Deepa Mohan wrote:
On Jan 30, 2008 6:00 PM, Dave Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The acronym is "RI" and it appears to refer to prison sentences.
Is this
"remedial incarceration"?
Rigorous Imprisonment.
ie You spend your time in prison breaking rocks (or the equivalent)
As opposed to HI, Handwaving Imprisonment, in which you spend your
time in prison with problems which are, in principle, crackable --
but there're always a few more cases to consider, or some infinities
which really ought to cancel, or ...
-Dave
On Jan 30, 2008 6:00 PM, Dave Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The acronym is "RI" and it appears to refer to prison sentences.
Is this
"remedial incarceration"?
Rigorous Imprisonment.
ie You spend your time in prison breaking rocks (or the equivalent)
As opposed to HI, Handwaving Imprisonment, in which you spend your
time in prison with problems which are, in principle, crackable --
but there're always a few more cases to consider, or some infinities
which really ought to cancel, or ...
-Dave
Cory, we also have great phrase to describe the habit influential
people have, when arrested for their misdeamanours, to go in for
medical treatment or surgery, preferably "cardiac", in a plus
hospital...we call this surgery the "jail bypass".
Totally unncesssary for your research of course.....
Has your child been born? What an exciting time it must be for you!
Deepa.
Thanks, Deepa! No baby as yet -- all tenterhooks, all the time around here!
Cory
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