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DATE | 2016-10-07 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Hey, Ruben! Plastic bag initiatives!
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From hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Fri Oct 7 20:18:52 2016 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from www.mrbrklyn.com (www.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3EB163E9C; Fri, 7 Oct 2016 20:18:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from mail-qk0-f172.google.com (mail-qk0-f172.google.com [209.85.220.172]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F598161469 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2016 20:18:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qk0-f172.google.com with SMTP id o68so56496397qkf.3 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:18:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=my.liu.edu; s=google; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F+AAkhqnehE+8rEkwGeM5lWAyE5tCrjNJ/9CiV/coHY=; b=h+4yCyQ0O13QHXKJ9BLv02dbwHrNdFtk5Z75F2B1DTJBbC3GuORmMw8i+HkeDGkvRF zgaPXoBTQ/Zg2fbtaaCkfaJkUusGnaod2wuWP5aEcy/VJRsjaxqc5bid9Nm8AJZzpQuO OLH+JCsiOtQ9yBIKu49nbhykTJ54a0KtY5Qh8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F+AAkhqnehE+8rEkwGeM5lWAyE5tCrjNJ/9CiV/coHY=; b=aaABN9INdzO3MFUyrV/jiCG5glYk1J/T8HlUUSfQgx9+U+xTgNs9SWGDqHMn2zQ7VN m83+ecKsI48uB91QI+DpPCwtEYtcFYwk2olvdDpeiIqSmV72Fko9cNe52xJdrDjKjIju hB1W0tx0U8cI+PtwTY1fz/Bn124ZudJM0HoGFlsmRnneiOC6ELooUrMxu56IZEJFYjxR lurGN3YyFnPA83fNeeFi3kba4Zr+CnK9eEOOz8P2qPeT5v/yx/kcszhXwAAdvut1nHBg CDJMS9+AjEvLDu6llnEKpNN4kmh1epbZpnqV5WcphR6TpVe3kBXq06jMQ/9/ViuErpXy Ow6A== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RnRv3d355iNoNWkig6BjI13JJiMi+RfSxN1AYb/oGVgt+nRPp5zPH5dmeMNKuz7HDbD X-Received: by 10.55.121.67 with SMTP id u64mr24166474qkc.114.1475876215752; Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.62] (www.mrbrklyn.com. [96.57.23.82]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id x35sm3277124qte.40.2016.10.07.14.36.55 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:36:55 -0700 (PDT) To: hangout-at-nylxs.com References: <9eb96b45-1171-a5bd-3408-06dd51945be1-at-mrbrklyn.com> <9faa09cb-1d2b-921a-7fa8-bc75bb3e0923-at-panix.com> <20160907030710.GT900-at-linuxmafia.com> <20160930224043.GA3246-at-linuxmafia.com> <20161005004337.GD4313-at-panix.com> <20161005025609.GK13715-at-linuxmafia.com> <00948582-276b-e037-b502-c72b49468340-at-panix.com> <20161005043319.GN13715-at-linuxmafia.com> <20161007093439.GA29845-at-linuxmafia.com> <1ef74260-168d-9fe8-b494-4652624d3d49-at-panix.com> <20161007155059.GE13715-at-linuxmafia.com> From: Ruben Safir Message-ID: <85154e44-e076-2d01-704a-43477c159f0b-at-my.liu.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:36:54 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161007155059.GE13715-at-linuxmafia.com> Subject: Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Hey, Ruben! Plastic bag initiatives! X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: NYLXS Discussions List List-Id: NYLXS Discussions List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Sender: "hangout"
On 10/07/2016 11:50 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com): > >> On 10/07/2016 05:34 AM, Rick Moen wrote: >>> It turns out, within the last thirty years, California has built 22 >>> prisons. In that same time span, it's built _one_ additional University >>> of California campus. >> >> >> That is an irrelevant comparison. > > Exactly like guns and butter! > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model > (That's an Economics 101 thing. You wouldn't have heard of it.) > >
If they remove more supervising against checking for plastic bags, they could afford more jails and campuses, not that they NEED more campuses.
>> Why did you need more campuses? > > Um, how about because of vastly more people? > > 1980: 23 million > 2016: 40 million > > Seriously, Ruben? Was this _actually_ difficult for you to figure out? > >> You build campuses when you need them and you build prisons when you >> need them. > > Oh, you mean when the state population increases by 75%, we ought to > increase the number of University of California campuses by 75%? > I agree. But we iCalifornia citizens were able to afford only a 10% > increase -- in large part because the money got diverted to building > those 22 prisons. > >> That stupid 3 strike law was created by a population desperate to >> solve a crime problem that was swallowing them.... > > Shoplifting and minor drug offences, two of the major categories on the > books that stuffed the state prisons to such bulging proportions that > the US Supreme court started intervening, were not 'swallowing' the > citizenry of my state. > > I care about my tax money not getting wasted on account of broken public > policy. You appear to not care about my tax money. Which is > predictable, but screw you on that. And, again, thank you for not being > a California voter. > >> And that is state level. I'm sure there is Municipal jails also. There >> are about 40million people in California, FWIW. > > So, you're not _totally_ innumerate; you just cannot handle long > division? > _______________________________________________ > hangout mailing list > hangout-at-nylxs.com > http://www.nylxs.com/ >
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