What I meant is that you said that people winning the lottery or the jackpot "did nothing to earn the money" which is absolutely not correct: these people paid to earn the chance of winning. Risking your own money to earn the chance of a win is definately not "doing nothing". Getting money doing nothing is more similar to receiving a gift.

Anyway I agree that earned or unearned income should not make any difference.

If you do nothing to earn something you get you don't win the lottery, you receive a gift. By your reasoning inheritance taxes should be taxed exactly the same way a gift is... which is ironic since gift taxation in the USA was introduced to avoid estate tax avoidance...

Well, "talent crisis" usually means "talented workers cost too much, we have to find a cheaper source of them". Women do tend to get lower salaries than men...

Make graduating accordingly hard so that only the best graduate and only the expected number. This way the barrier of entry is not based on wealth but based on merit.

Because he expects the community to agree with him. Karma should reflect what the community thinks of his activity, not what the site's admin thinks, so it should be possible to have positive karma on this site even posting negative comments about it, as long as the community supports them.

So either the admin tampered with his karma against the community's intentions, or the community is not as impressed with his activity as he thinks.

Slashdot doens't write original articles, it mainly refers to already existings public articles/blogposts. The site is interesting mainly for the comments section which depends on the community and communities are extremely volatile. Of course you can try to introduce subscriptions/paywalls/whatever, but you have to make sure you don't alienate too much people since if slashdot loses its community nothing much of value would remain.

If in your country it's actually allowed to conduct this kind of surveillance without the consent of the worker you have worse problems that fancy badges.

Yours is good advice but if the road conditions are actually bad it could very well not be enough. In some road conditions winter tires and/or snow chains are simply not an option.

You don't buy new tires every winter, you just keep them and swap them with your normal tires every year. This also means that you will distribute the wear on the 2 set of tires, making the normal tires last longer.

Skill and experience are of course very important but I guarantee you that driving on snow with winter tires vs normal tires makes a huge difference.

Winter tires are advised even if there is no snow since they provide a far superior performance in low temperature conditions. Not sure about the climate in Oklahoma, but if you have many months with temperatures falling under about 7C/45F you should switch tires in the winter.

Well, more or less. People living in a city here expect to have at least a grocery store and a public transport stop within walking distance, making this information almost mandatory in all housing offers advertisements. I recently relocated to a different city and the greatest distance I found in the various offers I evaluated was 500 meters.

Grocery stores actually have to place the stores strategically since customers want to be able to get there walking and tend not to be too loyal to a given chain, so if you are significantly farther away compared to your competitors you lose customers. In my neighborhood alone there are at least a dozen grocery stores, half of them belonging to the same 2 big players.

People here are used to own a trolley which they bring to the store. You can leave it just outside the cashier lines in a dedicated area made available by the shop (and secure it with a lock if you want, but most don't bother). Do your shopping, pay and load it in your trolley, drag it home.

Most of the cost comes from the appeal process, which is long and expensive because you *have* to minimize mistakes. Make it quick and you have a higher error rate, which means more innocents will be wrongfully executed.

He can also be released, reformed, contributing to a better society. Or released after found to be actually not guilty. Capital punishment is the typical solution to the complex problem which is quick, simple, and wrong.