When have you ever known cops to be reasonable?

My problem is with any law that allows me to be taken into custody for not proving my identity on demand while I'm on US soil. In a free country you don't make me prove anything, you prove I've done something wrong or you leave me the hell alone. This isn't about immigration, it is about ME. This is about the right to arrest me even though I have no legal obligation to prove my identity just to travel though public spaces.

In Arizona I am presumed guilty of violating the law. Forgive me if I'm not amused.

They'd just be lazy and vote to readopt the code as a whole every xx years. What you need is first automatic repeal of any provisions that are found unconstitutional after the appeals process, some municipalities have this, it would be best if all did along with all states and the federal government. Kansas still has consensual sodomy on the books, what the hell? Second all governments should have a rotating member committee for updating one section of their legal code per session so the whole thing would go through cleanup over every XX years, in a city it might be traffic laws one year, zoning laws the next year, for a state it might be hunting regulations one year, violent crimes the next year but always picking one chunk that can be reviewed, amended and put up for a vote per year.

It'd still require some judicious neglect though, someone who jaywalks in heavy traffic is creating a danger, someone who does it on a low traffic residential street it just saving time. Enforce the latter you're just being an ass. I don't care for the law is the law argument. I'm a firm believer in no harm no foul.

I didn't ask what you wanted. I don't care what you want any more than you care what I want. Cheap food is a benefit. You may not like it, you may see other problems, that's not MY problem. Undocumented workers do provide a benefit.

Demanding papers? You must be German. Show me your papers please.

I have. Cops suck.

Papers please citizen.

Enforcing every law, aside from somehow knowing them all, would grind the system to a halt. Discretion has been around for a long time. Could you imagine what would happen if every jaywalker got hauled into court? If everyone who went over the speed limit got a ticket?

We gain cheap food. When immigrant workers harvest crops for pocket change we get cheap food.

So you're saying people with CC permits commit felonies are dangerous thugs who trample on the rights of anyone who attracts their attention and like to shoot dogs?

Cops are the worst criminals out there. When a regular criminal commits a murder they get a trial, when a cop does it they get a medal.

Go ahead mod me down, I have excellent karma.

Another way to say rocket that will take you to the moon is ICBM. Every time you launch a spacecraft you're showing that you can put something big and heavy (like cold war era nukes) into space and drop them anywhere on the planet.

coconut milk gives you the runs, you lose more water than you gain.

Its not just those two, Webber has only got me steamed a couple of times and I'm a pretty hardcore liberal but if you look to the bench, some of their C team can be downright offensive. I have a personal rule for Baen, Google the author's name and see who they've pissed off. I don't tend to do that for Ave and Tor becuase I've found far few political anvils being dropped there. Those two seem to want a wide appeal in the genre while Baen is happy to let authors be a niche in a niche.

In the end its all a matter of personal taste but good to know what you're getting yourself into.

Hardcovers, except in the cases with a paperback only release are priced higher because they're trying to make back the costs of producing the book, author advance, editing, typesetting, printing etc. With success they move on to paperback, since the book is already a winner and the outlay is only typesetting and printing they have less to make back.

In some genres paperback is the norm especially for the authors who aren't at the top tier and the hardcover comes later. The first Dresden files book was a paperback release, The Deed of Paksenarrion was paperback and then trade paperback omnibus.