The assault in a bank robbery is not a property crime, it's assault.
As for Madoff, a long term membership in Club Fed on our dime doesn't do anything to make the people he wronged whole. Paying back every last penny he stole with penalties and interest does.
How are you going to enforce a 270 year prison sentence? Are you planning to keep his rotting corpse in a cell?
To what end? They can't pay their restitution in prison, they can't maintain their other responsabilities, it costs society over 60K/year to keep them there, renders them LESS able to integrate productively into society later, teaches them that society is the enemy, and schools them in new more exciting ways to commit crime.
If you beat a dog that pees on the rug, all you'll get is a dangerously bad tempered dog that pees on the rug.
Honestly, prison seems excessive for most any property crime. Restitution with penalties and interest, an ankle monitor, and a few years of weekends picking up trash seems good. Throw in a jumpsuit that says I'm the jackass that burned out the computers fr fun. If he doesn't seem genuinely repentant, make him wear donkey ears while he picks up the trash.
That's where the whole thing falls apart. The credit and rewards accrue to the top, but all of the actual effort and a fair bit of risk is shouldered by those "below".
Since NG is also getting $45 million/year to maintain the network, it would be on them to put that in their contracts with any hardware bendors they worked with.
Step 5 happened at least 10 years before the equipment was initially installed. Arguably, it happened before the very first GPS satellite was launched.
When someone is paying you half a BILLION dollars, you are responsible for vetting the selected hardware against that sort of problem. When you're buying millions in hardware, you get to put things like that in the contract.
Given NG's line of business, none of this should have been new to them.
It seems that if they had been at all pro-active they could have spent those months making the disruption not happen at all. It's not like every device has to wait until the rollover to be patched. They could have fixed this 5 years ago and not even skipped a beat when the rollover happened.
A big problem with GPS is so many 3rd party hw vendors made it proprietary-dirt-simple and "upgrading" to a new signal means gutting the existing logic, sometimes entirely. It's not a trivial upgrade whatsoever.
And yet every cheapie android phone out of China managed it just fine. Since the event's timing has been known down to the second since the GPS system came in to existence, most devices didn't even need an update, they left the factory ready for the event. It's not like it's a whole new protocol, it's actually the same protocol just with a counter rolled past zero.
On the other hand, it's a physical impossibility that Galt mined the ore, smelted it and made the steel, formed it into rails, chopped down the trees, cut and treated the wood to make the ties, and drove every spike himself, yet he alone built the railroad? REALLY?
Important hint with anything political. If a country has the word "Democratic" in it's official name, it is about a 95% certainty there is nothing resembling democracy going on there.
If the name has "People's" in the name, remember the great words of Adrian Monk: "Not THOSE people!"
You're assuming that there will be no additional charges (from a country where prosecutors have a habit of piling on charges), and that he wasn't headed for an 'accident'.
You're also glossing over the fact that he was already cleared of those charges from Sweden when he was still in Sweden, and then was told he was free to leave. It does look a bit odd that after that, once the U.S. decides it wants to 'talk with him', suddenly the dead accusation comes back to life and requires extradition.
Considering that the main engines fired all the way to orbit, why would it have been worth while to de-orbit and land them separately from the rest of the shuttle?
This suggests that either the management is dumb as bricks OR their plan to make money is to sell the whole thing off to someone else and let THEM discover there is no path to making money. They can't do that if people who care are pointing out areas they need to improve.
Plenty of people willing to commit a little fraud, especially if they think of it as petty. Also since friending is hardly a lifelong commitment on FB, it could be as easy as friend me for a chance to win a new Xbox.
I thought about it a bit, and a simple periodic OK signal generated by the software would prevent messages like these, but to what benefit? It's not like it's accidentally displaying porn or foul language.
Prior convictions could matter if they are currently on probation or parole. In those cases, more extreme measures like being held for trial may be ethically justifiable.
Someone wearing an ankle bracelet and restricted in their movements will have little opportunity to commit a crime and very little chance of getting away with it.
If ethics don't concern you, there's the fact that jail costs a lot more per day than monitoring an ankle bracelet.
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The assault in a bank robbery is not a property crime, it's assault.
As for Madoff, a long term membership in Club Fed on our dime doesn't do anything to make the people he wronged whole. Paying back every last penny he stole with penalties and interest does.
How are you going to enforce a 270 year prison sentence? Are you planning to keep his rotting corpse in a cell?
To what end? They can't pay their restitution in prison, they can't maintain their other responsabilities, it costs society over 60K/year to keep them there, renders them LESS able to integrate productively into society later, teaches them that society is the enemy, and schools them in new more exciting ways to commit crime.
If you beat a dog that pees on the rug, all you'll get is a dangerously bad tempered dog that pees on the rug.
If an individual did anything like this they'd be facing a long list of felony charges, but since it's a corporation, the DOJ is yawning.
For once, an MBA has to actually pay for the damage himself.
Honestly, prison seems excessive for most any property crime. Restitution with penalties and interest, an ankle monitor, and a few years of weekends picking up trash seems good. Throw in a jumpsuit that says I'm the jackass that burned out the computers fr fun. If he doesn't seem genuinely repentant, make him wear donkey ears while he picks up the trash.
I'm not a big soda drinker, but I will stop completely if they start pulling things out of their ass.
Actually, why would the communications network even NEED GPS to function at all?
According to their site, there's an update available.
Single handedly?
That's where the whole thing falls apart. The credit and rewards accrue to the top, but all of the actual effort and a fair bit of risk is shouldered by those "below".
Since NG is also getting $45 million/year to maintain the network, it would be on them to put that in their contracts with any hardware bendors they worked with.
Step 5 happened at least 10 years before the equipment was initially installed. Arguably, it happened before the very first GPS satellite was launched.
When someone is paying you half a BILLION dollars, you are responsible for vetting the selected hardware against that sort of problem. When you're buying millions in hardware, you get to put things like that in the contract.
Given NG's line of business, none of this should have been new to them.
It seems that if they had been at all pro-active they could have spent those months making the disruption not happen at all. It's not like every device has to wait until the rollover to be patched. They could have fixed this 5 years ago and not even skipped a beat when the rollover happened.
A big problem with GPS is so many 3rd party hw vendors made it proprietary-dirt-simple and "upgrading" to a new signal means gutting the existing logic, sometimes entirely. It's not a trivial upgrade whatsoever.
And yet every cheapie android phone out of China managed it just fine. Since the event's timing has been known down to the second since the GPS system came in to existence, most devices didn't even need an update, they left the factory ready for the event. It's not like it's a whole new protocol, it's actually the same protocol just with a counter rolled past zero.
Fine, file individual suits in small claims court.
On the other hand, it's a physical impossibility that Galt mined the ore, smelted it and made the steel, formed it into rails, chopped down the trees, cut and treated the wood to make the ties, and drove every spike himself, yet he alone built the railroad? REALLY?
Important hint with anything political. If a country has the word "Democratic" in it's official name, it is about a 95% certainty there is nothing resembling democracy going on there.
If the name has "People's" in the name, remember the great words of Adrian Monk: "Not THOSE people!"
You're assuming that there will be no additional charges (from a country where prosecutors have a habit of piling on charges), and that he wasn't headed for an 'accident'.
You're also glossing over the fact that he was already cleared of those charges from Sweden when he was still in Sweden, and then was told he was free to leave. It does look a bit odd that after that, once the U.S. decides it wants to 'talk with him', suddenly the dead accusation comes back to life and requires extradition.
Stuff like this reminds me of old white supremacists quacking on about how slavery in the old South was a boon to the slaves.
So, when was the last time you had to get bigger shoes to account for growth? When's your funeral?
Considering that the main engines fired all the way to orbit, why would it have been worth while to de-orbit and land them separately from the rest of the shuttle?
This suggests that either the management is dumb as bricks OR their plan to make money is to sell the whole thing off to someone else and let THEM discover there is no path to making money. They can't do that if people who care are pointing out areas they need to improve.
Plenty of people willing to commit a little fraud, especially if they think of it as petty. Also since friending is hardly a lifelong commitment on FB, it could be as easy as friend me for a chance to win a new Xbox.
I thought about it a bit, and a simple periodic OK signal generated by the software would prevent messages like these, but to what benefit? It's not like it's accidentally displaying porn or foul language.
Prior convictions could matter if they are currently on probation or parole. In those cases, more extreme measures like being held for trial may be ethically justifiable.
Someone wearing an ankle bracelet and restricted in their movements will have little opportunity to commit a crime and very little chance of getting away with it.
If ethics don't concern you, there's the fact that jail costs a lot more per day than monitoring an ankle bracelet.