Well, it's like the tax on CD-Rs, isn't it? Clearly, they're just adjusting to the increased bandwidth and HDD space to legalize copying and sharing music and movies.
The wiki page came up first. The only thing of note the internet is mentioned with is about the bombs they made (which someone helpfully updated to "Improvised Explosive Devices").
Most of the bombs set failed to go off at all or just sort of set some stuff on fire. No deaths or even injuries are mentioned to be caused by any of them. On that note, they'd have been better off with jugs of gasoline.
As for the internet's contribution, bombs are mostly a matter of chemistry. You know, knowledge, information. Suppose they were in a chemistry class or, heck, simply had some chemistry books. I know it's fashionable to consider things done on the internet to be new but any one with interest in a subject could go to the library and get the same information (and probably more accurate info at that).
The internet didn't set them off. The internet didn't get them guns. The internet had a very minimal effect here.
It's been a while since high school but they didn't coerce students to say the pledge. Yeah, they did it once a week but me and my misfit friends just sat through it.
It is a bunch of bull though. How about a pledge to the Constitution, hmm?
They weren't sterile (obviously). Each and every one was suppose to be female but due to the frog's DNA (and ability to switch genders), well, they got it on, bow chicka and etc.
Surely there's been some ideas floating around to deal with this, right? Nuclear plants that can be throttled when wind is up or just having remote wind generators using all that energy to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen?
I agree that it's entirely screwed up. There's some comments elsewhere here about teenagers being held for child pornography of themselves. That's right; taking a pic with your cellphone of yourself and YOU can be labeled a child pornographer.
My post wasn't as clear as it could be. Right now, it seems like jail is purposed as rehab for some and punishment for others. The latter completely ruins it for the former and even when you get out, some states don't make you free despite time served. "Sex offenders" get put on lists, felons don't get to vote (I think; I don't see how that can be legal), and that's all on top of the trouble of trying to get legitiment work being an ex-con.
It does need a makeover but, to use an ID term, there seems to be an irreducible complexity problem. The system has been built up so much and for so long and employs and houses so many persons, I can't see it being changed in my lifetime. It's probably a lack of imagination with a dash of cynicism but that's how I feel. I've read about various work programs and camps but they always seem to get shut down with funding being directed to concrete slab buildings and 20' chain link fences topped with razor wire.
It's a shame but it goes deeper than just the penitentiary system so is much harder to solve.
I don't know. I thought justice was more than punishment and retribution and revenge and vengeance....but of course, we'd have a lot more resources without the war on drugs.
The point I'm trying to make is that jail is the stated place for dangerous people, right? Where they can be kept, supervised, and (in theory) made into a productive member of society? They were held, judged unfit to be free with the rest of us, and um... released before they were deemed safe to the population?
I'm just a stickler for definitions and people holding true to doing what they say. If jail is for dangerous people, then keep dangerous people in jail. If jail is for rehabilitation, then people to be released from jail should meet whatever criteria is set and be considered free thereafter.
I see it as a way to tack on more charges in the future. He didn't register?! That makes him a CRIMINAL!
And it's computer related so there goes all your electronics.
Anyway, god forbid they keep dangerous people in jail. I mean, that's what it's for, right? If they're still a danger to society at large, why the hell are they not behind bars?
Cynic in me says, nothing will come of them. No charges, maybe a stern headline on page four of a Friday newspaper. And in exchange, Obama and Biden can pretend to run the country for a while.
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Well, it's like the tax on CD-Rs, isn't it? Clearly, they're just adjusting to the increased bandwidth and HDD space to legalize copying and sharing music and movies.
Er... right?
The wiki page came up first. The only thing of note the internet is mentioned with is about the bombs they made (which someone helpfully updated to "Improvised Explosive Devices").
Most of the bombs set failed to go off at all or just sort of set some stuff on fire. No deaths or even injuries are mentioned to be caused by any of them. On that note, they'd have been better off with jugs of gasoline.
As for the internet's contribution, bombs are mostly a matter of chemistry. You know, knowledge, information. Suppose they were in a chemistry class or, heck, simply had some chemistry books. I know it's fashionable to consider things done on the internet to be new but any one with interest in a subject could go to the library and get the same information (and probably more accurate info at that).
The internet didn't set them off. The internet didn't get them guns. The internet had a very minimal effect here.
My memory is a little fuzzy. What part did the internet play in the Columbine shootings?
It's been a while since high school but they didn't coerce students to say the pledge. Yeah, they did it once a week but me and my misfit friends just sat through it.
It is a bunch of bull though. How about a pledge to the Constitution, hmm?
I got three boobs that says did was good!
Maybe someone pulling the strings liked it so much they wanted to see it again....
They weren't sterile (obviously). Each and every one was suppose to be female but due to the frog's DNA (and ability to switch genders), well, they got it on, bow chicka and etc.
Would that be immeasurably small or immeasurably huge?
Anyway, about that bit of American's needing to be piss- ooh, American Idol is on. brb
Surely there's been some ideas floating around to deal with this, right? Nuclear plants that can be throttled when wind is up or just having remote wind generators using all that energy to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen?
How did it ever come to this anyway?
Seriously, what the fuck happened to common sense? Where and when did society decide that a problem is only a problem if it is found?
At this rate, I'll be surprised if people even call the cops or the fire department to report a crime/fire.
As in, being hit with the law book.
I RTFA but see no sign of this. At best is this bit from a followup link in TFA:
But for fuck's sake, three felonies at 15? For a fucking non-violent, non-destructive "offense"?
Poor kid is screwed for life.
Registering is not voting.
I agree that it's entirely screwed up. There's some comments elsewhere here about teenagers being held for child pornography of themselves. That's right; taking a pic with your cellphone of yourself and YOU can be labeled a child pornographer.
My post wasn't as clear as it could be. Right now, it seems like jail is purposed as rehab for some and punishment for others. The latter completely ruins it for the former and even when you get out, some states don't make you free despite time served. "Sex offenders" get put on lists, felons don't get to vote (I think; I don't see how that can be legal), and that's all on top of the trouble of trying to get legitiment work being an ex-con.
It does need a makeover but, to use an ID term, there seems to be an irreducible complexity problem. The system has been built up so much and for so long and employs and houses so many persons, I can't see it being changed in my lifetime. It's probably a lack of imagination with a dash of cynicism but that's how I feel. I've read about various work programs and camps but they always seem to get shut down with funding being directed to concrete slab buildings and 20' chain link fences topped with razor wire.
It's a shame but it goes deeper than just the penitentiary system so is much harder to solve.
Is it? How about kids being fingerprinted to enter Disneyland?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/01/walt-disney-world-fi.html
http://disney.families.com/blog/disney-world-implementing-new-fingerprint-scanner-security
Hey, Britain. What's going on over there?
It's not so much the idea of how to sell a lot of the software but to do so in a way that doesn't make this guy feel slimy working at his job.
Sounds like marketing doing their job.
Worse still are the 17 and younger who are getting charged for child pornography of themselves.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-03-29-child-self-porn_x.htm
Or, well, I suppose you'd be pretty boned if she said she was 18....
Hmm. I guess I should have RTFS more closely.
Sadly, I don't think that'll stop anyone from trying. I mean, you don't want to be SOFT on pedos, right?
$5 says it passes unanimously.
I don't know. I thought justice was more than punishment and retribution and revenge and vengeance. ...but of course, we'd have a lot more resources without the war on drugs.
The point I'm trying to make is that jail is the stated place for dangerous people, right? Where they can be kept, supervised, and (in theory) made into a productive member of society? They were held, judged unfit to be free with the rest of us, and um... released before they were deemed safe to the population?
I'm just a stickler for definitions and people holding true to doing what they say. If jail is for dangerous people, then keep dangerous people in jail. If jail is for rehabilitation, then people to be released from jail should meet whatever criteria is set and be considered free thereafter.
I see it as a way to tack on more charges in the future. He didn't register?! That makes him a CRIMINAL!
And it's computer related so there goes all your electronics.
Anyway, god forbid they keep dangerous people in jail. I mean, that's what it's for, right? If they're still a danger to society at large, why the hell are they not behind bars?
Continued...
"Sir! Put your penis away NOW!"
"But you-"
"Now!"
"Ok, ok. Just cal-"
"He's going for a gun!"
*Bangbangbang"
Cynic in me says, nothing will come of them. No charges, maybe a stern headline on page four of a Friday newspaper. And in exchange, Obama and Biden can pretend to run the country for a while.
Good thing you got modded up, eh?
This new meme... it is Satan's rectum, poised over Slashdot.