A police department in Texas is now thinking about arming its Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or, drones, with tear gas and rubber bullets. What could possibly go wrong?
James Cameron and a few other underachievers have announced plans to mine asteroids in space. But the state of property law in space is… up in the air. How would you encourage space entrepreneurship?
The TV show Ringer really got me thinking. (Maybe for the first and last time on a show of that caliber.) With banker’s facing life terms to protect the fact that they’re stealing, what’s really to stop them from dropping a few bodies to stop it from getting out? Have we figured out a way to make white collar crime violent?
Richard Branson has come out not just for de-criminalization but for legalization of drugs. Of course, the government won’t agree on any ‘premise the drug war is a failure.’ Given the cost, both in terms of real lives and money, will anyone who believes in keeping drugs illegal ever come around?
Tyranny can come in many forms, just as often through the prosecution of silly laws as through governments ignoring core civil liberties. One of the safeguards against this is jury nullification, a right of juries since the Sixteenth Century. Of course, for those trying to put people behind bars, it’s a real impediment. So now they’re trying to lock up someone who wants to inform juries of what they can do.
