On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:02:26 -0700, rusi wrote: > > > On Thursday, July 4, 2013 7:03:19 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Simmons wrote: > >> Boy oh boy! You really are a slow learner Nicos. You have just offered > >> to commit a crime and to include dozens of others in that crime ON A > >> PUBLIC FORUM. Please think before you post. > > > > For the record Steve, let me say, I find Robert Kern's objection barely > > sufficient. > > > > And yours less than that. > > > > Note that you are not objecting to the crime > > Which crime is that? Presumably you mean an actual criminal felony, not a > mere civil offence. Under which jurisdiction? > > > > but to the public > > expression of it. Just look at your objection from the angle of a police > > officer, and you will see that it can certainly be construed as > > abetment/collusion > > If piracy is a crime, and not just a civil offence, then surely so is > libel. You have just accused Steve Simmons of collusion in a felony, > based on absolutely no evidence at all. That's as clear a case of libel > as I've ever seen. Although I'm not sure that the damages should be > terribly high -- there's little evidence that anyone treats your > ridiculously exaggerated claims about other people's supposed crimes as > anything but hot air. > > But, putting damages aside, according to what passes for the reasoning > that you have demonstrated here, your committing libel would make you > equally a "petty criminal" as Nikos. > > > Speaking of petty, this whole witch-hunt is getting ridiculous. Don't you > have something more productive to do? Accusing people of colluding in > crimes because they fail to be sufficiently zealous in "objecting to the > crime" is nuts. > > > -- > Steven > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > You've got your OO class hierarchy mixed up and then imposing that on me. See http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/crimes-felonies-misdemeanors-infractions-classification-33814.html I did not say or suggest felony. Maybe misdemeanor or infarction. Dunno which. IANAL...
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