A voluntary system created by the industry, with private reviews and voluntary compliance by game producers, and now it's somehow state-mandated that retailers abuse this completely unofficial system?
Key word: voluntary
If the government doesn't control, oversee, or indeed have anything to do with the rating system, they shouldn't make laws that rely on that system. It's that simple.
Just one of the many reasons everyone should have some sort of Linux LiveCD. (If you actually run Linux remember that it's not generally a good idea to wipe a drive containing the currently running OS!) Just one run of the command above will prevent anyone without very specialized (read: $$$) equipment from ever accessing your data again while still allowing your drive to be legitimately reused. The paranoid can just run it three or four times or until satisfied.
The moral of the story is simply not to trust anyone but yourself with your data.
Over the past four years I have amassed over 200 different chemicals and plenty of labware for my favorite hobby, at a total cost of over $600, and I hate to think that they could cause my dreams for the future (not to mention the chemicals and labware themselves) to go poof, just because some of those chemicals are remotely related to drug manufacture (couldn't live without my potassium permanganate, nor, does it seem, can crack producers...) or explosives. My bottle of sulfuric acid by itself would raise plenty of suspicion, yet hundreds of times the amount that one bottle holds are produced in the USA per capita. As you've probably heard, it's involved in the manufacture of almost everything around you and me, but I can't have some for my own use because it could be used to make explosives! It all just goes to show you that a few people, none of whom are involved in something, can rarely resrict that something and get good results. In this case, that something is amateur chemistry.
In short, fear of chemistry (which has many roots) + our bureaucracy = our current situation. I laugh whenever I see packages that say "no chemicals added" - what could be in there, a vacuum? Whenever anyone speaks of something as a "chemical" it creates an extremely bad image.
Science means knowledge. Not just what we already know, but new things. Without my chemicals I'd just be doing the same old stuff that millions of people before me have done. With them, I have the ability to explore and create further knowledge. And that's what science is all about. The government has sent us amateur chemists back to the 1800s, while they and their "friends" of the high people in such industries as the drug and food industries have been abusing and exploiting recent discoveries, making trillions of dollars and leaving us to suffer, not letting us explore on our own and discover things that will actually help us.
If they're doing this under the guise of public safety and welfare, then they should ban water; after all, a single breath of it can kill...
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A voluntary system created by the industry, with private reviews and voluntary compliance by game producers, and now it's somehow state-mandated that retailers abuse this completely unofficial system?
Key word: voluntary
If the government doesn't control, oversee, or indeed have anything to do with the rating system, they shouldn't make laws that rely on that system. It's that simple.
You've certainly got that right.
# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=4096 conv=notrunc
Just one of the many reasons everyone should have some sort of Linux LiveCD. (If you actually run Linux remember that it's not generally a good idea to wipe a drive containing the currently running OS!) Just one run of the command above will prevent anyone without very specialized (read: $$$) equipment from ever accessing your data again while still allowing your drive to be legitimately reused. The paranoid can just run it three or four times or until satisfied.
The moral of the story is simply not to trust anyone but yourself with your data.
This is absolutely appalling.
Over the past four years I have amassed over 200 different chemicals and plenty of labware for my favorite hobby, at a total cost of over $600, and I hate to think that they could cause my dreams for the future (not to mention the chemicals and labware themselves) to go poof, just because some of those chemicals are remotely related to drug manufacture (couldn't live without my potassium permanganate, nor, does it seem, can crack producers...) or explosives. My bottle of sulfuric acid by itself would raise plenty of suspicion, yet hundreds of times the amount that one bottle holds are produced in the USA per capita. As you've probably heard, it's involved in the manufacture of almost everything around you and me, but I can't have some for my own use because it could be used to make explosives! It all just goes to show you that a few people, none of whom are involved in something, can rarely resrict that something and get good results. In this case, that something is amateur chemistry.
In short, fear of chemistry (which has many roots) + our bureaucracy = our current situation. I laugh whenever I see packages that say "no chemicals added" - what could be in there, a vacuum? Whenever anyone speaks of something as a "chemical" it creates an extremely bad image.
Science means knowledge. Not just what we already know, but new things. Without my chemicals I'd just be doing the same old stuff that millions of people before me have done. With them, I have the ability to explore and create further knowledge. And that's what science is all about. The government has sent us amateur chemists back to the 1800s, while they and their "friends" of the high people in such industries as the drug and food industries have been abusing and exploiting recent discoveries, making trillions of dollars and leaving us to suffer, not letting us explore on our own and discover things that will actually help us.
If they're doing this under the guise of public safety and welfare, then they should ban water; after all, a single breath of it can kill...