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Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by nix23 »

sneak wrote: post #9
testplzignore wrote: post #2

Not being able to talk to a lawyer is insanity. How is that legal?

The carceral state in the US is totally out of control. It is entirely common that people are denied human rights in jail/prison, even prior to trial. Effectively no one holds prisons or guards or medical staff in the US to account for these incredibly common and widespread human rights abuses. The parallels with US policing are clear (as is the systemic racism: the system is working exactly as designed). It even hap…

Well its normal that they denied human right's, maybe the most important of it, it's called 'freedom'.

But i know what you mean.

Having private prisons is also a big NoNo i think, its like every single one state service is corporation driven ;)

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by skdjsjkhfkdsjh »

kcmastrpc wrote: post #3
testplzignore wrote: post #2

Not being able to talk to a lawyer is insanity. How is that legal?

'murica

This adds exactly nothing to the conversation. Please don't do this. I don't like to appeal to authority but the HN guidelines specifically discourage these kinds of comments.

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by indigochill »

>The only solution to making me happy again would seem to download Ubuntu, mount it to a USB thumb drive, and get it installed. Had I known that Windows 10 doesn’t utilize BIOS, but has replaced it with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), which is a secure boot option that validates programs before giving them permission to run, I wouldn’t have wasted two more days of my life trying to install my favorite operating system.

I don't understand what he's saying here. I dual boot Ubuntu on my Windows 10 PC all the time (as well as using Virtualbox).

Otherwise, I'd say his accounting of the changes shows although he may be an outsider simply by virtue of time away, he's still more savvy than the majority of the population.

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by tasogare »

indigochill wrote: post #16

>The only solution to making me happy again would seem to download Ubuntu, mount it to a USB thumb drive, and get it installed. Had I known that Windows 10 doesn’t utilize BIOS, but has replaced it with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), which is a secure boot option that validates programs before giving them permission to run, I wouldn’t have wasted two more days of my life trying to install my favorite o…

SecureBoot.

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by mikro2nd »

canistel wrote: post #13

Windows has seized control. This is exactly how I feel about Windows 10.

Gosh, I felt that way about Windows 3.1. It got so bad around Windows 95 that that was when I switched to Linux. I've never used Windows since, so when people ask if I can help them "sort out their PC" the answer is... :)

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by hblnt »

nix23 wrote: post #8

Its terrible how the American system thinks about prison's. Imagine he could do/learn something good in those 10 years, when he was locked away to protect the public (and that really should be the only point for prisons (protect the public))

For me, the really baffling thing was the fact how restricted access the prisoners have to information.

The fact that prisoners cannot have access to the internet is, to some extent, understandable by me. Filtering an inherently bi-directional communication perfectly, to make sure no information gets out is difficult.

But nonetheless, internet is not the only source of information in the world. The fact that people, who are in prison, are stripped, or seriously limited access to information, and thereby to learn, is really baffling.

If you find your resolution in the fact that you spent your time useful by learning, and when you reemerge and reintegrate yourself into society, you will have a chance to be better before, why restricting it?

Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by rayiner »

nix23 wrote: post #11
sneak wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The carceral state in the US is totally out of control. It is entirely common that people are denied human rights in jail/prison, even prior to trial. Effectively no one holds prisons or guards or medical staff in the US to account for these incredibly common and widespread human rights abuses. The parallels with US policing are clear (as is the systemic racism: the system is working exactly as designed). It even hap…

Well its normal that they denied human right's, maybe the most important of it, it's called 'freedom'. But i know what you mean. Having private prisons is also a big NoNo i think, its like every single one state service is corporation driven ;)

Private prisons are a red herring. The vast majority of prisoners are not in private prisons, and states have been moving to get rid of them. In many big states, like New York and Illinois, private prisons weren’t legal to begin with. Rikers, the NYC jail famous for its abuses, was public.

People make private prisons to face of prison abuse for tactical reasons. In reality, the story of the American prison system is the story of the government: voters who demanded “tough on crime” laws; brutal publicly run police; harsh publicly operated prisons; all tied together and supported by public unions.

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