A forum that doesn't allow editing, at that. Must be why /. is doing so well - instead of modernizing the structure, they're modernizing the appearance.

An hour earlier than they got up the day before, of course. We mostly live in a world in which we don't observe apparent solar time, but zone-adjusted mean solar time. What we evolved to deal with doesn't change that.

DST is nothing more than collectively agreeing that we will get up and go home an hour earlier all summer long. Hence the traditional opposition in farming areas - farmers work on the sun, not the clock, and if every store closes an hour earlier, it is more difficult for them to get there after the farm work is done but before they close.

They're using regulations that strangled the communications infrastructure of the US telephone system for decades. The FCC position is more like a case of "there need to be some regulations, these are regulations, therefore we need to implement them". That and a general opposition to handing off Congress' duty to write the laws to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats is how a conservative can oppose them - better the devil you know...

Unfortunately, the main function of the Republican Party is to provide an outlet for people who aren't Democrats to feel like they have a voice without seriously impeding things the Democratic leadership wants to do. As an added bonus, the Democratic leadership can use them to explain to their wackier constituents why it was that they just weren't able to get said constituency's pet policy (that the Democratic leadership doesn't want to pass) through Congress. And I say that as someone who is more sympathetic to the R's than the D's.

Bad analogy. Fucking is the primary method of producing more virgins, and the state is just a corporation with an army.

Ah, but the problem isn't the idea of unions, it's unions as they exist in the US. Germany seems to have pretty good unions and labor law. American labor law was set up to build political machines more than to improve workers' lives.

Counterpoint: if you live in an area that begins to decline, renting means you have no albatross around your neck if you pick and leave.

As the saying goes, it's not enough to be smarter than every cop; you have to be smarter than all the cops put together.

MGI has a lot going for it. It's efficient as hell - cutting a check to every citizen once a month takes very few government employees. Everyone has free choice about how to spend the money. But there's the problem of assholes: what do you do when someone spends their MGI on crack? Do you let them starve or make them sleep on the streets? No, of course you don't, because we're not barbarians. So you introduce food stamps/EBT and subsidized/free housing. Pretty soon, you've re-created the entire modern welfare system, except that you now have MGI on top of it. Congratulations, you now have the worst of both worlds.

Renters do have a reasonable expectation of privacy within their curtilage, just as owners do - they have paid for exclusive, though time-limited, possession of a piece of property. As for filming guests in the home, ask a local lawyer.

You asked for an example. You got one. Move the goalposts much?

This might be how you think it should work, but that's not actually how it works.

I own a house. Name's on the deed and everything. In my house, I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". But nobody who visits my house does, even if I'm not there. And in any case, you vacate your "reasonable expectation of privacy" the moment you tell anyone else about your secret.

Uh, no, they don't. It does require an intent to harm, but if I pull out a gun and shoot you in the leg, intending to cripple but not kill you, and you die anyway, I will correctly be charged with murder. And in this case, the perp is quite likely guilty of felony murder.

Sure. Sal Culosi. He's a long way from the only one, it's epidemic. Read pretty much anything by Radley Balko to learn more.