Do you mean using past criminal records? No, double jeopardy pertains to being tried twice for the same crime. Your past criminal record is almost always used in determining sentencing, your un-expunged criminal record supposedly. Besides, double jeopardy is almost a laughable anachronism in many circumstances, especially drug crimes. The states have their laws and the feds have theirs, it's "dual sovereignty”, so if the state tries you and you walk, the feds can still step in and take their shot. If you're really unlucky and travel, you can have multiple states charge and try you for the same crime as long as there is some pretext that the crime affects both states. DAs are very creative in these things.
You're only looking at the engineering cost to figure out the fix. What about implementation, notification, tech support, PR, etc? It's common to see fines that are less than 10%, even 1% of the profits a corp earned from the behavior being fined, the fines easily absorbed, looked at as a minor cost, not anything that could deter the behavior. If you want to stop the behavior, I agree, hold execs to account, but fines that would significantly hurt the corporation would also work, best to do both. One way to do this would be fines figured at say, 500% of the excess profits, that would et their attention.
Does anyone think Cisco's costs to fix the problem would be anywhere under $8.6 million? Can anyone point to a fine that was more than the net gain resulting from the fined behavior? Shouldn't fines be a negative incentive? WTF is wrong with this picture?
These incidences lead me to suggest a more appropriate uniform for teams that collectively act with such bravery and professionalism would be pink tutus. Great optics...
Someone said it above, the cops here display profound cowardice and dishonesty. It was only a few years ago in a drug raid that they threw one of these flashbangs into a baby's crip, severely burning it. I don't think they suffered much in the way of consequences. It's a difficult and dangerous job, but that job is to protect the citizens from criminals, not to protect themselves from the citizens.
It's funny how often we hear about how long the War on Terror has lasted when the drug war is still going strong after nearly 5 decades. You'd have to be on drugs to not realize the insanity behind it. The drug laws and their enforcement have caused far more harm than drug use could ever hope to.
I wonder what Al Capone thought about Prohibition? What do those chemo therapy sufferers who found relief only with marijuana think about the millions of folk who never got a chance to get similar relief because the law made it impossible? I'm sure Colombia was quite happy when our laws did such wonderful things for it's government, especially certain Supreme Court magistrates, 11 of them wiki says.
And of course there's the mass of really bad law arising from drug cases and the over-zealous DAs, US Attorneys and judges who can't abide our personal choices about what to put in our own bodies. I wonder which has led to more really awful law, drugs or child porn? Maybe we should talk to Peggy McMartin and get her thoughts on the matter?
This practice seems rather similar to rent seeking. Here, they're putting in a lot of effort to gain advantage by smearing their competitors. Rent seeking involves focusing effort and resources to gain advantages like monopoly in some area, exclusive markets,lobbying for regulations that favor only their company, or entry barriers,etc, trying to increase profits in ways that do nothing to improve productivity, improve the product, increase customer satisfaction, or improve their basic technologies.
An economy that becomes more and more dominated by rent seeking activities is an economy that is on the road to collapse. Our economy, surprise surprise, is becoming ever more dominated by rent seeking activities.
You almost could have stopped after "there are currently twice as many talk radio hosts as scientists" Congressional members. A sign of a country becoming dominated by those who look down on education and expertise, thinking of anyone with a PhD as someone with “little letters behind their names". Apparently, our current president is the most expert of experts in EVERYTHING, he surely needs no help understanding ANYTHING. You no longer need to acquire expertise, you can assert it and rise to the top in our idiocracy..
It should be immediately obvious TPP isn't about trade, just by reading its title. Like orgs with 'family' in their name, or 'religious freedom' laws, or 'voter fraud' laws, if nefarious deeds are afoot, you name your effort with the antithesis of your intentions.
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Re: "Isn't that a violation of double jeopardy?"
Do you mean using past criminal records? No, double jeopardy pertains to being tried twice for the same crime. Your past criminal record is almost always used in determining sentencing, your un-expunged criminal record supposedly. Besides, double jeopardy is almost a laughable anachronism in many circumstances, especially drug crimes. The states have their laws and the feds have theirs, it's "dual sovereignty”, so if the state tries you and you walk, the feds can still step in and take their shot. If you're really unlucky and travel, you can have multiple states charge and try you for the same crime as long as there is some pretext that the crime affects both states. DAs are very creative in these things.
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Re: Re:
You're only looking at the engineering cost to figure out the fix. What about implementation, notification, tech support, PR, etc? It's common to see fines that are less than 10%, even 1% of the profits a corp earned from the behavior being fined, the fines easily absorbed, looked at as a minor cost, not anything that could deter the behavior. If you want to stop the behavior, I agree, hold execs to account, but fines that would significantly hurt the corporation would also work, best to do both. One way to do this would be fines figured at say, 500% of the excess profits, that would et their attention.
On the post: Cisco Shells Out $8.6 Million For Selling The Government Easily Hackable Tech
Does anyone think Cisco's costs to fix the problem would be anywhere under $8.6 million? Can anyone point to a fine that was more than the net gain resulting from the fined behavior? Shouldn't fines be a negative incentive? WTF is wrong with this picture?
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New SWAT uniforms
These incidences lead me to suggest a more appropriate uniform for teams that collectively act with such bravery and professionalism would be pink tutus. Great optics...
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Cops have become such craven weasels these days
Someone said it above, the cops here display profound cowardice and dishonesty. It was only a few years ago in a drug raid that they threw one of these flashbangs into a baby's crip, severely burning it. I don't think they suffered much in the way of consequences. It's a difficult and dangerous job, but that job is to protect the citizens from criminals, not to protect themselves from the citizens.
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The [ongoing] insanity of the drug war
It's funny how often we hear about how long the War on Terror has lasted when the drug war is still going strong after nearly 5 decades. You'd have to be on drugs to not realize the insanity behind it. The drug laws and their enforcement have caused far more harm than drug use could ever hope to.
I wonder what Al Capone thought about Prohibition? What do those chemo therapy sufferers who found relief only with marijuana think about the millions of folk who never got a chance to get similar relief because the law made it impossible? I'm sure Colombia was quite happy when our laws did such wonderful things for it's government, especially certain Supreme Court magistrates, 11 of them wiki says.
And of course there's the mass of really bad law arising from drug cases and the over-zealous DAs, US Attorneys and judges who can't abide our personal choices about what to put in our own bodies. I wonder which has led to more really awful law, drugs or child porn? Maybe we should talk to Peggy McMartin and get her thoughts on the matter?
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Rent seeking
An economy that becomes more and more dominated by rent seeking activities is an economy that is on the road to collapse. Our economy, surprise surprise, is becoming ever more dominated by rent seeking activities.
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What need od experts?
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It's obviously not about trade
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