Yeah, there is a stigma, that if anyone deciding to commit crimes, might possibly give a little thought to the future before deciding that committing a crime is a good idea.

It's kinda like the story of would you want your daughter marrying a man who just got out of jail after killing his first wife? There is a value to having impulse control, and looking beyond what they want to do right now.

There are all manner of narratives - I guess I have one too. There are narratives that if everyone has money, free health care, and society accepted them, there would be no crime. That society forces people to perform criminal acts. It is similar to the idea that society causes insanity.

Well. we learn over time. Before Herbert Needleman, the dangers of lead poisoning were known, but it's effects upon people, who from childhood were exposed, and they ended up being violent criminals - that was fairly new, and compelling enough to knock some sense into people.

Another case I know personally, a friend had adopted a young boy, who was troubled, and the thought was a better environment would eliminate those issues. I liked the kid. Most of the time, he was great. Outgoing, friendly, smart. But he was still getting into trouble. I noticed that it was three months behaving, then a short period of bad. I mentioned it, but everyone thought that was 100 percent coincidence. Eventually they figured out I was right, by that time, he'd committed some serious crimes.

Some sort of chemical imbalance? That was my guess. Point is, yeah, we're going to find out more reasons as time goes on. The question is what makes the people in your example not cooperate?

People should not ever decide that since "the man" got away with something, so it is perfectly alright to do the same things. If that is the case, they deserve the punishment, even if "the man" is not. That. is the most masochistic example to whataboutism on their part.

Sorry about the obvious typo.

Are you talking about the average child-molestation-sentence compared to the average sentence for testing fraud of this scale, or are you cherry-picking cases?

Also, context mayters: If you are looking at the average child molestation care, is the average case one where a 20 year old is busted with a 15 year old girlfriend (where you could make a case for 35 months being a reasonable average sentence) or is the average more like a 50 year old serial rapist who molested dozens of people 12 or younger (where 350 months may be considered too lenient)?

What would really make them worth something is an easy upgrade path to an operating system that was still getting security updates.

Google, Apple, and the major phone vendors could score big PR points be extending security updates to 10 years on products introduced since 2016. In the long run PR points can translate into customer loyalty which can translate into "Step 4: PROFIIT!" in a non-sarcastic way.

There is a market for parts that aren't crypto-locked to or residing on the motherboard.

Cheap small usable high-quality camera for my next project? Yes please.

Exactly. There are many people who just know they messed up, and in reality, have no intention of doing more crime. Then there are people who perhaps have little to no impulse control, or for one reason or another just think criminally. There are some people who just can't be rehabilitated.

Occasionally , it is a chemical thing, like lead in gasoline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... His research was pretty shocking, as lead damaged people tended to be involved in violent crime.

But there are some cases that remain mysterious. Just broken people, I suppose.

Think of books. You buy a physical book and you think you own it even though strictly speaking you bought a license. I feel the same about my '90's games as my '90's books, I bought it, I can sell it, give it away or do anything besides distribute copies of it, along with a couple of other things like public performances

Think of a book, comes with a license that allows you to do all kinds of things with it, excepting making copies and distributing them. Actually I have at least one book that says the license is only good as long as you have the book cover.
Even though the book is actually licensed, you basically own it. And if you own it long enough (actually your family etc), eventually the license expires and you can do anything you want with that book including copying it.
Now a days, some books, just like software, are only in electronic format and the license can be revoked even though you paid for it just like a physical book

is and always will be impossible.

Apple had a decent enough solution with their certification for routers for Apple Home being able to restrict how such devices behaved after end of support. But I remember only two or so routers that actually had that cert and at least one stopped getting firmware updates six years ago or something.

Rockets are really cool. They are our one major way of getting off this planet and even without humans involved are the way we send things to space so we can understand the universe around us. You shouldn't have to like any of the people involved or can even actively dislike them for other reasons, and still get that.

Even car-only phones would've benefited from early-1980s-style cellular analog radio if the tech was available in big cities in the 1950s.

I can quote Merriam-webster too, without using the simple version which I guess is for simple folks who can't think, from https://www.merriam-webster.co...

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: any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

Notice the collective or government ownership. Things like Credit Unions and Co-ops are examples of actual socialism.

We lose money on every sale, but make up for it in volume.