As a graduate of an Ohio college, I am stunned by how little you payed attention in freshmen orientation, because you got it almost exactly backwards.
Regardless of whether they became "knowingly" intoxicated, a victim in Ohio is considered unable to give consent if they are under the influence.
The "warning" you are mis-remembering would have gone like this: "Hey dudes, be careful having sex with drunk girls, because Ohio law lets her claim statutory rape the next morning if she feels like it."
Seriously, you went through school thinking "if she is drunk and you get her to consent to sex, it's legal"? Yikes.
I think the first film should end after Bilbo successfully saves the Dwarves in "Flies and Spiders", only to have them all fall captive to the Wood Elf King shortly thereafter. It's a good climax -> cliffhanger moment.
I agree with other assessments that the Jackson's darker visualization (remember he came from making horror flicks) was a good fit for the epic LOTR but might not succeed with the less-realistic Faerie-land style of "The Hobbit".
Right: Beorn is more friendly than frightening (perhaps until the Battle of 5 Armies). Wrong: 30 minutes spent flashing back to the dungeons of the Necromancer (Sauron).
Jeff:
Just because I drive an aging rustbucket where there's no working locks and the starter is a pushbutton doesn't exonerate you from the crime of theft when you drive off in it. OK, to be complete in the analogy: you are still invading my privacy and possibly are a vandal when you put a note on my dashboard letting me know that my car is insecure.
Thrail
Could you imagine how many loopholes lawyers can find, claiming ignorance in a signature dispute?
As my father the lawyer always says: "Ignorance of the law is not a defense". (Think "but officer, I can prove I never saw the 25 MPH sign" -- doesn't matter.)
What the hacking community often forgets is the mutability of law and human trust. "The Law" may be strong, but it is much more flexible than your compiler when you leave off a semicolon. My father and grandfather would routinely allow others to "forge" their signature on documents. (not the really important ones, but still). The reasoning goes: if I say it is my signature, then it is my signature, even if my hand did not hold the pen. This is not some agreed-upon thing, just a trick of trust they exploited to save them time signing letters.
Crackers of all stripes destroy trust, whether they are script kiddies or social engineers.
I say encourage the technology (I want my online real-estate broker!), and enforce responsible usage.
I've seen Cliff Stoll speak in person, and I will agree with those who extoll his charisma.
In response to the fellow who contends that Cliff is "Mr. Anti-Technology", I must offer my objections.
True, Clifford Stoll does not favor many current trends in applied technology (see "Silicon Snake Oil", his second book). But he is a real hacker, who understands the Hands On Imperative. He is only trying to call a stop to the horribly exploitive hype of the Internet Age.
For example: "Information is not power", he says. To paraphrase him, librarians have the most information and the least power. Politicians are the reverse. Information is only empowering when use, context, and application transform it into knowledge. And knowledge is not beautiful until is sublimated into wisdom through experience.
He isn't talking about technology, he's talking about today's applications of technology. Haven't you ever looked up from your mindless web surfing and wondered where the last two hours went? Haven't you ever regretted that second round of Starcraft when you might have been napping in the sun, playing frisbee, or finally washing the dishes? Cliff and I will be more forgiving to today's technology when it stops "dribbling our lives away at 48.8".
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As a graduate of an Ohio college, I am stunned by how little you payed attention in freshmen orientation, because you got it almost exactly backwards.
Regardless of whether they became "knowingly" intoxicated, a victim in Ohio is considered unable to give consent if they are under the influence.
The "warning" you are mis-remembering would have gone like this: "Hey dudes, be careful having sex with drunk girls, because Ohio law lets her claim statutory rape the next morning if she feels like it."
Seriously, you went through school thinking "if she is drunk and you get her to consent to sex, it's legal"? Yikes.
I think the first film should end after Bilbo successfully saves the Dwarves in "Flies and Spiders", only to have them all fall captive to the Wood Elf King shortly thereafter. It's a good climax -> cliffhanger moment.
I agree with other assessments that the Jackson's darker visualization (remember he came from making horror flicks) was a good fit for the epic LOTR but might not succeed with the less-realistic Faerie-land style of "The Hobbit".
Right: Beorn is more friendly than frightening (perhaps until the Battle of 5 Armies).
Wrong: 30 minutes spent flashing back to the dungeons of the Necromancer (Sauron).
Jeff: Just because I drive an aging rustbucket where there's no working locks and the starter is a pushbutton doesn't exonerate you from the crime of theft when you drive off in it.
OK, to be complete in the analogy: you are still invading my privacy and possibly are a vandal when you put a note on my dashboard letting me know that my car is insecure. Thrail
Could you imagine how many loopholes lawyers can find, claiming ignorance in a signature dispute?
As my father the lawyer always says: "Ignorance of the law is not a defense". (Think "but officer, I can prove I never saw the 25 MPH sign" -- doesn't matter.)
What the hacking community often forgets is the mutability of law and human trust. "The Law" may be strong, but it is much more flexible than your compiler when you leave off a semicolon. My father and grandfather would routinely allow others to "forge" their signature on documents. (not the really important ones, but still). The reasoning goes: if I say it is my signature, then it is my signature, even if my hand did not hold the pen. This is not some agreed-upon thing, just a trick of trust they exploited to save them time signing letters.
Crackers of all stripes destroy trust, whether they are script kiddies or social engineers.
I say encourage the technology (I want my online real-estate broker!), and enforce responsible usage.
In response to the fellow who contends that Cliff is "Mr. Anti-Technology", I must offer my objections.
True, Clifford Stoll does not favor many current trends in applied technology (see "Silicon Snake Oil", his second book). But he is a real hacker, who understands the Hands On Imperative. He is only trying to call a stop to the horribly exploitive hype of the Internet Age.
He isn't talking about technology, he's talking about today's applications of technology. Haven't you ever looked up from your mindless web surfing and wondered where the last two hours went? Haven't you ever regretted that second round of Starcraft when you might have been napping in the sun, playing frisbee, or finally washing the dishes? Cliff and I will be more forgiving to today's technology when it stops "dribbling our lives away at 48.8".
Thrail