Some criminal, who broke into this dudes house and was going to do god knows what. What if the owner was a 100 lbs female instead? What happens then? Does she get assaulted physically? Sexually? The OP did the world a service.

Cold blood? From what I understand, this criminal is still a live and in custody where he belongs. Why defend pieces of shit? If OP went American History X on the guy sure, but he gave him one hook and a push down. Boo-hoo, go live in CHAZ you nut.

Yeah I looked it up and you are absolutely correct! Thanks for learning me something

I suppose. But it sounds more like a movie script - a domestic terrorist attack on a train transporting hazardous wastes?

Admittedly, I've seen youtube videos of train derailments with disastrous consequences - such as the total loss of a few homes in close proximity to the line. ...and that's the best case outcome for the hypothetical terrorist in this scenario. It just sounds like a very technical plan with a lot of variables and low expected yield. Probably easier to highjack an airplane, or (ironically) target a commuter train.

The public could benefit from knowing industrial train schedules. Suppose a commuter would prefer to take an alternate route to avoid being delayed by the passing of a long train at a RR crossing? Maybe a farmer could move his grazing cattle to another field father away from the tracks. Maybe my dad wouldn't have picked a camp site near lines with trains passing at 2am, blaring their air horns. Hell, I bet the timing of passing trains could significantly influence property values - I would want that info before buying a house. Etc.

Completely agree

I don’t know that this is true. Someone else in this post cited that it’s $80m to build a new school and the repair is $25M.

They're transitioning to just the large bins, it's a waste to give out small bins that will need to be tossed anyway

oh baby, the hill you are choosing to die on tonight is sus.

2012 ussc suggestions to congress would still pin johnny to the mat. the enhancements they suggest in one of the three areas is based on type of content, volume in possession, age of the victims, types of misconduct depicted, and how they’ve organized and maintained the collection over time.

You clearly do not see child pornography possession as an issue in any amount so i’m done engaging with you. Possession is what enables the market to thrive, endangering countless children of all ages. It’s a really fucking weird thing to not be bothered by and I really hope you have no children of your own with viewpoints like these.

I saw your other comment that said your party would be 13. That's not unmanageable for a lot of good stuff in the city!

What kind of food do you want for your fun night out?

My total went up, but the assessment on the house went down, while the land went up.

This has apparently been a 4 year process, I'm not sure what the timeline was on everything though.

Oh no not mushrooms and DMT, thank god we got them, much safer streets

Yeah…25% sucked. It’s gone up the past few years, but this was a huge jump.

I’m in Lakeside and went up just under 10%. I’ve pretty much doubled since 2014.

Same. New schools go for $80mil, and this feels like almost a new school being built. I'm more impressed they can salvage anything with all the water that was dumped on it.

Mine was just under 11% this year in Lakeside...

Nah I’ve been here for 10 years and this is an older neighborhood it was like 240 when I bought it

This was my experience too.

6% this year in chesterfield county, 23% last year. Did you just buy the house? If you did and paid a high price, the county is going to adjust accordingly

Where did you go for the procedure?

I have no stake in this other than that the sentencing for non-production child porn is stupid.

And since you cited a USSC report to me, please consider that USSC also thinks the sentencing structure is stupid.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/federal-sentencing-child-pornography-non-production-offenses

The enhancements that USSC talks about in that report as being problematic are the exact ones that were applied here, as they are in most cases. They're not truly "enhancements." They function instead as Draconian minimum sentencing guidelines.

The whole PROTECT Act is part of Bush era policy and attitudes that spawned the "super predator" and things like that. It came about because the USSC guidelines were considered too soft and because the Supreme Court had struck down an earlier child porn bill. So congress basically overrode the USSC and required them to add those "enhancements" because while the alleged purpose was to separate the mythical superpredator types from the oops I didn't realize I had this Traci Lords on VHS, the reality is they didn't care and felt like all pervs are just rapists-in-waiting.

>explain to me why someone who is not sexually attracted to children would download that many photos/videos.

Well one obvious reason would be that they are running a child porn business. And if that's the case, Maher should be put in jail for much longer than 9 years. But he should also be charged for that and not this.

But maybe he is fixated on it in a non-sexual way because of what allegedly happened to him as child. Or maybe he really is sexually attracted to children, but that is not a crime, nor should it be.

I don't know the facts of this case. It could be he is a shitty guy and maybe he has done sketchy stuff that he has not been charged for. He could be a total shitbag. I only know him like most people do, he served me some drinks and we chatted a bit a few times.

But I believe he pled guilty to basically ONE single count of receiving (not distributing) child porn. And I believe the person he "received" it from was himself via putting a file on drop box and then downloading it like how everyone uses drop box (just not for porn).

And that alone pretty much gets him or anyone else 9 years, regardless of any other circumstance. That is what is fucked up.

If he did something horrible enough to warrant 9 years, then he should be charged and have to plead specifically to whatever that was. Charge him 1,000 counts of possessing child pornography. But you shouldn't be able to charge someone with one count of receiving child pornography and put them away for 9 years.

Pinky’s was accommodating to a similarly sized party and took reservations. It is in Scotts Addition which is a trendy neighborhood and definitely has a cool bachelorette party vibe. Hope this helps.

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Police reports on things like this are usually kinda accurate not to mention I know people who used to work ther and yes they all agree this checks out. Sit down sir

If you have photos, I might be interested in a piece or two

Cool they definitely always tell the truth