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Post by alright2565 »

lesuorac wrote: post #138
alright2565 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no problem mailing dead animals: > The following factors are applied to all shipments of mailable live or dead animals: > … Protection of the mail and the environment against the following: … Obnoxious odors and noise. > ...protection of animal specimens against spoilage https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_003.htm There's some other restrictions on mailing dead wild animals, but mailing livestock carcasses…

I can't tell if you're being intentionally dense. Lets do a different example. Lets say I go to checkout at a grocery store and I ring up a bar of soap as a bag of ice. Obviously this is wrong. Nobody is debating you can buy soap at the store but to claim it is ice is wrong. Back to USPS. Nobody is claiming you can't send live animals. The question is what happens when you send a live animal and don't claim it.

I'm only replying to the part about dead animals, like a preserved foetal pig.

There's no need to declare anything in that case. Might need to declare the preservation chemicals, but nothing about the actual dead animal.

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Post by bjacobel »

frabjoused wrote: post #94
Scoundreller wrote: post #74

eBay was distracted trying to destroy a newsletter and AMZN ended up growing by many eBays. eBay is now worth $22b market cap, as high as $52b in recent times. AMZN is now $1.5t, about double since the period of time in question, or about 14 - 34 eBays (editted out a large portion of what I originally wrote about how many eBays of market cap AMZN has been gaining because I was off by a year in my window of time).

This is meaningless. A few employees did this. Companies are composed of people. The whole company wasn't busy being distracted. They just had a worse business model.

The CEO and CCO were personally involved, as well as a whole coterie of Senior-level directors. Calling this a "few employees" is completely disingenuous.

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Post by smcin »

hotpotamus wrote: post #78
elihu wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know how they shipped them, but apparently you can ship some animals through the US Postal Service. https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm Spiders and poisonous insects aren't allowed though, except scorpions under certain conditions.

I’ve ordered bees through the mail before; it’s quite a common way to get them actually.

But does that theory have legs...?

Re: eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Post by [deleted] »

anigbrowl wrote: post #72
batch12 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So if you show your fist to a child or to Mike Tyson it's the same threat? Based on the meaning of the word threat, yes.

No. Think forward and imagine you escalate on the threat, by punching your interlocutor. Your act is the same in both cases, but the physical injury to Mike Tyson will likely be minimal whereas that inflicted upon the child would be significant, perhaps even severe. To say they were the same would be like considering two similar mathematical operations to be equivalent without considering the quantities involved.

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Re: eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Post by batch12 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #72
batch12 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So if you show your fist to a child or to Mike Tyson it's the same threat? Based on the meaning of the word threat, yes.

No. Think forward and imagine you escalate on the threat, by punching your interlocutor. Your act is the same in both cases, but the physical injury to Mike Tyson will likely be minimal whereas that inflicted upon the child would be significant, perhaps even severe. To say they were the same would be like considering two similar mathematical operations to be equivalent without considering the quantities involved.

Thats risk. The threat is the potential action. The risk is the potential for loss or impact.
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