I can agree with that. I mainly didn't want to can everyone because there is a lot of expertise at those levels, and the corruption in the system inevitably drips down from the top, or is allowed to continue by those in charge a la The Lucifer Effect.
That would be good to root out random error, but this isn't random, it's biased. The state is paying for these tests, and the state wants a conviction, so, surprise surprise, they get the conviction.
Not pardoned, but their conviction should be thrown out.
And the entire legal system of Massachusetts should be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up, firing EVERYONE who was anything higher than a mid-level manager.
Although honestly, this travesty of justice makes me think that even more drastic action is needed. I'm thinking we release all non-violent prisoners and hold a constitutional convention. The system is fucked up in a fundamental way, and we need to rebuild it so that it isn't.
Uhh, no, hosting classified information on a completely unprotected server. It doesn't matter who you deal with. The treason comes from exposing the files. Whistleblowers have gone to prison for FAR less.
Haha, as if there was any need for that. If I kept national security secrets in an unsecured server in my bathroom, I'd be in Guantanamo TONIGHT. If you are a liberal and you are voting for Hillary, you need to have your head examined. She belongs in prison, if not the gallows for her numerous crimes, up to and including treason and crimes against humanity.
Clinton was fingered as fucking underage sex slaves on some rich pedo's island (along with many, many other rich and powerful men). Was Trump also implicated in that?
IIRC, this was part of the mess that was uncovered after Jimmy Saville's death.
Show us the proof that the sex was non consensual. The slave in question was his dead wife's half sister. I doubt he would rape one of her relatives.
He thought long and hard on the subject, and came to the conclusion that simply dumping slaves out onto the street with no training was a recipe for disaster for everyone involved, and indeed he spent time and money training his slaves up and then freed them. But training is expensive and time consuming, and they breed very quickly.
He did, however, lead the effort to implement one of the world's first bans on the slave trade.
But hey, fuck him and fuck all his actions and get rid of his entire legacy, including the constitution, because he owned slaves in accordance with social norms even as he tried to change them.
Red herring. Physics is well known. Just accept that you are wrong about lifting huge amounts of fucking LEAD off the Earth's surface being the same or less costly than parking an asteroid there. Maybe you can grow as a person.
That's like saying its just as hard to pull something down a mountain as it is to pull it up. Material already in space is orders of magnitude cheaper than material boosted to orbit. Everyone who knows even the barest amount about space mining knows this. This is why the driving factor of that industry is expected to be water rather than the trillions of dollars of precious metals available from a single asteroid.
To answer your first question, the market sets a price. To answer your second, the price goes up.
You are exactly correct that this market can not function properly. It is simple to see why when you realize that it is neither free market, nor socialist, nor anywhere in between. Instead, it is fascist.
>federal, state and local regulations about the handling of hazardous materials were inadequate
If only we had some sort of regulation that would force regulations to be "adequate". Of course, since they met the legal code, there was no grounds to sue, and you can't sue the government for any reason. Government interference puts in a catch 22. Let the market, including the courts, handle it. Reckless endangerment sends people to jail, and has their belongings confiscated.
>Next you'll be claiming we should allow slavery again
Slavery was enforced by legislation, not by lack of legislation. Without the law allowing slavery, slaves could just walk away. If their "masters" beat them for such, the "slaves" could have them arrested.
>Abused their workers.
If they assualted them or stole from them, send them to prison.
> poisoned the environment
Let those who are harmed sue them.
>killed their customers with dangerous products
Let them be sued or go to prison.
>killed their employees with dangerous work practices
Let them be sued or go to prison.
>ran every type of scam that you can imagine and every scam you can't imagine
Send them to prison for fraud.
> generally behaved with complete lack of morals or regard for other people WHICH IS WHY WE REGULATE THEM.
Imagine if we treated individual people this way. Force them to file huge sheaths of paperwork to prove they aren't committing any crimes, all in the name of crime prevention. In both cases it is madness. Just one form of the madness is practiced today. The other will come soon, if idiots like you are allowed to keep having their way.
Just don't make it that high. I did the calculations some time ago and came to the conclusion that you could fund a UBI of about $600 a month from the current welfare system. This is enough to live fairly comfortably WITH ROOMMATES. I don't understand why people seem to think that everyone is entitled to their own place. Your own room is sufficient.
Note this was for Texas. States with higher costs of living can supplement a federal UBI to be more in line with local costs.
I've had quite a lot of success with that, actually. Saved probably half of a $1000 repair bill over the last year by self diagnosis/repair using the internet and a $10 code reader.
No. The trick of the UBI is to eliminate most of the administrative costs, getting more money out the door. The more requirements the program has, and the more labor duplication, the less money there is for benefits.
Also, with no income requirements, you don't create perverse incentives, causing people not to work even if they could, even a little. It's actually the best possible form of welfare you can have in terms of getting people to get back on their feet.
"In the event of wrongdoing, such as futures manipulation, the CFTC will be able to bring charges against bad actors"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! These idiots couldn't regulate their way out of a paper bag. And they fold up exactly like one whenever manipulators are at big banks or other financial institutions. The only people I have ever seen that actually got prosecuted were either scapegoats, independent traders, or people who have fallen out of the good graces of their companies.
There is a revolving door between the upper echelons of the CFTC and the companies they are supposed to regulate, with officials receiving MILLIONS in compensation for looking the other way during their time in office.
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I can agree with that. I mainly didn't want to can everyone because there is a lot of expertise at those levels, and the corruption in the system inevitably drips down from the top, or is allowed to continue by those in charge a la The Lucifer Effect.
That would be good to root out random error, but this isn't random, it's biased. The state is paying for these tests, and the state wants a conviction, so, surprise surprise, they get the conviction.
Not pardoned, but their conviction should be thrown out.
And the entire legal system of Massachusetts should be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up, firing EVERYONE who was anything higher than a mid-level manager.
Although honestly, this travesty of justice makes me think that even more drastic action is needed. I'm thinking we release all non-violent prisoners and hold a constitutional convention. The system is fucked up in a fundamental way, and we need to rebuild it so that it isn't.
You seem like a person who likes getting non-consentually fucked in the ass a la George Lucas' treatment of every ingle one of his properties.
I don't have any further commentary on the subject. It just seems like you love getting raped in the asshole on a pinball machine.
Hahaha, Slashdot is dead because there wasn't an article on a new entry in a dead series that no-one gives a fuck about?
Well, Rest in Peace. Maybe we can get some real discussion going with all the tards gone.
Yes, and he should hang too.
Uhh, no, hosting classified information on a completely unprotected server. It doesn't matter who you deal with. The treason comes from exposing the files. Whistleblowers have gone to prison for FAR less.
Haha, as if there was any need for that. If I kept national security secrets in an unsecured server in my bathroom, I'd be in Guantanamo TONIGHT. If you are a liberal and you are voting for Hillary, you need to have your head examined. She belongs in prison, if not the gallows for her numerous crimes, up to and including treason and crimes against humanity.
"Rape" is not the same as finding comfort in the arms of your dead wife's half sister.
Clinton was fingered as fucking underage sex slaves on some rich pedo's island (along with many, many other rich and powerful men). Was Trump also implicated in that?
IIRC, this was part of the mess that was uncovered after Jimmy Saville's death.
You slander a dead man. His entire solution to slavery was to purchase salve children, educate, and then release them.
[Citation needed]
Show us the proof that the sex was non consensual. The slave in question was his dead wife's half sister. I doubt he would rape one of her relatives.
He thought long and hard on the subject, and came to the conclusion that simply dumping slaves out onto the street with no training was a recipe for disaster for everyone involved, and indeed he spent time and money training his slaves up and then freed them. But training is expensive and time consuming, and they breed very quickly.
He did, however, lead the effort to implement one of the world's first bans on the slave trade.
But hey, fuck him and fuck all his actions and get rid of his entire legacy, including the constitution, because he owned slaves in accordance with social norms even as he tried to change them.
Red herring. Physics is well known. Just accept that you are wrong about lifting huge amounts of fucking LEAD off the Earth's surface being the same or less costly than parking an asteroid there. Maybe you can grow as a person.
That's like saying its just as hard to pull something down a mountain as it is to pull it up. Material already in space is orders of magnitude cheaper than material boosted to orbit. Everyone who knows even the barest amount about space mining knows this. This is why the driving factor of that industry is expected to be water rather than the trillions of dollars of precious metals available from a single asteroid.
You have space miners bring in an asteroid for that. You can also get plenty of water that way.
I, personally, would be more angry at the government that crafted this horrible system of thievery unto death.
To answer your first question, the market sets a price. To answer your second, the price goes up.
You are exactly correct that this market can not function properly. It is simple to see why when you realize that it is neither free market, nor socialist, nor anywhere in between. Instead, it is fascist.
>federal, state and local regulations about the handling of hazardous materials were inadequate
If only we had some sort of regulation that would force regulations to be "adequate". Of course, since they met the legal code, there was no grounds to sue, and you can't sue the government for any reason. Government interference puts in a catch 22. Let the market, including the courts, handle it. Reckless endangerment sends people to jail, and has their belongings confiscated.
>Next you'll be claiming we should allow slavery again
Slavery was enforced by legislation, not by lack of legislation. Without the law allowing slavery, slaves could just walk away. If their "masters" beat them for such, the "slaves" could have them arrested.
>Abused their workers.
If they assualted them or stole from them, send them to prison.
> poisoned the environment
Let those who are harmed sue them.
>killed their customers with dangerous products
Let them be sued or go to prison.
>killed their employees with dangerous work practices
Let them be sued or go to prison.
>ran every type of scam that you can imagine and every scam you can't imagine
Send them to prison for fraud.
> generally behaved with complete lack of morals or regard for other people WHICH IS WHY WE REGULATE THEM.
Imagine if we treated individual people this way. Force them to file huge sheaths of paperwork to prove they aren't committing any crimes, all in the name of crime prevention. In both cases it is madness. Just one form of the madness is practiced today. The other will come soon, if idiots like you are allowed to keep having their way.
Commodities don't have shareholders either, and those have been manipulated up the wazoo. The same will be done to bitcoin, given half a chance.
Just don't make it that high. I did the calculations some time ago and came to the conclusion that you could fund a UBI of about $600 a month from the current welfare system. This is enough to live fairly comfortably WITH ROOMMATES. I don't understand why people seem to think that everyone is entitled to their own place. Your own room is sufficient.
Note this was for Texas. States with higher costs of living can supplement a federal UBI to be more in line with local costs.
I've had quite a lot of success with that, actually. Saved probably half of a $1000 repair bill over the last year by self diagnosis/repair using the internet and a $10 code reader.
No. The trick of the UBI is to eliminate most of the administrative costs, getting more money out the door. The more requirements the program has, and the more labor duplication, the less money there is for benefits.
Also, with no income requirements, you don't create perverse incentives, causing people not to work even if they could, even a little. It's actually the best possible form of welfare you can have in terms of getting people to get back on their feet.
Drown in bloody intestines it is, you cowards!
"In the event of wrongdoing, such as futures manipulation, the CFTC will be able to bring charges against bad actors"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! These idiots couldn't regulate their way out of a paper bag. And they fold up exactly like one whenever manipulators are at big banks or other financial institutions. The only people I have ever seen that actually got prosecuted were either scapegoats, independent traders, or people who have fallen out of the good graces of their companies.
There is a revolving door between the upper echelons of the CFTC and the companies they are supposed to regulate, with officials receiving MILLIONS in compensation for looking the other way during their time in office.
It's absolutely criminal.