Is there an AW class that is a Lawman?

Is there an AW class that is a Lawman?

In a recent Fate Accelerated game, I wound up playing the long arm of the law. A Johnny Dollar or Matt Dillon type.

I had legitimate authority, was pretty dangerous, and well known due to prior actions. The best I've thought of in vanilla AW is the Touchstone. A secular Paladin from DW, perhaps. The Professional from MoTW would be close, too.

So, internet. Is there any sort of sheet that pulls in legitimate authority in AW, or is it always based on the biggest guns?

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Uber.

Uber.

I need to understand the arguments against them. Because I don't, and there's something there that is upsetting. I've read as many articles as I can, and they don't make sense to me. And I'm not dumb, so maybe its a blinders issue.

From where I sit, they:
1. Have reduced drunk driving. (there are stats!)
2. Have made it so I can get to my Thursday night gaming group without needing to take an hour long metro ride. (or, in  other words, make it so the carless can get places mass transit doesn't go)
3. Do not allow discrimination from their drivers. Taxis, on the other hand, have a reputation for discimation, both in terms of who, and where and method of payment.
4. Have ridiculously good customer service.
5. Take credit cards, and don't need tips.
6. Pay drivers 80% of the revenue. 
7. Yes, pay drivers as 1099s. This makes complete sense -- drivers choose their hours, provide their own equipment, and aren't managed the way employees are. I don't see this as a tax dodge -- I've been 1099 and I've been W-2, and the uber drivers seem a clear cut case of 1099.
8. Have doxxed journalists, which is TOTALLY NOT OK. 
9. Have done some creepy work with data and Rides of Glory which, while creepy as shit, was anonymized.
10. Have a "god mode", allowing Uber employees to look at how anyone uses the service. This is ... problematic at best.

So ... please explain.

I'm going to put this year. If you have any Pratchett related questions, here's a good place to ask.

I'm going to put this year. If you have any Pratchett related questions, here's a good place to ask.

I'll either answer, or refer you to someone that does.

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During lunch, I wondered to a used bookstore.

During lunch, I wondered to a used bookstore. I found the Bromelaid trilogy, by #SirTerry . I started reading it in a coffee shop.

From page 11: ".. and now I'm going to die and go to the Heavens. I wonder if old Torrit is right about what happens when you die. It seems a bit severe to have to die to find out ... "

I laughed so hard. The looks I got were severe. Thank you, Terry. Even in this, I turn to you for help. And you're still there.

In memorial: I will miss Terry.

In memorial: I will miss Terry.

And dammit, Alzheimer's is a bastard.

I've always kept a Discworld novel in reserve for when something bad happens.  Those books have gotten me through the worst times ever.

A couple of years ago, we attended the North American Disc World convention in Baltimore. Which, Sir Terry was only able to attend via teleconference -- because he had to write, not because he was sick.

The notion of humans as where the rising ape meets the falling angel -- of a being stuck between two worlds -- from Hogfather, really stuck with me. As did the idea that we have to believe the little lies before we can believe in the big ones -- you know, Truth, Duty, and Mercy.

Terry taught me something very important: Things don't have to exist materially to matter. To mean something. To change lives, and to affect the world.

And Terry will continue to matter.

This isn't quite what I generally advocate for (which is a Minimum Basic Income), but it sure as hell is in the...

This isn't quite what I generally advocate for (which is a Minimum Basic Income), but it sure as hell is in the right direction. It is cheaper to give people what they need than to try to figure it out.

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The cost-effective way to help the "chronically homeless" pay for their housing.

... and the pruning begins.

I'm too warm. There's a window open, and it is still like 72 degrees in here. This is ridiculous.

I'm too warm. There's a window open, and it is still like 72 degrees in here. This is ridiculous.

I'll be complaining --- much, much more bitterly -- the opposite direction in a few hours.

Still, can't sleep.

I find myself intellectually disagreeing with this article, while finding it surprisingly emotionally appealing:

I find myself intellectually disagreeing with this article, while finding it surprisingly emotionally appealing:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/why-our-children-dont-think-there-are-moral-facts/?_r=0

Maybe this is a copout, but i think there is one moral truth, and with it one responsibility: Human good counts, and we shoudl strive to improve it. As a corollary, as the nerdfighters might say, reduce world suck. This is something similar to a utilitarian categorical imperative. 

Everything else -- whether its All Men Are Created Equal, the wrongness of cheating, or the relationship between security and freedom -- is in support of this.

Now, granted, I'm not sure that's what we should be teaching. Because I'm not sure it will create the best people, which is the point of schools. Maybe we should be teaching children that there are moral truths -- slavery and murder are wrong, one person one vote, all that good stuff.

But, then, I think there are different levels of truth. And that what we teach should be careful lies, designed to create the right sort of people.

If we're not careful in our lies, then we'll wind up telling schoolchildren the wrong lies.

And that would be wrong.

Edit: Something occured to me. I even disagree with his definition of fact. While there is a "universe", and in that universe there are or are not aliens, from where we sit it is only conjecture. That is, I'm such a subjectivist that I do think facts change from observer to observer.

Watching Robocop (2014).

Watching Robocop (2014).

Ten minutes in, I'm pleased. They've made the moral claim, and avoided too much on screen bleeding. And the Ed-209 is still ridiculous.