Anything less than a strategic military alliance with China that includes Chinese nukes all along the US/Canada border is deeply unserious. Same goes for Mexico.

The collapse of the Soviet Union

No, that’s not what I said. A capital offense is a crime that CAN be punishable by the death penalty.

I believe that the goal of our judicial system should be rehabilitation and that in my ideal society we would abolish the death penalty. But we are far from that ideal society.

I think that the death penalty should be reserved for a certain class of crimes: crimes against humanity and crimes against the people. And that the burden of proof should be higher than beyond a reasonable doubt.

If a politician abuses their power and accepts bribes or commits fraud, or a CEO commits wage theft, then the death penalty should be on the table. We could even use commuted death sentences where they are given the opportunity to repay their stolen gains plus restitution.

Those politicians and CEOs will serve as an example to Joe Blow as to the seriousness of their crimes so that they don’t casually commit $10,000 in tax fraud as if it is some weird libertarian right. And if a private individual commits a serious enough level of fraud or show themselves to be unrepentant repeat offenders then yes, they should face the same consequences.

One is a human right, the other is defrauding the people and should be a capital offense.

Let me guess, you aren’t personally at risk of being kidnapped off the street and sent to the front lines as drone fodder.

Add Tropical Fuck Storm to the list

The odds that you die because your six story building only has one staircase may be low. The odds that someone dies because six story buildings only require one staircase is 100%.

Your password just unlocks the volume key which is used to decrypt/encrypt the data. It sounds like the volume key is on our PC, not the external drive. I don’t have much experience with LUKs and none with using it on an external drive, but I suspect that you will need to wipe the drive and set it up again while ensuring that the volume key is stored on the external drive itself.

24+ hours to compile Mozilla suite on an 800mhz PowerPC g3 with 256mb memory. Good times