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>The court's job is not to enforce ryanlol's idea about what the law should be.

Ah great. Did I ever suggest that?

>The actual existing laws say that attempting to break into a computer to which you do not have access is a crime, even if you do not succeed. And that conspiring to help someone else attempt is also a crime.

This is correct, but doesn't mean that it's right.

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So if someone tried to poison you to death, but failed because he mistakenly bought sugar instead of poison, there was no crime committed? Is that how it works in your country? Is that right?

Similar to A Few Good Men, my brother's high school suspended him for selling oregano as weed.

"He's selling it as weed, not oregano, so we're punishing him as if he was selling weed".

> Did I ever suggest that

You called it a "supposed criminal act". Usually "supposed" used in that way means something similar to ostensible. That's why I started my post with "It's not supposed". In fact, that's the first definition Oxford gives for supposedly...

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