Did you read the article? "... will cost the restaurant about $10,000 in lost revenue over the course of the four-day suspension." Lost revenue is not the amount of the fine.

So let's do the math. $10,000 for four days = $2,500/day. Average margarita price = $6.50. That means that they're selling roughly 385 drinks per day. If the busy period is 12-2 and 6-10, that means they're selling an impressive 65 margaritas per prime hour. If you figure some of this is actually beer sales, it's even more beverages since they're cheaper than the margaritas. Holy cow, I had no idea they were selling more than one alcoholic beverage per minute of their prime hours...

Jeez, that daft and poorly thought out north boulder library project is still on the list, even with a slated cost of over $4million for a city that keeps complaining we lack sufficient funds to actually run all the services we need on a day to day basis? Astonishingly stupid and really frustrating for us taxpayers who, yes, will end up funding some of these personal projects. I hope the &*$#@( library gets on the ballot, because there's NO WAY that us Boulder taxpayers are going to support it.

Let's do the math! According to http://www.priceofweed.com/ the Colorado street price is $238/ounce. 55 pounds = 880 ounces. Multiply it out and that shipment was worth $190,400. Not too bad for a single flight. Too bad they forgot the whole *illegal* part. Or were they associated with a "dispensary"?

soma. that's what they're adding to the water. not that i'm a conspiracist...

You're seriously equating the slackers camping out in front of the Boulder courthouse with George Washington crossing the Delaware during the American Revolution? You aren't, um, a member of the Occupy group, are you? I can't otherwise explain how you could possibly equate the two, and it does make me question the "scientist" part of your hand, though the "neuro" is self-explanatory...

Right, because clogging up our courts with stupid lawsuits and complaints is the very best way to change the system, create an economy where you can be gainfully employed and gain supporters for your protest, right Occupy people? Unbelievable. My support for these whinging slacker protestors diminishes by the news article...

Sorry, Lisa, but I am not in favor of yet another library in North Boulder or a cultural center. For $1.25 people can easily jump on the SKIP and be at our downtown library in ten minutes. Seems like a much smarter approach than $10 million or more on some cultural center boondoggle, in my (tax paying) opinion. If someone wanted to subsidize it or we got a grant or something, but then there's still the never-ending running and maintenance costs with a library system that recently had to reduce hours and let some beloved staffers go "due to budgetary constraints". Unless YOU are offering to pay for it, Lisa, which would be terrific.

That's way too small, bnor, but I was thinking about that too. Let's face it, 29th Street is already a parking / traffic nightmare and as far as I can tell, there's nowhere in that Mall that could support a TJ's, even if it were two stories. Now the corner of 30th & Walnut or, better, the zombie mall at Iris between 28th & 30th...

Agree completely. Lots of inflamed rhetoric on both sides of this argument, no question that there is an issue of stolen intellectual property online and the subsequent loss of revenue, but SOPA and PIPA, even as recently amended, do not seem to be the solution that lets us retain innovation while simultaneously curbing piracy. Interesting times...