User: marcus_tp

goto space and be COOL

On: Space Tourism Mini-Boom

Just think: You just sold your Dot.com company, what are you gunna do now? Screw Disneyland, I'm going to space! While I admit that going to space in a defunct Russian rocket would be TOTALLY RAD, just as traveling on AmTrack would be fun, whatever happened to the scientific traditions of space travel... I suppose if there's a market and the Russian aerospace engineers haven't been paid their salary in 91 years, do what you have to do.

Going to space has become quite a joke though, especially since N'Sync's Lance Bass is training to go up. Seriously, LANCE BASS, sweet jesus.

no victim, no crime...applied elsewhere?

On: More on Virtual Child Pornography

I understand the argument for virtual kiddie-pron, no victim of sexual abuse or exploitation so no crime. An interesting addition to this story would be all those crimes that have no direct victim, like someone trying to buy cocaine from an undercover officer. The person wouldn't actually be buying cocaine, no victim or intended product of purchase, but would still be arrested based on the intent to purchase narcotics. Would someone someday be arrested for downloading virtual child pornography? It doesn't seem as such a stretch of the imagination that they could be accused of having the intent to download REAL child pornography and could prosecuted, not for having child pornography but rather for child abuse. I can just see some man having to tell his neighbors he was a sex offender because he downloaded some vr-child porn. "Eight year olds Dude."

I think Oliver W. Holmes would have loved to comment on this case in particular. Lets just hope that the supreme court doesn't fall for the expediency of relative justice, but spends some time in creating a law that will have the strength to make a stand.