As part of my ongoing research into the effects of coding practices, and legal frameworks, on serious crime rates around the world, I've dug up some surprising correlations. Many analysts have argued that the major factors in violent crime and property crime, have been due to factors such as drug use, penal policy, and the ability of citizens to provide an effective deterrent (such as gun possession).
Please note that despite disproportionally affecting young males, "penal policy", has nothing whatsoever to do with the "male member". The Latin routes are quite distinct with penal deriving from from the "poenalis" - that is pertaining to punishment, and not "penis" (the male member or "tail"), whose proper adjective would be "penial" in any case. I digress. On 8 January 2011 06:13, Chipp Walters <ch...@altuit.com> wrote: > > (In fact, in Texas, I'm allowed to shoot a robber as he's carrying out a > TV, in the back, who is robbing my neighbor's house...while they're away... > Yep, we don't have too many home invasions here. And we balance our budget > each year). > Unfortunately there are no good figures for distinguishing 'home invasion" from burglaries, and so in the interests of objectivity we are forced to discuss the more general category, which in the light of Chipps point is a pity. Interestingly despite popular opinion to the contrary, Texas does not fare as badly with regard to violent crime, as it does when it comes to burglary - coming 7th in the national league tables<http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/txcrime.htm>for burglary in 2005, and only 14th for violent crime. For reference the same figures for New York at that time were more even coming 46th and 48th respectively. Texan cities, feature heavily in the top league table slots for burglary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate>, but again do not fare as badly for forcible rape (with the exception of Corpus Christi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi,_Texas>), aggravated assault, or murder. It would seem that gun ownership, 3 strikes laws, and the like have little to do with burglary rates comparatively or absolutely. On the other hand this may not be the case for the ownership of a Revolution or LiveCode license. - Graph of Global Burglary Trends<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burglaries_per_1,000_pop.svg> What is striking about this graph is both the extremely high burglary rates in Scotland, as well as the precipitate fall after mid 1992. Interestingly this is the exact same time (June 1992), that Metacard released version 1.0 of the language that we now all know and love as LiveCode. This explains many things. Why for instance do Scotland, Texas, Australia, and even Brazil feature so heavily in our community? Is there perhaps a rational explanation why adoption of Livecode is so strongly correlated with high property crime rates - and could this perhaps be the underlying reason for the re-branding of the language from Revolution to LiveCode? There are of course a number of things left unexplained by this analysis, why burglary rates failed to decrease after the introduction of MetaCard in Australia for instance (more recent figures may shed light on this). But in general it goes a long way to explain why such a uniquely skewed collection of crime plagued participants, have managed to create one of the most peaceful, and nurturing programming communities on the web. Long Live LiveCode! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
