William Klein's profile

nope, not at all . those people will be full time idiots for free and in fact with real members quitting or on the site less often the density of clones will likely increase. what fun!

people isolated from clocks and outside indicators of time tend to fall into a 25 hour day. this is why getting up an hour later is so much easier then getting up an hour earlier. since this is how we 'want' to live, why not do it. every night you would set your clocks back an hour, use it any way you want: an extra hour of sleep, get those chores done, more family time, finish that project. it would be odd at first to have our 'new days' unconnected from the solar day. the day would start an hour later each day and half the time the 'day' would actually occur at night. as we live mostly by artificial light anyway i do not see this as a problem. the longer days would mean that the year would lose 15 days (no more 31st and most 30th would also be gone) and there would be a 'drop day' (the calender would lose a day) once every 24 years.

even if you assume that the prisoner in question will genuinely never commit another crime, i think they must serve their minimum sentence. i think of imprisonment as debt you owe for your crime and this must be paid. i am suspicious of 'rehabilitation', certainly there is no such program that actually works and the whole thing has a brainwashing stink to me. how far can such programs go: brain surgery? castration? psychoactive drugs? do a crime, pay your time, get released--that should be the system.