Retired wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 18:31:
Went on vacation for a week....in 1 day I used my "50 MB" service in "roaming" from T-Mobile.
Called them, they said, oh, we don't have service there, but we will gladly sell you a data plan to cover you while you are there. FOR 7 DAYS!
We went to Best Buy and bought new phones and new service with Verizon - which we had service the whole time there and the drive back.
F you T-mobile!
Side note, we used 3GB in 5 days. Can you imagine THAT BILL! wow.
nin wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:57:jdreyer wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:39:Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean.
What the fuck????
jdreyer wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:39:Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean.
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
Why? For being hard on murderers and rapists? Oh, please allow me to mop up all that blood bleeding out of your heart for all those hard done psychopaths. I'm sure people like you think they should all spend their time at Club Med instead, but most rational people think they should be doing a hell of a lot more for the fortune they cost us. And that capital punishment should be a lot more efficient, faster, and cheaper.
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:Nice straw man argument. No one said anything about being easy on prisoners. When you use them as slave labor, you create perverse incentives for keeping them in prison longer than they normally would, beyond paying off their 'debt to society.' It becomes tempting to deny parole, to trump up charges to add years to people's sentences, etc. etc. The prison system in the US is a fairly corrupt institution that doesn't need much motivation to be even more corrupt. Throw a slave-labor-run business into the mix, and the possibilities are endless.
Why? For being hard on murderers and rapists? Oh, please allow me to mop up all that blood bleeding out of your heart for all those hard done psychopaths. I'm sure people like you think they should all spend their time at Club Med instead, but most rational people think they should be doing a hell of a lot more for the fortune they cost us. And that capital punishment should be a lot more efficient, faster, and cheaper.
And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean. America has done far worse and is in a lot worse shape, they simply have better PR. Or maybe you feel the system is just awesome as is and things are only getting better. Only a child or an idiot thinks in terms that something is utterly good or evil.When you paraphrase "Arbeit macht frei" from Auschwitz and relate it to American prisoners, you're implying that they be treated the same as concentration camp victims. Given the history of that phrase and its infamy, there's really no other conclusion. If you want to have a discussion of the socio-economic effects of Nazism in Germany post W.W.I, that's a separate conversation, and not what you did. You threw out the single-most reviled phrase of the holocaust, and you deserve to be called on it.
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jdreyer wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:00:Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:43:In Japan, they citizenry has been manually separating paper, glass, steel, plastic, and aluminum into separate bins for decades. It's not that hard people.
And easy solution for recycling plants, make the convicts work them. I never understood why there wasn't more of a gulag style system for prisons. People just sitting around burning up tax dollars is insane. Put them to work.
As for using prisoners as slave labor, you create perverse incentives for keeping them in prison. Also, locating a recycling center in a prison creates all sorts of escape opportunities with large trucks constantly going in and out of a sprawling facility.Work makes freedom.You're not helping your reputation as a Nazi sympathizer there bub.
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:35:Task wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:18:
Weed would be far more effective at mellowing out soldiers, some depression drugs are really NOT ok to take no matter who you are - as some have been linked to pushing people over the edge.
Its insane how high suicide rates and PTSD is right now among soldiers - constant (illegal) war on behalf of politicians, the 'defense' industry, pentagon, etc. is causing serious problems on multiple societal levels. Even Drone pilots are reporting PTSD, especially after finding out a high percentage of "targeted killings" ended up with heavy civilian casualties.
What Martin Luther King said all those years ago is still as true today as it was then - "spiritual death."
They shouldn't be invading other countries to begin with. They have a moral obligation to ask if what they're doing is right. No one can count how many atrocities have happened down through history all because someone was "just following orders". When the Bush junta started their illegal invasion and occupation there were soldiers who refused to go. Same like Ali did with Vietnam. I have a lot more respect and sympathy for those men then for those borderline psychos who think invading other countries just so they can feel like big men kicking ass and them come back even worse. And of course, and the end of the day, who *really* benefits from it? Sure ain't them.
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:43:In Japan, they citizenry has been manually separating paper, glass, steel, plastic, and aluminum into separate bins for decades. It's not that hard people.
And easy solution for recycling plants, make the convicts work them. I never understood why there wasn't more of a gulag style system for prisons. People just sitting around burning up tax dollars is insane. Put them to work.
Work makes freedom.You're not helping your reputation as a Nazi sympathizer there bub.
Task wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:18:
Weed would be far more effective at mellowing out soldiers, some depression drugs are really NOT ok to take no matter who you are - as some have been linked to pushing people over the edge.
Its insane how high suicide rates and PTSD is right now among soldiers - constant (illegal) war on behalf of politicians, the 'defense' industry, pentagon, etc. is causing serious problems on multiple societal levels. Even Drone pilots are reporting PTSD, especially after finding out a high percentage of "targeted killings" ended up with heavy civilian casualties.
What Martin Luther King said all those years ago is still as true today as it was then - "spiritual death."
A surgical team mocks a sedated patient — and it’s all recorded