I think I read 75% of the things here elsewhere around a day in advance.
Slashdot isn't (well, in its prime) where you come for breaking news, it's where you go (again, back in its prime) for great intellectual technological discussions.

And thats not the worst part. You can't change your PW, and they only offer WEP.

People pay into their own unemployment, that isnt tax subsidized. You're thinking about welfare/foodstamps/ just about every other public assistance program except unemployment.

Exactly.

Furthermore, how did he think this episode would end? I didnt RTFA (ofcourse, this is still Slashdot) but I wager he couldnt have made too much money extorting before the the Feds started tracking him. Stupid stupid stupid criminals.

Yes, im clearly advocating doing that. Let me know when you've calmed down and we can continue to discuss this like adults.

Everything you exactly described is already what we have in our current working society. The problem is the human variable and the innate ability to abuse any given system.

People want to implement controls, restrictions, checks and balances on things such as Welfare, Medicaid, Food stamps. But there will never be 100% compliance. There are always diminishing returns on systems with such a varying variable as the human. Even a mathematical model without the human element has diminishing returns. There will always be pockets in society content with living in squalor on what welfare checks will provide, but dont let TV talking points fool you, these people are minute when compared to the total population. Few people want to live on bread crumbs and even fewer enjoy a life of nothingness, but those people will always be a part of our society.

If the result ends in an economy saving money from less people in revolving door prisons and turning that into generating tax revenue, then why not? Where is the benefit of life imprisonment?

Also

rofl?
Besides, the very same mentality you are displaying is why felons cant catch a break. Congrats to adding to the problem without offering any viable solution.

Goodness forbid we try to better ourselves by bettering our society. You guys have no problem letting these people rot in revolving door jails rather than letting them right their wrongs and contribute.

BUT DERP, GIVE NON CONVICTS A CHANCE!!

They have a chance! FFS, making one mistake should not doom you to a life of menial living. I swear being in such a capitalistic society creates some of the most selfish people.

Im glad im not the only one that raised an eyebrow at 100TB of movies maybe 10TB?

The thing that jumped out at me was your point of Big Entertainment continuing this greedy war and yet you've (supposedly) amassed 100TB's of which less than half you've paid for. Netflix is $10 a month, my cable package lets me DVR all I want for less than $40 a month, then theres Hulu, RedBox and a bunch of other services i've never heard of but are equally as cheap. I have an easy 2TB's of movies over the past 10 years i've accumulated and i'll admit theres a whole bunch ive never even unzipped, not to mention watched. I think you're just being a greedy hoarder, sorry.

You forgot to add the spoiler tag!

I am glad that someone else caught this glaring irony while reading the summary . . . .

Meh . . . those are bad examples. Because if the US really had no conscious, they would have ended those wars on day 1 by just turning those countries into a toxic wasteland. Trying to win a war is different than trying to change the rules of the land you are battling in.

Im pretty sure we JUST saw how dedicated Congress is to stalling anything Obama wants to do . . . maybe he just figured he would chose his battles?

Correction, it was in Utah:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Lee_Gardner

I remember hearing about a rule now done away with that allowed Texas inmates on death row choose how they wanted to die.

I think the last inmate who was grandfathered under this obsolete rule chose firing squad.