Secrets of the City

From the comments on Kotaku:

“I am from MN…There is one store here that the guy checks your grades and if you dont have good grades he wont sell you games. It is so stupid!”

seriously??

When it comes to pandering, pleas for sanity or the taxpayers’ pocketbook will always fall on deaf ears.

When it comes to pandering, pleas for sanity or the taxpayers’ pocketbook will always fall on deaf ears.

See previous thread re: Metro Transit fare increase.

1. Nowhere did it say who wrote the law or who vetted its legitimacy. What the hell was Mike Hatch thinking by running this jive? I’d say some ridicule is due.

2. If underagers cannot be punished for trying to acquire (harmless) M-rated games, then the retailers should be equally off the hook. I put myself through college working in a liquor store, where I could be jailed for letting junior get Bacardi, but junior got nary a slap on the wrist for actively trying to get the Bacardi every single say.

3. There is an entrace ramp from Pascal St. to eastbound 94 in St. Paul that was built and quickly abandoned for it’s poor design. I guarantee it cost more than $65,000. Think someone lost their job over that? Of course not, it’s only taxpayers’ money.

is that the one east of snelling which has the ‘do not enter’ signs on it? I thought buses used it.

Buses and carpoolers use that ramp. It is only open during rush hour.

Buses and carpoolers use that ramp. It is only open during rush hour.

My bad on that. I seem to remember that there was a problem with how the two lanes merged too abruptly and I thought they just closed it outright. I live nearby and have never seen it open, but I don’t go that way in rush hour.

Yup. The Pascal ramp is for car-poolers and buses.

regardless, octane, your comment’s still valid – although it sucks our lawmakers incurred a cost to MN taxpayers out of their ignorance, there are much bigger, more expensive mistakes which probably deserve more of our attention.

I think it’s ridiculous that a video game is considered free speech.

I think it’s ridiculous that a video game is considered free speech.

Why? They contain forms of expression. A strict interpretation like that, basically, only a spoken or written speech would qualify.

Painting, sculpture, music, even the sacred “money equals speech” are all out the window.

I suppose we could take the Robert Bork interpretation, and only explicitly political speech is protected.

I’ve never read up on the subject, I can’t wrap my head around the expressional similarity between a video game and a work of art.

Don’t bring up Bork, he’s creepy looking, like a confederate general or colonel sanders in a grey suit.

I’ve never read up on the subject, I can’t wrap my head around the expressional similarity between a video game and a work of art.
Creative works regardless of media type are speech.

Wow. I’m surprised to not have known or put that together.

Well, then can I bring up Bjork?

I think Bork should braid bead his beard like Ventura had. MIght make him a little less creepy.

explicitly political speech

phone sex with a Senator?

explicitly political speech

phone sex with a Senator?