Re: Breaking eggs

2000-08-22 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Jim Choate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > That's the reason that tentative is punished (almost) as if it succeeded. > > Tentative means to 'try as a trial'. I don't think this is the word you're > looking for. This might be a false friend; "tentative" in Romanian means "atte

Re: Breaking eggs

2000-08-22 Thread Ray Dillinger
I'm of the opinion that an *attempted* crime should probably be punished as a crime. The question is of action, knowledge, and intent, rather than result. I'm also of the opinion that people do not have the right to take reasonably foreseeable risks with other people's lives or property, a

Re: Breaking eggs

2000-08-22 Thread landon dyer
At 01:53 PM 8/22/2000 -0400, you wrote: >I'm of the opinion that an *attempted* crime should probably be >punished as a crime. The question is of action, knowledge, and >intent, rather than result. oh no! i *attempted* to hand-draw a naked eight-year-old in a sexually compromising position,

Re: Breaking eggs

2000-08-22 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "landon dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'm of the opinion that an *attempted* crime should probably be > >punished as a crime. The question is of action, knowledge, and > >intent, rather than result. > > oh no! i *attempted* to hand-draw a naked eight-year-old > in a s

Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech

2000-08-22 Thread David Honig
ion of the word "whore." But that's *ebonics*! http://www.latimes.com/news/front/2822/t78931.html

Re: Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech

2000-08-22 Thread Tim May
At 3:37 PM -0400 8/22/00, David Honig wrote: >Disney to Settle Racial Bias Suit Over > Radio Gag > > By CHUCK PHILIPS, Times Staff Writer > > >Walt Disney Co. has agr