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US taxes used to allow convicts to insult polybore!?
Posted by polybore • 7/31/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: anonymous, comment, convict, inmate, internet, negative, prison, vegan
A while back I did a post about a 12 year old child who had the spine of an 80 year old because their parents fed them a vegan diet without the proper supplements.
Well that post has generated my first negative comment. "hah You're a joke" Ok not the worst comment ever but because it was my first negative and anonymous (which bugged me) I did a little digging.
It turned out that the IP used to log the comment is registered to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Is this likely to be an employee or a con?
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Probably an employee. While I don't know about Nevada in particular, my understanding is that in most states, prisoners don't have internet access.-
Wonder how many inmates snuck out while they were checking out my blog?
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Wow...people blogging when they're suppose to be working! NO!-
Ah. Not in this case. My non- fan comentator came from digg where they had searched for the term vegan. My guess is this was some vegan going through and digging pro vegan stories. They saw my post and clearly did not like it.
They spent 3.5 mins on my blog, and who knows how long on digg. There is probably hardly a single prisoner left in the place.
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Um.
The Nevada Department of Corrections is a state institution, so even if it was a prisoner, I'm not sure any U.S. taxes were involved.-
Forgive my ignorance. State taxes?
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the way that our "neo-federal" system works, some federal taxes have probably filtered down...
...and following the indirect course, some of those funding dollars probably came from a stripper buying cough syrup and heet, with dollars she got from itemized business writeoffs that some hack took after a convention... but I digress -
What is heet? -
it is a fuel system treatment... and an ingredient in meth.
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Oh gotcha
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I can't make my mind up if internet access would be a good thing for prisoners or not. Depending on the conviction of course.
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The trouble is that it would make things way too easy for members of prison gangs to communicate with each other.
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And to harass victims, threaten witnesses, research how to make explosives out of common food items...
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It seems that prisoners can have internet access. Via snail mail. If you had someone on the outside to run, say a blog, the prisoner could send their posts by letter to be posted on the blog.
Well there are often requests for guest posts here... -
@MadameX Yes that would be a danger. However I understand that those inclined towards that kind of behavior have mechanisms to do this already. e.g. the gang network that drjay1966 mentions.
Maybe some prisoners would use the internet for educational purposes which might reduce the chance of their re offending on release?
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The network's registered to corrections, but it probably serves a lot more than prisons. It could be anyone from a probation officer on lunch to a secretary. I get hits from the Senate Sergeant at Arms all the time. At first, it freaked me out a little. Then I figured out it probably was anyone in the Hart Office Building. -
What's one insult more or less? Any feedback at all is good for your blog! -
Not if its on my dime...duh
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I wouldn't interfere with jail warden's work of controlling violent criminals by whatever way possible
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That's u not me
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could be either, our prisoners have limited internet access.
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