Just like it did with, North Korea, Pakistan and India. They all occurred after the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Remember this, they engineered nukes without computers, uncertain of whether or not it would work. So computers and knowledge that it is possible puts it in many countries reach. The reality is denial of nukes to Iran is all about leaving them open for invasion.
Well, if they are living in a country without all that dumb stuff going on and they are likely to be quite aware of that, they will holiday at home, rather than run the risk of an abusive attack by US border authorities. Why spend thousands of dollars to be abused, threatened, treated like a terrorist, have you stuff stolen before you even leave the airport. Demand good manners and you will brutally arrested, detained and abused for 24 to 48 hours and then deported, so seriously why bother when there are so many other better choices.
Well, that's not true at all. Fact is Israel quite simply want the US to attack Iran so that in the kerfuffle and the increase Middle East chaos, Israel can sneak around and steal more land and kick out more 'undesirables'. The nukes or claimed nukes are just an excuse. Truth is once a country gets nukes, all talk of invading stops cold.
So the US runs around the world effectively promoting nuclear weapons because it is the only way to be safe from invasion by them and factually it is.
'ER' I did check 'fairer sex' and included a PDF link from the world bank, to show there is more than one meaning accepted "Are Women Really the âoeFairerâ
Sex? Corruption and Women
in Government".
Gees dude you can even count, here is a list of the income of the largest oil companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..., and no, I will not add it up for you (that is the money being generated by your drill baby drill, burn baby burn, side of the argument, not tens of millions but trillions of dollars). Lobbying in just one election in one country http://thinkprogress.org/clima.... Dude science is not "rhetoric" talk about subconsciously exposing yourself.
They'll get more than a few paltry hit if they can tie their search to a google search. So every time you make use of a search function it triggers a background bing search that you don't see and that includes all your browser searches.
You use the term "and/or" but you clearly do not know what it means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... I simply choose one of the specific options of the three available options you provide, so violence or sex or violence and sex (violent sex which is what you have when you mix violence and sex). It seems you also have a problem with the word 'rant' http://www.thefreedictionary.c.... A stated calm personal opinion is not a rant.
It is not 'just humanity' but the state of our current human society. Humanity has expressed itself in many ways over millennia, some worse and some better, we seem to be sliding into worse at this stage, compared to different era's ie just in the last century.
Not only is it going on but it is strongly indicative they are intending to do something very naughty in the near future, which is why the push to surreptitiously trial out various methods because they know full well the majority of the world will disapprove of an impending action, a South American adventure seems most likely.
Moron, science is their job, they go on working on science in the same exact way they already are, just different science. Of course on the other hand the fossil fuelers with trillions of dollars locked the the ground and the ability to get it out and sell it rapidly disappearing and no other alternatives for them. So on balance a scientist get paid tens of thousands of dollars to do science going on simply to do other science (because according to you, no global warming, zero need for weather science, fuck the weather, who needs to now anything about the weather, after all you can just watch the weather man on the idiot box PS butt for brain TV weather people get their weather from oh yes weather scientists who would still be working all over the world). Now this versus lost trillions of dollars owned by corporate psychopaths. Now which is far more likely. The whole of your post is fossil fueler bullshit.
A kind of cyber Armageddon is going on as we speak. It seems the US military, industrial and espionage complex is carrying out a range of rolling trial attacks. Basically testing their ability to censor the whole of the internet, so when they roll out their next propaganda campaign tied to military and espionage misadventure they will be able to create a vacuum of truth. That way, their lies will 'full spectrum dominate' the air and cable waves, long enough to complete that military espionage misadventure before the truth can stop it. Various avenues are being trialled including, use of agents in commercial organisations both voluntary and victims of extortion who use their position to block content. DMCA via pet media organisations. Straight up web site attacks via back doors already put in place. Abusing government censorship rules and regulations to accidentally block websites. Targeting and disrupting specific web applications. Targeting the actual hardware of the internet to knock out whole sections of the internet. So likelihood of cyber Armageddon is not that remote when the US military industrial espionage complex is actively working on it and trialling out as we speak and according to them you should of course not be paying any attention to it at all, nope, nothing unusual going on, nothing to report, nobody attacking the web.
Oh so troll, obviously at least five modders completely missed it but the last sentence should have given it away " Fortunately, this is Slashdot, so it's likely I'm the only one who will bother actually reading TFA.", now how many of you suckers clicked the article after reading that sentence and how many of you picked up on the 'real' intent of that sentence based upon the story and the opening paragraph of the comment. Oh so very sly (I won't be reading that article, now or ever, cheeky bugger;D ).
What is really interesting in this story is "By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier", now that, should set off some real alarm bells, especially when http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... (so not only permanent ear damage but brain damage to, yes, you definitely do not want your blood brain barrier to open up except under controlled circumstance). So a potential cure but most definitely a clear warning about noise pollution and unexpected outcomes.
More like his wallet took a sharp turn to the right https://en.wikipedia.org/ "Moore has earned his living since the early 1990s primarily by consulting for, and publicly speaking for a wide variety of corporations and lobby groups" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So why was he in Greenpeace in the first place, likely pursuing the opposite sex. Caring sharing community activities often have a preponderance of the fairer sex (they are referred to as the 'fairer sex' for a reason) http://siteresources.worldbank....
Violent sex as a legitimate entertainment tool, seriously?!? I would hardly call it legitimate and do honestly look upon it as a profoundly disturbing reflection of humanity. Why do humans, find humans killing other humans, to be so entertainingly rewarding? Something seriously wrong is going on with human society and while those games are most definitely not the cause, they are still a matter of concern in they way they reflect the current nature of human society. Root cause, likely the harm being caused by psychopathic capitalism upon the psychology of the majority by an already bat shit insane destructive minority. Our desire for human on human violence as a form of human entertainment is really, really not normal and is a symptom of the psychological harm we are suffering in our daily lives. Stop and honestly think about it and you should find it as disturbing as I found it to be.
What makes more sense is to switch to hemp fibre rather than plastic. With so many pot heads and potential pot heads floating around, this is going to be a whole bunch of waste cannabis fibre floating about, so it would make sense to use it before just adding it to a landfills.
PS if your landfills are dry, then you have shit head greedy cheap ass local government. You have to water them to keep the dust down (prevent infectious agents from spreading with that dust) and to aid compaction (you can not compact dry stuff). Also areas of landfills not being used should be covered with impermeable fabric to retain moisture and to enable collection of methane gasses which should not be released to atmosphere but burned to generate energy, methane is basically equal to natural gas.
Actually the outcome of compulsory voting with a fine for failure to vote is far more subtle than you think. Firstly it teaches people to vote, so from 18 on you can turn up to the polls and vote, turn up to the polls sign off and put in a junk non-vote or pay the fine. Any choice still gets them to the polls and gets them used to the idea and of course gets the associating with other voters. Secondly and often far more importantly in the US, is the what is required to happen in the election process in order to make the fine valid, the election process must be more accessible to the voters. So weekend elections because it is easier for the majority to vote on weekends rather than weekdays. More voting booths because long lines and queues to drive people away from the pools becomes very corrupt when the result is that they will be fined.
Either the US electoral process changes or the US will continue to fail, rampant political corruption, failing infrastructure, collapse of the criminal justice system, all are signs of an already failed state that is simply waiting for that collapse to propagate throughout the whole US society, the dominoes are already falling.
The only real labels that matter are 'innocent' or 'proven guilty in a court of law'. Corrupt capitalism seems to be doggedly reaching for more and more guilt upon accusation with zero remediation for false accusation, no matter how many times false accusations are made. This basically to be made available only to governments and those who can afford access to government, pretty much a licence to censor anyone and everyone for any reason at all and to keep them off line with repeated false accusations. Basically costs nothing to accuse someone if you are licensed and approved to do so but costs thousands of dollars to lift the ban with no opportunity to recover not only the cost of lifting the ban but also lost revenue and readers.
Me, I got pissed off with performance laptops years ago, they just basically cook themselves to death. I bought two computers, well, technically three, a full featured desktop with tons of screen real estate, an old laptop that is still kicking and a smart phone and run three OSs. Desktop, windows (actually dual boot with Kubuntu), basically because of course a big part of it's function is gaming, Linux on the laptop, not much power need for work, really honestly not much power at all and Android on the smart phone.
So the better investment is a high powered desktop which is still pretty cheap and will do anything you want it to do computer wise and the cheap ass notebook because accidents on the move do happen, they happen a lot. That total will often be less than a high powered notebook which is still less capable than the desktop on it's own. Operating system.
Your comment is a sign you have no idea at all what is really going on. Google tech indulgences and not empty tech indulgences, they are a modern marketing technique. They create a impression about the kind of company Google is, well, at least pretends to be and the kind of expertise they have, well at least pretends they have and each and every fucking single time they make a tech announcement or tech update or just randomly waffle on about the tech stuff they are doing, the press dutifully picks it up and free advertises Google to the world.
Now you can either just burn money on advertising like M$ do, emptily B$ about features that disappear or make greatly exaggerated claims about their products or you can really be pretty cunning and sneaky, invest in high risk tech research that the worlds press will report on and get tons and tons of free advertising and have a chance of a big payout for that tech research (just leaving a 'positive impression about your company and products').
At a guess their investment in tech research is generating something like about like between $3 to $5 of free advertising for each dollar invested in research and depending upon the announcement cycle and interest it is up to $10 and maybe as high as $100 on occasions. LIKE RIGHT FUCKING NOW
So it all needs to be treated in pretty much the exact opposite way it is treated on desktops and notebooks. Basically Goggle is cashing in walled garden and the end user and the developers expense, with a horribly crap selection system for applications and providing not much in return, other than a decent phone operating system.
Google don't be dicks, give me an option for an alphabetic keyboard, seriously. what the fuck is so hard about that.
The most amazing thing about the current Australian government is the Prime Minister, Toxic Tony and his pals, scammed their own party member representatives with a email bombing campaign to stay in power (the gist of the campaign being the people still wanted Toxic Tony in power). So they were setting up their own party to loose big time in the next election by actively ignoring their own electorate, so that Toxic Tony and Co could cash in on bigger government pensions as long as they hold those offices for three years. You can see now why the current LNP leadership, Toxic Tony and co are desperate to implement across the board censorship. http://www.buzzfeed.com/markdi... Don't think for a second that they were not fully aware of what was going on.
The core principle of any democracy is knowledge must be free. Democracy ceases to be such when knowledge is priced beyond the reach of majority and they are forced to vote based upon ignorance. Computers are the best tool in making knowledge accessible and as such should never be priced out of easy access to the majority. Every citizen should have the right to readily access all the knowledge they want, in order to make informed decision about their democracy. Not selected highlights, not edited with secrecy, not distorted by lies but factual, validated information backed with explanations and when required, taught by suitably qualified professionals. Denial of information about the society they form a part of, in order to manipulate their consent, is autocracy by ignorance.
It is all about advertising dollars. They simply want to build the browser into the operating system, so that not matter what you do it will create an internet hit to Bing, so that, 'Bing' another cent can be claimed for advertising, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. So losing the internet 'browser, search, portal' war, no problem, fake it via the operating system. Of course when the fake claims about customer eyeballs reflects in very bad advertising outcomes, the customers will then just avoid M$ because it simply doesn't work, regardless of the internet hit numbers, at least as far as M$ is concerned. So no matter what they do in the future, no matter what, everyone will just avoid them.
Much like the crazy bullshit idea of sticking a phone GUI on a desktop because people will get used to it and like idiot sheep automagically buy the phones with the same system. Of course in reality, what really happened is that touch screen phone GUI wont really work well on that desktop and that is of course what the customer will remember. A lesson reinforced each and every time they touch the desktop and are frustrated by the experience. (OH FUCK, might need to do a free upgrade to stop the damage being done;D ). M$ is just totally infested with crazy bean counter logic and magic numbers in spread sheets and pays no attention at all to more realistic customer empathic logical outcomes.
You'll find that all fines have a minimum base level and that increases based upon income in order to ensure all persons feel the same impact of the fine. So base fine would be based upon the minimum wage, can not pay that and you will spend some time in lock up to make up the difference ie do the time or pay the fine.
P.S. it is really, really, completely and utterly stupid to associate fines with revenue, the fine is meant to represent the harm caused and to ensure the person will feel the impact of that fine as a measure of the harm that they are trying to prevent. Failure in this regard just corrupts the whole system, just like the pretty blatantly corrupt US injustice system.
Likelyhood of the US ever adopting this, 0, zero, nil, never, impossible, no fucking way. In fact they would be far more likely to swap to a system fine or time, where for all crimes you either do the time or pay the fine, after all it's all about revenue and has nothing at all to do with lives, well not poor people's lives. So a rich person murders a poor person. They calculate how much tax a person on minimum wage would make in a life time and that is the fine for the rich person or they do the time (all poor people would of course do the time), see all revenue based.
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Just like it did with, North Korea, Pakistan and India. They all occurred after the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Remember this, they engineered nukes without computers, uncertain of whether or not it would work. So computers and knowledge that it is possible puts it in many countries reach. The reality is denial of nukes to Iran is all about leaving them open for invasion.
Well, if they are living in a country without all that dumb stuff going on and they are likely to be quite aware of that, they will holiday at home, rather than run the risk of an abusive attack by US border authorities. Why spend thousands of dollars to be abused, threatened, treated like a terrorist, have you stuff stolen before you even leave the airport. Demand good manners and you will brutally arrested, detained and abused for 24 to 48 hours and then deported, so seriously why bother when there are so many other better choices.
Well, that's not true at all. Fact is Israel quite simply want the US to attack Iran so that in the kerfuffle and the increase Middle East chaos, Israel can sneak around and steal more land and kick out more 'undesirables'. The nukes or claimed nukes are just an excuse. Truth is once a country gets nukes, all talk of invading stops cold. So the US runs around the world effectively promoting nuclear weapons because it is the only way to be safe from invasion by them and factually it is.
'ER' I did check 'fairer sex' and included a PDF link from the world bank, to show there is more than one meaning accepted "Are Women Really the âoeFairerâ Sex? Corruption and Women in Government".
Gees dude you can even count, here is a list of the income of the largest oil companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..., and no, I will not add it up for you (that is the money being generated by your drill baby drill, burn baby burn, side of the argument, not tens of millions but trillions of dollars). Lobbying in just one election in one country http://thinkprogress.org/clima.... Dude science is not "rhetoric" talk about subconsciously exposing yourself.
They'll get more than a few paltry hit if they can tie their search to a google search. So every time you make use of a search function it triggers a background bing search that you don't see and that includes all your browser searches.
You use the term "and/or" but you clearly do not know what it means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... I simply choose one of the specific options of the three available options you provide, so violence or sex or violence and sex (violent sex which is what you have when you mix violence and sex). It seems you also have a problem with the word 'rant' http://www.thefreedictionary.c.... A stated calm personal opinion is not a rant.
It is not 'just humanity' but the state of our current human society. Humanity has expressed itself in many ways over millennia, some worse and some better, we seem to be sliding into worse at this stage, compared to different era's ie just in the last century.
Not only is it going on but it is strongly indicative they are intending to do something very naughty in the near future, which is why the push to surreptitiously trial out various methods because they know full well the majority of the world will disapprove of an impending action, a South American adventure seems most likely.
Moron, science is their job, they go on working on science in the same exact way they already are, just different science. Of course on the other hand the fossil fuelers with trillions of dollars locked the the ground and the ability to get it out and sell it rapidly disappearing and no other alternatives for them. So on balance a scientist get paid tens of thousands of dollars to do science going on simply to do other science (because according to you, no global warming, zero need for weather science, fuck the weather, who needs to now anything about the weather, after all you can just watch the weather man on the idiot box PS butt for brain TV weather people get their weather from oh yes weather scientists who would still be working all over the world). Now this versus lost trillions of dollars owned by corporate psychopaths. Now which is far more likely. The whole of your post is fossil fueler bullshit.
A kind of cyber Armageddon is going on as we speak. It seems the US military, industrial and espionage complex is carrying out a range of rolling trial attacks. Basically testing their ability to censor the whole of the internet, so when they roll out their next propaganda campaign tied to military and espionage misadventure they will be able to create a vacuum of truth. That way, their lies will 'full spectrum dominate' the air and cable waves, long enough to complete that military espionage misadventure before the truth can stop it. Various avenues are being trialled including, use of agents in commercial organisations both voluntary and victims of extortion who use their position to block content. DMCA via pet media organisations. Straight up web site attacks via back doors already put in place. Abusing government censorship rules and regulations to accidentally block websites. Targeting and disrupting specific web applications. Targeting the actual hardware of the internet to knock out whole sections of the internet. So likelihood of cyber Armageddon is not that remote when the US military industrial espionage complex is actively working on it and trialling out as we speak and according to them you should of course not be paying any attention to it at all, nope, nothing unusual going on, nothing to report, nobody attacking the web.
So what, are you accusing Elon of suffering from attention deficit disorder, pretty cheeky that ;).
Oh so troll, obviously at least five modders completely missed it but the last sentence should have given it away " Fortunately, this is Slashdot, so it's likely I'm the only one who will bother actually reading TFA.", now how many of you suckers clicked the article after reading that sentence and how many of you picked up on the 'real' intent of that sentence based upon the story and the opening paragraph of the comment. Oh so very sly (I won't be reading that article, now or ever, cheeky bugger ;D ).
What is really interesting in this story is "By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier", now that, should set off some real alarm bells, especially when http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... (so not only permanent ear damage but brain damage to, yes, you definitely do not want your blood brain barrier to open up except under controlled circumstance). So a potential cure but most definitely a clear warning about noise pollution and unexpected outcomes.
More like his wallet took a sharp turn to the right https://en.wikipedia.org/ "Moore has earned his living since the early 1990s primarily by consulting for, and publicly speaking for a wide variety of corporations and lobby groups" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... So why was he in Greenpeace in the first place, likely pursuing the opposite sex. Caring sharing community activities often have a preponderance of the fairer sex (they are referred to as the 'fairer sex' for a reason) http://siteresources.worldbank....
Violent sex as a legitimate entertainment tool, seriously?!? I would hardly call it legitimate and do honestly look upon it as a profoundly disturbing reflection of humanity. Why do humans, find humans killing other humans, to be so entertainingly rewarding? Something seriously wrong is going on with human society and while those games are most definitely not the cause, they are still a matter of concern in they way they reflect the current nature of human society. Root cause, likely the harm being caused by psychopathic capitalism upon the psychology of the majority by an already bat shit insane destructive minority. Our desire for human on human violence as a form of human entertainment is really, really not normal and is a symptom of the psychological harm we are suffering in our daily lives. Stop and honestly think about it and you should find it as disturbing as I found it to be.
What makes more sense is to switch to hemp fibre rather than plastic. With so many pot heads and potential pot heads floating around, this is going to be a whole bunch of waste cannabis fibre floating about, so it would make sense to use it before just adding it to a landfills.
PS if your landfills are dry, then you have shit head greedy cheap ass local government. You have to water them to keep the dust down (prevent infectious agents from spreading with that dust) and to aid compaction (you can not compact dry stuff). Also areas of landfills not being used should be covered with impermeable fabric to retain moisture and to enable collection of methane gasses which should not be released to atmosphere but burned to generate energy, methane is basically equal to natural gas.
Actually the outcome of compulsory voting with a fine for failure to vote is far more subtle than you think. Firstly it teaches people to vote, so from 18 on you can turn up to the polls and vote, turn up to the polls sign off and put in a junk non-vote or pay the fine. Any choice still gets them to the polls and gets them used to the idea and of course gets the associating with other voters. Secondly and often far more importantly in the US, is the what is required to happen in the election process in order to make the fine valid, the election process must be more accessible to the voters. So weekend elections because it is easier for the majority to vote on weekends rather than weekdays. More voting booths because long lines and queues to drive people away from the pools becomes very corrupt when the result is that they will be fined.
Either the US electoral process changes or the US will continue to fail, rampant political corruption, failing infrastructure, collapse of the criminal justice system, all are signs of an already failed state that is simply waiting for that collapse to propagate throughout the whole US society, the dominoes are already falling.
The only real labels that matter are 'innocent' or 'proven guilty in a court of law'. Corrupt capitalism seems to be doggedly reaching for more and more guilt upon accusation with zero remediation for false accusation, no matter how many times false accusations are made. This basically to be made available only to governments and those who can afford access to government, pretty much a licence to censor anyone and everyone for any reason at all and to keep them off line with repeated false accusations. Basically costs nothing to accuse someone if you are licensed and approved to do so but costs thousands of dollars to lift the ban with no opportunity to recover not only the cost of lifting the ban but also lost revenue and readers.
Me, I got pissed off with performance laptops years ago, they just basically cook themselves to death. I bought two computers, well, technically three, a full featured desktop with tons of screen real estate, an old laptop that is still kicking and a smart phone and run three OSs. Desktop, windows (actually dual boot with Kubuntu), basically because of course a big part of it's function is gaming, Linux on the laptop, not much power need for work, really honestly not much power at all and Android on the smart phone.
So the better investment is a high powered desktop which is still pretty cheap and will do anything you want it to do computer wise and the cheap ass notebook because accidents on the move do happen, they happen a lot. That total will often be less than a high powered notebook which is still less capable than the desktop on it's own. Operating system.
Your comment is a sign you have no idea at all what is really going on. Google tech indulgences and not empty tech indulgences, they are a modern marketing technique. They create a impression about the kind of company Google is, well, at least pretends to be and the kind of expertise they have, well at least pretends they have and each and every fucking single time they make a tech announcement or tech update or just randomly waffle on about the tech stuff they are doing, the press dutifully picks it up and free advertises Google to the world.
Now you can either just burn money on advertising like M$ do, emptily B$ about features that disappear or make greatly exaggerated claims about their products or you can really be pretty cunning and sneaky, invest in high risk tech research that the worlds press will report on and get tons and tons of free advertising and have a chance of a big payout for that tech research (just leaving a 'positive impression about your company and products').
At a guess their investment in tech research is generating something like about like between $3 to $5 of free advertising for each dollar invested in research and depending upon the announcement cycle and interest it is up to $10 and maybe as high as $100 on occasions. LIKE RIGHT FUCKING NOW
So it all needs to be treated in pretty much the exact opposite way it is treated on desktops and notebooks. Basically Goggle is cashing in walled garden and the end user and the developers expense, with a horribly crap selection system for applications and providing not much in return, other than a decent phone operating system.
Google don't be dicks, give me an option for an alphabetic keyboard, seriously. what the fuck is so hard about that.
The most amazing thing about the current Australian government is the Prime Minister, Toxic Tony and his pals, scammed their own party member representatives with a email bombing campaign to stay in power (the gist of the campaign being the people still wanted Toxic Tony in power). So they were setting up their own party to loose big time in the next election by actively ignoring their own electorate, so that Toxic Tony and Co could cash in on bigger government pensions as long as they hold those offices for three years. You can see now why the current LNP leadership, Toxic Tony and co are desperate to implement across the board censorship. http://www.buzzfeed.com/markdi... Don't think for a second that they were not fully aware of what was going on.
The core principle of any democracy is knowledge must be free. Democracy ceases to be such when knowledge is priced beyond the reach of majority and they are forced to vote based upon ignorance. Computers are the best tool in making knowledge accessible and as such should never be priced out of easy access to the majority. Every citizen should have the right to readily access all the knowledge they want, in order to make informed decision about their democracy. Not selected highlights, not edited with secrecy, not distorted by lies but factual, validated information backed with explanations and when required, taught by suitably qualified professionals. Denial of information about the society they form a part of, in order to manipulate their consent, is autocracy by ignorance.
It is all about advertising dollars. They simply want to build the browser into the operating system, so that not matter what you do it will create an internet hit to Bing, so that, 'Bing' another cent can be claimed for advertising, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. So losing the internet 'browser, search, portal' war, no problem, fake it via the operating system. Of course when the fake claims about customer eyeballs reflects in very bad advertising outcomes, the customers will then just avoid M$ because it simply doesn't work, regardless of the internet hit numbers, at least as far as M$ is concerned. So no matter what they do in the future, no matter what, everyone will just avoid them.
Much like the crazy bullshit idea of sticking a phone GUI on a desktop because people will get used to it and like idiot sheep automagically buy the phones with the same system. Of course in reality, what really happened is that touch screen phone GUI wont really work well on that desktop and that is of course what the customer will remember. A lesson reinforced each and every time they touch the desktop and are frustrated by the experience. (OH FUCK, might need to do a free upgrade to stop the damage being done ;D ). M$ is just totally infested with crazy bean counter logic and magic numbers in spread sheets and pays no attention at all to more realistic customer empathic logical outcomes.
You'll find that all fines have a minimum base level and that increases based upon income in order to ensure all persons feel the same impact of the fine. So base fine would be based upon the minimum wage, can not pay that and you will spend some time in lock up to make up the difference ie do the time or pay the fine.
P.S. it is really, really, completely and utterly stupid to associate fines with revenue, the fine is meant to represent the harm caused and to ensure the person will feel the impact of that fine as a measure of the harm that they are trying to prevent. Failure in this regard just corrupts the whole system, just like the pretty blatantly corrupt US injustice system.
Likelyhood of the US ever adopting this, 0, zero, nil, never, impossible, no fucking way. In fact they would be far more likely to swap to a system fine or time, where for all crimes you either do the time or pay the fine, after all it's all about revenue and has nothing at all to do with lives, well not poor people's lives. So a rich person murders a poor person. They calculate how much tax a person on minimum wage would make in a life time and that is the fine for the rich person or they do the time (all poor people would of course do the time), see all revenue based.