How else will our privatized prisons have the labor to make the cheap products they make?!
On Aug 27, 2017 1:02 PM, "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I say put everybody in jail, all of them. Kids, women, even cats, just > lock every living thing up, ameoba pruaons might be a task. Just lock it > all up. > > On Aug 26, 2017 4:41 PM, "Robert" <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote: > > Banks failed because they took the wrong side of an insurance bet that > paid off 100 to 1. > > > On 8/26/17 11:58 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > >> Iceland put 8 or 9 bankers in jail for that exact situation. >> >> It's not clear to me why the bailout here happened the way it did. It >> seems like if the banks failed due to lending money that had no chance of >> being paid back, why did the bailout require more money than the value of >> all the loans? I'm not well informed on the topic, but the things I heard >> never added up to a clear picture. >> >> >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us <mailto:af...@zirkel.us>> >> To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> >> Sent: 8/26/2017 2:31:13 PM >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Volkswagen engineer >> >> And yet somehow all the bankers who engineered the collapse of the world >>> economy never went to jail but this guy does?!?! >>> >>> Crazy world... >>> >>> Engineer environmental destruction = bad >>> >>> Engineer economic destruction = meh >>> >>> I agree with chuck too, he designed an engine to pass a test. Seems >>> like the test was flawed, not the solution. It was an engineering team >>> from a university that discovered the problem because they actually tested >>> the emissions from the tail pipe under real world driving conditions. >>> >>> >>> -sean >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto: >>> ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote: >>> >>> So one of the engineers at VW got a 40 month sentence for the >>> emissions fiasco. >>> I have to admire the clever way of getting around the test. I >>> have a hard time thinking of the guy as a criminal. He looked at >>> the test protocol and created an engine that would pass the test. >>> Blame the protocol creators for not making a good enough test. >>> >>> >