No, her case does not have "merit". Whether or not ageism is a problem (I'm sure it is) has nothing to do with her case. When you write things like that it simply reinforces the idea that you can sue someone for doing anything you perceive as having "wronged" you, as opposed to actually being relevant to an actual…

I actually laughed at this rather than the original joke or the other nine.

And I bet when you said that, you totally believed you weren't being bigoted.

I wonder what the percentage is of beavers attending schools with a beaver as a mascot?

Fair enough, hope it's a blast!

I think within reason yes, but everyone else has emotional needs too and sometimes those requests are unrealistic. After someone passes, those dealing with the near-term outcomes have a very difficult job to do: they have to balance the deceased's wishes with all of those around them (with whom they must still live).

Ok, so the standard is minimum side-effects and is reversible. I'm going to throw out your other item (sensitive tissue) because that is more opinion than fact. A quick search shows that that assertion is far from settled.

I get that, and remember that we have an artificial barrier to allowed consent. So by that standard, no one under 18 can consent to get tattoos, piercings, etc.

Well, ok, then why do we do any body modification whatsoever? Either before the age of majority or after? There are health impacts of any modification—for example, piercings increase the chance of getting an infection of the film surrounding the heart. I guess I'm asking why some modifications are ok, but others…

I get what you're saying, and I probably was not clear on what I was responding to. I never said the OP claimed they were solving issues with the porn industry, nor that there is an infinite amount of porn. However, many other posters claimed both of those things and I was (poorly, I guess) responding to those folks.

Not criticizing their approach—I think it is quite amazing what the OP recognized about the existing porn offering. I'm criticizing the arguments regarding the impact of what they've done.

Sorry, not gonna bite—I don't have to solve them problem just because I'm disputing whether others are solving it. And, to be clear, I don't expect them to solve it, I just expect them not to claim that they've done anything more ground-breaking than serving an underserved market.

You're assuming they will displace that other porn, but as many of the other commenters here, porn will always exist. I take that to mean that lowest-common-denominator porn will always exist and creating higher-brow porn will not displace anything. You may be right, but I personally can't agree that positive…

That's not really intellectually honest. They're not really working to make it better. They are working to serve an underserved market, likely expanding the market further, not changing the existing one. And they are doing so from a place of choice—one not available to a significant segment of the industry.

And by the transitive property of publishing...

I guess I'm saying that based on my experience, due diligence would require far more work than just calling the IRS customer service line. If they answer yes it's yours without any detailed discussion, I don't think that would be sufficient. Your efforts would have to include securing a tax professional to go…

You are getting a lot of bad advice here. Here is the bottom line and this can be confirmed via the IRS website. Your tax liability is technically fluid until a certain number of years have passed (the number depends on whether you are an individual, a business, or self-employed). By fluid, I mean, that at any…

Believe it or not, this is not sufficient. CSRs at the IRS are not empowered to settle accounts that waive future liability. At any point in time, if the IRS can show that your tax liability is X even if they appeared to or discussed with you that your liability was Y previously, your liability is X until a number…

This is exactly what frustrates me about those that think this is such an enlightened perspective. I'm surprised so many people live their life so myopically that they get connected to things like this (smartphone, facebook, internet) that they don't use them in measured, deliberate ways that balance all of their…

God, this is such a hipster perspective.