How about disabling the wi-fi during peak times when serving food becomes priority #1? You could even post a nice little sign saying something like: "In order to better service you, free Wi-Fi is available from XX:XX to YY:YY."
Or, you know, making the access available with purchases only, for a set period of time according to dollar amount spent. How about 15 minutes for every 5 dollars, with access codes printed right on the receipt? That seems to solve the problems of everyone worth mentioning. Hell they might even make money off the deal (but that's evil and wrong, amirite?)
How about recognizing the fact that there will soon be a serious incident occurring between an armed non-employee contractor and a potentially armed paying customer? How about de-escalating the situation before the government authorities come to do your job for you (however poorly)?
How about anything at all? From what the blogger says they essentially sat on their hands. Of ALL the things they could have done to ensure the safety of their customers, contractors, and staff, doing nothing is never the right answer.
The RIAA refuses to comment on the possibility that they will no long engage in legal proceedings whilst "in" 8-year-old August Jennings of San Antonio, Texas in the hopes that they won't be mistaken for litigious, boy loving pederasts.
All other names, likenesses, locations, and periods of time associated with the term "August" are completely and wholeheartedly reserved, however.
You just have to get more familiar with the lingo, Ray. They have discontinued the practice of bringing "new" lawsuits, but will indeed continue in the finely honed craft of suing the living shit out of John Doe.
Or it could be that they will no longer initiate lawsuits in August. Company vacation time and whatnot.
Besides, does anyone REALLY want to argue that the definition of those words are really all that concrete? Those are GOOD words. Good words are like good whores--just don't think they won't put on a completely different show for the next customer at the same price.
Tears and Letters only work when there is no risk to the politician. None of the buzzed-impaired-intoxicated driving crowd are sympathetic figures, so SCOTUS (and grandstanding politicians) was happy to curtail our rights to combat it.
It's the same with CP and those who trade in it; they induce no sympathy so lawmakers happily stop at nothing to combat it, too. Hence the current witch-hunt.
Politicians are only careful about their policy decisions when there is an equitable division between registered republicans and democrats. Everything else is meaningless to them, and if they can use some extreme act to justify themselves to their voters, they'll happily undermine the foundation of our country to do it. The population as a whole is kept slow, stupid, and fearful to promote this activity.
It is in no politician's interest to really stand up for something as nebulous and all-encompassing as free speech when it is much easier to appeal to fear. Tears and letters from a small group who do care about things like that are meaningless to them.
Drug war laws have ruined MILLIONS of lives and protected almost none.
I know you're being tongue-in-cheek but CP laws amount to the same thing. The government doesn't learn from the suffering of the people, the government learns when the people start killing them. And that's the ONLY time any government learns or changes for the better.
With, you know, blood and bullets and bombs. Not with tears and letters.
Would hate to die of Swine Flu, just because of what it's called... and all that it would imply if I caught it...
Don't kid yourself, slashdot-netizen, chances are you don't get enough human interaction or even sunlight to risk infection. You're as good as immune.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca