Nightingale

Exactly. The way I see the problem is very simple: supply and demand. Perhaps if companies and individuals stopped hiring illegal immigrants they would stop crossing illegaly. Yes. We just need to give them a real reason to stop (fines) and take away the reason they're doing it (cheap labor).

The author pretty much handed you "me" in the hint. What else could you need? "me" The person writing the puzzle. You need to know how he's thinking. Once you know that, it's just a matter of finding the corresponding code.

Dumb luck, IIRC.

Highlight for answer to floor 12. Do NOT highlight if you do not want the actual answer. the answer is "in place of me" Edit: I was thinking of a different level... in this one, you have to look very carefully at the hint. It's better explained below.

still stuck on 14

Ms. Liebeck offered to settle the case for the amount of her medical expenses only. McDonalds refused. "Public opinion is squarely on the side of McDonald's. Polls have shown a large majority of Americans - including many who typically support the little guy - to be outraged at the verdict. ... It's a reaction that many of the jurors could have understood - before they heard the evidence. At the beginning of the trial, jury foreman Jerry Goens says he "wasn't convinced as to why I needed to be there to settle a coffee spill." At that point, Mr. Goens and the other jurors knew only the basic facts: that two years earlier, Stella Liebeck had bought a 49-cent cup of coffee at the drive-in window of an Albuquerque McDonald's, and while removing the lid to add cream and sugar had spilled it, causing third-degree burns of the groin, inner thighs and buttocks. ... What the jury didn't realize initially was the severity of her burns. Told during the trial of Mrs. Liebeck's seven days in the hospital and her skin grafts, and shown gruesome photographs, jurors began taking the matter more seriously. ... Even more eye-opening was the revelation that McDonald's had seen such injuries many times before. Company documents showed that in the past decade McDonald's had received at least 700 reports of coffee burns ranging from mild to third degree, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000. ..."http://www.marlerblog.com/2006/07/articles/case-news/the-truth-about-the-mcdonalds-hot-coffee-case/ The jury awarded an amount equivalent to a day and a half of McDonalds coffee sales.

Some do, depending on how long you have had the policy. There's usually a limit, like they don't pay if it's under 5 years or something, just to make sure that people don't buy the policies and then commit suicide.

We should do whatever his wife thinks is appropriate.

Nothing is too low or too pointless. (no, actually because N-Gale's options for the issue of who's problem is it when someone breaks a law only included the cops or the law, but not the lawbreaker themself - very Californian) Of course it's your own damn fault if you break the law. I meant, what was making your actions a problem for you personally, the cop or the law? If smoking pot wasn't illegal, there wouldn't be an issue over it.

Or, they raise prices and pass the cost along to their customers. The money has to come from somewhere, and it sure isn't from big business.

That'll just make the problem worse. Right now, illegals are usually paid less than citizens, because they're paid under the table and will work for whatever wage they can get. However, your system places a minimum wage only on citizens, leaving employers free to legally hire immigrants at a lesser wage. First off, that'd just encourage more of them to come in here, because now they can work legally. Second, it would actively discourage employers from hiring citizens, because they can pay non citizens less. That makes no sense at all. A better system would be to eliminate the minimum wage entirely. The current system encourages under-the-table transactions. Your system encourages the hiring of non-citizens over citizens. Eliminate the minimum wage, and you eliminate one of the biggest reasons people hire non-citizens. Simply allow employers to pay what the employer feels the job is worth, and you eliminate the incentive to hire under the table. Follow that up with huge fines for hiring illegal immigrants, and you might have a system that works a little better than the current one. If the minimum wage is eliminated, so is all incentive to hire illegal immigrants, and it's replaced by a huge incentive to hire people here already. Businesses want to run their businesses above-board. They don't want to try to bury under-the-table payments to illegal workers if they don't have to. They certainly don't want to pay fines. Right now, they have to hire under-the-table workers, because they know you won't pay $20 a basket for your strawberries. Eliminate the minimum wage, and you eliminate the need to hire under the table at all. As an aside: I don't care what language they speak. Studies show that immigrants tend to lose the first language by the third generation anyway.

That movie was SO good... when I went into the movie, I had a headache. The flashing lights of the movie turned it into a full-on migraine, but I insisted on staying til the end of the movie because I wanted to know what happened!

highlight make sure you use a zero, not a capital O. a-b-zero-v-three

The only "european style village" anywhere around that I can think of is Solvang, but that's nowhere near elsinore.

highlight for hint The answer to 3 was "b3l0w" the opposite of below is above. highlight above the clue, and you'll see the bizarre spelling of "ab0v3"

BTW, this is VERY sweet of you to do, Kris.

Most people I know don't mind the cops themselves, if they really think about it... it's some of the rules the cops enforce that they don't like, and sometimes people confuse the cops with the law itself, because cops put a face to the abstract law. If a cop busts you for smoking pot, is it the cop that's causing your problem, or the law? I say it's the law, because if it wasn't for the law, the cop wouldn't be bothering you about it. So, work to change the law; don't blame the cop. Believe me, I've seen some asshole cops. But I've seen a lot more good cops than bad.

No. None of them require color vision, as far as I know. Highlight for a more complete explanation It's a simple alphabet substutition, except instead of A=Z, it's A=N. Divide the alphabet between the 13th and 14th letters. A=N B=O C=P D=Q E=R F=S G=T H=U I=V J=W K=X L=Y M=Z

highlight for solution a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

And he really did... he had his faith and was happy to talk about it if the subject came up, but AFAIK he never judged anybody for believing differently.

I'm now stuck on 14.

Me too!

He was wonderful on that shoot! All the photographers were.

Please share your favorite memory or memories of Deuce... I'm going to print them and put them in a scrapbooks for his family and the dropzone, along with the photos everyone's posting. Please keep it clean if possible.

math. 1 + x = y x + y = 3, etc...