The Strongest Matthew For Whenever Options

[Dr Strum]

My job has become slightly less temporary and slightly more tutory. Which is cool.

[Rhiannon]

I lost my job before officially starting it.

[Shiokazu]

now all dinosaurs have feathers.

the new velociraptor looks like an evil chiken.

[DustyHaru]

Studying for Media Law and Ethics test before break starts. Obscenity law is interesting.

[Dr Strum]

I lost my job before officially starting it.

Wut

Obscenity law is interesting.

Do tell more.

[Rhiannon]

I guess there was only one person who actually knew if they could pay me or not (which they couldn't) but she was never around so everyone was like YEAAAAAAH THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME YOU'VE GOT THE JOB WE START TUESDAY HERE'S ALL THE HOURS.

[Shiokazu]

Obscenity law is interesting.

Do tell more.

i second that

This post has been edited by Shiokazu: Mar 23 2013, 01:32 AM

[Dr Strum]

I guess there was only one person who actually knew if they could pay me or not (which they couldn't) but she was never around so everyone was like YEAAAAAAH THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME YOU'VE GOT THE JOB WE START TUESDAY HERE'S ALL THE HOURS.

What was the job?

[Rhiannon]

HELPING SOME GUY HELP PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND COMPUTERS LEARN TO USE EFOLIO, AND HELPING HIM GO THROUGH BILLIONS OF EFOLIOS TO CHOOSE THE BEST

[Shiokazu]

today is one of those weird days when you wake up sad, sick, and everything that happens only makes you feel more dead and gray.

and then something like this plays http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_NHvEEVvw

suddenly you feel something cold on your face, and a salty bitter taste on your mouth, you check what it is.
you're crying.

[Rhiannon]

Reading things by Sarah Manguso makes me want to write about my life, but I can't think of a purpose for writing any of the things I'd have to write about.

Actually, the bigger problem is that I don't really remember the only things that could possibly have any purpose.

[DustyHaru]

The US adopted Hicklin rule/test/standard on obscenity through the Comstock Act of 1873 until 1957:

1857
all material tending "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" was obscene, regardless of its artistic or literary merit.

When it was abandoned in favor of the Roth test:

1957
defined obscenity more strictly, as material whose "dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest" to the "average person, applying contemporary community standards."

Which was later edited into the current 3-pronged Miller test:

1973

1. whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards (not national standards, as some prior tests required), would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
2. whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law; and
3. whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Also FCC v. Pacifica (1978) established that due to the "pervasive nature of broadcasting" it had reduced First Amendment rights. And though not obscene, indecent material can be (and is) subject to restriction. It left the defining of "indecency" up to the FCC. (Think of the children!)

I hope I passed my test ;_;

suddenly you feel something cold on your face, and a salty bitter taste on your mouth, you check what it is.
you're crying.

No, it's coffee you've left to get cold. So you grimace, chug it down, and get back to living.

[Shiokazu]

The US adopted Hicklin rule/test/standard on obscenity through the Comstock Act of 1873 until 1957:

1857
all material tending "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" was obscene, regardless of its artistic or literary merit.

When it was abandoned in favor of the Roth test:

1957
defined obscenity more strictly, as material whose "dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest" to the "average person, applying contemporary community standards."

Which was later edited into the current 3-pronged Miller test:

1973

1. whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards (not national standards, as some prior tests required), would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
2. whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law; and
3. whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Also FCC v. Pacifica (1978) established that due to the "pervasive nature of broadcasting" it had reduced First Amendment rights. And though not obscene, indecent material can be (and is) subject to restriction. It left the defining of "indecency" up to the FCC. (Think of the children!)

I hope I passed my test ;_;

suddenly you feel something cold on your face, and a salty bitter taste on your mouth, you check what it is.
you're crying.

No, it's coffee you've left to get cold. So you grimace, chug it down, and get back to living.

i bet you did passed the test. no worries.

and yep, thats more like it.

[DustyHaru]

Well while I probably passed, I'm hoping I did well enough to bring my grade up from the 40 I got on my last test.

[Dr Strum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_cGjQSR80