Surprisingly, the article does not mention that Selfridge field in Michigan is named after Lieutenant Selfridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_B....
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Generally, I would guess conferring with the client on the facts, briefing, preparing for a hearing, and arguing a hearing would be north of, at least, 25k, assuming a lower-end rate estimate in the $800+ range and a lower-end work estimate of 30+ hours. If I had to bet, I'd go higher than the low-end estimate: both the rate and hours could be close to double. That said, the attorney / firm could be donating the time on this one.
LESZEK BALCEROWICZ, Finance Minister, Poland, 1989-1991: Just after breakthrough, there is a short period, a period of extraordinary politics. By definition, people are ready to accept more radical solutions because they are pretty euphoric of freshly regained freedom. One could use it only in one way, by moving forward very, very quickly.
JOSEPH STANISLAW: Poland decided to do what Bolivia did, to introduce shock therapy, cut back on government expenditure and try and introduce a market system and see if it could work.
NARRATOR: Prices almost doubled, and shortages didn't end. All Balcerowicz could do was chew his nails and wait for the law of supply and demand to kick in. But then, after a few days, farmers began to bring their produce to market.
LESZEK BALCEROWICZ: I was going for a walk, and we were looking at the prices in the shops, the prices of eggs.
NARRATOR: His aides told him to concentrate on the price of eggs. If eggs appeared, if eggs got cheaper, the market would be working. Eggs did appear. And then the price of eggs began to fall.
LESZEK BALCEROWICZ: And I remember that very important day when the prices of eggs are falling. This was one of the signals that the program, the stabilization program, is working.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/t...
I get that it could get really complicated to do correctly, but even a fast and dirty version could be really interesting.
Perhaps, it might even encourage people to be interested in math.
The bigger point is that such an incentive exists and that it is further incentivized if the individuals who are harmed are deprived of a mechanism to resist.
Larger businesses have already gone to great lengths to eliminate / curtail class actions.
I'd argue that this weakening is the root cause of a chunk of the aggregate problems I see discussed on HN.
It is in a company's interest to harm a great many people a little bit because the people often have to challenge the company as individuals rather than as a group. And the economics often make no sense in that way, so the company is functionally immune to the effects of its harm.
Further weakening the remaining viability of that case type stands to only encourage companies to commit more aggregate harms.
Its chart shows that burglary led from 2016-2018, but asset forfeiture was ahead again in 2023.
The link also adds that the term was coined by Samuel Francis, a columnist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Francis_(writer)).
Digging deeper, I found this essay Mr. Francis wrote where he explains the term he coined in 1992: https://web.archive.org/web/20060928023136/http://www.chroni... .
I'd offer this quote of a long sentence as Mr. Francis's tl;dr of his term:
"What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through “sensitivity training” and multiculturalist curricula, “hate crime” laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny."
My speculation: I'm no expert, but it looks like there are fragments of, at least, a bowl? Earlier in the feed they discuss damage to the capsule. I'd guess the capsule was not originally empty; the last 200 years just took its toll on the contents.
-https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/11/18...
-https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joerg-arnu...
-https://nypost.com/2022/11/17/federal-agents-raid-nevada-hom...
And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to change you to / generates a channel you are more likely to stay on.
And thank you for looking into this. I recall reading about experiments on the modified bacteria years ago, but then I forgot about it. Until I read your page, I had not realized it died on the vine.