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Anachronisms
Why is Osama bin Laden still running our airports?
And why is Willy Horton still running our prisons?
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The EconomistAgainst Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
UCLA HomepageCurriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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What’s the upside for any politician in doing the “rational” thing, minimizing the intrusiveness of the TSA and releasing 50+ year-old prisoners serving life sentences for crimes 30 years back?
The human cost to us of 9/11 is largely self-inflicted — vast sums spent on wars, an expanded military, more intrusive “homeland security”, all of which could have been devoted to many other things that would have indirectly prevented far more human suffering here and probably elsewhere. The 3000+ killed in the act itself are almost a blip on the scale of every thing else that’s happened in the 11 years since. (Including, of course, tens of thousands of gun-related homicides each year that we seem perfectly content to tolerate.)
But woe to the governor, congressman, senator or president who advocates & votes to scale back the fear-driven responses. There is no upside for any of them. Only downside when something bad happens and somehow it gets twisted by political opponents and the media into a direct causal link.
I once flew into LAX only to find that all vehicle traffic in & out of the airport was shut down and thousands of travelers were having to walk a couple of miles in blazing September heat out Century Blvd. to find rides. Why? Because some old Japanese man had a flashlight with corroded batteries in his hand luggage, and the thing burst during the security inspection, getting some of the chemicals on an agent. Somehow this resulted in a Code Red, with snipers taking up positions on terminal roofs. And this was by design… Needless to say, there was no downside for anyone in charge of the overreaction.
Asal mula web Judi Poker Online Mengelokkan dipercaya di Dunia.
Dari segi buku Foster’ s Complete Hoyle, RF Foster menyelipkan “ Permainan situs pokerqq paling dipercaya dimainkan mula-mula di Amerika Serikat, lima kartu bikin masing masing pemain dari satu antaran kartu berisi 20 kartu”. Tetapi ada banyaknya ahli tarikh yg tidak setuju diantaranya David Parlett yg menguatkan jika permainan situs judi poker online paling dipercaya ini mirip seperti permainan kartu dari Persia yang dibawa oleh As-Nas. Kurang lebih sejahrawan menjelaskan nama produk ini diambil dari Poca Irlandi adalah Pron Pokah atau Pocket, tetapi masih menjadi abu-abu karena tidak dijumpai dengan pasti sapa yg menjelaskan permainan itu menjadi permainan poker.
Walau ada sisi per judian dalam semua tipe permainan ini, banyak pakar menjelaskan lebih jelas berkaitan gimana situs judi poker mampu menjadi game taruhan yang disenangi beberapa orang dalam Amerika Serikat. Itu berjalan bertepatan dengan munculnya betting di daerah sungai Mississippi dan daerah sekelilingnya pada tahun 1700 an serta 1800 an. Pada saat itu mungkin serius tampil terdapatnya keserupaan antara poker masa lalu dengan modern poker online tidak hanya pada trick berspekulasi tetapi sampai ke pikiran di tempat. Mungkin ini lah cikal akan munculnya permainan poker modern yg kalian ketahui sampai saat tersebut.
Riwayat awal timbulnya situs judi poker paling dipercaya Di dalam graha judi, salon sampai kapal-kapal yg siapkan arena betting yg ada didaerah setengah Mississippi, mereka terkadang bermain cukup hanya manfaatkan 1 dek yg beberapa 20 kartu (seperti permainan as-nas). Game itu terkadang dimainkan langsung tidak dengan diundi, langsung menang, punya putaran taruhan, dapat meningkatkan perhitungan taruhan seperi game as-nas.
Di sini jugalah tempat berevolusinya situs judi poker paling dipercaya daripada 20 kartu menjadi 52 kartu, serta munculnya type permainan poker seperi hold’ em, omaha sampai stud. Herannya orang melihat bila poker stud jadi poker pertama dan classic yang telah dimainkan lebih daripada 200 tahun.
Diakhir tahun 1800 an sajian Poker Online mulai disematkan lagi ketentuan baru diantaranya straight dan flush serta beberapa type tipe yang lain lain seperti tipe poker low ball, wild cards, community cards of one mode dan lainnya.
What’s the upside for any politician in doing the “rational” thing, minimizing the intrusiveness of the TSA and releasing 50+ year-old prisoners serving life sentences for crimes 30 years back?
The human cost to us of 9/11 is largely self-inflicted — vast sums spent on wars, an expanded military, more intrusive “homeland security”, all of which could have been devoted to many other things that would have indirectly prevented far more human suffering here and probably elsewhere. The 3000+ killed in the act itself are almost a blip on the scale of every thing else that’s happened in the 11 years since. (Including, of course, tens of thousands of gun-related homicides each year that we seem perfectly content to tolerate.)
But woe to the governor, congressman, senator or president who advocates & votes to scale back the fear-driven responses. There is no upside for any of them. Only downside when something bad happens and somehow it gets twisted by political opponents and the media into a direct causal link.
I once flew into LAX only to find that all vehicle traffic in & out of the airport was shut down and thousands of travelers were having to walk a couple of miles in blazing September heat out Century Blvd. to find rides. Why? Because some old Japanese man had a flashlight with corroded batteries in his hand luggage, and the thing burst during the security inspection, getting some of the chemicals on an agent. Somehow this resulted in a Code Red, with snipers taking up positions on terminal roofs. And this was by design… Needless to say, there was no downside for anyone in charge of the overreaction.