...the jury process is prone to demagogy, arbitrariness and extrajudicial influences in jury selection, groupthink and theatrics, which exerts a rather heavy transaction cost on justice administration. Given that cost and the vastly diminished if not altogether eliminated benefit of providing checks and balances, I do not think much of the jury process. It is more like a time honored tradition, like apple pie, main street shops, or baseball, it creates feel-good atmosphere, but it sucks when it is taken solely on its merits.
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Arguable points aside I'm pleased to report the LBO AI I've been building - LBO Heuristics Logic Bot or LHeuBo (beautiful? no, but we live in the age of elegant instrumentality and inelegant phrasing) - projected an 80 percent probability your contribution to this thread would borrow heavily from the 'da people' leitmotiv.
Which is, LHeuBo points out with synthetic perceptiveness, the standard output of your robust H.L. Mencken sub-routine.
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--------- Folks, if you're like me, you're constantly running from Mexican bandits who're after that diamond you got hidden somewhere on your body.
Olly