The goal of justly administered punishment is to correct behavior and provide deterrence to others, not to encourage self-hate. Neither purpose is well served by giving him permanent room and board to dink around on the Internet.
How does withholding computer access correct his behavior, then? If he were in for hacking or something it'd make sense, but murder has nothing to do with programming. Besides, they don't have to give him access to Slashdot an porn; the ReiserFS CVS repository and mailing list would be plenty, and they could firewall everything else.
Also, whether he has Internet access is irrelevant to his punishment anyway -- you're still "giving him permanent room and board" regardless. And if "giving him permanent room and board" won't serve the purpose of justly administered punishment -- as you say -- then you must agree with me that he should be executed. Otherwise, you're talking about just releasing him immediately which is obviously ludicrous.
Finally, one man's barbarism is another man's pragmatism.
Making Hans hate himself won't bring Nina back; at this point the only important consideration is minimizing the cost to society. If you want to punish him you might as well execute him. At least then you won't be wasting taxpayer money housing and feeding him for the rest of his life!
Between term limits and the office being the pinnacle of political achievement anyway, there's no reason for the President to worry about being reelected up to half the time.
They need to give Hans an Internet connection in his cell. At least then he can still be of some use to society, and it's not as if his was a computer-related offense...
So fucking what. How much money and effort was spent since WW2 on space and military research? Defies imagination!
Are you sure you're counting only the money spent on space and military research, or are you counting all the money spent on space and the military, including the money spent on building and maintaining bunches of copies of already-researched weapons?
Taking that as a given, wouldn't it be better to spend the funds in a direction where the *primary* result of the expenditure is of more utility?
Sure, but that's not what would happen. In reality, the money will get diverted to massive entitlement programs like the bailout and Social Security, which do nobody any long-term good.
You know, the dole out's in the millions of dollars to study stupid shit like environmental studies for running a highway through a congressman's swamp property.
Environmental studies are important, and swamps are there for a reason (protect the non-swamp areas against hurricanes, act as habitat for species that we use (directly or indirectly), etc.). The government is now spending even more money to fix swamps that they fucked up 50 years ago because they didn't do the environmental studies in the first place!
But congress will never pass the line item veto or adopt a ban on earmarks.
Line-item vetos are dumb anyway. If that's what you want, then just encourage the President to veto the whole thing, all the time, until Congress gives him a version without the line items! You don't need a special new power for it; you just need the President to grow a pair!
This "10% rule" is different from decimation. The Romans specifically chose the soldiers to be killed at random in order to maximize the demoralization. And, of course, demoralization is an entirely different goal than maximizing productivity.
It would help cops zero in on all kinds of criminals.
That's only a good thing if everybody agrees on the definition of "criminal." Imagine how much easier it would have been for Hitler to round up the Jews, Gypsies, etc. if he'd had a DNA database...
The people may not lose in court on merit, but only because they ran out of money to pay for a lawyer to represent them in and out of court.
Perhaps the solution in this case is to retain a lawyer on staff. This is a startup, right? Since they're anticipating fairly extensive legal issues from the get-go, they should hire a lawyer as a full-time employee, which would limit costs to be equal to his salary. They can pay him using venture capital money (just like how everybody else would be getting paid) until they have a sellable product.
That doesn't work, because once you scale down small enough you start getting weird interpolation artifacts. For example, imagine you have a set of two pixel wide alternating stripes. What will it look like when you scale it by 2/3s? Icons and fonts are usually hand-tweaked at smaller sizes for exactly this reason.
I had no idea what Roosevelt threatened to do to the supreme court when they declared parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional.
The key to that question would be to think about what he would have been allowed to do: three of the four choices require powers the President doesn't constitutionally possess.
Look at her uniform (particularly the nametag): you can see that the unaltered copy they got is actually a lower-quality version. Therefore, I think some of the stuff that makes her look older is actually JPEG artifacts, not actual age spots etc.
A Smart Playlist (or an "Auto Playlist" in Windows Media Player) creates a list of songs that match specified metadata criteria. For example, you could make a playlist defined as "songs with genre=rock and BPM>80". And since the player allows you to access songs via these playlists, it allows you to arrange them in alternate multiple hierarchies.
In contrast, if all you have is a filesystem, then you can only access your music by filename, and only according to the single directory hierarchy. And that sucks hairy goat balls.
To be honest, I think lack of augments in return for not facing the collapse of civilization is a pretty fair trade (but I'll be really pissed if all those 2012 prophesies come true).
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Who's gonna hire you if you're the kind of person who did phone support?
How does withholding computer access correct his behavior, then? If he were in for hacking or something it'd make sense, but murder has nothing to do with programming. Besides, they don't have to give him access to Slashdot an porn; the ReiserFS CVS repository and mailing list would be plenty, and they could firewall everything else.
Also, whether he has Internet access is irrelevant to his punishment anyway -- you're still "giving him permanent room and board" regardless. And if "giving him permanent room and board" won't serve the purpose of justly administered punishment -- as you say -- then you must agree with me that he should be executed. Otherwise, you're talking about just releasing him immediately which is obviously ludicrous.
Finally, one man's barbarism is another man's pragmatism.
Making Hans hate himself won't bring Nina back; at this point the only important consideration is minimizing the cost to society. If you want to punish him you might as well execute him. At least then you won't be wasting taxpayer money housing and feeding him for the rest of his life!
Between term limits and the office being the pinnacle of political achievement anyway, there's no reason for the President to worry about being reelected up to half the time.
They need to give Hans an Internet connection in his cell. At least then he can still be of some use to society, and it's not as if his was a computer-related offense...
Are you sure you're counting only the money spent on space and military research, or are you counting all the money spent on space and the military, including the money spent on building and maintaining bunches of copies of already-researched weapons?
Sure, but that's not what would happen. In reality, the money will get diverted to massive entitlement programs like the bailout and Social Security, which do nobody any long-term good.
Environmental studies are important, and swamps are there for a reason (protect the non-swamp areas against hurricanes, act as habitat for species that we use (directly or indirectly), etc.). The government is now spending even more money to fix swamps that they fucked up 50 years ago because they didn't do the environmental studies in the first place!
Line-item vetos are dumb anyway. If that's what you want, then just encourage the President to veto the whole thing, all the time, until Congress gives him a version without the line items! You don't need a special new power for it; you just need the President to grow a pair!
...and Mac OS, and PS3, and Wii...
This "10% rule" is different from decimation. The Romans specifically chose the soldiers to be killed at random in order to maximize the demoralization. And, of course, demoralization is an entirely different goal than maximizing productivity.
Perhaps the solution in this case is to retain a lawyer on staff. This is a startup, right? Since they're anticipating fairly extensive legal issues from the get-go, they should hire a lawyer as a full-time employee, which would limit costs to be equal to his salary. They can pay him using venture capital money (just like how everybody else would be getting paid) until they have a sellable product.
That doesn't work, because once you scale down small enough you start getting weird interpolation artifacts. For example, imagine you have a set of two pixel wide alternating stripes. What will it look like when you scale it by 2/3s? Icons and fonts are usually hand-tweaked at smaller sizes for exactly this reason.
That doesn't mean he doesn't understand the Constitution; it means he can't count. ; )
The key to that question would be to think about what he would have been allowed to do: three of the four choices require powers the President doesn't constitutionally possess.
Look at her uniform (particularly the nametag): you can see that the unaltered copy they got is actually a lower-quality version. Therefore, I think some of the stuff that makes her look older is actually JPEG artifacts, not actual age spots etc.
You forgot to taunt him the first time!
A Smart Playlist (or an "Auto Playlist" in Windows Media Player) creates a list of songs that match specified metadata criteria. For example, you could make a playlist defined as "songs with genre=rock and BPM>80". And since the player allows you to access songs via these playlists, it allows you to arrange them in alternate multiple hierarchies.
In contrast, if all you have is a filesystem, then you can only access your music by filename, and only according to the single directory hierarchy. And that sucks hairy goat balls.
Yeah there is:
I want a Smart Playlist that syncs between the device and the computer. How do I do that without an iPod, Mr. Smartypants?
How does one drag and drop a fucking Smart Playlist, pray tell?
It had a story to accommodate the multiple players.
You're gonna love (most of) EP2, then.
It's much better on PC, as are all FPSs.
However, I can sort-of recommend buying the original Half-Life for PS2, because it has a platform-exclusive co-op mode.
To be honest, I think lack of augments in return for not facing the collapse of civilization is a pretty fair trade (but I'll be really pissed if all those 2012 prophesies come true).