"She's not better than them because she won a gold medal. She won a gold medal because she's better than them."

We tell kids not to talk to strangers, not let anyone touch their private parts, and to stay close to Mommy and Daddy, don't we? We also tell men (as well as women) to avoid bad neighborhoods at night, drive with the doors locked at stop lights, and take various precautions against pick pockets while traveling.

Yes, that's your *work's* policy — most companies and photographers have these policies. There's nothing illegal about it though.

My *first* name is Ryan. I had to correct my health insurance company when they refused to cover my pap smear. Most of the time, I don't bother correcting people/companies anymore, unless it's important.

Kudos to the government for that, by the way. I'm so sick of stories of police getting their panties in a bunch over public photography.

It doesn't matter if they're minors or not though! Except for very specific circumstances, depending on the state, depending on the lawyer, depending on the judge ("I'm photoshopping the images of these children for pornographic purposes," "I'm using them to advertise my product on a billboard," etc.) you are…

Haha! I almost overlooked this. Nice :)

It doesn't matter if they were on a private holiday, a public holiday, or no holiday at all — it only matters that they were on public land (a beach), and therefore did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Anyone can take a photograph of anyone else on a public beach, street, playground, or similar location…

Yeah, and given that we get more harmful radiation exposure from naturally occurring radon gas, uranium ore, and cosmic radiation than just about *anything* else in our lives... (i.e. radiation is not some strange new thing that humans invented in the last 70 years — we've always lived with it) just eat the freaking…

It could mean "being accelerated to one hundred miles per hour" in the classic "operating in the vacuum" Newtonian physics sense.