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thats easy. If you lose your installation disk, then it must be time fora PDA upgrade, thust it is easier to simply go and buy a new PDA than to acquire a duplicate copy of the installation disk.

Even if your PDA is only two days old..with no installtion disk it is obsolete.

Dear Jake,

The Rape Shield Laws were created to protect rape victims from public humiliation and encourage more of them to come forward. I think we can all agree that this is a good thing.

However, as we have seen time and time again, rape accusations can be just as damaging to the accused. Given that we believe in innocence until guilt has been proven, and that the damage of a rape accusation can linger even after an aquittal-are you of the opinion that Rape Shield Laws should extend to the accused as well?

Thanks,

-Kiamat Dusk

Dear Jake,

This has probably been asked before, but:

What is the meaning of life?
(42 is incorrect )

I have answered it before and 42 is not incorrect, or at least not more incorrect than anything else. I invite you to read it. It contains a statement that the process is more important than the answer.

perhaps the best answer is there is no meaning. Eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired.

I suppose when you can tell me what the color of thunder is, the you will know the meaning of life.

Well I think I should clarify what a rape shield law does.

The essential purpose of a rape shield law is the exclude evidence of a victims past sexual conduct. The theory is that what the victim did in the past has no bearing on whether consent was given on this occasion.

The problem is that sometimes, and in some circumstances, past sexual conduct may well be essential to the case. Thus the rape shield laws are littered with exceptions, and sometimes so littered as to be transparent.

The rape shield laws do not protect the victim after the trial.

Thus there is no real way to exten rape shield laws to the accused. An aquittal is meant to be just that. The problem is that americans, especially the media, choose to suggest that the person got off, but rather was not innocent.

The court of public opinion convicts people without regard to evidence, and basically based on nothing to do with the case. It is unfortunate that it is so.

Ultimately though the burden of protecting the accused falls on the prosecutors. If the evidence is not there, if you cannot prove your case, then you should not charge. the problem with high profile cases is that prosecutors are quick to charge, when the investigation has not been done.

So really there is no way to apply rape shield laws to the accused, and really no way to protect someone who is wrongfully accused from the stigma. we need to drill inot the heads of every american, aquittal means innocence.

Thunder is a soothing light to dark grey with a brilliantly white center. Sort of like biting into those new penutbutter kisses from Hersey. YUM!! =^.^=

But have you ever danced in the rain with your love to experiance the true meaning of life?

Also, what is the fastest way to get nowhere? I seem to do that alot from what I'm told, but not sure how I do it.

~Jessy

Then why don't we know the identity of the Duke accuser when we know full well the identity of the accused?

-Kiamat Dusk

Because there are some protections in place that do prevent the identity of the victim from being disclosed. They just aren't rape shield laws. There are may circunstances when the name of party can be kept under wraps, not just rape victims.
But really we know the names of the defendants, because they need to seem up-front in thier denial of these accusations. The fact that a defendat assertes some sort of protection of his identity can look shifty, evasive and infer guilt.

When did you see thunder? Where did you see it?


No i have not danced in the rain with my love to see the true menaing of life. though I have had sex on the car hood with an acquaintance in the rain, does that count?

The fastest way to get nowhere is to accept that you are there, and enjoy it.

Yes, that counts as dancing can be a euphemism for sex. The real question is, did you dent the hood of the car?

I'll never tell.

Why are most people so shallow?

you forgot.

Does Ft. Worth ever cross your mind?

Because if you are too deep you can drown?

Any old time on a honkly tonk saturday night.

but other wise I try not to think of fort worth.

Is it permissible to answer with a question?

Dear Jake,

If agent X reveals classified information to spy Y, he will go to jail for a long, long time. It's called espionage. How come if agent X then reveals the same classified information to reporter A who then put it out to the whole world, reporter A (and editor B) aren't charged with espionage along with their source?


-Kiamat Dusk

Yes, I am jake and it is persmissble for me to answer with a question. I might even go back and provide another answer to that question, becuse I have stong feelings about Jessica Simpson, Brittney Spears and the dumbing down of america due to a collevtive determination to be ignorant, value ignorance, and celebrate it.

But really, in AJA questions are always permitted, its just tha tunless you are me, they are madatory.

Well you are stating twodifferent things.

If Agent X leaks in formation to A spy, that spy is going to provide that information to a governement (presuembaly). That is espiongae-both parties are agents.

A reporter is not a spy, is not engage in spying, and thus cannot be charged with espionage (unless they way over step the bounds in the course of investigation). A crime may have been commited in the leaking of classified information, but its rarely a crim to publish such leaked information.

We enjoy a free press, and if Agent x wants to tell you something then you can publish it without being complicit in the crime.

Dear Jake:

What (If anything) should be done about the bush guy?

Jake, is it even espionage if a foreign interest isnt involved?

I know people are hard pressed to stop leaks , but a country that has NO safeguards for government excesses by secrecy is dangerous. Who would want to live in a place like that?

So then all Agent X has to do is get some press credentials and he's in the clear? Does "freedom" of the press include the freedom to harm national security? Should CNN reporters be able to freely wander the halls of CIA and NSA?

-Kiamat Dusk

Nothing..ignore him and he goes away.

unless you mean the bush guy in office..there is really not much we can do about him either.

other than that, well i suppose you could have my gardener deported, since hi status as a legal alien is questionable. But i like the guy.

in general that is correct, espionage typically involves a foriegn interest. However, I could see megacrorporations profiting fro ill-gotten info, and that might also fall under the heading of espionage.

Well arguably many people do. They want the governemnt to make them feel safe from terrorists, and people will happily trad freedom for security. The big Myth of the bush era is that he invested all these constitution violations in terms of privacy and basic rights. But Bush does not ignore the fourth amendment-the coservative supremem court has eroded it away in the desire to allow police broad lattidtude to presecute the war on drugs. The ground work for this administration has been laid down over the years.

We belive the government should do what it wants as a society. Always remember one truth about democracies: Hitler was Elected.

No. If Agent X is soliciting information and prvidign it to a foreign goverment, then that is espionage. If reporter A does te same thing, then he is guilty of espionage.

If agent x obtains secrete information and puts it in the New York Times, he is guilty of espionage. If Agent X is leaked information from an inisde source, and publishes it in the NYT, then he may not be guilty of espionage.

No reporters should be left loose to run around intelligence agencies. But the blame would be with the leaker, not the reporter.

18 USC 793 (d) provides that a person is guilty of espionage if:

"Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it;"