Marijuana doesn't prevent Alzheimer's so much as give you little, reversible doses of it with every joint. So when the Big A comes along and tries to eat your brain, your brain just goes, "Oh, this again. Glad I remembered to pick up the Cheese Doodles".
If the circumstances are as described by you, then go to court and have a field day. Your teacher has no right whatsoever to go into your property. Period.
Their most powerful weapon was intimidation. It isn't working anymore. Time to pull down their pants and give them what they so richly deserve. Something with thorns and sharp edges would be appropriate.
I loved your line, "...where police are even more afraid of using their common sense". That's flat-out brilliant, and sums up the situation perfectly. I'd have thought one look at the age of the kids involved would have tipped them off that this isn't some creepy teacher manipulating the little darlings.
I'd go further and file charges of malicious prosecution. Put a couple of these asshole cops and prosecutors in jail for a while and teach them some sense of right and wrong. The kids need discipline from their parents, not involvement with the legal system.
And what do you want to bet some cop has copies of the pictures carefully hidden away somewhere?
Paying good programmers to develop Open Source software would be a brilliant and very, very effective use of taxpayer dollars. You get "the gift that keeps on giving", because people who want to work on a project for nothing after the funding phase is over can keep making improvements. For example: project Dogwaffle isn't PhotoShop, but it's pretty damned good, and it's not going to cost you half a grand every time you want to get the next version. It would also be possible to mandate software that runs efficiently on systems that are considerably less than state-of-the-art.
If there's a down side, it's that as our computing needs grow and change, we either let poor and otherwise-disadvantaged people start falling behind, or fork out more bucks to ensure that whatever the new killer ap happens to be five years from now is Open Source.
Who cares how well it performs, when its major task is to keep track of whatever's happening on your computer and rat you out to anybody who pays Microsoft enough money? If I've got the best five-bladed butt fucker in the world, I don't necessarily assume that I'm going to get great reviews from any other publication but Hurt Me Weekly.
You're missing the point. It isn't ANYBODY's business to be the arbiters of what constitutes acceptable versus unacceptable in this area. I'm sure there's people who whack off over exposed toes. That doesn't mean pictures of sandals should be banned from public display. Somewhere there's a line, but it's a lot closer to pictures of a goat getting a blow job than a woman feeding her child. If you can't see the difference, you're a lost cause.
Your major failure of logic occurs when you state: "Failure to do so means everybody loses because it is impossible to say what is allowed and what is not." The fact of the matter is that it only becomes "impossible" when you grant other people (usually unelected ones who have the time and money to quit doing real work in order to meddle in other peoples' affairs) the power to decide what everybody else gets to see.
If you want to hand your rights over to somebody else because you're too lazy or too incompetent to protect them yourself, that's entirely your affair. When you want to hand MY rights over along with yours, I'm going to tell you to go fuck yourself. And I'm going to add that I have raised my children so that they know right from wrong, and can deal with morally and ethically ambiguous situations. They don't need some fundamentalist jackass who faints at the sight of a bare nipple to tell them what they will be allowed to see. If you aren't willing to invest the time and effort into raising YOUR children properly, and believe all the rest of us should be made responsible for your failure...well, sorry.
Efforts to make the world "safe" for children are foredoomed to failure, and the price they exact inevitably compromise the underlying concepts of a free, democratic society. If you want to see a really good example of your viewpoint enacted in law and fully functioning for better than half a century, check out the "War On Drugs". Every drug you want to name is as easy to get today as it was when it first came on the market. Meanwhile, millions of people are thrown in jail (at enormous cost), millions of police get out of doing real work to bust teeny-boppers with a couple of joints, legitimate cash transfers are embargoed or slowed...et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum.
The bottom line is that the only place on Earth except genuinely primitive Third World countries that gives a flying fuck about a bit of non-sexual nudity is the United States. And the bankruptcy of US cultural imperialism is as obvious as an elephant's dick. A defensible bottom line might be, "If you're showing images of sexual relations in public, it might be wrong. If you're showing pictures of a woman feeding her child, it isn't. If you're too fucked up to tell the difference...that's your problem, not everybody else's.
For a long time, enterprises that depend on large-scale public interaction to succeed have taken the easy way out. They seek to immunize themselves from legal challenges, boycotts, and legislation by hysterical, vote-hungry politicians by adopting the most stringent and unreasonable policies. As a result, some wingnut who is offended by the sight of a bare breast, even when it is being used for its primary purpose, receives more consideration than the rest of us who couldn't care less.
Meanwhile, more cynical and opportunistic people co-opt the state's tools of enforcement and coercion to jam their narrow, constricted social vision down our throats. It's time we grew up a little and quit allowing "social zones" like Facebook and even the local shopping mall be controlled by fruitcakes who believe some weird, Disney-esque version of reality is the only one "suitable for all ages". If you can't explain to your five-year-old why the nice lady has an infant glued to her chest, perhaps you should just stay home and unplug the computer. The rest of us have lives to lead, and we're sick of putting up with you.
One more reason to move toward Open Source and tell these fuckers to take a hike. Having a nasty, paranoid mind-set, I have avoided WGA like the plague. There's less convenient but effective ways to keep my system updated, and properly-maintained security to deal with the time lag.
I'm not worried about piracy, but I don't for a minute believe Microsoft's claims about WGA. I'm certain they're collecting personal information, and I'm equally certain that at some point, they'll find a way to sell it or offer it to one government or another.
I wonder where this idiocy will end. It's probably being pushed by the same people who want to make it a crime to burn the US flag. Ask them if it's OK to burn a picture of a US flag, or something that looks like a US flag but is one or two stars short, and they start to look at you with that same lost, betrayed expression a dog gets when you pretend to throw the ball, but hide it behind your back.
These assholes are a lot more dangerous to society than the occasional pervert who gets off on drawing dirty pictures.
...to make sure the relevant parts of this transcript are summarized and made so widely known that the RIAA will be perpetually afraid that no matter where they go, they're probably going to run into one or more jurors who will be determined not to be played for fools.
A catchy name for the Duluth jurors and/or decision might also help. I hate to label them "The Doughheads From Duluth", but if it helps prevent a similar miscarriage of justice...
This works just as well on a completely featureless background, though it makes the whole thing a bit more trouble to pull off. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how the psychologists who set the test up originally had it set up. The only "objects" available for reference were the surrounding disks.
If you ever want to see this in action, there's a very simple experiment you can do. Put a quarter inside a ring of five loons (Canadian $1 coins). Put another quarter inside a ring of five dimes. The quarter surrounded by dimes will look larger than the other one.
Reach out and pick one up. Put it back. Pick the other one up. Put it back. You'll notice that even though your eye is telling you the two quarters of different sizes, your fingers will automatically spread out just the right amount to pick up either coin.
The illusion works for your regular visual system. The unconscious one gets the answer right.
THIS is the kind of robot we need! I mean, I had a girlfriend who wouldn't get me a beer and wouldn't have sex, and who started nagging pretty much as soon as the sun came up, so the machine is already ahead on points.
Every time you think the RIAA has gone as low as it can, it finds yet another way to open up a whole new universe of douchebaggery.
Please, God, let them say something like this under oath, and let it be in front of a judge who takes a dim view of perjury (and prefers jail time to fines as a method of educating people on the workings of the US legal system).
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Wow! I can barely imagine how brilliant I'd be if I hadn't played all that hockey. Move over Hephen Stawking!
Marijuana doesn't prevent Alzheimer's so much as give you little, reversible doses of it with every joint. So when the Big A comes along and tries to eat your brain, your brain just goes, "Oh, this again. Glad I remembered to pick up the Cheese Doodles".
It's a training thing.
Texas is particularly influential to textbook publishers because of the size of its market.
What do they use them all for? I was fairly sure hardly anybody in the state could read.
If the circumstances are as described by you, then go to court and have a field day. Your teacher has no right whatsoever to go into your property. Period.
Meet the new boss,
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Same as the old boss...
Their most powerful weapon was intimidation. It isn't working anymore. Time to pull down their pants and give them what they so richly deserve. Something with thorns and sharp edges would be appropriate.
It waddles. It quacks. It's a camel!
I loved your line, "...where police are even more afraid of using their common sense". That's flat-out brilliant, and sums up the situation perfectly. I'd have thought one look at the age of the kids involved would have tipped them off that this isn't some creepy teacher manipulating the little darlings.
I'd go further and file charges of malicious prosecution. Put a couple of these asshole cops and prosecutors in jail for a while and teach them some sense of right and wrong. The kids need discipline from their parents, not involvement with the legal system.
And what do you want to bet some cop has copies of the pictures carefully hidden away somewhere?
Paying good programmers to develop Open Source software would be a brilliant and very, very effective use of taxpayer dollars. You get "the gift that keeps on giving", because people who want to work on a project for nothing after the funding phase is over can keep making improvements. For example: project Dogwaffle isn't PhotoShop, but it's pretty damned good, and it's not going to cost you half a grand every time you want to get the next version. It would also be possible to mandate software that runs efficiently on systems that are considerably less than state-of-the-art.
If there's a down side, it's that as our computing needs grow and change, we either let poor and otherwise-disadvantaged people start falling behind, or fork out more bucks to ensure that whatever the new killer ap happens to be five years from now is Open Source.
Oh, woe...woe! The Grim Click-Harvester has claimed yet another life.
I'm in the market for a new car. I just scratched Lexus off my list just for considering this. It tells me they no respect for their customers.
Who cares how well it performs, when its major task is to keep track of whatever's happening on your computer and rat you out to anybody who pays Microsoft enough money? If I've got the best five-bladed butt fucker in the world, I don't necessarily assume that I'm going to get great reviews from any other publication but Hurt Me Weekly.
And quite a few assholes, too, apparently.
You're missing the point. It isn't ANYBODY's business to be the arbiters of what constitutes acceptable versus unacceptable in this area. I'm sure there's people who whack off over exposed toes. That doesn't mean pictures of sandals should be banned from public display. Somewhere there's a line, but it's a lot closer to pictures of a goat getting a blow job than a woman feeding her child. If you can't see the difference, you're a lost cause.
Your major failure of logic occurs when you state: "Failure to do so means everybody loses because it is impossible to say what is allowed and what is not." The fact of the matter is that it only becomes "impossible" when you grant other people (usually unelected ones who have the time and money to quit doing real work in order to meddle in other peoples' affairs) the power to decide what everybody else gets to see.
If you want to hand your rights over to somebody else because you're too lazy or too incompetent to protect them yourself, that's entirely your affair. When you want to hand MY rights over along with yours, I'm going to tell you to go fuck yourself. And I'm going to add that I have raised my children so that they know right from wrong, and can deal with morally and ethically ambiguous situations. They don't need some fundamentalist jackass who faints at the sight of a bare nipple to tell them what they will be allowed to see. If you aren't willing to invest the time and effort into raising YOUR children properly, and believe all the rest of us should be made responsible for your failure...well, sorry.
Efforts to make the world "safe" for children are foredoomed to failure, and the price they exact inevitably compromise the underlying concepts of a free, democratic society. If you want to see a really good example of your viewpoint enacted in law and fully functioning for better than half a century, check out the "War On Drugs". Every drug you want to name is as easy to get today as it was when it first came on the market. Meanwhile, millions of people are thrown in jail (at enormous cost), millions of police get out of doing real work to bust teeny-boppers with a couple of joints, legitimate cash transfers are embargoed or slowed...et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum.
The bottom line is that the only place on Earth except genuinely primitive Third World countries that gives a flying fuck about a bit of non-sexual nudity is the United States. And the bankruptcy of US cultural imperialism is as obvious as an elephant's dick. A defensible bottom line might be, "If you're showing images of sexual relations in public, it might be wrong. If you're showing pictures of a woman feeding her child, it isn't. If you're too fucked up to tell the difference...that's your problem, not everybody else's.
For a long time, enterprises that depend on large-scale public interaction to succeed have taken the easy way out. They seek to immunize themselves from legal challenges, boycotts, and legislation by hysterical, vote-hungry politicians by adopting the most stringent and unreasonable policies. As a result, some wingnut who is offended by the sight of a bare breast, even when it is being used for its primary purpose, receives more consideration than the rest of us who couldn't care less.
Meanwhile, more cynical and opportunistic people co-opt the state's tools of enforcement and coercion to jam their narrow, constricted social vision down our throats. It's time we grew up a little and quit allowing "social zones" like Facebook and even the local shopping mall be controlled by fruitcakes who believe some weird, Disney-esque version of reality is the only one "suitable for all ages". If you can't explain to your five-year-old why the nice lady has an infant glued to her chest, perhaps you should just stay home and unplug the computer. The rest of us have lives to lead, and we're sick of putting up with you.
One more reason to move toward Open Source and tell these fuckers to take a hike. Having a nasty, paranoid mind-set, I have avoided WGA like the plague. There's less convenient but effective ways to keep my system updated, and properly-maintained security to deal with the time lag.
I'm not worried about piracy, but I don't for a minute believe Microsoft's claims about WGA. I'm certain they're collecting personal information, and I'm equally certain that at some point, they'll find a way to sell it or offer it to one government or another.
I wonder where this idiocy will end. It's probably being pushed by the same people who want to make it a crime to burn the US flag. Ask them if it's OK to burn a picture of a US flag, or something that looks like a US flag but is one or two stars short, and they start to look at you with that same lost, betrayed expression a dog gets when you pretend to throw the ball, but hide it behind your back.
These assholes are a lot more dangerous to society than the occasional pervert who gets off on drawing dirty pictures.
So they're claiming there's some chance intelligence may eventually evolve in politicians?
I'll believe it when I see some solid evidence.
A catchy name for the Duluth jurors and/or decision might also help. I hate to label them "The Doughheads From Duluth", but if it helps prevent a similar miscarriage of justice...
This works just as well on a completely featureless background, though it makes the whole thing a bit more trouble to pull off. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how the psychologists who set the test up originally had it set up. The only "objects" available for reference were the surrounding disks.
If you ever want to see this in action, there's a very simple experiment you can do. Put a quarter inside a ring of five loons (Canadian $1 coins). Put another quarter inside a ring of five dimes. The quarter surrounded by dimes will look larger than the other one.
Reach out and pick one up. Put it back. Pick the other one up. Put it back. You'll notice that even though your eye is telling you the two quarters of different sizes, your fingers will automatically spread out just the right amount to pick up either coin.
The illusion works for your regular visual system. The unconscious one gets the answer right.
Um, no. Sorry. I never met your mom.
THIS is the kind of robot we need! I mean, I had a girlfriend who wouldn't get me a beer and wouldn't have sex, and who started nagging pretty much as soon as the sun came up, so the machine is already ahead on points.
Every time you think the RIAA has gone as low as it can, it finds yet another way to open up a whole new universe of douchebaggery.
Please, God, let them say something like this under oath, and let it be in front of a judge who takes a dim view of perjury (and prefers jail time to fines as a method of educating people on the workings of the US legal system).