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Re:Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing by PartiallyTyped on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:41PM (#26243967)
I have little to add except perhaps that the truly free citizens have the capital to either a) hire good lawyers, or b) scoff any financial expenses and fines because they are the equivalent of pennies to them.

IIRC Jeff was renovating an apartment in NYC and he had his car parked somewhere for days with accumulating fines in the order of 10s of thousands but really, those numbers are 6-7 orders of magnitude smaller than his wealth.

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Re:Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing by sep_field on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:04PM (#26244786)
All fines should be scaled to the net worth of the offender. It is not fair that a fine that would ruin the poor is treated by the rich as a game.
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Re:Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing by PartiallyTyped on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:29PM (#26244980)
Finland does it, at least on speeding tickets with a maximum multipler of 120 as of this [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

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