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"When he finally provided a passcode, the phone appeared to restart. The defense motion states that "the screen went blank, flashed several times, and the phone appeared to restart," resulting in the loss of data."

I dont use grapheneOS, but it seems he activated a self-destruct code after being arrested.

That's always been illegal, and computers don't change that:

Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States (2005)

On the surface this case sides with evidence destruction, except

"Chief Justice Rehnquist noted that routine document management is not inherently corrupt; to be a felony, the government must prove the defendant had a "consciousness of wrongdoing" and a specific intent to obstruct a known or imminent proceeding" [1]

He fellow obviously had a consciousness of wrongdoing since he purposely set the delete triggers off during a police interrogation!

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/2004/04-368


The winners have known for a while; their families need visas to be at the ceremony, afterall


"Oh cigarette, Oh cigarette, How good thou are to me Yet I have crush you. "

Me the first time getting drunk in the woods realizing I had crushed my smoke in my jacket.

I became friends with my best friend that day.


For our understanding of Christianity, the Pompeii eruption was too soon to the events, so unless the owner was amongst the first Christians worldwide and there is a dated letter from St Luke foretelling the destruction of the temple I don't think it'll be too revolutionary



The folks in the monastery were more open minded towards those who proceeded in the previous millennium than we are to those a thousand years ago.

That said, they had limited resources. This is very cool


I know the feeling. Reading Don Quixote in English would be cheating.

Then again, so would reading Shakespeare in Spanish - even though I'm more comfortable reading in eng, I'm better in Spanish than i am 500 year old English


Karamazov is amazing.

But if you're 600 pages in and it's a slog you might have lost the train of thought of the novel.

It is a lot to keep in your head!


Yeah I've picked it up and put it down multiple times over the past year, might have had some context loss. Theres been a few very lucid monologues I've enjoyed, but I haven't felt the same level of internal revelation as the previous novels.


Well those online refueling channels look mighty interesting don't they?


If there's something Canada has in excess it's water and storage space.


Because the Candu is insanely expensive.


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