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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You know you have failed as a legislator when the green psychoanalyst known for being chill is disgusted.
edited 15th Feb '13 1:17:23 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor<falls down about the breast thing>
Well, good-bye string tops or cute summer dresses in hot weather... <blinks> Hello spending a tonne on deodorant... o.O
Did whoever write this bit of "legislation" actually, you know... talk to his wife or sister beforehand? Like, in the past ten years?
edited 15th Feb '13 1:17:13 PM by Euodiachloris
It passed committee but hasn't gone to vote properly yet.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryLots of stupid laws get introduced. Most of them don't pass, fortunately. I wonder if this would even be constitutional. I imagine that one could manage some interpretation of clothing as freedom of expression.
edited 15th Feb '13 1:20:22 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I find it difficult to imagine police actually enforcing a law like that. Are they going to arrest half the women in the state? They have better things to do.
This is a situation where Appeal to Worse Problems is actually valid.
edited 15th Feb '13 1:23:42 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"There's a lot of oppression of women still even these days. This law is just one of the ways. Other terrible laws against women have included things like the law that has women in jail in this country for having miscarriages.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick@Fighteer: If these entities create a separate, parallel data system with no regulations, like a Wikileaks for corporations, what good is your legislation? How is the "right for individuals to sue for misuse of data" going to help against corporations with corporate legal budgets and the influence in lobbying to push client states so that they have legal safe havens in which they can store their parallel systems?
@this law: what are its actual odds of passing?
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.@Radical Taoist: Why don't they do that now? If the capability exists, as you insinuate. You can't have a global payment processing network without the buy-in of businesses who use it. Further, banks (which are under Federal regulation) would be barred from processing payments for any such shadow network, and mandatory audits would reveal this.
edited 15th Feb '13 2:10:52 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They're also advertising the law as a toplessness law without realising how tight it actually makes the law. Never mind that the protesting they want to stop wouldn't be stopped by it because that's not exposing the breast for a sexual purpose and the Supreme Court has already ruled on topless protesting being speech.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickThe implication being that men are dogs and rapists and that's just the way it is. Disgusting. But then, that's why I loathe not just rape culture, but this culture that encourages men to be brainless cavedwellers that shouldn't trouble themselves to have any personal responsibility.
How about you be a fucking man? Control yourself. I've had a dick all my life and I can't think of a single instance in which it simply leapt up and attacked a woman all on its own.
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The irony. Of course most of them wouldn't register it.
edited 15th Feb '13 2:32:17 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor@Fighteer: I suspect they do now. I am very skeptical of the political will appearing for stuff like mandatory audits, and I do not underestimate the ability of powerful institutions to conceal their finances. Case in point, the 2008 collapse.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.I'm reminded of the British debate on Gay Marriage. One of the MPs said that, if it weren't for marriage, men would impregnate women, then leave them with the child, and another one came up and responded with "Speak for yourself." I feel like that second MP when people imply things like that.
They'd just rationalize it by saying, basically, "It's different because we're Christians and they're Muslims!" but it really isn't different. They're still authoritarian jackasses.
Yes, but.......
Where is this alleged authoritarianism?? The bill I'm seeing says you can't just take your tits out in public and fling them around like you're alone with your partner. Which makes sense. Exceptions are made for breastfeeding.
I'm not seeing where it got all draconian. And I'm certainly not seeing the Taliban parallel.
Guys, was a mistake made here???
edited 15th Feb '13 2:42:48 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor

So does this bill have any chance of getting passed? It's stupid but I can't see it garnering that much support given how insanely restrictive it is.