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Kasz216 on 15 September 2011
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kowenicki said:
Kasz216 said:
kowenicki said:
Kasz216 said:
 

What does the British government have to do with this guys sentencing....?  The British government has no power to over-rule an English court decision by a Judge.     And it isnt a crime if the man has no concept of a crime... you have much more faith in the US treatment of overseas defendents than I do.

The whole point is they feel someone with Aspergers would be treated differently and unfairly in the US.

If people with aspergers are being arrested and thrown in jail for the max penalty with no mitigating factors, for lesser crimes...

That destroys all credibility in the arguement.


I am going to have to disagree with you for the first time ever on this one... (we usually agree on these big picture topics)

I will take my moral compass over yours...

Any crime where people are hurt either mentally or physically is a bigger crime than hacking a computer network for a bit of a giggle,  the world has some funny ideas about the severity of certain crimes imo. 

So, if someone calls you a name... that's more of a crime then hacking the a defense computer responsible for the lives of millions of people, leaving the system more vuleranble to attacks and stealing information and passwords and storing them on your own completely unprotected computer and deleting critical system files which shut down entire networks of computers responsible for national defense including computer systems directly after a major terroist attack.

It's a miracle the consequences of the hack weren't worse.  Though i'm sure plenty of US technitions who had to fix it and the people who's security was broken sure probably felt "harrassed" and plenty of people were probably panicked and scared by the fact that entire networks dedicated to the national defense of the country were suddenly down right after a major terrorist attack.