I never encountered anyone with the idea that piracy was "wrong" until after the Napster controversy - and even then most people saw it as bad in the sense that "You could get in legal trouble" rather than "You'll go to hell". A lot of people I encountered in the Doom days didn't even realize what piracy was, that getting a copy of something from someone was illegal. It was no different than exchanging a mix tape - illegal, but no one realized it was illegal, and no one thought it was wrong or bad. It was seen as odd when I wanted to actually purchase a piece of software I already had. It was not so much a question of honesty, but ignorance...

I'm the only one that thinks this being illegal is ridiculous.

Do we honestly have to protect women from their own stupidity (in giving nude pictures to people that will post them online when they break up)? Because in doing so, we are just exacerbating that stupidity. And if women are of equal intelligence to men, then they shouldn't need a law that protects them from such stupidity (and while I realize that the law covers both genders, I don't see men getting into this same situation). I say get rid of the law that makes "revenge porn" illegal, and let the women pay the fee to have their pics removed, so that they can learn their lesson, and other women will not continue to be stupid (in that way) with the idea that they have the safety net of the law.

You don't walk for 8 - 10 hours when you go to Six Flags or Disney World; you wait in lines at times, you stop to eat and drink, you stop to talk to whomever is with you about where you're going next. You may be on your feet but you aren't constantly walking, and that's quite a difference. (Ask any cashier that is on their feet 8 hours a day to walk for 8 hours a day instead.) I had no problem walking around "all day" for 3 days at a convention a few weeks ago, but if I am walking from one location to another, I can walk for maybe 40 minutes before getting tired out, and in that time I walk just over a mile. The difference is, when you don't have a destination you're trying to get to, you take a lot of breaks that you don't think about.

Yes, I could build that endurance up, and be able to walk faster and for longer amounts of time (I use to walk 4 miles to work in an hour, then back home again after a day of working, without getting tired out - because I did it every day); but a horse used for traveling is already conditioned to walk for longer and faster than I am, because he does it every day - on days when he isn't used for traveling, someone has him run around in a circle.

It's already illegal for ME to sell pseudoephedrine. It's also illegal, in my state, for me to buy enough pseudoephedrine for both my husband and I to take the normal amount per day.

The pharmacy gets a special and regulated (by laws) pass to buy and sell pseudoephedrine. If they decided to just not pay attention, leave pseudoephedrine out on the shelf, not have a system where it asks for ID when pseudoephedrine is scanned, not educate the cashiers that it is suppose to be regulated; and someone bought a bunch and made meth, the pharmacy would be in trouble too.

Well kind of. You use the internet to wirelessly download them.

Nah, they'll just post that stuff on a site the adults don't know about yet.

As long as they are not drug dealing and prostituting on school grounds, it is none of the school's business. If, while on school grounds, they have a fight resulting over a drug deal gone bad (off of school grounds) then the school deals with that fight, not the drug deal that went bad.

Nothing you just said is correct.

That right there is what you are suppose to do. If your kid is being bullied and the school won't kick out the bully, you remove your kid. Schools are paid based on attendance; removing your child means they get less money. If more people were willing to remove their children due to bullying, schools would start kicking out the 1 bully to keep the 10 kids he's bullying. Parents would teach their kid to cut that shit out, because now instead of just sending Bully Jimmy out the door to walk to school every day, they have to get up early and drive him to school across town. And most importantly, your kid isn't forced to return to be bullied day after day.

groceries are probably the only thing where it is less efficient to buy online and have delivered than to go to a store.

i.e. assaulting other students, not just making "threats" but actually doing things, they let that slide. But pretending to shoot other students is an arrest-able offense.

There is noting unwise about posting videos of a game on youtube. What was unwise was assuming the adults in the school - the people that are suppose to be educating these students, and who are basically raising them, since they are with them more waking hours than their parents - have half a brain between them.

Okay, so let's just FedEx that water right over there.

Not really an option in today's world...

I'm confused about why Google using things for commercial purposes in this way is a bad thing. If someone searches for something, and Google shows them my image, it doesn't matter to me that they have ads on the side (that the person is likely to ignore anyway); that's another person exposed to my image, and quite likely to click and go to my site (as it is, presumably, relevant to what they were searching for). Then I'm making a few pennies because they're viewing my ads, maybe a few more pennies if my ads interest them; and if they buy something from me, then I'm making some dollars.

It seems like a symbiotic relationship to me; Google is using my images to make money, but in return, they are giving me high-traffic, targeted advertisements, which I don't have to pay for, and which is very easy to convert into profit (as the person was likely interested). Why is this bad? Why would I waste my time suing rather than creating?

Exclusively? I more believe that she did something wrong, than that something that has been seen to work time and time again failed. And since she was having sex less than 5 weeks postpartum, I'm thinking odds are high she did something else wrong.