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Comment Re:Bad phrasing (Score 2) 138

Haven't you encountered a frightening number of ID idiots who insist - often a top volume - my grandaddy warn't no MONKEY!
Your observation is true, but given the sheer number of people proud to be ignorant, not super useful.
For their benefit - and thus, ours - we gotta watch that flippant phrasing.
As the environment changed, dinosaurs evolve to be smaller, and eventually into birds.
Not catchy, but easier to defend.

Comment Re:How to regulate something that is unregulateabl (Score 2, Insightful) 172

The key phrase is about what makes sense.
To a legislator bought by the banking and payday loan industries, there will be a sense of panic to at least be _seen_ to be doing _something_; so that will make sense.
To an ambitious prosecutor, there will appear an opportunity to bring the full weight of the criminal 'justice' system down on some poor schmuck who orders something legal-but-distasteful using MathMoney without paying sales tax or submitting the forms no one can figure out how to order let alone fill out (NJ handgun laws), so that will make sense.

In short, jumping up and down, waving flags and flares, daring regulators to come after you pretty much guarantees the most draconian possible response (designer recreational drugs) because 'think of the children!'

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