The law differs state-by-state as to whether you're assumed to be right in your own home. Texas has a very strong history of castle-law, but certain states (I believe Massachusetts and up until recently, Florida) can still hold you liable if you kill someone invading your house while armed.

As to whether any sane jury would actually convict, that's another story...

That limits you to basically Wenham (or /Hamilton?), Danvers, or Salem....of those, Salem is not ritzy outside of the touristy area...Most of Beverly I'd say is kinda up there outside the downtown, though....(Nick's ftw). Peabody is most definitely not ritzy unless you're in certain parts of West Peabody.

I'm from the north shore as well and given what a lot of people in the area blow money on, I don't see this being an issue for 95% of Beverly. Of course, this may mean less spinny hub-caps (not rims) on an '83 Mustang...

fwiw the two best things about the whole area are Nick's and Supreme's.

IMHO, it tastes terrible too. the 90 minute ale is the sweet-spot for me. Chimay sort of reminds me of the 120-minute ale, but has a lighter taste to it (it's still only 9% but eh). I recently found out about Chimay the other day and love it almost as much of Belhaven and Boddington's.

If you wanted to be incredibly pedantic, you could try to make the case that up there has negligible atmosphere, traveling 1m/s = Mach 9001 or something...I'm not sure if the molecules are still too far apart to even bounce into one another, though.

I would think that the gambler still has to pay it back. Wages could probably be garnished. In the cases of buying stolen stuff, in most places I know of in the US, you must return that item. The person who stole the item would be responsible for paying you back whatever you spent on it (again, if they can't pay right then, wages would be garnished and you'd be paid back somehow over time). If they're homeless vagrants, you may be SOL.

Suicide's illegal because if you try and fail enough times, people get annoyed at having to shell out thousands in emergency care after each attempt. So you can't do it right, you get charged with *attempted* suicide and put in an institution so you don't keep failing to kill yourself and wasting your family's money.

It doesn't actually get used unless you're a masochistic version of Eugene from "Hey Arnold!".

I don't think he's saying anything like that, though. Ben Franklin's quote was in reference to the government, and to begin with, GP is talking about a company who SHOULD be able to control their experiences, as customers do have many other options to purchase from ([stable] countries only have one government).

He is willing, however, to give up some freedom for a better user experience, which if you wanted to equate to government would be the fact that you're giving a bit of freedom to enjoy the experience of living a social life, consisting of certain social expectations.

If you don't like those expectations, you can leave (to a new community, city, state, country, jail cell, etc.) as you see fit. I'm just not seeing the parallel between "freedom for security" and "freedom for a sterilized, approved experience"

I think it could be sarcasm, personally.

Didn't Greece just get bailed out of bankruptcy?

Generally, I agree with you. But as other commenters stated, it's a matter of actually looking at your balances, which I've thankfully learned to do. I limit my cash pool to Gas and Food, so in that sense it's easier. I know I'm spending so much on gas / food each week and I'm usually left with extra cash anyway in case either or both of those increases substantially for a particular week. I guess it just comes to what level of commitment a person has to tracking purchases. Cards allow you see stuff after the fact, but you still need to fight the impulse to use the card since you know you have "extra money".

I see $50s regularly, butas you said, many people pay with debit and credit cards, simply because (for most of the people I know, anyway) they a) hate carrying around the inevitable pocket of change and b) if they lose their wallet, they can just cancel the card rather than be out $x. Many companies now prefer direct deposit also, so oftentimes there's minimal reason to keep cash on-hand in your daily life unless you specifically want it for whatever reason. One of my PT jobs still gives paychecks (and cashes them onsite) so I use that cash for gas and food, and my jobs that use direct deposit I reserve for bills or bigger purchases. ...It's definitely easier to keep yourself disciplined by using cash rather than some debit/credit card that could have any amount of money behind it (or none). I went down the route of loving my credit card, and am paying probably three times my balance in interest because of dumb decisions. Cash is inconvenient, but provides a nice self-control for itself that most people lack.

Just as an FYI, you won't be able to bring your iPhone to Verizon because each network operates on a completely different frequency. If/when iPhone goes to VZW, it'll have a different antenna than the ATT one.

That could work, except you could then prompt many companies to just move their HQ overseas and do everything in their power to minimize their US presence while maintaining a market in the US.

I actually don't know that one can buy that in Massachusetts. She disappeared though 5 minutes later w/o giving her information.

I did feel bad, though. The family that hit me would have been at fault, regardless. The whole "if you didn't have time to stop, you were following too close and/or weren't taking into consideration the conditions" thing. Their insurance paid for the damage (car was totalled, anyway).

The sad part is that had I hit her, I was so young at the time that I would have had a REAL hard time proving it wasn't my fault I hit her. Day before my birthday, too. :(

Right; it's probably something that varies by locale. I got that same talk about getting a motorcycle. I know someone that does accident reconstruction and he showed me photos of people being "dead right" because of people running red lights and such.

I actually nearly hit a pedestrian that ran out from behind a car jaywalking; she literally bolted out onto the street from behind a van. The only reason I didn't hit her was because she jumped back, and that was going 25-30mph (I stopped ~1m past where she was standing).

Unfortunately, the people behind me still hit me. And there's the lesson on you don't tailgate, especially in a car that weights 2x as much as teh car in front of you...