Is prison warranted in property crimes? How about if we're talking about white collar criminals who take millions? Bank robbers who threaten people with weapons?
I definitely think there is a place for prison for property crimes. Either repay the full amount, or whatever you can, then somewhere between 1 day/$200 - 1 day/$1000 for whatever can't be repaid/repaired. Let's say we're generous, and give 1 day/$1000 owed. Perhaps they find he has $5000. From the $58,000 he owed, they take his $5000, then give him the option of paying the $53,000 over time (no bankruptcy get out of jail), or you go to jail for 53 days to pay your $53,000 debt. If you think that's too generous, give him 265 days.
Consider Bernie Madoff. $20 billion profit from his scheme would result in a 20,000 day stay in the slammer, which would be 54 years, which seems very reasonable for the crime committed, although I wouldn't bicker if somebody wanted the 270 year penalty instead.
He couldn't commission a crime that had already been committed. He was only asking that the emails, that had already been copied from the server, be released. Unless the Russian knew (no just guessed) in advance that Trump was going to ask them to release the emails (assuming they are the ones who had them), his after the fact request can't be commission of a crime.
All Trump was doing (like any good politican) is make the event (illicit server being hacked) more memorable so it would continue to hang over his opponent's head for the rest of the campaign. There is no crime in that. I wish that more people had long enough memories, then she wouldn't have even been a candidate.
Or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Specifically, 20 out of 21 Southern Democrats stayed Democrat after the Civil Rights Act. Republicans still weren't able to dominate the south until a whole generation after the beginning of the Southern strategy.
It's very interesting to me that the Klan and it's supporters were highly supportive of abortion to keep the numbers of blacks low, but modern 'racists' are pro-life, which if their policy goals were implemented would increase the number of blacks much faster than the number of whites.
There was probably no chance the Obama administration would have let him walk. Trump, on the other hand, hasn't been hit by any big wikileaks yet as big as Hillary's emails. Maybe he'll let him go on account of helping keep Hillary out of office. Of course, how angry would the MSM get if Trump did let Assange go because of that. Would it be considered corruption?
Perhaps we should, as a protest, boycott H&R and friends, but use their systems to get the numbers, manually fill out the forms, and send them in and make the IRS enter the numbers into their system manually, then they'll stop paying Congress to subvert the will of the people.
Well, the Poverty line is based upon the number of people in the household, and each additional dependant increases the poverty level by $4320,. Under such a scheme, the different numbers based on the number of kids would be equivalent to deductions. I'd much rather see us roll the payroll taxes in to the income tax, and then renegotiate the taxes rates people should be paying.
As a father of 6 (soon to be 7), my income tax was -7100 under the new tax law, but when considered in connection with payroll taxes, I do pay taxes, just a much smaller amount than other people at the same income level who have a lot fewer kids. I suppose Democrats always complaining about trying to redistribute to people who are have nots have resulted in this situation, which is funny, because many of those who benefit are the religious conservatives who never vote Democrat, while the people who will pay more taxes under a 'Tax the Rich' scheme are their own constituents. I don't get why blue states vote & support people who demand that they pay more in taxes and then get angry when the tax code shifts in ways that result in them paying more taxes.
I'm not familiar with Blockbuster's service, but if the individual disks were sent to you with a postage paid return envelope, and you were dropping them off, then you were doing them a favor. If dozens of people dropped of disks, and they could put them in a box and ship them for a single box instead of dozens of disks, they may have been breaking even or even coming out ahead. The cost of the store rental was probably a bonus, and they may have hoped to get some late fees from other people to offset the cost of your free rental.
Make him pay the salaries of every government worker/agency that works on his problem. When they are crap and more expensive, perhaps he will decide to foot the bill, unless he can't get them to get rid of the regulations that he's asked for.
I absolutely agree, except, all of this is being done with the approval of one side of the political spectrum:
1. Government money is being spent on 'education' (mild brain washing) to support this same side of the political spectrum creating a half generation of society that beleives liberty is a lie, and they've been oppressed. (If they are, they should flee to Europe where real freedom reigns if that's what they believe.) 2. The media is supporting this side of the political spectrum by covering up lies and scandals while condemning 10 times as offen for lesser offenses from the other side as well as fabricating false charges against a president that isn't taking their BS, so they start falsely accusing him of obstruction when he's only protecting himself against conspiracies to remove him from office for false charges. 3. These individuals are forcing authors to change their stories to match leftist morality. This is censorship of a most evil kind because those on the right have very important ideas that created the very society they live in. 4. If they don't like what's on the radio or Fox News, there are other channels they can listen to. The very ideas they are attacking were mainstream and acceptable 10 years ago, and they are only promoting these ideas in order to gain control of the government and erradicate the opposition and turn them into slaves through government tyranny.
Of course, once the leftists enshirine their ideas, and make dissent unacceptable, they will establish themselves as the elite, and the oppressed will have no way out, then will be when they should be shouting, not for more government, but less, and not for leftist thought control but freedom of thought, action, association, and commerce. But it may be too late because the brain washing in liberal states schools will not be rolled back.
I've come to the conclussion that those who agree with the constitution and traditional values should seperate from the states who want to reject the freedoms that built the US government, because the left is on a path that can only result in tyranny or civil war, and only letting them have their way in a seperate country will make them happy.
But we can also compare to the average distances of all of Earth's which is also the center of the Sun and find the distance is 0.
Or you can realize that given one point of Earth's orbit, compared to all of Venu's v Mercury's locations will usually results in Mercury for two reasons. Consider when both Mercury and Venus are both perpenducilar to the line between the Earth and Sun. The distance between Earth and Mercury is approximately 160,465,000 and Earth and Venus is 184,835,000. (Using the pathagorian theorum and the average distances between the Sun and each planet). Considering at the two points in the middle of the orbit relative to Earth's position, Mercury is close, you're likely to find that Venus spends more time farther away from the Earth than Mercury.
Of course, what most people consider most interesting is what is the closest approach between any two bodies, and Venus is by far the closest by this measure.
I think it's several factors driving the increase in game time, but I actually think holding runners on first is probably less of a concern. Stolen bases last year were down 15% compared to 40 years ago, and most teams have analytics that tell them that losing runners from stolen bases ends up costing runs when they aren't on base when the next home run happens.
Bigger problems are that batters are less likely to swing, driving up pitch counts, which results in more pitcher changes, walks and strike outs. Conversely, you have pitchers that have gotten so good that hitters averages are down although home runs are up.
There has been talk of lowering the mound which would hopefully help hitters get the ball in play more, but it remains to be seen.
The bit about 'closing the vault' means that you won't be able to own a single movie any more. You will have to pay for access to everything forever on you will get nothing.
Another way of putting it is that they're changing from scarcity by only making it available every 5 years to making it scarce by only making it available through their own service. I suppose you could tell your kids that periodically, you'll be binging on Disney content for 1-3 months, and then they'll have to wait a few years for the next dosage if you're trying to control the money you give Disney. Which, if you do that, maybe you'd spend $120 a decade (or less) which might be way less than what you'd spend if you bought all of the movies you like.
If you're concerned about the total outlay, you're probably not Disney's primary customer. They want millions of rich customers who won't blink at dropping $120 a year in order to have half of the kids favorites available without having to worry about scratched discs and storage, because for some people, $120 isn't worth fretting about.
Consider a different spin on it. A new comic book comes out and writes some famous scientists or anti-creationist personalities, for instance Neil Degrasse Tyson or Bill Nye, interact with other characters in the comic where the characters Niel and Bill on the page do or believe things that are not necessarily in line with what the real life guys actually believe. Say they time travel and find out the earth is less than 7000 years old and fake Neil or Bill converts to creationism. Perhaps the comic has them 'evangelizing' other scientists and converting them to creationism, and those individuals (either fake or real scientists) also convert, but maybe not all of them. Is it fair to take their image and use it to contradict what they actually believe. I'm sure everybody would say that that is not allowable?
Well, returning to Jesus, who is to say that the Jesus as portrayed in the comic is an accurate portrayal of the actual Jesus. If 95% of Christians come up with a dozen ways that the Bible contradicts the comic, does the comic need to print a retraction? The guy writing the script may be serious or not. He may agree with the Bible or not. But whoever writes this is going to put out his opinion, and lots of kids will probably take it at face value even though it's guaranteed to get important things wrong every issue, and most people who read those errors aren't going to recognize them.
Of course, most readers of this site probably think it's all fantasy/fables/make believe, but what if it's not, and this is just one more way for people to be mislead.
Have you calculated the change in your pay check from 2017 to 2018, multiplied it by 26 (or 12, 13, or 52 depending on pay frequency) and compared to your previous?
The Republicans had the IRS analyze the withholding tables, and make the withholding align more closely with reality to reduce the size of refunds, but increase the size of your paycheck throughout the year. If you'd like a larger refund, you can modify your W2 to have more withheld so they government can hold your money for you until next winter. Or just have your bank divert the funds to a savings account and transfer it back to your checking account next February when your refund check comes back. Or you know, spend it all year like you probably did last year.
There are all sorts of things that have increased overtime that might be a cause. Boys being raised in households without a father would be a prime place to look. If they find that as a better cause, then you have to factor that in when you consider this factor at a later date.
So instead of having a system where anybody who is worthwhile can make themselves wealthy by creating a company that makes or does something that millions of people want, you have a few dozen politicians who get to the top of the government, and if they're ruthless enough, they get to be super wealthy even if they don't make anybody's life better. But at least they profess they want to help the little guy while they impoverish him so we can feel good because they said nice words instead of protecting the freedoms that have lifted 90% of the world's population out of poverty.
When you buy anything, all of the costs are labor or profit.
I buy a product from Amazon. Somebody paid shipping which a small part goes to the mailman who dropped it at my door, and the guys who drove the trucks from city A to city C, and the people who moved the items from truck X to truck Y, and the people who sorted them in between. Obviously the manufacturer paid their people to produce it. But all of the stuff purchased as components were paid to people who made the screens, buttons, circuit boards, etc. And all of the stuff taken out of the ground only cost the labor and profit of the trucks, extraction equipment, chemicals, etc and of the entire processes upstream. And every cost has a labor component, and the non-labor components have a labor compenent, and their non labor prices can all be traced to somebody else's labor costs.
The only other things I can think of are buying unrefined capital (undeveloped land) and profit.
It seems that there is a significant amount of debate about environmental science, if various scientists have credibility, public policy about what can and ought to be done that can be discussed. Some of us find it interesting, and want to hear what other Slashdotters have to say.
If you read the headline and don't think it should be on Slashdot, don't click, and that will send a message to the admins that people don't want to read these. If you comment, they will see it show up in the number of comments and that will give them reason to create more client stories. If you can't stop from clicking, then setup a way for you to not see climate stories on your Slashdot feed (I'm sure some RSS readers can filter the words you want excluded, so you only see the stories you find interesting.)
You do realize that the Democrats would just filibuster any bill they didn't want which means they effectively have a veto over the Republicans doing any thing they wanted without bi-partisan participation or tacit approval. So if they said 'Absolutely no wall', there is no way the Republicans could force the issue without forcing the Democrats to actually fillibuster on the floor, and when was the last time the Senate majority forced the other party to actually do it?
Actually, Netflix is running up a big debt creating new content. Their Balance sheet from 2014 and 2017 show they tripled debt from $5 billion to 15 billion. In the near future, something is going to have to change if interest rates go up and they start to lose significant profits to interest charges.
Some options might include: Creating less new content, and hope people stay to watch old shows they've missed. Convince the people who make their shows to do so for less money. (this may work if they hire less known actors or actresses and play hardball on the salaries, and maybe go the BBC route of shutting down a show after a much shorter run before the actors get super expensive. But considering how many shows have gone to 1million/episode for extremely popular shows, it's probably pretty difficult to stop making a popular show, either because it's actually profitable, or there is some prestige value in having a top show for 5-10 years that millions love even if you only break even on the show the year that it airs.) Return to licensing content from other providers for cheaper than what they can produce similar work.
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Is prison warranted in property crimes? How about if we're talking about white collar criminals who take millions? Bank robbers who threaten people with weapons?
I definitely think there is a place for prison for property crimes. Either repay the full amount, or whatever you can, then somewhere between 1 day/$200 - 1 day/$1000 for whatever can't be repaid/repaired. Let's say we're generous, and give 1 day/$1000 owed. Perhaps they find he has $5000. From the $58,000 he owed, they take his $5000, then give him the option of paying the $53,000 over time (no bankruptcy get out of jail), or you go to jail for 53 days to pay your $53,000 debt. If you think that's too generous, give him 265 days.
Consider Bernie Madoff. $20 billion profit from his scheme would result in a 20,000 day stay in the slammer, which would be 54 years, which seems very reasonable for the crime committed, although I wouldn't bicker if somebody wanted the 270 year penalty instead.
He couldn't commission a crime that had already been committed. He was only asking that the emails, that had already been copied from the server, be released. Unless the Russian knew (no just guessed) in advance that Trump was going to ask them to release the emails (assuming they are the ones who had them), his after the fact request can't be commission of a crime.
All Trump was doing (like any good politican) is make the event (illicit server being hacked) more memorable so it would continue to hang over his opponent's head for the rest of the campaign. There is no crime in that. I wish that more people had long enough memories, then she wouldn't have even been a candidate.
Or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Specifically, 20 out of 21 Southern Democrats stayed Democrat after the Civil Rights Act. Republicans still weren't able to dominate the south until a whole generation after the beginning of the Southern strategy.
It's very interesting to me that the Klan and it's supporters were highly supportive of abortion to keep the numbers of blacks low, but modern 'racists' are pro-life, which if their policy goals were implemented would increase the number of blacks much faster than the number of whites.
There was probably no chance the Obama administration would have let him walk. Trump, on the other hand, hasn't been hit by any big wikileaks yet as big as Hillary's emails. Maybe he'll let him go on account of helping keep Hillary out of office. Of course, how angry would the MSM get if Trump did let Assange go because of that. Would it be considered corruption?
Perhaps we should, as a protest, boycott H&R and friends, but use their systems to get the numbers, manually fill out the forms, and send them in and make the IRS enter the numbers into their system manually, then they'll stop paying Congress to subvert the will of the people.
Well, the Poverty line is based upon the number of people in the household, and each additional dependant increases the poverty level by $4320,. Under such a scheme, the different numbers based on the number of kids would be equivalent to deductions. I'd much rather see us roll the payroll taxes in to the income tax, and then renegotiate the taxes rates people should be paying.
As a father of 6 (soon to be 7), my income tax was -7100 under the new tax law, but when considered in connection with payroll taxes, I do pay taxes, just a much smaller amount than other people at the same income level who have a lot fewer kids. I suppose Democrats always complaining about trying to redistribute to people who are have nots have resulted in this situation, which is funny, because many of those who benefit are the religious conservatives who never vote Democrat, while the people who will pay more taxes under a 'Tax the Rich' scheme are their own constituents. I don't get why blue states vote & support people who demand that they pay more in taxes and then get angry when the tax code shifts in ways that result in them paying more taxes.
Like how Tesla's autopilot is really just driver assist.
I'm not familiar with Blockbuster's service, but if the individual disks were sent to you with a postage paid return envelope, and you were dropping them off, then you were doing them a favor. If dozens of people dropped of disks, and they could put them in a box and ship them for a single box instead of dozens of disks, they may have been breaking even or even coming out ahead. The cost of the store rental was probably a bonus, and they may have hoped to get some late fees from other people to offset the cost of your free rental.
Make him pay the salaries of every government worker/agency that works on his problem. When they are crap and more expensive, perhaps he will decide to foot the bill, unless he can't get them to get rid of the regulations that he's asked for.
Specifically Ericson and Nokia? From investment info regarding 5G I'm reading, those are the only two companies that can sell 5G gear in the US.
I absolutely agree, except, all of this is being done with the approval of one side of the political spectrum:
1. Government money is being spent on 'education' (mild brain washing) to support this same side of the political spectrum creating a half generation of society that beleives liberty is a lie, and they've been oppressed. (If they are, they should flee to Europe where real freedom reigns if that's what they believe.)
2. The media is supporting this side of the political spectrum by covering up lies and scandals while condemning 10 times as offen for lesser offenses from the other side as well as fabricating false charges against a president that isn't taking their BS, so they start falsely accusing him of obstruction when he's only protecting himself against conspiracies to remove him from office for false charges.
3. These individuals are forcing authors to change their stories to match leftist morality. This is censorship of a most evil kind because those on the right have very important ideas that created the very society they live in.
4. If they don't like what's on the radio or Fox News, there are other channels they can listen to. The very ideas they are attacking were mainstream and acceptable 10 years ago, and they are only promoting these ideas in order to gain control of the government and erradicate the opposition and turn them into slaves through government tyranny.
Of course, once the leftists enshirine their ideas, and make dissent unacceptable, they will establish themselves as the elite, and the oppressed will have no way out, then will be when they should be shouting, not for more government, but less, and not for leftist thought control but freedom of thought, action, association, and commerce. But it may be too late because the brain washing in liberal states schools will not be rolled back.
I've come to the conclussion that those who agree with the constitution and traditional values should seperate from the states who want to reject the freedoms that built the US government, because the left is on a path that can only result in tyranny or civil war, and only letting them have their way in a seperate country will make them happy.
But we can also compare to the average distances of all of Earth's which is also the center of the Sun and find the distance is 0.
Or you can realize that given one point of Earth's orbit, compared to all of Venu's v Mercury's locations will usually results in Mercury for two reasons. Consider when both Mercury and Venus are both perpenducilar to the line between the Earth and Sun. The distance between Earth and Mercury is approximately 160,465,000 and Earth and Venus is 184,835,000. (Using the pathagorian theorum and the average distances between the Sun and each planet). Considering at the two points in the middle of the orbit relative to Earth's position, Mercury is close, you're likely to find that Venus spends more time farther away from the Earth than Mercury.
Of course, what most people consider most interesting is what is the closest approach between any two bodies, and Venus is by far the closest by this measure.
I think the umpires' union has probably been blocking a move toward machine determined strikes.
I think it's several factors driving the increase in game time, but I actually think holding runners on first is probably less of a concern. Stolen bases last year were down 15% compared to 40 years ago, and most teams have analytics that tell them that losing runners from stolen bases ends up costing runs when they aren't on base when the next home run happens.
Bigger problems are that batters are less likely to swing, driving up pitch counts, which results in more pitcher changes, walks and strike outs. Conversely, you have pitchers that have gotten so good that hitters averages are down although home runs are up.
There has been talk of lowering the mound which would hopefully help hitters get the ball in play more, but it remains to be seen.
Only 2-3 generations before the culture forgets it ever existed.
The bit about 'closing the vault' means that you won't be able to own a single movie any more. You will have to pay for access to everything forever on you will get nothing.
Another way of putting it is that they're changing from scarcity by only making it available every 5 years to making it scarce by only making it available through their own service. I suppose you could tell your kids that periodically, you'll be binging on Disney content for 1-3 months, and then they'll have to wait a few years for the next dosage if you're trying to control the money you give Disney. Which, if you do that, maybe you'd spend $120 a decade (or less) which might be way less than what you'd spend if you bought all of the movies you like.
If you're concerned about the total outlay, you're probably not Disney's primary customer. They want millions of rich customers who won't blink at dropping $120 a year in order to have half of the kids favorites available without having to worry about scratched discs and storage, because for some people, $120 isn't worth fretting about.
Consider a different spin on it. A new comic book comes out and writes some famous scientists or anti-creationist personalities, for instance Neil Degrasse Tyson or Bill Nye, interact with other characters in the comic where the characters Niel and Bill on the page do or believe things that are not necessarily in line with what the real life guys actually believe. Say they time travel and find out the earth is less than 7000 years old and fake Neil or Bill converts to creationism. Perhaps the comic has them 'evangelizing' other scientists and converting them to creationism, and those individuals (either fake or real scientists) also convert, but maybe not all of them. Is it fair to take their image and use it to contradict what they actually believe. I'm sure everybody would say that that is not allowable?
Well, returning to Jesus, who is to say that the Jesus as portrayed in the comic is an accurate portrayal of the actual Jesus. If 95% of Christians come up with a dozen ways that the Bible contradicts the comic, does the comic need to print a retraction? The guy writing the script may be serious or not. He may agree with the Bible or not. But whoever writes this is going to put out his opinion, and lots of kids will probably take it at face value even though it's guaranteed to get important things wrong every issue, and most people who read those errors aren't going to recognize them.
Of course, most readers of this site probably think it's all fantasy/fables/make believe, but what if it's not, and this is just one more way for people to be mislead.
Have you calculated the change in your pay check from 2017 to 2018, multiplied it by 26 (or 12, 13, or 52 depending on pay frequency) and compared to your previous?
The Republicans had the IRS analyze the withholding tables, and make the withholding align more closely with reality to reduce the size of refunds, but increase the size of your paycheck throughout the year. If you'd like a larger refund, you can modify your W2 to have more withheld so they government can hold your money for you until next winter. Or just have your bank divert the funds to a savings account and transfer it back to your checking account next February when your refund check comes back. Or you know, spend it all year like you probably did last year.
I commend you on behalf of the Edward Bulwer-Lytton fan club.
There are all sorts of things that have increased overtime that might be a cause. Boys being raised in households without a father would be a prime place to look. If they find that as a better cause, then you have to factor that in when you consider this factor at a later date.
Except that you end up with the guys in office running the show and funnelling money to them selves.
Read about the wealth of the members of the Chinese Communist party:
https://www.google.com/search?...
This page claims Lenin and Putin were/are worth 70 billion:
https://www.idolnetworth.com/v...
https://www.idolnetworth.com/v...
Stalin at 16 million:
https://www.idolnetworth.com/j...
Hugo Chavez who started the problems in Venezuela; 1 billion:
https://www.idolnetworth.com/h...
So instead of having a system where anybody who is worthwhile can make themselves wealthy by creating a company that makes or does something that millions of people want, you have a few dozen politicians who get to the top of the government, and if they're ruthless enough, they get to be super wealthy even if they don't make anybody's life better. But at least they profess they want to help the little guy while they impoverish him so we can feel good because they said nice words instead of protecting the freedoms that have lifted 90% of the world's population out of poverty.
When you buy anything, all of the costs are labor or profit.
I buy a product from Amazon. Somebody paid shipping which a small part goes to the mailman who dropped it at my door, and the guys who drove the trucks from city A to city C, and the people who moved the items from truck X to truck Y, and the people who sorted them in between. Obviously the manufacturer paid their people to produce it. But all of the stuff purchased as components were paid to people who made the screens, buttons, circuit boards, etc. And all of the stuff taken out of the ground only cost the labor and profit of the trucks, extraction equipment, chemicals, etc and of the entire processes upstream. And every cost has a labor component, and the non-labor components have a labor compenent, and their non labor prices can all be traced to somebody else's labor costs.
The only other things I can think of are buying unrefined capital (undeveloped land) and profit.
It seems that there is a significant amount of debate about environmental science, if various scientists have credibility, public policy about what can and ought to be done that can be discussed. Some of us find it interesting, and want to hear what other Slashdotters have to say.
If you read the headline and don't think it should be on Slashdot, don't click, and that will send a message to the admins that people don't want to read these. If you comment, they will see it show up in the number of comments and that will give them reason to create more client stories. If you can't stop from clicking, then setup a way for you to not see climate stories on your Slashdot feed (I'm sure some RSS readers can filter the words you want excluded, so you only see the stories you find interesting.)
You do realize that the Democrats would just filibuster any bill they didn't want which means they effectively have a veto over the Republicans doing any thing they wanted without bi-partisan participation or tacit approval. So if they said 'Absolutely no wall', there is no way the Republicans could force the issue without forcing the Democrats to actually fillibuster on the floor, and when was the last time the Senate majority forced the other party to actually do it?
Actually, Netflix is running up a big debt creating new content. Their Balance sheet from 2014 and 2017 show they tripled debt from $5 billion to 15 billion. In the near future, something is going to have to change if interest rates go up and they start to lose significant profits to interest charges.
Some options might include:
Creating less new content, and hope people stay to watch old shows they've missed.
Convince the people who make their shows to do so for less money. (this may work if they hire less known actors or actresses and play hardball on the salaries, and maybe go the BBC route of shutting down a show after a much shorter run before the actors get super expensive. But considering how many shows have gone to 1million/episode for extremely popular shows, it's probably pretty difficult to stop making a popular show, either because it's actually profitable, or there is some prestige value in having a top show for 5-10 years that millions love even if you only break even on the show the year that it airs.)
Return to licensing content from other providers for cheaper than what they can produce similar work.