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Comment: Re:Check the road fatalities per 100k vehicles (Score 1) 1173

by Sircus (#36661368) Attached to: Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US

Funny you should mention the long straight roads. Not too far away, there's a piece of Autobahn (the A44) that's very straight, concreted in the middle (with removable barriers), has trees trimmed back from it and has two very large parking areas at either end. Why is it like this? In case the Russians attacked. Planes would take off from the US. By the time they were ready to land in Germany, the barriers would have been removed from the median and the whole thing would have been set up as an emergency runway.

Comment: Re:Not new and Not good (Score 1) 1173

by Sircus (#36652830) Attached to: Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US

At least as I understand TFA, traffic circles as you know them are not the same as the roundabouts now being introduced. On a traditional traffic circle, circulating traffic should yield to entering traffic, whereas on a roundabout, it's the other way round. The Wikipedia article on traffic circles appears to confirm this view.

Comment: Re:Seize the $450M (Score 1) 97

by Sircus (#36300424) Attached to: Arrest In $740M NYC Time and Attendance System Case

So it's capitalism, but you want the government to intervene to artificially increase losses by seizing assets? You believe in the free market, but don't believe it's able to punish companies who are fined or lose executives because of misbehavior?

I don't argue (and haven't argued) that the company shouldn't in some way be punished (the suggestion that the company loses all proceeds from a contract they won by kickbacks seems like a sensible starting point), only that rubycodez' suggestion that the company be liquidated was seriously ill-thought-through.

Comment: Re:Seize the $450M (Score 1) 97

by Sircus (#36295888) Attached to: Arrest In $740M NYC Time and Attendance System Case

So, let's say you have a retirement fund. You pay in your $100/month or whatever. The fund manager invests some of the money in the fund in a company that's doing well, has a sound business model, etc. The executives of that company are, unbeknownst to the fund manager, paying kickbacks and engaging in other illegal behaviour. According to you and the OP, once this is found out, you lose a chunk of your retirement fund? How is that in any way related to any concept of justice? It doesn't matter whether the victims of the kickbacks are the taxpayers or anyone else, that's no good reason to create more victims by arbitrarily confiscating the assets of people who've done nothing more criminal than (in this example) saving for their retirement.

The people committing the crime should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. People who unwittingly provided the capital with which the crime was performed are innocent.

Comment: Re:Seize the $450M (Score 1) 97

by Sircus (#36285050) Attached to: Arrest In $740M NYC Time and Attendance System Case

Not to mention that if only the executives know about it, the shareholders or owners suddenly lose their entire investment - even though, if they'd known about the behaviour in question, they might have immediately terminated the executives in question and notified the authorities.

Punishing the innocent is something I often think of as best avoided.

Comment: Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score 2, Insightful) 422

by Sircus (#33225942) Attached to: Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers

I could be wrong, but I thing the GGP's "anything better to do" was sarcastic, pointing at the fact that the police have lots of better things to be doing, so why are we hiring them out to police private parties? I don't necessarily agree with him, just pointing out the alternative interpretation.


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