Comments on: Combating Obesity Through Luggage Restrictions http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/ Take No Prisoners Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:53:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Luggage Sets http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-1351 Luggage Sets Sun, 11 May 2008 18:22:15 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-1351 <strong>Luggage Sets...</strong> I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.... Luggage Sets…

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….

]]> By: Angelika http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-953 Angelika Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:34:05 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-953 I find your question on luggage restriction somewhat puzzling. Are you implying that large people (trying to be politically correct here, no idea if I am not failing miserably) should be allowed a larger luggage on the plane? If so, wouldn't that be encouraging people to get bigger? implicitly, of course. Or better yet, isn't that rewarding them for being overweight? that's just not right. About drinking in public... As far as I know, smoking is restricted to certain areas and is illegal if done in an unmarked area. now, don't ask me what happens if that person smokes where she is not supposed to smoke. I guess all you can do is to ask her kindly to move to her designated "idiot area" oops. No idea what you mean by drinking in public is illegal in Canada. What I think you are trying to say is that you can take a bottle of vodka, sit on the curb downtown somewhere and drink. And I don't see why anybody would want to do that. And I am even more curious about the meaning of the last one. Do you mean abortion by infanticide perhaps? Yes, I know you explained you mean "killing your own baby" by it. But how often does that happen? what circumstances does it happen in? Who does it? etc. etc. I find your question on luggage restriction somewhat puzzling. Are you implying that large people (trying to be politically correct here, no idea if I am not failing miserably) should be allowed a larger luggage on the plane? If so, wouldn’t that be encouraging people to get bigger? implicitly, of course. Or better yet, isn’t that rewarding them for being overweight? that’s just not right.

About drinking in public…
As far as I know, smoking is restricted to certain areas and is illegal if done in an unmarked area. now, don’t ask me what happens if that person smokes where she is not supposed to smoke. I guess all you can do is to ask her kindly to move to her designated “idiot area” oops.
No idea what you mean by drinking in public is illegal in Canada. What I think you are trying to say is that you can take a bottle of vodka, sit on the curb downtown somewhere and drink. And I don’t see why anybody would want to do that.

And I am even more curious about the meaning of the last one. Do you mean abortion by infanticide perhaps? Yes, I know you explained you mean “killing your own baby” by it. But how often does that happen? what circumstances does it happen in? Who does it? etc. etc.

]]> By: H http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-951 H Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:08:29 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-951 The downloading costing the industry money is complete horseshit. The people who download WOULD NOT HAVE PURCHASED IT ANYWAY! Therefore no purchases are lost because these people wouldn't have bought it in the first place. Simple as that. Also the industry doesn't lose anything. People DUPLICATE the stuff, so nobody can call it theft either since the original owner has not lost their property - which is the definition of theft. The downloading costing the industry money is complete horseshit. The people who download WOULD NOT HAVE PURCHASED IT ANYWAY! Therefore no purchases are lost because these people wouldn’t have bought it in the first place. Simple as that.

Also the industry doesn’t lose anything. People DUPLICATE the stuff, so nobody can call it theft either since the original owner has not lost their property - which is the definition of theft.

]]> By: Jeremy http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-946 Jeremy Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:51:49 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-946 The idea is that you distribute to multiple simultaneous users, so you are distributing part of your copy to ostensibly thousands of recipients. Not that I agree with such an issue, but that's where the numbers come from. Even if you think about it as three dollars per one, if you upload to 10 000 users during the time it takes you to download it, even a few packets each, then you are looking at distributing it to $30 000 worth of potential recipients. And yes, indeed, it is silly. The idea is that you distribute to multiple simultaneous users, so you are distributing part of your copy to ostensibly thousands of recipients. Not that I agree with such an issue, but that’s where the numbers come from. Even if you think about it as three dollars per one, if you upload to 10 000 users during the time it takes you to download it, even a few packets each, then you are looking at distributing it to $30 000 worth of potential recipients.

And yes, indeed, it is silly.

]]> By: Kavan Wolfe http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-945 Kavan Wolfe Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:02:07 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/12/05/ponder/#comment-945 So if you distribute the equivalent of one copy while downloading your copy, shouldn't you still only be on the hook for at most $3? So if you distribute the equivalent of one copy while downloading your copy, shouldn’t you still only be on the hook for at most $3?

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