How does self checkout help? Same jackass talking on his phone halfway through checking out.

You advocate that I take my eyes off the road and hands off the wheel to video tape someone supporting my complaint that he had his eyes off the road and hands off the wheel? That seems wrong somehow.

yes, you can. And for your convenience, the commercial bank your check is drawn on has a local branch office only 3 states away.

People do respond to financial incentives, that's why you still have the option to take a job and have more than the minimum that the basic income offers. I suspect most who are able will respond to the financial incentives and take a job.

Note that that job might pay less than it would now since it's just for additional income rather than family survival. It also means that even with most workplace regulations repealed, there will be less dirty tricks by employers since quitting is more of an option.

Some economists that actually seem to know what they're doing suggest implementing the basic income so that job loss is less harmful (but not entirely harmless).

Yes, it's got to be the traffic that forms the artificial stalactites on the lower edges of the bridge. I'm sure rain has nothing to do with it.

I don't go to movies anymore, I wait for the DVD.

I prefer to buy groceries at the store so I can see what I'm actually getting. This is particularly true of produce.

There is plenty of research and common sense to back up the idea that if you're looking at your phone and pressing buttons on it, you are not securely holding the steering wheel and watching the road.

As for the youtube thing, if I record them in the movie theater, I *am* part of the problem.

The same place the money came from to stock the shelves in the company store.

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can''t go. I owe my soul to the company store.

That sounds great! I'll tell the grocery store that they are not paid by me for the food I buy, but by my employers profit. I'm sure they'll understand.

Or perhaps they'll fall back on that old saw that I owe them the money or I can't leave with my groceries. I'll bet they won't let me pay them in cows, chickens, rubles, or my special 'cash card' either.

If your credit score if bad enough (as can happen when you don't have enough money to make ends meet), you may only qualify for 'special' bank accounts with significant fees attached. Being poor can be very expensive in the U.S.

It may be dollars in name, but, in fact, it is only the representation of dollars. It costs money to get it turned into actual dollars.

I can see that as a problem. It's unfortunate that there are enough people being rude that Faraday cages and illegal jammers start to look good to theater managers.

Louisiana passed a shoot the carjacker law to make it clear that lethal defense is acceptable in that situation. Perhaps we need a "spike the cellphone" law to clarify reasonable reactions to rude people in the theater :-)

Revolutions are a messy thing and in general, pain is bad. It seems that a few steps taken sooner rather than later could make for a much nicer transition. Thus it is entirely appropriate to be concerned about it, consider what steps could be taken, and to urge action now.

Remember, single sign-on is just a strange way to spell "single point of failure".