"FC6 was the final release of Fedora Core."

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 10:53 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:37 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >> Ric Moore wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm gonna stay safe and near the TV, with a pile of snack foods piled up
> >>> next to me and watch Harry Potter all evening in my bunny slippers.
> >>> That's a safe thing to do. Ric
> >> Don't tell the convicts about the bunny slippers.
> > 
> > No kiddin', jealousy is a terrible thing in da joint. A man could get
> > 'cut' over a pair of nice warm bunny slippers. No need to stir things up
> > by reminding them of such things in "the Real World". 
> > 
> > I'm to go to a fairly large discussion group at a Medium Custody unit
> > before Christmas to speak and discuss what they can expect when released
> > back to "Polite Society". 
> 
> There was a very interesting article on NPR about this topic some weeks 
> back vis a vis the difficulty of getting a job on the outside, issues being
> 1- no job skills or irrelevant job skills after extended time.
> 2- no money.
> 3- no resume.
> 4- no family support.
> 5- no affordable housing.
> 6- no transportation.
> 
> The concept of rehabilitation is gaining some traction after 20 years of 
>   being dismissed, if for no other reason than to reduce recidivism.

For sure! But it's not so much about "recidivism" as it is about no more
victims as a result of recidivism. That's why my project OAR... a bunch
of them have little to no reading / writing / comprehension skills. "Use
computers!", I'm yelling. Maybe I'll have to get into their face and up
the tone to "Use GD computers, you nimrods!" <eg> ... and become drug
off to a bad place. <chuckles> 

pssst... what they don't know is that I intend to let inmates direct the
thing, once I get a proof-of-concept up and running. The experts aren't
in the Universities. If they were they would have been insisting on a
fix to the "penal-system" a LONG time ago, besides... who are the real
experts? 

Not some guy with elbow patches on his corduroy jacket, smoking a pipe
and residing in some sociological nirvana. Inmates can smell them a mile
off. They put up with me for my own experiences, the fact that I'm still
alive and I show up to share. It's a two way street. Once the "real
professionals" figure that out, and learn to practice the "perspective
taking" they preach about, this world can be a much better place. 

Now that I'm stirred up, I'm gonna go beat the bushes harder to find a
replacement graphical team. The one developer I had never got it off the
ground, but I never panged on him about it as his heart was in the right
place. Ric