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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.
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. Although it would seem a bit ironic because of my belief in an alternative theory -- intelligent design -- perhaps bringing a little more intelligence into society would improve our shared experiences a little.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
everyone on my college DC++ hub to run in active mode with at least 150gb of files shared. But that isn't going to happen. Why not? Because the rights of everyone have to be considered, not the rights of the few. A compromise must be struck somewhere between the 0bytes shared leecher and the 200GB uber-sharer. It doesn't matter whose rights are more 'righteous', only that people are willing to fight for them. The day people stop fighting for their rights is the day that they get trampled all over.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
um, dumbass, if the media were not in collusion with the govt and the corporations, they would serve these muthafuckers up for on journalistic burning crosses for our entertainment, instead of letting the govt and corporations become a defacto part of the media.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
Yes, Iraq now has a form of representative government. Very good observation.
You've also correctly observed that in order to get elected to a major office in the United States, you need television advertisement. No one will get elected if the electors do not know about them. Very good job again.
Where you lost, though, is the assumption that the candidate is the only source of influence on voters. In the US, we have organizations called PACs, which are political action committees. They are formed as private associations that work to spread a political message. MoveOn.org is an example of a PAC that promotes a liberal agenda. You may be familiar with many of the television commericals they made during the 2004 election.
I hope this helps to clarify. In the next lesson, we'll cover the fundamentals of campaign finance and how the recent campaign finance reform legislation has changed the way political campaigns are run.