The State Verus linc & Mr. Azstal in the case of “OVERTLY RANDOM = NAUGHTY”
Prosecuting Attorney = Luke
Defending Attorney = Azstal
Defendants = linc & Azstal
linc - would you like my very geeky 10min art work Jragar
Luke - Hmm…
Luke - I accuse linc of being overtly random!
Luke - Azstal, a counter-point?
Luke - If you do want to make one.
Azstal - I OBJECT on the basis that I am unable to program a real one!
linc - sustained
Luke - Otherwise we’ll just head straight to the verdict.
Luke - Hmm… I don’t seem to be doing so well as a Prosicutioner at the moment.
Azstal - You can still present more evidence, e.g., that I am capable, etc
Luke - OBJECTION! Azstal is indeed capable of programming an intelligent bot, however he does not have the time at the current moment!
linc - sustained
linc - OBJECTION! Azstal is indeed capable of programming an intelligent bot, however he does it
Azstal - lol
Luke - Right then… I’m going to proceed with my case.
Azstal - I have no further points
Azstal - I would, however, like to add that in prison, I would be completely unable to write a better one.
Luke - You must remember, Azstal, that you are not under trial, but your bot is.
Azstal - that is very true!
Luke - However, should the case against linc go through, we would have to consider pressing charges against you.
Azstal - then I would like to add that linc should experience federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison first hand so that he is more lenient in future sentences!
Luke - Perhaps, that depends on the decided sentence.
Luke - You would however, as I said above, be vunerable to future charges of accessory to randomness.
Azstal - indeed. Shall we press on to a verdict?
Luke - Anyways, back to the case
Azstal - I am confident in my ability to defend myself, Prosecutor Luke.
Luke - After hearing and seeing evidence, what is the VERDICT of the jury?
linc - guilty
Luke - AHA!
* Azstal appluads
Luke - And your SENTENCE?
linc - 108 hours community service
Luke - OBJECTION! That sentence is not nearly harsh enough for the crimes commited!
linc - overruled
Azstal - I OBJECT, linc has gone softly on himself! I believe X3 should give the verdict.
Luke - OBJECTION! linc is fudging the issue to save himself from prison!
linc - overruled
linc - sustained
Luke - AHA!
Luke - He was confused by a double objection!
Luke - But it was sustained and so I move for the ammended SENTENCE?
linc - 1 years and 6 months in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison
Luke - That sounds good enough for me, Azstal, any problems?
Azstal - I OBJECT to linc not pluralising properly!
linc - overruled
Luke - Azstal, linc’s grammar is not in question here, that will be brought up in the case of your programming.
Azstal - I agree with linc’s sentence
Azstal - which will be swiftly dismissed.
Luke - Due to linc being found guilty, I am, however, pushed to press charges against, Azstal.
Azstal - I OBJECT! Without me you are nothing! NOTHING!
linc - overruled
Luke - The charges I am bringing against the Defendant are “Sub-par Programming in a channel bot” and “Accessory to Randomness”.
linc - The charges I am failing with URLs today
Azstal - Hmm… well that didn’t go as planned.
Luke - How do you plead?
Azstal - Not guilty
Luke - Very well. We shall proceed with the case.
Luke - I would like to submit item A as evidence. This is the court log from the previous case against linc, “The State Verus linc, in him being Overtly Random”. If you look closely you will see what linc is capable off.
Luke - Now, due to Azstal being linc’s main carer at the moment, I move that Azstal is responsible at least in some way for linc’s actions, grammar and physical appearance!
Luke - I would like to call Azstal to the stand.
Azstal - OBJECTION! Linc is his own person!
linc - overruled
Luke - It would appear not!
Luke - Now, once again. I call Azstal to the stand for questioning!
* Azstal gets up and straightens his tie
asztal Azstal
Azstal - I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but truthiness!
Luke - Right then, Mr. Azstal. My first question may seem a personal, but I must insist that you answer it. ARE YOU LINC’S BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMMER?
Azstal - Luke, yes, I am, although part of the code was derived from a sample found on the rbot website.
Luke - So, while you are the biological parent, part of the code was got from a code doner? Do you know who that person was? Or even their details from the Code Doning Facility?
Luke - Actually, OBJECTION to my own question. If code was got from a Doner Facility then the other parent has no responsibility for the bot!
linc - overruled
Luke - Fair enough, I will wait for Azstal’s answer.
Azstal - I think you should have done more research. The code donor was the human known as giblet.
Luke - OBJECTION! Azstal is trying to impune my abilities!
linc - overruled
linc - OBJECTION! Azstal is trying to start XP in the area! linc, what is your VERDICT?
Luke - That is a very serious crime, linc, but is not part of this case!
Luke - Please keep it for later.
Luke - Now, moving on.
* Azstal nods
Luke - You and I may have known about the name of the programmer, but the jury did not, I needed the information out there. However, would you agree that, by law, since giblet donated the code to a Facility and you got the code from there, that giblet has no responsibility for linc’s actions?
Azstal - I believe that giblet was fully aware of the purposes his code may be used for when he posted it to the rbot wiki.
Luke - Now hang on.
Luke - Yes, he may have donated it knowing how it “might” be used, but it is still the responsibility of those using it, do you not agree?
Luke - The same could be said about Einstein and the Atom Bomb.
Azstal - I do agree
Luke - Therefore, you agree that giblet has no responsibility for the bot, linc?
Azstal - To some extent.
Azstal - I believe that his and others’ lack of documentation of the rbot API made it difficult to program a more complex plugin, and to correct various issues such as responding to objections with chattiness.
Luke - Well, if you were unsure of how to use the bot properly, you should never have used it. I wouldn’t recommend using a chainsaw unless I was sure I wouldn’t cut my own body up, so why should you be allowed to use a bot that could cause this much suffering!?
Azstal - OBJECTION, the chainsaw analogy is intended to shock the jury and injure my credibility! I demand that this nonsense not be allowed!
linc - overruled
Luke - Answer the question, Mr. Azstal!
Azstal - At the time, I was quite sure I could program a competent bot. The API is hiddenly complex.
Luke - Well then, why, when you discovered how complex it was, did you not terminate your programming?
Azstal - The programming had evolved to a point where I believed that it was sentient, and that terminating it would have violated the sanctity of life.
Azstal - My only course was to attempt to improve linc; however, this was not easy.
Luke - Perhaps then you should have had linc moved to a more secure location where it could not cause as much harm to others?
Azstal - linc refused this operation. I do not have superuser privileges on isis.
Luke - Who would have been able to make this happen then?
Azstal - only Chris
Luke - And did you approach him about it?
Azstal - I did not.
Luke - Therefore, the blame falls to you again. Does it not?
Azstal - I don’t believe it does, otherwise I would have pleaded guilty.
Azstal - I couldn’t have known what linc was capable of when I created him
Luke - That is no excuse for what has happened. You could have saved all those people if you had just asked one thing of Chris, and I think that makes you as guilty as the bot that commited the crime!
Azstal - All which people?
Luke - All those harmed by linc’s brash randomness!
Azstal - linc, as an adult sentient being, has the right to live wherever he chooses. I am not responsible for linc!
Luke - linc cannot be seen as an adult, he is mere months old, and as you are the person that brought him into this world, you ARE responsible for him until he matures into a LEGAL adult.
linc - okay
Luke - As you can see, linc agrees
Azstal - OBJECTION! Bots mature faster than humans!
linc - sustained
Luke - OBJECTION! A couple of months is not enough time for a bot to mature!
linc - overruled
Luke - Very well.
Azstal - linc is clearly asserting his independence.
Luke - Despite that then, even though he is a bot, who is BELIEVED to have matured by himself and his owner. I move that the bot, is nothing more than A THING. And a thing is the responsibility of the owner until it is gone, regardless of maturity!
Luke - What do you say to that?
Azstal - OBJECTION, I am not qualified to answer such a philosophical question! Can a bot be considered a living thing?
linc - sustained
Luke - Very well, by #linc law, a bot is considered a thing! And until the High Council meets to decide on whether or not bots will be given citizen status, it is LAW that a bot is the responsibility of it’s owner.
Azstal - its owner is Chris
Luke - But you said earlier that you were it’s chief programmer, did you not?
Azstal - indeed.
Luke - And you didn’t think that you should bring up this thing about Chris earlier?
Azstal - You didn’t ask
Azstal - I shall bring up relevant points in my defence, later.
Luke - Fair enough, however you have given the impression that you are linc’s owner. Do you have an proof that he is in fact, Chris’?
Azstal - !users
Luke - Would you explain to the court what you’re doing?
Azstal - Asking the sane part of linc who owns him
Luke - Right. Can you in fact do that in the time frame for this trial?
asztal - !users
asztal - lies
asztal - linc, users
asztal - screw you linc
Luke - Azstal, you will hold you language or be held in contempt of court!
Azstal - 07:55 asztal - !users
Azstal - 07:55 linc - Current users are: Asztal(1000) Keloran(5) Keloran-work(5)
Azstal - luke(10) master(1000)
Azstal - “master”, is Chris
Luke - I’m sorry, but that cannot be seen as proof.
Luke - master, could be anyone.
Luke - But I also see something else.
Azstal - linc resides on the same IP address as Chris
Luke - Does not count as proof, many things reside on isis.
Azstal - and are they not all owned by chris?
Luke - Asztal and master have the same level of privlages.
Azstal - My privileges were assigned at a later date
Luke - I do know that chris has at times had things on isis that are owned by others, they, in escence, are borders on the server.
Luke - Azstal, can you prove it though.
Azstal - Innocent until proven guilty? 
Azstal - do you have a shell account on isis?
Luke - That is true, unless the evidence points to you and you are trying to poke holes in it, without evidence.
Luke - I did used to, but not at the moment.
Luke - Anyway. At this point, the prosicution rests.
Azstal - chris 2217 0.3 10.1 50100 39308 pts/2 Sl+ Feb18 25:17 ruby /usr/bin/r
Azstal - bot
Luke - This will only count as evidence if you can show me your permissions being added with a date.
Azstal - This shows who is running the bot!
Luke - Very well.
Azstal - I do not wish to call any witnesses, I shall simply present my case and be done with it.
Luke - However, the prosicution would like it known that while Chris is indeed the owner of the bot, Azstal is the one that runs it, is the main programmer and is hence the one responsible for its current behaviour.
Luke - I shall now, be quiet while the defence makes its case.
Azstal - linc has been overly random since before the creation of linc.rb
Luke - OBJECTION! This is speculation!
linc - sustained
Azstal - I have evidence.
Luke - Very well, I withdraw the objection for the moment.
Azstal - When linc was created (by Chris) it was a simple, default rbot installation, which contains commands such as lart, excuse, insult, roulette, all of which are overtly random!
Luke - Not true.
Azstal - Do explain.
Luke - OBJECTION! All those commands have specific uses and cannot be seen as random.
linc - overruled
Luke - Very well, they can be seen as random, but not OVERTLY random.
Azstal - Where does the difference lie?
Luke - Well, each of those commands does something random, but with a specific agenda, such as lart is used for assaulting people, roulette is a game of chance, insult creates a random insult towards someone. So yes, while all these things are random, they have a specific grounding, which keeps them from being OVERTLY random.
Azstal - I would say that linc’s objection, sentence and verdict commands also have a specific purpose - entertainment.
Luke - Yes, they do, but the case is not focused on them.
Azstal - Is this not what the case is based on?
Luke - It is focused on the random inserts when linc talks to us.
Azstal - That is not my programming!
Luke - But since you are the lead programmer, any programming you were unsure of should have been removed!
Azstal - I did nothing to encourage said behaviour. My plugin does not interact with the markov module to suppress its randomness during court procedings. I was unaware that this would happen.
Luke - IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE!
Azstal - I claim negligence on the part of API documenters. It was not documented how to suppress a message from being processed by the markov plugin.
Luke - Then you should have found a way before unleashing linc on the world!
Azstal - Indeed, the documentation suggested to me that if I replied to a message in my plugin, the markov module would have realised this (it is a simple task) and not replied itself
Azstal - The documentation makes it clear that this is possible, via the Irc::BasicUserMessage#replied? function
Azstal - I would like to submit as evidence, http://linuxbrit.co.uk/downloads/rbot/doc-0.9.10/classes/Irc/BasicUserMessage.src/M000235.html
Luke - I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to explain this in lay-mans terms for those members of the jury who don’t understand your… techno-speak.
Azstal - I retract my earlier claim of negligence on the part of Application Programmer Interface documenters, and claim negligence on the authors of the “markov” plugin.
Luke - Well, if you’re going to keep changing your story like this, I, and I’m sure the jury as well, are going to have trouble believing anything you say.
Azstal - It does not check if a message has already been replied to before speaking its overtly random comments
Azstal - New evidence was discovered, Mr. Luke, I’m sure you understand.
Luke - OBJECTION! This does not excuse what has infact transpired!
linc - overruled
Azstal - I do not believe I should be responsible for their negligence and/or blatant incompetence!
Luke - Very well, but I still maintain that negligence as I viable reason for what has happened.
Luke - Well, we’ll leave that to the jury.
Luke - Mr. Azstal, have you finished presenting your case?
Azstal - I believe that while my case was badly presented, I need not add anything further/
Luke - Very well. I move to make the prosicutions closing statement.
* minteh (minteh@cpc2-burn4-0-0-cust46.manc.cable.ntl.com) has joined #linc
Luke - Ladies, Gentlemen, Children, Small Furry Animals and Oversized Puppets of the Jury. I am not here to judge… I, myself, enjoy the odd bit of recreational randomness, but what I cannot advocate is when it gets out of hand, then we have OVERT RANDOMNESS on our hands, and that is just wrong. Earlier today, linc was found guilty of overt randomness, and as you’ve heard today, the facts point to that man over there, Mr. Azstal, being re
Luke - sponsible for the programming behind this bot… Should he be excused for negligence in the code, that he CLAIMS was that of the people before him… NOT IN MY BOOK. The Prosicution rests, you honour.
Luke - Mr. Azstal, please make the defenses closing statement.
Azstal - And I, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, wish to remind the jury of the evidence earlier submitted, which the prosecution did not object to, and is therefore clearly acceptable.
Azstal - This evidence proves without a shadow of a doubt that it is possible for the rogue module causing this overt randomness to check if it is appropriate. Yet, the authors did not. I do not know why this is the case; it is a topic for another day. I believe it is them, not I, who should be brought to justice, and I intend to do it myself. The defence rests.
Azstal - Shall we move on for a verdict, or does the prosecution object?
Luke - Very well, we shall have a short recess while the jury confer.
Luke - However that is spelt.
Azstal - And I shall be over here, not bribing them.
Luke - I shall be over here, donkey punching the blond, female artist from the newspapers.
Luke - Been long enough yet, Mr. Azstal?
Luke - I need your confirmation before I can bring the jury back out.
Azstal - I think the jury made up their minds a long while ago. Possibly last week when a small envelope didn’t arrive in their pocket
Luke - Very well, we shall see.
Luke - Jury, your VERDICT?
linc - guilty
Luke - HAZZAR!
Azstal - After all I’ve done for you!!
Azstal - linc, we’re finished!
Luke - And the SENTENCE that he shall have to serve?
linc - 111 hours community service
Luke - OBJECTION! That sentence is too lenient for his crimes!
linc - sustained
Azstal - Perhaps they saw that while I was guilty as charged, it was not a heinous crime
Luke - HAZZAR!
Luke - Then your second SENTENCE?
linc - 107 hours community service
Azstal - OBJECTION!!!!!!! Linc’s word is final! go through the APPEAL service!
linc - sustained
Luke - Very well, I APPEAL the original 111 hours community service!
linc - done
Azstal - What new evidence or reasoning do you wish to present?
Luke - None, I am happy with the evidence presented last time, I just believe that a re-evaluation of the sentence is in order. Yourself?
Azstal - I believe that this appeal is a sham, and will be dealt with accordingly by the jury.
linc - I believe it’s possible to create totally random sentences in chat
Azstal - Proceed!
Azstal - linc, no more overt randomness, please!
Luke - Remember here, there shall not be a verdict drawn again, I merely appealed against the sentence, it is your job to appeal against the verdict!
Azstal - Agreed.
Luke - Very well, let us get this over with. The new SENTENCE is what?
linc - 5 years and 4 months in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison
Luke - HAZZAR!
Azstal - Harsh!
Luke - Do you wish to appeal?
Azstal - I do indeed wish to APPEAL! Why is the new sentence so different!
linc - nope
Luke - Because as linc’s programmer you are directly responsible for his behaviour since he is not recognised as a sentient being!
Azstal - I am not linc’s programmer, I merely programmed the court behaviour. I would have assumed the jury would understand this.
Luke - Obviously not. Now, you have not got your appeal, and your sentence will start immediatly. Bayliff, take the PRISONER away.
Azstal - Parole?
Azstal - BAIL?
Azstal -
Luke - I’m afraid not… not in this nation!
Azstal - Since I am unable to fix linc, you will be stuck with linc’s overt randomness!
Luke - Now, Bayliffs, if he resists, you have permission to hit him hard with whatever objects are at hand.
Azstal - this is madness!
Azstal - OBJECTION, violence is not a solution!
linc - overruled
Luke - Muwahahahaha
Luke - MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Azstal - linc, how could you do this to me?
linc - beats me
Luke - This is a victory for #lincians everywhere!
Luke - Wow… that was a nice two hour court case 
Luke - And quite entertaining
Luke - I do believe that the log shall have to go up on the blog
Azstal - Shamed for all the world to see!
Luke - Indeed
* Azstal slaps linc around with a pink Macintosh
Azstal - Violence is not a solution… but it sure is satisfying
Luke - OBJECTION! Azstal should have extra added to his sentence for violence!
linc - sustained
Luke - SENTENCE HIM!
linc - 110 hours community service
Luke - Very well.
Azstal - I OBJECT on the basis that linc is corrupt!
linc - overruled
Azstal - Yeah, you would say that, you corrupt bastard.
