What it says on US currency is true: "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" (yes, it's in caps). That means buying an iPad, or buying a cup of coffee.
WRONG. What it says is true. It doesn’t mean buying an iPad, a cup of coffee, or anything else, because a purchase is not a debt.
There is no debt unless a transaction was completed, no transaction until they decide to sell you one, no sale unless you pay for it, and cash payment is not accepted.
If they give you a financing arrangement (buy now, pay later), that is a debt and they can’t refuse to accept cash payment. A straight sale, however, does not generate debt and they can choose what form of payment they’ll accept, including choosing not to accept certain forms of legal tender.
Apple, like any other company, gets your name, address, and zip code when you buy something at one of their stores, right?
And they need to correlate by your credit card number to ensure that you don’t buy more than two iPads?
Why not link them to your account, with your name, and require a government-issued photo ID to verify your identity before they make a sale? Makes a hell of a lot more sense than limiting it by credit card... not everyone has a credit card, and many people have several.
my favorite comment made by a male scientist at a conference "you should submit a picture of yourself with your journal article to assure the article's publication (it was published w/out the picture- jerk).
That sounds more to me like a complement on your looks than a deliberate slam on the publish-ability of the article without a picture.
for your edification, I will point out that the word "cunt" does not specifically equate to vagina. The term refers more generally to the genital area, of which the vagina is a part.
Yes, that’s exactly what he said. Go back and read it again.
More specifically, he said something to the effect of “I wasn’t screwing around on my wife”. In front of a jury. Under oath. After he did, in fact, screw around on his wife.
But yes, you’re right, saying “don’t screw around on your wife” and then going out and screwing around on your wife is much, much worse than screwing around on your wife and then saying “I didn’t screw around on my wife”.~
- Child porn (yes the old 'think of the children');
Yes, but Australia has banned any porn (including cartoon porn) of persons (real or imaginary) who even look to be under 18 (i.e. small-breasted adult models). I sure as hell wouldn’t want to try to sanitize my porn collection to comply with their ridiculous laws before I enter the country.
In the article, it indicates that it was child porn. The summary just excerpted the first 2 paragraphs of the article and those failed to mention this.
Anyway I’m sure you know how less-than-reputable porn sites and malicious web content go hand-in-hand. Where do people typically get infected with computer viruses? Dodgy porn sites.
Additionally, I think it's more than a fetish. It's a sickness. For those involved it becomes more than watching and eventually encourages those with this sickness to act out their fantacies on some poor child.
Playing violent video games (such as Grand Theft Auto) is more than entertainment. It’s a sickness. For those involved it becomes more than watching and eventually encourages those with this sickness to act out their fantasies on some poor pedestrian.~
The rationale (and whether or not it makes any sense is up for debate)...
Violence is around us. It is [supposed] to frighten and disgust us, although movies have pretty much desensitized us to it. However, if you ignore the desensitizing nature of habitually and deliberately watching violent movies, it’s no different than walking out on the street and randomly seeing a violent act take place. (Well, chances are good that a movie is significantly more violent and gruesome than the average mugging... but so the theory goes.)
Sex, on the other hand, is something (traditionally) that is “supposed” to happen behind closed doors. We know it happens and we want it to keep happening, but a person who habitually went and spied on people having sex in real life would be called a peeping tom. So we don’t think people should be watching other people having sex in movies or on TV, either.
Like I said... whether the argument holds any water is up for debate, but it does at least make a little sense from that perspective, even though I think it’s ignoring some obvious and relevant facts (such as, watching it desensitizes us to it).
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We already have a way to uniquely and unquestionably identify a person. It’s called picture ID.
What it says on US currency is true: "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" (yes, it's in caps). That means buying an iPad, or buying a cup of coffee.
WRONG. What it says is true. It doesn’t mean buying an iPad, a cup of coffee, or anything else, because a purchase is not a debt.
There is no debt unless a transaction was completed, no transaction until they decide to sell you one, no sale unless you pay for it, and cash payment is not accepted.
If they give you a financing arrangement (buy now, pay later), that is a debt and they can’t refuse to accept cash payment. A straight sale, however, does not generate debt and they can choose what form of payment they’ll accept, including choosing not to accept certain forms of legal tender.
Apple, like any other company, gets your name, address, and zip code when you buy something at one of their stores, right?
And they need to correlate by your credit card number to ensure that you don’t buy more than two iPads?
Why not link them to your account, with your name, and require a government-issued photo ID to verify your identity before they make a sale? Makes a hell of a lot more sense than limiting it by credit card... not everyone has a credit card, and many people have several.
geek-girl is, as of the moment, not taken
Actually, strike that... geek-girl is apparently too similar to geek_girl; it says the name is not available.
Whoosh.
Just like when I see boy in a name, I tend to think the person behind it is a dimwitted moron with no imagination.
What? Like "fanboy"?
It’s a verbal pun on the URL syntax.
It reads:
http:///..com
my favorite comment made by a male scientist at a conference "you should submit a picture of yourself with your journal article to assure the article's publication (it was published w/out the picture- jerk).
That sounds more to me like a complement on your looks than a deliberate slam on the publish-ability of the article without a picture.
Oh, and you left out a quotation mark.
geekgirl...
geek_girl...
geekgrrl...
g33kg1rl...
geek-girl is, as of the moment, not taken, although I was sorely tempted to register it.
for your edification, I will point out that the word "cunt" does not specifically equate to vagina. The term refers more generally to the genital area, of which the vagina is a part.
Yes, that’s exactly what he said. Go back and read it again.
No, I think he just called Kate Carruthers ugly.
...and yes, that was her picture attached to the story.
More specifically, he said something to the effect of “I wasn’t screwing around on my wife”. In front of a jury. Under oath. After he did, in fact, screw around on his wife.
But yes, you’re right, saying “don’t screw around on your wife” and then going out and screwing around on your wife is much, much worse than screwing around on your wife and then saying “I didn’t screw around on my wife”.~
You’re right. It’s much worse to say one thing and do another than it is to do one thing and say another.
Well, I’m not going to argue with that...
Seriously, that is the best you could do?
Eh? Just the most recent one I could think of off the top of my head.
Not Democrats, though. We take personal responsibility for our actions.
“I... did not have sexual relations with... that woman... Miss Lewinsky...”
Care to clarify that?
How so? We want the rules to apply to everyone equally, unlike conservatives who want rules for everyone else.
Oh? That’s funny...
Maybe it’s to set the mood. Or did you think women don’t like porn?
Are there really a lot of fundies in Australia too? I always thought it was a very laid back sort of country.
Where have you been?
"australian censorship law" - 935,000 results
"banned in australia" - 390,000 results
"australia bans" - 265,000 results
...and that is only searching for those exact phrases – with the quotes included.
- Child porn (yes the old 'think of the children');
Yes, but Australia has banned any porn (including cartoon porn) of persons (real or imaginary) who even look to be under 18 (i.e. small-breasted adult models). I sure as hell wouldn’t want to try to sanitize my porn collection to comply with their ridiculous laws before I enter the country.
No, the problem is that idiots are making the laws.
As opposed to liberals, who only concern themselves with everyone except themselves.
In the article, it indicates that it was child porn. The summary just excerpted the first 2 paragraphs of the article and those failed to mention this.
Anyway I’m sure you know how less-than-reputable porn sites and malicious web content go hand-in-hand. Where do people typically get infected with computer viruses? Dodgy porn sites.
Oh, so it’s not as simple as you previously pretended it was?
Additionally, I think it's more than a fetish. It's a sickness. For those involved it becomes more than watching and eventually encourages those with this sickness to act out their fantacies on some poor child.
Playing violent video games (such as Grand Theft Auto) is more than entertainment. It’s a sickness. For those involved it becomes more than watching and eventually encourages those with this sickness to act out their fantasies on some poor pedestrian.~
The rationale (and whether or not it makes any sense is up for debate)...
Violence is around us. It is [supposed] to frighten and disgust us, although movies have pretty much desensitized us to it. However, if you ignore the desensitizing nature of habitually and deliberately watching violent movies, it’s no different than walking out on the street and randomly seeing a violent act take place. (Well, chances are good that a movie is significantly more violent and gruesome than the average mugging... but so the theory goes.)
Sex, on the other hand, is something (traditionally) that is “supposed” to happen behind closed doors. We know it happens and we want it to keep happening, but a person who habitually went and spied on people having sex in real life would be called a peeping tom. So we don’t think people should be watching other people having sex in movies or on TV, either.
Like I said... whether the argument holds any water is up for debate, but it does at least make a little sense from that perspective, even though I think it’s ignoring some obvious and relevant facts (such as, watching it desensitizes us to it).