@Cerberus However, despite agreeing that English speakers can decide how English words should be said, people who pronounce Pinyin-romanized Chinese words as if those words were spelled according to English rules need to be corrected. Sternly.
@Cerberus They should be given a time-out, made to stand in the corner wearing a dunce cap, and then must write on the blackboard "wo bu hui shuo ying wen" yi bai times.
It matters not what they can do, but what they ought to can (please change your language to include an infinitive can like any proper language kthxbai).
@Cerberus I don't think English speakers ought to can write Hanzi. In fact I'd probably be happier if the Chinese would just scrap Hanzi, the way the Koreans did. And the Vietnamese. And almost the Japanese.
> Het informeren van het publiek als zedendelinquenten op vrije voeten komen, leidt er niet toe dat zij minder vaak opnieuw in de fout gaan. Pedoseksuelen verbieden te gaan wonen bij plaatsen waar veel kinderen komen, is ook zinloos. Dit blijkt uit vandaag verschenen onderzoek van het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC) van het ministerie van Justitie.
Essentially all non-Chinese linguists and students studying Chinese reach the same conclusion. We claim it's because we're unbiased and can see the whole picture. The Chinese tend to reach the opposite conclusion and claim that Hanzi are important. The fact that they can make themselves understood orally gives lie to that though.
"Informing the public that a registered sex offender will be living in their neighbourhood doesn't help lower recidivism. Forbidding them from living near places where many children come is equally ineffective/useless. This has become clear in research carried out by the Ministry of Justice."
@Cerberus If you are referring to sex offenders who committed crimes against young children, it is well known that they will keep doing it until you lock them up for good.
@MετάEd "It is well known": not well enough, I fear.
> Verplichte registratie bij de autoriteiten heeft bij de gevaarlijke zedendelinquenten mogelijk wel enig effect, stellen de onderzoekers. Toezicht en controle leiden alleen tot minder kans op recidive als ze worden gecombineerd met therapie.
> Libidoremmende medicatie is ‘veelbelovend’. De effectiviteit van toezicht hangt verder af van de aard en intensiteit ervan, de relatie tussen delinquent en toezichthouder en randvoorwaarden zoals geschikte huisvesting.
"Medication that inhibits their libido is "promising". Supervision may be effective, depending on its character and intensity, on the relationship between delinquent and supervisor, and on other factors, like fitting housing."
@tchrist You're looking at it backwards. I think a person should have the same right to work in prison as out of it. I don't have a problem with someone earning a good living in prison.
And I also do not have a problem with presenting a person with a prison bill for basic services and, if they have assets and won't work, seizing those assets.
@MετάEd That doesn’t sound so off, but they don’t. They get charged for being there, and they get “paid” slave-wages. The US has a serious slave-labor culture in its prisons. Nearly all our licence plates, for example, are made there. I am unclear what portion of the economy comes through that route.
Basically a person in prison should be free to work, to negotiate wages, to run their own business, even to organize into labor unions. Work shouldn't be penalized. No pun intended. The point of prisons is to separate people from other people, not to turn them into slaves.
> De DJI stuurt op verzoek een gewogen specificatie van de gemiddelde kosten per plaats per dag op, uit de begroting voor 2012 en verder. Voor 2012 zijn de kosten begroot op 247 euro gemiddeld. Hiervan gaat 142 euro op aan personeel, 69 euro aan materieel en 36 euro aan ondersteuning.
what about prisoners with families? The families are already harmed by the loss of the prisoner's income. now they would be also be harmed by the loss of that prisoner's assets?
@tchrist I don't think you are looking at this humanely. The real problem is that the workplace in a prison is frequently an unfair workplace. It ought to be treated more like any other kind of workplace.
@Cerberus See that is what I am saying. That sort of practice should be abolished. As I said above, people should have the freedom to choose their employer or to employ themselves.
The judge should just set a fine in addition to the prison sentence. The whole cost thing seems less relevant: the justice system should not be required to pay for itself.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 And it would create the perverse incentive for whoever gets this money to make prisons as inhumane as posisble without those perks. Like not having net neutrality, equally perverse.
@Cerberus Yes, it'd be a difficult proposition. On one hand, providing incentives for good behaviour is good. On the other hand, if you tip the scales too far then you have abuse.
Is there a specific term for when you combine two unrelated terms in a headline in order to grab attention?
For example:
Bolivian Kick Boxer Meets US Marine
Or:
Kickboxer Meets a Marine (1)
The high level concept here is pretty simple: two people fight; see who wins.
My question is ...
@MετάEd Yes, but don't you agree that the incentive to cut costs by skimping on basic services to prisoners is very important? And the incentive to exploit those you have locked up commercially is too.
@Cerberus That is not a problem with privatization, but with privatization without adequate regulation. That's no different than letting the food industry operate with no regulation. By your argument, an unregulated food industry should be nationalized, not regulated.
@KitFox I don't think it matters what else "we" have happily answered, because there is a huge variation in editorial "policy" from person to person. I would also say the question shows a lot of effort, but no research effort, and that it's basically a general reference question that could be linked to the Wikipedia article that lists rhetorical terms.
@MετάEd Well, that is a valid argument, but I still think the food industry is quite different. For one thing, it is functioning fairly well at the moment. And people have more of a choice: you can not buy unhealthy food. And companies have very good reasons to guard food safety, because their reputations are worth a ton to them. Now if I read about commercialised prisons, I only hear horror stories. Perhaps they could be adequately regulated in theory, or perhaps not; but...