Why? Everyone's on the same playing field. You have to convince them you're worth a month of PTO just like the next guy, which means whichever one of you is the better candidate will get the job. Just like here.

Citation Needed.

BTW, correlation does not equal causation. There was a murder in my city this morning. And the sun came up this morning. That the two happened at the same time does not mean one caused the other.

First off, I agree with you that MMO's are grindfests, and that grinding just isn't very much fun no matter how they couch it. EVE has perhaps the best idea, in that your character gains XP just by being there. You don't have to do anything, and can just get on with the game. The downside to that is that anyone can be a high level as long as they don't quit before they automatically get the level, which means that the morons who want everything handed to them can be right there with the serious gameplay people.

But what you wrote can be applied to just about any video game, from Pac-Man on up. Even an intensely story-driven game like KOTOR still had leveling, and there were parts of the game that were difficult to get through unless you decided to grind by killing the same guys over and over again to advance your level, or your money, or whatever you needed at the time.

Thank you.

Of course non-PC devices are selling faster than PC's right now. Almost everyone already has a PC, so there isn't a large group going out in the same time period to buy one. The same can't be said about tablets and smartphones.

Then you have a lousy rear view camera. The one on my TL is a wide-angle lens. I can see the entire aisle when I'm backing out of a parking spot, which means I can see cars coming that I could not see if I were just looking back and to the sides because my view would be blocked by the SUV next to me. And if you use the camera in conjunction with the sideview mirrors, you can use it to park. I do all the time.

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/sugarmans/Wendy%20TortStoryFinal%20ii.doc

I recommend starting on page 12. The stuff leading up to that is lengthy discussion that doesn't really talk about the relevant case, Bodine v. Enterprise High School

Yeah, I thought of that. Well, actually I thought of the lobster example but yours is equally valid. You'd have to have those live goods in containers before you put them in the capsule. The container could have an RFID that tells the capsule that the life form inside is supposed to be in there. It would also probably be fairly trivial to limit the bio detection to mammals only - - a lobster or a live fish is not going to have the same temperature readings as a person. Then further limit the biodetection to something weighing more than whatever the average toddler weighs and you'd even be able to transport squirrels and possums to the local southern restaurant ;)

The trouble is that our society has decided that protecting idiots from themselves is not only the right thing to do, but legally mandated. The whole reason all those moronic warning labels are on everything (Do not drive vehicle with sunshade in place. Do not eat silicon moisture absorber in the stereo box. Do not spray water into electrical outlet.) is because somewhere, someone actually did whatever it's warning you against, and sued, and won.

In our society a burglar who falls through a skylight can sue the homeowner and has a good chance of winning. The same will happen here. Even though everyone knows the little moron shouldn't have been there, and that our gene pool will be far better off without him polluting it with his inevitably mentally deficient offspring, his estate will still collect a lot of money over it.

That's going to be the biggest problem if this system goes live. Not the terrorist crap, but morons looking for a free roller coaster ride. They'll probably have to put some sort of bio sensor inside the capsules that will stop it from moving if there's something alive inside.

The flip side to that is that when the peacock is inflated, the thinking will be "Well hell! I got plenty'a cash! Think I'll buy that useless $100 widget after all!"

Education doesn't help. People do dumb things all the time despite having been "educated" that they're dumb. We all know it's dumb to tailgate, but the majority of drivers do it all the time.

As they say in the south, "you can't fix stupid."

It does try to address a legitimate problem, but I think people will get them with good intentions and then a month or two later end up bypassing the alerts. If I set myself a monthly budget of 2 grand, but I have 4 coming in, I'm eventually going to get annoyed at the hard-to-open wallet.

Do you happen to know if this includes the unlimited Droid plan, which is currently required if you get a Droid, and which unlike their normal 5GB "unlimited" plan is actually unlimited.

I agree, to a point. Just unlocking a phone should not be illegal. Unlocking a phone with intent to sell stolen merchandise should be.

There are plenty of things that you can do as long as you're doing them without criminal intent:

You can cross state lines all you want, but if you do it during or preparatory to the commission of a crime, the crossing of state lines becomes criminal.

Buying Sudafed is perfectly legal, unless you're buying it to make meth, and so on.

Doubtless. The point was that Miranda decided that being ignorant of your rights, in that case your right to an attorney, was, in fact, an excuse and that the state was responsible for informing you of your rights.

In this case, if he pled guilty without realizing he was pleading guilty to a nonexistent crime, I think it could be argued that it was the state's responsibility to admit that what he did isn't illegal.