Not just jurors; for anything short of a felony, let the victim, er, I mean defendant, remote in too.
A lot of people, especially poorer and with more time-demanding jobs (think retail, fast food, etc. compared to office jobs where in many it's no big deal if you're gone half a day if you make up the time) or less ability to travel (gas is cheaper now, but not free, or many may not have a car and in most of the US public transit is lousy) just can't fight even basic traffic tickets and have to pay the fine and increased insurance costs. They can't wait around for the entire day to be called at 4:59pm.If they could attend remotely (wouldn't even need to be from their computer; friend or library or pay-for-use station at FedEx may work too) that would make it easier to attend.
Of course, making it easier to fight them would make it more likely that the state would lose, and so they'd never go for it. But it might get a trial in more adventurous/advanced locations such as New Hampshire.
I have turned down offers in part because I'd be in an open layout office. In one case I would have had a couple feet of desk space at a long desk in a huge room. Heck, since he's mentioned in the article header and it was a few years back I don't mind saying it was at Bloomberg, doing C++ development; the work appeared great and the people that interviewed me seemed to know their stuff; and recently (so obviously it wouldn't have impacted me back then, but as a point of interest) I saw a couple of John Lakos's CppCon presentations and was singing with the choir. I took an offer much further south with an office (with a window, even). The NYC recruiting company managing the on-site interviews was not happy at this election, and tried to stiff me out of my travel reimbursement, but we worked it out.
Since Microsoft I've been spoiled for cubes (I've heard some of their newer buildings are cubes; I was in Office) and I won't say not having an office would always be a deal-breaker but pretty close to it. When my present company was in temporary space I had a cube with loud people making free to strike up random conversations or phone calls just outside it and it drove me absolutely bonkers; I even went home to work a couple times. Now I have an office as we had agreed on before coming on full time and things are much better.
The majority can't (in theory) order the government to enslave people and then expect the government to have the power to do so
Have you read any history at all? Ever? Not only have majorities had the government enslave and assist with enslaving, they have also had their governments carry out genocides and mass murder. The majority can do these things, and has done these things, both in theory and in fact.
It's good to see another former Amstrad user here. I started with a CPC464 with green screen and cassette - I think my dad traded it for a CD player or something - and eventually he got a CPC6128 with the color monitor and disk drive (360k - x2 - of sheer luxury!). I taught myself to program Basic to start then I got the firmware manual and a book of assembler opcodes and started in on Z80 machine code for sprites and such. Eventually I got an assembler, Maxam (sheer luxury again).
I also got ACU (Amstrad Computer User) with the Hairy Hacker's column in it; and a few years ago I actually contacted him (Vik) to express my appreciation, and he wrote back. His web site doesn't seem to be on the net any more, however.
Ah, well, that explains it - I haven't been here long enough for a big hurricane (nor will I be), and haven't had any serious power outages. Thanks for the info.
Would mod up if I had points - good analysis, came to say some of the same, and I hope he appreciates your time. Honestly, if I had a stack of 50 resumes and wasn't hiring for something like a game testing position, I'd be done at the "pro gamer" bit - not because of it per se, but because of its prominence.
I've also had recruiters modify a resume given in Word format, so will only send them PDFs (for now, since they're not usually competent to find it, I still have a Word format resume available on my site). One was a material change that claimed experience I did not have; I only heard about it because an interviewer read it to me over the phone, and I told them that was added by the recruiter.
But you probably didn't go to b-school with the government regulator in charge of allocating bailout money, and your fathers don't sit on the same boards nor your mothers on the same charities; so when you put your hat out for bailout money, by the time they get to you there's none left. There's your difference.
I live in Florida (for about another week) - in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area. Perhaps I haven't driven around the state enough - I've been down to the Everglades and Keys and up through Jacksonville but not much to the interior. Can you tell me more about Florida's infrastructure problems? Perhaps I'm biased by the area I'm in, but it seems reasonable enough. What's missing/substandard?
Translating "Should Bitcoin Be Regulated?" into its plain meaning, that is, "Should peaceful Bitcoin users be threatened with harm, or harmed?" should yield the answer almost immediately: of course not, any more than any other peaceful people should be harmed, whether they want to sell or consume "large" sodas, trade or manufacture "high" (standard) capacity firearm magazines, use drugs, give food to the hungry, or engage in any other pursuit that is not directly harmful to other people or property. How can it ever be right to so threaten and harm peaceful individuals? And is not all regulation such a threat - give us money or we will harm you (take the money by force, cage you, murder you if you resist); conform to our requirements, even though you do no harm, or we will harm you? There is no case where such harm is justified.
I run qmail for sending/receiving mail (on Gentoo; netqmail package), using maildir, of course. On top of that, I run the Courier IMAP server on my internal network (with TLS encryption). Until a few months ago I used Mutt as a client (console-based), but I've moved to using Roundcube (web-based email), which I initially installed for my wife, and have been happy with it. I also have some automatic filtering to folders via Maildrop (another Courier utility; it looks at a ~/.mailfilter file to route mail).
Roundcube/the IMAP server's search is OK most of the time - I keep my inbox small and move older mail to sub-folders - when I want to do advanced searches or search large mailboxes I log in and grep through folders of interest; this works well with the maildir format with one file per message. Maildir was also quite resilient when I had a HD crash and needed to recover some lost mail (block scan for blocks that look like mail headers found most missing items, and I do better backups now - mail is under ~/.maildir and gets backed up automatically).
I would move older messages to maildir (there are plenty of mbox converters, and almost anything non-proprietary should be convertible to mbox or maildir via existing programs or a short perl script) - even if at some point maildir dies off entirely, which seems unlikely, converting it to another format will always be trivial due to its simplicity and it has the advantages mentioned above of being able to search easily with grep etc.
I still wouldn't be in favor of them (if someone's no longer locked up why continue to infringe their rights? - especially if they weren't violent), but such a bill might do even better if, in addition to guaranteed destruction, the checks were free (the government wants the checks; why should I have to pay for them?) and guaranteed to give a result in a timely manner or automatically passed (so they can't effect a ban on private sale by stalling on implementing the system or implementing it poorly) and, on a failure, they were required to divulge precisely why (without giving any sort of runaround) and allow for an appeals process (same as for dealer sales). The state is fully of tricky evil bastards, and you have to nail their foot to the floor so they don't use such a requirement as an excuse to infringe even further than adding such checks already would.
In the US, the lower receiver is considered the firearm for most legal purposes (it is the part that has the serial number and requires a background check if bought new or from a dealer), whereas barrels (part of the upper receiver, or just "upper"), at this time, do not, and can be, for example, bought through the mail or at a store with no infringing background or ID check. One can buy a barrel of barrels and then print lowers (and magazines if standard capacity magazines become banned) for them without getting any sort of permission from the state, and assemble a firearm. (For nitpickers, you do of course need more than just an upper and lower, but those other parts, such as the trigger assembly, can also be ordered without state interference.)
Oh? It's unfair that you wouldn't have to pay damages for something they couldn't prove you did? Really?
I can't prove that you sold 30,000 unapproved copies of Microsoft Office on the street corner yesterday, so it's OK that you be made to pay as if you did? Or perhaps it's only OK if I can prove you sold one copy?
They sound a little like "newspapers"—do you know that some companies actually make money from printing out news websites and selling the copy? Astounding, right?
Books for university cost a bundle because they kind of have you over a barrel, so to speak, by specifying a particular book (and sometimes edition), but you can still buy used. But if you're educating yourself, certainly an admirable thing, it'll take you a long time to exhaust the computer science material available for free online.
You may not like it, but recruiters tend to prefer a Word-format resume. (In part, I think, because it's easier for them to remove your contact information so that principals don't contact you directly, and monkey with it in other ways - they can do this with HTML, too, and PDF, but it's more difficult.) I get ideological purity (although given that.doc and.docx are both fairly open it's not so relevant), but be aware it may be a tradeoff. (Also: in before "I wouldn't want to work for anyone that wanted a Word resume anyway.")
Personally, I have a link to both a PDF and a Word (.docx) resume on my site. I used to have a plain text version, but nobody cared, so I yanked it; and I prefer providing PDF to HTML and both are equally accessible these days.
To add to what you said about contracting, which I think is right on (would have modded up if I had points), there are also different ways contractors can be paid (in the US): W2, 1099, or corp-to-corp (c2c). I found this page (I am not the author) which has an excellent summary of the three, pros and cons, and the tax implications, including some worked examples. Basically W2 is the easiest for tax purposes (but the rate will usually be lower because the company is paying more taxes), 1099 might draw the attention of the IRS, and corp-to-corp is a little more difficult to set up but probably a good idea if you plan to be contracting long term.
1.5x may be right for 1099 or c2c, but for W2, taxes will be the same but you do have to factor in benefits (including vacation and sick days which won't usually be paid). Given a W2 rate, figure for, say, 48 or 49 weeks (allowing 3-4 weeks unpaid vacation/sick) and check rates for getting your own healthcare (both premiums and what you may need to pay out of pocket; if you have been employed FT, look at what your insurance paid on your behalf in the last few years and average, and account for expensive items like having a kid). We've been (2 of us, no kids) using $12k/year as a round figure, and neither of us has any unusual conditions/diseases. For example: $75/hour = 75 x 40 (they usually won't let you bill more than 40 hours without approval regardless) x 48 - 12k = 132k equivalent salaried. (And I'm not factoring in some things like having access to a 401k plan, extra accounting costs, or, that medical coverage is deducted from salaried paychecks, which may reduce the 12k a little.) So in this case compared to a "naive" 75 x 40 x 52 = 156k, the ratio is closer to 1.2x.
Sure. Update your resume and start pounding the pavement (make use of any contacts you might have first, then hit the usual online boards). Or strike out on your own (maybe take a few friends with you, depending on what you signed when you started) and build web apps as a contractor.
Fact remains that your best chance at a pay (and maybe responsibility) increase is to switch employers.
If you're set on staying where you are, the same kinds of things that you would do to make yourself look good on a resume (e.g., enumerate your accomplishments in terms that can be seen to relate to a company's bottom line - not necessarily in a dollars and cents-specific manner, but in way that makes clear what you built or directed and how you took responsibility) can also help you when talking to your manager.
If you're strictly looking for a raise, first do some research about prevailing pay rates (check ads; check GlassDoor) - if you're underpaid, you have an easier case (you can also try talking to friends at work - good friends, as pay tends to be something people don't talk about and management encourages not talking about it for obvious reasons). Either way, you want to present a case that has something for them, too. Saying "I think I deserve a raise" doesn't help much and creates defensiveness. Better to come to an agreement about a goal. Ramit Sethi has some great advice in How to Hack Your Day Job (short article and a couple of videos).
If you're looking for a promotion, and not so much the money, you still want to proceed along the same lines, but first consider whether the company has openings at the level you're looking at. If you want to go from, say, developer to senior developer, that's likely not a problem since the company defines what "senior developer" means, and you can help yourself by examining others at that level and trying to do what they do as well as you can within the constraints of your present position. However, moving to a lead/manager position will require an opening. For any promotion, try to take on more responsibility where you are - volunteer to write requirements documents, coordinate builds, create tools and processes that streamline or automate poor processes. Keep a log of these accomplishments, even if it's just in a text file, so you can present specific reasons when discussing advancement.
A book I'm reading now called Dinosaur Brains (Albert J. Bernstein) has some interesting observations about office politics and psychology and it may be helpful to you. Avoiding "office politics" isn't really an option, but you can participate on your own terms. Seth Godin's books—Lynchpin (on being indispensable), in particular, in your case, and perhaps The Dip—will also be helpful and help you marshal your arguments and perhaps give you a push to move forward or move on to somewhere that can better use your talents.
I considered using EverNote at one point, but my concern was offline availability (for personal use on my laptop) and security (for use at work). I didn't think management would be happy with me storing proprietary/confidential data on someone else's remote server, so I stuck with OneNote. (I also didn't realistically think they'd get broken into, to be honest, just thought it would be frowned upon. Sometimes paranoia works for you.)
I have looked into several open source alternate note-taking programs, but none of them worked for me as well as OneNote - some were too clunky, didn't have decent search, didn't do quick page hyperlinks, poor formatting, whatever. (Full disclosure: I used to work for Microsoft, which is where I started using OneNote - it was free for internal use - but I stuck with it after I left because it really is a great product.) I would be ecstatic to learn of a free/open source note-taking program that had parity with OneNote, but I haven't found one.
Srsly? If the US government is launching nuclear missiles at its own cities, it's already lost. If the military isn't against the state already, it will be when their friends and families are killed by WMDs launched by their employer. OTOH, even if the freedom fighters get hold of a nuke of any decent size, there's not much they can do with it without turning everyone against them, except perhaps use it as a deterrent to attack (which makes for an interesting plot; ask Kenneth W. Royce, although it was just conventional missiles in his book). There is a reason why Rothbard viewed nukes as a separate class of weapon - not merely a different degree, but of kind, due to the indiscriminate damage they do.
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Oh, the ironing is delicious.
Not just jurors; for anything short of a felony, let the victim, er, I mean defendant, remote in too.
A lot of people, especially poorer and with more time-demanding jobs (think retail, fast food, etc. compared to office jobs where in many it's no big deal if you're gone half a day if you make up the time) or less ability to travel (gas is cheaper now, but not free, or many may not have a car and in most of the US public transit is lousy) just can't fight even basic traffic tickets and have to pay the fine and increased insurance costs. They can't wait around for the entire day to be called at 4:59pm.If they could attend remotely (wouldn't even need to be from their computer; friend or library or pay-for-use station at FedEx may work too) that would make it easier to attend.
Of course, making it easier to fight them would make it more likely that the state would lose, and so they'd never go for it. But it might get a trial in more adventurous/advanced locations such as New Hampshire.
I have turned down offers in part because I'd be in an open layout office. In one case I would have had a couple feet of desk space at a long desk in a huge room. Heck, since he's mentioned in the article header and it was a few years back I don't mind saying it was at Bloomberg, doing C++ development; the work appeared great and the people that interviewed me seemed to know their stuff; and recently (so obviously it wouldn't have impacted me back then, but as a point of interest) I saw a couple of John Lakos's CppCon presentations and was singing with the choir. I took an offer much further south with an office (with a window, even). The NYC recruiting company managing the on-site interviews was not happy at this election, and tried to stiff me out of my travel reimbursement, but we worked it out.
Since Microsoft I've been spoiled for cubes (I've heard some of their newer buildings are cubes; I was in Office) and I won't say not having an office would always be a deal-breaker but pretty close to it. When my present company was in temporary space I had a cube with loud people making free to strike up random conversations or phone calls just outside it and it drove me absolutely bonkers; I even went home to work a couple times. Now I have an office as we had agreed on before coming on full time and things are much better.
Have you read any history at all? Ever? Not only have majorities had the government enslave and assist with enslaving, they have also had their governments carry out genocides and mass murder. The majority can do these things, and has done these things, both in theory and in fact.
It's good to see another former Amstrad user here. I started with a CPC464 with green screen and cassette - I think my dad traded it for a CD player or something - and eventually he got a CPC6128 with the color monitor and disk drive (360k - x2 - of sheer luxury!). I taught myself to program Basic to start then I got the firmware manual and a book of assembler opcodes and started in on Z80 machine code for sprites and such. Eventually I got an assembler, Maxam (sheer luxury again).
I also got ACU (Amstrad Computer User) with the Hairy Hacker's column in it; and a few years ago I actually contacted him (Vik) to express my appreciation, and he wrote back. His web site doesn't seem to be on the net any more, however.
Ah, well, that explains it - I haven't been here long enough for a big hurricane (nor will I be), and haven't had any serious power outages. Thanks for the info.
Would mod up if I had points - good analysis, came to say some of the same, and I hope he appreciates your time. Honestly, if I had a stack of 50 resumes and wasn't hiring for something like a game testing position, I'd be done at the "pro gamer" bit - not because of it per se, but because of its prominence.
I've also had recruiters modify a resume given in Word format, so will only send them PDFs (for now, since they're not usually competent to find it, I still have a Word format resume available on my site). One was a material change that claimed experience I did not have; I only heard about it because an interviewer read it to me over the phone, and I told them that was added by the recruiter.
But you probably didn't go to b-school with the government regulator in charge of allocating bailout money, and your fathers don't sit on the same boards nor your mothers on the same charities; so when you put your hat out for bailout money, by the time they get to you there's none left. There's your difference.
I live in Florida (for about another week) - in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area. Perhaps I haven't driven around the state enough - I've been down to the Everglades and Keys and up through Jacksonville but not much to the interior. Can you tell me more about Florida's infrastructure problems? Perhaps I'm biased by the area I'm in, but it seems reasonable enough. What's missing/substandard?
Translating "Should Bitcoin Be Regulated?" into its plain meaning, that is, "Should peaceful Bitcoin users be threatened with harm, or harmed?" should yield the answer almost immediately: of course not, any more than any other peaceful people should be harmed, whether they want to sell or consume "large" sodas, trade or manufacture "high" (standard) capacity firearm magazines, use drugs, give food to the hungry, or engage in any other pursuit that is not directly harmful to other people or property. How can it ever be right to so threaten and harm peaceful individuals? And is not all regulation such a threat - give us money or we will harm you (take the money by force, cage you, murder you if you resist); conform to our requirements, even though you do no harm, or we will harm you? There is no case where such harm is justified.
I run qmail for sending/receiving mail (on Gentoo; netqmail package), using maildir, of course. On top of that, I run the Courier IMAP server on my internal network (with TLS encryption). Until a few months ago I used Mutt as a client (console-based), but I've moved to using Roundcube (web-based email), which I initially installed for my wife, and have been happy with it. I also have some automatic filtering to folders via Maildrop (another Courier utility; it looks at a ~/.mailfilter file to route mail).
Roundcube/the IMAP server's search is OK most of the time - I keep my inbox small and move older mail to sub-folders - when I want to do advanced searches or search large mailboxes I log in and grep through folders of interest; this works well with the maildir format with one file per message. Maildir was also quite resilient when I had a HD crash and needed to recover some lost mail (block scan for blocks that look like mail headers found most missing items, and I do better backups now - mail is under ~/.maildir and gets backed up automatically).
I would move older messages to maildir (there are plenty of mbox converters, and almost anything non-proprietary should be convertible to mbox or maildir via existing programs or a short perl script) - even if at some point maildir dies off entirely, which seems unlikely, converting it to another format will always be trivial due to its simplicity and it has the advantages mentioned above of being able to search easily with grep etc.
Firearms are a subset of arms. You fail basic set theory.
Where does it say "small arms"?
I still wouldn't be in favor of them (if someone's no longer locked up why continue to infringe their rights? - especially if they weren't violent), but such a bill might do even better if, in addition to guaranteed destruction, the checks were free (the government wants the checks; why should I have to pay for them?) and guaranteed to give a result in a timely manner or automatically passed (so they can't effect a ban on private sale by stalling on implementing the system or implementing it poorly) and, on a failure, they were required to divulge precisely why (without giving any sort of runaround) and allow for an appeals process (same as for dealer sales). The state is fully of tricky evil bastards, and you have to nail their foot to the floor so they don't use such a requirement as an excuse to infringe even further than adding such checks already would.
In the US, the lower receiver is considered the firearm for most legal purposes (it is the part that has the serial number and requires a background check if bought new or from a dealer), whereas barrels (part of the upper receiver, or just "upper"), at this time, do not, and can be, for example, bought through the mail or at a store with no infringing background or ID check. One can buy a barrel of barrels and then print lowers (and magazines if standard capacity magazines become banned) for them without getting any sort of permission from the state, and assemble a firearm. (For nitpickers, you do of course need more than just an upper and lower, but those other parts, such as the trigger assembly, can also be ordered without state interference.)
Oh? It's unfair that you wouldn't have to pay damages for something they couldn't prove you did? Really?
I can't prove that you sold 30,000 unapproved copies of Microsoft Office on the street corner yesterday, so it's OK that you be made to pay as if you did? Or perhaps it's only OK if I can prove you sold one copy?
Mod parent up - nothing at all is taken when a copy is made.
What are these "books" of which you speak?
They sound a little like "newspapers"—do you know that some companies actually make money from printing out news websites and selling the copy? Astounding, right?
Books for university cost a bundle because they kind of have you over a barrel, so to speak, by specifying a particular book (and sometimes edition), but you can still buy used. But if you're educating yourself, certainly an admirable thing, it'll take you a long time to exhaust the computer science material available for free online.
I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
You may not like it, but recruiters tend to prefer a Word-format resume. (In part, I think, because it's easier for them to remove your contact information so that principals don't contact you directly, and monkey with it in other ways - they can do this with HTML, too, and PDF, but it's more difficult.) I get ideological purity (although given that .doc and .docx are both fairly open it's not so relevant), but be aware it may be a tradeoff. (Also: in before "I wouldn't want to work for anyone that wanted a Word resume anyway.")
Personally, I have a link to both a PDF and a Word (.docx) resume on my site. I used to have a plain text version, but nobody cared, so I yanked it; and I prefer providing PDF to HTML and both are equally accessible these days.
To add to what you said about contracting, which I think is right on (would have modded up if I had points), there are also different ways contractors can be paid (in the US): W2, 1099, or corp-to-corp (c2c). I found this page (I am not the author) which has an excellent summary of the three, pros and cons, and the tax implications, including some worked examples. Basically W2 is the easiest for tax purposes (but the rate will usually be lower because the company is paying more taxes), 1099 might draw the attention of the IRS, and corp-to-corp is a little more difficult to set up but probably a good idea if you plan to be contracting long term.
1.5x may be right for 1099 or c2c, but for W2, taxes will be the same but you do have to factor in benefits (including vacation and sick days which won't usually be paid). Given a W2 rate, figure for, say, 48 or 49 weeks (allowing 3-4 weeks unpaid vacation/sick) and check rates for getting your own healthcare (both premiums and what you may need to pay out of pocket; if you have been employed FT, look at what your insurance paid on your behalf in the last few years and average, and account for expensive items like having a kid). We've been (2 of us, no kids) using $12k/year as a round figure, and neither of us has any unusual conditions/diseases. For example: $75/hour = 75 x 40 (they usually won't let you bill more than 40 hours without approval regardless) x 48 - 12k = 132k equivalent salaried. (And I'm not factoring in some things like having access to a 401k plan, extra accounting costs, or, that medical coverage is deducted from salaried paychecks, which may reduce the 12k a little.) So in this case compared to a "naive" 75 x 40 x 52 = 156k, the ratio is closer to 1.2x.
Sure. Update your resume and start pounding the pavement (make use of any contacts you might have first, then hit the usual online boards). Or strike out on your own (maybe take a few friends with you, depending on what you signed when you started) and build web apps as a contractor.
Fact remains that your best chance at a pay (and maybe responsibility) increase is to switch employers.
If you're set on staying where you are, the same kinds of things that you would do to make yourself look good on a resume (e.g., enumerate your accomplishments in terms that can be seen to relate to a company's bottom line - not necessarily in a dollars and cents-specific manner, but in way that makes clear what you built or directed and how you took responsibility) can also help you when talking to your manager.
If you're strictly looking for a raise, first do some research about prevailing pay rates (check ads; check GlassDoor) - if you're underpaid, you have an easier case (you can also try talking to friends at work - good friends, as pay tends to be something people don't talk about and management encourages not talking about it for obvious reasons). Either way, you want to present a case that has something for them, too. Saying "I think I deserve a raise" doesn't help much and creates defensiveness. Better to come to an agreement about a goal. Ramit Sethi has some great advice in How to Hack Your Day Job (short article and a couple of videos).
If you're looking for a promotion, and not so much the money, you still want to proceed along the same lines, but first consider whether the company has openings at the level you're looking at. If you want to go from, say, developer to senior developer, that's likely not a problem since the company defines what "senior developer" means, and you can help yourself by examining others at that level and trying to do what they do as well as you can within the constraints of your present position. However, moving to a lead/manager position will require an opening. For any promotion, try to take on more responsibility where you are - volunteer to write requirements documents, coordinate builds, create tools and processes that streamline or automate poor processes. Keep a log of these accomplishments, even if it's just in a text file, so you can present specific reasons when discussing advancement.
A book I'm reading now called Dinosaur Brains (Albert J. Bernstein) has some interesting observations about office politics and psychology and it may be helpful to you. Avoiding "office politics" isn't really an option, but you can participate on your own terms. Seth Godin's books—Lynchpin (on being indispensable), in particular, in your case, and perhaps The Dip—will also be helpful and help you marshal your arguments and perhaps give you a push to move forward or move on to somewhere that can better use your talents.
I considered using EverNote at one point, but my concern was offline availability (for personal use on my laptop) and security (for use at work). I didn't think management would be happy with me storing proprietary/confidential data on someone else's remote server, so I stuck with OneNote. (I also didn't realistically think they'd get broken into, to be honest, just thought it would be frowned upon. Sometimes paranoia works for you.)
I have looked into several open source alternate note-taking programs, but none of them worked for me as well as OneNote - some were too clunky, didn't have decent search, didn't do quick page hyperlinks, poor formatting, whatever. (Full disclosure: I used to work for Microsoft, which is where I started using OneNote - it was free for internal use - but I stuck with it after I left because it really is a great product.) I would be ecstatic to learn of a free/open source note-taking program that had parity with OneNote, but I haven't found one.
Srsly? If the US government is launching nuclear missiles at its own cities, it's already lost. If the military isn't against the state already, it will be when their friends and families are killed by WMDs launched by their employer. OTOH, even if the freedom fighters get hold of a nuke of any decent size, there's not much they can do with it without turning everyone against them, except perhaps use it as a deterrent to attack (which makes for an interesting plot; ask Kenneth W. Royce, although it was just conventional missiles in his book). There is a reason why Rothbard viewed nukes as a separate class of weapon - not merely a different degree, but of kind, due to the indiscriminate damage they do.
A distinction without a difference; and it's no difficulty for them to also plant drugs on the boat and then keep the proceeds of their theft.