I've more or less been slowly writing this all day today, though the size of it does not reflect that. shrugs Ah-well.
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There is a man in Florida who has some incredible guts, whatever his other faults. [This story] talks about a man who full-page newspaper ad in an attempt to contact his wife and save his Marriage. Whatever his faults, I think it must have taken great courage to use so public a method to reach her. I hope things work out.
In Delaware, a "life" sentence now means 45 years.1 Lovely. People argue against the death penalty saying that in the modern era, it is possible to keep society safe without it. I tend to agree, but things like this make me wonder if that is true.
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I hate it when users get ideas about how easy something is to implement. I hate it even more when they think they can dictate priorities. Why can people not grasp that in an open source project, only the developers' priorities matter?
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/other/1110/1-26-2005/20050126030014_03.html [This story]: http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/other/features/1120/1-26-2005/20050126053003_40.html ↩