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Aigo F029 digital video wristwatch
How small can personal media players go? Right down to the size of a wristwatch if you believe Chinese manufacturer Aigo, which this month launched a PMP that matches its large-screen siblings on features yet is designed to be worn on your wrist. Heck, it'll even tell you the time. A case of miniaturisation gone mad? Maybe not …
Technology good, Design bad
You can't deny that value for money wise the F029 is well placed.
But crikey what an ugly beast she is!
Why spend so much time cramming the technology and features into the device and then just whack a rubber casing on it?
It looks cheap and nasty IMHO.
If it were in a nice stainless steel housing with a standard clasp strap the F029 would appeal to the adult market.
Sure there are adults out there that buy swatch watches, but would you trust one on your computer?
The fact that it comes in the rubber housing suggests its of a splash proof, dare I even say water proof design.
Pity the father who sees his daughter testing this in her jelly and ice cream this christams.
This watch is a bit of fun for sure, but if they can get the phone functionality in it, there'd be geeks everywhere handing over cash.
Lets just hope they actually start aiming these devices at adults. Both in looks and function.
My 2 cents...
Great design!
I saw this on The Gadget Show a few weeks ago and think its great. I love the design and I'm 40, married with no kids 8-) Now that its available in the UK I'll be getting one.
Why is this watch cost nearly 3 times as much in the UK compared to the US?
geeks.com are currently doing this watch at $54.99 (with free US shipping - rather high $20 international shipping with a further risk of import duty/VAT/handling charges) during Thanksgiving weekend - see:
Now for that 512MB model, we see the UK price at 79 pounds, which is $152.59. So I make it that the UK price is 2.77 times the price of the US one! Anyone care to explain why this watch is so ridiculously expensive in the UK?
As for the watch itself, there's a black bezel version which looks a bit better than the garish blue/white bezel version shown here (though geeks.com confusingly shows the blue/white version in 2 photos and the black one in a 3rd photo!).
This watch would be a fun, novelty purchase at 30 quid or so, which apparently Americans are allowed to purchase at. 80-100 quid though? Forget it!
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I suppose this would go here. I'm really just looking for some clarification on the stats associated with different sets. Alot of the pieces in my different sets are used in each other, so that means some pieces are not gemed the way they should be for certain sets (usually 24 stam gems instead of w/e else). So here are my questions.
1. The stats on each set don't seem to vary very drastically, looking at my avoidance set, I'm really just trading about 2% avoidance for 2000 health raid buffed, is that what I should expect? Does that number make a huge difference?
2. Is there ever a good time to use my TPS set? I never have any problems holding agro in my EH or avoidance sets, and they provide more mitigation / avoidance... so is it just a gimmick / boss farm set?
3. Is armor on items like rings / backs really worth prioritizing? Adding ~400 armor at my armor level comes out to like .50% physical mitigation.
4. Should I make the differences in sets more extreme? I viewed what I put together as leaning toward one stat, but a good balance over all.
The stats listed below are all unbuffed, after talents
These are my sets summed up. I loged out in my avoidance set, and armory is still not adding talents to profile stats, so you have to add 5% block / dodge / parry, and 10% health and armor or w/e.
Avoidance Set: (38k raid buffed health)
76622 EH | 31081 stam | 56% avoidance | 260 hit | 22 exp
EH Set: (40k raid buffed health)
77940 EH | 32006 stam | 53.25% avoidance | 196 hit | 18 exp
TPS Set:
73787 EH | 30291 stam | 54.18% avoidance | 260 hit | 31 expertise
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My favorite thing about this fabulous, delicious, nutritious, handsome dish is how scrumptious it tastes.
My second favorite thing is that you can throw it together in about 20 minutes.
My third favorite thing (and it might secretly really be my first favorite thing) is that I got the recipe from a website called Tuna The Wonderfish. Yes….www.tunathewonderfish.com. This makes me ridiculously happy, just the very fact that I am surrounded by mindblowing cookbooks like THE SILVER PALATE COOKBOOK and THE WAY TO COOK and COOK'S ILLUSTRATED NEW BEST RECIPE, and I can still find rocking good recipes that make my heart sing on Tuna The Wonderfish. It restores my faith in…something. It definitely makes me smile.
Meanwhile, back at the recipe, this is pretty much your standard, wonderful panzanella salad…but with tuna. Panzanella salad is basically a mixture of toasted bread cubes, tomato, and a mix of herbs and a few spices. In this recipe, you toss in some cucumber and a little red onion, and (of course) some tuna. You can use the water-packed version if you really have to, but I think that tuna packed in oil is just SO much better. Drain off as much of the oil as you want to, and go for it…it's worth it. My other words of tuna wisdom are these: don't bother "flaking the tuna with a fork" or using some other dainty method to break it up. The only way to deal with tuna is with your hands. Dump it in a bowl, wash your hands, and then break it up with your fingers until it is all nice and shredded. It's easy and efficient, and if you use the oil-packed tuna your hands will get all moisturized in the process.
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Drunk driving is ever in the news (Paris Hilton arrested) and the news typically conflates the non-crime of drunk driving with the real crime of actually hurting people and injuring property with a car. So it's a good time to revisit my 2000 article calling for the legalization of drunk driving.
Legalize Drunk Driving
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- October 3, 2006 at 12:54 pm
True, the proper concern of the law is harm to others.One might drive drunk and not harm anyone.
One might also fire a rifle blindfolded and not hit anyone.I would therefore include "putting others at risk(without their consent)" in with "harm to others",as being the proper concern of the criminal code.
In an anarcho- capitalist world where all property
is privately owned, the property owner decides if drunk driving is permitted or not.I would not permit it and would gamble that I would not lose
too many customers.I would however permit drunk driving in a specially designated area reserved just for that purpose, people agreeing to be put at risk in exchange for the pleasures of driving around at speed swilling Colt 45 straight from the can,perhaps while recieving the tender ministrations of an attractive member of the fair sex.I would probably patronize such a facility myself if there was one nearby.
My question for fellow bloggers, would you chose to live where drunk driving is permitted on the open road,everything else being equal?
- October 3, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Well, I don't think it would be different on privately owned streets or roads (although a privately owned road system would be a hell of a complex system, especially in the cities).
Most people prefer driving on safe highways, where you can be sure that drunken idiots are taken care of by the security forces (today: police facists).
I think that most companies would follow this rule to maximize their earnings, because only a minority is really in favor of "no-rules" at all.
What is really more interesting than the law-system of roads (or the contracts of the companies and the users), is how would roads work in a private property society.
Who owns the streets in front of his house? Would all people agree on roads or would it be a meandering road around the properties?
What to do with existing systems in cities? If we tend to privatize, who gets the system? Will the whole traffic system be sold or will each person of the city get a share of the system representing his tax input in the streets?
I think those are interesting questions, which should be considered when thinking about private road systems and whether they would be better than what we have today. I think, they could be, but it is a hell of a problem to privatize them.
- October 3, 2006 at 1:33 pm
A brilliant article, but then I have been saying the same thing for years so I am biased.
Think about this: remember the 80 year old guy who drove his car through a crowded street market and killed a few people? Nothing happened to him because it was an accident. We will excuse the poor man (and other people) because he didn't mean to even though he _did_ hurt people. But if you are caught intoxicated you are a criminal even if no harm has been done.
I don't drink at all. But as far as I am concerned, you are welcome to drink all you want so long as you don't run over me with your car. And if you do run over me with your car, I don't care whether you are sober or drunk, you have done a bad thing. Punish the crime.
Loved the article, yesiree!
- October 3, 2006 at 1:47 pm
As usual, Lew, you're five beers shy a six pack…maybe even 7 beers shy.
Tell ya what…you go out and stand on the street at exactly 2:00 AM in a major US city and let me know how you like it.
I love your pie-in-the-sky arguments – or rather the blatherings of a fool. Keep it up, you're making McCarthy look downright sensible.
Too bad so many people are subject to your ravings.
- October 3, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Some interesting replies and comments at Reddit.com: http://reddit.com/info/kqbe/comments
(You can also, if you wish, vote for the article at that address.)
- October 3, 2006 at 3:29 pm
you go out and stand on the street at exactly 2:00 AM in a major US city and let me know how you like it.
I'm game. Which city? I currently live in Houston. I can stand in Westheimer at that time – I am willing to bet that will not make drunk driver laws any more valid.
Keep it up, you're making McCarthy look downright sensible.
I do not understand why advocating for LESS tyranny would be comparable to being like Sen. McCarthy.
- October 3, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Today's laws are made to modify behavior, not to punish specific actions. The idea is to criminalize people before something bad happens endeavoring to eliminate any behavior up to two standard deviations away, and so make for a perfectly safe world. I deem that we have been managed by a matrix of bell curves with all but the upper tail not shaded as potentially criminal.
Such constructs, in total, is known as tyranny.
In terms of driving with toxins in the system, I've said for years that it needs to be an action based system, not particular situations. I assume that in many situations people who are on prescription meds are given a freer pass than those who self medicate, or are tired, or who smoke, or those who drive with their knee while tying a tie. But what's the difference? Driving while not having the capacity to, and ultimately driving recklessly is what endangers other people. Demonizing one set of circumstances and ignoring the rest is a more harmful mindset, in my opinion.
I drive interstate, first as city (Milwaukee)arterials, and then as two lane country stretches, every day. I operate under the assumption that most of the drivers are not under the influence of self proscribed medicants. Yet a goodly portion drive so poorly it makes my hair stand on end. Due to age (old/young), anger, cell phones, plain stupidity, supermen on crotch rockets etc etc. And only a tiny fraction are ever pulled over. How much sense does that make?
I can't comprehend why having three beers and driving relatively safely from A to B is a dire crime while being 80, barely able to see over the steering wheel, pilled up to the eyeballs coasting at 20 miles UNDER the speed limit is perfectly sound.
- October 3, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Certainly a very interesting, and courageous article. I've also wrecked my brain thinking about this dilemma.
Not that I'm in favor of drink driving. But if we accept the principle that the government can determine what we should and shouldn't do, based on the chance that we might hurt someone else (let alone ourselves), then what freedom would be left? Could you ever leave your house, live with others, experience ("negative") emotions, own any object that might be used to kill someone, have and spread knowledge that might be used to harm someone, in short: do anything that makes life more than the katatonic predestinated existence of a Stepford Wife?
Alcohol, like a lot of other things, does cause quite a bit of trouble for a lot of people. But if I'm given the choice of living in a society where people can drive drunk unpunished as long as they don't physically harm anyone against their will, or a society where every single choice is eliminated and made for me because I am forced to choose the statistically safest option (which basically means "living" in a padded cell), I would obviously prefer the risk of drunk drivers.
- October 3, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Mikey (if you're still around):
I like your idea! The only thing I'm not clear on is whether there's just one gal to render the services described, a choice, or more like a BYOB (where you can bring your own and count on management for minor, ancilliary services). These things should be made clear in the advertising!
- October 3, 2006 at 7:26 pm
My question for fellow bloggers, would you chose to live where drunk driving is permitted on the open road,everything else being equal?
A few years ago a prof from a university in Vancouver, BC claimed that when he studied the effect of a recent significant strengthening of the enforcement and punishment related to drunk driving laws in his jurisdiction, the rate of highway traffic deaths had increased. He said this was because the average young male who is prone to be a drunk driver will driver far faster and more dangerously when he is sober.
I have seen this for myself when out driving with my family on Friday and Saturday nights. If we are on the highway around 9pm, we are passed by young bucks racing to the bars, weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating, and swerving to their highway exit at the last second. These drivers are very dangerous to be around. But if we're still on the highway after midnight it's completely different. There are no more speed freaks still on the road, but it's easy to spot the ones that have been drinking: they're driving right on the speed limit, or slightly under the limit, and they're staying right in the slow lane (where they tend to weave back and forth very slightly). Avoiding collisions with these drivers is simple.
So all in all, I would rather that drunk driving which doesn't cause an accident be punished as a misdemeanor, similar to other types of dangerous driving such as speeding and running stop signs. But drunk driving causing death must be treated severely – similarly to manslaughter.
The trouble is that the nanny state must turn justice upside-down in order to justify its existence. Non-harmful activities must be turned into major crimes and truly harmful activities must be trivialized. The more topsy-turvy the justice system, the more money there is to be made by legislators, lawyers, judges, police, prison guards, social workers, etc. as they take on the heroic (in their minds) job of trying to be everyone's nanny and insert themselves as deeply as possible into every possible situation of conflict. If the law was no more than a simple reflection of what everyone understands to be natural justice, then who would need a gigantic, multileveled system of legislatures, police forces, courts, prisons, social agencies, law schools, etc.?
- October 3, 2006 at 8:25 pm
As this is an economics site, perhaps some reference to the statistics might be in order, rather than to anecdotal evidence, however personally convincing.
The NHSA website demonstrates the following:
-alcohol related traffic fatalities have fallen 5% in absolute terms since 1995, and much more on a per mile driven basis; that's about 10,000 fewer dead people, or 3 times the number killed on 9/11;
-the highest percentage of impaired drivers among the dead are in the 18 to 21 age group, followed by the 16 to 18 age group; these are not the 50 year old repeat offenders;
- a whole lot of children get killed by drunk drivers. While I may have no objection to you killing yourself, society does have an interest in protecting those who cannot protect themselves.
- October 3, 2006 at 9:01 pm
If your stat that the largest percentage of impaired drivers among the dead are 16-21 is correct, this suggests that a lot of deaths are occurring among those who are not legally allowed to consume alcohol in the first place. What does this say about law enforcement's ability to stop drunk driving?
- October 3, 2006 at 9:47 pm
The problem with these types of extreme libertarian arguments is that they overlook the fact that driving on public roads is not a right. It is a privilege – something that can be revoked.
There is nothing wrong with laws prohibiting driving under the influence – unless perhaps the drunk driver is also the owner of the road upon which he is driving.
- October 4, 2006 at 1:02 am
"Well, I don't think it would be different on privately owned streets or roads (although a privately owned road system would be a hell of a complex system, especially in the cities)."
For most of history streets and roads were privately owned, either by nobility or by merchant corporations. The City of London is in fact still owned by the same corporation that owned it in the middle ages. It wasn't hell of a complex.
Although I don't believe drunk driving is a crime, it's rather obvious that even private operators would immediately revoke the license of a drunk driver.
- October 4, 2006 at 2:06 am
David Baskin said: As this is an economics site, perhaps some reference to the statistics might be in order, ………
This reminds me of a a case a few years ago in Johannesburg, South Africa ( where there is a bi-annual media ritual of watching and deconstructing the december and April 'carnage' on the roads during the holiday lemming runs).
two articles appearing in the newspapers mere days apart showed an interesting subtext of ignorant hysteria:
The first one quoted statistics showing a 'staggering' proportion of drivers who had had accidents the previous week, and had some alcohol in their bloodstreams (irrespective of what level). It was something in the order of 45%, and that statistic was trumpeted loudly as an indictment of alcohol use while driving.
In the other ( unrelated) article, some researchers had sampled the proportion of all road users in a given period, who had had alcohol in their bloodstreams. This proportion was somewhere arounbd 60 percent (!), and was likewise trumpeted as a sad reflection on local drivers and their sense of responsibility.
Of course, taken together, these two results ( discounting sampling errors, timing mismatches etc), at face value suggest that being SOBER increases the risk of an accident! But nobody else seemed to make that connection, and this absurd use of magnificently un-contextualised numbers in isolation went unquestioned. After all, taking issue with any aspect of a 'worthy campaign' is as bad as paedophilia, right?
wrong: Nothing invalidates a cause more completely than the spurious and misleading use of statistics in support of its thesis.
- October 4, 2006 at 2:12 am
The problem with these types of extreme libertarian arguments is that they overlook the fact that driving on public roads is not a right. It is a privilege – something that can be revoked.
It's neither a right nor a privilege, since the state is not the legitimate owner of the roads. Sure, driving on private roads is/would be a revocable privilege. But on the theory that the state should act as much as possible like a private owner (or an agent for "its" citizens) in the utilization of property it controls, it's not clear to me that it should penalize drunk driving (the drunk driver isn't like to revoke his own privilege to drive on roads he owns)
- October 4, 2006 at 9:29 am
on second thought, the fact that more people tend to be involved in car accidents while not drunk, doesn't mean it's necessarily irrational to crack down on drunk driving, does it?
Check the difference with this true syllogism: on the flights landing in Paris (driving), 60 % of all passengers are Europeans (drunk). And of all the persons landing in Paris (driving) on a certain day, who claim to be there for business reasons (crash), 45% claim to be European… Would that mean the 40% non Europeans landing in Paris (sober), are more likely to be business travellers? Certainly… but while taken together, the non-Europeans and Europeans make 100% of potential business travellers, the "sober and drunk condition†groups don't nearly describe 100% of all potential disturbing circumstances leading to a crash…
"A sober condition†may mean in your example that someone's high on another drug, or he's distracted by a girlfriend just calling him on the phone… which will be the "real disturbing circumstance†leading to the crash.
And, drunkenness may thus still have a higher relative incidence in the "disturbing circumstances†while driving.
- October 4, 2006 at 11:29 am
Has everyone here bookmarked the DUI Blog?
- October 4, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Seems to me that DUI punishment (without accident) is only valid if there's a direct cause-effect relationship between driving and damage the same as being blindfolded would be (thanks mikey for the hint). Then the cause would be "essentially the same" as the effect. I am confident (perhaps in my ignorance) that millions of people drive "under the influence" according to the law and are fine. I think this is a great article, because it touches on so many topics.
Example: Psychologists are now trying to "find ways of predicting school violence" and you can bet where that is going to lead …
- October 4, 2006 at 2:23 pm
"I would therefore include "putting others at risk(without their consent)" in with "harm to others",as being the proper concern of the criminal code."
If that statement is accepted, then everything under the sun is the "proper concern of the criminal code" Risk and life go hand in hand.
Is there anything in this world exempt from the concern of the criminal code? Must everything be a criminal matter? I guess freedom is just to dangerous.
- October 7, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Lew writes: "Bank robbers may tend to wear masks, but the crime they commit has nothing to do with the mask. In the same way, drunk drivers cause accidents but so do sober drivers, and many drunk drivers cause no accidents at all. The law should focus on violations of person and property, not scientific oddities like blood content."
Also, Lew implied that blood-alcohol level is akin to the color of one's hair. I can see where this argument can go. Separate the drinking from everything, just focus on the accident and the damage, and even an ACCIDENT caused by a SOBER person becomes just as bad. This then becomes a calculus for severely punishing ACCIDENTS, which contorts the entire meaning of the word ACCIDENT. Pray tell me, as human beings, should an ACCIDENT that results in a death be criminally prosecuted? I don't think so.
Lew actually creates the framework for a heightened police state, as now sober people who get into accidents causing deaths are no different than people who deliberately murder others.
By DELIBERATELY drinking, the crash can no longer be called an ACCIDENT, and that is the difference.
- October 8, 2006 at 12:14 am
By the way, I do understand and agree with Lew's point. He is protesting the criminalization of alcohol consumption, which is what drunk driving laws do. In other words, it is the crashing into cars and causing death that Lew is saying is the crime. He would be right.
- October 8, 2006 at 4:24 pm
What a pack of Pollyannas!
Who hasn't driven after consuming some alcohol at one time or another? Had a few and thought, "I'm OK. I'm only slightly over. I'll just drive home CAREFULLY." And guess what, you drove home AOK. Nothing happened. No-one died. No-one was injured. Nothing was damaged or destroyed. Done it several times. So quit the hypocracy and admit there is something wrong with the official govt line on this topic, not with the action that is being persecuted.
The blood alcohol limit is arbitrary. Some people are fine at that point, others are affected far more strongly. There are those who are safe to drive at twice the limit and there are those who should not be driving at half the limit or less. Then there are those silly falsifiable (wreckable) tests do not measure the OUTCOME of action other than to show a person may have been drinking. So what if he has?
Drinking and then driving is not necessarily going to result in a traffic fatality, injury or even a crash. It isn't causal in every single situation. It isn't causal in the majority of cases. Given that, then there is no need to prohibit it.
The whole "prevent road accident" business is based on hokum and make-work. Why accept such nonsense?
- October 8, 2006 at 8:56 pm
I was reading on that DUI Blog site, that some states are moving to a 0.05% limit. How long, before zero tolerance is enacted?
Speaks alot against the whole notion of positive law. There should be no positive law at all. It should be handled under the common law. You cause harm, you pay restitution accordingly. If you don't cause harm, then the government (and MADD) need to stay out of your business.
- January 3, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Having a clean record, including a 100%-perfect driving record, I was arrested and imprisoned for 48 hours over the millenium New Years weekend on DUI-drugs charges, even though the police had no evidence that I used drugs, and didn't administer a breathelyzer test because they knew I wasn't drunk. The case never even made it to court it was so flimsy, but it did ruin my millenium New Years, to say the least, and I caught a life-threatening virus while incarcerated that caused emissions of blood and chronic bronchitis. And yes, the blood test was clean.
- March 16, 2007 at 1:54 am
The Answer to the Problem of Drunk Driving, etc.
by Bruce Alm
The answer to the problem of drunk driving, etc. could be this; a permit for the purchase and consumption of alcohol beverages.
This would not only be a major assault on the problem of drunk driving, but would also have an effect on virtually all other crimes such as these;
murder, rape, assault, burglary, robbery, suicide, vandalism, wife beating, child beating, child molestation, the spread of aids, animal cruelty, etc., the list is endless.
If this proposition was made law, there could be a major reduction in all these areas of concern, even though the emphasis concerning alcohol abuse seems to be drunk driving in particular.
There could also be many other positive results; families healed, better work performance, booze money spent on products that would help the economy (we've all heard of the guy who spends half his check in the bar on payday,) would spare many health problems, etc.
This new law could go something like this:
Any person found guilty of any crime where drinking was a factor would lose the right to purchase and/or consume alcohol beverages.
For a first misdemeanor, a three year revocation. a second misdemeanor, a ten year revocation. a third misdemeanor, a lifetime revocation. Any felony crime, an automatic lifetime revocation.
Anyone caught drinking alcohol without a permit would receive a possible $1000 fine and/or jail sentence. those who would supply alcohol to people without a drinking permit (and possibly make money at it,) would also lose his/her right to purchase alcohol beverages.
What wife or husband would buy an alcoholic spouse a bottle?
What friend would give a problem drinker a drink at the possible cost of a thousand bucks and the loss of their own privilege? This could be a total discouragement to these would-be pushers.
This permit doesn't seem as though it would be a problem to put into effect. It could simply be a large X, or whatever, on the back of any drivers license in any state, to show who has been revoked, and cannot purchase alcohol.
Most people of drinking age have a driver's license, but one area that might be a problem could be New York City, where many people don't drive.
This problem could be resolved, however, by a license-type I.D. specifically for the purchase of alcohol beverages. Most, if not all states have these already for the purpose of identification.
This could be a small price to pay for the saved lives of thousands of Americans each and every year.
After this, it would simply be a matter of drinking establishments checking I.D.s at the time of purchase.
In the case of crowded bars, they could simply check I.D.s at the door, as they do now.
Would this be a violation of rights? There can be no argument here since they already check I.D.s of people who look as though they may not be old enough to drink.
This could be a good saying, "If a person who doesn't know how to drive shouldn't have a license to drive, a person who doesn't know how to drink shouldn't have a license to drink."
Here are some other pluses to this idea:
A good percentage of people in correctional institutions are there because of alcohol related offences . Because of this, court, penal, and law enforcement costs could drop dramatically.
A.A., ALANON, MADD, SADD, etc., could become things of the past.
What the alcoholic fears most, is the temptation to have that first drink, usually a spur of the moment type thing. Without the ability to do this, he/she is fairly safe. To start drinking again would almost have to be planned in advance. and to maintain steady drinking would be extremely difficult, in most cases.
Even though A.A. members as a group don't become involved in political movements, it seems as individuals, they would all be in favor of a situation like this. Any person who wants to quit drinking, even if never having been in trouble with the law, could simply turn in their license for the non-drinking type.
A woman from MAAD, on the NBC TODAY show, said "One out of every ten Americans has a drinking problem, and that 10% consumes 60% of all alcohol beverages sold in the U.S.." If this is true, there could be financial problems for breweries, liquor stores, bars, rehab centers, etc., as well as lawyers, massive amounts of tax revenue 'down the drain,' and so on.
But it doesn't seem as though anyone would have a valid argument against a proposal such as this for financial reasons. To do so would be morally wrong, and could be likened to a drug-pusher attitude.
Even with the problems this new law could present, it still could, in one sense, be considered the simple solution to the number one drug problem in the U.S. and elsewhere. Alcoholism.
What ever happened to the skid row drunk?
- October 21, 2007 at 1:28 am
For anyone interested, you can go to this site for the actual Law on DUI in California http://www.lawyerinsantaclarita.com/DUI-Law.html
- July 31, 2008 at 9:11 am
If you can go to a bar and spend money on drinks and food then you can certainly afford a cab!
The government does not prevent you from doing this. It is called a rational decision, which is what most of America lacks this day and age.
- July 31, 2008 at 9:12 am
If you can go to a bar and spend money on drinks and food then you can certainly afford a cab!
The government does not prevent you from doing this. It is called a rational decision, which is what most of America lacks this day and age.
- August 7, 2008 at 6:39 am
I don't agree with you – legalizing drunk driving will put more drivers under alcohol influence on the roads. If now some people are saying that they don't want alcohol, because they are driving, that's not only because of their conscience, but more because they know they might loose their driving license. If drink driving will be legalized, I bet the accidents statistics will rise. We can't put people on the roads. We should better send them to an Alcohol Treatment Rehab. Alcohol is guilty for many human tragedies – accidents, violence in families, rapes… and so on.
- August 22, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Lew is right. Drinking should not be a crime. Misuse of the car should be, whether drunk or sober. We could greatly reduce urban crime in the USA by incarcerating all black males between 14 and 45. Would that be right ? Obviously, no. Same principle as all
other preventative or administrative laws.
- September 8, 2008 at 3:12 am
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- November 18, 2008 at 4:40 am
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- January 29, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Rockwell writes: "But there's a more fundamental point. What precisely is being criminalized? Not bad driving. Not destruction of property. Not the taking of human life or reckless endangerment."
This sentence strongly implies that 'reckless endangerment' should be criminalized. Two questions: 1) What is it? Some would call drunk driving a form of reckless endangerment; Rockwell doesn't address this. 2) According to Rockwell, on what grounds can even reckless endangerment (which includes bad driving) be criminalized, since it only increases the probability that others will be harmed and, as Rockwell says elsewhere in the same article, "government in a free society should not deal in probabilities"? Rockwell should explain this apparent contradiction.
Some posters have compared drunk driving that hurts no one to firing a loaded gun at a person and having it jam. A better analogy would be to neglecting to store firearms, poisonous chemicals, or dangerous tools so that children cannot readily get to them. Drunk driving is a form of negligence.
- May 23, 2009 at 9:27 am
Leagalize Freedom! We are the only country which was initially dedicated to the ideal of personal freedom. Liberty is being stolen by fascist scum. Get your rifles.
It is time to stand and Fight.
- September 6, 2009 at 5:50 pm
People make way too many assumptions, before the fact, about the capabilities of others. There should be no driver's tests. Why do people assume that just because someone has gone out at the wheel of a vehicle with some dumbo from the state motor vehicles branch and done monkey tricks for him means that means that person will be a safer driver than someone who hasn't? Lots of teens have far better reflexes than old farts half blind and crazy, but they're not allowed to drive. But the old fools go out and kill people and get away with it.
- May 27, 2010 at 8:34 pm
only if your sober
- June 28, 2010 at 12:04 am
Lots of teens also kill themselves and others around them because they have no fear of death and poor judgment.
- May 27, 2010 at 8:32 pm
drunk means criminal
cops do your thing
- March 3, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Lew, I can't thank you enough for writing this article. I've been making this argument for some time now and its nice to know that someone else agrees.
It is generally accepted that drinking alcohol, among other things, can cause reckless driving which may lead to accidents. If this is true we can expect that a significant number of people pulled over by the police for reckless driving will have consumed alcohol. The point is, as you described in your article, that by enforcing the existing laws punishing those who drive dangerously and who cause accidents you already address the problem (whether or not the government should punish people for actions which haven't harmed anyone else being beyond the scope of this discussion).
In addition to the criminalization of drinking and driving itself, there is also a tendency for people to insist that someone convicted of a driving infraction while under the influence of alcohol should receive a harsher punishment than someone who hasn't. The idea being that the infraction was avoidable and wouldn't have occurred if the driver hadn't had alcohol in their blood. It would be equally just to hand out a harsher punishment if it was discovered that a driver's radio was on at the time of an accident. Just as there is no way to know whether listening to the radio led to the accident there is know way to know whether alcohol played a role in causing the infraction.
We should also keep in mind the punishments currently applied to cases of drunk driving. Being convicted of a DUI is no slap on the wrist, but a life-changing event.
Despite the logical flaws in drunk driving laws which appear, at least to me, to be obvious; drunk driving laws are popularly accepted and praised. Because drinking alcohol is considered a vice, others feel less sympathy for the drinker and the drinker is more inclined to accept guilt for his actions. This effect combines with the ever present tendency for people to assume that the government knows what it's doing, whether or not we understand why, and to defend these laws beyond all reason.
- April 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Your article raises some interesting questions on the efficacy of DUI laws in this country, very thought provoking!
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United goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak made a visit to his home city of Wroclaw last month as part of his new role as a Friend of UEFA for Euro 2012.
Wroclaw will play host to some of the matches during next year's European Championships which are being held in Poland and the Ukraine, and Kuszczak recently sat down with ManUtd.com to talk about his involvement in the tournament and his ambitions for the coming year for both club and country…
So Tomasz, tell us more about your role as a Friend of UEFA for Euro 2012…
I feel very honoured to be involved and very proud that my home city will be hosting some of the games. It was nice to go back there recently and see some familiar faces. Everyone is working hard to get the city ready and I know it will be a great success.
What should potential visitors know about Wroclaw?
It might not be one of the most famous cities in Poland but it's one of the most beautiful. Some of the buildings have been there for hundreds of years and are pretty spectacular. The Main Square, or 'Rynek' as it is called in Polish, has everything – great restaurants, cafés, bars and shops. I always spend time there when I go home. There are also some nice parks and I'd definitely recommend a visit to Wroclaw Zoo.
What's your favourite part of the city?
I'd have to say the Main Square. You can spend all day long there. Wroclaw is a special place to me – it's where everything started. My first school was there, I met my friends there and my first club is there, Slask Wroclaw. They're in the Polish First Division which is a decent league. I initially started in the youth team before moving up to the first team. They were great times.
How excited are the Polish people about playing host to Euro 2012?
Everyone is very excited. We all know it's a big challenge for our country. There are a lot of things that need to be put into place before the tournament but everyone is working very hard on that and I know my country will put on a great tournament.
How's the stadium in Wroclaw looking?
I went to see how it was coming along when I was over there and it looks fantastic. It'll be finished this year and will hold just over 41,000. I was there at the start of construction and to mark the occasion we buried a time capsule underground which included a Champions League ball that I'd signed.


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Locate the VIN on your Ford vehicle. The VIN is stamped in many locations on the vehicle, the most accessible being on upper driver's side of the dash and on the inside door panel.
How to Decode a Ford VIN Number
The VIN, or vehicle identification number, system has been used worldwide since 1981. Many vehicles had serial numbers before 1981, but lack of industry regulation led to an overhaul of the system. The 17-digit VIN system allows each vehicle to be marked with a unique identification number, allowing vehicle registration and history to be tracked. Learn how to decode the VIN on your Ford vehicle.
Note the first digit in the VIN. This is the country of origin, or where the vehicle was manufactured. Ford vehicles sold in America are built in the United States or Mexico. The digit for Mexico is 3 and the digit for the U.S. can be 1, 4 or 5.
Find the second digit in the VIN. This represents the manufacturer--in this case, Ford. The second digit should be an "F," which is Ford's specific code. Some Ford vehicles, such as the Mustang, will be labeled with "Z." They are built by Auto Alliance, a joint venture between Ford and Mazda.
Locate digits 4 through 9. These are vehicle specific digits used to identify the specific Ford vehicle and its options. The fourth digit is a safety code, depending upon what safety equipment the vehicle has. The fifth digit is a vehicle code. For example, the digit "T" is used for the Ford Mustang. Digits 6 through 9 identify options and trim levels on the vehicle.
Locate the 10th digit in the VIN. This is the digit that identifies the vehicle year model. Starting with the 2001 year model, the year digit began with the number "1." The numbers were issued in an ascending sequence until the 2010 year model, when the beginning of the alphabet was used. Models from 2010 are represented by the letter "A." Prior to 2001, the 10th digit was represented by the alphabet in descending order. Models from 2000 were listed as "Y" and 1999 models were represented as "X."
Find the 11th digit, which lists the factory in which the vehicle was assembled. Ford has many factories, but several popular vehicles are built in the Chicago factory and are represented by a "G." Vehicles built in Flint Rock, Michigan, are represented by "5."
Find the last six digits, which represent the assembly sequence. A Ford vehicle with the digits "000001" would be the first of its kind to come off the assembly line.
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- Memorize the meaning of each digit to impress family and friends with your extensive automobile knowledge.
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So everyone's left Facebook. Well not everyone, but 600,000 people which is about the population of Dusseldorf or North Yorkshire, so a sizeable amount. We're told 'more may follow', too. So that's that.
This leaves us with two alternatives: landlines or Myspace, that pioneering social network site which was to the early noughties what Facebook was to 2010, and which has been relaunched under the helm of Justin Timberlake, albeit by proxy, to coincide with his return to the industry after a six-year hiatus in which he went to Hollywood, appeared on Saturday Night Live and got married. As options go, it might seem archaic but if you remember than 2004 was a time when Sigur Ros and The O.C., were groundbreaking cultural events, it makes more sense.
Plus, given that I have to switch off my Broadband in order to get a line, Myspace it is.
With that in mind, here are 7 things we miss about original Myspace
1. Arranging 'top friends'
On Myspace, you displayed your friends like pixelated trophies on your homepage. You had a top nine, or something, and depending on how the evening before panned out, the order of 'friends' would change.
2. The awkwardness of arranging your friends
Genuinely falling out with people over who was first in your top nine despite no longer being 11. This was countered by filling your top 9 with bands. Or just having 'Tom'.
3. 'Tom'
So 'Tom' was the guy who probably set up Myspace. No one really questioned his existence because much like a tadpole, 'Tom' was everyone's first friend. He wore a white t-shirt and seemed to be really, really pleased to be involved in the project.
4. How it made us vain
Except for me! My profile picture was of a filleted Estonian reindeer because I was edgy and well-travelled.
5. How we never used the bulletin board
So like your events page, but more formal-sounding. Like 'whoever nicked my almond milk can they please just put it back' signs in halls but marginally more fun.
6. The horror of divulging our interests
Self-promotion is pretty awful at the best of times. That we included 'baby pink' and 'burlesque' as interests is unforgiveable.
7. How it introduced us to online stalking
Pretty much a game-changer.


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Residents are afraid of the implications a four-storey building amid single-family homes will have for their tree-lined street
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James is now 90 years old. Talking about detective fiction has all the qualities one expects of her. Although the book is brief, although it includes a familiar procession of writers in the history of detective fiction—from Wilkie Collins, to Arthur Conan Doyle, to Dorothy Sayers, to Agatha Christie, to Raymond Chandler—what she writes is always thoughtful. The concerns of her book extend to whether detective fiction is quite serious. Her answer is that that both is and is not. In both cases it manages to be worthwhile. James is full of respect for her forbears and contemporaries. She has a lovely chapter on the women who wrote detective fiction in the years between World War I and World War II, arguing that they enable us to see society at that time rather acutely, and to see the changing conditions for women. And James is not shy of making literary comparisons. She has interesting ideas about Jane Austen and E.M. Forster. This, for instance, she cites from Forster, from "The raison d'être of criticism in the arts," a work I did not know:
What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he makes a work of art … And when the process is over, when the picture or symphony or lyric or novel (or whatever it is) is complete, the artist, looking back on it, will wonder how on earth he did it. And indeed he did do it on earth (James, p. 158).When I wrote my second novel A natural history, I had the idea of writing about a chain of inference in the mind of a scientist of the kind that people like to read in detective stories. It would be just as intricate, I thought, just as dependent on picking up clues. But rather than being focused on one measly murder, it would be focused on how a disease—cholera—killed thousands of people. Wouldn't that be thousands of times better? And wouldn't the reader be able at the same time to understand how scientists think: a bonus? The reader would come to know, too, about what is still the most important discovery in medicine, that germs cause infectious disease.
I was wrong. Not just a bit wrong, but comprehensively wrong. It isn't that my novel didn't work. It worked more-or-less all right, and I am happy with how it turned out. It's just that it did not achieve that resonance with the detective-story-reading public about which I had fantasized. I learned the reason by going to a talk by P. D. James.
The detective story has its appeal, she said in her talk, not because of a death, but because of a murder. Murder is the most horrific of crimes. It damages the fabric of our everyday world. The role of the detective is not to be clever, it's to heal the wound in society. To bring justice, to make the world whole again.
In her current book James says this again: "The detective story proper" she says, "is concerned with the bringing of order out of disorder and the restoration of peace after the destructive eruption of murder" (p. 13). This is the inner movement, the archetypal machinery of the detective story. I hadn't properly understood that. I had thought that the dying of people from disease, and the train of inference to understand how it happened might be equivalent. It isn't. Disease is damaging, but it has no moral dimension. It's human agency that makes murder so destructive to society. That's what makes us want to understand it in such a way that the world can be put right again.
E. M. Forster (1951). The raison d'être of criticism in the arts, in Two cheers for democracy (pp. 107-122). Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace.
P. D. James (2009). Talking about detective fiction. New York: Knopf.
Keith Oatley (1998). A natural history. Toronto: Viking Penguin.


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Heavy rains occurred in the suburbs of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on August 31, 2013.
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Up above, video from MLB.com of the baseball Bryce Harper put into orbit last night at Nationals Park. Poor little baseball never stood a chance...almost made it to the third deck.
(Screencap via MLB.com)
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