100 prisoners in solitary cells. There's a central living room with two light bulbs. The initial states of these light bulbs is unknown. No prisoner can see these light bulbs from his or her own cell. Every now and then, whenever he feels like it, the warden picks a prisoner at random, and that prisoner enters the central living room. While there, the prisoner can toggle the bulbs if he or she wishes. Also, the prisoner has the option of asserting the claim that all 100 prisoners have been to the living room. If this assertion is false (that is, some prisoners still haven't been to the living room), all 100 prisoners will be executed. However, if it is indeed true, all prisoners are set free. Thus, the assertion should only be made if the prisoner is 100% certain of its validity.\n\nBefore the warden begins this sick game, the prisoners are allowed to get together one night in the cafeteria to discuss a plan. What plan should they agree on, so that eventually, someone will make a correct assertion?
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I'd leave the light bulbs out of it.  I would tell everyone that the first time (and ONLY the first time) they go into the room, that they should put a dirty fingerprint in the lower right hand corner of the wall opposite the entrance.  When a prisoner enters the room for the first time and there are already 99 fingerprints on the wall, he knows that he would be the last prisoner and that all 100 prisoners had entered the room.
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The Bathtub\n> ============\n> \n> It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and this should help get you started\n> \n> During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the\n> director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.\n> \n> "Well," said the director, "We fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."\n> \n> "Oh, I understand," said the visitor.  "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."\n> \n> "No" said the director, "A normal person would pull the plug ...\n> Do you want a room with or without a view?"\n> \n>
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No, inmates do not haveit soft within the prison walls.\nTo anyone who says differently, I'd like to know What prison have you been visiting? I'd like to arrange for a cherished friend to be transferred there! The top notch medical/dental care I'm always hearing about would be nice!He had a small cavity in one tooth and the answer was to pull the tooth, he needs to see a doctor to renew a prescription for a chronic condition (no, it's not a drug with any recreational potential, it's Prilosec) but can't see the doc because he is not bleeding, and when he does get that script renewed, he'll be paying for it or rather either his mom or I will be doing so. The situation has gotten so bad with prison health care that a federal judge recently ordered the whole department into recievership.\nComfortable bed? HA! Try a lumpy 1 inch thick pad on a stainless steel shelf... cozy, huh?\nHe shares a 6 x 12 cell with one other man, and counts himself lucky that there are not 3 in that cell due to the amazingly overcrowded state of the facility, he gets to leave that cell about 4 hours a day, including shower, chow, dayroom and yard time... and THAT is when the facility is not on lockdown due to drastic understaffing, courtesy of a hiring freeze imposed by the Governor...on lockdown, it really is in the cell, 24/7, food passed through the door, etc the only thing that keeps going is the mail (and by the way, I send him paper,envelopes and postage, unless it is a letter to one's attorney of record AND there is no money on one's books, the prison does not pay for letters)....the educational programs, IF an inmate qualifies AND if there is a slot available in the class.....and surely you see the need to try to educate these people to improve the chances of their becoming productive citizens upon release?\nThe showers are hot and reasonably clean, but inmates buy their own soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc.\nThe food is a joke, and is barely legal in quantity and quality... most inmates get VERY creative with the top ramen that is available at the commisary...\nWhat Gym/weight room are you talking about? My friend does an aerobic routine in his cell each morning and spends about half his time in the yard running his usual 3 to 5 miles, but there's no equipment available...I'm not complaining about that, but I'd like to know where you get your information.\n\nAs to other recreational activities, if there are video games, it has not been mentioned to me... Television in the day room where what to watch is decided by vote...any TVs or radios in the cells were not provided by the state, either the inmate or someone like me purchased them and like quarterly packages and phone calls (collect and incredibly costly) they are a privilige that is EARNED... Surely you can see the value of rewarding good behavior?\n\nBy the way, my friend is what they call a model inmate, he has had no disiplinary problems inside.\nI could go on and on, but I really want to know what prison all these stereotypes of fun and games are based on, because it sure as hell is not in California!
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i was a juror many moons ago and let me tell you it was a farce!\ni was approached by a defence witness and to cut a long story short she ended up serving 6 months. the girl didn't tell me anything i already know and yes she shouldn't of approached me, but i think she was desperate. she also had a 6 week old baby who was put into care for the length of her sentence. The reason for the confidentiality is so that outside influences don't cloud your judgement. the decision should be entirelly upto you, on whether you convict or not. i know that after the case my husband would've voted differently to me so if i had of talked to other people then i may of been swayed
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yOU DIDNT OPEN ANYTHING YOU DIDNT WANT TO OPEN IS ALEXANDER GAY LOL. WELL IT DOESNT MATTER ANYHOW I JUST CAME HERE TO ANSWER A QUESTION. WHAT do you belive if you belived to be putting your self in a situation like i called up jack the ripper or some shit like that. Then yeah your calling evil or negative energy upon your self. Were you depressed to do a   séance or just folling around? I use to play with the weigie board i was tld years ago by my brother along time ago when i was a kid that some guy played with the weigie board and they called upon the devil and that same person\nsaid that something took him off his bed lol. The same guy said it was the devil who did it lol. Anyhow very possible you look for evil and you well find evil. I dont recommend playing with toys that are not ment for the world. I think the weigie board was made as a black magic tool and posesses evil and negative energy anything that can come from it well trick you. That is just my openion from personal experience.\n\nAlso my freind séanced jack the ripper  for a joke on the wiegie board and one of the girls next to his dorm did not die but said she was strangeled by some guy in her dorm right after they were playing it but some other person from the dorm went to get the guy off her and he vanished.\nYou can belive what you like you are free .
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I didn't see the preview last week for this week's show.  They should have involved all parties in the episode since it was the final.\n\nTancredi needs to cut her hair a little shorter if she doesn't want to be recognized.\n\nThe only surprise is that these two keep evading custody!  It's just a little much when the show goes to great lengths to be realistic.  I am just confused as to how a lock goes undone at Link's feet and how the keys happen to be left in the seat.  I must have missed something, because that just doesn't make sense.  Mahone or Kellerman didn't have access to the transport vehicle to plant the keys.  Are we supposed to believe the keys accidentally fell out of the pocket of the guy?  I could understand that if everyone was in on it, but if everyone was in on it, Mahone would have been able to ride with the prisoners.\n\nOh well, still love the show.
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Ask the warden at the local prison to have his inmates do the work.\n\nIf he agrees, though, you should but the inmates a nice lunch and some cold drinks.
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Nick: The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of an emergency, put your head between your knees... \nFetcher: ?and kiss your bum goodbye! \n\nRocky: Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. You wanna get every chicken in this place out of here *at the same time*? \nGinger: Of course. \nRocky: You're certifiable! You can't pull off a stunt like that. That's suicide. \nGinger: Where there's a will, there's a way. \nRocky: Couldn't agree more. And I *will* be leaving *that* way.
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it all  depends on where he is in prison and what he is in for which determines his status as minimum, medium or maximum security.  If you call the prison they will direct you to a set of guideline that they have for each prisoner and what they can and cannot receive  it is usually the policy of prisons to let anyone visit the prisoner as long as that prisoner has that person listed on their can visit roster.  having worked in a prison I can say from experience that what many prisoners love is letter and photos  keep the photos clean and cool and they will most likely let them thru  you may get them back but that is determined by what and how much they are allowed to keep.  Try donating a whole box of paperback books to the prison library.  again they will have to pass inspection but if they let them in your bf will become very popular when everyone realizes that he was the reason that they have different books to read.  above all get in touch with the prison if you can arrange it a visit from you would be the best possible thing that could happen just pay attention to the dress code so you don't get turned away  good luck  he is lucky to have you many gfs leave their bfs when they go in and that is harder than being in in the first place
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When did Lim become 18?  Once he became 18 and continued the terms of the contract (eating breakfast) without refuting the contract due to being a minor at the time of the contract, it becomes enforceable.\n\nAs for Mamat, once being admitted to a mental hospital does not make him/her unable to enter into contracts.  Mamat was released from the hospital "as cured."  Mamat has since entered into numerous contracts for example his attending college, the lease agreement with the hostel, etc.\n\nDon can enforce the contracts against them!
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this is a proof by induction based on a poor assumption.\n\nnote that you start by saying "IF the prisoner makes it to sunday..." and then the reasoning goes on by induction from there.  however there is no reason given to justify this assumption on monday.  this assumption is untenable until sunday actually arrives.\n\nso, all that has been shown is that if the prisoner is still alive by sunday, he has not been killed on any day before, which pretty much anyone can tell you is simple common sense.\n\nand, clearly when the prisoner is killed on thursday, then we have shown by contradiction that the assumption was false.  (:
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I am so torn on the death penalty issue... I don't have a stance yet.\n\nFrom a strictly economical side, I'm against the death penalty, because I've heard in multiple places that it costs 2-3 times more than life in prison w/o parole.\n\nFrom a moral standpoint, it's hard to say.  Killing someone removes them once and for all as a threat.  Granted, while in jail they are only a threat to other inmates and the prison guards, but still, you cannot make a blanket judgment on whether those people (in the case of the other prisoners) deserve the threat, or (in the case of the guards) willingly accept the threat by being in that job.  Also, there's always the chance of escape.  You don't have that chance with death.\n\nIn addition, there's the obvious fact that if you accept the death penalty, almost regardless of standards for conviction, you're going to eventually get an innocent person in there.  Making the standards for conviction extremely high just leads to multiple expensive appeals, which brings us back to the economic reason to be against it.  It also makes the death penalty so rare that any appeal to it being a deterrent is just silly at that point, because even if you are convicted you'd have to be one of the unlucky ones to get the chair.\n\nIn fact, I have not seen any evidence that it actually serves as a deterrent, regardless of the extensiveness of its use.\n\nI do believe that the highest value must be placed on human life, but when you have one human life that continues to threaten others, isn't it respecting that value to end their life?\n\nI don't know.  I'm an atheist struggling to have a position on this.
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A wise and experienced judge weighs both justice and circumstances.  The purposes of imprisonment in this case would be to ensure the crime is not committed again (done, by virtue of his being too ill to drive ever again) and to ensure that he is made to pay a price for what he did (done, by probation).\n\nIf an 89-year-old man went outside with a shotgun and purposely murdered people, that would be different and I believe handled differently by a judge.  This was, for the most part, an accident.  I agree that there is no reason to spend taxpayer money to imprison a very ill man when he will surely never drive again and is experiencing punishment that probably goes beyond what prison could inflict upon him anyway.
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This is the first time I've ever heard this version of the joke. I don't know what this is right here, but it makes absolutely no sense. \n\nThere were three guys walking down the street and ran acroos this farm house. The lady said they could stay in the house and have breakfast in the morning but if not they had to stay in the barn. \n\nWHY would they have to stay in the barn?? What were the guys suppose to do in order to stay in the house???\n\nI cannot express this enough; when posting a joke, write it correctly.
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i think him being mentally challenge would be in consideration. But it also will be determine how severely he/she is. If he/she is very servery mentally challenge then maybe he Will be put into a mental institution BC he is a danger to society. So it all depends on how severally he/she is on what the judge will say. If it is a jury that is gonna do it then it could go any way. they could fine him totally Innocent or not. but it depends on how server it is and if the Judge is doing the judging or if it is going to be jury.
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The judge reached the correct legal conclusion.  What is there to react to?  The criminal court system lacks the jurisdiction and is under no obligation to order or arrange for his care.\n\nOn a human, rather than legal, level, none of us has the right to judge his actions during his time of grief, which are more understandable given his mental illness.
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"The sliding-door of the railway truck closed with a deafening bang."\n\nSo begins Alice's journey. But where is she going? The men who come to her house to take Alice and her grandparents away in the middle of the night will say only that they are being taken "to the east." At first Alice is excited - at last she will be allowed to play outside after being confined to the basement for so long, and maybe she will be reunited with her parents. But the train ride isn't at all what Alice expects. There are no seats or lavatories - only a dark, airless cattle car crammed with people. And as she gets to know her follow passengers, Alice's eyes are opened to the facts of life, the horrors of death and the terrifying truth about her final destination.