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Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18
Talaria writes "Yahoo has announced that they are closing all of their chat rooms to anyone under eighteen, following an agreement with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer, who began investigating the Yahoo! chat situation earlier this year, said "We need to be vigilant to protect our children.""
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I've been an advocate of mandatory sterilization for a while now. With IQ tests and ability tests for those who wish to be unsterilized. [/off topic]
The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest--
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."
Darwinism:
That survivors survive.
--- Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
Ordered list... six tags for the current example, or (2 + 2*number of items). Line breaks with extra space on each end... five tags in this example, or (3+number of items). The individual tags are the same length... making the line breaks more efficient for any number of entries greater than one... So you're accusing the man of idiocy for using markup language more efficiently than you would? I think you might want to go see a doctor about one of them 'vasectomy' thingies about now, after all.
...it's really a sad day for America when we require a goddamn ACT OF CONGRESS to make our DVD players work properly. ~
You are talking about space-efficiency. However, the purpose of markup is not to be as compact as possible. The purpose of markup is to convey the structure of the document, so it can be correctly parsed by machines. The grandparent's list, made with line breaks, is recognized as list by humans but cannot be realiably recognized as such by, say, screen readers or search engines. On the other hand, my list, made with markup, can be recognized as such without any heuristical analyzes.
Therefore, I conclude that neither you nor the grandparent know how to use HTML properly.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Ah, those Americans and their strange ideas about freedom. I grew up in Soviet Union and I knew that I can go wherether the fuck I want to. When I was 4 years old, I took my girlfriend (yes, I had one when I was 4 years old, although we didn't kiss or anything, only held hands) and decided to go across the city to my grandparents (about 10-15 kilometers, no big deal). Sadly, we were stopped by policemen (militiamen) on the second or third street crossing, who politely enquired, where two 4 year old kids are going all alone. :-)
:) Anyway, the militia found our parents and drove us back home with the police lights on. :) True story.
:( That it wasn't the only country you destroyed is not a consolation.
We were taken to the militia station, where I got to play with guns and some other stuff (I still remember a book with a cut-out for a gun inside). It was so fun I am afraid I even forgot about the girlfriend.
My point with all that is that the sense of freedom you get living in the USA is wonderful. You can't do that in a mall, you can't do that in subway, you can't do that in a park, you can't go here, you can't sit there, you can't do this, you can't do that. And since pretty much everything is private property nowdays, the owners have every right to stop you from doing anything (and call the police). And of course, the local governments do not lag behind. Only in the US can they prohibit you from making a photos of a public monument (Yes, Chicago, I am talking to you).
Really, living in the Soviet Union was heaven compared with the modern police states of the US and the UK. Too bad you Yanks had to destroy my country.
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