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Re: Intel blows it again

Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com> wrote:
>Nabeel Robert Ibrahim <ibrahim@apollo0.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>: He broke the law, he should pay for it.

>Your faith in the law is touching.  I suppose you think people should be
>shot for jaywalking if that's how the law can be interpreted.

Being shot for jaywalking?!?!?  Please, if you want to have a serious
discussion, don't make idiotic comments like that.

What ever happened to personal responsibility?  Why can't people accept
the fact that they must pay the price if they break the law?  If you
jaywalk, you should be willing to pay the price if caught.

If you (or Randal) don't like the law, write to legislators to change
it.  Stop sitting at your computers complaining about how life is unfair.

>Randal was convicted under a poorly written law, for doing what he
>thought was his job, in a town where he could scarcely have received a
>fair trial.  

I'm sorry, but that's just pure BS.  He knew what he was doing (I've read
his account of the story) and he knew the laws.  By his own admission,
he knew he was breaking the law.  What's unfair about punishing someone
who was breaking the law??  Please explain...

>The case was pressed and prosecuted by people who were
>more interested in protecting and advancing their careers than in doing
>what is right.  

That's a nice bit of libel.  Again, please explain...

>Randal did some silly things, but no sillier than most of us do all
>the time.  

If you go around and try to illegally acquire passwords, you should be
prosecuted.  It's not silly, it's illegal and an invasion of privacy.
I don't think most people go around breaking into their employers'
computer systems.

>Life sometimes punishes us for our silliness, but when
>the punishment is this far out of line, we call it a tragedy.

For the fourth or fifth time in this message, he knew he was breaking
the law...why is punishment a tragedy???

nabeel
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