Aral BalkanA timely reminder that “punishable by fine” means “legal for the rich.”
Gabbo the wafrn dev guy@[email protected]@[email protected] some crimes in spain (and europe I think) have a thing called "day fine". The crime takes in account your salary and takes "a number of days" of your salary as the fine thing. so no matter if you are poor or good on money, it hurts
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the hatter@gabboman @aral @Maiko This is my canonical go-to example for that sort of idea - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1759791.stm. Old story about a Nokia exec fined $100k for doing 45 in a 30 zone.