Her job is to listen to people and articulate their needs (otherwise she would not get the job) but somehow your anecdotal evidence is better, than the one presented by her.
Some games may be inappropriate for minors and some aren't.
And in any case parents can always allow their children access to items rated not suitable for minors.
This kind of legislation is not illiberal, it is just common sense. Minors are not allowed to do lots of stuff for the simple fact that they are not ready to do it. Choosing suitable games is one of those things they are not ready to do.
In Europe you can absorb culture by vast amounts in less time.
Your tourist euros go further away in Europe that in the US, in spite of the current exchange rate.
Add to that the despicable treatment of visitors to the US on arrival (i.e. like suspected criminals) plus the remote possibility to be whisked away to Guantanamo or worst, and frankly the explanation to the imbalance begins to stare you in the face.
Why should we tolerate people that get on a high by endangering others? ( yeah, the world has plenty of assholes that thought it was safe to take an extra risk that cost somebody else, or themselves, dearly).
Get on a racing track for goodness sakes, plenty of curves for you, there all danger is consensually shared between adrenaline junkies.
We think we are great at driving but we are actually rubbish. You could hardly have chosen a worst example to make your point.
Driving is perhaps the most dangerous activity we are allowed to perform, in many circumstances in situations for which we clearly are not prepared to act as responsible adults.
I fail to see how people whose relatives have been killed by negligence in the road will look back with fondness to the nonsense to is to allow to everybody to use a lethal vehicle with minimal controls.
America didn't for sure, since Brazilians, Mexicans and Uruguayans and other Americans haven't got an history of scientific discovery.
As for your examples, well, you are really stretching it. All the principles for the computer were put in place by French and British scientists, Graham Bell was of British origin (Scottish) and the other claimant to the invention was Italian. Then you link to Wikipedia about the light bulb that shows clearly it was a mostly British invention.
USians have clearly contributed lots to the advancement of science, but you don't need to be economical with the truth to make that point.
In this era of consumerism, iPods with all our CDs ripped there and constant renewal in the pursuit of the best gadget I think sometimes the bes solution is the simpler one.
I will not deny that you may love books. But honestly, how many times will you consult one of the 3500 books? You would need to consult almost 10 each day for a year to use each one of them only once during that period. I stand to be corrected, but there is just so much one can really do on the 24 hours a day has.
I am sure a local library would be a more appropriate place for most them, that way people around you would benefit, you would continue to have access to them, you would unclutter your house. The benefits are many.
Throwing your personal anecdotal evidence informs but does not present the full picture.
I have 3 computers with Linux/Firefox an YouTube works fine.
Yes, in an ideal world we would prefer something open, but the ideal world is reached only by incremental steps. You make it sound like if Flash did not work at all in Linux, which is not true.
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.... that the people that voted twice for her will, for magical reasons beyond my comprehension, not vote for her now?
Maybe, but your reasoning is pathetic in view of the electoral results she got.
Her job is to listen to people and articulate their needs (otherwise she would not get the job) but somehow your anecdotal evidence is better, than the one presented by her.
Sorry, but you need to do better.
Where did we hear that before?
Chose another example.
Some games may be inappropriate for minors and some aren't.
And in any case parents can always allow their children access to items rated not suitable for minors.
This kind of legislation is not illiberal, it is just common sense. Minors are not allowed to do lots of stuff for the simple fact that they are not ready to do it. Choosing suitable games is one of those things they are not ready to do.
It normally uses chains of sausages.
Don't know why.
Yeah, it is a clever dog. It can tie itself to any lamp post.
Real life is not every minutiae of what every human is experiencing.
Real life is what most people can reasonably expect to do and see during the normal passing of their lives.
Randomly robbing cars and beating people is an anomaly, so much so that people doing it are considered pariahs and incarcerated if caught.
.... better you hire a psychiatrist pronto, although I don't know if sociopathy is treatable.
The US is a vast cultural wasteland.
Too big, too little culture.
In Europe you can absorb culture by vast amounts in less time.
Your tourist euros go further away in Europe that in the US, in spite of the current exchange rate.
Add to that the despicable treatment of visitors to the US on arrival (i.e. like suspected criminals) plus the remote possibility to be whisked away to Guantanamo or worst, and frankly the explanation to the imbalance begins to stare you in the face.
To mandate openness in a democratic country?
In which derided parallel universe do you live?
No wonder fine arts are in clear decline.
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Nobody under 25 seems to be reading, playing an instrument, doing a sport.
Such a post explains it
Why should we tolerate people that get on a high by endangering others? ( yeah, the world has plenty of assholes that thought it was safe to take an extra risk that cost somebody else, or themselves, dearly).
Get on a racing track for goodness sakes, plenty of curves for you, there all danger is consensually shared between adrenaline junkies.
What an idiot.
We think we are great at driving but we are actually rubbish. You could hardly have chosen a worst example to make your point.
Driving is perhaps the most dangerous activity we are allowed to perform, in many circumstances in situations for which we clearly are not prepared to act as responsible adults.
I fail to see how people whose relatives have been killed by negligence in the road will look back with fondness to the nonsense to is to allow to everybody to use a lethal vehicle with minimal controls.
In synthesis the big box retailers are stupid (no wonder they are under so much pressure).
The internet has arrived (honest) and soon there will be nobody left that does not check for alternatives in the net first.
... would accept they are stupid.
You have to somehow convince yourself that it was worth it to lock yourself in for 18 months to the most expensive mobile telephony contract ever.
... where the fuck is the off button?
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Honestly guys
Sorry, where you sold in auction with a broom, a donkey and a pair of potato sacks? Did your owner checked your teeth???
Jeez...
.... don't talk about it. Honest, you just look stupid.
... not a serf.
If my company says jump from a cliff I would not.
Same applies to many things. It is not like they are god or something like that.
America didn't for sure, since Brazilians, Mexicans and Uruguayans and other Americans haven't got an history of scientific discovery.
As for your examples, well, you are really stretching it. All the principles for the computer were put in place by French and British scientists, Graham Bell was of British origin (Scottish) and the other claimant to the invention was Italian. Then you link to Wikipedia about the light bulb that shows clearly it was a mostly British invention.
USians have clearly contributed lots to the advancement of science, but you don't need to be economical with the truth to make that point.
In this era of consumerism, iPods with all our CDs ripped there and constant renewal in the pursuit of the best gadget I think sometimes the bes solution is the simpler one.
I will not deny that you may love books. But honestly, how many times will you consult one of the 3500 books? You would need to consult almost 10 each day for a year to use each one of them only once during that period. I stand to be corrected, but there is just so much one can really do on the 24 hours a day has.
I am sure a local library would be a more appropriate place for most them, that way people around you would benefit, you would continue to have access to them, you would unclutter your house. The benefits are many.
Throwing your personal anecdotal evidence informs but does not present the full picture.
I have 3 computers with Linux/Firefox an YouTube works fine.
Yes, in an ideal world we would prefer something open, but the ideal world is reached only by incremental steps. You make it sound like if Flash did not work at all in Linux, which is not true.
And you can estimate how fast they are mutating....
Make a website.
Access it through your idiotic ISP.
Sue them for copyright infringement.
Profit.