You should read the CJR link. The "shared sense of identity and community" is being descendants of the victims of the slave trade and not the color of their skin.
That's a strange definition, because it excludes the majority of the world's dark skinned population. If only the descendants of slaves brought to the Americas can claim to be Black, then there are no Black people in Africa. Hell, even Barack Obama can't claim to be Black, since he is a child of immigrants, not slaves.
Was it picked as $50/day because that represents some (not even most) of the cost to the State of Florida for incarcerating you for crimes? Did Florida justify this or decide that taxpayers shouldn’t be so heavily burdened by individuals who decide to commit crimes?
I’m not even sure this is simply a “rent” — unlike renting an apartment or a house (shelter), while the prison is also shelter, it also has to be 24x7 staffed with guards (and likely other personnel like a medical clinic). There’s fixed costs like utilities which probably don’t vary much based on population (lighting and heating), and variable costs like food, water and waste management.
It’s certainly a bit crazy to charge someone for 7 years if they only serve 70 days, but I see some logic to charging per day you’re actually incarcerated. It’s not a “rehabilitation friendly” policy due to the effects on your finance after release, but it may be argued it amplifies the deterrent — “if you don’t want to do the time (and pay); don’t do the crime”.
> per day you’re actually incarcerated. It’s not a “rehabilitation friendly” policy due to the effects on your finance after release, but it may be argued it amplifies the deterrent — “if you don’t want to do the time (and pay); don’t do the crime”.
Arguably, it generates the opposite behavior in some folks: "Well, my circumstances are bad, so I may as well always do bad since there's no upside to participating in society since I'm permanently screwed."
Florida's minimum wage is $12/hour. If you work two jobs, say 60 hrs/week, repaying the state for your time in prison would take half of all the money you make. This is unbelievably evil.
I think that a good way to do this would be a triple-poison pill approach. Google et. al. are capable of policing the advertisements on it's platform, there is just not the business will to do it.
The triple poison pill approach:
* Every user-report of a scam ad must be reviewed by an independent barred lawyer for a minimum of 15 minutes of actual time.
* If a person (institution, etc) with a public image is shown in the scam ad, they must be notified and should the advertiser and platform should share joint liability.
* If a person falls for a scam, they should have recourse against the platform and the advertiser.
There is not really anywhere for the creators to go so they don’t really have any leverage. If you’re mad at YouTube you can go to an alternative and get 100-1000x less traffic and revenue. And some other obnoxious creator will take your spot on YouTube immediately
You would need a mass exodus of top YouTube creators to make the slightest dent on YouTube's bottom line. Meanwhile, any top YouTube creator leaving YouTube (to what alternative?) isn't hurting his or her bottom line, but rather nuking it from orbit.
In that case the effect on YouTube's bottom line would be even smaller, if any. Creators posting their videos on other platforms would have a negligible to no effect on YouTube, given that it would remain the default (read "only") video platform for the overwhelming majority of the viewing public. A creator announcing "You may also see my videos on DailyMotion/Vimeo/Twitch/PeerTube/wherever" would simply be irrelevant to their mass audience, who would react anywhere between "Ok, whatever" to "I don't know what that means, ignore".
The only reason I can think of is so they can keep up their "we need to police bad actors" image necessary to maintain the moral high ground when they mistreat creators for the sake of sanitizing their platform.
Hold YouTube responsible for the content of their advertising. If they advertise scams and people end up scammed, IMO, they should be held legally culpable for that. They played a role that they were paid for.
Honestly, that would be the much more dangerous attack to a company that must meet torque specs for safety. You can throw out a torque wrench, recalling already produced products on the other hand...
"We've hacked your torque wrenches since adoption & changed the torque values to deceive your Quality Control on random random bolts on random aircraft. Pay us ransom to tell you which fasteners on which products were changed or recall them all."
Re-torquing every bolt on an aircraft would be ungodly expensive.
Pretty sure in this scenario they'd have to recall them all anyways, because regulators and the public would not trust hackers to accurately log and report every bolt they messed with.
I could easily imagine an email arriving at some public contact address "I'm in your wrenches, changing your torques, send 123 BTC to 45678 or else!" and some first level person just dismissing it incredulously, "yeah, right...", to the trash folder. Then when nice things do start to burn... not sure that I'd have the guts to remember if I was that first level person?
But when bit ignored that threat would be easy to deal with, just get some indicator beam type torque wrenches and occasionally check what the dial tells you about the point the trigger-type triggers.
The push into audiobooks feels like the start of the ehshittification of Spotify Premium. With an artificial limit of 15 hours of listening, can we expect to have to start paying for specific albums or releases?
Yep, the golden age of streaming seems to be coming to an end on all platforms. Get ready to have to endure ads and other harassment, even as a paying customer. Install the app! Got the app already? We saw you were enjoying Beethoven so on a related note have you considered buying Taylor Swift concert tickets?
You have to remember, you (the car buyer, employee, or shopper) aren't the target for these awards. These award companies market to mid-senior level VPs who have spending power and want to approach senior company leaders with a good story for their end-of-year review & bonus evaluation.
Nothing quite like the HR Director saying "Well under my leadership we were rated as one of the top 100 companies to work for!" But the awards company only has 100 spots available to consider, and you have to pay the awards company to evaluate you...
I hope it does help stop these disruptive events. F1 (and other sports orgs) come in and tout that they drive business for local businesses and city councils just lap it up.
Street circuits are just boring racing, at least for Formula 1. The cars are so big these days and the circuits are too narrow to allow overtakes and competitive racing. The qualifying grid basically dictates the finishing positions.
Have you seen the layout? It's pretty close to a square in terms of design. It has a U-shaped dip in the top of it but I don't see it being super entertaining.
F1 is a little different than traditional sports in this regard.
While traditional sports (especially team-ball sports) claim that they stimulate the local economy and drive tourism, it has been shown time and time again that this is at best an exaggeration, at worse a complete lie. Most attendees to ball games are locals; in general they don't book lodging locally and they won't patronize nearby restaurants or businesses. They show up for the game, watch the game, maybe buy something or eat at the facilities directly around the stadium, then go home.
F1 is different in every regard. Fans will travel for F1. International ticket sales often make up more than 35% of the tickets sold, even in venues like Saudi Arabia or Bahrain. Race events take place over a 3 or 4 day weekend, giving the spectators more time to patronize local businesses. Most will rent lodging.
I'm not saying that they're not disruptive (they are, especially when run somewhere like downtown Las Vegas) but the way they are disruptive, the costs, and the practical upsides of an F1 street race are different than, for instance, bringing the Raiders to town.
