People take family portraits looking their best. Probably they had to give all those LL Bean clothes back to the photographer afterwards and put on their tired old war rags.
Why are all the cars old in "11:59"?
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Here's a real question... Would a 21st century Book Store have kept the Janeway family out of a Sanctuary district?
As the tech curve kept rising, book shops would be dying out, but after the bubble pops and the balloon drops, you would think that there would be a rising resurgence in books even if the economy and the literacy rate gets dunked in the toilet.
As the tech curve kept rising, book shops would be dying out, but after the bubble pops and the balloon drops, you would think that there would be a rising resurgence in books even if the economy and the literacy rate gets dunked in the toilet.
You mean after everything is fried and ebooks etc.. don't work? You still need printing and distribution.
No ma'am.
The creation of Sanctuary Districts must have been indicative of a global depression of unimaginable standards, even as the rich got richer, as particular cities became holes to shovel the under-performers into and forgeddabout.
The Eugenics war was more subtle, I can only assume that as the Supermen fell, that the revolting rabble also killed anyone that read books or (ironically, but Cambodia y'know.) wore glasses, which would have created a serious brain drain, and thus the depression, but the city killing bombs didn't start dropping till 2050.
The creation of Sanctuary Districts must have been indicative of a global depression of unimaginable standards, even as the rich got richer, as particular cities became holes to shovel the under-performers into and forgeddabout.
The Eugenics war was more subtle, I can only assume that as the Supermen fell, that the revolting rabble also killed anyone that read books or (ironically, but Cambodia y'know.) wore glasses, which would have created a serious brain drain, and thus the depression, but the city killing bombs didn't start dropping till 2050.
Yes the Eugenics was more cultural revolution, picking off the top brains who didn't get with the program.
I if you could do this in parts of the world now there are people who would totally back it.
I if you could do this in parts of the world now there are people who would totally back it.
The sad thing is that people were probably making money off the Sanctuary districts, which is why it was so shitty inside.
The place should have looked like summer camp, and probably did for the first couple years.
The place should have looked like summer camp, and probably did for the first couple years.
They make money off privatized prisons in the US right now. Which I am sure are also shitty inside.
The big house in Orange is the New Black is a state run prison?
I assume so, but there are privatized prisons in the US that people profit from running.
If they didn't make a profit, they would fold and file for bankruptcy.
The thing about a state prison is that as it loses money, it will keep running no matter how much money it loses because of the Unions and graft. Paying the prison staff is way more important than looking after the prisoners, because without those jobs, all those tax paying citizens would turn into criminals or vagrants and more prisons would have to be built.
Surely the trick here is to teach the state run prisons how to make money?
But even as the private prisons make money the state still loses money, because they are paying money to the private prisons to look after the prisoners with no opportunity of profiting themselves. Spending less to look after the same number of prisoners on paper looks like a profit for only so long until it just looks normal, and you wonder why you're giving them money.
What really seems to be at issue here is probably infrastructure.
The states in question (al of them.) cannot afford to build new prisons, but they can afford to pay for private businesses to rehabilitate convicts for them... It does seem odd I know, but prisons probably have a shorter life expectancy compared to other buildings of a comparable size.
If you gave every prisoner a networked Xbox and an inexhaustible supply of soda pop, you wouldn't need locks on the doors... But that's just my opinion.
The thing about a state prison is that as it loses money, it will keep running no matter how much money it loses because of the Unions and graft. Paying the prison staff is way more important than looking after the prisoners, because without those jobs, all those tax paying citizens would turn into criminals or vagrants and more prisons would have to be built.
Surely the trick here is to teach the state run prisons how to make money?
But even as the private prisons make money the state still loses money, because they are paying money to the private prisons to look after the prisoners with no opportunity of profiting themselves. Spending less to look after the same number of prisoners on paper looks like a profit for only so long until it just looks normal, and you wonder why you're giving them money.
What really seems to be at issue here is probably infrastructure.
The states in question (al of them.) cannot afford to build new prisons, but they can afford to pay for private businesses to rehabilitate convicts for them... It does seem odd I know, but prisons probably have a shorter life expectancy compared to other buildings of a comparable size.
If you gave every prisoner a networked Xbox and an inexhaustible supply of soda pop, you wouldn't need locks on the doors... But that's just my opinion.
Well that certainly works for teenagers, you can skip the whole risk taking teenage boy stage if you only make it verrrry comfortable at home, in front of a gaming console. And of course you get to hear all about how, really, they would make a good pilot because of such and such game which is highly amusing.
And if they do really well, you can rent out their labour to the military as drone pilots.
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