, and keep people from wandering into places they shouldn't go.
Ahh well, there was certainly no possible alternative to sitting around for an hour.
Now there's a problem unloading the bags. Because of course.
Fruit and veg inspector is giving the third degree to some bros
Edit: shes hardcore. To the guy behind me: "you've got researcher as occupation? What kind of research, then?" "Medical" "so, not, like ... Botany? " "No." "'Researcher' is pretty vague, you know."
I offered to show her my card, which also says researcher. She is not amused.
Now there's a problem unloading the bags. Because of course.
Fruit and veg inspector is giving the third degree to some bros
Edit: shes hardcore. To the guy behind me: "you've got researcher as occupation? What kind of research, then?" "Medical" "so, not, like ... Botany? " "No." "'Researcher' is pretty vague, you know."
I offered to show her my card, which also says researcher. She is not amused.
Are we in the middle of a spate of illicit fruit and veg importing? I'm all for strong customs enforcement, what with the flora/fauna sitch here, but that seems a but much.
Also she never said that she's aussie, just that the accent is and that she hopes he likes it. So, she's technically not lying.. but she's still gonna get booted as soon as she drops it.
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Also she never said that she's aussie, just that the accent is and that she hopes he likes it. So, she's technically not lying.. but she's still gonna get booted as soon as she drops it.
the accent she is using is not Aussie, I should know... being fluent in upsidedown speak. so she is back to lying.
Also she never said that she's aussie, just that the accent is and that she hopes he likes it. So, she's technically not lying.. but she's still gonna get booted as soon as she drops it.
the accent she is using is not Aussie, I should know... being fluent in upsidedown speak. so she is back to lying.
Also she never said that she's aussie, just that the accent is and that she hopes he likes it. So, she's technically not lying.. but she's still gonna get booted as soon as she drops it.
the accent she is using is not Aussie, I should know... being fluent in upsidedown speak. so she is back to lying.
What does a real Australian accent sound like?
You've seen Pacific Rim, right? Chuck and Herc, two of the least Australian names I can think of off the top of my head. Perfect accents, though!
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I don't know what you guys are talking about, but George Pell was removed from the Pope's advisory council the other day, as was reported by all the media.
yeah, i get why that second sentence is treated the way it is, but it's still a weird legal fiction
like a lot of law, it sort of makes sense from the law's own internal logic that's been growing in weird ways for centuries
but it's still a kinda unwieldy idea when you think about it
Steam // Secret Satan
got some good ideas, and sorta works a bit of the time
bit shakey when you look at it at certain points
Steam // Secret Satan
Especially when we have things like three strikes for shoplifting. George Pell deserves not to have his career-spanning sexual assaults coverup debacle referenced in his next trial about his career-spanning sexual assaults debacle, but some Aboriginal kid definitely deserves jail time no matter what if they get caught shoplifting three times, based on them having done it twice before.
Have a very merry time celebrating with friends and loved ones, if you celebrate, and look after yourselves. Wishing each and every one of you nothing but the absolute best for 2019 and beyond. My door is always open.
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I have already had to change my bus booking three times while I sit here, and since we didn't touch down until twenty minutes before the first one I booked left, I missed the change window and had to pay for a whole new ticket. Someone owes me forty bucks. Maybe God.
Edit: oh apparently there's an "IT issue" with the plane at our gate and nobody knows when it's gonna be fixed. Awesome.
Edit: plane! Is! Moving! After fifty-five minutes
I don't think anyone is feeling sufficiently witty to reference the it crowd. Some people may actually be dead.
Ahh well, there was certainly no possible alternative to sitting around for an hour.
Fruit and veg inspector is giving the third degree to some bros
Edit: shes hardcore. To the guy behind me: "you've got researcher as occupation? What kind of research, then?" "Medical" "so, not, like ... Botany? " "No." "'Researcher' is pretty vague, you know."
I offered to show her my card, which also says researcher. She is not amused.
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Are we in the middle of a spate of illicit fruit and veg importing? I'm all for strong customs enforcement, what with the flora/fauna sitch here, but that seems a but much.
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Twitter: @PoeticGecko
But white tails. Fuck white tails.
Yes, I realise that not removing the other spiders is what attracts the white tails...
He has a water droplet for a hat!
PSN / Xbox / NNID: Fodder185
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Nooooooooo.
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Strewth, we've been found out! This fair dinkum cobber will give us all the boot.
Satans..... hints.....
You've seen Pacific Rim, right? Chuck and Herc, two of the least Australian names I can think of off the top of my head. Perfect accents, though!
Time to start sounding more like a galah.
You bloody beauty!
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She’s not quite spot on, but it’s definitely around the right ballpark, and a lot closer than a lot of fake ‘strayan accents get.
It's more than good enough for american TV, and that's really all that it needs to be.