edmo: Another argument for intelligence tests before you can vote.

Yes, let's go back to the old days when you could prevent most of the uppity Negroes from voting.

/Just in case that's not abundantly clear, I'm being sarcastic.

I still think this would be a neat idea for an interactive guided "hunt" experience.  They give you basically what amounts to a blank-only firing MILES gun, and you have to track down and shoot the dinosaur.  Sensors on the dinosaur suit would register the hit.  You have to match wits against something that basically knows the terrain and has the intelligence of a human.  If it gets within X feet distance of you before you can "kill" it by "hitting" it in a vital area, you lose, and as a "booby-prize" you get a picture of the dinosaur "biting" you.  If you manage to "kill" it fair and square, you get a mounted trophy head you can hang on your wall.

I think it would be kinda fun.

Eli WhiskeyDik: "It actually happens more than you'd think," said Greg McGrew, owner of Dino Crew Entertainment that provided the human-operated dinosaurs for the Eloy event. "You'd be amazed."

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winedrinkingman: dittybopper: edmo: Another argument for intelligence tests before you can vote.

Yes, let's go back to the old days when you could prevent most of the uppity Negroes from voting.

/Just in case that's not abundantly clear, I'm being sarcastic.

Actually, the Supreme Court never said you could not require intelligence tests before someone could vote, just that you had to make the white people take the same exact test you made the black people take.  This in itself was enough to get the south to stop the tests, as a key demographic in the pro-segregationist camp would have been lost.

Actually, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawing "literacy tests" for voting, and the Supreme Court upheld that law in Oregon v. Mitchell, so you're wrong.

Seriously, don't they farkin' teach history in school anymore?

I must apologize for the minor thread jack.  We should go back to talking about hunting dinosaurs!

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It's especially big, because it's about the same size as the dinosaur that allegedly pinched that loaf.

olapbill: dittybopper: I still think this would be a neat idea for an interactive guided "hunt" experience.  They give you basically what amounts to a blank-only firing MILES gun, and you have to track down and shoot the dinosaur.  Sensors on the dinosaur suit would register the hit.  You have to match wits against something that basically knows the terrain and has the intelligence of a human.  If it gets within X feet distance of you before you can "kill" it by "hitting" it in a vital area, you lose, and as a "booby-prize" you get a picture of the dinosaur "biting" you.  If you manage to "kill" it fair and square, you get a mounted trophy head you can hang on your wall.

I think it would be kinda fun.

of course you do

Why not?  No living thing is actually injured or harmed in any way, so I fail to see how anyone, even an ethical vegan, could have any rational objection to it whatsoever.  It would be like objecting to playing "Duck Hunt" on your Atari, but without the snarky dog.

edmo: dittybopper: edmo: Another argument for intelligence tests before you can vote.

Yes, let's go back to the old days when you could prevent most of the uppity Negroes from voting.

/Just in case that's not abundantly clear, I'm being sarcastic.

I missed the uppity negro part of TFA. Oops.

Just so that we're very clear:

52 U.S. Code § 10501 - Application of prohibition to other States; "test or device" defined

(a) No citizen shall be denied, because of his failure to comply with any test or device, the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election conducted in any State or political subdivision of a State.

(b) As used in this section, the term "test or device" means any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting or registration for voting (1) demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstrate any educational achievement or his knowledge of any particular subject, (3) possess good moral character, or (4) prove his qualifications by the voucher of registered voters or members of any other class.