Woohoo! Will this mean more credit-card-free porn? Er, I mean, more freedom of speech?
T-5 to a Republican denouncing this decision (by a Reagan appointee, apparently) as an unconscionable act of judicial activism, and a bunch of schmibertarians not giving a damn.
Why, the Internet is for porn.
Against community standards? We're certainly in trouble now.
1. I think there should be more credit card porn. Not porn that asks you for a credit card first. I mean pornography involving credit cards.
Beware! Some predators use Facebook!
I look forward to the first silicone credit card.
"First she pays down your balance! Then she negotiates a better interest rate! Check out this hot number-filled little financial analyst doing her stuff!"
Oh, man, the blue ribbons. They were blue, weren't they? I worked at SunSITE back then. Any second now Archie and I are going to crank out a rendition of Those Were The Days. Wait for it.
The entire law was the stupidest thing anyone had ever heard of. In some ways I found its signing more offensive than that of DOMA. I see I need not launch into my canned "Community standards? On the internet? We live in the same neighborhood as goa/tse. We all live in that neighborhood" rant.
Whether or not the law passed, somebody should do something about Apo's maggot-penis link.
Let's not forget the Telecommunications Act, or the end of Welfare-as-we-knew-it. Good times!
9: I'm assuming Apo will pull a link to some pr0n with credit cards out of his back pocket.
10 - I'm just shocked that I appear to be losing the "Which will last longer? Salon.com or this case winding through the appeals court?" bet I took years and years ago. Didn't think Salon would be that long for this world.
We live in the same neighborhood as goa/tse.
Dude.
14: Wow. I doubtless would have taken the same bet, and on the same side of the coin.
15: We do. Every webpage in the world is one script-kiddie-delivered defacement away from it. Community standards? Wait, I've already corked that bottle once; I'm going to quit typing and make sure the stopper stays on.
I'm not even sure what that law could mean. If I scream obscenities on ToddlerBabyPuddleducks.com, I'm liable, but not if I scream them on DirtyDirtyWhores&DegenerateMen.com ?
11: Just doing my part to keep your nightmares churning, Jackmormon.
17: If* I remember correctly, yeah, that was the conventional wisdom. Only it wasn't you that would be held liable; it would be ToddlerBabyPuddleducks.com and their ISP. You? You could be anybody and identifying you might be hard work.
* This is an if of gargantuan proportions.
"This is an if of gargantuan proportions"
looks like "orangutan proportions" to no one else?
That's a pretty dumb law.
Almost as dumb as this proposed South Carolina law that will require that pregnant women considering abortions to have an ultrasound. Set aside all of the usual right-thinking objections about intimidation tactics. Spare the condemnation for one moment... And consider that most abortions happen in the first trimester, when if you can see anything, you can see something that looks like what would result if one of the aliens from the X-files mated with a tadpole. And imagine the hilarity.
"I was conflicted about my abortion, until I went for the ultrasound. I was three weeks pregnant. When they did the ultrasound, they couldn't find a heartbeat because babies don't get heartbeats until five weeks in. Guess my abortion didn't stop a beating heart."
21: How could you kill that nondescript blob!
Oh, god, even better. Apparently the heartbeat shows up at five weeks, but isn't regularly detectable, says the Internet, until twelve weeks. Let's see, four weeks per month... okay, so the entire friggin' first trimester, we're going to see a tadpole with no heartbeat.
It probably says unspeakably horrible things about me that this was my first line of thought.
Has anyone done any research on how much longer The X-Files would have run, had it not been for legalized abortion?
I dunno, I stopped following after they killed off Mulder.
Except for the part where it doesn't take.
Without hearing details I assumed that the SC law was, essentially, another form of waiting period -- require women to make two appointments and pay for an ultrasound.
My preggers friend just heard the heartbeat and she's at 6 weeks. The ultrasound does indeed look blobby (she emailed it to me). The people at the office call it the "baby pole" at that stage, which I guess is a semi-official term but they can't say it without laughing and making pole dancer jokes so they call it "the jellybean".
preggers
Did you read Bloom County, Becks?
Ogged, the word is "oughtta." Don't you have any respect at all for the proper spelling of slang?
Don't you have any respect at all for bylines, Minivet?
Oh, man, the blue ribbons. They were blue, weren't they?
No, the blue ribbon campaign was for the Communications Decency Act which was (largely) struck down a year after being passed, and a year before COPA was passed.
36: Thank you. This sort of thing is among the many reasons why I do not do drugs anymore.
Oh God. Due to the link in 6, I ended up subscribing to Facebook. ALL OF MY STUDENTS ARE ON IT. Sigh.
AWB - I was afraid to use Facebook, too, because there were people I didn't want seeing my profile (the fresh-out-of-college kids who work for me and would be annoying about "ha ha! I saw you drunk online!" and an ex-friend who is a total stalker). I gave in once I realized you can block certain people from seeing your profile and/or restrict certain people to limited parts of your profile. If there are any students of yours, etc. that you'd like to do this for, lemme know and I can walk you through it.
Nah, I'm not too worried about it. I don't think I have too much to hide, but if I start getting that nagging paranoia, I'll ask you. Thanks!
41 -- I don't know, I think the whole link to In-Q-Tel and "he served on the same board as people who were on the boards of the following companies" thing is pretty weak. By the same logic, you shouldn't ever use a search engine or make an online purchase.
That doesn't change the fact that Facebook is weak though.
Would you like an invitation to the Unfogged facebook group, AWB?
43- if there's one thing I've learned in my years, it's that there are no false conspiracy theories.
I have a Facebook page I made so I could try to put names to faces among the undergrads of my fraternity and thus seem less disconnected than I am. Of course, I made the page and then immediately forgot it was there. I logged in the other day after six months or so to poke around at it and now see absolutely no reason for Facebook's existence. Anything I can do via it, other than have an official place to choose "we hooked up" as an explanation for knowing someone, is more easily done by some other means. This means, I know, that I am old; but there it is.