I wonder if anyone here has a problem with the fact that the government restricts the sale of Alcohol and Tobacco to minors... I mean, afterall, I want to choose what my kids smoke or drink, not the government.
Well, maybe I do. Let me explain why.
I am 20 years old. I work and support myself, pay my own rent, buy my own food. My parents pay for my cell phone and that is it (its a slightly funny story but best left for another time).
On my way home to my apartment maybe I want to stop and get a beer. Well I can't, because someone has decided that I'm not old enough.
There is this large group of people in the world who think that because they feel one way about something that everyone should have to live they way they have choose to. Most people seem to feel that they are not a part of this, but then little Johnny slips out of the ol' wifey and suddenly they start imposing thier morality on another human being.
You want your kid to have a safe and sheltered lifestyle, go to college, make 70gs a year and then die of cancer in the suburbs at the age of 90, good for you. Your entiled to wish for your child the happiness that that life hasn't given you. So you have decided to strictly monitor the chemicals and media that your children consume. But guess what? Little Johnny is getting a little curious, and he is going to go out and do what he wants regardless of you. And no law is going to stop him.
Do you know why Johnny wants to drink and smoke and shoot dope and have unprotected sex with strange old men? I don't think that there is really an answer to that one. But what I do know is that many kids aren't like Johnny, in fact, most aren't, and making these things illegal has nothing to do with that. The only thing they have accomplished is annoyed us, the Little Johnnys of the world, so much that we go out and find ways around your silly little laws.
If your children want to do these things to the point that its harmful to them, you as a parent are not going to make a difference anymore, the damage has been done and you should hide your head in shame.
Leagalize everything, for all ages, be people enough to live up to consequnces of the world you've created. Its like rats. You can poisen them and set traps and do whatever you want, but the only way to get rid of them is to clean stuff up a bit and fix the cracks in the walls.
And to answer to the obvious response, yes, my main reason in wanting things like alcohol for minors is because as a minor when I feel like a drink I want it now, damnit, and who are you to tell me otherwise.
I couldn't wait for ROTK to come out because I wanted to see every get all in an uproar about the unhappy ending it would have. I imagined sitting a movie theater seeing girls crying and boys making clicking sounds with thier teeth because they cant look sad in front of thier girls.
Then I saw the movie and I still saw the sadness in it, but I knew all the subtle points of the story from having read the books a few times. I spent an hour explaining to someone why the elves were leaving and they said "So, I dont get it, where did the wizzard guy get the eagles from, they just flew in from nowhere, what was up with that?"
The whole story was sad, and as it goes on you begin to realize that even if they win its going to be at a price, but the movies didn't capture that very well. I dont think they would have done as well if they would have.
What if its not possible for that to have happened, like if there wasnt enough time since the start of the universe to travel that much distance, would your statment still create a paradox out of it? Or, if someone came here and said that, would anybody belive them? Maybe its happened and they got stuck in some 18 century asylum or something. Seems to be a good plot for a book or movie to me.
Funny, I was always tought to shut up and listen in school. Especialy college, where teachers dont have the time to listen to your questions because they have to get so much done in not enough time. What school do you go to, I wanna transfer.
Think about it. Anybody who would take the time to get on a do not email list isnt gonna buy anything form them anyway, so why would they care about this?
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You can get a person killed for way less than that.
Diabolo. Don't feel bad, everyone makes that mistake.
I wonder if anyone here has a problem with the fact that the government restricts the sale of Alcohol and Tobacco to minors... I mean, afterall, I want to choose what my kids smoke or drink, not the government.
Well, maybe I do. Let me explain why.
I am 20 years old. I work and support myself, pay my own rent, buy my own food. My parents pay for my cell phone and that is it (its a slightly funny story but best left for another time).
On my way home to my apartment maybe I want to stop and get a beer. Well I can't, because someone has decided that I'm not old enough.
There is this large group of people in the world who think that because they feel one way about something that everyone should have to live they way they have choose to. Most people seem to feel that they are not a part of this, but then little Johnny slips out of the ol' wifey and suddenly they start imposing thier morality on another human being.
You want your kid to have a safe and sheltered lifestyle, go to college, make 70gs a year and then die of cancer in the suburbs at the age of 90, good for you. Your entiled to wish for your child the happiness that that life hasn't given you. So you have decided to strictly monitor the chemicals and media that your children consume. But guess what? Little Johnny is getting a little curious, and he is going to go out and do what he wants regardless of you. And no law is going to stop him.
Do you know why Johnny wants to drink and smoke and shoot dope and have unprotected sex with strange old men? I don't think that there is really an answer to that one. But what I do know is that many kids aren't like Johnny, in fact, most aren't, and making these things illegal has nothing to do with that. The only thing they have accomplished is annoyed us, the Little Johnnys of the world, so much that we go out and find ways around your silly little laws.
If your children want to do these things to the point that its harmful to them, you as a parent are not going to make a difference anymore, the damage has been done and you should hide your head in shame.
Leagalize everything, for all ages, be people enough to live up to consequnces of the world you've created. Its like rats. You can poisen them and set traps and do whatever you want, but the only way to get rid of them is to clean stuff up a bit and fix the cracks in the walls.
And to answer to the obvious response, yes, my main reason in wanting things like alcohol for minors is because as a minor when I feel like a drink I want it now, damnit, and who are you to tell me otherwise.
The classic example is that screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre and inciting a panic is not protected speech. Everyone agrees with that.
No they don't.
Well maybe they agree that it isn't protected speach, but not that it shouldn't be.
I couldn't wait for ROTK to come out because I wanted to see every get all in an uproar about the unhappy ending it would have. I imagined sitting a movie theater seeing girls crying and boys making clicking sounds with thier teeth because they cant look sad in front of thier girls.
Then I saw the movie and I still saw the sadness in it, but I knew all the subtle points of the story from having read the books a few times. I spent an hour explaining to someone why the elves were leaving and they said "So, I dont get it, where did the wizzard guy get the eagles from, they just flew in from nowhere, what was up with that?"
The whole story was sad, and as it goes on you begin to realize that even if they win its going to be at a price, but the movies didn't capture that very well. I dont think they would have done as well if they would have.
no its just you.
And we all know that there are no monopolies in the software industry.
Thank you for finding a mature and itelegent way to say what I would have said in a childish way and been riduculed for.
And even the large cities like toronto suffer from very low crime rates as far as big cities go.
umm, hmm....
suffer eh?
Does Snood run yet? Ive been waiting for this game to work forever.
What if its not possible for that to have happened, like if there wasnt enough time since the start of the universe to travel that much distance, would your statment still create a paradox out of it? Or, if someone came here and said that, would anybody belive them? Maybe its happened and they got stuck in some 18 century asylum or something. Seems to be a good plot for a book or movie to me.
(Someone is going to have fun with that last line, and get an easy +5 funny. Consider it my little Karma gift to you)
Now that you said that it wont work. Thanks.
Is your sig spelled wrong on purpose?
Uh..you pay money for that ticket.
Did you really need me to say that?
Funny, I was always tought to shut up and listen in school. Especialy college, where teachers dont have the time to listen to your questions because they have to get so much done in not enough time. What school do you go to, I wanna transfer.
you hurt my feelings.
Ummm...no. Nobody read it that way.
Lay off the crack pipe.
you sig makes me want to write a perl virus.
me too!!!!!!
Think about it. Anybody who would take the time to get on a do not email list isnt gonna buy anything form them anyway, so why would they care about this?
Please god let this post be a joke.
did you really need to post that?
I was going to go, but the only day i could i overslept, now I hear this free booze stuff, grrrr.
uhhh man grep maybe?
Uhhh... this doesnt compile what am i doing wrong"
gcc -o icantprogram icantprogram.c
hmm......
maybe i should have used visual c++?