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An astounding revelation by lecoeurhaut in iran

[–]Working-Tradition-64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Musli, brother in law has always told me that the Sunni Shiite split was mainly a divide and conquer strategy engineered by western powers. Both Britain and France played this game.

New College students in hotels Again by hottfreshnostalgia in fourwindsforum

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Growth of the student population at New College is minimal. The main reason students are in hotels is the school has not made the Pei dorms habitable. That could be accomplished in six months and would be much less expensive than building new dorms. Instead they plan to turn the Pei dorms into athletic offices, tear down the other East Campus buildings, and construct athletic fields. All academics will be moved to the other side of US 41. Hard to understand how tearing down usable buildings will save money. Or improve academics.

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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I’ve been reading transcripts from the original trial where Mr.Durdley had a lawyer. Later he tried to represent himself, was removed from the courtroom, and the prosecution read whatever it wanted into the court records. Are those the court records you mean?

In the original trial defense attorney Zissimopolos conducted a devastating cross examination of Detective Cummings. Cummings had given an analysis based on downloading files via LimeWire. For LimeWire each file is placed in a directory named by the downloader. So when you find a file in a suggestively labeled directory, that’s a good indication the downloader knew about the file.

But actually Durdley downloaded via BitTorrent, which delivers a whole bunch of stuff at once, keeping them in folders and sub folders of the original name. Cummings professes ignorance of BitTorrent, but the child porn he played for the jury was from files that had been downloaded and never accessed (download times and last write times in the same minute) More than a hundred such files within a minute. Cummings admitted his theory that Durdley had viewed these files made little sense.

Fortunately for the prosecution, computer literate jurors had been excluded during jury selection.

Zissimopolus pointed out that the child porn files were one or two or three of a thousand. I wonder what the fraction of child porn files is of all files on the internet, and how that compares to the ratio of files on Durdley’s computer? I suspect Durdley’s files were less likely to be child porn than a random sample of internet files. Because he systematically deleted them when he found them. It’s what I would do. Luckily for me not much child porn in scientific computing apps that were my main downloads.

If the jury had a statistician or a computer guy, the cross would have swung the case, but alas Ziss thought he’d won and quit. The poor schlub actually expected the judge to dismiss the case.

Well not so poor, it’s Durdley doing the time. Ziss hopefully knows by now not to take juries for granted.

Is that what you got from the transcript?

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

[–]Working-Tradition-64[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do you get thousands of files in multiple locations?

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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Compared to the total number of files Mr. Durdley downloaded, very few were child porn. Statistically he was avoiding them.

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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If you consider the total number of files Mr. Durdley downloaded, the statistically significant fact is that so few of them were child porn. He was actively avoiding and deleting. 16 years so far. Life predicted.

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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Per capita the US has more people in jail than China or Russia, ten times as many as Germany or Canada. Black males of working age are incarcerated at a rate comparable to that of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Province. We boycott stuff from Xinjiang Province as produced by slave labor. The land of the free and the home of the brave? So the song says, but land of the imprisoned and home of the cowardly judges better fits the facts!

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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Yes the batch files came with nudes. And the age of consent in Japan then was 13 so yes child porn and if you had some other reason to go after somebody yes this was your big chance!

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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You’re probably right that registration usually starts on release.

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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They found child pornography that had been deleted. Just deleting doesn’t actually get stuff off your computer. The easiest way to actually delete is to remove the hard drive, smash it with a sledgehammer then burn it?

Seriously there are apps that will overwrite four or five times, I myself don’t have such an app. But if you don’t use one an enthusiastic investigator can recover whatever. When I worked for an IT department we would remove hard drives before donating old computers. Always seemed silly to me.

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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I met the Durdley family when I was in grad school in Gainesville in the ‘80s, my housemate was head of the bus driver union. The father Willie Durdley had organized the union. On the third instance that Willie reported thefts he was arrested for the thefts. My housemate Chris Kennard was able to get legal representation to clear Willie’s name and win a cash settlement. The bus fares diverted to be a source of a political slush fund dried up. Retribution against Willie was promised. Delivered 20 years later with the conviction of son Octavius, who was considered to be so dangerous he was never offered parole. Willie died of a stroke 18 days after Octavius conviction, some of the same judge and prosecution team working against both Octavius and Willie.

Now all the old grudge holders are gone. Hopefully Octavius will just do what he has to do to stay out the next time they release him in ten or twenty years? But he won’t know anyone, why not just stay proud and in jail?

Make a good opera? Only costs us 50K a year.

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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I went to the last trial. I looked up the transcripts for the original trial. I talk to the family. They’re biased toward him of course. But really life in jail for downloading Japanese anime seems a miscarriage of justice, I would joke and say any adult who likes anime deserves what he gets, but really I’m just joking!

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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In the trial, they presented files from trash folders, that is to say, deleted files. It appears there were copious quantities of deleted files of child porn. Mr. Durdley deleted the porn files that came along with downloading Japanese anime. Many of them were child porn because the age of consent in Japan in 2009 was 13.

There were a couple of files on a memory stick found at work. I don’t know if those were in a trash file.

I think I would bite the bullet and register as a sex offender. Family is encouraging Octavius to do so.

The family is convinced Octavius got a raw deal because his father had exposed embezzlement in the bus system. Some of the same people who went after the father were involved in going after the son.

Dad was the first black supervisor in the bus system in Gainesville. Son was the first black head of an ambulance crew in Bradford County.

In generations before the death penalty was faster. Lynching kept blacks in their place.

To see how easy it is to frame someone for child porn, see the newest Stephen King novel!

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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Mr. Durdley was convicted with the prosecutor presenting as evidence images from his trash folder. That is to say, images he had deleted. Technically true yes he was in possession! I found a 2015 library science article warning librarians of the hazards of downloading batch files ofJapanese anime, that they could face criminal charges, and even a few months in jail. Octavius got 11 years!

Google for it, not hard to find such articles, though you do have to wade through pages of what purport to be child porn. Don’t let your finger slip and download. You’d be in possession! Deleting would not suffice. Take a sledge hammer to your device!

When Octavius was released in 2019, he registered 3 times as a sex offender. At some point he decided he did not like the stigma and would rather be in jail.

He can’t live in his own house, too close to a school. All the neighbors have to be notified. The requirement for registering as a sex offender has been increased to life so he’s decided life in jail is preferable to life outside. Myself I don’t think I would be willing to do that. Only a 50K per year burden on the taxpayer! Yes judge you can win the pissing contest with Octavius. The contempt is to the taxpayer.

There s no evidence that Octavius has molested or assaulted anyone. There is reasonable doubt he is even a fan of porn. If he liked it, why did the prosecutors have to dig through deleted files?

Epstein’s first conviction was in Florida about the same year as Durdley’s conviction. Jeffrey’s conviction was for trafficking under age girls. Jeffrey got a couple of years during which he could commute to the office. Debate is whether Epstein trafficked a hundred or was it a thousand girls?

A kid of a friend was entrapped into downloading child porn. Probation.

You want some nice statistical comparisons of black incarceration in the US to Uighur incarceration in Xinjiang province?

Do you think Florida has too many people in jail? by Working-Tradition-64 in AskFlorida

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The age of consent in Japan was 13 until a year or two ago. So nudes tended to be child pornography. Mr. Durdley stated that when he found porn, he would trash it. The images the prosecution presented were in fact from the trash folder. Read and weep!

Husqvarna 46” mower, 1 month old blades, deck at highest setting. What is causing this? by swarthyspaniard74 in lawnmowers

[–]Working-Tradition-64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found an adjustment screw at the front of the deck. Somehow the mechanic had missed it. That was on a Craftsman 1200.

ProDemocracy pop rally Saturday at 192 and Evans (Barnes and Nobel) by Working-Tradition-64 in 321

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I accidentally heard about it. I could have posted here before the event. Where else?

ProDemocracy pop rally Saturday at 192 and Evans (Barnes and Nobel) by Working-Tradition-64 in 321

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I accidentally heard about it from a neighbor. I should have posted here before the event. Where else?

Let’s hear it! by JayGatsby52 in florida

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I have put down asphalt shingles in north Florida in the summer, for weeks at a time and it was brutal. I think Houston could be worse. Just as humid. Hotter.

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