Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "JHY" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 04:48:30 +1000 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <1237760464460595006.530087peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net p2IguORrNgNVPxwjeBddfghzApqT9oOj4Cgt35QXmTzsxsHEI= Cancel-Lock: sha1:uuZDhYJMRf7lA8AtW4vIbTzICvo= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:149472 "Stephen Sprunk" wrote in message news:mq2h0o$pm8$1@dont-email.me... > On 07-Aug-15 07:24, Osmium wrote: >> "Gene Wirchenko" wrote: >>> Peter Flass wrote: >>>> Unless one or more of the 100 goes on to commit other crimes >>>> such as rape or murder. Better to have the guilty people locked >>>> up,even at the cost of having a few innocent people locked ip. >>> >>> Will you think the same if you get locked up? (I assume you are >>> one of the innocent.) >> >> That's one of the costs of living in a free society, a miniscule >> chance that you will be found guilty and punished for something you >> didn't do. > > Would you say the same if your skin color meant that being wrongly found > guilty and punished (or even killed by cops) wasn't "minuscule" but in > fact a normal occurrence? > >> I consider that a good trade for the ability to walk >> around the block in the middle of the night. > > More white privilege. People of color are likely to get arrested (or > even killed) for walking around in the middle of the night. > > Heck, _I_ have been stopped numerous times by cops for walking around at > night. Nothing happened to me, It has only ever happened the once to me and nothing happened to me either except wasting a few minutes of my time. > but if I weren't white... Nothing has ever happened to any of the non whites I know either. >> Most of us on this newsgroup can do that, there are millions of >> people in the US for whom that would be a *big* mistake. > > Exactly.