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True.com Wants Warnings On Personal Ads
An anonymous reader submits "News.com.com is reporting that personals company True.com is behind a push in several state legislatures to require everyone but them to include scary looking warnings above personals ads. I'm sure they're not the first, but this looks like a particularly slimy way to corner a market. And the unintended consequences look big, too: by my read of the proposed law, even Slashdot would need to include the warnings above user profile pages." In just a few weeks, this would sound like an April Fool's joke. I hope every legislator to whom this is being shopped is sent a copy of Declan's counter-example.
So I won't be a 20-year old stud with massive guns anymore? Those were the days...
Oh, I gotta go... The warden says my turn's up.
You elected em, you should trust them to watch out for you right?
With my fancy new sig.
WARNING:
Personal Profiles may contain personal data. Be warned.
"WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED A FELONY-CONVICTION SEARCH OR FBI SEARCH ON THIS INDIVIDUAL." Who would want to set up a date after reading that?
If Slashdot put up "WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CHECK IF THIS ARTICLE IS A DUPE", I'm sure we will still be happily reading and discussing it.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
I worry about all those Foes and Freaks-- I worry about the Fans too. I mean, they are just stalkers in the making-- putting their little colored dots around my name.
I asked my mom what I should do and she said not to go to 'slushdort' any more but uncle troll said if I don't log in every day and keep visiting him at the holiday inn on week-end he'll hurt mister chips.
These laws can only make the world a better place. If you are against them, you are against everything that is good.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Warning we haven't conducted a background check on Herb Vest of True.com to ascertain whether or not he is an ass-hole.
Average == Everyone else I know is fat.
Few extra pounds == They're extra, as I have nowhere else to put them
Slightly overweighht == I fear Norwegian and Japanese sailors
Large == Please get me out of the house, before a black hole forms
- Verified that the claimed physical attributes bear any relationship to reality,
- Verified the claimed income bracket,
- Verified the claimed IQ
- Verified the claimed negative STD status
- Verified the claimed unmarried state of the individual
- Verified the the included photograph is the individual in question or even of the same race, gender, or species.
As Jules the C once said, "Caveat Fornicator." Meet in a public place and go armed.Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
even Slashdot would need to include the warnings above user profile pages
There is no dating on slashdot, and the only thing people are going to get here is "carpal tunnel" from too much "wrist action."
If you do have a girl, go away, we don't like you.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
If my "Let Darwin sort them out" proposal would gain a little traction we'd all have a great deal more fun with our lives....
We've tried that approach. He mostly just lies there, dead.
Personally, I won't use an online dating service until they assign a chaperone to every date. I would like my grandmother to sit on the couch between me and my date, just to make sure that nothing bad happens, like touching hands or getting pregnant.
I'm an innocent girl and I lose my head when the date goes past 8PM.
Can true.com make sure that my date washes his hand after using the bathroom?
Oh, now I'm all flustered. I need to sit down. true.com, can you please give me a ride home?
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
There are several sites where you become pen pals or whatever with prisoners. I would think they wouldn't have to add this text since you do know the person is a felon by the nature of appearing on the site.
Avoid Missing Ball for High Score
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> Show me a reasonably sensible person, and I'll show you twelve people who have "met their true love" on the Internet, willing to drop everything to go meet some random person they only know from talking on AIM for a week. Sex is powerful, and sometimes it makes people do very, very dumb things.
Of course, you're both right.
http://www.bash.org/?11339
Because it's the little things -- like people who need warnings and do very, very dumb things -- that make life worthwhile.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with a chick who digs my robe and wizard hat.
Even better, I've seen some (clear) jars of peanuts state "THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS NUTS AND/OR PEANUTS"
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
Back when I was single I wished that there were warnings like:
WARNING PERSON IS USING PICTURE FROM 3 YEARS AGO AND HAS SINCE BECOME ADDICTED TO CHOCOLATE CAKE
or
WARNING PERSON HAS NOT BEEN SCREENED FOR EXCESSIVE BODY ODOR
and finally
WARNING PERSON HAS AN IQ BELOW 50 AND LOVES TALKING ABOUT THEMSELF
I checked. He is.
are you saying that those "warning, may contain peanuts" warnings on bags of peanuts are unnecessary?
(im not joking, those are the exact words on bags of peanuts in the uk)
Crap. There goes another date. :-(
Name: Jane Q. Public
Background Info:
Previous Addresses: 123 Main St.
Previous Names: John Q. Public
Problems are like gifts, it's better to give than to receive
I'd certainly like to see that sort of warning on electoral posters.
My sig is too lon
Good Lord! This proposal makes as much sense as the 20th century physics warnings:
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
...where the men are men, the women are men, and the little girls are FBI agents?
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
Additional alternatives:
WARNING: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
WARNING: HOT GRITS
WARNING: COWBOYNEAL
But then again, only old people in Korea post warnings.
Here is a bit of lower case text to get pass the Slashdot lameness filter. What do you know? It really works!
Not to worry. The people who are into thoroughly pre-screening all their potential dates for any past mistakes will die single, frustrated, and lonely, thus breeding the tendency to pre-screen potential dates out of the gene pool. Granted, it'll take a while.
you forgot step 4...profit!!!
sorry 'bout the mess...
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
On a box of "I love you" candies:
WARNING: CANDY MAY NOT BE IN LOVE WITH YOU!
On a mirror:
WARNING: OBJECTS ARE NOT ACTUALLY IN MIRROR!
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
just the sig I was looking for.
WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED A FELONY-CONVICTION SEARCH OR FBI SEARCH ON THIS INDIVIDUAL.
If you're allergic to peanuts and you need that warning (that is, the big label on the front that says "Dry Roasted Peanuts" doesn't quite drive the point home) then please, eat your fill.
Refusing to do so will make Baby Darwin cry.
"Slashdot, where men are men, women are men, and girls are FBI agents".
I stalked my current girlfriend for almost 12 months before we got together. She was in a relationship and I spent a lot of time and money carefully crafting a frame up for her boyfriend. When he went to prison on the child prostitution charges I was able to introduce myself to her and comfort her, which was how we ended up getting to know each other (well, I already knew her quite well, obviously).
It's something we laugh about now, but if I'd have told her about it too soon it probably would have freaked her out.
(Her ex-boyfriend didn't really have much of a sense of humour about it though, but he's on the sex-offenders list now and has to live in hiding, so who cares about him?).