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Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by phanimahesh »

eudamoniac wrote: post #187
array_key_first wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In many states it's, at the very least, coerced . Having a prison job often comes with deals of better behavior and a shorter sentence (!!!). When you're being told that just working for 2 dollars an hour might lower your sentence from 20 years to 15, do you really have a choice? For example, in Georgia, prisoners often work outside of the prison for well below minimum wage in order to earn "good time". This means th…

This is a mockery of the term "slavery". It is no more slavery to be coerced to work for a shorter sentence than it is slavery to be coerced to follow the law to avoid prison. "Behave a certain way and you will be imprisoned for less/no amount of time" is not slavery unless the law is slavery. The full term imprisonment is just, and being able to shorten it is a privilege .

> The full term imprisonment is just

This is a contested assumption. Prisons and penal systems in US as I understand it are for profit.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by phanimahesh »

decimalenough wrote: post #136
oniony wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Say what? Prisoners pay rent?

Yup! > Fees for room and board—yes, literally for a thin mattress or even a plastic “boat” bed in a hallway, a toilet that may not flush, and scant, awful tasting food—are typically charged at a “per diem rate for the length of incarceration.” It is not uncommon for these fees to reach $20 to $80 a day for the entire period of incarceration. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/amer...

Holy hell I've read it's bad but this is horrible but very on brand for the capital of capitalism.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by culi »

ilya_m wrote: post #168
culi wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what happens when ÁÀÂÅÅÀÄ run a red light?

A fine for faking a license plate, may be? ÁÀÂÀÄ are not in the Danish alphabet.

Apologies. I'm not familiar with the alphabet. I just looked up Danish unicode and it showed those characters. I'll stick with 0OO0O00 as my license plate

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by everforward »

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #115
kelnos wrote: post #79

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Not really? I mean, when you compare the number of people who have committed a "horrific violent" crime to the total number of people caught up in the US prison system, I expect it's not "often".

The numbers are fuzzy but they indicate that at least a simple majority of (and possibly up to an extreme majority) of prisoners have committed violent crimes.

That really depends on what you classify as “violent”. There are a lot of crimes labeled “violent” that don’t include direct physical harm to another person. Eg burglary is labeled as “violent” many places when the actual act was “smashed a window, grabbed a TV and ran away”. Drug manufacturing is also typically considered “violent” even without any kind of assault/murder/turf war/etc.

The numbers I saw said 47% of inmates had a violent crime under federal or state classifications.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

rgovostes wrote: post #113

Hah, in California I used to have HX. The short plate came back to bite me: Years after I had moved to another state, an automatic license plate reader on a toll road (91 Express Lanes) in Los Angeles misread someone else's plate as mine. It was kafkaesque: My public records request for photographic evidence was blocked because, if I was correct that the offending driver was not me, the law prohibits the release of r…

I have an iteration of NO PLATE, and have received numerous citations and impound notices. At this point, I just ignore them. Registration renewal is possible, only because my local county office understands the situation (years of this).

Of course I could change my license plate, but not'gonna.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by eurleif »

>EVENTVALIDATION is (was?) a novel security measure implemented in 2006 by the ASP.NET team to "prevents unauthorized requests sent by potentially malicious users from the client [..] to ensure that each and every postback and callback event originates from the expected user interface elements, the page adds an extra layer of validation on events".

The attack it prevents is called XSRF, and this security measure wasn't novel in 2006.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by subscribed »

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #153
macintux wrote: post #68

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> they're in prison for a reason. Often that reason is "too poor to afford proper representation" or "looked vaguely like the actual criminal" or "took a plea bargain because the justice system was threatening them with an immorally-long wait for a trial and a likely worse outcome".

That doesn't justify ignoring our established punishments. Good luck with a system that sets everyone free just in case .

They're literally guilty and in the prison for the crime of being unable to afford a lawyer.

That's the fact. You can't argue jail time is automatically fair only because it has been added in the sentencing.

Its legal, and that's it. Civil forfeiture is also legal. Slavery was legal (and is still legal in us prisons).

Doesn't make it justified.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by yesitcan »

wvenable wrote: post #163
yesitcan wrote: post #30

This has nothing to do with TypeScript

If the headline said "Using Python to obtain one of the rarest license plates" you wouldn't think twice.

That’s true. But the analogy is more correct if it said “Using Mypy to obtain…”

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by SR2Z »

ruined wrote: post #71
SR2Z wrote: post #56

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> It sounds like it isn't optional everywhere, the pay is beyond inhuman, they don't always get any benefits at all, no training, don't safety and are overworked. Most of these are true, but I would push back on the pay angle. If a person is in jail, they are a ward of the state and have no expenses at all. There is no sense in paying them a "living wage" because they don't have to live off it. In any case, most ster…

>If a person is in jail, they are a ward of the state and have no expenses at all. There is no sense in paying them a "living wage" because they don't have to live off it. In any case, most stereotypical prison jobs would not cover the cost of incarcerating the employee. only the last sentence here is true. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/amer... many prisoners receive a bill for their incarce…

> many prisoners receive a bill for their incarceration and will come out of prison with debt, even if they're working while in prison.

This is true. I 100% agree with you that this is awful and should not be allowed.

> the largest maximum security prison in the united states is a slave plantation, operated continuously since the 1830s. they still farm cotton.

Fair, but only 12% of prisoners are even maximum security to begin with, and you don't end up there for slinging a little bit of pot.

On that note, I also think we send far too many people to jail and should rewrite the laws to fix that.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by array_key_first »

eudamoniac wrote: post #187
array_key_first wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In many states it's, at the very least, coerced . Having a prison job often comes with deals of better behavior and a shorter sentence (!!!). When you're being told that just working for 2 dollars an hour might lower your sentence from 20 years to 15, do you really have a choice? For example, in Georgia, prisoners often work outside of the prison for well below minimum wage in order to earn "good time". This means th…

This is a mockery of the term "slavery". It is no more slavery to be coerced to work for a shorter sentence than it is slavery to be coerced to follow the law to avoid prison. "Behave a certain way and you will be imprisoned for less/no amount of time" is not slavery unless the law is slavery. The full term imprisonment is just, and being able to shorten it is a privilege .

> The full term imprisonment is just, and being able to shorten it is a privilege.

Even if you believe this, which I would describe as naive at best and willfully ignorant at worst, you have to understand that the parole is a carrot. It's not real.

Georgia has some of the lowest, if not the lowest, parole stats in the country. They almost never hand it out, even if you are a good little prisoner and work on the field picking cotton for a buck or so an hour. They don't actually want to help society, or prisoners. They just want to siphon money and labor from a population that they know has no options. It's opportunistic. These people are a plague on humanity, a virus of such low lows they must only prey on the most vulnerable. They are the pneumonia of American society.

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