Movies with extreme graphic violence, sex, drug taking or a myriad of other things deemed unsuitable for immature audiences are rated M15+ or R18+ and kids aren't allowed to see them.
How is it a breach of First Amendment rights to free speech and unconstitutional?
Because the MPAA ratings are not enforced by law. Whether a theater decides to admit a minor to an R-rated movie without the accompanyment of an adult is up to the theater.
How many times in this thread does this have to be pointed out? It's not like there are hundreds of messages to read through!
Well I can clear up mine. I referred specifically to the Scrabble scene. Those are the tiles pulled from the bag. Seven or nine, there are still not enough Y's. (DNA wasn't beyond revising the story to fit later plotlines or correct errors, such as a hand-carved Scrabble set or making a party be fancy-dress so as to hide a second head in a birdcage... or under a chin.)
And besides, it was "Think of a number. Any number."
That depends on which version you consider definitive. The original radio play established it thus:
Trillian: Hey, that sounds better! Have you managed to make some sense of the controls?
Ford: No, we've just stopped fiddling with them. I think this ship has a far better idea of where it's going than we do.
Arthur: Well that sounds quite sensible to me.
Zaphod: What do you know about it ape-man?
Arthur: Well look! If whoever owns this ship travelled forward in time to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, then presumably he must have programmed the ship in advance to return to the exact point he originally left. Doesn't that make sense?
Ford: That's quite a good thought, you know. Particularly if he was anticipating having a good time. Drunk in charge of a time ship is a pretty serious offence! They tend to lock you away in some planet's stone age and tell you to evolve into a more responsible life-form.
Trillian: So there's nothing to do but sit back and see where we turn up. So what do we do in the meantime?
[pause]
Arthur: I've got a pocket Scrabble set.
Zaphod: Go play with a nut!
Arthur: Well, if that's your attitude!
And a nice foreshadowing of Ford and Arthur's fate to boot: stranded in the stone age of Earth!
Or at least until DNA was asked for another 6 fits and had to both rescue Ford and Arthur and undo the death scene of Zaphod, Trillian, and Marvin.
If I go to Kinkos or some other place with self-serve copying (where I pay at the copier or where I tell them how many copies I made), I could literally shut down an entire bank of copiers by putting money into them and hitting copy?
Don't forget to make sure you don't appear on any of the surveillance cameras, including the hidden ones, and that you don't leave any witnesses or any other physical evidence, including fingerprints on the glass or buttons of the copier, and that the particular brands of copiers aren't also configured to generate an alarm on the attempt.
Because even if the SS doesn't want you for attempted counterfeiting, Kinkos will want to get you for malicious mischief or whatever else they could apply to make you pay for resetting the machines.
Easy enough to update the printer driver to include your computer's NIC and most recent IP address along with the date and serial number.
And easy enough to release a special virus or worm that seeks out printers by their serial number and calls home to the government to get the information, sending whatever it can learn. (Assuming of course that someone publishing a "document of interest" does so on a net-connected system.)
Next will be government mandated holes in antivirus software to not detect government-authored worms and viruses.
On the lighter side, anyone else notice that these marks are not Y2K compliant? I guess they don't expect these printers to last 128 years.
Are doctors and enginneers also exempt from being paid for working overtime? If I'm going to have to pay insurance premiums on the order of that paid by doctors, I'm going to need the money.
Probably won't though. Why pay me to make sure something is safe and secure when the law indentures me to do so.
If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it strong enough, and the house which he builds collapses and causes the death of the house owner, than the contractor shall be put to death.
If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death.
This is of particular interest to me as I contribute code to software used to design steel buildings. I would not want to see this code reapplied today to dwellings or programming.
So, you're advocating that a 12 year old carry a birth certificate (with no picture attached) to the store to buy a game.
No, just reporting the fact that he has that form of ID. It's sufficient to present to the state to get one's first driver's license.
It may also be possible to get a state-issued non-driver age-verifying photo ID. I know you aren't required to be a driver in order to buy alcohol and that such IDs are available in my state. There shouldn't be a problem issuing such an ID to minors as long as the birth date is included (and as long as getting such an ID remains voluntary).
The law is so widely open to interpretation that it provides no enforcable measures by which to "draw the line".
It isn't just standards and values that are vague. Whether the violence is good or bad depends on your point of view.
Consider this child's description of a toy:
"Haven't you seen the Haibo doll? It's like a pet, a robot pet. You have to feed it and pet it or else it dies, and it's the coolest thing ever! Santa has to bring me one!"
Sounds like a nice, wholesome toy, huh? Now consider this description:
"Now I'm never gonna get my Haibo robot doll!" "Is that what this is all about?! You came up with this whole idea so you could get a stupid toy?!" "It's not stupid! It's a toy that you can starve! If you don't feed it, it dies. It's sooo cool."
Same toy, different point of view. It's not the toy manufacturer's fault that this kid treats the disincentive as an incentive.
Now, instead of the fictional Haibo, substitute "The Sims".
I disable web ads when they intrude on the real estate of the content. I never run my browser maximized and prefer the pages I read have a portrait rather than landscape orientation. Ads intruding on the sides or in the middle of the text, I suppress them. Unfortunately for them, to suppress some effectively I must suppress them all.
I also now refuse to watch KMTV CBS out of Omaha. During programming they shove in a small badge ad for some local interest along with the current time and temperature. I don't care for that and instead watch KOLN CBS out of Lincoln.
That's because you want the simplest general solution and not one that only applies to an overly simplified model. You ignore the insignificant details only after you've proved them to be insignificant.
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Movies with extreme graphic violence, sex, drug taking or a myriad of other things deemed unsuitable for immature audiences are rated M15+ or R18+ and kids aren't allowed to see them.
How is it a breach of First Amendment rights to free speech and unconstitutional?
Because the MPAA ratings are not enforced by law. Whether a theater decides to admit a minor to an R-rated movie without the accompanyment of an adult is up to the theater.
How many times in this thread does this have to be pointed out? It's not like there are hundreds of messages to read through!
I believe we have a word for this that begins with Hippo
Hippocampus?
Oh, you meant "Hippo" phoenetically!
Hypochondriac?
We may never know the poster's true intent...
Well I can clear up mine. I referred specifically to the Scrabble scene. Those are the tiles pulled from the bag. Seven or nine, there are still not enough Y's. (DNA wasn't beyond revising the story to fit later plotlines or correct errors, such as a hand-carved Scrabble set or making a party be fancy-dress so as to hide a second head in a birdcage... or under a chin.)
And besides, it was "Think of a number. Any number."
That depends on which version you consider definitive. The original radio play established it thus:
And a nice foreshadowing of Ford and Arthur's fate to boot: stranded in the stone age of Earth!
Or at least until DNA was asked for another 6 fits and had to both rescue Ford and Arthur and undo the death scene of Zaphod, Trillian, and Marvin.
Shouldn't it be "What do you get if you multiply six by seven" since you're responding to a post about Hitchhiker?
No.
Perhaps that's because many Americans have a far more extreme sense of religion than most Brits.
Makes you wonder why we left.
YM Continuity Director?
There aren't enough Y's in Scrabble to spell out "What do you get if you multiply six by nine" either.
Is anyone else getting asked to accept a cookie originating from the site of the top result of a Google search before ever clicking on it?
If I go to Kinkos or some other place with self-serve copying (where I pay at the copier or where I tell them how many copies I made), I could literally shut down an entire bank of copiers by putting money into them and hitting copy?
Don't forget to make sure you don't appear on any of the surveillance cameras, including the hidden ones, and that you don't leave any witnesses or any other physical evidence, including fingerprints on the glass or buttons of the copier, and that the particular brands of copiers aren't also configured to generate an alarm on the attempt.
Because even if the SS doesn't want you for attempted counterfeiting, Kinkos will want to get you for malicious mischief or whatever else they could apply to make you pay for resetting the machines.
Easy enough to update the printer driver to include your computer's NIC and most recent IP address along with the date and serial number.
And easy enough to release a special virus or worm that seeks out printers by their serial number and calls home to the government to get the information, sending whatever it can learn. (Assuming of course that someone publishing a "document of interest" does so on a net-connected system.)
Next will be government mandated holes in antivirus software to not detect government-authored worms and viruses.
On the lighter side, anyone else notice that these marks are not Y2K compliant? I guess they don't expect these printers to last 128 years.
I love IMDB, but I really think they ought to change their name by now.
Or drop the "I'm" and just be "Debbie".
So IE implements HTML for DWIMmies?
Eternal Battle for the Domination of the Internet begins.
.com domain.
Random target selection: the
Value: one billion, eight hundred seventy million dollars.
Play.
Are doctors and enginneers also exempt from being paid for working overtime? If I'm going to have to pay insurance premiums on the order of that paid by doctors, I'm going to need the money.
Probably won't though. Why pay me to make sure something is safe and secure when the law indentures me to do so.
not true HD, but comperable to DVD
More like comparable to VCD and SVCD.
In the Code of Hammurabi, 18th Century B.C.:
If a contractor builds a house for a man and does not build it strong enough, and the house which he builds collapses and causes the death of the house owner, than the contractor shall be put to death.
If it causes the death of the son of the owner, then the son of the contractor shall be put to death.
This is of particular interest to me as I contribute code to software used to design steel buildings. I would not want to see this code reapplied today to dwellings or programming.
So, you're advocating that a 12 year old carry a birth certificate (with no picture attached) to the store to buy a game.
No, just reporting the fact that he has that form of ID. It's sufficient to present to the state to get one's first driver's license.
It may also be possible to get a state-issued non-driver age-verifying photo ID. I know you aren't required to be a driver in order to buy alcohol and that such IDs are available in my state. There shouldn't be a problem issuing such an ID to minors as long as the birth date is included (and as long as getting such an ID remains voluntary).
The "torture" part of the law as written would cover the E rated game that I'm playing right now
It would seem to also cover boxing.
What ID can a 12-year-old get that verifies his/her age?
The same ID he/she got when they were a zero-year-old: a birth certificate.
This is just more of the left wing nannie state bullshit.
I forget: is the Governator an Autocon or a Deceptibot?
The law is so widely open to interpretation that it provides no enforcable measures by which to "draw the line".
It isn't just standards and values that are vague. Whether the violence is good or bad depends on your point of view.
Consider this child's description of a toy:
"Haven't you seen the Haibo doll? It's like a pet, a robot pet. You have to feed it and pet it or else it dies, and it's the coolest thing ever! Santa has to bring me one!"
Sounds like a nice, wholesome toy, huh? Now consider this description:
"Now I'm never gonna get my Haibo robot doll!"
"Is that what this is all about?! You came up with this whole idea so you could get a stupid toy?!"
"It's not stupid! It's a toy that you can starve! If you don't feed it, it dies. It's sooo cool."
Same toy, different point of view. It's not the toy manufacturer's fault that this kid treats the disincentive as an incentive.
Now, instead of the fictional Haibo, substitute "The Sims".
I disable web ads when they intrude on the real estate of the content. I never run my browser maximized and prefer the pages I read have a portrait rather than landscape orientation. Ads intruding on the sides or in the middle of the text, I suppress them. Unfortunately for them, to suppress some effectively I must suppress them all.
I also now refuse to watch KMTV CBS out of Omaha. During programming they shove in a small badge ad for some local interest along with the current time and temperature. I don't care for that and instead watch KOLN CBS out of Lincoln.
If my office burned down tomorrow, I'd need the offsite backup take restored onto a new server, a new Macintosh, a new desk, and a chair. That's it.
And a source of power and security to guard all that 24-7 in the blackened empty lot that used to be your office building.
That's because you want the simplest general solution and not one that only applies to an overly simplified model. You ignore the insignificant details only after you've proved them to be insignificant.