[174904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Oct 4 14:41:17 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <32b17a96303c129f273a706ad88db11f.squirrel@66.201.44.180>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 11:38:11 -0700
To: bob@FiberInternetCenter.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 4, 2014, at 06:56 , Bob Evans <bob@FiberInternetCenter.com> =
wrote:
>> On 10/4/2014 01:37, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>>> Most crimes not committed by government entities have to go through
>>>> an indictment-trial-conviction sequence before punisihment is
>>>> administered.
>>>>=20
>>>> Except in Chicago.
>>>=20
>>> Whereas most crimes committed by government entities go through the
>>> same process and are then not punished.
>>=20
>> I wasn't going to go there--that gets me banned a lot.
>>=20
>>=20
>> But I do think that an related AP at the curb outside is entitled to =
a
>> trial before the death ray is unleashed against it.
>=20
> Some laws that are broken require one to remain in jail until trial
> completion, whenever one is found to be a threat to other members of
> society. So in a virtual society perhaps virtual cell walls would be
> appropriate ?
In a virtual society, nobody's life is endangered. I don't know of any =
cases (under US law) where someone has been held without bail for =
economic crimes.
Obviously, some societies allow one to be held without bail for almost =
anything, but I don't think that fits the original premise.
Owen
