Sunday, January 30, 2011
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Internet Gem: Advice for 20 Year Olds from 40+ Year Olds
A reddit.com user seeks advice from the Internet. The Internet responds.
Sample 1: “Try to picture us old fucks as the teenagers we used to be. Talk to that person.”
Sample 2: “sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.”
Sample 3: “People lie, a lot.”
Recurring Advice: “Don’t get fat.”
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Seen on Slashdot Today (The Incomprehensibility of Law)
0100010001010011 on the incomprehensibility of law:
In some states, the age of consent and child porn statutes have the same age limits.
For instance, a quick read of NV law shows the AOC to be 16. Child porn is defined as sexually explicit blah blah blah involving a person under 16. Federal law makes it a crime with a person under 18, but there may be some state line/interstate commerce nexus that needs to be fulfilled.
I didn’t feel like looking at too many states, but found this same AOC/CP thing with NH-16/16.
Many states forbid distributing/exhibiting obscenity to people under 18, regardless of their AOC/CP statutes.
So, excluding the feds, it’s not a crime to have sex with a 16 year old or film it. But, she can’t watch the tape afterwards. It’s a crime to allow her 16 year old friend to watch the act as it occurs, but not a crime to have her join. Neither of them can smoke a cigarette or have a beer afterwards. If either one were to rob,beat,kill one of their fellow particpants, they would be tried as an adult in every state in the country.
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Seen on Slashdot Today (An Open Mind)
“I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out.” – Judge Harold T. Stone
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Seen on Slashdot Today (Dangerous)
Amorymeltzer – I believe you mean “risky” not “dangerous.” The most dangerous item I own is probably a knife.
corsec67 – You don’t own a car? That is probably the “most dangerous” class of item that people own.
Anonymous Coward – I don’t own a car, but I do own a lightsaber. Not as clumsy or random as a car; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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