today, i cleaned up house quite a bit in order to find the space to put in my weight bench and to give me more room to work out. now the bench is setup, and i'm ready to go with that.

Cost of Terry Nichols' Trial. The citizens of Oklahoma shelled out more than $5.2 million to try and kill Terry Nichols: The final costs of Terry Nichols' state case will exceed $5.2 million. More than $3.75 million has already been paid on his defense since… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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i'm not sure representing it in monetary terms does this justice. we are talking more about a human life and several human lives, reducing it to monetary comparisons seems banal.

Lawyers vs. Computer Scientists. James Grimmelmann has an interesting pointer to an article purporting to describe the difference between how computer scientists and lawyers think. The core of the article is that legal data has “color”, or provenance. It’s a fun essay, but as someone who often straddles this divide, I think it’s missing something important. But darned if I can put my finger on what it is. Maybe that law is often about shades of gray, when computer logic is binary?… [Discourse.net]

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i think the main difference is the will of computer science to rebuild the whole from scratch rebuilding ad infinitum. 'color' i would argue is the same for both.

maybe this is what the president needs, then once he can remember basic facts, we can move on to ethics boot camp.