So "NC-17" movies can be rendered financially untenable and getting an "R" rating involves dealing with a secretive private committee of short sighted inconsistent morons who answer to no one all because of the threat of congress unconstitutionally taking regulation of movies into it's own hands? -- IP Finding
Yes, I think 9 out of 10 times you have a revolution the rebel leaders become the new tyrants unfortunately. Doesn't say much for mankind does it? -- IP Finding
The good thing about this was that people didn't look for loopholes. Flexible laws have none. When you're tried, you end up in front of a judge and those people COULD definitly see through your plot. When they smelled you trying to tiptoe around some legal definition, they'd whip out some obscure legal detour to jail you. At the same time, they let you off the hook when they noticed that, yes, you broke the law, but it was accidental.
The bad thing being that if you're a black man, then you're just fucked. We still have flexible laws - you can get a DUI just because, and you can get your house legally stolen because somebody found a joint inside it.
Unfortunately black men haven't fared well in court statistically at any point in the USA.
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Or why not trash mining? I bet that would commercially viable right now.
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IP Finding
Better maybe, but there are more black men in prison than in college.
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IP Finding
Uh, why do movies have ratings?
So "NC-17" movies can be rendered financially untenable and getting an "R" rating involves dealing with a secretive private committee of short sighted inconsistent morons who answer to no one all because of the threat of congress unconstitutionally taking regulation of movies into it's own hands?
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IP Finding
Yes, I think 9 out of 10 times you have a revolution the rebel leaders become the new tyrants unfortunately. Doesn't say much for mankind does it?
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IP Finding
The good thing about this was that people didn't look for loopholes. Flexible laws have none. When you're tried, you end up in front of a judge and those people COULD definitly see through your plot. When they smelled you trying to tiptoe around some legal definition, they'd whip out some obscure legal detour to jail you. At the same time, they let you off the hook when they noticed that, yes, you broke the law, but it was accidental.
The bad thing being that if you're a black man, then you're just fucked. We still have flexible laws - you can get a DUI just because, and you can get your house legally stolen because somebody found a joint inside it.
Unfortunately black men haven't fared well in court statistically at any point in the USA.