That could give him maybe 2 years of screeching columns about the world wide conspiracy.

Hey I'd be the first one to sign up for a Scarface Cable Network. And here's some of the content it would show

Scarface

Carlito's Way

Donnie Brasco

Narc

Goodfellas

Heat

Casino

The Departed

New Jack City

City of God

Blow

But no one ever thinks that any of these fun guys are sympathetic characters. They're entertaining in their direct in your face admission that they're bad guys. This show, which admittedly I've only seen in very small snippets makes them out to be ok people who just happen to work in a field that's a little bit distasteful, like union organizers, white collar criminals and such. But basically nice people with the same problems as you. That would make it comedy, wouldn't it?

A probation violation for driving on a suspended license is one thing. And it's pretty common because most people who have trouble following the law to drive their cars not drunk, not speeding etc in the first place generally have trouble following the law not to drive also.

That's just reality. But it's equally true that even with a probation violation the offender is not very likely to serve out their original sentence either. More likely the probation department, the DA and the judge will agree that perhaps sending that person to a few weekends in jail is a compromise. It's the defendant's attorney and family to convince them of something else. And that's usually an increase in your probation time.

The thing you REALLY don't want to do is piss off your P.O. Really. Those people have an awful lot of power over you. If you violate your probation the first thing you have to do is call your P.O. and beg for mercy.

In practice though it's unlikely that the original sentence will be enforced UNLESS what you do to violate probation is a worse crime than what got you on probation in the first place. Say you get a DUI, get 1 year probation and lose your license for a year. If you reoffend before that it would take some worse crime, e.g. a DUI with an accident, or evasion or some other unrelated thing like theft or gun possession for the original sentence to kick in.

The fact that Ms. Hilton was originally convicted of a DUI is almost besides the point, legally. Reoffending by a simple driving on a suspended license is not really sufficient to kick in that original suspended sentence. Typically that would result in a longer license suspension - say 3 - 5 years.

It's axiomatic.

I have or have purchased 5 iPods and the fact that 2 of them were replacements for 2 that crapped out after being in water I can't say that I'm shocked. The service was good, the rebate was reasonably gracious considering they were out of warranty.

As opposed to the infinite loop of hellish problems I routinely have with Sprint after their phones conk out for no obvious reason. Sprint won't repair phones and won't replace them either in the 99 times out of a hundred that by the time you bring a phone to them they don't sell it any more and refuse to do a like for like replacement. Instead they tell you to go buy another phone. This is with the so called protection plan for $5/month which I guess doesn't cover actual damage or failure. My bad.

Anyway it's the carrier not the hardware company. I guessed that when it was noted that the iPod screen surfaces were softer and could scratch that all the haters would bubble up screaming about it but I don't know of a single owner who's ever replaced their iPod because of it.

Dunno - maybe it will be a complete failure and all the naysayer can pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves that most of those features

which can get today on other phones (so what are you whining about?)

will still cost hundreds of dollars more than an iPhone relegated to the highest of the high end Nokias and similar limited market phones.

Nokia N95 - $700

HTC XDA trion TyTN - $700

LG Prada - $800

But hey, you can say you were right. Kudos.

You all equate random stupidity with inscrutable brilliance. No it's just stupid. The Bush White House simply has no idea what it's doing and doesn't care if you know that. It's just weak silly men screaming incoherent inanities at one another. And frankly if Pace the MARINE couldn't do it, then it's just not a military problem to solve in the first place. Now they'll get an Admiral to 'put a fresh strategic perspective on things'. I had to laugh when Gates said that because this administration has no strategic perspective on a damn thing. Never have never will. They're not 'strategy people'. They're kneejerk firefighting spin crisis managers.

But that's not actually factually the case. Sorry. If you were an Ex Chinese farmer living on the edge of starvation you'd probably prefer a small cheap apartment, a scooter and a cell phone.

Only you don't know it you gaijin roundeyed bastards.

8>)

It's not the intertubes which clearly is 10000000% of everyone on earth slathering to rape your kids. It's the world we live in which somehow came to the belief that there are no frictions, conflicts, threats, dangers, risks, noise, second hand smoke, red meat, foreigners, bad people or ugly babies in the world, BY LAW.

I sometimes wonder why people and crazy parents like this don't simply zonk themselves comatose so as not to be exposed to the big bad world. Why not? Isn't death the most risk free state of all? In the meantime we can't make up our empty stupid minds whether to infantilize everything and everyone or criminalize them.