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Re: Star Trek: Discovery Just Keeps Getting Better and Better

Richard Samul — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 17:00:29 -0000

This fluff piece is what happens when you buy your reviews. It has CBSs fingerprints all over it.

Re: A letter from Duncan Storrar

Richard Samul — Tue, 17 May 2016 09:39:46 -0000

The ad hominem attack is the refuge of the poor thinker and the bully. Unable to defend their position, the instead undermine those who question in a vain effort to distract attention. Duncan, you have done nothing wrong and nothing to deserve this. Were I a business owner in your country, I would be proud to offer you employment. Stand strong, and keep questioning until you get an answer.

Re: Here's a pączki map for the Michigan Diaspora

Richard Samul — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:10:40 -0000

Boise-area folks: Pastry Perfection on Glenwood in Garden City has Paczki - I've been getting them there for years.

Re: Students will continue to persevere

Richard Samul — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:57:54 -0000

Did you actually proofread this before you posted it?

I keep trying to parse the punctuation and grammar, and all I'm getting for my efforts is a bigger migraine.

Re: Canadian teen convicted of 'sexting' photos of boyfriend's ex

Richard Samul — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:16:04 -0000

Not surprising, since you don't seem to understand much else.

Re: Canadian teen convicted of 'sexting' photos of boyfriend's ex

Richard Samul — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:14:39 -0000

Oh, "TL;DR". You could have just said that and saved us the benefit of your wisdom.

Re: Canadian teen convicted of 'sexting' photos of boyfriend's ex

Richard Samul — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:12:10 -0000

So, after reading "This, for me..." you formed an instant opinion that you just HAD to share. Brilliant.

Re: My client called, demanding that I contact his...

Richard Samul — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:47:38 -0000

I once quit a job as an Office Manager, because the owner was setting me up for tax fraud.

Basically, he bought out his partner, which left the company short of cash, so when payroll time came, he told me to not pay the payroll taxes and that he would catch them up at the end of the year. So, I followed orders, and this went on for most of the year.

One day, the boss left me his laptop, asking me to fix it because his email wasn't acting right. When I opened up Outlook, lo and behold, there was a trail of correspondence with his lawyer admitting what he'd done, and asking about how to insulate himself from the IRS when he turned me in for not paying the payroll taxes.

The only problem was, he'd given me the instructions to not pay the payroll taxes via an email at the beginning of the year, and just weeks earlier, he'd left me a voicemail telling me to not worry about the taxes, he had everything handled when I called him voicing my concerns about the mounting tax bill. Because I'm OCD CYA, I'd saved both, and promptly turned them over to the appropriate authorities upon my departure from employment.

Re: "Revenge porn"-style fraudsters target sex offenders

Richard Samul — Mon, 27 May 2013 11:19:13 -0000

So, you're saying it's ok to extort in certain circumstances defined by you? I pray you never wind up on the wrong side of some else's definition.

Re: Police: Man raped woman he met on Christian dating website

Richard Samul — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:55:12 -0000

95% of all new sex crimes are committed by someone not on the Sex Offender Registry.

Re: Sex offenders spend Halloween at IMPD

Richard Samul — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:30:30 -0000

Really? And none of them have families now, or children of their own? I find that hard to believe. Pray that your child or grandchild never wind up on that list - because it's frighteningly easy.

Re: Sex offenders spend Halloween at IMPD

Richard Samul — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:20:47 -0000

Why are you so vengeful against those who have served their time? Why do you think an 18 year old guy who had sex with his 16 year old girlfriend is "social sewage"? Why do you want to punish children by forcing their fathers to spend perhaps the most exciting holiday for them away from them?

Re: Sex offenders spend Halloween at IMPD

Richard Samul — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:25:54 -0000

I also replied with a link to the source, but in case the moderators don't approve it, here is the information without the link:

A 2008 study titled "Sex Crimes on Halloween", by Mark Chaffin (University of Oaklahoma), Jill Levenson (Lynn University), Elizabeth Letourneau (Medical University of South Carolina), and Paul Stern (Snohomish, WA).

Re: Sex offenders spend Halloween at IMPD

Richard Samul — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:02:36 -0000

Nationwide, non-family sex offenses against children account for only 0.2% of all crime reported on Halloween. Sex offenses against children (all) account for just over 1% of all Halloween crime. In case you can't do the math, that means just over 0.8% of all Halloween sex offenses are committed by A FAMILY MEMBER. It's not the sex offender down the street on the registry you need to be afraid of. It's someone IN YOUR OWN HOME. And, by the way, a child is 4 times more likely to be hit by a car on Halloween than on any other day of the year. Learn the facts, be informed, and stop living in fear.

Re: AirPrint Activator 3.1.0 resolve issues with OSX 10.6

Richard Samul — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:45:29 -0000

Not supporting 32 bit 10.6.8 is disappointing. Now, instead of giving you my money, I get to give it to someone else who supports my OS and CPU. Good business move.

Re: Sandusky sentence doesn't bring instant justice

Richard Samul — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:06:27 -0000

As well as the drunk driver who hits and hurts or kills someone? How about the armed robber or mugger, whose victims experience PTSD, anxiety, and flashbacks? What about the arsonist who destroys a lifetime of memories with each burned home? Identity thieves, who destroy a lifetime of good credit in a matter hours? Writers of computer viruses that erase hard drives full of irreplaceable memories? Purveyors of tainted and counterfeit drugs, whose side effects kill or maim?

Oh, hell - let's just lock up anyone who commits any crime, because the victim has to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives, will never be the same, and can never forget.

Victims remain victims as long as they choose to remain so. Remaining a victim means remaining powerless. Survivors move ahead with their lives because they choose to no longer play the victim role, and because they have reclaimed their power.

Re: Idaho law allows sex offender's house to border playground

Richard Samul — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:14:45 -0000

My wife has had 5 miscarriages, so no, I don't have any children. It's not from lack of trying, though. However, this is irrelevant to the discussion.

I maintain that you live in fear, because you choose to live in fear. You get your information from the media, which makes it's living on spreading fear. They post a story about the big, bad sex offender living right next to a school in order to stir up that fear. What they don't mention is that there is a family behind that story. Did you notice the child playing on the swing in the backyard of the house in the video? I'm willing to bet you didn't.

Studies of sex offender recidivism by multiple state and federal agencies, as well as independent researchers, over the past 15 years, shows that sex offender laws have had zero impact on preventing sex crimes, and that former offenders account for only 5% of new sex crime. For those of you who can't do the math, that means that 95% of new sex crimes are committed by someone who is NOT ON THE REGISTRY - and of those crimes, 95% are committed by someone known by or related to the victim. What does that mean? It means that the person you need to worry about isn't the sex offender on the registry, it's someone in your family or circle of friends. Sex offenders have the lowest rate of specific recidivism (re-arrest for the same crime) than any other class of criminal except murderers. You and your family are more likely to be victimized by a repeat burglar, drunk driver, con artist, or arsonist. And yet you fear the least likely source of harm the most.Knowing where the sex offenders are might make you feel secure, but it's a false security. The registry doesn't work to protect kids. Residency restrictions don't work to protect kids. Only education and knowing how to identify the signs of sexual abuse will protect your child.

Re: Police stunned by elderly couple's huge cannabis plant

Richard Samul — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:27:59 -0000

@twitter-469539739 , kind of like "Day of the Triffids", except more mellow.

Re: Morning-after pill in high schools makes sense

Richard Samul — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:23:27 -0000

We give the girls birth control, and then prosecute the boys they have sex with, who then wind up on a sex offender registry for LIFE.

Does anyone else see a problem with this?

Re: Idaho law allows sex offender's house to border playground

Richard Samul — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:44:08 -0000

Only because you live in fear, instead of being informed on facts.

Re: Idaho law allows sex offender's house to border playground

Richard Samul — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:43:28 -0000

And the replacement house. I'm sure they'd like a nice expensive one with a view.

Re: Idaho law allows sex offender's house to border playground

Richard Samul — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:33:46 -0000

So he's lived there for at least 5 years, possibly longer. And in that time, there's never been a problem. Until now, in an attempt to make a story out of NOTHING. Did you notice the child playing on the swing in the backyard of that home? Did you ever stop to think that you might be endangering that child by your careless and callous reporting? Did you consider that some nut with a gun might use your report, where you clearly identify the house on a map and show the front of it, to deal out some vigilante justice? Sex offender laws are supposed to be about protecting children, and yet the safety of that child (and that family) are now in danger because of this report.

The sex offender hysteria has got to stop. Studies of sex offender recidivism by multiple state and federal agencies, as well as independent researchers, over the past 15 years, shows that sex offender laws have had zero impact on preventing sex crimes, and that former offenders account for only 5% of new sex crime. For those of you who can't do the math, that means that 95% of new sex crimes are committed by someone who is NOT ON THE REGISTRY - and of those crimes, 95% are committed by someone known by or related to the victim. What does that mean? It means that the person you need to worry about isn't the sex offender on the registry, it's someone in your family or circle of friends. Sex offenders have the lowest rate of specific recidivism (re-arrest for the same crime) than any other class of criminal except murderers. You and your family are more likely to be victimized by a repeat burglar, drunk driver, con artist, or arsonist.

Knowing where the sex offenders are might make you feel secure, but it's a false security. The registry doesn't work to protect kids. Residency restrictions don't work to protect kids. Only education and knowing how to identify the signs of sexual abuse will protect your child.

Re: Why Facebook's Argument Against Privacy For Minors Is Doomed - by Dave Copeland

Richard Samul — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:09:16 -0000

Facebook already has a system in place that treats one class of citizen differently than others. Adding another system for another class of citizen (users under 18) shouldn't be that hard for them.

Re: Study: New Program For Sex Offenders Reduces Crimes

Richard Samul — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:49:14 -0000

Amazing. Having resources for employment, housing, and other things (in short,
helping them reintegrate into society) reduces the chance of recidivism for ANY crime (not just sex crimes) by 84 percent AND saves the state money. Who would have thought?

Re: Study: New Program For Sex Offenders Reduces Crimes

Richard Samul — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:46:39 -0000

So, documented, scientific evidence is a "lie from the liberals"? I bet you believe the earth is flat and the center of the universe, too.