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[LeoLeonardoIII]

Truly it belongs in Terrible Jokes.

[BlackFlyme]

To the guy in the front row of class who was reading Berserk on his laptop instead of listening to the teacher:

I salute you. It takes a lot of bravado to blatantly ignore the teacher when it is very clear what you are doing. Most others just hide in the back row when they want to goof off on their computers.

The people reading over your shoulder were getting appalled at what they had read and it was humorous.

[Frumple]

... huh. Online reader? Because if so, I do have to say it is pretty ballsy (so to speak) to (more likely than not) blatantly indulge in copyright infringement in the middle of class, on a (presumably) public campus (which is to say with every bit of bandwidth use monitored and some degree of collusion with th'gov.). Rude and criminal and stupid, at the same time, ha!

[LeoLeonardoIII]

The admin probably noticed and immediately filed it under "nobody cares" along with 99.99...% of network activity. Or, more likely, nobody noticed and unless someone goes through to audit (never gonna happen) it'll never be noticed.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

A couple chooses to live in their car instead of getting rid of their dog

I'm gonna come right out and say, yeah, Yahoo News is probably one of the dumbest things on the Internet. However, the story stands.

I'm 100% on the side of the landlord here. If a potential tenant walked up to me and said, "I'm not gonna lie to you, there is a chance that I will chew the walls and shit all over the floor", I would be hesitant to accept that tenant. A pair of 60-pound dogs is a lot to expect a landlord to accept especially when there are so many landlords who don't allow pets period.

And I'm 100% against these two bastards even if I didn't agree with the landlord's position. These are people who are willing to live on the street if it means keeping their dogs? What is wrong with them? Why are they putting the needs of their two dogs over the needs of their two sons?

Finally, I'm going to go there: stop breeding pit bulls, people. All you see are news stories where the wailing mother says "the dog was so wonderful and then one day it just snapped!" and that's a best-case scenario where the dog is nominally okay but may turn into a murderhound at any moment. Worst-case, it's a jackass who wants the dog because he can beat it and make it mean so it'll kill whoever tries to break into his house. There's a reason dogs bred for fighting have a bad reputation. Why is it illegal to have a bobcat or an alligator but if you want the biggest, meanest, deadliest dog it's totally fine?

They're living the life of an escaped felon or illegal immigrant! They need to dump the dogs, get an apartment, raise their kids, and get a job that's better than fucking night-time newspaper delivery. And stop talking about hitting "rock bottom". Unless she's ass-up snorting fool's meth off a dead squirrel she's nowhere near "rock bottom".

[Xantalos]

Uh

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Uh

I'm gonna say he had to make his own wiki because he wasn't notable enough for Wikipedia, and his article is biased, uses original research, uses a single source, lacks citations, and trivia sections are frowned upon.

[Eotyrannus]

Uh

I'm gonna say he had to make his own wiki because he wasn't notable enough for Wikipedia, and his article is biased, uses original research, uses a single source, lacks citations, and trivia sections are frowned upon.

ALL HAIL THE KING OF SWEDEN!

[Lord Shonus]

Finally, I'm going to go there: stop breeding pit bulls, people. All you see are news stories where the wailing mother says "the dog was so wonderful and then one day it just snapped!" and that's a best-case scenario where the dog is nominally okay but may turn into a murderhound at any moment. Worst-case, it's a jackass who wants the dog because he can beat it and make it mean so it'll kill whoever tries to break into his house. There's a reason dogs bred for fighting have a bad reputation. Why is it illegal to have a bobcat or an alligator but if you want the biggest, meanest, deadliest dog it's totally fine?

"Suddenly snapping" isn't a pit bull thing. It's a dog thing. Pit bulls are no more (or less) likely to snap than any other medium-sized dog raised under the same conditions is (small dogs are much, much more likely to, very large breeds much less, but the variance of power between the categories means that a crazed Chihuahua isn't likely to cause any real damage, while a crazed bullmastiff (130+ lbs_ or great dane (200+) is likely to make a clean kill even against an adult.) It is only in the medium breeds that you find a high enough aggresiveness to attack in statistically noticable numbers with the power to cause enough damage to draw notice. Moreover, the attacks of such dogs aren't clean even against younger people, as they just don't have the size and strength to kill clean. Thus, they appear much more brutal and sadistic. The reputation of Pit bulls is largely due, like that of Rottweilers and German Sheperds, to their popularity as "drug dogs", bought and trained as security for drug dealers and wannabe gangstas, combined with the still-extant use of them in dogfighting. Dogs bought for such purposes, particularly the former, are often raised with great brutality and abuse to maximize their aggression, and then wind up being passed on to relatives when the owner gets arrested, or escape their harsh master and roam the streets as ferals. THESE are the dogs that maul kids and old people (with the exception of the smaller but still noticable number of legitimate attacks by family pets against intruders or apparent threats, which are often reported in the media as unprovoked attacks by murderous animals.)

In my extended family, which collectively owned roughly 150 medium-large dogs over the last 20 years, many of them pits, there have been precisely five violent incidents. Two dogs bit adults who were acting extremely belligerent against the kids present, one dog bit a kid that was trying to snap her jaw off (one hand pushing down on the bottom jaw, one pushing up on the top jaw), and one was accidentally shot by his owner.

[MagmaMcFry]

That's a lot of extended family you have there, Lord Shonus. Also, I count only four violent incidents you mentioned.

[Flying Dice]

... huh. Online reader? Because if so, I do have to say it is pretty ballsy (so to speak) to (more likely than not) blatantly indulge in copyright infringement in the middle of class, on a (presumably) public campus (which is to say with every bit of bandwidth use monitored and some degree of collusion with th'gov.). Rude and criminal and stupid, at the same time, ha!

Odds are it was a fan-trans hosted on one of the many, many sites out there for such things. Frankly, if they start prosecuting for things of that level, "copyright" cases are going to cause more problems for the U.S. legal system and jails than the war on drugs. Never mind harmless stuff like that, I know of people who use their university connection for torrenting pirated software, watching porn, &c. Nobody cares, and chances are that pretty much everyone monitoring the network is either a student worker who doesn't care or a university worker who doesn't care, one because they don't care, the other because it's too much work to care and they're literally never going to be audited.

[Frumple]

*hat tip to Sho* Couldn't have said it better myself.

Seriously, couldn't have. Normally all I can remind folks of is that dog attacks are approx 99.9% owner error and .1% disease, with 0% being natural tendency towards violence.

And yeah, last time I checked it was illegal to own alligators and bobcats due to conservation efforts, not anything to do with the aggression of 'em. Gators are pretty chill when they're young, anyway, and it's not like it's illegal to own various sorts of man-kill capable snakes (... or at least wasn't, when I was a kid with a pet boa longer than I was tall. Dunno if it's changed since. Reptiles in general are honestly pretty easy to deal with if fed well, so far as I'm aware.).

Nobody cares, and chances are that pretty much everyone monitoring the network is either a student worker who doesn't care or a university worker who doesn't care, one because they don't care, the other because it's too much work to care and they're literally never going to be audited.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Still, y'know? Keep that shit at home, or at least in the dorms or sumthin'.

[Flying Dice]

Nobody cares, and chances are that pretty much everyone monitoring the network is either a student worker who doesn't care or a university worker who doesn't care, one because they don't care, the other because it's too much work to care and they're literally never going to be audited.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Still, y'know? Keep that shit at home, or at least in the dorms or sumthin'.

Oh, I agree completely on the "don't do it in class, asshole" part.

[BlackFlyme]

Nobody cares, and chances are that pretty much everyone monitoring the network is either a student worker who doesn't care or a university worker who doesn't care, one because they don't care, the other because it's too much work to care and they're literally never going to be audited.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Still, y'know? Keep that shit at home, or at least in the dorms or sumthin'.

Oh, I agree completely on the "don't do it in class, asshole" part.

Doesn't really stop people though. Just that most hide in the back of the class.

Usually playing games. One person didn't have their headphones in all the way once, and I could hear League. At least, I think it was LoL.

Personally, I find the people who text without muting their phone more distracting. Every few seconds you can hear their ringtone.

[Lord Shonus]

That's a lot of extended family you have there, Lord Shonus. Also, I count only four violent incidents you mentioned.

Many of my realtives-by-marriage are Catholic, with the large familes that often implies, while another large number are rural folks that often own many dogs at one time for hunting and pest control. As for the missing incident, it involved a very drunk uncle trying to "dominate" a dog.