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Well, if you can live like they do in Oslo and have 1 death. That seems worth it.


We had homework when I was in school.


Which is kind of the point


But that doesn’t have much to do with the price. Your comment sounded like you were saying the eu was being cheap.


I thought it sounded like quite the opposite: he's not saying they aren't buying it because they're cheap (he points out that if it worked, and they were trying to be cheap, they would buy it). He's saying they're not buying it because it might not work very well.


You can probably train them using dwim


Lets assume each of those prosecutors sends >1 person to prison. Then imprisoning said prosecutors would likely result in fewer prisoners.


As in beer.


Exactly. Ok, free/libre then if you insist.

A link just to make sure: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html


ies indeed vuhai can’t vee just use tvoo gliphs

Is a much more readable example I think.


It’s only murder if it’s unlawful. It’s a killing, a slaughter though.

Edit: never mind, you tought me a new definition.


It’s a bit ironic that America both reveres that quote and has the largest prison population in the world.


I'll give you that. But that's also why I try to remind people what one of the founding beliefs was. And that your system is always going to fail to some degree, so do you want it to fail safe (innocent go to jail) or fail open (guilty go free)?


definitely the latter.


That's what I agree with and the essence of Blackstone's Formulation. This was something many of the founding fathers of America talked about.


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