The main purpose of imprisoning white-collar crime is to act as a deterrent. If the upside for a financial crime is billions of dollars, and the potential risk is 25 years in prison, lots of people will be willing to take that risk, especially if 25 years actually means 17ish with good behavior.
If the punishment is life in prison with no chance of parole, it'll act as more of a deterrent.
Punishment lengths don't act as a deterrent to petty and violent crime, because the people commiting those crimes are not intelligent or are crimes of passion. Systematic fraud like this is slow, calculated and methodical.
Not an expert, but I've seen the following commented on other test flight videos: on initial test flights, landing gear is always kept down to minimize risk. If a sudden landing is needed, gear is already down, no risk of equipment getting stuck, less mental load for the pilot to perform emergency landing, etc. Basically, when testing, you want to minimize the variables being tested. When airworthyness is validated, then you can test landing gear systems.
This will never make it past prototype stages, unfortunately. Realistically, you need federal involvement to make something like this happen, a la concorde. I could see the US government getting involved for nationalism purposes if China starts actually building jets in large numbers to reassert US manufacturing supremacy.
It was sexy marketing for the Concorde to travel between NYC and Paris/London back in the 70s-90s. Today however, with the emergence of the middle east as a major travel hub, would supersonic travel be viable there? Dubai-Singapore? Dubai-Doha? Dubai-Moscow? Europe to Middle east wouldn't work due to having to fly over europe, right?
Also, is there enough luxury/high speed travel demand between asia and the north american west coast for something like this? It's nice to leave north america in the evening, sleep 8 hours, and arrive as the plane is landing in tokyo. Is there any demand to be get to Tokyo in 6-7ish hours?
It seems like the people that can afford 20-30k tickets can also afford to fly private, and with the internet there's much less need to be in person for making deals. Sadly, until fuel costs become negligible and they can make supersonic airplanes hold 200+ people, i think most people would rather fly private or fly first class on an A380 than on a cramped Overture.
See: Wikipedia, Craigslist, AO3. all perfectly great websites not ruined by spam, tracking, backend, fancy graphics. Just great content, lightweight and clear UI.
Yes, let's design the internet around keeping 90s routers running as long as possible. Excellent. Let's also design highways with a max speed of 20 MPH so we can accommodate Model T's
Because at any time Mozambique can just nationalize Chinese assets and renege on any contract it signs with China. Investing in Africa is like running a payday loan store. It only works if your loans get repaid, and if the effort you have to wage (in this case, probably war or trade war) to get your loans repaid is worth it. The US will happily defend any nations that spurn China
If the punishment is life in prison with no chance of parole, it'll act as more of a deterrent.
Punishment lengths don't act as a deterrent to petty and violent crime, because the people commiting those crimes are not intelligent or are crimes of passion. Systematic fraud like this is slow, calculated and methodical.