Yesterday I spent $20 on a domain name (ten years!) that I don't even know if I'll ever use. If I do use it (I have plans), I doubt I'll ever put any ads on it. Websites I run don't have ads. I do it all for free.
Anyway, bitcoins is the perfect solution to this whole micropayment thing. It is decentralized, no costs to pay to a middle-man, you pay as little as you want (down to tiny fractions of a cent if you want). You don't need to sign up for some sketchy website, handover your details or anything. (Well, unless you buy some bitcoins, but if you get them from other sources, like donations, it's fine.)
I was going to start a micropayment company, and then I realized that actually bitcoins is perfectly sufficient. It does everything I could possibly want.
"But at the point you dump your bosses email box and hand it to the press, you better have a really good reason." And whoever (allegedly Manning), metaphorically, dumped their bosses' email box did have a damned good reason. They exposed war crimes, crimes by various governments against their people, information that should never have been classified in the first place, etc. etc. Well done that man or women!
As others have said, being hero and violating a contract with the mafia^W government are not mutually exclusive. Manning is a hero because he violated his contract exposing significant misdeeds and secrets that should never have been secret. He is a hero because he leaked information that has lead to the downfall over governments that were fundamentally undemocratic. He is a hero because in his position he saw a way to try and right a wrong, and he took that way.
You are worried about how Manning managed to leak all this embarrassing material, you should be more worried about why those in the chain of command who committed crimes (that have been exposed thanks to Manning) are not being prosecuted. Are you one of the ones who say the government can do no wrong? Or if they did, they must have a good reason? Defense of wrong doing is itself a problem that needs to be fixed.
Unfortunately there's no, "you're an idiot" mod, so I'll leave you unmoderated and tell you directly. If Manning really did leak this information then yes, he's a hero. But he's not a traitor, and he deserves no punishment. He deserves what any hero does, but unfortunately he's getting what heroes too often get. Instead of praise and thanks for highlighting evil, and exposing dark secrets, he's getting punished for it. But that's to be expected, what evil organization actually likes being exposed as evil when they try and pretend otherwise?
People like to say, "oh, you broke the law, accept the consequences", but fuck that shit. If the law is wrong (and any law that forbids a person to revel wrong doing on the scale reveled by Manning, is wrong), then it is your duty to break it. And then to evade injustice. E.g. the mafia come and say, "we'll protect your shop from someone firebombing it", but if you reject their offer, you still have the right to defend your shop yourself from firebombing (which will come from the mafia). The mafia are the government, demanding you accept their laws or face the consequences they decided on.
Two words only are needed to show why any attempt to ban anything on the Internet is doomed to fail. Both words are proper nouns. The first is "Tor", an onion routing system that means it can be virtually impossible to connect an end user with a particular server. Moreover, there are "hidden" services that do not even show on the main web. The second is "Freenet", the distributed peer-to-peer encrypted network (with built in darknet for those who want or need it). A third word, "Bitcoin", allows a thriving marketplace, and when proper laundries are in place, an effectively anonymous marketplace.
The mere fact of countries like the USA, where pornography cannot be banned, means that any attempt to ban it in another freeish place will be quite difficult.
But that's technical stuff.
While I can understand the desire to eliminate gender stereotypes, and it is something I fully support, I don't see how banning pornography in the media can help. I also think that it's a wrong-headed move from a free speech point of view.
Pornography is not just men fucking women for the pleasure of other men. Human sexuality is so broad and varied, and porn is, as a consequence, broad and varied. Personally, I see porn as a positive thing in society, allowing people to experience their sexuality in the privacy of their own bedroom. A young teenage boy wondering whether it is really wrong, as his class mates, teachers, parents, and community say, for boys to like other boys, can find solace in the Internet. And jack-off to gay porn. And that's a good thing. Maybe a young teenage girl is wondering if her feelings towards some of her friends are normal. She can find lesbian, bisexual, and varied other porn on the Internet to help her confront her feelings. And that's a good thing. And the stories can be much broader than those as well.
I do object to a lot of porn out there. The degrading humiliating porn. The stuff where it looks like the female actor is actually not enjoying herself at all. But that does not mean the answer is to ban all porn.
I'll be using my Bitcoins as currency as usual. Trading for services or donating to good causes. I'll continue to accept Bitcoin in exchange for services rendered (only 10 Bitcoin for a handjob!).
Sure, for speculators that matters. For people who just want to use a decentralized non-government/non-corporate currency, it continues to just work.
Oh, and it's not an "anonymous currency", it's a "pseudo-anonymous currency". In the future there will be real laundries that operate with a decent reserve. At that point it becomes more anonymous. I'm looking forward to that future.
So, you know all about tab-stops? There's something that I had to be taught. It's not exactly obvious what they are or how to use them. Especially if the ruler is hidden. Kids don't, they'll do what all the adults they know do, and format with spaces (trying, and failing, to get things to line up correctly).
What about styles? OK, admittedly the latest versions of MS Word have pushed styles to a more prominent position. But you know, I bet that most people who weren't taught to use styles (or picked it up from another place, like HTML and CSS) don't use them when doing word processing. And that includes kids. It's just so much easier to increase the font size or hit that bold button. OK, and what about the format paintbrush? People aren't using styles, so now all their headings are inconsistent. How to fix it? Manually check and change every property...
Or in a spreadsheet program, what about pinning rows or columns (I think it's called freezing in MS Excel). I had to be shown that was possible, and that was after I'd been using a spreadsheet program for years. It's just not obvious. I'll be showing someone that tomorrow, someone who currently copies the headings into another document so she doesn't have to scroll up and down this long spreadsheet when working with another system.
I was taught with two different systems, MS Office and ClarisWorks. For assignments, we could use either (and I used ClarisWorks generally). I was not taught to use either system though, I was taught to use a generic word processor, a generic spreadsheet program, etc. I am also a person who is willing to play around with stuff to see what's available. I'm a bit exceptional, I suspect most people just want to get their work done. They'll do as best they can, and use the one method they've found (even if it's not the best) from then on.
I watched someone use alt-tab to change windows, but then use the mouse and context menu to copy and paste.
Anyway, just like teaching typing is still important (because kids will pick something up, but proper tutoring will improve their method), so is teaching generic office suites.
You should never be saving the password itself anyway if you are running a system. You save the hash of the password (plus salt). So that 1KB password will still "compress" (you won't get your password back of course) down to 64 bytes or whatever anyway.
Stupid instant moderation applying shit. My bad. I didn't mean to mod you troll. Maybe/. could actually require a confirmation for moderating rather than just a stupid drop down and automatically applying bullshit.
Give me millions of years and I'll create all sorts of cool shit. Remember that "nature" has had aeons to do all this stuff, humans have had what, 100 000 years or less? Hardly the same time scale.
It's called the Schengen Agreement, and while for most people it's the easy way to travel around Europe, a lot of it is about policing and criminals as well. Basically, yes the French police can cross borders into almost all neighboring countries (not the UK or Andorra I don't think).
I'm talking about the most common type of 'amateur/home'-made porn on the Internet. Obviously there is porn that is made by people who aren't getting paid, and are just sharing sexy fun time, where that porn has more than two people involved. But my unscientific survey says that most of it is just two people.
Exactly. What about porn made by men, staring men, only men, with an audience of men, and no women involved in the production process at all?
It's really easy to have good safe porn, without exploitation. Yes, it's certainly true that a lot of porn exploits the actors (men, women, etc.) involved. But that doesn't mean that Internet porn is all bad. And certainly the stuff that two consenting couples film, and then voluntarily put up on the Internet is not bad.
Before you start doing freelance stuff, check your current contract for whether or not there is a clause about you telling them (and getting approval) before starting another job. You never know...
Also, if you can make websites, you don't need to have design skills or anything. Look into reusing WordPress templates (or similar free design templates for other platforms) and then just build websites around them. Plus, if you use WordPress, you don't really have any issue, 'cause there are so many other people who can just then take up the support after you disappear.
Also just chuck ads in the local paper. "Programming done", but beware of cranks.
I can't say I do from 15 years ago, but I have done for the last 6 years at least. Every time I create a new account, I invariably record the details (including the fake DOB and mother's maiden name -- jokes on them, I'm a bastard) in a text file along with all the rest.
I also provide various fake email addresses (mailinator ftw) and record them.
Basically, I could prove that I (Dr. Janet J. Smithers) do in fact own three/. accounts, six Wikipedia accounts, various file sharing accounts, multiple Yahoo accounts, Google accounts, multiple forum accounts, etc. Even though I do not use the same pseudonym anywhere anymore (I provide a different one in every location). I also try and vary my writing style, here I'm literate. Over de i kant rite 2 gud. It makes it harder connect the dots I hope.
I also don't have Flash or Java plugin installed any longer, which limits attack vectors there. I limit JavaScript to certain domains. I have installed RequestPolicy and other privacy preserving plugins. Though I still find it strange I keep getting ads for chew toys...
The point of all that was, I can't remove myself from the Internet. E.g. to delete/. posts would require more effort than I feel like putting in. However, I can limit the damage by separating various parts of myself and making it harder to connect them. If I could delete forum posts from 2002 I would though.
One of the big things about Khan and other massive online course systems is videos. Yes, videos. E.g. I once saw this 5 minute video explaining why dividing anything by zero was not defined. Rather than, plus infinity. I summarized it as:
Dividing by zero is undefined. Why? Well, let's divide by 1 by really small positive numbers. 1/0.1 = 10 1/0.01 = 100 1/0.000001 = 1000000 So, it looks like, 1/0 could be infinity. But positive infinity. Because, look at what happens when we divided by really small negative numbers 1/-0.1 = -10 1/-0.01 = -100 1/-0.000001 = -1000000 So, maybe 1/0 should be negative infinity. But that doesn't match what we saw above. It can't be both, and it makes no sense to give it an arbitry value as that wouldn't work with the rest of mathematics. Therefore, undefined.
OK, so the question is: why videos? You are cutting off most of the world's population who do not have access to decent Internet and thus can't download and watch all these videos. If you provided text (even if just a transcript along with some screenshots where necessary) you would be able to reach a much bigger audience, including those who could benefit most.
I'd got rid of Adobe Flash ages ago, at least a year ago. I noticed that Gnash wasn't cutting it though for the few things I was trying to use it for (basically Youtube and the occasional stupid game). So, about four months ago I got rid of Gnash as well. No problem at all. OK, so the occasional Youtube video won't work in HTML 5 mode. I can cope. I really can! (The slow Internet speed which means it takes twenty minutes to download a three minute video helps as well.)
And I can't think of anything else that requires Flash. Videos and games and that's it.
And the article poster seems to have a similar experience. Nothing's missed.
That was my thoughts as well. Considering XP could be 0wned in an average of four minutes, it suggests that old XP is just not safe on the Internet. (XP with service packs and built-in firewall is apparently fine.)
Some caffeine from Green Tea keeps me programming, driving, studying, etc. Red Bull makes me wound up and literally makes my heart skip a beat every now and then. Straight caffeine pills just knock me out and a few hours later make me angry. So needless to say I limit myself to occasional green teas. (Matcha!)
Red Bull has other stuff (like taurine) besides caffeine that might be the cause. The green tea making (do you have rituals?) might be part of what helps you keep going as well.
If my wife has a coffee after 6pm she will have trouble sleeping that night.
Do a controlled test. Give her a decafe, but don't tell her it's decafe. As normal, see if it affects her. Proper double blind tests have shown that students (it's always students because they are cheap) act as if decafe has caffeine, but that warm milk laced with caffeine is just warm milk (and thus helps them sleep).
My brothers can't operate with much less than 5+ cups of strong coffee per day.
Suggest that they wean themselves off the stuff. It's not healthy at those levels. Swap in a decafe instead of ordinary coffee, and then continue with the other 4+ cups for a bit. Then swap out another coffee for decafe, and repeat until only drinking decafe. It might be the taste and the associated feelings of relaxation they are really after (rather than the caffeine).
So needless to say within my reach are a pretty wide set of reactions to caffeine. The drug I would love to see studied even more is Chocolate.
I'd rather they studied THC and LCD more. Chocolate is legal, the other two should be. --- Point of this post is that it might not just be the particular drug, it might also be the associations that the person has with the drug. Some people only smoke when drinking for example. Or smoke after sex (so/.ers wouldn't smoke in that case... haha). And some people just feel like a cup of good tea or a glass of beer after a hard days work. It's the association of, well, work's over I can relax.
OK, so we shoot them instead. If you're a top executive of a bank or other large corporation, and you screw up in such a fashion that it could seriously hurt others, then we simply shoot you. A quick trial, workout how many deaths can be attributed to your actions (a la Terry Pratchett's Going Postal), and shoot you without fuss.
At the same time we could introduce the death penalty for insurance company CEO's...
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Yesterday I spent $20 on a domain name (ten years!) that I don't even know if I'll ever use. If I do use it (I have plans), I doubt I'll ever put any ads on it. Websites I run don't have ads. I do it all for free.
Anyway, bitcoins is the perfect solution to this whole micropayment thing. It is decentralized, no costs to pay to a middle-man, you pay as little as you want (down to tiny fractions of a cent if you want). You don't need to sign up for some sketchy website, handover your details or anything. (Well, unless you buy some bitcoins, but if you get them from other sources, like donations, it's fine.)
I was going to start a micropayment company, and then I realized that actually bitcoins is perfectly sufficient. It does everything I could possibly want.
"But at the point you dump your bosses email box and hand it to the press, you better have a really good reason."
And whoever (allegedly Manning), metaphorically, dumped their bosses' email box did have a damned good reason. They exposed war crimes, crimes by various governments against their people, information that should never have been classified in the first place, etc. etc.
Well done that man or women!
As others have said, being hero and violating a contract with the mafia^W government are not mutually exclusive. Manning is a hero because he violated his contract exposing significant misdeeds and secrets that should never have been secret. He is a hero because he leaked information that has lead to the downfall over governments that were fundamentally undemocratic. He is a hero because in his position he saw a way to try and right a wrong, and he took that way.
You are worried about how Manning managed to leak all this embarrassing material, you should be more worried about why those in the chain of command who committed crimes (that have been exposed thanks to Manning) are not being prosecuted. Are you one of the ones who say the government can do no wrong? Or if they did, they must have a good reason? Defense of wrong doing is itself a problem that needs to be fixed.
Unfortunately there's no, "you're an idiot" mod, so I'll leave you unmoderated and tell you directly. If Manning really did leak this information then yes, he's a hero. But he's not a traitor, and he deserves no punishment. He deserves what any hero does, but unfortunately he's getting what heroes too often get. Instead of praise and thanks for highlighting evil, and exposing dark secrets, he's getting punished for it. But that's to be expected, what evil organization actually likes being exposed as evil when they try and pretend otherwise?
People like to say, "oh, you broke the law, accept the consequences", but fuck that shit. If the law is wrong (and any law that forbids a person to revel wrong doing on the scale reveled by Manning, is wrong), then it is your duty to break it. And then to evade injustice. E.g. the mafia come and say, "we'll protect your shop from someone firebombing it", but if you reject their offer, you still have the right to defend your shop yourself from firebombing (which will come from the mafia). The mafia are the government, demanding you accept their laws or face the consequences they decided on.
Two words only are needed to show why any attempt to ban anything on the Internet is doomed to fail. Both words are proper nouns. The first is "Tor", an onion routing system that means it can be virtually impossible to connect an end user with a particular server. Moreover, there are "hidden" services that do not even show on the main web. The second is "Freenet", the distributed peer-to-peer encrypted network (with built in darknet for those who want or need it). A third word, "Bitcoin", allows a thriving marketplace, and when proper laundries are in place, an effectively anonymous marketplace.
The mere fact of countries like the USA, where pornography cannot be banned, means that any attempt to ban it in another freeish place will be quite difficult.
But that's technical stuff.
While I can understand the desire to eliminate gender stereotypes, and it is something I fully support, I don't see how banning pornography in the media can help. I also think that it's a wrong-headed move from a free speech point of view.
Pornography is not just men fucking women for the pleasure of other men. Human sexuality is so broad and varied, and porn is, as a consequence, broad and varied. Personally, I see porn as a positive thing in society, allowing people to experience their sexuality in the privacy of their own bedroom. A young teenage boy wondering whether it is really wrong, as his class mates, teachers, parents, and community say, for boys to like other boys, can find solace in the Internet. And jack-off to gay porn. And that's a good thing. Maybe a young teenage girl is wondering if her feelings towards some of her friends are normal. She can find lesbian, bisexual, and varied other porn on the Internet to help her confront her feelings. And that's a good thing. And the stories can be much broader than those as well.
I do object to a lot of porn out there. The degrading humiliating porn. The stuff where it looks like the female actor is actually not enjoying herself at all. But that does not mean the answer is to ban all porn.
In South Korea only old people play Battletoads.
I'll be using my Bitcoins as currency as usual. Trading for services or donating to good causes. I'll continue to accept Bitcoin in exchange for services rendered (only 10 Bitcoin for a handjob!).
Sure, for speculators that matters. For people who just want to use a decentralized non-government/non-corporate currency, it continues to just work.
Oh, and it's not an "anonymous currency", it's a "pseudo-anonymous currency". In the future there will be real laundries that operate with a decent reserve. At that point it becomes more anonymous. I'm looking forward to that future.
So, you know all about tab-stops? There's something that I had to be taught. It's not exactly obvious what they are or how to use them. Especially if the ruler is hidden. Kids don't, they'll do what all the adults they know do, and format with spaces (trying, and failing, to get things to line up correctly).
What about styles? OK, admittedly the latest versions of MS Word have pushed styles to a more prominent position. But you know, I bet that most people who weren't taught to use styles (or picked it up from another place, like HTML and CSS) don't use them when doing word processing. And that includes kids. It's just so much easier to increase the font size or hit that bold button. OK, and what about the format paintbrush? People aren't using styles, so now all their headings are inconsistent. How to fix it? Manually check and change every property...
Or in a spreadsheet program, what about pinning rows or columns (I think it's called freezing in MS Excel). I had to be shown that was possible, and that was after I'd been using a spreadsheet program for years. It's just not obvious. I'll be showing someone that tomorrow, someone who currently copies the headings into another document so she doesn't have to scroll up and down this long spreadsheet when working with another system.
I was taught with two different systems, MS Office and ClarisWorks. For assignments, we could use either (and I used ClarisWorks generally). I was not taught to use either system though, I was taught to use a generic word processor, a generic spreadsheet program, etc. I am also a person who is willing to play around with stuff to see what's available. I'm a bit exceptional, I suspect most people just want to get their work done. They'll do as best they can, and use the one method they've found (even if it's not the best) from then on.
I watched someone use alt-tab to change windows, but then use the mouse and context menu to copy and paste.
Anyway, just like teaching typing is still important (because kids will pick something up, but proper tutoring will improve their method), so is teaching generic office suites.
You should never be saving the password itself anyway if you are running a system.
You save the hash of the password (plus salt). So that 1KB password will still "compress" (you won't get your password back of course) down to 64 bytes or whatever anyway.
Funky stuff.
Stupid instant moderation applying shit. /. could actually require a confirmation for moderating rather than just a stupid drop down and automatically applying bullshit.
My bad. I didn't mean to mod you troll. Maybe
Give me millions of years and I'll create all sorts of cool shit. Remember that "nature" has had aeons to do all this stuff, humans have had what, 100 000 years or less? Hardly the same time scale.
Eh, good pick up. I didn't even notice that you'd highlighted that. Too much, err, not enough sleep. Yeah, that's the reason.
It's called the Schengen Agreement, and while for most people it's the easy way to travel around Europe, a lot of it is about policing and criminals as well. Basically, yes the French police can cross borders into almost all neighboring countries (not the UK or Andorra I don't think).
I'm talking about the most common type of 'amateur/home'-made porn on the Internet. Obviously there is porn that is made by people who aren't getting paid, and are just sharing sexy fun time, where that porn has more than two people involved. But my unscientific survey says that most of it is just two people.
Exactly. What about porn made by men, staring men, only men, with an audience of men, and no women involved in the production process at all?
It's really easy to have good safe porn, without exploitation. Yes, it's certainly true that a lot of porn exploits the actors (men, women, etc.) involved. But that doesn't mean that Internet porn is all bad. And certainly the stuff that two consenting couples film, and then voluntarily put up on the Internet is not bad.
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Before you start doing freelance stuff, check your current contract for whether or not there is a clause about you telling them (and getting approval) before starting another job. You never know...
Also, if you can make websites, you don't need to have design skills or anything. Look into reusing WordPress templates (or similar free design templates for other platforms) and then just build websites around them. Plus, if you use WordPress, you don't really have any issue, 'cause there are so many other people who can just then take up the support after you disappear.
Also just chuck ads in the local paper. "Programming done", but beware of cranks.
I can't say I do from 15 years ago, but I have done for the last 6 years at least. Every time I create a new account, I invariably record the details (including the fake DOB and mother's maiden name -- jokes on them, I'm a bastard) in a text file along with all the rest.
I also provide various fake email addresses (mailinator ftw) and record them.
Basically, I could prove that I (Dr. Janet J. Smithers) do in fact own three /. accounts, six Wikipedia accounts, various file sharing accounts, multiple Yahoo accounts, Google accounts, multiple forum accounts, etc. Even though I do not use the same pseudonym anywhere anymore (I provide a different one in every location). I also try and vary my writing style, here I'm literate. Over de i kant rite 2 gud. It makes it harder connect the dots I hope.
I also don't have Flash or Java plugin installed any longer, which limits attack vectors there. I limit JavaScript to certain domains. I have installed RequestPolicy and other privacy preserving plugins. Though I still find it strange I keep getting ads for chew toys...
The point of all that was, I can't remove myself from the Internet. E.g. to delete /. posts would require more effort than I feel like putting in. However, I can limit the damage by separating various parts of myself and making it harder to connect them. If I could delete forum posts from 2002 I would though.
One of the big things about Khan and other massive online course systems is videos. Yes, videos. E.g. I once saw this 5 minute video explaining why dividing anything by zero was not defined. Rather than, plus infinity. I summarized it as:
OK, so the question is: why videos? You are cutting off most of the world's population who do not have access to decent Internet and thus can't download and watch all these videos. If you provided text (even if just a transcript along with some screenshots where necessary) you would be able to reach a much bigger audience, including those who could benefit most.
I'd got rid of Adobe Flash ages ago, at least a year ago. I noticed that Gnash wasn't cutting it though for the few things I was trying to use it for (basically Youtube and the occasional stupid game). So, about four months ago I got rid of Gnash as well. No problem at all. OK, so the occasional Youtube video won't work in HTML 5 mode. I can cope. I really can! (The slow Internet speed which means it takes twenty minutes to download a three minute video helps as well.)
And I can't think of anything else that requires Flash. Videos and games and that's it.
And the article poster seems to have a similar experience. Nothing's missed.
Just a heads up, you're an asshole...
Oh, and I think I might have worked out why you can't find any women who actually like you. (Not even your mother likes you. She just pretends.)
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That was my thoughts as well. Considering XP could be 0wned in an average of four minutes, it suggests that old XP is just not safe on the Internet. (XP with service packs and built-in firewall is apparently fine.)
Some caffeine from Green Tea keeps me programming, driving, studying, etc. Red Bull makes me wound up and literally makes my heart skip a beat every now and then. Straight caffeine pills just knock me out and a few hours later make me angry. So needless to say I limit myself to occasional green teas. (Matcha!)
Red Bull has other stuff (like taurine) besides caffeine that might be the cause. The green tea making (do you have rituals?) might be part of what helps you keep going as well.
If my wife has a coffee after 6pm she will have trouble sleeping that night.
Do a controlled test. Give her a decafe, but don't tell her it's decafe. As normal, see if it affects her. Proper double blind tests have shown that students (it's always students because they are cheap) act as if decafe has caffeine, but that warm milk laced with caffeine is just warm milk (and thus helps them sleep).
My brothers can't operate with much less than 5+ cups of strong coffee per day.
Suggest that they wean themselves off the stuff. It's not healthy at those levels. Swap in a decafe instead of ordinary coffee, and then continue with the other 4+ cups for a bit. Then swap out another coffee for decafe, and repeat until only drinking decafe. It might be the taste and the associated feelings of relaxation they are really after (rather than the caffeine).
So needless to say within my reach are a pretty wide set of reactions to caffeine. The drug I would love to see studied even more is Chocolate.
I'd rather they studied THC and LCD more. Chocolate is legal, the other two should be. /.ers wouldn't smoke in that case... haha).
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Point of this post is that it might not just be the particular drug, it might also be the associations that the person has with the drug. Some people only smoke when drinking for example. Or smoke after sex (so
And some people just feel like a cup of good tea or a glass of beer after a hard days work. It's the association of, well, work's over I can relax.
OK, so we shoot them instead. If you're a top executive of a bank or other large corporation, and you screw up in such a fashion that it could seriously hurt others, then we simply shoot you. A quick trial, workout how many deaths can be attributed to your actions (a la Terry Pratchett's Going Postal), and shoot you without fuss.
At the same time we could introduce the death penalty for insurance company CEO's ...