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Offline Maik

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16/03/14
« on: Sunday, 16 March, 2014 @ 02:14:47 »
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Welcome to Hampton – the town of 477 people, 18 police and 12,700 speeding tickets
Florida threatens to wipe 'dirtiest little town in America' off the map for 'Dukes of Hazzard' excesses
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10700025/Welcome-to-Hampton-the-town-of-477-people-18-police-and-12700-speeding-tickets.html

Almost makes Greece seem inept at corruption

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Re: 16/03/14
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, 16 March, 2014 @ 14:02:08 »
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Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours'
Future biotechnology could be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1,000 year sentence, a team of scientists claim

A second scenario would be to upload human minds to computers to speed up the rate at which the mind works, she wrote on her blog.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10697529/Prisoners-could-serve-1000-year-sentence-in-eight-hours.html

Blog post worth a read, if you're interested. All a bit science-fiction to me, but maybe it will be possible. (In which case I'd find it a bit scary).