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Nobody is criticizing people who practice family planning. A lot of comments do seem to be debating the merits of having children without acknowledging or seemingly comprehending that there is a huge emotional, non-rational component to that decision, regardless of the parents' annual income.
I quite like Geoffrey Miller's theory that the human brain is primarily the result of sexual selection rather than natural selection - the hominid equivalent of the peacock's tail.
The punishments make sense to the people meting them out.
The prison authorities transparently use isolation in an SHU as punishment for making them look bad or for inconveniencing them. The two inmates mentioned in the article who acted as 'jailhouse lawyers' seem like good examples of this. Anyone in prison who offers any resistance to the power of the authorities is very likely to be treated this way, even if they are merely requesting legally-guaranteed rights or marginally better treatment, because doing so acts as an example to others.
Auernheimer was imprisoned, it seems to me, primarily for unrepentantly embarrassing those in positions of power, and later transferred to the SHU for the same reason.
Let me try & put your mind at rest a bit.
(a) everyone @ msft takes the confidentiality of data uploaded to Watson (the crash reporting system) extremely seriously - you can't just 'look for useful stuff' in it without a good reason, and you'd be fired immediately if you were found to be reverse-engineering or copying bits of code out of it
b) on a technical level, trawling through dumps looking for 'useful stuff' would be an absurdly inefficient way to do anything. For one thing, it just crashed, which in my book is not usually a sign that you'd want to copy it.
c) your crash dump is a drop in the ocean. There are millions coming in. Nobody will ever look at it unless the system picks up that there a multiple millions of crashes occurring at the same point in the same widely-used app, in which case it's possible msft might contact the vendor (if identifiable) to offer to help fix it.