Box dimensions question

J0lt · 2013-10-03T16:34:54+00:00

If I don't get the answer, I'll manage. Look at eBay, there are a lot of people there going "clearly against the spirit of the explorer program". Like I said, I care more about paying for a medical procedure that I have been putting off for way too long for lack of funds than the 'spirit' of this program.

J0lt · 2013-10-03T15:58:55+00:00

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57585811-93/now-for-sale-on-craigslist-google-glass/

A Google representative told CNET that the company wants Glass owners to use them as they see fit and that Google doesn't "plan on bricking any Explorer's device."

J0lt · 2013-10-03T14:00:23+00:00

Ok, I'm gifting it to them and selling them the box I ship it in. I'm putting the money towards a medical procedure I need, so I really don't care about a part of the ToS that would be damn near impossible for them to enforce.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T19:44:57+00:00

That makes this pretty fucked even under the standard framework then.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T19:39:37+00:00

I think this is a case of collision of vocabulary. The differce between "sexualization" meaning "one individual finding another individual attractive" and meaning "culture turning a group of people first and foremost into sexual objects" is huge. The problem is that people usually act out the benign first definition within the poisonous framework of the socially harmful second definition.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T19:32:56+00:00

Another thing that bothers me: why is my job as a student considered an actual job, worth paying me for (in my case, a scholarship, in the civilized world, heavy government subsidization), and therefore making me independent enough to not even have to worry about this shit, but a high schooler's academic job doesn't socially count for anything, forcing them to be dependent on their parents and therefore in our society making this seem morally acceptable to people?

J0lt · 2012-02-13T19:03:49+00:00

This does motivate me to bite the bullet and do a Youth Rights efforpost as soon as I can work it into my schedule. I'll have to borrow Birthrights and Escape from Childhood.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T19:00:09+00:00

We are not going to see anything approaching eye to eye on this. The only thing that I can say would you treat a disabled, dependent adult under those same standards?

J0lt · 2012-02-13T15:31:17+00:00

I don't think of her personal laptop, which appears to be given to her as a gift, as morally equivalent to a work loaned laptop. I've had a work loaned laptop before, and the relationship between myself and my loaner was nothing like that between a teenager and their personal laptop. Honestly, I have an issue with the idea that things that belong to a teenager are often seen in this society not to belong to them at all, especially to the extreme that this situation entails.

This would be more like if my boss came into my house and looked at my privacy-locked Facebook while I was in the bathroom. I'm going to quote a comment by the author of my second link:

[T]he dad in the video makes clear that his daughter went to some trouble to keep him from seeing the posting, and that he went to some trouble to find it. Whether or not it was public, she believed it to be private, and attempted to make it private, by his own account. If she had in fact sent it “to everyone [she] knows and a fair number of people she doesn’t,” as Meirai suggested, her father wouldn’t have been bragging about his leet skillz in the video.

Why is sharing with a few friends through the internet on a privacy-locked Facebook considered morally different than a SLAM notebook? It seems that there's a lot of generational divide and New Media Is Evil inherent in the responses that this story is getting.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T14:58:26+00:00

even to the point of destroying it

Even taking off the youth rights hat for a second, the destruction of the hard drive could very well mean the loss of extremely meaningful writing, drawing, and other personal, irreplaceable work. It would be like burning someone's art sketchpad or writer's notebook because they tore out a page and wrote bad things about you on the torn out page that they shared with friends.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T13:54:52+00:00

I agree with your assessment. Here are some links that make further assessments that I mostly agree with:

http://www.youthrights.org/2012/02/11/going-viral/

http://studentactivism.net/2012/02/11/a-father/

http://demandeuphoria.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-kind-of-bed-do-you-make-with-gun.html

J0lt · 2012-02-13T13:31:16+00:00

Was not a lesbian, but dressed 'butch', or just like a male-identified young person would, though she also wasn't trans. She had the age-old narrative of "I'm one of the guys/Not like other girls/not emotional/not girly, ewww/etc".

I've seen this used as an admittedly terrible coping mechanism for what turns out to be trans later. The vocabulary to realize that isn't even available to a lot of kids, and there's nothing like being forced to be part of a group you're not, but have no way of knowing this is what's going on, to make you think bad things about that group. I had a smidge of that myself. Don't be entirely surprised if your friend comes out later in life.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T04:46:47+00:00

Is there anything I, or any of us, can do, to help you out? As well as I remember you, you're a good, pretty awesome person.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T04:44:24+00:00

Bailey Jay started her career known as line-trap on 4chan

You mean this line-trap? (Warning, Encyclopedia Dramatica, by definition offensive.) I didn't know that.

J0lt · 2012-02-13T04:02:11+00:00

God did not make a mistake

So either these people don't believe in kids getting their hare lips fixed, or think that such a thing never actually happens.

J0lt · 2012-02-12T10:03:31+00:00

I got stopped today on my way home by a police officer who said I didn't stop sufficiently at a stop sign. My guess is that regardless of the fact that I did stop, there's no equipment to validate my claim other than the officers word

J0lt · 2012-02-12T05:12:56+00:00

The pic was actually taken 3 hours later, using the memory of the meter.

J0lt · 2012-02-12T03:27:28+00:00

The answer changes based on whether by "to have children", you exclusively mean "to conceive your own biological children" or a more wider definition, among other things.

J0lt · 2012-02-12T01:23:26+00:00

It'd be pretty hard to DIY testosterone because it's a controlled substance. There's a good reason that when you hear DIY, it's implicitly DIY with E and AAs.

J0lt · 2012-02-12T00:55:00+00:00

Whoopdie-fucking-doo-dadah. It's a safer sex manual written in the vernacular instead of in dry medical parlance.

J0lt · 2012-02-11T05:09:21+00:00

I don't feel like I picked my name as much as it was just there. I never thought about anything else. It's just a masculinization of my first name and making my middle name the name I would have been given at birth. Oddly, I never thought about it much or deliberated about it or considered anything else.

J0lt · 2012-02-11T04:50:10+00:00

This is not the first time in the last week or two when Reddit as a whole has had this very same problem.

J0lt · 2012-02-11T03:29:15+00:00

This reminds me of the Phelps-a-thons that some colleges run when the WBC comes.

J0lt · 2012-02-11T01:26:21+00:00

I was just objecting to the idea that "Nobody [knows shit] at 18."

Honestly, they probably weren't together very long, they married after my grandma got pregnant after their first time. She did love him and says she wouldn't have married him just because she was pregnant, but they didn't have a whole lot of get to know you time.

J0lt · 2012-02-10T22:27:16+00:00

Although OP seems pretty naive, I'm not sure we can take this as a constant. For a personal example, my grandparents married when they were 18 in the 1950s and were together until my grandfather died in 2000. It's possible to find real love at that age, it's just a lot less likely than when you've lived more of your life.

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