Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:01:22 +0100, D wrote:
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Haha.. nice joke.  Is it actually working during normal circumstances?
I've heard rumours that in some US prisons prisoners make license plates
or stuff. I heard about a prisoner suing a prison for slavery. I hope it
was dismissed.

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There are some prison industries but it's a low percentage. I don't know
if it still applies but the Forest Service was using prison made signs and
some states were using prison labor for road signs and license plates.
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I've seen chain gangs like in Cool Hand Luke in the south in the '50s and
'60s but I don't know if they still exist.

Ah... maybe Trump will reinstate chain gangs? Seems like a good idea that just disappeared somehow.

There are also internal jobs like cooking, laundry, and maintenance that
have a very minimal wage but it's better than nothing.

Hmm, maybe he will use prisoners as border guards to guard the border? You chain them to a pole, leave food and water and tell them to shoot anything that approaches (from the _right_ direction). ;)