shooner

Billy McFarland was arrested for selling fake tickets to Coachella, Burning Man, The Met Gala, and The Superbowl while he was out on bail for his Fyre-related charges. That is not ineptitude.

This is a very broad definition of political.

It's nice to say that, but enforcement generally doesn't reflect it. Failing to yield to (or killing) a pedestrian on the road outside of a crosswalk often has no legal consequences.

Is a higher-paying job the goal of UBI? I thought the fundamental macro issue was that as automation of one kind or another becomes an increasingly inherent part of new technologies, it will inevitably depress the human job market beyond its ability to employ enough people to maintain the economy.

>Many people just go through Facebook and create a private event and invite their Facebook friends when they have a birthday gathering nowadays. You will miss out on these if you opt-out completely. I did.

This has been my experience. It's a valid pragmatic argument for staying, and a valid principled argument for opting out.

This was my thought process as well. First "Crap, I should start eating breakfast" then quickly to "or maybe I should restructure my life so I have the spare time and mindfulness to sit down for 15 minutes and eat breakfast."

Well, I thought the 'good' model of the web was schema-based XML was your data, XSLT was your representation structure logic, HTML was your representation structure, and CSS was your representation styling. But the ship sailed on that one a while ago...

>they will certainly close ranks and attempt to protect their own; however, that is organizational not individual.

Are you not talking about an organization conspiring to protect law-breakers from justice? Because normal people don't do that.