They could also impose duties on products that are manufactured in China to encourage companies to move their industries out of China. Lets face it, wages in China are beginning to rise, fast.
And move where?
There is India and Africa, but both of those two areas have serious issues for Capitalists.
India is not as sweat shop friendly as you would think (they have a democracy after all) and moving factories to Africa face issues of instability and lack of strong central governmental powers.
China provides both cheap labor (almost infinite supply of) and a single entity to deal with who won't be changing faces by a revolution or a popular vote anytime soon.
That said, I believe China will on the outward appearances agree to IP laws and put a few people in prison over it, but its not their problem so they won't put forth too much effort into it.
Yeah, but it will be more of a pain in the ass for most people. I don't regularly use any social networking sites so I don't know what the experience is like on a smart phone, but it's probably not anywhere near as good as the experience from a web browser.
Actually, Twitter and Facebook seem to have designed with the idea that they would be used on cell phones.
The Facebook app on the iPhone (IMO) is sometimes actually better than using the webpage because you get less junk on the screen (like friend recommendations etc). If it wasn't for ATT's crappy signal strength, but that isn't really the issue here.
Of course you are missing the flash based games, but considering the iPhone has its own line of games designed for its screen...
Personally, I don't really trust my employers looking over my shoulder anyways reading about my social life so I always make a habit of just using Facebook on my phone if the need arises.
No amount of power, whether illusion or real, will bring you control.
Hrm... You're not thinking big enough.
If I could control the genetic makeup of my brain on an atomic level at the same time being able reverse the second laws of thermodynamics with thought alone while manipulating all time space and matter in the known and unknown universe.
I hardly had late fees either because I have OCD about timeliness and being late, but I personally dislike the threat or having to worry about having to around and go like this: "Oh. This DVD is due back tomorrow, now I have to make an extra trip out of the home so I don't get hit with a late fee."
With Netflix I can go instead "Well... I would go down to the post office today but I don't have any errands to run so instead I'll wait til Friday when I was going to go out for groceries since I'm not constrained by any dead line".
See what happens here... People weren't exactly upset about the late fees themselves but rather the fact they often had to make that trip at an arbitrary time frame. Its one less stop you have to worry about. Good for saving gas as well.
Really, read a book or two. There where literally thousands of attacks on significant German forces, in Russia, in the Balkan, in France.
Hold up. As a WWII wargamer and avid book worm on the matter, I have to few things to point out on the partisan issue:
1. The Yugoslavian army was still standing in the field when they surrendered. They actually went home with the uniforms and guns. 2. The majority of the Russian partisan movement was actually Russian soldiers who escaped into the massive encirclements (ie into Pripiat swamps). Stalin had NKVD officers parachute into these areas along with supply drops. These were in radio contact with the main Soviet forces and actually participated in rear action battles just like regular units. They even received airsupport, had light tanks, and artillery pieces. 3. Greece liberated itself when the Germans withdrew to deal with the Yugoslavians and the Soviet southern push in 1944. It is also noted that Greece went into a civil war somewhat after this. 4. The French resistance was somewhat ineffective due to the massive garrison and the brutality of the of the reprisals the German garrison would often inflect on the population (ie killing entire villages in punatary actions) and the majority of the French resistance did not rise until D-Day.
And concluding on this point... Both the Soviet loss in Afghanistan and the US loss in Vietnam was due to foreign intervention. You cannot defend yourself from air attacks with hunting weapons and AK-47s.
Think on how both Afghanistan and Chechnya went down.
In that regard, the only way Americans people could ever have a chance against their own army is either owning military grade weapons or be supported by
But, ffs, don't just "get angry" on a forum they probably never read and don't care about while you're still paying your monthly fee. Damn well complain, move companies, terminate contracts, etc.
Actually, complaining on public forums does get attention.
At one of my old jobs, I did application support for a guy who worked at Comcast a few years back setting up RSS google feeds so they can scour forums, twitter accounts, and FB updates for people complaining about Comcast and respond to them in a positive manner. From my understanding, I think they have a whole team handling it now.
Apparently the big wigs at Comcast felt that there is a need to do something about all the complaints after Comcastmustdie.com was put up so they had people actually go around trying to do something about.
Though... I don't know if Sprint really cares that much.
Why are you still an American citizen? If you truly preferred over a dozen other countries then you could find a way to make moving to one of the countries happen. Japan isn't the easiest country to move to, but you have a pretty big list there.
Arguably, I'm still an American citizen because I was born here and the immigration laws are quite damn difficult to have residency in Japan. (I've looked)
Also its rather expensive.
My list was mostly a "If residency and moving wasn't a problem" or "if i could be born in any country I wanted to be born in"
But seriously... Americans should go to Japan at least once in their life. Its an eye changing experience.
I can't believe we tolerate the things over here that we do.
You can always write someones name in on the ballot. Even though what you say is true, I still think its irresponsible to give up on voting if you ever want it to matter again. When voting apathy gets out of hand the government may decide that "Hey, no-one is voting anyway, maybe we should just have property owners be the only people allowed to vote", then the only people who would be voting on this would be people who didn't give up on it.
Well here is the problem or at least the essence of it:
The people in the Soviet Union got to vote just like we did in the US, but they only go to vote for one candidate.
In the US we get to vote for one more candidate than they did, who often more than not is pretty close to the ideology of the person they are running against.
Sure you can write in a 3rd party candidate, but without proportional representation your vote is mathematically wasted on a 3rd party candidate. The is a very large major flaw in "First Past the Post" election systems which although seem to foster democracy, actually simply create a "Coke vs Pepsi" syndrome which make sure the establish powers never really change much other than name.
Arguably if you want change, you need to educate and put for an interest in proportional representation.
In fact, the UK has finally got their head out their proverbial butts after the last election to actually put for a referendum on the matter:
I' be willing to lose the right to burn a flag, if I gained the right to keep my money, instead of having to pay the Neighborhood pack-a-day Smoker to get a new lung (
The problem is if the government can decide what constitutes freedom of speech and what not, then you'll still won't have the right to keep your money and then you can't complain about it.
But it's not all doom and gloom...I'd much rather live here than dozens of other countries.
As an American citizen here is the following list of countries I'd rather live in than here first (in order of preference):
Japan Sweden Norway Netherlands Canada Iceland Switzerland Czech France Germany UK
and then the USA
Why? I'd probably do Japan first because of their public transportation and culture of being nice and polite (couldn't feel that every time I've been) and everyone else on the list in order of their quality of socialist programs.
I don't care what you say... If Socialism creates hell holes... Then I really don't know why Sweden and Norway aren't hellholes they should be. Quite the opposite.
Please let me push a button on the case to enable "turbo" mode.
Lol. Those were the days. I once worked in a computer shop in the mid 90's where we upgraded some guys 386 to one of the new 486 (DX i think) by swapping out the entire board but we kept the case to save him some money.
He comes back in the shop and complains that the turbo mode doesn't work anymore and we tried to explain with the new models that it was way faster than the 386 even in turbo mode but he didn't seem to understand.
So one of us takes it into the back rigs the button to simply light up the turbu LED when you press it. He seemed pretty happy with the results.
Look, I don't mean to be nit-picky, but I really wouldn't want a surgeon looking up a procedure while I'm open on his table. Or a dentist looking up a root-canal procedure while my jaw is open wide. Some education HAS to be ingrained to a certain point.
Actually, surgery requires a lot of practice rather than memorization because it requires a good deal of dexterity and hand coordination.
Much like a fighter pilot... Sure, it helps to memorize the procedure, but you really want the guy whose practice it on a few times but doesn't have it memorized versus the person who has it memorized but never did it before.
There is almost never a situation in the professional world where one must solve a problem with absolutely no references
This reminds me of a job interview for a field support job that went like this (paraphrasing because its been a while):
So the boss asks me a technical question which I honestly don't know the answer.
Me: "I don't know, but I'm sure I can Google an answer fairly quick." Boss: "You mean you don't have this memorized? What if the internet is down?" Me: "I'd use my cell phone to google the answer." Boss: "What if you have no cell phone signal?" Me: "I'd put the caller on hold and use the land line to call someone who has either internet or a cell phone signal and ask them to Google it." Boss: "What if the land lines are out?" Me: "Then the question you asked me earlier is no longer relevant because obviously no one would be calling me to get report the problem in the first place if the phone lines are out? And if the internet, cell phone, and land lines are out, it sounds we might have bigger problems."
Surprisingly enough I actually got that job, I just sort of went against the interviewees idea that candidates have to memorize every small technical detail because in real world situations it is always possible to look it up.
And if not... Well then you have other issues going on that need priority.
That's just great. Then people will never have any excuse to ever put any of that crap down and be disconnected from the virtual world while the devices recharge.
So you just described the plot to Vernor Vinge's book Rainbows End.
Well self powered devices like AR contacts weren't exactly the main part of the plot but it was a big part of it.
Where I live, anyone trying that would simply be shot. Robberies (esp. with knives) aren't so common here in states where you don't know who's carrying a gun. But I guess in states or countries where you're not legally allowed to defend yourself, that could be a problem.
I take it you do not live in Detroit or Camden?
Arguably they have a higher population to gun to person ration anywhere else in the nation, but for some reason robbery and violence seems to be a problem.
And I've got 2006 numbers for you (I'm sure more recent are out there but those two cities haven't really improved much):
Actually, I'm an incredibly picky eater. However, it seems to be more about texture than taste. For instance, I don't mind the taste of tomatoes, but I loathe the texture.
Interesting... I could almost swore that is what they said about certain foods as well, but I have to ask.
Maybe there is some correlation between picky eating and not wanting to drink.
Yes. Tough. In the case of the sellering & dealing scum they should be executed IMO as they are in many arab and far eastern states.
Yes, but they still have problems with it no?
Also, a funny way Asian businessmen would kill someone who they did not like was to send them on a "business trip" to Indonesia and have someone put drugs in their luggage.
That way... Their "friend" would get caught and get put to death.
Drugs such as opium and heroin WERE legal but they caused so much misery and strife that they were banned in almost all nations. People who thing legalising drugs will somehow make addicts and the problems they cause vanish are living in a dream world. Perhaps you might like to check out the number of deaths either through violence , drunk driving or liver disease from alcohol - that well known legal drug.
Why does the Netherlands have the world's most lax drug laws in the world and yet still have the least problem with it?
Finally, the third role of prisons is protecting society, taking dangerous individuals out of the loop for a considerable amount of time so that they can't do any harm
Why are the prisons filled with a good portion of non-violent criminals then?
Why are these people's getting contacts and learning to be violent criminals while in prison as well?
I'd prefer the bad guys to be locked up in a proper prison, run according to a ultra-authoritarian regime that kept absolute order and completely prevented all the nasty things that currently happen in prison, such as rape, gang fights and drug dealing.
The issue or the reason that it happens into today prisons is simply because of over-population and the refusal of the governments to actually build prisons where inmates can keep to themselves without interaction with other inmates.
Of course one of the major issues that we face today is that the government (especially the US one) is putting a lot of people in prison than it did in the past simply because of the abundance of laws on the books and the increased efficiency of enforcing non-violent crime. (tax evasion, pot use, violation of codes) Not to mention the increased requirements of the need of lawyers for fear of breaking laws that you simply do not know about.
Its gotten so bad that many companies simply have to have lawyers as CEO's so they won't break a law that they didn't know about.
But I digress...
The issue is that there is an overpopulation of inmates who are often a minority of what you would call "bad guys" (violent types and sociopaths) and those who probably aren't bad people but broke a law which they didn't see as wrong (or knew that well about it).
In order to keep the majority from becoming really bad, you must keep them separated from the sociopaths. Now this is (according to the governments) financially impossible.
Perhaps you could vote in a government who more friendly to the idea but you must also accept higher taxation on the matter.
In the states, the government has sort of solve this problem by privatizing the prisons (which actually has made the problem worse... as there is no profit in actually keeping the prisoners separated from each other).
Personally, I would argue that we need to relax laws and minimum punishments on non-violent crimes to home arrest while keeping the real sociopaths in prison.
Also you need to reform the laws on background checks so that first time offenders actually can get jobs so they re-integrate back into society. As it is now, they have problems getting a job with a background and therefore usually resort back to crime for income.
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They could also impose duties on products that are manufactured in China to encourage companies to move their industries out of China. Lets face it, wages in China are beginning to rise, fast.
And move where?
There is India and Africa, but both of those two areas have serious issues for Capitalists.
India is not as sweat shop friendly as you would think (they have a democracy after all) and moving factories to Africa face issues of instability and lack of strong central governmental powers.
China provides both cheap labor (almost infinite supply of) and a single entity to deal with who won't be changing faces by a revolution or a popular vote anytime soon.
That said, I believe China will on the outward appearances agree to IP laws and put a few people in prison over it, but its not their problem so they won't put forth too much effort into it.
Yeah, but it will be more of a pain in the ass for most people. I don't regularly use any social networking sites so I don't know what the experience is like on a smart phone, but it's probably not anywhere near as good as the experience from a web browser.
Actually, Twitter and Facebook seem to have designed with the idea that they would be used on cell phones.
The Facebook app on the iPhone (IMO) is sometimes actually better than using the webpage because you get less junk on the screen (like friend recommendations etc). If it wasn't for ATT's crappy signal strength, but that isn't really the issue here.
Of course you are missing the flash based games, but considering the iPhone has its own line of games designed for its screen...
Personally, I don't really trust my employers looking over my shoulder anyways reading about my social life so I always make a habit of just using Facebook on my phone if the need arises.
No amount of power, whether illusion or real, will bring you control.
Hrm... You're not thinking big enough.
If I could control the genetic makeup of my brain on an atomic level at the same time being able reverse the second laws of thermodynamics with thought alone while manipulating all time space and matter in the known and unknown universe.
I'd say that would be enough power.
I hardly had late fees either because I have OCD about timeliness and being late, but I personally dislike the threat or having to worry about having to around and go like this: "Oh. This DVD is due back tomorrow, now I have to make an extra trip out of the home so I don't get hit with a late fee."
With Netflix I can go instead "Well... I would go down to the post office today but I don't have any errands to run so instead I'll wait til Friday when I was going to go out for groceries since I'm not constrained by any dead line".
See what happens here... People weren't exactly upset about the late fees themselves but rather the fact they often had to make that trip at an arbitrary time frame. Its one less stop you have to worry about. Good for saving gas as well.
Really, read a book or two. There where literally thousands of attacks on significant German forces, in Russia, in the Balkan, in France.
Hold up. As a WWII wargamer and avid book worm on the matter, I have to few things to point out on the partisan issue:
1. The Yugoslavian army was still standing in the field when they surrendered. They actually went home with the uniforms and guns.
2. The majority of the Russian partisan movement was actually Russian soldiers who escaped into the massive encirclements (ie into Pripiat swamps). Stalin had NKVD officers parachute into these areas along with supply drops. These were in radio contact with the main Soviet forces and actually participated in rear action battles just like regular units. They even received airsupport, had light tanks, and artillery pieces.
3. Greece liberated itself when the Germans withdrew to deal with the Yugoslavians and the Soviet southern push in 1944. It is also noted that Greece went into a civil war somewhat after this.
4. The French resistance was somewhat ineffective due to the massive garrison and the brutality of the of the reprisals the German garrison would often inflect on the population (ie killing entire villages in punatary actions) and the majority of the French resistance did not rise until D-Day.
And concluding on this point... Both the Soviet loss in Afghanistan and the US loss in Vietnam was due to foreign intervention. You cannot defend yourself from air attacks with hunting weapons and AK-47s.
Think on how both Afghanistan and Chechnya went down.
In that regard, the only way Americans people could ever have a chance against their own army is either owning military grade weapons or be supported by
But, ffs, don't just "get angry" on a forum they probably never read and don't care about while you're still paying your monthly fee. Damn well complain, move companies, terminate contracts, etc.
Actually, complaining on public forums does get attention.
At one of my old jobs, I did application support for a guy who worked at Comcast a few years back setting up RSS google feeds so they can scour forums, twitter accounts, and FB updates for people complaining about Comcast and respond to them in a positive manner. From my understanding, I think they have a whole team handling it now.
Apparently the big wigs at Comcast felt that there is a need to do something about all the complaints after Comcastmustdie.com was put up so they had people actually go around trying to do something about.
Though... I don't know if Sprint really cares that much.
Why are you still an American citizen? If you truly preferred over a dozen other countries then you could find a way to make moving to one of the countries happen. Japan isn't the easiest country to move to, but you have a pretty big list there.
Arguably, I'm still an American citizen because I was born here and the immigration laws are quite damn difficult to have residency in Japan. (I've looked)
Also its rather expensive.
My list was mostly a "If residency and moving wasn't a problem" or "if i could be born in any country I wanted to be born in"
But seriously... Americans should go to Japan at least once in their life. Its an eye changing experience.
I can't believe we tolerate the things over here that we do.
As a Dane I'm interested in why Denmark is not on your list ?
Oh sorry... I've got nothing against Denmark, but it is one of those countries that fall off my radar (kind of like Belgium).
I should take a look someday. ;)
I bet the trains run on time though.
Nope.
Because they were too busy searching people at the stations without a valid reason.
And the cost of CREATING content exceeds them both.
Have you seen "Human Centipede"?
You mean like this?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extreme-machines/4337190
Well its simulating neurons... I suppose that's close enough.
You can always write someones name in on the ballot. Even though what you say is true, I still think its irresponsible to give up on voting if you ever want it to matter again. When voting apathy gets out of hand the government may decide that "Hey, no-one is voting anyway, maybe we should just have property owners be the only people allowed to vote", then the only people who would be voting on this would be people who didn't give up on it.
Well here is the problem or at least the essence of it:
The people in the Soviet Union got to vote just like we did in the US, but they only go to vote for one candidate.
In the US we get to vote for one more candidate than they did, who often more than not is pretty close to the ideology of the person they are running against.
Sure you can write in a 3rd party candidate, but without proportional representation your vote is mathematically wasted on a 3rd party candidate. The is a very large major flaw in "First Past the Post" election systems which although seem to foster democracy, actually simply create a "Coke vs Pepsi" syndrome which make sure the establish powers never really change much other than name.
Arguably if you want change, you need to educate and put for an interest in proportional representation.
In fact, the UK has finally got their head out their proverbial butts after the last election to actually put for a referendum on the matter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11192939
So if you are a US citizen, then you really ought to read up on these and start talking to other people.
It may catch on...
Until then, the current system is basically just as good as weighted-landed 3/5ths person and all the other 1800s voting schemes.
I' be willing to lose the right to burn a flag, if I gained the right to keep my money, instead of having to pay the Neighborhood pack-a-day Smoker to get a new lung (
The problem is if the government can decide what constitutes freedom of speech and what not, then you'll still won't have the right to keep your money and then you can't complain about it.
But it's not all doom and gloom...I'd much rather live here than dozens of other countries.
As an American citizen here is the following list of countries I'd rather live in than here first (in order of preference):
Japan
Sweden
Norway
Netherlands
Canada
Iceland
Switzerland
Czech
France
Germany
UK
and then the USA
Why? I'd probably do Japan first because of their public transportation and culture of being nice and polite (couldn't feel that every time I've been) and everyone else on the list in order of their quality of socialist programs.
I don't care what you say... If Socialism creates hell holes... Then I really don't know why Sweden and Norway aren't hellholes they should be. Quite the opposite.
Please let me push a button on the case to enable "turbo" mode.
Lol. Those were the days. I once worked in a computer shop in the mid 90's where we upgraded some guys 386 to one of the new 486 (DX i think) by swapping out the entire board but we kept the case to save him some money.
He comes back in the shop and complains that the turbo mode doesn't work anymore and we tried to explain with the new models that it was way faster than the 386 even in turbo mode but he didn't seem to understand.
So one of us takes it into the back rigs the button to simply light up the turbu LED when you press it. He seemed pretty happy with the results.
Look, I don't mean to be nit-picky, but I really wouldn't want a surgeon looking up a procedure while I'm open on his table. Or a dentist looking up a root-canal procedure while my jaw is open wide. Some education HAS to be ingrained to a certain point.
Actually, surgery requires a lot of practice rather than memorization because it requires a good deal of dexterity and hand coordination.
Much like a fighter pilot... Sure, it helps to memorize the procedure, but you really want the guy whose practice it on a few times but doesn't have it memorized versus the person who has it memorized but never did it before.
There is almost never a situation in the professional world where one must solve a problem with absolutely no references
This reminds me of a job interview for a field support job that went like this (paraphrasing because its been a while):
So the boss asks me a technical question which I honestly don't know the answer.
Me: "I don't know, but I'm sure I can Google an answer fairly quick."
Boss: "You mean you don't have this memorized? What if the internet is down?"
Me: "I'd use my cell phone to google the answer."
Boss: "What if you have no cell phone signal?"
Me: "I'd put the caller on hold and use the land line to call someone who has either internet or a cell phone signal and ask them to Google it."
Boss: "What if the land lines are out?"
Me: "Then the question you asked me earlier is no longer relevant because obviously no one would be calling me to get report the problem in the first place if the phone lines are out? And if the internet, cell phone, and land lines are out, it sounds we might have bigger problems."
Surprisingly enough I actually got that job, I just sort of went against the interviewees idea that candidates have to memorize every small technical detail because in real world situations it is always possible to look it up.
And if not... Well then you have other issues going on that need priority.
That's just great. Then people will never have any excuse to ever put any of that crap down and be disconnected from the virtual world while the devices recharge.
So you just described the plot to Vernor Vinge's book Rainbows End.
Well self powered devices like AR contacts weren't exactly the main part of the plot but it was a big part of it.
And notice how I'm not posting anonymous? unlike you, i'm not scared to stand behind what I say, right or wrong, i said it.
Unless you happen to be the same guy posting a rebuttal to his own anon comment?
Where I live, anyone trying that would simply be shot. Robberies (esp. with knives) aren't so common here in states where you don't know who's carrying a gun. But I guess in states or countries where you're not legally allowed to defend yourself, that could be a problem.
I take it you do not live in Detroit or Camden?
Arguably they have a higher population to gun to person ration anywhere else in the nation, but for some reason robbery and violence seems to be a problem.
And I've got 2006 numbers for you (I'm sure more recent are out there but those two cities haven't really improved much):
http://detroit.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Detroit&s1=MI&c2=Camden&s2=NJ
Actually, I'm an incredibly picky eater. However, it seems to be more about texture than taste. For instance, I don't mind the taste of tomatoes, but I loathe the texture.
Interesting... I could almost swore that is what they said about certain foods as well, but I have to ask.
Maybe there is some correlation between picky eating and not wanting to drink.
Or might be personal preference?
Yes. Tough. In the case of the sellering & dealing scum they should be executed IMO as they are in many arab and far eastern states.
Yes, but they still have problems with it no?
Also, a funny way Asian businessmen would kill someone who they did not like was to send them on a "business trip" to Indonesia and have someone put drugs in their luggage.
That way... Their "friend" would get caught and get put to death.
Drugs such as opium and heroin WERE legal but they caused so much misery and strife that they were banned in almost all nations. People who thing legalising drugs will somehow make addicts and the problems they cause vanish are living in a dream world. Perhaps you might like to check out the number of deaths either through violence , drunk driving or liver disease from alcohol - that well known legal drug.
Why does the Netherlands have the world's most lax drug laws in the world and yet still have the least problem with it?
Finally, the third role of prisons is protecting society, taking dangerous individuals out of the loop for a considerable amount of time so that they can't do any harm
Why are the prisons filled with a good portion of non-violent criminals then?
Why are these people's getting contacts and learning to be violent criminals while in prison as well?
I'd prefer the bad guys to be locked up in a proper prison, run according to a ultra-authoritarian regime that kept absolute order and completely prevented all the nasty things that currently happen in prison, such as rape, gang fights and drug dealing.
The issue or the reason that it happens into today prisons is simply because of over-population and the refusal of the governments to actually build prisons where inmates can keep to themselves without interaction with other inmates.
Of course one of the major issues that we face today is that the government (especially the US one) is putting a lot of people in prison than it did in the past simply because of the abundance of laws on the books and the increased efficiency of enforcing non-violent crime. (tax evasion, pot use, violation of codes) Not to mention the increased requirements of the need of lawyers for fear of breaking laws that you simply do not know about.
Its gotten so bad that many companies simply have to have lawyers as CEO's so they won't break a law that they didn't know about.
But I digress...
The issue is that there is an overpopulation of inmates who are often a minority of what you would call "bad guys" (violent types and sociopaths) and those who probably aren't bad people but broke a law which they didn't see as wrong (or knew that well about it).
In order to keep the majority from becoming really bad, you must keep them separated from the sociopaths. Now this is (according to the governments) financially impossible.
Perhaps you could vote in a government who more friendly to the idea but you must also accept higher taxation on the matter.
In the states, the government has sort of solve this problem by privatizing the prisons (which actually has made the problem worse... as there is no profit in actually keeping the prisoners separated from each other).
Personally, I would argue that we need to relax laws and minimum punishments on non-violent crimes to home arrest while keeping the real sociopaths in prison.
Also you need to reform the laws on background checks so that first time offenders actually can get jobs so they re-integrate back into society. As it is now, they have problems getting a job with a background and therefore usually resort back to crime for income.