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It's all about context [2001] (stonehenge.com)

13 points by js2 ↗ HN
I was reminded of this story by the first segment of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172801

/.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses-list-context-cops-interrogate

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qw
Unbelievable. Why couldn't the school contact the student first before going to the police?
brehardin
This is crazy. People need to use common sense.
Causification
Having read only the stonehenge page and not the full slashdot article, I don't even have to be metaphorical when I ask what kind of pathetic, alarmist, lilly-livered school district would call the police over anything short of an actual threat against the school?

If it happened around here, whoever read the page would probably think some chunk of the student's blog where he was talking about his hunting or range trip got inserted into the page by accident. I am genuinely disgusted at the type of personality who would react to that text by calling authorities.

pingswept
[2001]
js2
Thanks for the reminder. Added to title.
dbbo
I didn't really learn anything about list-versus-scalar context from this article, but I did however learn that merlyn had been convicted of a felony.