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Apple hasn't achieved market saturation until Windows is at 10% and macOS at 90%, and not until Android is at 7% and iOS is at 95%.

You live on a different planet than the rest of us. On the planet we live on, Apple's smartphone market share peaked in 2009 at 48% and has declined steadily ever since, to less than 17% today. There is no reason to suppose that that trend will stop. Maybe it will eventually stabilize around 5% like the MacOS share of the PC market.

While they have had new products that were huge successes since Jobs (AirPods, Apple Watch seems to be doing exceptionally well) the real growth of Apple's business will be in services. They sell a premium product and they have been increasing their average selling price. There are only so many people they can sell products too, there's a ceiling on that hardware growth. So now they focus on services, which is growing extremely well.

What specific indicators are you seeing that suggests Apple is only moving on inertia? Even when Jobs was alive they were not producing a completely new massively successful product every year. You had basically iPod, iPhone, iPad (which everyone on Slashdot called "a big iPhone). And that was from 2001 to 2010. Since his death in 2011 we've had: AirPods, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, Apple Music, Siri, TouchID/FaceID, etc etc. It seems to me that they are still moving forward pretty well without Jobs.

Go jack off in your own back yard bigot. You think that republicans are the only ones who Gerrymander.

Pretty much, yeah.

Better yet, bring on your Antifa and start a civil war.

You know how to avoid the attention of the alt-right? Be rich and white. You know how to avoid the attention of the alt-left? Don't be a fucking Nazi.

Good question, and to be honest I didn't quiz him on it, and didn't get to observe the situation closely since I had my own career. I'm all for regulations that are necessary for employee safety and such, but I think that many of the compliance/reporting requirements have put a much higher burden on them. As a hiring manager in a major company now, I see some of what I consider silly compliance requirements. For example, when I want to hire someone, I'm required to open a requisition and interview a minimum number of applicants even if I already know who I want to hire...I have to waste the time of at least two other people for an opening that they have no chance of getting.

For the sake of further discussion, these might be appropriate...
https://www.bizjournals.com/bi...
https://www.businessinsider.co...

Nonsense, let's consider some things that are tough to dismiss.

Look at this - https://www.businessinsider.co...

Are you going to tell me that those settlements weren't there even though they've carbon dated it? We've been warmer before. A lot warmer, recently geologically speaking. That's a real wake up call that you really should have a problem with.

If you were at the spot where the Romans landed the first time, you'd be 30' higher than the sea is today. They've found it. It was published though the page with the pictures and such don't seem to be online any more. Wonder if they'll wipe out those Greenland settlements too since they don't fit with their story either.

As for the so called grade school experiments, sure that's a good experiment to mislead people. Sun light isn't like an incandescent. Being a real scientist I know that, you don't seem to however. With your grade school science you should realize that if CO2 really were what is causing GW it would be a lot hotter now based on the concentrations. Models have fallen apart. Basic science says if your theory has even one counter example, it's wrong. Same with Einstein and relativity, same with MMGW. We've had plenty of counter examples over the past 20 years.

I think I was the very first one to point out that Hansen was wrong when he said the 1990s was the warmest decade on record for the 20th Century. It was actually the 1930s. He (in my opinion) lied and tried to say it was a y2k glitch. y2K glitch my foot. The glitch was he was caught, by me and a bunch of other real scientists. No time to change the data, he was caught. Just think about that a minute. So just on that data how can it be CO2? You should be having some REAL problems by now.

Maybe you'll listen to a real scientist? They try to say he isn't, yet he was a recognized scientists by the American Meteorological assoc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He has since passed on.

I don't expect I'll change your mind. The brain washing is strong out there.

[Apple users] are less than 10% of your potential user base

Though Android has a larger user base than iOS, iOS has much higher revenue per user-year than Android: an estimated 9 times as much. In some markets, this more than makes up for its smaller user base. (Sources include "iOS App Store brings in 2x more revenue than Play Store despite seeing half the downloads" by Edoardo Maggio and "Apple is pulling further ahead of Google in this one key area" by Kif Leswing.) To what extent does this association between higher-value customers and Apple products also extend to macOS vs. Windows and X11/Linux?

So then, based upon your "claim" and the data I posted, that would make the Windows/Android world around 6 billion. Again, tell me why you would focus on a single-digit segment of the market?

So NOW you want to conflate Windows (who pushes DirectX) and ANDROID (which is just a Clusterfuck, to the point where even its Mommy (Google) wants to do a retroactive Abortion on it). By and large, Windows Devs. that are performance-conscious don't use Vulkan; so it really IS only down to Android and Linux (and we all know what kind of miniscule marketshare Linux has...) that are keeping Vulkan alive.

Sorry, not impressed.

Oh, and it is MY "Claim", it is Credit Suisse's. And that is 588 Million unique Apple USERS, spread over MORE THAN A BILLION Apple Devices:

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Besides, it seems like MoltenVK is a pretty viable alternative to having to (re)code against multiple graphics APIs:

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

But Metal (not even considering Metal 2) is over twice as efficient as Vulkan; so why would Apple Devs. want to give up all that extra performance, just to use a VASTLY inferior API?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

Could have used Vulkan, did not need to create a home rolled API to do the same thing less flexibly, leaving out important features, and not used by anybody outside of Apple.

They COULD have used Vulkan, IF it had Existed; but it wasn't even a Final SPECIFICATION until a year and a half after Metal was first RELEASED. So, actually, they COULDN'T have used Vulkan back when they had that "decision" to make.

And Metal "Not used by anybody outside of Apple" STILL gives you nearly 600 Million unique Users and over 1 BEELION Devices, nearly ALL of them running Metal every single day. That many users and products "make their own weather", sorry.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

So Now what?

That was in short tons, and the stage-1-recoverable weight to LEO would be 22.8 tonnes for block 5.

SpaceX keeps changing the figures here as they upgrade, you can look at the older versions on the Wayback Machine.

While block 4 quoted a 22 tonne mission in expendable mode, block 5 does all missions in recoverable mode and quotes that same weight for a recoverable mission. There is a quote here of Musk on the engine difference: The most important part of Block 5 will be operating the engines at their full thrust capability, which is about 7 or 8% - almost 10% - more than what they currently run at. Note that "full thrust" has been used to refer to increases in thrust twice, with different figures each time.

So, block 5 is about twice the power of the original Falcon 9. I think the quoted weight to LEO might be with no boost-back burn, just ballistic re-entry with a retro and landing burn, as they did for the Telstar 19v the other day (to a substationary orbit).

Trumps steel tariffs have created the worst kind of red tape. The exemption process gives the government control over who can purchase steel and from whom.

Trump's answer to the retaliatory tariffs is to dole out billions of taxpayer money to those affected. In this case the government will be picking the winners and losers.

Please don't forget that the Tempe Police Dept. immediately placed all blame on the pedestrian. We now know that the Uber car know of the obstruction and had enough braking time to have reduced it to a non-fatal accident.

Please remember the faked darkened videos, when the street was well lit.

I have no idea what is happening in this accident in Tempe... Any locals have a clue?

As A/C has noted. That is all complete bullshit.
Mr. Musk had no conversations with anyone on site, before turning up with a solution no-one wanted

So you are saying Dick Stanton was not in the cave? You might want to Google who that is before making statements like that.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Kind of sad that the whole premise for you swearing at a fellow Slashdotter are some false facts you could have Googled easily. Also, even if it wasn't established fact (like it is) that he did Talk with Stanton, how could you be so sure he didn't talk with anyone on site? You couldn't.

... but WeChat is losing money on the free electronic payments, so they're not free any more... http://www.businessinsider.com...

There was a fascinating court case for patent violation and monopoly abuse with a little company called Skyhook, that does wifi based geolocaiton. They settled for $90,000,000. Google's internal emails, exposing their plans for monopoly abuse, were turning up in the Boston Globe because the judge refused to seal the records. See http://www.businessinsider.com... for some samples.

Next up, the nut lobby will successfully lobby to ban the use of the term "peanut" because peanuts aren't nuts. And you'll be left calling it legume paste.

WA, OR, and CA... [are] half of the US GDP.

That's a negatory, Ghostrider.

This looks like a creative re-telling of a story from ~6 years ago, which pleasantly linked to a good explanation of how algorithmic pricing leads to these oddities.

Well, the Chinese gave a half billion to Trump World a very short while before Trump went to bat for ZTE - so this certainly helps the only American who matters.

... the Bitcoin aspect may be a bigger story.

Mueller found that the Russian hacker scheme was dependent on bitcoin, and it may have gotten them caught

Shock collars are going overboard.

Although collars of some sort could be used for analytics to try and organize the right groups of employees together, or "persuade" and "nudge" invidividuals toward goals predetermined to best suit the enterprise.

• - China is monitoring employees' brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company's profits by $315 million
• - Workplace Employee Brainwave Monitoring Is Already a Real Thing

Somehow I think the Lamborghini phone likely a better indicator of wealth. http://www.businessinsider.com...

The top 50 richest start at $20 billion. Assume they average between that and $120 billion. That means the top 50 have a combined worth of around $3.5 trillion. Divide that across everyone (7.6 billion people), and everyone gets $460. That's it. Yes, a huge amount for a lot of people - and "crumbs" (as Nancy Pelosi would put it) for the rest. And we just bankrupted the wealthiest 50 people on the face of the Earth.

Please cite a post he has made that and the particular term of service it violated.

You might be a Nazi... if you support Donald Trump. Or put another way, here's your sign.

"... Microsoft fired all of their testers a few years ago?"

Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity (July 17, 2014)

Microsoft job cuts far worse than rumored, could reach 18,000 (July 17, 2014)

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015)

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.... (March 3, 2016)

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Those 5 articles are part of a longer history of abuse and other extremely poor management by Microsoft:

Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Computers have been just appliances for a long time now. If you're a kid, you can get a colored case to bolt onto your appliance's chassis too. Look! our GE 3892 toaster is available in a plethora of colors!

Actually, the joke's on you.

Steve Jobs' vision was that computers would eventually become "appliances". That is, something so ubiquitous that you don't even think of it as a distinct class of device. He said words to the effect of "Computers will be everywhere; but you won't recognize them as such. They will simply be a part of everyday life; universal and invisible." His Dynabook-inspired vision of the Macintosh fit into that vision.

Keep in mind that Jobs said this around 1978, when the term "Embedded System" hadn't even been invented; so it was a bit more of a revolutionary idea than it seems now that those words have come true in spades. Now we just roll our eyes and say "Of course". Because it happened.

Here's an article that talks about that philosophy.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

So, when you "accuse" Apple of making "Appliances", you are actually validating Jobs' vision of the future of computing...

I even googled it, and it still doesn't make sense.

The parallels to Netflix don't work. The money that they're spending is used on an asset - content that can be used again and again. Moviepass is spending its money on tickets. That gets burned as soon as it's used once.

Not that many people are going to substantially increase their spending to get the pass. They apparently pay the cinemas full price for tickets and I can't see how that will change. Targeted marketing might help a little, but studios aren't going to pay people to watch their movies.

It works out for the MoviePass holders. Even at the cost of spam increase, they do well. But investors are throwing money at this. I don't get it! How do they think they'll make a profit?

Better yet, get their houseboys. You remember, like Barney Frank's houseboy? The male prostitute he was "mentoriing", who was running a brothel out of Barney's appointment?

Could not make this stuff up, see http://www.businessinsider.com...

what abuse do Apple enthusiasts take other than the blind white hot hatred of Windows fans?

There's the dongle tax for starters.

Come on - The headphone adapter being abuse is a little bit of a stretch. Kind of specious the concept of me having to sped 800 some dollars on dongles, when I haven't spent anyting other than whatever cost of purchasing the phone. My iphone 7 came with the dreaded thing, and I only used it once to check out the ear buds. They were nice, but I don't go wireless to wear the ultimate wired dongle - the wired headphones.

I suspect that you are an Android fan, and if you want that headphone jack, and if you demand to be tethered to your wireless phone, then there are plenty of non-Apple options for you.

A whole lot of us simply use Bluetooth, and experience wireless wireless. Your calling the dongle abuse is a non-starter for many (most?) of us.

what abuse do Apple enthusiasts take other than the blind white hot hatred of Windows fans?

There's the dongle tax for starters.

Amazon did care about short term results, and generally hit or exceeded their short term targets.

That is completely not true. Here is every letter to shareholders from Jeff Bezos since 1997. Read the letter from 1997 and then you'll understand. Amazon hasn't given a shit about short term financial targets since their inception.

That's just not how it went. And in any case, physical limits are hardly preventing PS Now from finding success and getting good reviews-- though people still say you're way better off with ethernet than wifi presently. Even that isn't a fundamental physical limit.

Onlive scoring good (not perfect) reviews for game performance in 2010-2011, as demonstrated below, with much worse than current consumer internet connections... is evidence that we're not up against physical limits. But it was an awful deal, and that + the Microsoft litigation killed them. After the fire sale of assets the service was indeed awful, from what I understand.

Top 3 reviews of found googling the words onlive 2011:

https://www.engadget.com/2010/...
> With an up-to-18Mbps AT&T U-Verse connection in San Jose, California, we found OnLive games loaded as quickly as on console -- sometimes much quicker -- and were actually quite playable. The controller never felt quite as responsive as that of a dedicated console nor the images quite as crisp, but we'd say that most of the time the overall experience was only slightly behind what we expect, only bogged down by the occasional annoying stutter. Frantic first-person shooters and driving games weren't as accurate as we like, but over the course of a couple days we adjusted to the mild lag, racking up plenty of kills, scoring the occasional headshot and drifting around some fairly tight corners as well. In Prince of Persia, a game that can require fairly precise timing in combat, we were still able to parry foes' swords and execute tricky jumps with a little bit of forethought, and a multiplayer game of Unreal Tournament III was intriguingly balanced -- if slightly laggy -- thanks to the fact that all players had 0 ping to the (virtual) host server.

https://www.pcgamer.com/onlive...
> And yet streaming from the net via OnLive is remarkably playable. Obviously it feels a bit sluggish compared with playing on your own native hardware, but for many games, especially those designed with laggy console controllers in mind, including the likes of Arkham Asylum and Human Revolution, it's far from unpleasant.

http://www.businessinsider.com...
> The game had minimal loading times, and while the graphics weren't as crystal clear as on a video game console (because of OnLive's compression technology), the level of detail was pretty amazing. It looks just as good as watching Netflix streaming. Controls originally felt a little delayed, but after a few minutes I felt right at home. I wanted to notice latency and laggy controls (due to my input getting beamed to the over the web, then a response getting beamed back), but I didn't find any in this game.

The business owners will be able to make as much as $300,000 a year in profit running a full-sized fleet of 40 vans and managing 100 employees, according to Amazon.

That works out to a profit margin (net income) of just $3000/yr per employee.

Most businesses have a net income per employee of tens of thousands of dollars ($28k/yr average for the fortune 500), with the best ones pulling in well over $100,000/yr per employee. Most of the companies with a net income per employee below $10,000/yr are huge corporations who gain economic stability from having 100,000+ employees (erratic performance by a single employee does not affect their bottom line much), and are able to leverage economies of scale to turn those meager profit margins into something worth doing.

If you take up Amazon's offer, you're basically dead meat. Especially since you're in the precarious position of only having a single customer, and have no leverage to negotiate prices - you either accept what Amazon says they'll pay you or they'll bankrupt you overnight. This is basically Amazon outsourcing the delivery business, where they take the lion's share of the profit for themselves, while offloading all the risk (fewer deliveries due to an economic downturn) onto the poor schmucks who took out loans to buy all those delivery vans and have to pay payroll and unemployment regardless of how poorly business goes.

If you read Business Insider's article, you'll see that the analyses use data concerning ports of origin. So, you have to extend the information to the areas serviced by the ports.

New York is a massive port for business interests throughout the Northeast. The port of New York and New Jersey is the 3rd ranked port in the US. So, New York's data essentially just says that the Northeast in general barely got hit.

California ports in LA and Long Beach are #1 and #2 serving much of the SW US and combined didn't sustain the impact that Houston did with their port ranked #7.

Louisiana's $6 billion of targeted exports were also likely products from throughout the bread belt that were shipped there by train.

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> For something better https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12266978&cid=56837540/

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Ads in videostreams
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> For something better https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12266978&cid=56837540/

Being more clear: I should say that I don't see any reason to be particularly negative about Jeff Bezos as a person. It is, however, my opinion that he is not managing Amazon sufficiently. Three examples:

1) While a customer is reviewing a product, Amazon tries to sell other products.

2) There are a lot of sellers on Amazon who try to take advantage of customers.

3) Often products are presented with insufficient explanation.

Question: Will Blue Origin, a sub-orbital spaceflight company, be better managed than Amazon? If passengers on Blue Origin want to avoid death, Blue Origin must be extremely well managed. (Blue Origin craft don't have nearly enough power to go into orbit.)

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and it has done well: How Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reinvented The Washington Post, the 140-year-old newspaper he bought for $250 million. (Paywalled.)

However, I don't see the kind of extremely detailed management in activities connected with Jeff Bezos that is necessary for safe spaceflight.

Quote from that Business Insider article: "Bezos liked the opportunity so much that he didn't do any due diligence and just signed the first $250 million offer sheet that came from Graham."

You obviously don't know anything about In-N-Out Burger, not their food ingredients nor their pay scale. You might consider not commenting on things you're completely clueless about.

I'm not American and have never heard of In-N-Out but I can tell one thing: they've got a good social media marketing team.

You obviously don't know anything about In-N-Out Burger, not their food ingredients nor their pay scale. You might consider not commenting on things you're completely clueless about.

Looks like limited distribution, this was posted recently to Reddit.com
In-N-Out and Shake Shack locations mapped (Yellow)
https://www.reddit.com/r/datai...

Not one even close to me.

You obviously don't know anything about In-N-Out Burger, not their food ingredients nor their pay scale. You might consider not commenting on things you're completely clueless about.

"The stock sales just ahead of the announcement of those issues [Spectre and Meltdown] are rather suspicious though."

I linked to a story about that in a previous comment: Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24 million in company stock. (Jan. 3, 2018)

There are so many areas of insufficient management at Intel that commenting on them always focuses on one or a few areas. A fully examined list would be a book, not a comment.

BZZZZT

Staged:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18...
Obama era:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

wrong and wrong, you fucking dork.

There are many bases around the world where the military keeps weapons and people. The Air Force can bring long range bombers on target carrying conventional weapons. The Navy has carriers and submarines with conventional weapons positioned all around the world.

There are up to seven US carriers at sea at any given time, each carrying FA-18s with a combat radius of 380 miles. Some are enroute, some are near hot spots. That gives the US the ability to strike *those* few places quickly. At a top speed of around 35 mph, they don't go somewhere else very fast. http://www.businessinsider.com... Included in the carrier battle groups are those submarines you mentioned. There are more submarines, mostly Los Angeles class. They stay submerged for about seven weeks at a time, listening to low frequency command transmissions at a rate of twelve characters per hour. The Los Angeles class has a top speed of 23mph and carries carries Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of 800-1500 miles. This covers a lot more area than the carrier groups. Air Expeditionary Groups can deploy with 48 hours.

I'd have to see how that poll was formulated. Because my first reaction to that is "bullshit!"

Exactly. Anything you don't like or doesn't fit your narrative: BULLSHIT.

Trump HIMSELF was quoted as saying that the US should consider abolishing term limits (like China):
http://www.businessinsider.com...

It's a quote dude. He said it. There's no dispute on that.

No. I said my first reaction was "bullshit".

But, as I said, I'd like to see how the poll was formulated.

There's a difference between dismissing it and wanting to know more.

Enough laws were already violated by previous administrations who shall remain nameless.

That's called "whataboutism". You dismiss things like suggesting the constitution should be changed to allow Trump to be king with "well, OBAMA DID OTHER STUFF!!!". Seriously, how about just judging each situation on it's merits? I learned when I was 4 that two wrongs don't make a right. If you think Obama committed some terrible crimes, GO GET HIM. What's stopping the Republican house, senate, and presidency from opening an investigation into Obama? Aren't you upset with your R elected officials that they are letting Obama off the hook after he committed all those crimes? Why are you voting for people that let criminals like Obama go free?

Oh for fuck's sake.

My POINT is that violating laws simply because OTHERS have violated laws IS NOT OKAY!

Downvote if you want, the fact remains you support a president that said publicly that the US should "give it a try" abolishing term limits, using China as the shining example.
http://www.businessinsider.com...

I'd have to see how that poll was formulated. Because my first reaction to that is "bullshit!"

Exactly. Anything you don't like or doesn't fit your narrative: BULLSHIT.

Trump HIMSELF was quoted as saying that the US should consider abolishing term limits (like China):
http://www.businessinsider.com...

It's a quote dude. He said it. There's no dispute on that.

Enough laws were already violated by previous administrations who shall remain nameless.

That's called "whataboutism". You dismiss things like suggesting the constitution should be changed to allow Trump to be king with "well, OBAMA DID OTHER STUFF!!!". Seriously, how about just judging each situation on it's merits? I learned when I was 4 that two wrongs don't make a right. If you think Obama committed some terrible crimes, GO GET HIM. What's stopping the Republican house, senate, and presidency from opening an investigation into Obama? Aren't you upset with your R elected officials that they are letting Obama off the hook after he committed all those crimes? Why are you voting for people that let criminals like Obama go free?

Facebook is loosing a high percentage of users daily

No, it isn't.

Norway is rehabilitative, not destructive, to those who commit crimes. Michael Moore's film, Where to Invade Next explored the system in Norway, and prompted articles like this one: Why Norway's prison system is so successful. Quote from that article: "... when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%. The US has one of the highest: 76.6% of prisoners are re-arrested within five years." Being destructive to those who commit crimes is another crime, a crime committed by the government.

To be fair Norway doesn't have the massive multicultural issues that the US has. Despite all the cheering for multiculturism it makes life harder in many ways and simply getting along is one of them. US prisons are breeding grounds for gangs, rehabilitation is not really a goal. I'd start over since the current system is so broken that I don't see how incremental reforms could ever change anything. Of course we could start a parallel system for people more likely to be able to be rehabilitated but I'm sure disparate impact would make that illegal. Until disparate impact is dropped a great many changes can never happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

Exactly.

"You know, like 90% of all other published research in the psychological sciences." Or maybe 98% of that research is somewhat or mostly wacky?

Maybe the actual issue: The smart people in Norway are avoiding military service?

Another subject about Norway:

Norway is rehabilitative, not destructive, to those who commit crimes. Michael Moore's film, Where to Invade Next explored the system in Norway, and prompted articles like this one: Why Norway's prison system is so successful. Quote from that article: "... when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%. The US has one of the highest: 76.6% of prisoners are re-arrested within five years."

Being destructive to those who commit crimes is another crime, a crime committed by the government.

The US actually imposes far more protectionist measures than China.

they don't even need EZ pass, all modern cars are connected all the time.... http://www.businessinsider.com...