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You are wrong on so many levels, Mrs. Flanders.  The job of a judge is not to do whatever you think is right.  And viewing an image of child pornography does not deserve the  "most extreme punishment possible," how is that fair?  The viewer at the very least did not directly cause harm to any children, and likely didn't even cause indirect harm.

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"And if you don't report it, go directly to jail!"

I like the way you think!

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2) She did her job well, that's why she was proud.  We have people like her to keep the system in check.

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I find it surprising how many people try to argue the opposite.  No harm comes from acquiring information.

This is thought crimes we're talking about, it is not a good thing to legislate thought crimes.

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It isn't legal to view child pornography if one pays for it.  That isn't what this was about.  The issue is viewing, not paying for, child pornography.

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Here's a little fact that should help you understand the world.

Everything is legal. 

That is, unless there is a law that makes it illegal.  In this case, there is no such law in Oregon (as the law is written).

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This is a good point, and one that the people in this conversation seem to brush off without giving it proper attention. 

The images don't even have to ever be visible to the person who's computer they get downloaded to.  You can have an image on the page loaded by javascript that never gets displayed but still gets cached, or hidden from view with CSS (for those with javascript disabled).  You could be browsing a site for hours that has been hacked to continually add to your cached collection of child porn without your knowledge.

I just feel wary about any sort of thought crime, of which this is one.

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Um, yeah it does? Wind energy comes from where the wind is. Nobody put wind turbines in anyone's neighborhood. They're going out in big fields, and on hills, neighborhoods don't have the best wind flow.

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I can't believe there is even any argument against wind energy. Maybe some people don't like the look of the turbines, maybe some bats and birds die (not as many as would die from global warming), whatever.

The fact is wind is a nearly perfectly clean form of energy widely available. If water can't be stored at dams like the guests said, energy can/will be stored in other forms, such as reduced coal/other power plant usage during peak wind times. Its hard to argue otherwise, why on earth would power companies burn fuel that their customers are not using? Simply, they wouldn't because they wouldn't get money for it.

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These systems shouldn't be managed by humans at all, they should be managed by computers. I'm surprised thats not how they run already.

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