Why not? Puritanical, warmongering filth have been in control of this country for too long, bleeding it dry. Time someone blocks them from corrupting the voting public further. Do it, Google. DO IT!
Maybe 10-20% of those jailed are true sociopaths. The rest are victims of a system that makes people unemployable once they have a comparatively minor record. The true scumbags -- like Wall Street bankers who make people lose their homes or pharma execs who push opioids, seldom go to jail.
I got my home broken into to steal computers. Should computers be illegal? Two people shot each other in a fight over a bar tab. Should beer be illegal?
Case in point: the US has spent over a century trying to make executions appear like medical procedures. First the electric chair, then gas, then lethal injection. Except that a firing squad or guillotine would likely be faster, less painful, and more certain. But we care about the optics.
Also, high costs of medical treatment in US have very little to do with drug use, more to do with obscene profits at all levels of the system. Countries with more liberal drug laws (Canada, Netherlands) but with nationalized or semi-public systems tend to have lower healthcare costs than the US.
You're talking about the consequences of dirty needles (disease transmission), more so than the drugs themselves. Clean syringes are cheap. Allow over-the-counter sale and/or distribute them for free to people that need them, regardless of why they're needed.
Treatment should be on a case-by-case basis - hospitals can and do evaluate whether an addict (or former addict) that needs treatment is likely to relapse.
Well, it helps the filth that run and invest in private prisons. Got to keep those beds full after all. Not to mention the judges and DAs that likely get kickbacks from these entities. So it helps a lot of people, just not society or the poor bastards who get railroaded by a fucked-up system.
Holder also temporarily ended Federal co-operation with civil forfeiture (aka asset theft without trial). He also quietly told US attorneys not to overcharge crimes. He supported closing the abominable prison camp at Gitmo. A good man.
Fast and Furious was actually started under Dubya Bush (so Mukasey or Ashcroft were A.G.) -- it wasn't Holder's brainchild at all.
Simple -- Google should combine this with other advertising games. Figure out which candidates for local DA and/or judgeships are rabid drug warriors and/or "law and order" types, bought and paid for by the incarceration industry. Allow their ads, just quietly de-prioritize them in favor of their opponents. Do the same for ads run by cop and jailer unions and private prison shills.
Get rid of the bail bond system, fine. But also get rid of idiotic laws and dumber people who enforce them -- clean up the system so that people are only jailed for crimes that actually harm others.
I'd prefer if what passes for a criminal justice system in the US collapsed under its own inefficiency and we were forced by financial considerations to fix the mass incarceration problem. If it puts a bunch of cop, jailer, and DA trash on the unemployment line, so much the better.
Even better. Refuse to run ads from "law and order" and "drug warrior" elected judge and prosecutors campaigning for re-election. Or allow them, but de-prioritize them compared to their more liberal opponents. Also ban cop and jailer unions from advertising.
except that soft drug users seldom damage anything other than anti-pleasure conservatives' delicate sensibilities. we pay more to jail people for victimless crimes than we would to medicalize the problem and offer free treatment to addicts whose drug use actually impairs their functioning.
(1) Bonds are often set excessively high for minor crimes -- so high that some people can't bail out, since they have nothing to offer as collateral. (2) Even if there's no real evidence of a crime, people are often jailed or kept on bail, and prosecutors collude with judges to keep delaying a fair trial. (3) Why the fuck are we prosecuting people for drug possession in the first place? Costs money, and consenting adults should be able to do what they want with their own bodies.
Elected judges and the Puritanical filth who actually put them in office. If there wasn't a market for harsh punishment for minor crimes, those people wouldn't get elected and would be forced to get a real job.
In a lot of cases, it doesn't protect society. There's no advantage for someone accused of something like pot possession, being in a park after hours, prostitution between consenting adults, underage drinking, or even disorderly conduct (aka contempt of cop) to show up in court. In fact, it would be cheaper to simply decriminalize all of these types of petty offenses and let people do what they want. Stop treating adults like children and meddling in people's lives 24/7.
Read the manual and look in the menu system. Every car with Bluetooth I've driven (mostly rentals) has had a method to do so, even if it was buried in a strange spot in the menu tree.
Frankly, if we still had a decent human like Holder as Attorney General, there would be a chance that some of those people would get hit with criminal Federal civil rights charges. Time to start jailing the jailers -- lock some corrupt judges and DAs up, and the rest will have to take the Constitution seriously.
Google isn't regulating speech -- it's deciding which products it, as a corporation, wishes to be associated with. Agreed about legislation: the bail bond firms are a symptom of bad legislation (excessive bail, excessive sentencing, too many crimes defined) rather than the cause. Take away the cause and the bondsmen will go bankrupt and wither away on their own.
Agreed on the advice of an older car that still has OBD2 for easy diagnosis. No need to "check your ego" -- if a glass and steel cage on wheels defines you, you have other problems. Like the need to get a life and some hobbies.
Not sure if modern cars are that bad compared to older cars, though. I remember 80s cars where the engine often lasted 80,000 miles before it started leaking all sorts of fluids, burning oil, and the head gasket blew. Not to mention rusting after 3-4 years.
Problem is that some of the more fucked-up courts will jail people for YEARS without trial. See also, Kalief Browder (may every single person involved in driving him to suicide get cancer and rot in hell).
The problem isn't the bail bondsmen. The problem are American courts that set excessive bail and keep people in jail for relatively minor crimes (often victimless crimes like drug possession) in the hope that they agree to a plea bargain.
Granted, it might be a symbiotic relationship of corruption in some cases. But we should be going after the courts themselves, not the bondsmen. Google would do well donating to organizations like the ACLU and SPLC, which are starting to sue on Constitutional grounds (prohibition of excessive bail, speedy trial rule) as well as working on legislative reform in some states.
Moves towards bail reform in CA and NJ are a good start, hope this spreads to other states. Same with drug law liberalization.
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Why not? Puritanical, warmongering filth have been in control of this country for too long, bleeding it dry. Time someone blocks them from corrupting the voting public further. Do it, Google. DO IT!
Maybe 10-20% of those jailed are true sociopaths. The rest are victims of a system that makes people unemployable once they have a comparatively minor record. The true scumbags -- like Wall Street bankers who make people lose their homes or pharma execs who push opioids, seldom go to jail.
All the more reason to decriminalize "black markets" which involve consenting adults.
I got my home broken into to steal computers. Should computers be illegal? Two people shot each other in a fight over a bar tab. Should beer be illegal?
Case in point: the US has spent over a century trying to make executions appear like medical procedures. First the electric chair, then gas, then lethal injection. Except that a firing squad or guillotine would likely be faster, less painful, and more certain. But we care about the optics.
Also, high costs of medical treatment in US have very little to do with drug use, more to do with obscene profits at all levels of the system. Countries with more liberal drug laws (Canada, Netherlands) but with nationalized or semi-public systems tend to have lower healthcare costs than the US.
Yes, I do.
You're talking about the consequences of dirty needles (disease transmission), more so than the drugs themselves. Clean syringes are cheap. Allow over-the-counter sale and/or distribute them for free to people that need them, regardless of why they're needed.
Treatment should be on a case-by-case basis - hospitals can and do evaluate whether an addict (or former addict) that needs treatment is likely to relapse.
Well, it helps the filth that run and invest in private prisons. Got to keep those beds full after all. Not to mention the judges and DAs that likely get kickbacks from these entities. So it helps a lot of people, just not society or the poor bastards who get railroaded by a fucked-up system.
Holder also temporarily ended Federal co-operation with civil forfeiture (aka asset theft without trial). He also quietly told US attorneys not to overcharge crimes. He supported closing the abominable prison camp at Gitmo. A good man.
Fast and Furious was actually started under Dubya Bush (so Mukasey or Ashcroft were A.G.) -- it wasn't Holder's brainchild at all.
Simple -- Google should combine this with other advertising games. Figure out which candidates for local DA and/or judgeships are rabid drug warriors and/or "law and order" types, bought and paid for by the incarceration industry. Allow their ads, just quietly de-prioritize them in favor of their opponents. Do the same for ads run by cop and jailer unions and private prison shills.
Get rid of the bail bond system, fine. But also get rid of idiotic laws and dumber people who enforce them -- clean up the system so that people are only jailed for crimes that actually harm others.
I'd prefer if what passes for a criminal justice system in the US collapsed under its own inefficiency and we were forced by financial considerations to fix the mass incarceration problem. If it puts a bunch of cop, jailer, and DA trash on the unemployment line, so much the better.
Even better. Refuse to run ads from "law and order" and "drug warrior" elected judge and prosecutors campaigning for re-election. Or allow them, but de-prioritize them compared to their more liberal opponents. Also ban cop and jailer unions from advertising.
except that soft drug users seldom damage anything other than anti-pleasure conservatives' delicate sensibilities. we pay more to jail people for victimless crimes than we would to medicalize the problem and offer free treatment to addicts whose drug use actually impairs their functioning.
People are -- and the trend is towards liberalization of drug laws and reform of the bail systems.
(1) Bonds are often set excessively high for minor crimes -- so high that some people can't bail out, since they have nothing to offer as collateral.
(2) Even if there's no real evidence of a crime, people are often jailed or kept on bail, and prosecutors collude with judges to keep delaying a fair trial.
(3) Why the fuck are we prosecuting people for drug possession in the first place? Costs money, and consenting adults should be able to do what they want with their own bodies.
Elected judges and the Puritanical filth who actually put them in office. If there wasn't a market for harsh punishment for minor crimes, those people wouldn't get elected and would be forced to get a real job.
In a lot of cases, it doesn't protect society. There's no advantage for someone accused of something like pot possession, being in a park after hours, prostitution between consenting adults, underage drinking, or even disorderly conduct (aka contempt of cop) to show up in court. In fact, it would be cheaper to simply decriminalize all of these types of petty offenses and let people do what they want. Stop treating adults like children and meddling in people's lives 24/7.
Read the manual and look in the menu system. Every car with Bluetooth I've driven (mostly rentals) has had a method to do so, even if it was buried in a strange spot in the menu tree.
Frankly, if we still had a decent human like Holder as Attorney General, there would be a chance that some of those people would get hit with criminal Federal civil rights charges. Time to start jailing the jailers -- lock some corrupt judges and DAs up, and the rest will have to take the Constitution seriously.
Google isn't regulating speech -- it's deciding which products it, as a corporation, wishes to be associated with. Agreed about legislation: the bail bond firms are a symptom of bad legislation (excessive bail, excessive sentencing, too many crimes defined) rather than the cause. Take away the cause and the bondsmen will go bankrupt and wither away on their own.
Agreed on the advice of an older car that still has OBD2 for easy diagnosis. No need to "check your ego" -- if a glass and steel cage on wheels defines you, you have other problems. Like the need to get a life and some hobbies.
Not sure if modern cars are that bad compared to older cars, though. I remember 80s cars where the engine often lasted 80,000 miles before it started leaking all sorts of fluids, burning oil, and the head gasket blew. Not to mention rusting after 3-4 years.
Problem is that some of the more fucked-up courts will jail people for YEARS without trial. See also, Kalief Browder (may every single person involved in driving him to suicide get cancer and rot in hell).
The problem isn't the bail bondsmen. The problem are American courts that set excessive bail and keep people in jail for relatively minor crimes (often victimless crimes like drug possession) in the hope that they agree to a plea bargain.
Granted, it might be a symbiotic relationship of corruption in some cases. But we should be going after the courts themselves, not the bondsmen. Google would do well donating to organizations like the ACLU and SPLC, which are starting to sue on Constitutional grounds (prohibition of excessive bail, speedy trial rule) as well as working on legislative reform in some states.
Moves towards bail reform in CA and NJ are a good start, hope this spreads to other states. Same with drug law liberalization.
Frankly, I wouldn't want to pay for my OWN use of this, especially if it gives the automaker a license to snoop on me.