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California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys
WrongSizeGlass writes "The L.A. Times is reporting that Santa Clara County officials have voted to ban toys and other promotions that restaurants offer with high-calorie children's meals. 'This ordinance prevents restaurants from preying on children's love of toys' to sell high-calorie, unhealthful food, said Supervisor Ken Yeager, who sponsored the measure. 'This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes.' Supervisor Donald Gage, who voted against the measure, said, 'If you can't control a 3-year-old child for a toy, God save you when they get to be teenagers.' The vote was 3 - 2 in favor of the ban."
...they ban the toys, but keep the crap food?
Note to anyone with mod points. This doesn't deserve "funny", it deserves "insightful". LOTS AND LOTS of "insightful".
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Dude, I totally spewed water all over my keyboard. That's going on a t-shirt!
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Hey mods, explain to me what I said in the previous comment that constituted trolling.
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
People are getting modded down for no good reason. Yesterday I had received -1 Overrated for for 4 comments which had no mods on them already. How can a comment be modded as "Overrated" when it hasn't been rated to begin with? Then when I commented on that, it got modded down -1 Troll x2. Some of them were comments on stories from several days prior. Those were the only mods I had the whole day. -1 x6 for the day, and for no good reason whatsoever. I suspect that somebody, or some group, is specifically targetting me because I posted some opinion that they didn't like. Or maybe I just need a tin foil hat.
There needs to be a forum on /. where we can just discuss problems with /. or the mod system, rather than discussing it in the comments of stories. I can't email the admin account, because I'm not about to send personal email through the company system, and all webmail sites are blocked; and no, I absolutely will not proxy around it and risk losing my job.
Perhaps what I really need to do is just not care if I get modded down. That may be a better long term solution.
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i don't recall saying anything even remotely like that.
what i said was "belief in supernatural powers has caused more wars, more death, more tortures, more abuses of human rights than child labour ever has".
I made no comment whatsoever about other things that may cause wars, death, tortures, or human-rights abuses.