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Send Email to Utah, Go to Jail

Posted by timothy on from the set-engines-to-ludicrous dept.

Talaria writes "The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy is reporting that two new laws in Utah and Michigan are going into effect next week, creating 'do not email' registries for children's email addresses. According to ISIPP, 'Email marketers who send unpermitted messages to email addresses or domains on the child protection registries in Michigan and Utah face stiff penalties including prison and fines.'" (Note that ISIPP has a vested interest in publicizing these laws, since they offer a service intended to establish that senders are in fact within the law.)

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  1. Slashdot's American Flag Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why are there only 12 stripes in it? The flag has 13. Slashdot needs to fix this.

    It's very disrespectful to the flag and the people who died for it.

    1. Re:Slashdot's American Flag Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yeah, it is very disrespectful to all of the Iraqis and Afghanis that have been murdered by US soldiers in the past few years. They were killed by the 13-striped flag America, not the 12-striped flag America.

    2. Re:Slashdot's American Flag Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yes, it is a troll.

      So, you're trying to imply that soldiers have just wandered around and killed people in cold blood; innocent bystanders who've done nothing wrong other than look at them funny. Of course, none of them have done anything like aim (and fire) a rocket propelled grenade at US soldiers, squeeze of few rounds from an automatic weapon, or perhaps strapping explosives onto their body and driving into a mess hall or checkpoint.

      Geez, I see your point. It's not like we eliminated an oppressive regime that willfully participated in killing its own people. Wait, that sounds kinda like murder...

    3. Re:Slashdot's American Flag Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Forget respect, what about accuracy?

      It plainly and clearly is an incorrect depiction of the American flag. Slashdot should at least get the facts right and fix it, but they never did.

      So maybe it doesn't bother the editors that they don't respect the American flag, but it shows they don't even care about their accuracy or professionalism to get the basics right.

  2. Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific by dbIII · · Score: 0, Troll
    You send Mormon missionaires overseas to change the culture
    They are probably already there - they go where the money is. China probably is unlikely to go easily on confidence tricksters who hide behind religeon since they have no fear of oppressing religeous groups that threaten the status quo - so send them and the scientologists too while you are at it.

    I thought I understood the USA - then I met some mormons and scientologists.

  3. Re:What is Utah really like? by Arbin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Troll.... Say, I hear most everyone from the UK are in desperate need of Dental work and they all talk with Cockney accents. Man, those backwards people.

  4. Re:What is Utah really like? by signingis · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have to ask what Yorkshire is really like. I'm from Teh USA, so I've never been there. But all I hear about is that they're a very backwards region, in basically every way possible. I've even heard some people go so far as to say that Yorkshire is resonsible for a lot of the decay in the United Kingdom today. Are those claims true, or are they just overgeneralizations based on the actions of a select few individuals?

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    I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
  5. Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sounds like another success of the immigration system. And to Vancouver from Asia? WHAT ARE THE ODDS?