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If there are filters like archaic three strikes laws to take out human decision making on repeat offenses, there should be sanity filters on the other end. Laws that say noone, ever, should serve more than X amount of years for non-violent crimes and that is probably or should be a low number, single digit. Life for non-violence is very sad as a society.

I am against prison or jail for any non-violent offense beyond fines or 'outpatient' like corrections, they cost much less and might actually help. They keep the individual contributing and don't subject people to a further life of crime locking them up, especially drug offenses when it is really most likely an illness or a non-issue.

If, when they gave a sentence, they reported the projected cost of that sentencing maybe some of this would change?

Things to try to help this:

1) Create common sense filters for sentencing so non-violent criminals or repeat offenses serve no more than x amount of years for a crime or remove jail/prison for non-violence altogether.

2) When sentencing is handed down, the projected cost of that sentence should also be read with the sentence except in extreme cases of violent sentencing. All non-violent sentencing should have a price right next to it so people understand what it really means. i.e. caught with a small amount of drugs = 10 years * 30k per year = 300,000 to put this person away for nothing. Right after that it lists their projected income and loss in taxes. Then a net benefit total which in this case is probably around 500k of economic value for this one offense.

Stupid events like this wouldn't happen if we changed this: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-shows-man-dyi...

Technology changing society is another side to this. In the past, laws were not only there to dissuade people from doing undesirable behavior but were also more lax and harder to get caught. Nowadays everything is tracked and aggressive laws are now problematic because it isn't just a dissuading factor anymore it is a certainty. If there is something that probably shouldn't be illegal but is based on this past we could be in trouble. So all laws or things like this with non-violence being locked up and a private prison industry run amuck, we need to change drastically soon. People are human and they can mess up, our systems for corrections sometimes mess up the rest of their lives for one momentary lapse of reason.
Where would you host the videos? The amount of traffic they see, and the amount of videos they store is incredible. For example:

http://9to5google.com/2013/11/11/netflix-and-youtube-account...
It's satire. I particularly liked the bit where he suggested we use the $13.2 billion we save to buy a new Mark Zuckerberg.
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there is a difference between pickpocket and breaking and entering. I'm guessing if someone else came into your house or place you were staying you'd be pretty scared and think that it was pretty unacceptable behavior deserving of some serious jail time. After 3 times, it seems reasonable to escalate the penalty a bit. Perhaps life is too severe, but it should be for a long damn time.
Will you both please stop this?
Find a local (and hopefully small) charity you like. Start giving to them, as much as you can. Volunteer with them. See if they are looking to add trustees. Find every way you can help.

It's hard. It's not just giving $10 to Oxfam (which you should do anyway), it's a real dedication of time and care. But you'll meet people, you'll support something you are passionate about, and you'll have a lot less time to think about how you're a waste.
I admit I was sure this is all about A7 chip.
The 3 strikes law system seems beyond ridiculous. Not being a US native, does this mean that I can get three tickets for shoplifting and go to jail for life? What about 3 speeding tickets?

/genuinely curious
Was your company a Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer or Forex Dealer Member?

It seem strange/unlikely that the government is regulating self regulating bodies, since that usually results in the self regulating body giving up and any semblance of regulation going away.
There's a principle in justice: A punishment fitting the crime.

As the document points out, people who raped or murdered, sometimes more than once, can leave prison after 5-15 years, depending on behavior. Meanwhile those people listed will never be able to leave, even if they spend 50 years with impeccable and absolitely perfect behavior.
The previous attempts were so futile it's not really worth it to go into detail.
Yeah... it'd be slightly less than ideal.
If the judge simply orders a sentence below the minimum, what happens? While the Government can appeal the sentence, then it comes to the next judge up the line to stand up for justice.

For example, California's 3-strike law counts non-violent felonies, which sweeps up a lot of criminals into 25 year sentences that they don't deserve.

"The California law originally gave judges no discretion in setting prison terms for three strikes offenders. However, the California Supreme Court ruled, in 1996, that judges, in the interest of justice, could ignore prior convictions in determining whether an offender qualified for a three strikes sentence." [1]

But these so called "mandatory" sentences are not actually that, it's just that most judges simply don't have the guts to stand up for justice. A judge can use their discretion in setting sentences, but then can be challenged if Government can show the sentence is unreasonable. While following the guidelines is presumed reasonable, simply not following the guidelines is not presumed unreasonable.

Lois Forer was a judge in Philadelphia facing just such a decision, and he explains the process better than I can [2]. In the end, the man he tried to save was resentenced by another judge to serve the balance of the "mandatory minimum" five years. This is a system which is ultimately perpetuated by the judiciary.

I don't blame the legislature for enacting laws that get them re-elected. I do blame the judges for letting a sentencing law unjustly destroy some peoples lives.

[1] - http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Three+Strikes+...
[2] - http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Justice+by+the+numbers%3B+mand...
Is it already time for the "imagine you're the victim" rhetoric?

There's a reason we don't let victims decide criminal penalties.
If you think about it, I bet what you actually hate are the folks who just downloaded the cheat and used it, without knowing anything about it. But what if everyone wrote their own exploit? Eventually every game would devolve into Core Wars, but this would be kind of cool.
I'm legitimately curious as to why one would support prison if one does not believe that society should aspire to transform criminals into better, law abiding citizens.

Deterrence. Not that trying to reform criminals is a bad idea, but it's not the only goal of the system.
Killing someone actually ends up costing more than imprisoning them for life (Just an FYI). I do however agree with your point about what the goal of prison should be.
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Although that Danish phrase actually refers to a dessert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8dgr%C3%B8d)
Hard to believe that sitting on a pile of cash is a problem. I would think having a huge pile of cash allows you to make smarter, less-pressured decisions. That's my small business perspective.

Do you have any examples where accumulation of cash corresponded with lack of innovation. No challenge, just curious.
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Did you mean feature?

Performance comes from GPU device, not the interface.

Interface like GL just defines features, not how it should perform.
It bloats your compiled stylesheet.
That all depends. Is the attacker trying to hurt someone within arm's reach, or are they trying to disable the pilot/co-pilot as they are walking back into the cockpit after a trip to the lavatory from the comfort of their first-class seat? Everybody poops.
This really shows the unjustness of "three strikes" laws. There is nothing magical about committing three crimes. In my opinion, sentences should reflect the crime you actually committed an not much else.
depends on where he is. cost of prisons varies wildly by state and city, which i find to be a bit bizarre. According to some quick research, it can be as low as 13k a year (Louisiana) to as high as 47k a year (California) and even on smaller levels 167k (New York City).

30 years in Louisiana is just over 2 years in new york city.
Well, my points about torture and death penalty hold for deterrence. One could even argue that they'd be even more efficient, especially if performed publicly!
>True that, but my point is, it's really bad that journalist are trying preserve a false assumption that college is a proxy to a white-collar job

I thought the journalist was directly pointing out that this assumption was not as true as it once was. They were pointing that out in a very "this is shocking" kind of way... but it /is/ shocking. The vast majority of students go to college thinking that they will be able to get a white-collar job upon graduation. The only way that thinking will change is with more articles like this.

The other thing to consider is that there is still an extremely strong correlation between having a degree and having a white-collar job. We can argue on what direction causation runs, but the correlation is inarguable.
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If our powers that be decided that the death penalty should be done in a cost-effective way, I'm sure they'd find a solution :)
It only costs around 5-10M to create a bank in the
US. If BTC is that profitable, why hasn't anyone done that?
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I realize you're just responding to the previous commenter but what Ubuntu did before all the other distros was get all the common desktop devices (network/wireless/video/etc.), apps(browsers, multimedia, pdf-readers, office, mailreader, etc.), and tools installed and working with no need for tinkering. It wasn't missing fonts or video codecs. The UI defaults were familiar to windows and mac users. Boot times were fast. Installing new apps was easy and since it was based on debian there were tons of packages available.

Ubuntu was the first one to really nail ALL of those problems. By 2008, others may have mostly caught up, but by then the word was already out that Ubuntu was the distribution of choice for users who just wanted good linux desktop OS but didn't want to spend any up-front time tinkering with it. This also made it the first choice for windows users switching to a linux desktop.

It wasn't just a matter of shouting the loudest. It was word of mouth that did it. Linux users (developers, sysadmins; not necessarily linux desktop power users) were chosing Ubuntu and recommending it to their peers and family.

Where the parent poster gets it wrong is that there wasn't one thing in particular that all the other distros were doing wrong (eg "design"), it's that each one had something thwarting users trying to use it as a desktop OS. Whether it was spotty driver support, strict "free software" mentality, minimal base installs missing key software, or bad default settings, there was something.
It depends on where you are. Certainly on average there are more poorer areas, but there are plenty of nice areas as well. Atlanta, Nashville and a few other places are really nice.

Edit: Also 3rd world is a bit hyperbolic. Even the bad areas of the southeast aren't comparable to most of Africa and the real 3rd world.
What can I do? I don't belong here. I'm just another waste of space.

Isn't everyone? Why is working 18 hours of labour a day inherently more valuable or useful to humanity, the planet, the universe, anything? Why is someone struggling inherently a better, more worthy person than anyone else (and by what standards?).

Would you really prefer a world where everyone has to struggle to survive, because that's where it sounds like your comment is leading.

The feeling of guilt is an echo in your head. It's not actually an objective measure of your worth, it's not really some outside deity judging you and finding you unworthy, even if it feels like it is. Because of this, there's no saying there is anything you can do to assuage your feelings of guilt if you go with them. Maybe it's a while loop that says "while (bad_things_happen_anywhere) { feel_guilty(); }". You ask what to do as if there's bound to be a corresponding "if I do X then I can feel less guilty" pattern in your head waiting to be triggered - but maybe there isn't.

What you can do is work on it as your problem, your suffering, your mental issue that needs addressing in your head. You're not unhappy because the world sucks for a dirt poor person. You're unhappy because of a "be unhappy" thought stuck in your head. Don't change the world to stop this suffering, change your thoughts.
Are you trying to compare UX of banking app to game console? Seriously?
They did not know who did it immediately, except knowing of Pakistan's involvement. Remember, ISI chief was being flown to India immediately on eve of attacks and Pak PM allowed it, only to be cancelled at last minute? [1] Nobody was speculating Al Qaeda links, it was being said either JeM, Deccan Mujahideen or LeT. Her speculation is significant because she is associated with security agency, is on CNN and will be listened to by in American Policy corridors.

You haven't seen damaging because they are aggregator, and put in their analysis on the news. Yeah crude jokes like selling weapons over the misery of others. "We" do not make these kind of jokes, and even if we do, they should be deplored. Sorry, I am not in sync with you over this.

[1] - http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/29mumterror-isi-chief-vi...
"The first rule of any game is to know you're in one." So true.

I would add that the second rule to any game is to know the game is broader than what it seems. Poker is really not just about cards. Startups aren't about building a product. Passing an exam isn't about knowing the answers. Thinking about the broader game opens so much more opportunity than being stuck in what people believe is the game's limit.
There's also a (fictional) movie about this that's pretty interesting; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I don't know of anyone who set out to not be successful. That is why looking backwards in time is so strange sometimes. You say "Gee, that decision cost you so much time and money!" but you don't necessarily get to see what they were looking at when they made it. Imagine one comes to a fork in the road, unmarked, both lead in the general direction of your goal, one of them has a bridge washed out. At the bridge it is obvious which fork to take, at the fork, which cannot see the bridge, not so much.

I'm not apologizing for Microsoft executing poorly, what I am saying is that there success is a matter of positive degree rather than one of success or failure. We can productively discuss if they may have been more successful had they invested differently but there shouldn't be any discussion that they are not successful.

I don't know where you are in your career or life, but I know that everyone gets a chance to look back and see some things that look obviously stupid in the future looking toward the past. If you are like me, and you see some things that would have really made things different (I turned Bill Gates down when he offered me a job in 1978, I held my tech stocks in 2000 hoping there would be a recovery, Etc.) don't dwell on them. Figure out whether or not you made the right decision with the information that was available, and if so let those past decisions lay in peace and not haunt your dreams.

I have found that this statement : "Ultimately, Microsoft could be making so much more than what they are." is nearly always true. When looking back in time, a path can be plotted which would have made you more money (I could have bought 1000 BTC for $250 for example, I didn't) but that exercise is useless unless it helps to learn something about how to make better decisions right?
You say it like you're blaming them. Do you realize the sheer number of assets they have to protect?

The government knows it will always have a soft exterior due to it's size. This is why they have air-gaps and such strict policies.

A lot of people give the government a ton of flack for how poorly they work but for an entity of their size they do a pretty good job. I'm not saying there isn't obvious room for improvement but they do a fairly good job. Other countries of similar size have much larger infosec issues than the US....you just don't hear about them.
come on now. this article is intentionally downplaying the severity of the offenses here. breaking and entering is a serious crime. it isn't a speeding ticket. "inadvertently killing someone" is code for beat the shit out of him and he died, but i didn't mean to kill him. only maim. again, not a speeding ticket.
Look at a map of "percentage Black". The number of issues associate with race, will be correlated both with how Black people are treated, but also the number of Black people.

EDIT: missed the other almost identical reply :-)
Humor me. Give me three cases.
Maybe we'll be able to identify some people who voted for Stratfor with their pocketbooks. That finding wouldn't make me sad.
A few points:

- Many former judges are prosecutors. Prosecutors are trained to get the maximum 'sustainable' sentence. This means looking at what the law says and enforcing it. Fault: legislature.

- If the law says that sentences should or must be X long, sentences are going to be around X long. Outside of the 3 strikes system and the California Supreme Court's ruling, how is this the judiciary's fault? There is a severe lack of empathy among the public, legislators, and in the judiciary for sure, but the legislators passed the laws.

- How much, really, does sentence length have to do with re-election? Maybe a few really informed voters on either side will vote on the sentencing issue only but I really doubt this.
Shared the photos and story with my wife. We both had tears running down our face. We both pictured our son as batkid. People are good.
But if you are already bundling the browser, is it really a penalty to utilize it, especially since both the ps and xbox reserve space for the UI thread?

WebGL might be less performant but honestly, for a menu system it's plenty fast, so what's the big deal here? Honest question.
> They reported it to credit bureaus, destroying their credit. They should be sued and penalized for that (in normal dealing that would be fraud if not extortion),

That does sounds like fraud (and/or extortion). It seems to me that, as stated in TFA, the credit bureaus won't perpetuate any fraud they are aware of. I doubt that Jen's credit will be "destroyed" at the end of this affair.

> however the threat and consequence is very real.

I'll grant the "threat" is real. Someone is certainly threatening this poor woman. As far as "consequences" go? No, there won't be any.
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Where did they get those numbers?

Even if I'm not a fan of JS, I bet that a lot more than 4% of this year's code was written in it.
Is there a legal way to leak or expose abuse of political and intelligence use of power?

The legality you talk about, the rule books were written by the same (type of) people. They get to break it but you get to do nothing about it.
To be fair, the guy joking about India attacking Pakistan and Israel having an excuse to go back into Gaza is the FOUNDER and CHAIRMAN of Stratfor. He ended the email with, "We are looking at a tense and profitable week."

He is apparently in "high demand" at JP Morgan-
http://www.stratfor.com/about/analysts/dr-george-friedman
> power ... authority ... completely disconnected from our fellow humans

Highly relevant: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~uzimmerm/Notes/Ludwig+Longenecke...
I know :-)
Can I ask where the document states that? Ctrl-F doesn't seem to find the word rape and says nothing about 5-15 years. That being said, I am not for anyone convicted of rape or murder being let out after 5-15 years. Being ok with someone convicted repeatedly of things being sentenced to long terms does not mean I want short terms for even more serious crimes. Feel free to argue for longer terms for rape and murder. Unlikely to find too much dissension. This article on the other hand is for shorter terms for different crimes. The two things don't REALLY have anything to do with one another.
Yes, but that isn't what the comment i replied to said at all. And while perhaps life is overkill, I think repeatedly breaking and entering does in fact deserve a long time in jail.