Chicago/Detroit have some of the worst firearm restrictions. It's almost as bad as Washington DC.
There have been studies in the USA showing that states with the most 'gun control' have the worst crime rates. There have also been studies showing that passing shall-issue concealed carry decreases crime.
Britian's crime rate exceeds that of the USA in all stats except murder. In the USA we have a real problem with gangs killing each other in the inner cities. Without that, we'd be right alongside Europe for the murder rate.
That's why I said 'ambush'. A machine gun isn't that usefull if they're ON the hull. And who's to say that the legion didn't manage to get ahold of an RPG or two?
And I wouldnt' want to meet up with an elite force of roman legionaires in WWI/II trench warfare.
Just look at the middle east right now. You have forces that are mostly poorly trained, barely equiped with post-WWII weaponry, against the best forces in the world, and they still manage to take out some of our forces and equipment.
There were actually two restrictions: Time and adoption. Until a percentage of households HAVE digital sets, the analog won't be turned off.
I think that if they really want to get rid of analog, they're going to have to mandate that all sets be capable of digital. As long as I walk into the Best Buy/Walmart and don't see any digital TV's except for the $3000 HDTV systems, they aren't going to make the percentage.
I'm not allowed to put a dish up where I live. There are people who don't have the angle available for the dish...
There are reasons. It's just that the more they encumber stuff with 'copy-prevention', the more the average user will know about it, be annoyed by it, and support us geeks in bypassing it, or amending laws to make it no longer illegal to bypass.
This has been tried many times, especially for death row inmates. They find some 'new' evidence, such as a death-bed confession, anything, and demand a retrial.
Remember, DNA evidence is relativly new. While useful in cases such as rape, it is NOT a surefire crime solver. Just as fingerprints are not necessarily everything. For example, Wouldn't you expect to find DNA/fingerprints for the family who lives in a home there? Would you be suprised to get a semen sample of the boyfriend? In about ten years, cases of 'new' DNA evidence will be history. But then there might be something else. Some new forensic technology. All we can do is our best.
Another point is that the definition of 'reasonable doubt' has shifted over time. We have more evidence gathering methods now than even twenty years ago.
I think that cases of solid new evidence should appeal to the Governer more as a source of pardon, more than the court system for retrial.
The decaying orbit is simple. The Enterprise apparently likes very low orbits, well within the outer atmosphere. While very thin, the atmosphere is still enough to provide enough friction to bring the ship down.
Nebraska, I can't find the links right now myself. They might have repealed it due to the pressure. The reasoning was that they weren't paying their 'share' of the road maintenance.
Remember, I was just guessing and exaggerating the difference in gas milage. Considering that they are finding that these cars are getting below 40 mpg, and my car gets 30 mpg with my leadfoot, I don't have the economic incentive to buy a hybrid. I spend time during the winter in North Dakotoka, so I'll also wait until the cold trials are complete. You don't want to rely on untested technology at -40.
Two and a half tons of CO2. Big deal. So what. The 'science' calling CO2 a greenhouse gas is shaky. Besides an acre of trees takes out 3.6 tons a year. Many faster growing plants remove even more.
A large factor for this is the cost factor. Sure, you get a $2000 deduction for buying a hybrid vehicle. This doesn't mean that you get $2000 extra back on your tax return. You get maybe $500, if you're in a high tax bracket. As for additional state refunds, my state actually passed an EXTRA sales tax on hybrids, because they 'don't pay their share for road maintenance'. I bought a new car a few years ago, and I did look at the hybrids/alternates. I didn't look at electric, because I drive too much for their range. The hybrids were priced way out of my range. I could have gotten a BMW for less!
I'll go with a hybrid/alternate fuel vehicle when it makes economic and practical sense for me. I think that the hydrocarbon fuel cells look like a good deal once they work out the problems. The energy density of hydrogen isn't that great, and it is difficult to store. Keeping it as a hydrocarbon improves the density.
On a pure electric-driven car (some hybrids hook the gas engine to the wheels), you don't need a transmission, and the gas engine operates at a constant speed to provide power. You can get by with a smaller constant speed gas engine (you get extra power from the batteries when needed).
The hills and stuff don't matter as much for an electric because of the difference in the way the motors work. Regenerative braking is a big bonus.
On the other hand, my Saturn SC2 gets about 30 mpg running around. I'm not a fuel-efficient driver, amd I'm only 1 mpg worse than what the guy is getting. He has a problem...
while the chemical reaction in a battery could be highly temperature sensitive, it isnt
Here's a test for you: 1) Take some alkeline batteries for a flashlight. 2) Put them in the flashlight and observe the light level. 3) Remove batteries and place in freezer overnight 4) Remove batteries from freezer and replace in light 5) Turn on flashlight. Notice lower/no light is coming from flashlight.
Chemical reactions slow down in colder temperatures. It's just that lead-acid batteries for cars, especially in northern climates, are WAY overpowered, in order to deal with the cold (and to give them longer life). Cold cranking amps, it's what to check when you're buying a battery in the north.
Most warmers do warm the oil, but they keep the whole compartment a little warmer as well. Oil is the bigger problem first though.
I wouldn't want an electric when it hits -40 here. I'd use up the batteries just for the heater!
Batteries on this scale aren't likely to just be tossed into a landfill. They're so easy to reprocess and recycle that they're still worth money when they're dead. It's like scrap metal. People will actually pay money for soda cans, if you have them in bulk. Collection costs are why small appliance batteries aren't recycled all the time.
As in you only get out 50% of the electricity you put in charging the batteries. This is after you throw away 70-80% of the energy from the gasoline, as the efficiency of internal combustion engines isn't that great to begin with, and the generator it's turning isn't perfect either.
As I drive alot of highway miles, I wouldn't get a hybrid vehicle as their gas milage is worse on the highways than many normal cars. They make more sense for the limited distance/slow speed/frequent stops of city driving. That and even at $2 a gallon, it'd take a huge amount of driving for the better milage to make a difference.
Let's check some some figures: assume 50 miles a day, at ~25 miles to the gallon. That's 730 gallons a year. At $2 a gallon, that's $1,460 dollars a year. Your yearly savings, before maintenance, is $730 a year for going with a hybrid that gets ~50 miles to the gallon. If the hybrid costs $5k more, that's 7 years until you break even. Oh, and you're going to have to replace the batteries by then? Tack on a few more years. I bet maint. costs will more than eat up any differences. It gets even more difficult if the MPG difference is only 6.
1) Burn CD 2) Plop CD into CD duplicator 3) ??? 4) Profit!!!
Or if you don't have a duplicator, you should be able to just put the CD back into the computer, make an image using your favorite burning software, then roll as many copies as you want.
Bingo. This is part of my job. I'm handed a list of keywords to block, and we have the majority of the filters turned on. Anybody complains, I check the site, and unblock it if it's okay. The reasoning that is used to allow this is that the network is 'for official use only'. You want to do some recreational surfing, you can do it at home. Totally different issue from a library/public school.
Otherwise, we'd have problems with people screaming about us not blocking it the first time somebody was surfing porn and an 'objector' came across it and said they're harrassed.
It's sad, but the current policy is that 'harrasment is defined by the harrassee'.
When a company incorporates, the ownly people 'protected' from suit are the stockholders. Their liability is limited to their investment. CEO's, board members, and employees can most certainly be sued if they're involved. This is why companies have so many policies and rules, it's so that if anything happens they can say 'it wasn't our fault, our employee violated orders'.
Most lawsuits focus on the company, however, because they're considered responsible for the employee, and the fact that the corporation has loads of money where the employee/s in question don't.
I think the average is actually ~2-3 runs per rebuild. So that's the number they do at an event. Run time is still measured in seconds though. The engines don't have anywhere near enough cooling for sustained operations.
why aren't we throwing away a few billion to help solve poverty
$500 billion a year of federal spending just on welfare. See why I don't think that 1 billion isn't that much?
a little wealth redistribution can't be a bad thing
I disagree. If you start taking away successful people's money, you create disincentives to being successful.
Corruption in governments does put a big barrier in the way of helping the countries concerned, but since half the time we attack them anyway, surely our leaders wouldn't have qualms violating their airspace with aid helicopters? (Wait, that should be "shouldn't...")
Again, I disagree. All that would happen would be that the corrupt government would drive over in trucks and grab the food. Probably kill those in the area. If we're going to go in, we have to resolve to remove the current government, and while I can be considered a warhawk, I'm not that extreme.
I think that research into new stuff is important and good for the planet, but if millions of people could be saved from dying instead of it, I personally would opt to save those millions. Heck, we have enough poverty in developing countries - it could easily go to helping them out.
Helping those who help themselves... Many with my views are isolationalist, but I look at history and see that it doesn't work (comes back and bites us). On the other hand, you have to look at each situation individually. You also have to be carefull about spreading yourself too thin. Cleaning up Afganistan should have been done long ago. I wouldn't have stopped support as soon as the USSR had given up, but that was the decision of the generation before me. Removing Iraq as a threat will free up forces that have been tasked with 'containment' for far too long. Again, I'd have taken out Saddam the first time if given the choice.
You have to face it, 'Aid helicopters' wouldn't be more than a band aid over a gushing wound. You can't transport enough in the end to make a difference. You'd be better off dropping off soldiers in those helicoptors to kill of the warlord's troops so the people can get back to farming. Then you get into the racial vendettas that both sides harbor that make our redneck fueds look like the play of children.
The problem with this is that starvation is more of a political problem than a technical problem anymore.
Just look at what happened in africa. We hear about starvation and send food aid, only to have it confiscated and used to feed the 'governments' army who then proceeded to burn the farms to starve out their enemies (the farmers). Or North Korea, you can't tell me that if it wasn't for the policies of Kim Jong-il, that there wouldn't be enough food to almost eliminate the hunger problem.
Or do you suggest that we occupy Africa and invade North Korea?
Establishing a permement presence on another planetary body, or visit another planet is going to take lots of research. Some of this research may solve current problems in ways that we would have never thought about otherwise.
We 'waste' money in many other ways, such that a few billion dollars a year is nothing. Heck, we could free up that much by simply making tax codes easier to understand, resulting in fewer accountants spending time trying to understand and comply to them.
We need to do visionary things, or we'll start stagnating.
The reason that there are no numbers is that no census numbers were ever available for the region, it was desolate, but probably not totally empty. On the other hand, imagine the potential death toll from an asteroid that size hitting Chicago, NYC, London, Berlin, Moscow, Sidney, or any other major city.
At $5.15 hour, working a full 40 hour week, you'll score $206 a week. That's $824 every 4 weeks. Correcting to a 30 day month average, that's actually $886 a month. $10,712 a year.
As for making _only_ minimum wage, that's for the market to decide. When I worked at McDonald's over 8 years ago, I was hired part time at over SEVEN dollars an hour.
Minimum wage shouldn't be a 'nice' income. It's the bottom of the barrel. Which would you prefer, $5 an hour, or a minimum wage of $6 and you're unemployed?
The true reason for 'dominance' is the amount of MASS that the space elevator would allow to be lifted. If they devoted some of the lifting capabilities to military use, they'd be able to lift enough kinetic-kill satellites to prevent any other country from building another, as well as being able to kill any launch from space (if they're willing to go that extreme). A little more mass, and they'd be able to strat-nuke any country/area they wanted, for the ultimate in extreme. Military doctrine still holds that holding the high ground is critical to victory. Right now the orbitals are the 'high ground'.
A couple of corrections, the A-10 is the Air Force's toy. And the recoil from the gun actually exceeds that of both engines. And from seeing the rounds, they're actually larger than the old milk bottles. I like the GAU-8. Because the Warthog can move so slow, and is armored, it can provide 'close air support' closer than any explosive.
I'd say that the problem for repeat DUI's is that they DON'T lock them away.
As for other repeat offenders who have served jail/prison time, that's why there's three strikes laws. If you have 3 felonies on you, you're statistically going to commit more. I always get upset when I hear that somebody's been convicted of stuff nine seperate times! I'm like why didn't somebody get a clue and just lock the guy up forever.
The problems with reforming vs incarcerating is the cruel punishment/human rights issues. Most effective reform treatments are... harsh; and still not very effective. That's why you have the low/high security prison systems. Reform is more expected in a LS prison, while they don't even try with VHS (Very High Security). Of course, VHS prisons are where the worst offenders go, such as murderers and serial rapists. Saw a TV special on prison systems a couple months ago, and it was interesting how incarceration as a punishment evolved, and the idea of prison being a place of reform vs a safe storage area for criminals.
artwork, CD duplication, packaging, shipping, storage
The problem here is that the secret is out: CD's are cheap to make, package, ship, and store. I pay less for larger and heavier items. The other 'secret' is that bands end up paying for the 'creation' costs of a CD. They pay for the studio, they put in the hours. And they get less than a quarter per CD sold!
Many of the bands aren't actually millionaires. A number have had to declare bankruptcy.
The RIAA isn't out for the artists. They're out for themselves. They do this by paying the artists as little as they can get away with (and passing costs to them as well), and charging consumers as much as possible.
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Chicago/Detroit have some of the worst firearm restrictions. It's almost as bad as Washington DC.
There have been studies in the USA showing that states with the most 'gun control' have the worst crime rates. There have also been studies showing that passing shall-issue concealed carry decreases crime.
Britian's crime rate exceeds that of the USA in all stats except murder. In the USA we have a real problem with gangs killing each other in the inner cities. Without that, we'd be right alongside Europe for the murder rate.
That's why I said 'ambush'. A machine gun isn't that usefull if they're ON the hull. And who's to say that the legion didn't manage to get ahold of an RPG or two?
And I wouldnt' want to meet up with an elite force of roman legionaires in WWI/II trench warfare.
Just look at the middle east right now. You have forces that are mostly poorly trained, barely equiped with post-WWII weaponry, against the best forces in the world, and they still manage to take out some of our forces and equipment.
Think about it. Given the right conditions, I can fully see a 'primitive' unit taking out a tank. It's not likely, but possible.
Maybe they dug a pit trap and lured the tank into it? Ambushed it and used their spears to kill the crew?
There were actually two restrictions: Time and adoption. Until a percentage of households HAVE digital sets, the analog won't be turned off.
I think that if they really want to get rid of analog, they're going to have to mandate that all sets be capable of digital. As long as I walk into the Best Buy/Walmart and don't see any digital TV's except for the $3000 HDTV systems, they aren't going to make the percentage.
I'm not allowed to put a dish up where I live. There are people who don't have the angle available for the dish...
There are reasons. It's just that the more they encumber stuff with 'copy-prevention', the more the average user will know about it, be annoyed by it, and support us geeks in bypassing it, or amending laws to make it no longer illegal to bypass.
Bingo
This has been tried many times, especially for death row inmates. They find some 'new' evidence, such as a death-bed confession, anything, and demand a retrial.
Remember, DNA evidence is relativly new. While useful in cases such as rape, it is NOT a surefire crime solver. Just as fingerprints are not necessarily everything. For example, Wouldn't you expect to find DNA/fingerprints for the family who lives in a home there? Would you be suprised to get a semen sample of the boyfriend? In about ten years, cases of 'new' DNA evidence will be history. But then there might be something else. Some new forensic technology. All we can do is our best.
Another point is that the definition of 'reasonable doubt' has shifted over time. We have more evidence gathering methods now than even twenty years ago.
I think that cases of solid new evidence should appeal to the Governer more as a source of pardon, more than the court system for retrial.
The decaying orbit is simple. The Enterprise apparently likes very low orbits, well within the outer atmosphere. While very thin, the atmosphere is still enough to provide enough friction to bring the ship down.
Nebraska, I can't find the links right now myself. They might have repealed it due to the pressure. The reasoning was that they weren't paying their 'share' of the road maintenance.
Remember, I was just guessing and exaggerating the difference in gas milage. Considering that they are finding that these cars are getting below 40 mpg, and my car gets 30 mpg with my leadfoot, I don't have the economic incentive to buy a hybrid. I spend time during the winter in North Dakotoka, so I'll also wait until the cold trials are complete. You don't want to rely on untested technology at -40.
Two and a half tons of CO2. Big deal. So what. The 'science' calling CO2 a greenhouse gas is shaky. Besides an acre of trees takes out 3.6 tons a year. Many faster growing plants remove even more.
A large factor for this is the cost factor. Sure, you get a $2000 deduction for buying a hybrid vehicle. This doesn't mean that you get $2000 extra back on your tax return. You get maybe $500, if you're in a high tax bracket. As for additional state refunds, my state actually passed an EXTRA sales tax on hybrids, because they 'don't pay their share for road maintenance'. I bought a new car a few years ago, and I did look at the hybrids/alternates. I didn't look at electric, because I drive too much for their range. The hybrids were priced way out of my range. I could have gotten a BMW for less!
I'll go with a hybrid/alternate fuel vehicle when it makes economic and practical sense for me. I think that the hydrocarbon fuel cells look like a good deal once they work out the problems. The energy density of hydrogen isn't that great, and it is difficult to store. Keeping it as a hydrocarbon improves the density.
On a pure electric-driven car (some hybrids hook the gas engine to the wheels), you don't need a transmission, and the gas engine operates at a constant speed to provide power. You can get by with a smaller constant speed gas engine (you get extra power from the batteries when needed).
The hills and stuff don't matter as much for an electric because of the difference in the way the motors work. Regenerative braking is a big bonus.
On the other hand, my Saturn SC2 gets about 30 mpg running around. I'm not a fuel-efficient driver, amd I'm only 1 mpg worse than what the guy is getting. He has a problem...
while the chemical reaction in a battery could be highly temperature sensitive, it isnt
Here's a test for you:
1) Take some alkeline batteries for a flashlight.
2) Put them in the flashlight and observe the light level.
3) Remove batteries and place in freezer overnight
4) Remove batteries from freezer and replace in light
5) Turn on flashlight. Notice lower/no light is coming from flashlight.
Chemical reactions slow down in colder temperatures. It's just that lead-acid batteries for cars, especially in northern climates, are WAY overpowered, in order to deal with the cold (and to give them longer life). Cold cranking amps, it's what to check when you're buying a battery in the north.
Most warmers do warm the oil, but they keep the whole compartment a little warmer as well. Oil is the bigger problem first though.
I wouldn't want an electric when it hits -40 here. I'd use up the batteries just for the heater!
Batteries on this scale aren't likely to just be tossed into a landfill. They're so easy to reprocess and recycle that they're still worth money when they're dead. It's like scrap metal. People will actually pay money for soda cans, if you have them in bulk. Collection costs are why small appliance batteries aren't recycled all the time.
As in you only get out 50% of the electricity you put in charging the batteries. This is after you throw away 70-80% of the energy from the gasoline, as the efficiency of internal combustion engines isn't that great to begin with, and the generator it's turning isn't perfect either.
As I drive alot of highway miles, I wouldn't get a hybrid vehicle as their gas milage is worse on the highways than many normal cars. They make more sense for the limited distance/slow speed/frequent stops of city driving. That and even at $2 a gallon, it'd take a huge amount of driving for the better milage to make a difference.
Let's check some some figures: assume 50 miles a day, at ~25 miles to the gallon. That's 730 gallons a year. At $2 a gallon, that's $1,460 dollars a year. Your yearly savings, before maintenance, is $730 a year for going with a hybrid that gets ~50 miles to the gallon. If the hybrid costs $5k more, that's 7 years until you break even. Oh, and you're going to have to replace the batteries by then? Tack on a few more years. I bet maint. costs will more than eat up any differences. It gets even more difficult if the MPG difference is only 6.
1) Burn CD
2) Plop CD into CD duplicator
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Or if you don't have a duplicator, you should be able to just put the CD back into the computer, make an image using your favorite burning software, then roll as many copies as you want.
Bingo. This is part of my job. I'm handed a list of keywords to block, and we have the majority of the filters turned on. Anybody complains, I check the site, and unblock it if it's okay. The reasoning that is used to allow this is that the network is 'for official use only'. You want to do some recreational surfing, you can do it at home. Totally different issue from a library/public school.
Otherwise, we'd have problems with people screaming about us not blocking it the first time somebody was surfing porn and an 'objector' came across it and said they're harrassed.
It's sad, but the current policy is that 'harrasment is defined by the harrassee'.
When a company incorporates, the ownly people 'protected' from suit are the stockholders. Their liability is limited to their investment. CEO's, board members, and employees can most certainly be sued if they're involved. This is why companies have so many policies and rules, it's so that if anything happens they can say 'it wasn't our fault, our employee violated orders'.
Most lawsuits focus on the company, however, because they're considered responsible for the employee, and the fact that the corporation has loads of money where the employee/s in question don't.
I think the average is actually ~2-3 runs per rebuild. So that's the number they do at an event. Run time is still measured in seconds though. The engines don't have anywhere near enough cooling for sustained operations.
why aren't we throwing away a few billion to help solve poverty
$500 billion a year of federal spending just on welfare. See why I don't think that 1 billion isn't that much?
a little wealth redistribution can't be a bad thing
I disagree. If you start taking away successful people's money, you create disincentives to being successful.
Corruption in governments does put a big barrier in the way of helping the countries concerned, but since half the time we attack them anyway, surely our leaders wouldn't have qualms violating their airspace with aid helicopters? (Wait, that should be "shouldn't...")
Again, I disagree. All that would happen would be that the corrupt government would drive over in trucks and grab the food. Probably kill those in the area. If we're going to go in, we have to resolve to remove the current government, and while I can be considered a warhawk, I'm not that extreme.
I think that research into new stuff is important and good for the planet, but if millions of people could be saved from dying instead of it, I personally would opt to save those millions. Heck, we have enough poverty in developing countries - it could easily go to helping them out.
Helping those who help themselves... Many with my views are isolationalist, but I look at history and see that it doesn't work (comes back and bites us). On the other hand, you have to look at each situation individually. You also have to be carefull about spreading yourself too thin. Cleaning up Afganistan should have been done long ago. I wouldn't have stopped support as soon as the USSR had given up, but that was the decision of the generation before me. Removing Iraq as a threat will free up forces that have been tasked with 'containment' for far too long. Again, I'd have taken out Saddam the first time if given the choice.
You have to face it, 'Aid helicopters' wouldn't be more than a band aid over a gushing wound. You can't transport enough in the end to make a difference. You'd be better off dropping off soldiers in those helicoptors to kill of the warlord's troops so the people can get back to farming. Then you get into the racial vendettas that both sides harbor that make our redneck fueds look like the play of children.
The problem with this is that starvation is more of a political problem than a technical problem anymore.
Just look at what happened in africa. We hear about starvation and send food aid, only to have it confiscated and used to feed the 'governments' army who then proceeded to burn the farms to starve out their enemies (the farmers). Or North Korea, you can't tell me that if it wasn't for the policies of Kim Jong-il, that there wouldn't be enough food to almost eliminate the hunger problem.
Or do you suggest that we occupy Africa and invade North Korea?
Establishing a permement presence on another planetary body, or visit another planet is going to take lots of research. Some of this research may solve current problems in ways that we would have never thought about otherwise.
We 'waste' money in many other ways, such that a few billion dollars a year is nothing. Heck, we could free up that much by simply making tax codes easier to understand, resulting in fewer accountants spending time trying to understand and comply to them.
We need to do visionary things, or we'll start stagnating.
The reason that there are no numbers is that no census numbers were ever available for the region, it was desolate, but probably not totally empty. On the other hand, imagine the potential death toll from an asteroid that size hitting Chicago, NYC, London, Berlin, Moscow, Sidney, or any other major city.
At $5.15 hour, working a full 40 hour week, you'll score $206 a week. That's $824 every 4 weeks. Correcting to a 30 day month average, that's actually $886 a month. $10,712 a year.
As for making _only_ minimum wage, that's for the market to decide. When I worked at McDonald's over 8 years ago, I was hired part time at over SEVEN dollars an hour.
Minimum wage shouldn't be a 'nice' income. It's the bottom of the barrel. Which would you prefer, $5 an hour, or a minimum wage of $6 and you're unemployed?
The true reason for 'dominance' is the amount of MASS that the space elevator would allow to be lifted. If they devoted some of the lifting capabilities to military use, they'd be able to lift enough kinetic-kill satellites to prevent any other country from building another, as well as being able to kill any launch from space (if they're willing to go that extreme). A little more mass, and they'd be able to strat-nuke any country/area they wanted, for the ultimate in extreme. Military doctrine still holds that holding the high ground is critical to victory. Right now the orbitals are the 'high ground'.
A couple of corrections, the A-10 is the Air Force's toy. And the recoil from the gun actually exceeds that of both engines. And from seeing the rounds, they're actually larger than the old milk bottles. I like the GAU-8. Because the Warthog can move so slow, and is armored, it can provide 'close air support' closer than any explosive.
I'd say that the problem for repeat DUI's is that they DON'T lock them away.
As for other repeat offenders who have served jail/prison time, that's why there's three strikes laws. If you have 3 felonies on you, you're statistically going to commit more. I always get upset when I hear that somebody's been convicted of stuff nine seperate times! I'm like why didn't somebody get a clue and just lock the guy up forever.
The problems with reforming vs incarcerating is the cruel punishment/human rights issues. Most effective reform treatments are... harsh; and still not very effective. That's why you have the low/high security prison systems. Reform is more expected in a LS prison, while they don't even try with VHS (Very High Security). Of course, VHS prisons are where the worst offenders go, such as murderers and serial rapists. Saw a TV special on prison systems a couple months ago, and it was interesting how incarceration as a punishment evolved, and the idea of prison being a place of reform vs a safe storage area for criminals.
artwork, CD duplication, packaging, shipping, storage
The problem here is that the secret is out: CD's are cheap to make, package, ship, and store. I pay less for larger and heavier items. The other 'secret' is that bands end up paying for the 'creation' costs of a CD. They pay for the studio, they put in the hours. And they get less than a quarter per CD sold!
Many of the bands aren't actually millionaires. A number have had to declare bankruptcy.
The RIAA isn't out for the artists. They're out for themselves. They do this by paying the artists as little as they can get away with (and passing costs to them as well), and charging consumers as much as possible.