To avoid corrupt policies so much oversight and regulation is needed that it may as well be a government facility.

Incentivizing incarceration is never a good thing.

Incentivizing incarceration is never a good thing.

being for profit, i do see how it can in turn make very ignorant employees and therefore creating corruption. sure its nice saving money on prisons, but the prisons will cut corners just to make a quick buck and aid the government so their prisons wont be overcrowded as they are.

also if you're talking about prisons in the US it would also be important to note how the US has more people in prison in relation to the rest of world and most are in for nonviolent crimes

that whole privatization thing starts to show an uglier side when you look at it that way

yea, my textbook is emphasizing that a lot. and yes, im talking about the US in general, i got no idea on the other countries systems for jails.

Quote from: Flee on July 30, 2016, 06:15:50 PM

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Quote from: Flee on July 30, 2016, 04:57:42 PM

Nope.

im guessing its a lot different in europe than here in america.

How so? Privatising prisons is a poor idea both here and in the US. Arguably even more so in the US, as its criminal justice system is already quite dysfunctional and has resulted in the single highest rate of prisoners per capita in the entire world (not counting a single African micro state).

you answered no to the question, so it sounded like you were okay with it

he was answering the question in the body instead of the thread title

A government backed space program will always be better than a private one.

This is ridiculously untrue.

NASA, as a body which pursues manned space missions, is wildly inefficient and represents a pretty large mis-allocation of funding. All of the money shunted into NASA should be repurposed as grants for the NSF, and NASA should have its role limited to research and liasing with the private sector. Without counting programmes which have the purpose of supporting/improve future manned spaceflight efforts, NASA spends around half of its budget on current human spaceflight efforts. Imagine how much greater basic science output would be if all of that money--which, throughout NASA's history, has been dogged with incentive and informational problems--wasn't being thrown away because MUH FRONTIER.

NASA has a history of massively underestimated the costs of its own projects, simply because its an easier way to acquire funding. Ideally the funding of unmanned space exploration would be handled in much the same way the US handles healthcare research funding; which is a way which doesn't lend itself to massive, inefficient bureaucracies that try to do things decades before it makes any sense economically.

I have no problem with manned spaceflight in principle, but not on the public's payslip.

Quote from: Varg on July 30, 2016, 09:11:40 PM

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Quote from: Flee on July 30, 2016, 06:15:50 PM

Quote from: Naru on July 30, 2016, 06:04:39 PM

Quote from: Flee on July 30, 2016, 04:57:42 PM

Nope.

im guessing its a lot different in europe than here in america.

How so? Privatising prisons is a poor idea both here and in the US. Arguably even more so in the US, as its criminal justice system is already quite dysfunctional and has resulted in the single highest rate of prisoners per capita in the entire world (not counting a single African micro state).

you answered no to the question, so it sounded like you were okay with it

he was answering the question in the body instead of the thread title

oh, you're right

well that's confusing

Yeah, I could've been a bit more clear there.

WE NO SPEAKA DA FRANCEY

BONJUR SPRECHEN THE ENGLISH?