People say things like this as if the money taken in a fraudulent transaction just disappears and is untraceable, and unrecoverable. That is false.

It's one of those scare tactics that the middlemen use to sell a vision of financial-techno-secure-utopianism in order to collect a percentage of the money. Don't fall for the marketing.

The money has to go somewhere: Into another bank account, usually, which is easily traceable since banks by law have to know who they're dealing with.

Even if a check gets cashed at a check cashing store, the store requires ID, the person getting the money is on video, sometimes they have their fingerprints taken by the store, and if something still goes wrong, the store is on the hook for the money when the transaction is reported as fraudulent and reversed.

These are all problems that were largely solved last century.

In its last financial statement, the New York Times reported 600,000 print subscribers. (Plus something like 20 million paid online subs.)

Newsstands are mostly gone (though there are a few), but my experience over the last few years is that outside of tourist areas, print newspapers are available at most chain drug stores, book stores, and some gas stations. The more urban you are, the more likely you are to find them. They also remain popular in ethnic communities. I recently picked up a monthly printed newspaper in Japanese that is distributed in the DC area.

I can think of five places with six blocks of me that sell newspapers (two drug stores, two bodegas, and a bookstore).

The latest Superman movie even did a PR stunt where the movie company printed up thousands of Gotham newspapers with Superman headlines and distributed them to newspaper racks. I saw them at Walgreens.

That happens when you are salaried and your company pays you your normal salary for the time you are in jury duty. They already paid for your time, they are entitled to the (generally much lower) compensation that the state pays you.

My company claims that allowing me to have both my regular pay and the government pay would be considered an over-payment, and the accountants say it triggers all kinds of messy things.

However, at the same time, it is illegal to do this in some American states where we have offices. So it must somehow be possible for the accountants to allow it.