If this were true, then setting penalties at 50% more than the reward of the crime divided by the probability of being caught would eliminate crime, yet time and time again we've seen that increasing penalties has a negligible effect on crime rates.
Makes sense, however that's wrong. I've dealt with criminals. Let me take one chick for example. She is a bad check criminal. She was caught early, went to a judge, he sentenced her to I think it was a year initially. She was smart with him. He said if she comes before him again, it's 10 years. Made really, really, really sure she understood that. She was out just a week and started to write bad checks again, went before the same judge. He was flabbergasted. Asked if she understood the penalty for what she did. She said yes. She remembered from the first time.
She got 10 years.
So I asked her about it. She said - yea, I got caught that time. When I get out, you'll see, I'll get away with it. 10 years went by, she was let out, back in court within a month. She got another 10 years. They are convinced that they can get away with it. They are a whole lot smarter than anyone else. No matter how they are shown that's wrong. Even if you show them how 100% of the time they've been caught. I mean, they have a check, with their name on it and all... wonder who it was? Really?
I interviewed her again, she said she'd like to be shot. She's wasting away in prison.
Song remains the same. Murderers, rapist, drug users, etc. I won't get caught. Penalties mean nothing because they don't think they'll ever face it.
My personal opinion - Murderers, Identity Theft, child rapist - just take them out to the court yard and hang 'em. Hang 'em high. Every 4th of July. In public display. Not cases where they *MIGHT* be not guilty. The ones where we know damn good and well they did it. Like John Gacy, Ted Bundy.... Not OJ Simpson. He *MIGHT* not have done it. Hey, stop looking at me like that. I think he did it too.
As for the craigs list scammer? Eh, cut his balls off. If he continues, his head.
Nothing like hearing the dumbass next to you with a phone that's ringing and he won't turn it off. Ring and ring and ring and..... Because the person on the other end has to tell them that it's daytime outside.
I guess they skipped diplomatic school. The right answer was - "Thanks for the offer. We're doing fine. Please offer them to someone else." Like a civilized society/government would do.
Not the crazy whacko leftist reaction we see.
Never know when Bill may be able to help them in the future. Maybe he would have offered them medical help or other stuff they could use. Don't be that ungrateful child.
Classic example of making something that's fool proof. It's still only idiot resistant. You'll have dumbasses that will insist on driving even in terrible weather. Hey, I want to get to work, there's 3-8" of snow outside. I should be able to make it. Something happens, it skids out of control, down an embankment, takes out a bus full of lawyers (they all died of course, hey this is my scenario). Now what.
Right now, Juan Perón and Ferdinand Marcos could run and I couldn't say if they'd be the worst choice.
Might as well be Juan with Hilary running. She thinks she's Evita. All the way down to her policies and actions. Maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber could write a musical about her as well.
Capitolism isn't broken, socialism is. It was never viable in the first place. Looks good on paper, however. I think we're a lot closer than you do. We could be just 6 months from a total collapse. It's likely it'll be bloody the way the left has us whipped up in a froth right now.
Stick to your point. There is no constitutional right to free music. There is for guns. If you start holding firearms makers liable for the misuse, now you've done it. Someone could bake a pie and sell it, well if that pie is used to kill someone they're liable? Of course not. In your world they are. I own many guns, I've fired many thousands of rounds over 4 decades and I have yet to kill anyone. I use them to punch a hole in a piece of paper. I suppose you can think of it as athletic equipment. Like a foil, saber, soccer ball, jump rope, baseball bat. There's one for you, hold the baseball bat company liable if their baseball bat is used to kill someone? That's happened a bunch of times. As long as it isn't defective, no problem.
You want to make a point with this case, let's stick with things to do with this case.
Am I the only one scratching their head over this one? Free software, the hippy movement... and so on, I mean this is it! Why isn't it out there already? Seems that by now they should have it all integrated together so you know how much to water, weed, feed, harvest... all that stuff should be out there. All you have to do is add land and do the work.
This is assuming that we have to contact them first. What if they put us here to begin with? As we want to spread out in case of a catastrophic event, maybe they did the same thing and that's why we're here.
Yea, because gun free zones work so well. Every mass shooting in Europe has happened in a GFZ, all but one in the US was in a GFZ. "Common sense" it isn't. Time to admit the error.
Or people are getting really tired of wondering if they can even say anything without someone acting like they're offended. Thought police come out right away. You're not entitled to your opinion unless we agree with it.... and we don't know if we do or not.
Becoming a mad, mad, mad world.
BTW Don't mistake me with a Trump supporter. He's really just another Democrat.
I think everyone wishes there was another choice in this election. Neither one should be allowed to be President.
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If this were true, then setting penalties at 50% more than the reward of the crime divided by the probability of being caught would eliminate crime, yet time and time again we've seen that increasing penalties has a negligible effect on crime rates.
Makes sense, however that's wrong. I've dealt with criminals. Let me take one chick for example. She is a bad check criminal. She was caught early, went to a judge, he sentenced her to I think it was a year initially. She was smart with him. He said if she comes before him again, it's 10 years. Made really, really, really sure she understood that. She was out just a week and started to write bad checks again, went before the same judge. He was flabbergasted. Asked if she understood the penalty for what she did. She said yes. She remembered from the first time.
She got 10 years.
So I asked her about it. She said - yea, I got caught that time. When I get out, you'll see, I'll get away with it. 10 years went by, she was let out, back in court within a month. She got another 10 years. They are convinced that they can get away with it. They are a whole lot smarter than anyone else. No matter how they are shown that's wrong. Even if you show them how 100% of the time they've been caught. I mean, they have a check, with their name on it and all... wonder who it was? Really?
I interviewed her again, she said she'd like to be shot. She's wasting away in prison.
Song remains the same. Murderers, rapist, drug users, etc. I won't get caught. Penalties mean nothing because they don't think they'll ever face it.
My personal opinion - Murderers, Identity Theft, child rapist - just take them out to the court yard and hang 'em. Hang 'em high. Every 4th of July. In public display. Not cases where they *MIGHT* be not guilty. The ones where we know damn good and well they did it. Like John Gacy, Ted Bundy.... Not OJ Simpson. He *MIGHT* not have done it. Hey, stop looking at me like that. I think he did it too.
As for the craigs list scammer? Eh, cut his balls off. If he continues, his head.
I was surprised the last phone I bought had a 3.5MM jack on it for sound. I figured they did away with that years ago. I never use it for that.
Now what will that company that uses the phone jack for credit card payments do? What WILL they do? (Joke is probably to old for slashdot crowd)
Styx allowed me to bring in my DSLR. No problem. They even had signs that said so. Everyone had their cell phones, No problem.
Nothing like hearing the dumbass next to you with a phone that's ringing and he won't turn it off. Ring and ring and ring and..... Because the person on the other end has to tell them that it's daytime outside.
You're so funny... You're about 20 years too late. In fact, it's a captain obvious moment.
As for the empire, we're not an empire. Never were, never wanted to be. That's crazy socialist crap designed to mislead stupid people like you.
Finally, a reason to have an Amex card... sort of.
I guess they skipped diplomatic school. The right answer was - "Thanks for the offer. We're doing fine. Please offer them to someone else." Like a civilized society/government would do.
Not the crazy whacko leftist reaction we see.
Never know when Bill may be able to help them in the future. Maybe he would have offered them medical help or other stuff they could use. Don't be that ungrateful child.
Classic example of making something that's fool proof. It's still only idiot resistant. You'll have dumbasses that will insist on driving even in terrible weather. Hey, I want to get to work, there's 3-8" of snow outside. I should be able to make it. Something happens, it skids out of control, down an embankment, takes out a bus full of lawyers (they all died of course, hey this is my scenario). Now what.
An EO can't eliminate an agency. It takes Congress to do that.
Go ahead, throw your vote away.
Don't be so silly. He committed suicide. Shot himself 5 times with a shotgun.
Right now, Juan Perón and Ferdinand Marcos could run and I couldn't say if they'd be the worst choice.
Might as well be Juan with Hilary running. She thinks she's Evita. All the way down to her policies and actions. Maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber could write a musical about her as well.
Close down all the law schools. Obviously we already have way too many lawyers.
Don't worry, nobody would guess the password is "Pa$$w0rd".
Capitolism isn't broken, socialism is. It was never viable in the first place. Looks good on paper, however.
I think we're a lot closer than you do. We could be just 6 months from a total collapse. It's likely it'll be bloody the way the left has us whipped up in a froth right now.
Stick to your point. There is no constitutional right to free music. There is for guns. If you start holding firearms makers liable for the misuse, now you've done it. Someone could bake a pie and sell it, well if that pie is used to kill someone they're liable? Of course not. In your world they are. I own many guns, I've fired many thousands of rounds over 4 decades and I have yet to kill anyone. I use them to punch a hole in a piece of paper. I suppose you can think of it as athletic equipment. Like a foil, saber, soccer ball, jump rope, baseball bat. There's one for you, hold the baseball bat company liable if their baseball bat is used to kill someone? That's happened a bunch of times. As long as it isn't defective, no problem.
You want to make a point with this case, let's stick with things to do with this case.
Am I the only one scratching their head over this one? Free software, the hippy movement... and so on, I mean this is it! Why isn't it out there already? Seems that by now they should have it all integrated together so you know how much to water, weed, feed, harvest... all that stuff should be out there. All you have to do is add land and do the work.
Wow. Sounds like we have a new "Most interesting man in the world" to do those Dos Equis commercials.
This is assuming that we have to contact them first. What if they put us here to begin with? As we want to spread out in case of a catastrophic event, maybe they did the same thing and that's why we're here.
We could also be some kids science experiment.
I thought that's a requirement now to be eligible for election?
That's a common misconception. You have to be crazy to run for Pres.
It would really be something if this super secure phone is behind on patching and gets hit by stagefright.
I saw one sign that said - ZOMBIES AHEAD, next week - WELCOME TO OZ
Thing is, the signs have to be so simple that why even a Construction worker can figure it out.
Good job Apple. You had me worried. Now, go forward and be a leader again. Make Americ... er rather - Make the company great again.
Yea, because gun free zones work so well. Every mass shooting in Europe has happened in a GFZ, all but one in the US was in a GFZ.
"Common sense" it isn't. Time to admit the error.
Or people are getting really tired of wondering if they can even say anything without someone acting like they're offended.
Thought police come out right away. You're not entitled to your opinion unless we agree with it.... and we don't know if we do or not.
Becoming a mad, mad, mad world.
BTW Don't mistake me with a Trump supporter. He's really just another Democrat.
I think everyone wishes there was another choice in this election. Neither one should be allowed to be President.