1) This is the United Kingdom, not the USA. They do not have a First Amendment/ Freedom of Speech.

2) The Internet is a liar and Social Media is their king. The idea of trying to fix the problem, if only in Social Media is very very appealing.

3) There is a huge difference between regulating Social Media (aka "Gossip" sites) and regulating Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television. If only because Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Television CAN be sued when they slander someone. Good luck suing some 12 year kid from Absurdistan that used AI to make it look like you murdered his Canadian Girlfriend.

This is the actual problem with nuclear power. And by the time it comes around, the people who made the decisions have already safely moved elsewhere or into pension.

Correct. Breaking is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

If something breaks, it's on me. This is about companies being able to take something away that isn't broken at all, at any time they choose, without any refund.

For any other item that'd be theft and would land them in jail.

Doesn't even need time code. FCP lines up the files by matching the audio, mostly, IIRC. Also AFAIK, digital cinematography is pretty much the norm at this point, so film likely doesn't factor in most of the time.

As of former DSO and prison guard I can say with some authority, it isn't record keeping that causes recidivism. More likely is lack of opportunity, lack of education, and a severe sense of being indoctrinated in the system. Many of these guys don't KNOW how to act on their own and without supervision they go off the rails. I don't know how you categorize a generally likeable person who makes the worst possible choices in life, frequently, other than convict.

"Try the European system of treating criminals as human beings, not as a profit making workforce.
Put efforts into rehabilitation rather than being highly punitive"
Genius Idea. For profit prisons are an abomination in any country, the US included...

Final Cut Pro can already basically do that, and has been able to do that for several years. Just create a multicam workflow and tell it to synchronize by audio. Not sure how well it works if you're dealing with hundreds of short takes though; I've only used it to line up hour-long continuous shots.

Then again, as cheap as storage is, I'm not sure why anybody actually stops the cameras and audio recorders anyway. If you want to have a private conversation, you can always step off the set and do it in a hallway or whatever.

The iPhone 6s (released in 2015) got a security update last month. So that's almost 11 years and counting.

Define "enough". Even 1 percent of the federal budget would be 74 *billion* dollars. The budget shortfall for road maintenance in the U.S. is about 86 billion, so even if it is only 1%, that money would be enough to almost completely fix a major problem that affects us all.

1) You have been tricked by conservative propaganda. Cashless bail did not increase the rate of crime as compared to cash bail.

2) NY law (and NJ and Illinois) explicitly refused to release violent offenders on cashless bail. California does NOT have a cashless bail law, but the state supreme court has encouraged judges to set cashless bail for non-violent offenders. Both states have explicit language about non-violent only..

3) There were cases when people arrested for non-violent crimes were released on bail and then committed violent offense. There were also cases where the legal definition of violent offenders were ... arguable. But the law said no violent offenders could be released and that law was followed.

4) The real question is, do you think poor people should have no rights and upon being arrested should have to wait in jail for a year or more just because they are poor? You do realize that this will a) cause innocent people to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit if it means they get out of jail in 6 months rather than waiting there a year before they go to trial. b) will destroy their lives even if they are found innocent because a year in jail awaiting trial means they lose their job, house, girlfriend/wife, all while getting assaulted by real criminals, trained by real criminals on how to commit crime and finally JOIN criminal gangs to survive.

5) If you release more people on bail, the number of crimes go up, obviously. This does not mean cashless bail is a bad idea or causing a problem. The question is not whether cashless bail releases commit crimes, but instead Whether people released on cashless bail commit more crimes than people released on cash bail. The answer to that is no. People released on cashless bail are no more likely to commit more crimes than people released on cash bail. The number is about 17% of people released - for both cash bail and cashless bail.

6) If you think the bail system in general is too lenient, you have a better argument, given that 17% commit more crimes.

7) However the real problem is the time spent in jail before trial. Justice should happen in less than 3 months, not more than 12.

8) Cashless bail for non-violent offenders reduces the number of people that end up becoming hardened criminals. That has been proven repeatedly.

9)Most importantly states with cashless bail have LOWER crime rates than states that require cash bail.

There is no way us liberals from NJ (217 violent crimes per 100,000), Illinois (218/100k), and NY (380/100k) are going to follow the advice of idiots from Texas (389/100k), Missouri (462/100k) or Louisiana (519/100k).

NJ and Illinois are just too good at crime prevention to care what the conservatives say. NY (and California) are middle of the pack and might listen, but not likely when idiots talk dumb shit and make up lies.

Given that the price of memory is so high that cell phone production is dropping like a stone, it is clear to me that used cellphones will end up being worth a lot more - both for this kind of networked computing and merely to remove and reuse parts

If you think software never breaks, I have a bunch of 5.25" disks somewhere that want to have an argument with you.

It's a complete strawman to argue that physical things break. If I buy music, digitally, that won't break and yet nobody sane would expect that the band can at some random time in the future say "we revoke all our music". I can also think of a number of physical things that unless I mistreat them will easily survive me and three generations down the line.

This is not about replacements, it's about taking the product sold away but keeping the money.

We already have printers called 4d printers. It's designed to change shape over time. This allows you to print something with less supports that while 'drying' bends itself into a shape that would have required a lot more supports.

The nordic prison system has a recidivism rate is 20% within the first 2 years and about 25% within 5 years. The US system is 39% within 3 years.

Why don't we use something closer to Norways?

Because the Conservatives call it 'soft on crime'. They have 3 levels of prison: High, Low and Transition. The Low Security prison they use for non-violent first time offenders is what the GOP calls a 'country club' type with private rooms, lots of classes, library and therapy.

You only get their High Security if you were violent or become violent in the Low Security prison.

They also have a half way house/ transition system where they live in a prison but are allowed to go to work outside.

But this is clearly not "Hard on Crime", so Americans refuse to use it.

Note, in my opinion the "Hard on Crime" approach fails because normal prison is hard on crime so when someone claims to be Hard on Crime, what they end up doing is:

1) Push Judges and Police to be hard on SUSPECTS, resulting in more false accusations and more time in Jail waiting for a trial - both of which encourage people to commit more crimes.

2) Push newbie criminals to make friends in jail with the criminals as the guards are cruel and dismissive of the prisoner's concerns.

3) Prevent criminals from getting training and other resources they need while in prison, resulting in a much harder time getting out of the criminal life.

And what stops you from making a seperate license to play on the servers provided by the company that is based on good behaviour and/or monthly subscription fees?

This is what the Stop Killing Games movement is also about: Sure, we understand that eventually you wind down the online servers, no problem. But if I paid for a game, why should you have the right to disable it? With no other things I buy can you at any time later come to my house and take them back or disable them. Not with my microwave, not with my shower, not with my lights.