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Scribbler1 · Jan 7, 2004, 03:28 am

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (dannyp,)
forcing people to do work (for microsoft)? thats gotta go against so many civil liberties.

it would be funny and quite ironic if that were the case though.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

I dunno. Convicted felons, after release can't vote or own a gun regardless of what put them in there. Convicted sex offenders, after serving their time must register in whatever area they move to (so much for paying your debt to society). In Wilmington, Delaware, they are creating a law which bars anyone with a criminal record from working at the Port of Wilmington. So what's another civil liberty among friends, eh? You give up a lot more than time when you go to prison.
But if so many non violent offenders can be sentenced to community service in place of jail time, why NOT make hackers work for Microsoft (and for free, too)? They're malicious little bastards but they're clever, and if forcing a few dozen maladjusted computer geeks to spend their time doing nothing but finding flaws in Windows before the outside world does, so much the better. This country's prison system is simply warehousing, and the word "rehabilitation" isn't even used anymore. So what's wrong with these punks doing something good for the country instead of three hots and a cot, with all the priveleges, all paid for by our taxes. Besides, considering they would be sentenced to do what they did that got them busted anyway is hardly punishment, and they would be doing us a great service by showing Microsoft the holes in their software before some other business loses all it's records or someone's 3 year in the making novel goes poof.

Besides, it's probably better then my first idea of having them all shot.

Jan 7, 2004, 03:28 am	#26 (permalink) (top)
Scribbler1 Skeptical Patriot Posts: 7,832	</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (dannyp,) forcing people to do work (for microsoft)? thats gotta go against so many civil liberties. it would be funny and quite ironic if that were the case though.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'> I dunno. Convicted felons, after release can't vote or own a gun regardless of what put them in there. Convicted sex offenders, after serving their time must register in whatever area they move to (so much for paying your debt to society). In Wilmington, Delaware, they are creating a law which bars anyone with a criminal record from working at the Port of Wilmington. So what's another civil liberty among friends, eh? You give up a lot more than time when you go to prison. But if so many non violent offenders can be sentenced to community service in place of jail time, why NOT make hackers work for Microsoft (and for free, too)? They're malicious little bastards but they're clever, and if forcing a few dozen maladjusted computer geeks to spend their time doing nothing but finding flaws in Windows before the outside world does, so much the better. This country's prison system is simply warehousing, and the word "rehabilitation" isn't even used anymore. So what's wrong with these punks doing something good for the country instead of three hots and a cot, with all the priveleges, all paid for by our taxes. Besides, considering they would be sentenced to do what they did that got them busted anyway is hardly punishment, and they would be doing us a great service by showing Microsoft the holes in their software before some other business loses all it's records or someone's 3 year in the making novel goes poof. Besides, it's probably better then my first idea of having them all shot. Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.