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guttentag writes: "Christian Science Monitor Reporter Warren Richey suspects he may have stumbled onto a credit card fraud ring that uses Internet merchants to quietly funnel night-vision rifle scopes to Middle Eastern terrorists and privacy policies to cover their tracks. Even if these are isolated incidents, it's worth noting that the privacy rules intended to protect us can also work against us."
What exactly is wrong with minors drinking?
Here in Italy there is NO drinking age, but I don't see 8 year olds boozing it up... in general people tend to drink a little more responsibly (there are still problems). I've never seen parties with kids getting torn up like they do in the states, illegality makes it much more "cool" than any advertising ever will.
It would probably be better to have a responsible adult give some kids a couple of beers, than letting them go out and share a bottle of liquor they stole.
Of course, that's just my take on it.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Well, now that we're varying heavily off topic...
It's been clinically proven that drinking before a certain level of body development can cause developmental disorders, and that stage usually occurs around age 19... the decision of the age of majority is pretty arbitrary but rarely goes below that level for those reasons... same reason cigarettes are bad to give to kids.
But based on those reasons, I'd sooner make it illegal for a pregnant woman to drink than a kid.
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Exactly how do you quantify a "minor massacre"?
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
I don't think that this will help all that much though. As most of the people that smoke pot that I know normally just stick to whining about it on web pages, that is when they have the will power to get up off the couch for a reason other than dorrito's. And even if the entire pot smoking community did rally together and vote into office someone that said that he was for the legalization of pot, he would promptly change his mind once he was in office, or at least bury the subject under a lot of paper so that it never see's the light of day.
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Yes but you can hit them over the head in the middle of the night with perfect accuracy.
Shut up you TERRORIST.
The American Arbitration Association ordered Traffix to pay Thomas a total of 2.3 million, the company said. Traffix said it was reviewing the decision and its options.
Thomas portrayed Det. Ricardo Tubbs opposite actor Don Johnson on the TV show. He later became a pitchman for a telephone psychic network, leading to the dispute over payments.
Traffix said Thomas claimed he was owed over 12 million, based on a 1994 agreement over how his name and likeness were used on television "infomercials."
A Thomas spokesperson could not immediately be reached.