To not accept Paypal for payment is to kill your chance at selling. Why the fuck would anyone want to risk sending a money order to a stranger? Who wants to take the time to go get one?
He says the company is taking "aggressive steps," such as a fee increase for store listings to "reinvigorate" the auction marketplace.
Increasing fees to the sellers results in sellers charging more for shipping, on which eBay does not charge fees, in order to recoup the costs. If a seller is charged a couple dollars in listing and selling fees on a low-priced item, why bother lisisting? eBay has lost its reputation as being a place for buyers to find bargain and sellers to get the highest price. Bargains are few and far between these days. No longer is it feesible to buy a book or new keyboard on eBay when the fees charged are so high that buyers are deterred due to the "shipping" fees and sellers are hesitant to list without a near guarantee of a sale.
Lower the fees and the market will have a new breath of life. Better to make $1 in fees on 10 auctions than to make $1.50 on five.
Also, acquiring Paypal hurt eBay in a way. They outright forbid vertain other payment services, such as Google's payment system, and by trying to force payment down a certain channel (for which they make more in fees), eBay is gaining more of a feel of someone standing over us beating us into submission rather than a comfortable play to spend time browsing and breathing easy and having options.
Not to mention both buyers AND sellers are being ripped off left and right these days and eBay seems to lack the inclination to do anything about it. If they're making their fees either way, why not let it continue?
Supposedly this virus won't attack human cells, but what about the bacteria our bodies need? This was not addressed in the article aside from a mention that this virus is only supposed to attack the Listeria virus. Our bodies naturally have deadly bacteria, but it's kept in check by other bacteria. Trying to kill off one may not seem like such a big deal, but it does have an effect. Then, when another is the target, and another, our bodies get screwed up pretty badly.
You men may not be aware of something. Now be adult and accept what I am about to write as how things are. While not pleasant to think about, we are all adults, and you should be mature enough to not squirm at words like "penis" and "vagina." This can affect you men too.
Women need certain bacteria in our bodies. Men need the same bacteria. When we are on antibiotics, doctors recomment we eat yogurt with active yeast cultures to help restore this specific bacteria. When the bacteria gets too low, we get something known as a yeast infection. Men can get it too, though it's far less common. This causes itching from hell. If a woman gets a yeast infection, you can bet her man isn't going to get any sex for a few days. At the minimum. And she won't be happy. Just imagine itching in a very delicate spot, and you can't scratch it while in public. But yet to scratch in private, you're still going to be unhappy because you can tear tender tissue and risk other infections. So you're fucked and miserable. Yup. This is what happens to us.
It's a delicate balance, and my concern is that this virus may end up attacking what we do need. The Listeria can become resistent or mutate, or the virus can mutate, or both, while our bodies struggle to attack the virus and keep the rest of our system and bacteria in check and balanced. I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea of ontroducing something else to my body for my T-cells to have to identify and attack, adding more of a burden to my already-poor immune system. To risk the bacteria is my own choice. I'll take the bacteria over the virus, something that can be killed with antibiotics should the need arise over something that can't.
Happy, happy...joy...joy....
People who are pregnant or have a weakened immune system just shouldn't eat certain things. The rest of society should be introduced to viruses. If you're pregnant or have a weakened immuse systen, just accept that to eat certain things is at your own risk. And now everyone will be eating this at their own risk instead of just a few. Yeah, let's make the problems of a few the problems of us all.
Really, I wish the FDA would just stop screwing with our food. In trying to control every single thing, they're only creating strands of bacteria more resistent to what's available, creating the need for stronger and stronger antiobiotics and whatnot. This is not good for us, and, if I had the yard space, or even a yard at all, I'd become a vegetarian and grow my own food. Wait. The water's probably treated with what only the gods and the FDA know.
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One or the other always could be. It just seems like a good number of people are parents within a short time! I'm curious as to how they're going to fit a baby for Callie and Tyrol into the plotline without making them domestic. For Kara and Sharon and Hilo, it works. And Six is apparently really in love with Baltar. Did you catch that clip when she mentions love? This is going to be a loaded season. As long as there are no more episodes like "Tigh Me Up, Tight Me Down," there is a lot of potential for the best season yet.
You...don't remember Sharon and Hilo having a baby? And they were told the baby died. Roslin chose soemone to adopt the baby, and that woman doesn't know that the baby she has is half-Cylon. There was a shot of New Caprica of the baby a year later. That baby definitely wasn't over a year old. So it would appear that human-Cylon children age the same as humans.
About the gestation comment, the end of last season and the beginning of next season is longer apart than gestation. Someone could have a baby between the end of S2 and the beginning of S3.
Is it not one of the most frustrating things? It's a longer time between the last season and this next one that gestation! End of last season I mentioned that because of the whole second-Sharon's-baby thing.
What gives with the age of that little girl? Time-wise, they're going to have to skip more time to make a child that age work. Right now it's a little over a year, maybe a year and a half, from when Kara was at that farm. So logically a child of hers wouldn't be older than maybe a year. Unless they're going to have this human-Cylon child age faster.
There's going to be so much going on in S3 and i just can't wait!
You linked to Tricia Helfer. Any guy who doesn't know who she is isn't batting on your team, and any girl who doesn't know, well, who the frak wouldn't know of Tricia Helfer but would know of Cylons? You've seen this, right? Teaser for season three?
I get paid pretty well to deal with this crap and keeping it from getting to our clients. For all the annoyances spammers cause, I'd like to thank them for keeping me employed! And then hit them for even trying to send me spam.
Yeah, so I'm a geek. But I kind of like the idea of Cylons. Not the Centurions of the original BSG, but like the new BSG. Can you imagine the chaos? The terror? The...
I'm really going nowhere with this, just wanted to talk about Cylons and BSG. But it can happen!
Hey, Slashdot took out my made-up code for a grin and put nothing in its place to indicate it was there! It was not meant to be read and tossed. Damn them. Ruined my night. Grrrrrrrrrr.....
You are correct. I just updated my LiveJournal before posting and was still in the mindset of posting in such a way that the normal people on my friends list would understand it. Typically I make up my own tags. 'Tis fun.
You know, if I were to try tagging anything in this reply, I'd come off looking like a loser. You took the fun out of it.
What the hell is it with this assumption to all women love shoes? Shoe-shopping gives me hives. I am a 25-year-old analytical engineer specializing in e-mail security, and eyes bug out when that's said. Why? Why assume women are technologically inferior? Why assume that tech is a man's field? Sure, there's this smug sense of doing something that sounds cool that a lot of women aren't doing, but it would sure be nice if it weren't greeted with a sense of disbelief, if more women weren't so intimidated.
This articles makes women out to be a bunch of fashion whores who are shocking people by wanting tech items. A weekend vacation in Florida is over in a weekend. That diamond necklace will only be worn on special occassionas (unless given by someone special, in which case I'd never take it off, as I never take off my pearl necklace except to shower). Why take the designer shoes over a pricey camera when knock-offs of those shoes can be had for $20? That plasma TV would be great for picking up the details in every outfit on Sex and the City. *sense the sarcasm*
Yet a plasma TV hardly counts for tech in my book. Why is an LCD TV not considered tech? Because they are hardly more than appliances. You want to fix a TV, you take it to an appliance repair person. Would this TV be considered a technological item if this study were done with men? Or would it be done with an item that requires more knowledge than how to press some buttons on a remote to change the channel?
Do this study with a MacBook and give women a little more credit than as mindless whores only concerned about where they shoes are Jimmy Choo or whatever. Then maybe more of us wouldn't be afraid of entering the domain of men.
Who am I kidding? I love being a woman in a man's world.
California law is based on English common law (as it is for most states), and I believe that in all of Britain, police are required to contact parents before children are allowed to be questioned. This articles makes it sound as if the children were interrogated first. have these officers nothing better to do with their time than to haul pre-teens to an adult jail? Better things to spend money on than DNA testing kids for branches? I hope the parents sue the living hell out of that police department.
I'm pissed of at my work PC always being a pain in the ass! Whether it's freezing up for no damned reason (grrrrrrrrrr, I get so mad when don't have Office open, a browser, or anything, and the CPU is at 100%, freezes, and I have to reboot), having to restart to install or uninstall most programs, or whatever, it makes my life miserable. Right now my PC-laptop is shoved under the couch to keep me from stomping on it. My roomie's desktop PC is okay so far, but no PC that I've used long-term has made me happy.
Yeah, it will be a new platform to learn, but so? I've got no plans to run Windows on it unless I find that I must to work remotely (which may be a possiblity, and will irritate the life out of me). But really, only a complete computer idiot will object to learning something new these days.
A sweetie would let me use his iBook for webs tuff when I was at his place, and he told me early on I'd like it. It was different, but I did like it. And it wasn't the pain that my PC is. And it will be nice to learn a new platform. And, being in the land of Apple, Jobs' turf, it's not such an unusual thing to have a Mac.
My only potential concern may be that a program I want to use won't work on OS X, and I'm determined not to revert to Windows. If there's anything I want not Mac-compatible, there's got to be an equivalent that is, right?
This is old news around here. But do you know if there's any truth to the rumor that this card will be microchipped and we will be required to carry it at all times, even if just out for a walk or a friend drives you to the grocery store? What I've heard several times is that the chips will be trackable as well. So if you go to a protest and have your card on you, police can scan who's there and enter people into a database to track their activities. I'd like to know how accurate this is. It's hardly a step down from implanted microchips is true.
Okay, Hollywood movies cost an arm and a leg to produce. So when a studio has a winner, it, and other studios, are going to try to replicate the formula that made that first one successful. They are afraid to take big risks and expand into a new genre if they are uncertain of the market. So what happens are a bunch of half-cocked ideas that just suck. Or when one film has been a hit, try turning it into a series. Sometimes this works (like Rocky, up until Rocky V anyway, which sucked so bad I prefer to forget it was ever made), and sometimes it is nothing but a waste of time (such as the Scary Movie sequels, or, worse, the sequels to Bloodsport I just found out were made). Very little is different, and it gets boring. But it seems like a safe bet to the execs. Better to make just a few million in profit that to bring in less than production costs.
A solution to the Hollywood crap is to try indie films. With their smaller budgets and little, if anything, set aside for advertising, the makers must use more creativity, do something different, to make their films the ones that stand out, and they much be good enough to get people talking. Word-of-mouth. Yes, you're going to come by some that are so off-the-wall as to be worthy of Hollywood, but you're more likely to find true artistic gems.
His password? You mean the answer to a security question?:) After a year, I'm sure he's changed it. I hope. I don't know since we fell out of contact last year. My favorite historical figure would have to be, um, you know, I can't think of anyone amusing enough at the moment.
Exactly. And every year or so, change what the answers are. Or, instead of your mother's maiden name, use an ex's mother's maiden name if you know it.
An old friend of mine would choose the "favorite historical figure" option, if available, and he would answer "Hitler." He said you wouldn't expect it of a black Jewish guy, and that's what was so great. It's not likely to be guessed.
At least as far as preventing access to minors. We are in a society in which parents will sue anyone who doesn't keep their kids safe for them. If a school or library lets Little Susie on MySpace and she meets a pervert, will the parents blame themselves? No, they'll scream that the school or library is at fault and should be sued. So the govornment is having to step in to do the job for parents.
An alternative to banning kids outright would be to allow parents the option of signing a waver, in person, when a kid gets a library card releasing the library from all liability associated with the kid's use of the internet, including, but not limited to, potential contact with child sex offenders. As it is, in most, if not all, libraries, kids can get cards without a parent, and from there can use the internet unmonitored. But allowing parents the option of signing to allow their kids access to sites that would otherwise be banned could assist parents in keeping their kids away from sites they may not want their kids to go to. Signing to deny access wouldn't work because a parent wouldn't necessarily know the kid even has a card.
Have you ever been stuck going to a library to use the internet for something like research or work (it really sucked waiting for cable to be installed here), and had to wait around because all 55 of the computers were full of kids playing around on MySpace, walking away from their machine to look over a friend's shoulder, a few gathering around one machine? And you don't get to go take it just because the kid moved? And you're not the only adult waiting 90 minutes for a terminal to open up? If you have, you've probably wished that the US would ban these little pests known as kids on the internet.
School computers are meant to be used to school work, so by all means, just ban the sites. Kids should be doing, you know, school work, while at school.
Now, about banning adults, this is just rediculous. It is our tax dollars that fund these things. And if all we have to do is ask, then what could be an excuse for the librarian to say no? Are they going to check Megan's List to see if we're each registered, when only about 1/3 of offenders are even registered? If in doubt, treat us like the criminals we aren't? This isn't just over-the-top censorship, but a misuse of authority to even attempt to deny us access. Yes, continue to ban porn sites in libraries as you have to be 18 to view those, or better yet, set aside a section of computers for adults only with the monitors facing such a way that passers by (like kids and adults with poles up their asses) won't be exposed to what's on the monitor.
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To not accept Paypal for payment is to kill your chance at selling. Why the fuck would anyone want to risk sending a money order to a stranger? Who wants to take the time to go get one?
He says the company is taking "aggressive steps," such as a fee increase for store listings to "reinvigorate" the auction marketplace.
Increasing fees to the sellers results in sellers charging more for shipping, on which eBay does not charge fees, in order to recoup the costs. If a seller is charged a couple dollars in listing and selling fees on a low-priced item, why bother lisisting? eBay has lost its reputation as being a place for buyers to find bargain and sellers to get the highest price. Bargains are few and far between these days. No longer is it feesible to buy a book or new keyboard on eBay when the fees charged are so high that buyers are deterred due to the "shipping" fees and sellers are hesitant to list without a near guarantee of a sale.
Lower the fees and the market will have a new breath of life. Better to make $1 in fees on 10 auctions than to make $1.50 on five.
Also, acquiring Paypal hurt eBay in a way. They outright forbid vertain other payment services, such as Google's payment system, and by trying to force payment down a certain channel (for which they make more in fees), eBay is gaining more of a feel of someone standing over us beating us into submission rather than a comfortable play to spend time browsing and breathing easy and having options.
Not to mention both buyers AND sellers are being ripped off left and right these days and eBay seems to lack the inclination to do anything about it. If they're making their fees either way, why not let it continue?
Add to this their own handlings of food. Was it left out on the counter?
Supposedly this virus won't attack human cells, but what about the bacteria our bodies need? This was not addressed in the article aside from a mention that this virus is only supposed to attack the Listeria virus. Our bodies naturally have deadly bacteria, but it's kept in check by other bacteria. Trying to kill off one may not seem like such a big deal, but it does have an effect. Then, when another is the target, and another, our bodies get screwed up pretty badly.
You men may not be aware of something. Now be adult and accept what I am about to write as how things are. While not pleasant to think about, we are all adults, and you should be mature enough to not squirm at words like "penis" and "vagina." This can affect you men too.
Women need certain bacteria in our bodies. Men need the same bacteria. When we are on antibiotics, doctors recomment we eat yogurt with active yeast cultures to help restore this specific bacteria. When the bacteria gets too low, we get something known as a yeast infection. Men can get it too, though it's far less common. This causes itching from hell. If a woman gets a yeast infection, you can bet her man isn't going to get any sex for a few days. At the minimum. And she won't be happy. Just imagine itching in a very delicate spot, and you can't scratch it while in public. But yet to scratch in private, you're still going to be unhappy because you can tear tender tissue and risk other infections. So you're fucked and miserable. Yup. This is what happens to us.
It's a delicate balance, and my concern is that this virus may end up attacking what we do need. The Listeria can become resistent or mutate, or the virus can mutate, or both, while our bodies struggle to attack the virus and keep the rest of our system and bacteria in check and balanced. I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea of ontroducing something else to my body for my T-cells to have to identify and attack, adding more of a burden to my already-poor immune system. To risk the bacteria is my own choice. I'll take the bacteria over the virus, something that can be killed with antibiotics should the need arise over something that can't.
Happy, happy...joy...joy....
People who are pregnant or have a weakened immune system just shouldn't eat certain things. The rest of society should be introduced to viruses. If you're pregnant or have a weakened immuse systen, just accept that to eat certain things is at your own risk. And now everyone will be eating this at their own risk instead of just a few. Yeah, let's make the problems of a few the problems of us all.
Really, I wish the FDA would just stop screwing with our food. In trying to control every single thing, they're only creating strands of bacteria more resistent to what's available, creating the need for stronger and stronger antiobiotics and whatnot. This is not good for us, and, if I had the yard space, or even a yard at all, I'd become a vegetarian and grow my own food. Wait. The water's probably treated with what only the gods and the FDA know.
I said it. There!
One or the other always could be. It just seems like a good number of people are parents within a short time! I'm curious as to how they're going to fit a baby for Callie and Tyrol into the plotline without making them domestic. For Kara and Sharon and Hilo, it works. And Six is apparently really in love with Baltar. Did you catch that clip when she mentions love? This is going to be a loaded season. As long as there are no more episodes like "Tigh Me Up, Tight Me Down," there is a lot of potential for the best season yet.
No, they only had the one baby. They were led to believe the baby died, but the baby was alive. However, Callie and Tyrol are clearly expecting!
You...don't remember Sharon and Hilo having a baby? And they were told the baby died. Roslin chose soemone to adopt the baby, and that woman doesn't know that the baby she has is half-Cylon. There was a shot of New Caprica of the baby a year later. That baby definitely wasn't over a year old. So it would appear that human-Cylon children age the same as humans.
About the gestation comment, the end of last season and the beginning of next season is longer apart than gestation. Someone could have a baby between the end of S2 and the beginning of S3.
Is it not one of the most frustrating things? It's a longer time between the last season and this next one that gestation! End of last season I mentioned that because of the whole second-Sharon's-baby thing.
What gives with the age of that little girl? Time-wise, they're going to have to skip more time to make a child that age work. Right now it's a little over a year, maybe a year and a half, from when Kara was at that farm. So logically a child of hers wouldn't be older than maybe a year. Unless they're going to have this human-Cylon child age faster.
There's going to be so much going on in S3 and i just can't wait!
You linked to Tricia Helfer. Any guy who doesn't know who she is isn't batting on your team, and any girl who doesn't know, well, who the frak wouldn't know of Tricia Helfer but would know of Cylons? You've seen this, right? Teaser for season three?
I get paid pretty well to deal with this crap and keeping it from getting to our clients. For all the annoyances spammers cause, I'd like to thank them for keeping me employed! And then hit them for even trying to send me spam.
Yeah, so I'm a geek. But I kind of like the idea of Cylons. Not the Centurions of the original BSG, but like the new BSG. Can you imagine the chaos? The terror? The...
I'm really going nowhere with this, just wanted to talk about Cylons and BSG. But it can happen!
Clearly you didn't read that last line to pick up on the humor.
Hey, Slashdot took out my made-up code for a grin and put nothing in its place to indicate it was there! It was not meant to be read and tossed. Damn them. Ruined my night. Grrrrrrrrrr.....
You are correct. I just updated my LiveJournal before posting and was still in the mindset of posting in such a way that the normal people on my friends list would understand it. Typically I make up my own tags. 'Tis fun.
You know, if I were to try tagging anything in this reply, I'd come off looking like a loser. You took the fun out of it.
What the hell is it with this assumption to all women love shoes? Shoe-shopping gives me hives. I am a 25-year-old analytical engineer specializing in e-mail security, and eyes bug out when that's said. Why? Why assume women are technologically inferior? Why assume that tech is a man's field? Sure, there's this smug sense of doing something that sounds cool that a lot of women aren't doing, but it would sure be nice if it weren't greeted with a sense of disbelief, if more women weren't so intimidated.
This articles makes women out to be a bunch of fashion whores who are shocking people by wanting tech items. A weekend vacation in Florida is over in a weekend. That diamond necklace will only be worn on special occassionas (unless given by someone special, in which case I'd never take it off, as I never take off my pearl necklace except to shower). Why take the designer shoes over a pricey camera when knock-offs of those shoes can be had for $20? That plasma TV would be great for picking up the details in every outfit on Sex and the City. *sense the sarcasm*
Yet a plasma TV hardly counts for tech in my book. Why is an LCD TV not considered tech? Because they are hardly more than appliances. You want to fix a TV, you take it to an appliance repair person. Would this TV be considered a technological item if this study were done with men? Or would it be done with an item that requires more knowledge than how to press some buttons on a remote to change the channel?
Do this study with a MacBook and give women a little more credit than as mindless whores only concerned about where they shoes are Jimmy Choo or whatever. Then maybe more of us wouldn't be afraid of entering the domain of men.
Who am I kidding? I love being a woman in a man's world.
California law is based on English common law (as it is for most states), and I believe that in all of Britain, police are required to contact parents before children are allowed to be questioned. This articles makes it sound as if the children were interrogated first. have these officers nothing better to do with their time than to haul pre-teens to an adult jail? Better things to spend money on than DNA testing kids for branches? I hope the parents sue the living hell out of that police department.
Then what am I? :)
I'm pissed of at my work PC always being a pain in the ass! Whether it's freezing up for no damned reason (grrrrrrrrrr, I get so mad when don't have Office open, a browser, or anything, and the CPU is at 100%, freezes, and I have to reboot), having to restart to install or uninstall most programs, or whatever, it makes my life miserable. Right now my PC-laptop is shoved under the couch to keep me from stomping on it. My roomie's desktop PC is okay so far, but no PC that I've used long-term has made me happy.
Yeah, it will be a new platform to learn, but so? I've got no plans to run Windows on it unless I find that I must to work remotely (which may be a possiblity, and will irritate the life out of me). But really, only a complete computer idiot will object to learning something new these days.
A sweetie would let me use his iBook for webs tuff when I was at his place, and he told me early on I'd like it. It was different, but I did like it. And it wasn't the pain that my PC is. And it will be nice to learn a new platform. And, being in the land of Apple, Jobs' turf, it's not such an unusual thing to have a Mac.
My only potential concern may be that a program I want to use won't work on OS X, and I'm determined not to revert to Windows. If there's anything I want not Mac-compatible, there's got to be an equivalent that is, right?
This is old news around here. But do you know if there's any truth to the rumor that this card will be microchipped and we will be required to carry it at all times, even if just out for a walk or a friend drives you to the grocery store? What I've heard several times is that the chips will be trackable as well. So if you go to a protest and have your card on you, police can scan who's there and enter people into a database to track their activities. I'd like to know how accurate this is. It's hardly a step down from implanted microchips is true.
Okay, Hollywood movies cost an arm and a leg to produce. So when a studio has a winner, it, and other studios, are going to try to replicate the formula that made that first one successful. They are afraid to take big risks and expand into a new genre if they are uncertain of the market. So what happens are a bunch of half-cocked ideas that just suck. Or when one film has been a hit, try turning it into a series. Sometimes this works (like Rocky, up until Rocky V anyway, which sucked so bad I prefer to forget it was ever made), and sometimes it is nothing but a waste of time (such as the Scary Movie sequels, or, worse, the sequels to Bloodsport I just found out were made). Very little is different, and it gets boring. But it seems like a safe bet to the execs. Better to make just a few million in profit that to bring in less than production costs.
A solution to the Hollywood crap is to try indie films. With their smaller budgets and little, if anything, set aside for advertising, the makers must use more creativity, do something different, to make their films the ones that stand out, and they much be good enough to get people talking. Word-of-mouth. Yes, you're going to come by some that are so off-the-wall as to be worthy of Hollywood, but you're more likely to find true artistic gems.
His password? You mean the answer to a security question? :) After a year, I'm sure he's changed it. I hope. I don't know since we fell out of contact last year. My favorite historical figure would have to be, um, you know, I can't think of anyone amusing enough at the moment.
Exactly. And every year or so, change what the answers are. Or, instead of your mother's maiden name, use an ex's mother's maiden name if you know it.
An old friend of mine would choose the "favorite historical figure" option, if available, and he would answer "Hitler." He said you wouldn't expect it of a black Jewish guy, and that's what was so great. It's not likely to be guessed.
At least as far as preventing access to minors. We are in a society in which parents will sue anyone who doesn't keep their kids safe for them. If a school or library lets Little Susie on MySpace and she meets a pervert, will the parents blame themselves? No, they'll scream that the school or library is at fault and should be sued. So the govornment is having to step in to do the job for parents.
An alternative to banning kids outright would be to allow parents the option of signing a waver, in person, when a kid gets a library card releasing the library from all liability associated with the kid's use of the internet, including, but not limited to, potential contact with child sex offenders. As it is, in most, if not all, libraries, kids can get cards without a parent, and from there can use the internet unmonitored. But allowing parents the option of signing to allow their kids access to sites that would otherwise be banned could assist parents in keeping their kids away from sites they may not want their kids to go to. Signing to deny access wouldn't work because a parent wouldn't necessarily know the kid even has a card.
Have you ever been stuck going to a library to use the internet for something like research or work (it really sucked waiting for cable to be installed here), and had to wait around because all 55 of the computers were full of kids playing around on MySpace, walking away from their machine to look over a friend's shoulder, a few gathering around one machine? And you don't get to go take it just because the kid moved? And you're not the only adult waiting 90 minutes for a terminal to open up? If you have, you've probably wished that the US would ban these little pests known as kids on the internet.
School computers are meant to be used to school work, so by all means, just ban the sites. Kids should be doing, you know, school work, while at school.
Now, about banning adults, this is just rediculous. It is our tax dollars that fund these things. And if all we have to do is ask, then what could be an excuse for the librarian to say no? Are they going to check Megan's List to see if we're each registered, when only about 1/3 of offenders are even registered? If in doubt, treat us like the criminals we aren't? This isn't just over-the-top censorship, but a misuse of authority to even attempt to deny us access. Yes, continue to ban porn sites in libraries as you have to be 18 to view those, or better yet, set aside a section of computers for adults only with the monitors facing such a way that passers by (like kids and adults with poles up their asses) won't be exposed to what's on the monitor.
I don't think the Constitution has a provision allowing us the right to internet access.