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So how long before we get good image recognition, good enough to search for a menorah† in the window, index the addresses, and plot driving routes from any malefactor's house?
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Even though it's really about sex and nature, and infused with environmentalist and native culture messages, all that hundreds of millions in new film technology and sensual luminescence is still designed to tell a simple, cartoon version of the same story: sturdy representatives of righteousness kicking some scowling malefactor's butt.
Phil Bronstein: 2009's Headline Dads: A Year in the Garden of Good and Evil 2009
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I'm not in the habit of popping poop in an envelope and posting it off to someone I've never met, although there have been times when I've been sorely tempted to hand-deliver a load through some malefactor's door (a temptation nonetheless resisted).
buggerthat Diary Entry buggerthat 2009
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This usually means the malefactor's superior officer, who has little motivation to expose corruption within his own department.
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As there is little remarkable in this malefactor's life, permit me to add an observation or two concerning the nature of crimes punished with death in England, and the reasonableness of any project which would answer the same end as death, viz., securing the public from any of their future rapines, without sending the poor wretches to the gallows, and pushing them headlong into the other world for every little offence.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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A fiddler has the hardest lot of all mankind, because his life depends upon a bit of wood and a piece of cord, for all the world like a malefactor's.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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And the malefactor's head was not silent even in death.
Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905
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But the malefactor's head rolled in the dirt and the mob ran up and seized it and lifted it high by the hair.
Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905
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And the malefactor's head still spoke, and it testified with unquenchable voice and spoke loudly all the words it uttered.
Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905
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But the mob ran up and took hold of the malefactor's head by the tongue and lifted it high by the tongue.
Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905
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