"... Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
I know because I spent years hunting such "press hits." Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories. [1]..."
If they ask for Linux they'll still get the run-around or turned down.
You can thank the Bush DOJ team that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and gave Microsoft a "settlement" with no enforcement teeth and defacto approval for all their past illegal business dealings, and a blank check for continuing those practices under different disguises in the future. Before the trial Microsoft had secret agreements that restricted what OS the PC makers could sell with their computers. After the trial Microsoft "favors" OEMs with ad rebates if they are good little boys, otherwise the ad rebates are denied and the bad boys lose their profits. Different technique, same results: a continuing MS monopoly on the OEM desktops. If the Sherman-Clayton and other laws were enforced MS wouldn't even be alive today, so buggy and insecure is their software. Consumers would have a REAL choice.
We're also in the "Third Cycle" of modern Doomsday predictions. It's only "Popular Opinion", driven by an incessant output of articles repeating the party line. There was a time when "Popular Opinion", enforced by the political power of the time, said the world was flat. "Popular Opinion" is rarely right, if ever.
Prior to "Global Warming" and its bogus Hockey Stick "study" it was Glaciation and/or Nuclear Winter, complimented by the Club of Rome "studies". In the last 25 years Time Magazine has had it both ways, but the solution is always the same: "Progressive" policies (read: Socialism/Communism).
It's common for the Extreme Left, and their fellow travelers in the Media, to invent disasters from selected data so they can save us all by the application of Socialism, at the expense of our personal liberties, of course.
A few days ago I used Netcraft to take a look at what Microsoft was using for its severs. There were 355 servers listed. A few are "unknown", a few more are "Solaris" and some I don't recognize, but at least 1/3rd of them are Linux.
A few days ago I used Netcraft to take a look at what Microsoft was using for its severs. There were 355 servers listed. A few are "unknow", a few more are "Solaris" and some I don't recognize, but at least 1/3rd of them are Linux.
When I tried RealBasic 1.0 their demo tutorial produced code which crashed. IF they can't be sure their first release is reliable, what does that say about their quality control and testing? End of lesson. End of RB, for me.
Yet another library that has to be synchronized with the version of wxWidgets you have to use. Just hope they coordinate them so that you aren't waiting months for one or the other to catch up, or that you don't get into finger pointing wars when one lib says your problem is someone else's fault.
QT4 is opensource under the GPL. The commercial license is a bit rediculous, though.
How is the commercial license ridiculous? I just renewed my commercial license for a single user, two platform copy, for only $830, and find it a bargain when one considers how quick AND good the support is. http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/pric ing
QT's "signal & slots" technology is much more powerful and easier to implement than traditional callback functions.
I tried wxWindows when it was part of Boa-Constructor. I found Boa very enjoyable to use, but development on it seemed too slow and combine that with the fact that wxWindows requires gtk+ and other libs with specific version numbers for the version of wxWindows that I was using. Keeping them synchronized became a pain. I found DevC++ and MinGW equally pains.
Compare that with QT, which supplies the UI designer, the API doc (Assistant), the Meta-Object-Compiler (moc), the User-Interface-Compiler (uic), qmake and other utilities, all of them at the same version and installed from the same tar or exe. The tools are a joy to use.
On Windows I use MS VC2003 as my dev tool and on Linux I use Kate, believe it or not. It's easier to program in Linux than Windows because Kate is MUCH easier to use then MS VC2003, and compiling the SAME app under Linux is 10 times faster than under Windows using nmake. I use compiler defines to automatically select code specific to either Oracle or PostgreSQL, or for Win_32 or Linux, so I don't have to make code changes to compile the same app under either platform or backend.
I never wrote a C++ app before I used QT4 to write one of our major in-house apps. Learning both at the same time was made considerably easier because of QT4. As a former VFP6 coder I found that once I became familiar with the QT API, Signals & Slots, and the other QT tools, development in QT4 is comparable with VFP6. Very easy, quick and enjoyable. Compate to the VFP6 apps I replace, the QT versions were several times faster. It didn't hurt that I was using Oracle as the back end, either.
If an ogject is orbiting at 1,000 times per second in order for it to remain just below the speed of light it would have to be NO farther than about 30 miles from the center of the black hole.
It's got to be on the verge of exploding. I wonder what effect the explosion will have here on Earth at 38,000 light years away?
at the height of the Arab oil embargo, exclaimed that there was "no energy shortage" and said that "at the current rate of consumption we have 600 years of oil left."
Fifteen years later, during the 1987 oil crisis, they ran a similar ad but this one said "at the current rate of consumption we have 200 years of oil left".
Amazing. In 15 years we lost 400 years worth of oil!!!
Both statements were right, of course, but what the oil companies were COUNTING on was that most folks would NOT understand that "at the current rate" doesn't mean that the rate wouldn't INCREASE. It seems that most folks STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Now, we have politicians running for office with the promise that they will "replace oil fields with corn fields". To make matters worse, the US government is subsidizing corporations who make and run Ethanol plants, which immediately begs the question "If Ethanol is capable self-sustaining energy production sufficient to replace oil, why does it need subsidies?"
Independent studies by academic agricultural and environmental experts report that Ethanol requires an input of 54,725 BTU more for each gallon produced than you'd get by burning it. On the other hand, Ethanol industry sponsored studies claim Ethanol has a net energy of 17,058 BTU per gallon. Whose right?
Let's look at the problem in another way. Assuming pro-Ethanol groups are correct, how much Corn will it take to replace gasoline as a source of energy?
From http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/grainoutlook/html/012306/012306.html we have the following facts: 1) The USDA's January estimate of the size of the 2005 U.S. Corn crop came in at 11.112 billion bushels. 2) Planted acreage of Corn in the U.S. in 2005 totaled 81.759 million acres, with a calculated yield of 135.9 bu/acre.
From Ethanol industry sources we find that the more efficient Ethanol plants can generate 2.68 gallons of Ethanol from each bushel of Corn. Therefore, 11.112 billion bushels of Corn can supply 30 billion gallons of Ethanol.
A fact of chemistry that economic theory cannot change is that Ethanol supplies 76,000 BTU/gallon and gasoline supplies 120,000 BTU/gallon. In other words, it takes 1.5789 gallons of Ethanol to replace the energy in 1 gallon of gasoline. That COULD mean that 30 billion gallons of Ethanol will replace 19 billions gallons of gasoline. But, in reality, Ethanol produced from Corn replaces even less. From a pro-Ethanol website, http://www.ethanol-gec.org/corn_eth.htm#concl: "We conclude that the NEV of corn ethanol is positive when fertilizers are produced by modern processing plants, corn is converted in modern ethanol facilities, farmers achieve normal corn yields, and energy credits are allocated to coproducts. Our NEV estimate of 16,193 Btu/gal can be considered conservative, since it was derived using the replacement method for valuing coproducts, and it does not include energy credits for plants that sell carbon dioxide. Corn ethanol is energy efficient, as indicated by an energy ratio of 1.24, that is, for every Btu dedicated to producing ethanol, there is a 24-percent energy gain. Moreover, producing ethanol from domestic corn stocks achieves a net gain in a more desirable form of energy. Ethanol production utilizes abundant domestic energy supplies of coal and natural gas to convert corn into a premium liquid fuel that can replace petroleum imports by a factor of 7 to 1."
That "7 to 1" is 7 gallons of Ethanol are needed to replace 1 gallons of gasoline! Here is how it is figured: about 58,942 BTUs must be supplied from external energy sources for each gallon of Ethanol produced. To be self-sufficient Ethanol must return that energy, leaving only 17,058 BTU/gal available as excess energy. Or, dividing 120,000 by 17,058 shows that it will take 7.0348 gallons of Ethanol to replace eac
And, while moaning and groaning about how corporations publish VNR's which conceal their sources, DN, Pacifica Radio and the rest are not uu front about the fact that they are the PR arm of the Communist Party.
IF they were honest and said up front and led off their "news" casts with "Hello, we are the PR arm of the International Communist Party and here is our view of the news" they know that the next sound to be heard would be. for most viewers/listeners, the mouse clicking to a different URL or the radio/tv changing channels. Most people won't knowingly listen to corporate propaganda any more than they'd knowingly waste time listening to Marxist propaganda, regardless of how many North Koreans endorsed it.
It's really too bad our society is moving away from the free-enterprise capitalism market that made the US so great so quickly and moving towards a feel-good socialistic system.
I would have bought that argument 20 years ago, but no longer.
"Free Enterprise" is no longer about freedom to do business.
It is NOW about NAFTA shipping jobs out of the country to the benefit of a few owners. It is about hiring illegals to avoid taxes - again so owners can profit AND avoid paying taxes. It is about making copyright terms last centuries, thus depriving society of any real benefit of an invention. It is about academic researchers doing research with gov money and then personally patenting discoveries tax payers paid for in order to charge exhorbant "license" fees. It is about health insurance companies "coordinating" benefits so that the gov pays first and they pick up the difference, but still collect the FULL premium. It is about EULA's, DRMs, and other unholy contracts that remove freedoms which the Constitution says are "inalienable". It is about seven mansions and other perks that greedy people aspire to, no matter how many thousands of employees lose their saving, pensions, retirements, savings and homes. It is about having offices in one state but doing retail sales out of Nevada, to avoid their fair share of taxes, all the while lecturing Oregonians about not paying their fair share of taxes. It is about calling your customers thieves, and treating them as such and sending out BSA thugs, with police to protect THEM, to raid your businesses for not paying for "protection".
I could go on, because the list is becomming endless. The basic problem is that an artifical legal device, the "corpus" now has MORE rights and protections that a REAL, LIVING person.
The Chinese sent a fleet to sail around the north pole in 1421 and didn't find any ice. It must have been those mid-evil Chinese coal-fired power plants...
First, the FEDS will require an NSA-type back door so that they can decipher the terrorists latest plots.
Second, unless you require a password for every HD sector accessed encryption will be just another pseudo-security pacifier, but making HDs more expensive - READ: more profits for HD manufacturers.
Third, blackhats will crack it in record time. The best security is a locked door or a good hammer.
Lots of manufacturers don't even bother to release their small laptops in the USA, because everyone here wants honkin' huge SUV laptops.
You said it!
Since I got my Gateway m675prr laptop with the 17" screen a year and a half ago I haven't fired up my old desktop even once and I doubt I will ever buy another desktop box. But, SUV? My old desktop had a 450W power supply, a 180W 17" CRT monitor, and a CDROM, sound card and other peripherals that took more power that their laptop counterparts, not too mention the 250W stero sound speakers that were plugged into it. My laptop power consumption tops out at 160W, so compared to my old desktop my laptop only sips power. And, the stero sound is great!
Add me to your list of people you know who have had BAD experiences with EXT3 and have found ReiserFS V3 totally reliable since SUSE included it in 6.4.
Novell can expect a RASH of complaints about slow response and data loss with Ext3.
Of course I can't know it for sure. But from memory, the reoffence rate for released murders is 5%. That is, most people don't do it again.
Doing a quick Google search I found estimates for re-offending ranging from 7% to 64%, depending on the locality, ethnic group, etc. Most of the higher estimates seemed related to arguments in favor of banning ownership of firearms, while most of the lower estimates were related to arguments about re-habilitation.
The current Politically Correct position is that pedophiles and other sexual offendors will ALWAYS re-offend, whereas even murderers and other violent felons with multiple convictions are given the benefit of a doubt and are allowed to stalk the streets again.
Law enforcement and victims become frustrated when perps are released on technicalities or are given short sentences. Courts have become highly politicized, and many judges render verdicts more in tune with their own personal/political philosophies rather than fulfilling their sworn duties to "uphold and defend" the Constitutions and Laws of the land. Some are seeking a way to make judges accountable for their sentencing, besides just for using sexual objects during trials.
What if, after causing the release of a re-offending felon, the judge was required to serve an identical sentence if the felon is convicted for a third time? Maybe, if the upper level of politicians and judges, didn't live behind gated communities and recieve special treatment, or if it was their daughter and not Polly Class who was murdered, they'd be more considerate.
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Paul Graham has an excellent article on "The Submarine":
..."
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
"...
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
I know because I spent years hunting such "press hits." Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories. [1]
That post WAS from Microsoft. They don't have to send themselves computer to put out a favorable PR post.
get VISTA unless they specifical ask for XP.
If they ask for Linux they'll still get the run-around or turned down.
You can thank the Bush DOJ team that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and gave Microsoft a "settlement" with no enforcement teeth and defacto approval for all their past illegal business dealings, and a blank check for continuing those practices under different disguises in the future. Before the trial Microsoft had secret agreements that restricted what OS the PC makers could sell with their computers. After the trial Microsoft "favors" OEMs with ad rebates if they are good little boys, otherwise the ad rebates are denied and the bad boys lose their profits. Different technique, same results: a continuing MS monopoly on the OEM desktops. If the Sherman-Clayton and other laws were enforced MS wouldn't even be alive today, so buggy and insecure is their software. Consumers would have a REAL choice.
We're also in the "Third Cycle" of modern Doomsday predictions. It's only "Popular Opinion", driven by an incessant output of articles repeating the party line. There was a time when "Popular Opinion", enforced by the political power of the time, said the world was flat. "Popular Opinion" is rarely right, if ever.
Prior to "Global Warming" and its bogus Hockey Stick "study" it was Glaciation and/or Nuclear Winter, complimented by the Club of Rome "studies". In the last 25 years Time Magazine has had it both ways, but the solution is always the same: "Progressive" policies (read: Socialism/Communism).
It's common for the Extreme Left, and their fellow travelers in the Media, to invent disasters from selected data so they can save us all by the application of Socialism, at the expense of our personal liberties, of course.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =160068144458
This year was supposed to have several MAJOR hurricanes, worse than ever before, because of "Global Warming".
IIRC, 11 were predicted. Zero appeared.
I suspect this Solar catastrophe prediction will be just as accurate.
Was an email from Gates asking if a poll "could be found" which showed at least an 85% approval rating for the topic of the email.
Two weeks later a poll with that exact result appeared in a Windows centric site.
I doubt it was coincidence, and neither is this most recent push-poll for Microvell
Exactly!
How is what these scum are doing any different from a thief photographing the contents of letters in your mailbox?
None that I can see.
A few days ago I used Netcraft to take a look at what Microsoft was using for its severs.
There were 355 servers listed. A few are "unknown", a few more are "Solaris" and some I don't recognize, but at least 1/3rd of them are Linux.
A few days ago I used Netcraft to take a look at what Microsoft was using for its severs.
There were 355 servers listed. A few are "unknow", a few more are "Solaris" and some I don't recognize, but at least 1/3rd of them are Linux.
When I tried RealBasic 1.0 their demo tutorial produced code which crashed.
IF they can't be sure their first release is reliable, what does that say about their quality control and testing?
End of lesson. End of RB, for me.
Yet another library that has to be synchronized with the version of wxWidgets you have to use. Just hope they coordinate them so that you aren't waiting months for one or the other to catch up, or that you don't get into finger pointing wars when one lib says your problem is someone else's fault.
How is the commercial license ridiculous? I just renewed my commercial license for a single user, two platform copy, for only $830, and find it a bargain when one considers how quick AND good the support is.
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/pri
QT's "signal & slots" technology is much more powerful and easier to implement than traditional callback functions.
I tried wxWindows when it was part of Boa-Constructor. I found Boa very enjoyable to use, but development on it seemed too slow and combine that with the fact that wxWindows requires gtk+ and other libs with specific version numbers for the version of wxWindows that I was using. Keeping them synchronized became a pain. I found DevC++ and MinGW equally pains.
Compare that with QT, which supplies the UI designer, the API doc (Assistant), the Meta-Object-Compiler (moc), the User-Interface-Compiler (uic), qmake and other utilities, all of them at the same version and installed from the same tar or exe. The tools are a joy to use.
On Windows I use MS VC2003 as my dev tool and on Linux I use Kate, believe it or not. It's easier to program in Linux than Windows because Kate is MUCH easier to use then MS VC2003, and compiling the SAME app under Linux is 10 times faster than under Windows using nmake. I use compiler defines to automatically select code specific to either Oracle or PostgreSQL, or for Win_32 or Linux, so I don't have to make code changes to compile the same app under either platform or backend.
I never wrote a C++ app before I used QT4 to write one of our major in-house apps. Learning both at the same time was made considerably easier because of QT4. As a former VFP6 coder I found that once I became familiar with the QT API, Signals & Slots, and the other QT tools, development in QT4 is comparable with VFP6. Very easy, quick and enjoyable. Compate to the VFP6 apps I replace, the QT versions were several times faster. It didn't hurt that I was using Oracle as the back end, either.
Well, it will make your Internet experience a LOT simpler and will eliminate the need for broadband.
All you'll need is a dialup to exchange email.
So why waste all that money on genetic research if you can influence DNA with changes in the environment (behavior)?
of the black hole?
If an ogject is orbiting at 1,000 times per second in order for it to remain just below the speed of light it would have to be NO farther than about 30 miles from the center of the black hole.
It's got to be on the verge of exploding. I wonder what effect the explosion will have here on Earth at 38,000 light years away?
at the height of the Arab oil embargo, exclaimed that there was "no energy shortage" and said that "at the current rate of consumption we have 600 years of oil left."
/html/012306/012306.html we have the following facts:
Fifteen years later, during the 1987 oil crisis, they ran a similar ad but this one said "at the current rate of consumption we have 200 years of oil left".
Amazing. In 15 years we lost 400 years worth of oil!!!
Both statements were right, of course, but what the oil companies were COUNTING on was that most folks would NOT understand that "at the current rate" doesn't mean that the rate wouldn't INCREASE. It seems that most folks STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Now, we have politicians running for office with the promise that they will "replace oil fields with corn fields". To make matters worse, the US government is subsidizing corporations who make and run Ethanol plants, which immediately begs the question "If Ethanol is capable self-sustaining energy production sufficient to replace oil, why does it need subsidies?"
Independent studies by academic agricultural and environmental experts report that Ethanol requires an input of 54,725 BTU more for each gallon produced than you'd get by burning it. On the other hand, Ethanol industry sponsored studies claim Ethanol has a net energy of 17,058 BTU per gallon. Whose right?
Let's look at the problem in another way. Assuming pro-Ethanol groups are correct, how much Corn will it take to replace gasoline as a source of energy?
From http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/marketing/grainoutlook
1) The USDA's January estimate of the size of the 2005 U.S. Corn crop came in at 11.112 billion bushels.
2) Planted acreage of Corn in the U.S. in 2005 totaled 81.759 million acres, with a calculated yield of 135.9 bu/acre.
From Ethanol industry sources we find that the more efficient Ethanol plants can generate 2.68 gallons of Ethanol from each bushel of Corn. Therefore, 11.112 billion bushels of Corn can supply 30 billion gallons of Ethanol.
A fact of chemistry that economic theory cannot change is that Ethanol supplies 76,000 BTU/gallon and gasoline supplies 120,000 BTU/gallon. In other words, it takes 1.5789 gallons of Ethanol to replace the energy in 1 gallon of gasoline. That COULD mean that 30 billion gallons of Ethanol will replace 19 billions gallons of gasoline. But, in reality, Ethanol produced from Corn replaces even less. From a pro-Ethanol website, http://www.ethanol-gec.org/corn_eth.htm#concl:
"We conclude that the NEV of corn ethanol is positive when fertilizers are produced by modern processing plants, corn is converted in modern ethanol facilities, farmers achieve normal corn yields, and energy credits are allocated to coproducts. Our NEV estimate of 16,193 Btu/gal can be considered conservative, since it was derived using the replacement method for valuing coproducts, and it does not include energy credits for plants that sell carbon dioxide. Corn ethanol is energy efficient, as indicated by an energy ratio of 1.24, that is, for every Btu dedicated to producing ethanol, there is a 24-percent energy gain. Moreover, producing ethanol from domestic corn stocks achieves a net gain in a more desirable form of energy. Ethanol production utilizes abundant domestic energy supplies of coal and natural gas to convert corn into a premium liquid fuel that can replace petroleum imports by a factor of 7 to 1."
That "7 to 1" is 7 gallons of Ethanol are needed to replace 1 gallons of gasoline! Here is how it is figured: about 58,942 BTUs must be supplied from external energy sources for each gallon of Ethanol produced. To be self-sufficient Ethanol must return that energy, leaving only 17,058 BTU/gal available as excess energy. Or, dividing 120,000 by 17,058 shows that it will take 7.0348 gallons of Ethanol to replace eac
And, while moaning and groaning about how corporations publish VNR's which conceal their sources, DN, Pacifica Radio and the rest are not uu front about the fact that they are the PR arm of the Communist Party.
IF they were honest and said up front and led off their "news" casts with "Hello, we are the PR arm of the International Communist Party and here is our view of the news" they know that the next sound to be heard would be. for most viewers/listeners, the mouse clicking to a different URL or the radio/tv changing channels. Most people won't knowingly listen to corporate propaganda any more than they'd knowingly waste time listening to Marxist propaganda, regardless of how many North Koreans endorsed it.
I would have bought that argument 20 years ago, but no longer.
"Free Enterprise" is no longer about freedom to do business.
It is NOW about NAFTA shipping jobs out of the country to the benefit of a few owners.
It is about hiring illegals to avoid taxes - again so owners can profit AND avoid paying taxes.
It is about making copyright terms last centuries, thus depriving society of any real benefit of an invention.
It is about academic researchers doing research with gov money and then personally patenting discoveries tax payers paid for in order to charge exhorbant "license" fees.
It is about health insurance companies "coordinating" benefits so that the gov pays first and they pick up the difference, but still collect the FULL premium.
It is about EULA's, DRMs, and other unholy contracts that remove freedoms which the Constitution says are "inalienable".
It is about seven mansions and other perks that greedy people aspire to, no matter how many thousands of employees lose their saving, pensions, retirements, savings and homes.
It is about having offices in one state but doing retail sales out of Nevada, to avoid their fair share of taxes, all the while lecturing Oregonians about not paying their fair share of taxes.
It is about calling your customers thieves, and treating them as such and sending out BSA thugs, with police to protect THEM, to raid your businesses for not paying for "protection".
I could go on, because the list is becomming endless. The basic problem is that an artifical legal device, the "corpus" now has MORE rights and protections that a REAL, LIVING person.
So, you didn't read the article?
The Chinese sent a fleet to sail around the north pole in 1421 and didn't find any ice.
It must have been those mid-evil Chinese coal-fired power plants...
and thus avoid the hassle.
First, the FEDS will require an NSA-type back door so that they can decipher the terrorists latest plots.
Second, unless you require a password for every HD sector accessed encryption will be just another pseudo-security pacifier, but making HDs more expensive - READ: more profits for HD manufacturers.
Third, blackhats will crack it in record time. The best security is a locked door or a good hammer.
You said it!
Since I got my Gateway m675prr laptop with the 17" screen a year and a half ago I haven't fired up my old desktop even once and I doubt I will ever buy another desktop box. But, SUV? My old desktop had a 450W power supply, a 180W 17" CRT monitor, and a CDROM, sound card and other peripherals that took more power that their laptop counterparts, not too mention the 250W stero sound speakers that were plugged into it. My laptop power consumption tops out at 160W, so compared to my old desktop my laptop only sips power. And, the stero sound is great!
Add me to your list of people you know who have had BAD experiences with EXT3 and have found ReiserFS V3 totally reliable since SUSE included it in 6.4.
Novell can expect a RASH of complaints about slow response and data loss with Ext3.
Doing a quick Google search I found estimates for re-offending ranging from 7% to 64%, depending on the locality, ethnic group, etc. Most of the higher estimates seemed related to arguments in favor of banning ownership of firearms, while most of the lower estimates were related to arguments about re-habilitation.
The current Politically Correct position is that pedophiles and other sexual offendors will ALWAYS re-offend, whereas even murderers and other violent felons with multiple convictions are given the benefit of a doubt and are allowed to stalk the streets again.
Law enforcement and victims become frustrated when perps are released on technicalities or are given short sentences. Courts have become highly politicized, and many judges render verdicts more in tune with their own personal/political philosophies rather than fulfilling their sworn duties to "uphold and defend" the Constitutions and Laws of the land. Some are seeking a way to make judges accountable for their sentencing, besides just for using sexual objects during trials.
What if, after causing the release of a re-offending felon, the judge was required to serve an identical sentence if the felon is convicted for a third time? Maybe, if the upper level of politicians and judges, didn't live behind gated communities and recieve special treatment, or if it was their daughter and not Polly Class who was murdered, they'd be more considerate.
XP^^^ VISTA.
Same story, second verse.