Here in AZ, all kinds of stores sell hard liquor, stocked in bottles out on open shelves. Even Wal-Mart. I can't think of a grocery store or even a gas station that doesn't sell liquor, and by liquor I mean hard liquor, not beer and wine. Sure, they are generally strict about carding and whatnot, but the idea that it would be under lock and key for any purpose aside from loss prevention really surprises me, and the idea of a CCTV monitor bothers me a whole lot more. Also the card swipe. I would very much like for this kind of purchase to be anonymous, as far as the state is concerned. I suppose it's ok for the clerk to check my ID, but not to record it.
For some information, it is a privilege for the producer to have a medium via which he can disseminate that information. Being a privilege of benefit primarily to himself, he should be willing to pay for whatever costs are involved.
For other information, it is a privilege for the consumer to have access to it. In this case, the consumer should be willing to pay or provide something in return for the privilege.
Problems arise in the first case when the producer takes the opinion that he is providing some valuable service to a consumer, as opposed to himself.
Problems arise in the second case when the consumer would be happy to exchange something in return for content or for use of a medium, but faces the problem of limited or nonexistent options for doing that.
We tend to come around again and again to marginally adequate solutions, such as "eyes on advertisements" or "micropayments" or "exchange of personal or demographic data". Here is where a visionary genius is welcome to solve the problem in some revolutionary way. Any volunteers?
Why haven't you remapped your capslock to ctrl? You *have* your wish. Those of us who cut our teeth on Sun keyboards tend to think of Caps Lock as a Ctrl anyway.
I touch type in French. The very idea of copy and pasting characters that way would be absolutely horrible. Think of writing 20,000 words per day with your method and get back to me.
French typing is high on the list of reasons I love my Mac. For me, it is simply the most intuitive input system for accented characters. I have long wished that I could emulate the Mac option key input method in Linux.
I can't remember the last job I had that made any kind of distinction between "sick" days, "personal" days, and "vacation" days. The only threshold was if you were into "short term disability claims" territory.
I think you could revolutionize MMO gaming by acknowledging those groups as the actual character classes, instead of trying to make a game work in spite of them.
For me, the big problem that made me end up quitting WoW was the fact that I just don't enjoy group play among group members who don't respect each other.
But there were other problems, chief among them being the fact that "12 million players" doesn't mean you can find nine on your realm to form a team. It became so incredibly difficult (e.g., not possible) to even make a 10-man team that I quit trying. There might be millions of subscribers overall, but on your realm? A couple thousand, with maybe a thousand of them able to run end-game content. Divide them among the 40 or so guilds and then take into account the whole situation of lockout (which I realize may be better in Cata), and even if you make a point of running your raid when the server starts, you are very lucky to get any kind of group.
Organizing for a 25-man ongoing effort turns out to be as hard as organizing a small business with 25 employees. People do manage it, and I do not envy them.
Trouble is, pretty much any jury would agree that civil asset forfeiture was reasonable, appropriate, and necessary in this case. I would argue strongly to the contrary, but then, I will never, ever be selected for jury. The magazines I subscribe to are enough to exclude me from any voir dire.
>To me, the really surprising thing is that this guy had a gardener.
I have a guy that cuts my grass and trims my foliage every three weeks for $45.00. I consider it a bargain. I think that qualifies as me "having a gardner" by the standards of the article.
I haven't seen human trials on pregnant subjects in the first trimester, to assess effects on the undeveloped fetus. Keep in mind, these subjects often don't know they are pregnant. I've never even seen where anyone in the media or in government has raised this particular concern. Everyone is worried about the privacy aspect, or about the X-ray exposure to adults. Nobody, as far as I know, has framed this discussion in terms of the rights of the unborn.
Yeah, because it's not funny to point out that in a first approximation, less than 5% of the population is more than two standard deviations from average intelligence.
I loved George Carlin, but I just get tired of hearing that joke vectored as some kind of meaningful insight.
The hardcore puritans also fall in the lower economic brackets -- brackets that almost never travel by air.
The air traveler represents a pretty bizarre cross-section, but really only about 20% of Americans take more than one round trip flight in a year. A lot of people never fly on a plane in their lives, which seems weird to those of us who travel often.
I'd be surprised if airplanes are even a target anymore. The logical point to strike would be the airport screening area. Thousands of people in a choke point, massive psychological coup, and just how would the people obsessed with security respond to that?
>I think one issue is that the majority of people don't fly.
Far fewer than 20% of Americans fly as often as once per year. Remember the "poll" that said "80% of Americans were fine with the new TSA screening procedures? That made me laugh a little for two reasons: Almost nobody had actually experienced the new procedures by then, and, polling the general population is a meaningless sample.
>They have a lot more latitude nowadays to lock you up for "suspicion" of crimes
Well, even then "They" have to be at least somewhat specific as to the crimes. This is especially true if "They" hope to extradite a suspect from someplace like Sweden.
>If his identity was a secret, he'd meet a tragic accident very quickly
If his identity were *secret*, those who would arrange "accidents" would have no target.
On the other hand, if these diplomats were living in the 21st century themselves, they might have known to use some form of effective cryptography. The fact that people call them "cables" makes me wonder if they are even in the 20th century yet.
Everything released by Wikileaks so far has also been released by the New York Times, with the same redactions, and the times did so with the consent of the State Department for everything they published. I don't understand what crime you could charge Assange with, that wouldn't also implicate the New York Times, in a conspiracy with the State Department no less.
I'd bet that before a report of his death reached the wire services, there would be torrents of keys to wildly more embarrassing information than has been seen thus far.
I'd have this kind of dead-man switch, absolutely.
It's extremely unusual, in the overall picture. My school didn't even offer anything like this. It's just as well for me, since I took an early SAT, scored high enough to get a full scholarship and early admission, and just went to college instead of taking a fourth year of high school. Best decision I ever made.
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Here in AZ, all kinds of stores sell hard liquor, stocked in bottles out on open shelves. Even Wal-Mart. I can't think of a grocery store or even a gas station that doesn't sell liquor, and by liquor I mean hard liquor, not beer and wine. Sure, they are generally strict about carding and whatnot, but the idea that it would be under lock and key for any purpose aside from loss prevention really surprises me, and the idea of a CCTV monitor bothers me a whole lot more. Also the card swipe. I would very much like for this kind of purchase to be anonymous, as far as the state is concerned. I suppose it's ok for the clerk to check my ID, but not to record it.
For some information, it is a privilege for the producer to have a medium via which he can disseminate that information. Being a privilege of benefit primarily to himself, he should be willing to pay for whatever costs are involved.
For other information, it is a privilege for the consumer to have access to it. In this case, the consumer should be willing to pay or provide something in return for the privilege.
Problems arise in the first case when the producer takes the opinion that he is providing some valuable service to a consumer, as opposed to himself.
Problems arise in the second case when the consumer would be happy to exchange something in return for content or for use of a medium, but faces the problem of limited or nonexistent options for doing that.
We tend to come around again and again to marginally adequate solutions, such as "eyes on advertisements" or "micropayments" or "exchange of personal or demographic data". Here is where a visionary genius is welcome to solve the problem in some revolutionary way. Any volunteers?
Why haven't you remapped your capslock to ctrl? You *have* your wish. Those of us who cut our teeth on Sun keyboards tend to think of Caps Lock as a Ctrl anyway.
I touch type in French. The very idea of copy and pasting characters that way would be absolutely horrible. Think of writing 20,000 words per day with your method and get back to me.
French typing is high on the list of reasons I love my Mac. For me, it is simply the most intuitive input system for accented characters. I have long wished that I could emulate the Mac option key input method in Linux.
I can't remember the last job I had that made any kind of distinction between "sick" days, "personal" days, and "vacation" days. The only threshold was if you were into "short term disability claims" territory.
I think you could revolutionize MMO gaming by acknowledging those groups as the actual character classes, instead of trying to make a game work in spite of them.
For me, the big problem that made me end up quitting WoW was the fact that I just don't enjoy group play among group members who don't respect each other.
But there were other problems, chief among them being the fact that "12 million players" doesn't mean you can find nine on your realm to form a team. It became so incredibly difficult (e.g., not possible) to even make a 10-man team that I quit trying. There might be millions of subscribers overall, but on your realm? A couple thousand, with maybe a thousand of them able to run end-game content. Divide them among the 40 or so guilds and then take into account the whole situation of lockout (which I realize may be better in Cata), and even if you make a point of running your raid when the server starts, you are very lucky to get any kind of group.
Organizing for a 25-man ongoing effort turns out to be as hard as organizing a small business with 25 employees. People do manage it, and I do not envy them.
Trouble is, pretty much any jury would agree that civil asset forfeiture was reasonable, appropriate, and necessary in this case.
I would argue strongly to the contrary, but then, I will never, ever be selected for jury. The magazines I subscribe to are enough to exclude me from any voir dire.
>To me, the really surprising thing is that this guy had a gardener.
I have a guy that cuts my grass and trims my foliage every three weeks for $45.00. I consider it a bargain. I think that qualifies as me "having a gardner" by the standards of the article.
Are you personally volunteering to do it, or are you expecting someone else to volunteer in your place?
>The owner is responsible for their property.
How responsible? As in, "not indemnified against a conspiracy charge?"
"Should have known", perhaps?
Where is the transition between "virtual bomb-making factory" and "bomb-making factory?"
I haven't seen human trials on pregnant subjects in the first trimester, to assess effects on the undeveloped fetus.
Keep in mind, these subjects often don't know they are pregnant. I've never even seen where anyone in the media or in government has raised this particular concern. Everyone is worried about the privacy aspect, or about the X-ray exposure to adults. Nobody, as far as I know, has framed this discussion in terms of the rights of the unborn.
Yeah, because it's not funny to point out that in a first approximation, less than 5% of the population is more than two standard deviations from average intelligence.
I loved George Carlin, but I just get tired of hearing that joke vectored as some kind of meaningful insight.
The hardcore puritans also fall in the lower economic brackets -- brackets that almost never travel by air.
The air traveler represents a pretty bizarre cross-section, but really only about 20% of Americans take more than one round trip flight in a year. A lot of people never fly on a plane in their lives, which seems weird to those of us who travel often.
I'd be surprised if airplanes are even a target anymore. The logical point to strike would be the airport screening area. Thousands of people in a choke point, massive psychological coup, and just how would the people obsessed with security respond to that?
>I think one issue is that the majority of people don't fly.
Far fewer than 20% of Americans fly as often as once per year. Remember the "poll" that said "80% of Americans were fine with the new TSA screening procedures? That made me laugh a little for two reasons: Almost nobody had actually experienced the new procedures by then, and, polling the general population is a meaningless sample.
>They have a lot more latitude nowadays to lock you up for "suspicion" of crimes
Well, even then "They" have to be at least somewhat specific as to the crimes. This is especially true if "They" hope to extradite a suspect from someplace like Sweden.
>If his identity was a secret, he'd meet a tragic accident very quickly
If his identity were *secret*, those who would arrange "accidents" would have no target.
On the other hand, if these diplomats were living in the 21st century themselves, they might have known to use some form of effective cryptography. The fact that people call them "cables" makes me wonder if they are even in the 20th century yet.
>There is *no* explicit right to privacy in the Constitution
There should be. It's a concept that is as worthy of a Constitutional Amendment as anything I can think of.
Everything released by Wikileaks so far has also been released by the New York Times, with the same redactions, and the times did so with the consent of the State Department for everything they published. I don't understand what crime you could charge Assange with, that wouldn't also implicate the New York Times, in a conspiracy with the State Department no less.
I'd bet that before a report of his death reached the wire services, there would be torrents of keys to wildly more embarrassing information than has been seen thus far.
I'd have this kind of dead-man switch, absolutely.
I think it might be important to note that he's the kind of M.D. who ends up writing "papers", but isn't the kind of M.D. who is a "M.D., Ph.D."
There's a pretty obvious Peter Principle at work here.
If you've ever read The Principia, you've struggled through Isaac Newton reinventing calculus in every chapter.
>I tool AP Calculus my Junior year of HS.
It's extremely unusual, in the overall picture. My school didn't even offer anything like this. It's just as well for me, since I took an early SAT, scored high enough to get a full scholarship and early admission, and just went to college instead of taking a fourth year of high school. Best decision I ever made.