A couple thoughts

Ok, so, here's a couple thoughts for you.

First off... I have an account with bolt, which I never use, but I was looking at my Yahoo! junk mail and saw a few emails from Bolt (I use the Yahoo! account only for junk mail so don't ask). Now, bolt has email services for free, but they require a valid email address to sign up. Please, someone tell me, if you are signing up for an email account why would you ask for a valid email account. I mean, I know why, but really, I know a lot of people that sign up for free email accounts because they don't have an email account somewhere else.. Does this not defeat the purpose of the service if someone who has no email account needs to get one, but needs a valid email to get one? It just seems kinda pointless, not to mention just wrong.

Secondly: As most of the people that are reading this know, I am going to be attending Culinary school in the Fall (maybe I will take a class or two this summer.) And for this I have to purchase knives. This is kind and intersting idea to me because all students have to buy knives to take the classes needed for the program. Now, being that we have to buy knives, what happens if a person is a convicted felon... This is a community college that I will be attending so they can't actually turn people away, you apply you are in, you just have to pay for your classes.... Is it safe to allow for people that could be dangerous to be able to purchase such weapons without a background check of any kind? I mean, we do checks for guns, but a knife can kill someone just as easially. Just an intersting thought I think, what do you think? answer in the forums if you like.