My last experience with jury duty: I was planning to do work, but very quickly found out that I couldn't git pull from my company's network because they blocked port 22. Not one to be deterred, I tried setting up a bridge over port 443 through my home machine (since 80 was behind squid). You can read that as "I bypassed security".
About the time I got done with this, I was called up into a courtroom. I actually didn't mind this, as I had some work I would have been happy to offload on my coworkers. I was on the first group impaneled. I thought I was kind of sailing under the radar, because I had had something like 5 minutes of questions in the whole 2 days. And I after sitting there for all of the questioning, I was dismissed at like 9:30 AM. Thanks a lot for not dismissing the day before. I guess that defense council had just assumed that because of my career and the fact that I didn't dress sloppily in the court that I was some kind of Young Republican. And I'm kind of a bleeding-heart liberal who thinks anyone can change (and who bypasses jury room security for fun).
And that's when it hit me -- our whole legal system in based on prejudice, at least as far as jury selection is concerned. Once the automatic removals are done, lawyers attempt to profile you based on stereotypes, or choose the people who are easiest to manipulate. Jury duty: do not recommend.
Also moar DW8 pls
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About the time I got done with this, I was called up into a courtroom. I actually didn't mind this, as I had some work I would have been happy to offload on my coworkers. I was on the first group impaneled. I thought I was kind of sailing under the radar, because I had had something like 5 minutes of questions in the whole 2 days. And I after sitting there for all of the questioning, I was dismissed at like 9:30 AM. Thanks a lot for not dismissing the day before. I guess that defense council had just assumed that because of my career and the fact that I didn't dress sloppily in the court that I was some kind of Young Republican. And I'm kind of a bleeding-heart liberal who thinks anyone can change (and who bypasses jury room security for fun).
And that's when it hit me -- our whole legal system in based on prejudice, at least as far as jury selection is concerned. Once the automatic removals are done, lawyers attempt to profile you based on stereotypes, or choose the people who are easiest to manipulate. Jury duty: do not recommend.
Also moar DW8 pls
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