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charonn0, 20 days ago

That’s not exactly what happened.

Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there’s every reason to think he’d have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.

charonn0, 20 days ago

plea for 1/2 that was rejected

The rejected plea was for 6 months.

charonn0, 20 days ago

web.archive.org/web/20140721052709/…/story.html

charonn0, 26 days ago

Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?

-Sony representative, November 2005

charonn0, 8 days ago

Kirk penetrates an alien organism in order to destroy its reproductive organs.

charonn0, 21 days ago

“Richard Dawkins confirms intelligent design mostly likely explanation”

charonn0, 6 days ago

drove a balrog out of its natural habitat

Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

charonn0, 9 days ago

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you’d say “in the consulship of Jones and Smith”. 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of “Julius and Caesar”.

charonn0, 14 days ago

Annual commemorative pastry observance

charonn0, 13 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

All participants select their own random whole number and publish it to the group. All participants add all the numbers together. The result is either odd or even (heads/tails) and everyone arrives at the same result independently.

charonn0, 12 days ago

It doesn’t have to be addition. It could be a hash function, etc.

charonn0, 8 days ago

One is high fantasy, the other is satire. They may be technically very similar, but as far as tone and mood they are very different beasts. Like Star Wars and Spaceballs.

charonn0, 5 days ago

It’s also an English expression.

charonn0, 19 days ago

What, never?

charonn0, 23 days ago

Destabilizing the system is the point. Trump is just the tool.

charonn0, 12 days ago

The researchers say they derived the name of its genus, hotwheels, directly from the beloved toy due to the structure of the male spiders’ reproductive organs. […] “Because of the lack of nerves in the palpal bulb, the challenges faced by a male spider attempting to copulate can be likened to those of a person attempting to adjust a complex, delicate mechanism in the dark, using an elongate, elaborately formed fingernail”

charonn0, 21 days ago

It goes on to say that they did this in public while recording themselves.

charonn0, 2 days ago

Hello. Smithers. You’re. Quite. Good. At. Turning. Me. On.

Lisa makes a doll to compete with Malibu Stacy’s anti-feminist message.

charonn0, 27 days ago

I am endeavoring, ma’am, to construct a cosmic force laser sword using stone knives and bearskins.

charonn0, 12 days ago

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, …because they’ll never come again. …What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. …After all, Number One, we’re only mortal.

charonn0, 19 days ago

The hair is all wrong.