The founders, Skousen wrote, believed in the equal protection of rights, but not the equal distribution of things — an argument that many Tea Party activists now make against the health care overhaul passed in March.
That's because one of the most contentious aspects of settling an estate can be the distribution of things like Mom's diamond engagement ring, Dad's collection of abstract expressionist artwork or Great-Grandma's gold-plated china.
The other place where Naked Wines is innovating is on the distribution side of things.
On the more traditional distribution side of things, networks are starting to employ smart tactics to get people watching the show when it actually airs (something they still care about greatly to ensure the commercial revenue keeps flowing in).
"From the perspective of other craft brewers out there, I think they're going to be concerned about how the distribution side of things plays out more than anything else," Leingang said.
Biogeography is the study of the geographic distribution of living things.
Putting the data on the cloud, he said, breaks the monopoly of civil servants over the distribution of such things as food and fuel subsidies.
Yet, as I thought about managing all of the family members and emotions headed my way, I decided to apply some discipline and rigor to the flow of events and the distribution of her things.
There are "officials" in charge of the distribution of each thing, who keep an eye out and make sure that this happens justly, but no one can appropriate anything for himself.
Sometimes the judicious distribution of calories renders things a little flat: halibut quivering like a poached egg on grilled salsify tasted as white as it looked, and, even though it would make things easier for everyone, spaghetti squash is never going to convincingly stand in for pasta.
"We're seeing distributed power happening through solar and wind, and the next thing that really needs to become distributed is food production," says Green. "There's a huge amount of energy that goes into the distribution of food, and things are grown for transportability, not for quality, or flavor, or nutrition".
