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Have you heard of these things called trespassing laws? And stand your ground laws? Don't need a "no soliciting" law if you got those. All you have to do is say you felt threatened by the salesperson and thought they were going for a gun. /s

False. James Patterson became the world's best outliner who handed off his ideas to other authors to make whole.

In a wide-spread situation like this, when you have the goods on the cheaters, yes, you flunk them.

I agree that no-haggle, pay-for-feature pricing works. There was a reason Saturn was successful in the marketplace when it first launched, despite the cars themselves being ho-hum. Things turned south with Saturn when they moved away from their no-haggle pricing model and GM & the UAW tried to convert the Spring Hill production facility back to the "GM way": https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/08/saturn-gm-innovation-leade...

I said this on reddit so I'll just quote myself: This professor invested way too much in trying to understand why his students were cheating and giving them a second chance. While it's good to catch the cheaters and document the cheating, creating an entirely new syllabus and assignments is way beyond the call of duty. Catch the cheaters, call them on it, give them failing grades, and let that be the lesson that they learn. When they actually want to learn the material, then help them. The vast majority of the students he quotes from are trying to play the game of passing, not actually trying to learn.

Nobody's mentioned it yet, but AccuRadio is another community-supported music streaming service: https://www.accuradio.com/

Because Americans like their big dumb cars to drive their big dumb fat asses half a block to check the mail or to go to the drive thru at McWendy's Carlsburgers.

I'd say it was two things: the gold standard was dropped, as many other commentators have already remarked.

But Milton Friedman's editorial about the primacy of the shareholder's interest in business decisions -- what has become known as the Friedman Doctrine -- was published in The New York Times in September 1970 and immediately had an impact in the first quarter of 1971 and eventually lead to the rise of 1980s-style venture capitalism and the plundering/asset-stripping of successful companies by private equity firms after sweetheart buy-outs or hostile takeovers that continue to this day.

When we place the value of a business purely on the amount of money it can make for the shareholders/stakeholders/owners, all other considerations -- including fair and livable wages, environmental concerns, and even the well-being of the communities in which the businesses are located -- go out the window.

The best distraction-free device is a notebook and a pencil. Now, if you really want to get distracted, start trying to decide which notebook with which grade of paper and which pencil with which type of lead.

It was the $40 paint buckets: https://youtu.be/thioGeqPCNM

This is an infrastructure design problem that can't be solved by simply trying to change behavior. We have to change how we design streets and roads so they are more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. See here: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...

Buy low. Sell high.

It doesn't suck.

Yup. I drool over JetPens.com, Field Notes, and Doane Paper.

Pocketmods are common in the indie RPG scene: https://itch.io/search?q=pocketmod

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

Vivaldi. Like Firefox, it has cross-system syncing (Windows, MacOS, Linux -- including Android & Raspberry Pi).

Some folks object to the Brave Rewards system and the embedded crypto wallet.

Yet one more reason to use Fennec on my tabs and phones.

AutoZone stores still have the book hanging by a string in their physical stores. And it's faster to search and find the right blades, too.

Anybody remember setext, which was used in the original TidBITS newsletters back in the early 1990s? When Gruber introduced Markdown back '04, it struck me as an enhancement on setext more than anything else.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"

And let's let parents off scot-free because clearly everyone else is to blame for their children's lack of success. /s

Here's a better idea: how about we allow colleges to repeal diplomas for folks who graduate but clearly didn't learn anything. Let's start with the author of this column.

Oh, those stories go back to 2015 and beyond: https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-fo...

143 comments and not one person has said the obvious yet: it's an alien fighter craft. Duh.

You talk about Oregon Trail, but Where in the World is Carmen San Diego on the Apple II was my jam.

Because the people overseeing the convicted hacker have no clue what the hacker is capable of and are afraid they will use their skills to commit more crimes right under their noses.

Never underestimate the technological ignorance of the majority of people that make up any bureaucratic governmental system.

Firefox + Ublock & Privacy Badger, on desktop and mobile. I also use Blokada on Android. This combination stops most ads, and if a few sneak through it is easy to create a custom rule.

While I still find Google useful, especially Google Scholar, I've primarily moved to DuckDuckGo for most casual searches.