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ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery
Presto Vivace writes "Under the guise of fighting spam, five of the largest Internet service providers in the U.S. plan to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their e-mails. In other words, with regular service we may or may not deliver your email. If you want it delivered, you will have to pay deluxe. 'According to Goodmail, seven U.S. ISPs now use CertifedEmail, accounting for 60 percent of the U.S. population. Goodmail--which takes up to 50 percent of the revenue generated by the plan--will for now approve only mail sent by companies and organizations that have been operational for a year or more. Ordinary users can still apply to be white-listed by individual ISPs, which effectively provides the same trusted status.'"
When your talking about spam, whats the bet that all the non-bribed judges disappear?
You forget one, but rather crucial, element: the jail operators thus make sure that the only thing the inmates can do is to join gangs and/or learn more about their "trade" from other fellons. That way they are far more likely to re-offend and thus generate more revenue for the operator.
In a sane society, instead of being subjected to an idiotic, sadistic and wholly counter-productive "revenge", they would be required to make full restitution to their victims and an effort would be made in that process to try to readjust them to the society, so that they do not become a permanent danger/expense to it. This serves the victims, the society and the offenders.
Some crimes are of course not easily directly repaired and so a number of alternative schemes would have to be put in place, all however with the same goal in mind.
And yes, some, very small minority, of offenders are incurably sociopathic and those would have to be locked up for life.
Some neanderthal "law and order" types however are under an impression that torturing, killing and maiming anyone who they suspect of being a "bad guy", usually completely out of proportion to his/her crime, based on some sort of warped set of religious delusions (start a war, kill tens of thousands, steal billions in a war profiteering scheme and do no time, get a blowjob by a teenage classmate and do 20 years), is going to improve the situation. They do forget that in the medieval times the "criminals" used to be hang maimed in cages until they died and rotted on street corners, they were publicly quartered, skinned, burned on stake, impaled and what not ... and the "crimes" kept reocurring. That is why we call that insane, useless system ... well .. medieval.
To demonstrate the utter stupidity of this argument, one has only to realize that pregnant mothers were being sent to that penal colony for "high crimes" of the day, such as belonging to the wrong religious sect. Employing a similar system now would of course mean that the offspring of fellons would also be sentenced to life in the penal colony, presumably for the crime of being born to the wrong, unlike yours, parents. Never you mind that by the very nature of it, the deportation to that colony must also be a one-size-fits-all penalty, for crimes ranging from pickpocketing to mass murder.
So in effect you are suggesting that we sentence unborn children to starvation, lack of medical care and other unspeakable hardships (until many generations later when the colony becomes a functional society) because you would so very much like to see their parents suffer, since they are, in your view, a group of "undesirables" which should not offend your delicate sensibilities with their presence in the same country as you.
The words "elitist" or "supremacist" do not even begin to describe your attitude. I am afraid that the only "cure" for your and your peers world-view would be to get subjected to the vagaries of this wonderful, privatized "justice" system you have over there, in its full glory, presumably for some really "serious", "terrible" and heavily punishable offense, such as, say, having child pornography of unknown, magical origin discovered on your computer.