Combating Obesity Through Luggage Restrictions
December 5th, 2007 by Kavan WolfeHere is a collection of questions that have bothered me lately:
Why is it that when a 250lbs. person and 100lbs. person buy airline tickets, they both have the same weight limit on their luggage?
If the Golden Compass is being pulled from school libraries for being anti-Christian, shouldn’t most biology, physics, chemistry, geology, neuroscience and modern philosophy books have to go too? Not to mention the Koran, and the history of the world, years 1 to 2008 AD?
Why is it that if download a movie like Transformers, the MPAA tries to sue you for thousands of dollars, but you can buy an official copy of that same DVD for three dollars in China? Didn’t you only cost them $3 by not buying it?
If religious leaders can force “Intelligent Design” into science class, shouldn’t science leaders get a say in what’s taught in religion class?
Why is drinking in public illegal (in Canada anyway) while smoking in public is legal, when its secondhand smoke that can kill you?
Why is the penalty for infanticide (killing your own baby) lower than the penalty for killing some asshole who’s harassed you for years?
If tasering people is a form of torture, aren’t police leaders war criminals?
December 5th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Actually, the MPAA/RIAA aren’t suing you over downloading the song, it’s over redistribution. Since most P2P apps have you sure the data as you download it (or after the download is complete) they bust you on illegal redistribution.
As for the smoking thing, yeah, it’s ridiculous. I think public nudity has better standing for public use than smoking does.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
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?
December 7th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
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.
December 9th, 2007 at 7:08 am
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.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:34 am
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.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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….