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• Follow Following 1 Is it okay to (sometimes) just browse at a bookstore without buying a book? pithykitty asked in General Book Discussion about 1 year ago by Sphinx & 5 other answers by Paul Constant , David Wright…

• Follow Following 1 Books about the history of free speech pithykitty asked in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago 2 Answers by DrewCourt , Basil…

• Follow Following 1 What should I read post John Williams' Stoner ? pithykitty asked in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago by mishalibrarian

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  Been buying cigs 2 cartons for $46 from an internet site...

  1 0 Sellers and interstate shippers of tobacco must report sales and pay taxes to state authorities (15 USC 376). For Washington state law, see RCW 82.24 and 82.26--I'd study them carefully. I'm not sure whether or not the USPS policy will prevent you from receiving your smokes, but I imagine you have them shipped by UPS, FedEx, etc., anyway. pithykitty answered in News & Politics about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 2 more answers »

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  When someone ends up killing someone due to drinking and driving how much time do they usually end up serving?

  0 0 Ask the KingCo prosecutor. http://www.kingcounty.gov/Prosecutor/contactus.aspx pithykitty answered in News & Politics about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 3 more answers »

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  Is there ever any legal consequences or sentencing for people called to testify before congress? If not, why do we waste congress' time?

  1 0 See 2 USC 192 and 194. pithykitty answered in News & Politics about 1 year ago Answer and comment »

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  0 0 (1) No, sorry, you guessed wrong, I'm not an architecture student. I study law and philosophy. (Fascinating, I know.) Herr Doktor, please assess my writing and tell me if I should continue this career path. I desperately need your approval. (2) I wrote "FLW" instead of "Frank Lloyd Wright" because . . . it's 14 characters shorter. (3) The "urban idea" means being able to walk around? I ask again, are you high? (4) You continue your discourse by clutching your pearls and proclaiming your astonishment--ASTONISHMENT--that a LIBRARY of all things might be separated into multiple buildings. Let's test your theory: at my school, the administration has decided to separate (!) the library collection among many different buildings. There is a law library, a science/medicine library, a social work library, a math library, and a large humanities/sosc library. And the world does not end. People who do research in law stay at primarily at the law library, etc. And--oh shit!--the Bibliothèque Nationale divvies up their library among six (!) campuses! How their scholars ever find anything useful with all the endless commuting, I'll never know. Luckily, Paris is the best city in the world to walk around, so at least they enjoy their constant promenading. (5) Finally, the inevitable claim that I misused a "big word". Sigh. OED: "dispositive . . . 3. Having the quality or function of directing, controlling, or disposing of something; relating to direction, control, or disposal." Reach down, find your balls. See? You weren’t castrated when I used “dispositive”. No reason to be upset. (6) The reason I don't resort to critics is that I can form my own aesthetic opinions without them. As I wrote in the initial reply, “My subjective, incomplete opinion . . .” pithykitty commented over 2 years ago

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  0 0 Did you even read what I wrote? Yes, I said it was "perhaps ill-conceived" because the aboveground buildings were "too warm and bright". Having both lived in and working in libraries, I understand books' temperature and light requirements. Oh la la, you found a critic who doesn't like it. That can be said for any modern building. I'm sorry, Fnarf, but "beauty follows function" is bunk. FLW's houses leak, but it's hardly dispositive of their beauty. Are you high? Paris is "the greatest expression of the urban idea"? What? pithykitty commented over 2 years ago

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  0 0 Fnarf, you are comically misinformed. As I note parenthetically in my response, the aboveground buildings (the "corners") house offices because they are too warm and bright for books. The windows (more of a glass sheath) are not boarded-up, but rather utilize rotating wooden doors to block the sunlight or open the view, as the office user desires. The worst building? In the history of the world? Exaggerate much? pithykitty commented over 2 years ago

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  2 0 I imagine that the practice started under the kings of France, who enjoy emptying the public treasury for their own devices. Sorry, "for the glory of the state". Today, of course, we don't build Versailles, we build things like Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterrand. My subjective, incomplete opinion is that BNF is the best such project. (Though perhaps an ill-conceived one: the aboveground library buildings cannot house books due to sunlight and heat.) pithykitty answered in Whatever over 2 years ago Answer and comment »

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