Since when did the US unilaterally get to decide on what counts as international law? The US and USSR had the NPT, who gave them the fucking right to impose it on anyone else?
brazil has compulsory voting. what happens is people vote for joke candidates or Bart Simpson
So what? At least they have to get off their arses and go to the polling station. I'd have thought that most people would then think "I might as well make a sensible decision now I'm here", but if they don't that's their problem.
Which ignores the fact that Britain had legally secured the mineral rights to virtually all of Iran. The new government was going to welch on the deal.
The new government was going to seize its own country's natural resources back from multi-national companies. Good for them. It happened all over the remains of the British Empire as we tried to extract ourselves.
If I send a postcard saying I will storm the US embassy in London armed with a carrot and a piece of cardboard shaped like a penis, that is a threat, but I doubt that the Marines on guard will need to shoot me dead to contain the peril somehow.
The chances of Iran or any other Middle Eastern country defeating Israel in a war are pretty much zero. When you add in Israel's nukes, they are actually zero.
They might just as well publish a fake book "proving" that Iran is about to conquer/destroy the whole world. I have no love for the Iranian Mullahcracy but the ramping up of hysteria against them is pathetic, and ominously reminiscent of the lead up to Gulf War 2, with the US/UK governments lying about how The Enemy are just minutes away from destroying western civilization.
Neither Iraq nor Iran were/are any military threat to the West. Even Israel is pretty safe unless you want to believe that Iran would commit national suicide by taking them on.
So do the 5 year old's parents. And I wouldn't let little Benny take pictures of sex toys his dad's done clip art for on his computer to school if I were you, Social services might get a call from the school.
It's copyright that ensures that your child can't (legally) see the programming without the embedded Cocoa Krispies advertisements.
My kids just fast forward through the ad breaks. Unless it's coming up to Christmas and they need some inspiration about what to ask Father Christmas for.
Oh please, the kids who have grown up consuming Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are the same ones who will happily download films, games and music wherever they can without paying for them.
They've hardly been brainwashed into believing that copyright is good and necessary.
It's a good way to improve hand-eye coordination and brain development
Playing video games does not improve your hand -eye coordination as well as chucking a ball back and forth to your parents, or climbing a tree, and brain development is better done by being told stories and learning to read as young as you can so you can read stories to yourself.
And for that matter, 12 is a bit young for alcohol, but 14-15 is a good time to introduce them to small quantities (soft liquor, mind you, beer or wine).
I fully agree. I got my first taste for alcohol at age 14 months, and I'm fine (true story). I don't generally like drinking these days, but that's probably unrelated.
My grandparents would give gin to babies to help them sleep.
12 is a bit young for alcohol, but 14-15 is a good time to introduce them to small quantities (soft liquor, mind you, beer or wine).
Wow, you're a wuss. When I was growing up by 14 we were drinking regularly in pubs. We used to get cider at home from about 6 or so (my memory is a bit hazy, unsurprisingly)..
While wells might be willing to have an open mind about the future, I think he would draw the line at child porn snuff films, and people using the greatest accomplishment since the library of alexandria to wipe their asses with. (Intellectually speaking.)
Maybe you should read de Sade sometime. The days of Sodom contain stuff that would make even internet hardened people sick. We aren't talking about Goatse or 1cup anymore with this fellow, we are talking about stuff even hardcore bondage and fetish sites would not dare to show for real.
Yes, but I think the point is that most ten year olds don't read de Sade as casual entertainment, unlike the crap on the internet.
The 1880s were still deely gripped by puritanism, social stratification as being a good thing, institutionalized racism, and a very narrow and rigid view of what was considered "acceptable", and "proper".
you need to talk to your grand parents and great grand parents they were far more pornographic than you give them credit for
please note they have modern distractions like TV (the greatest contraceptive ever invented according to my grandmother) and came up with their own "Entertainment"
Having sex with other real people isn't pornography.
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Since when did the US unilaterally get to decide on what counts as international law? The US and USSR had the NPT, who gave them the fucking right to impose it on anyone else?
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brazil has compulsory voting. what happens is people vote for joke candidates or Bart Simpson
So what? At least they have to get off their arses and go to the polling station. I'd have thought that most people would then think "I might as well make a sensible decision now I'm here", but if they don't that's their problem.
Calling nationalization an act of war is insane.
Not if you're a hardline right wing free market evangelist type.
Which ignores the fact that Britain had legally secured the mineral rights to virtually all of Iran. The new government was going to welch on the deal.
The new government was going to seize its own country's natural resources back from multi-national companies. Good for them. It happened all over the remains of the British Empire as we tried to extract ourselves.
That sounds like a threat to me.
If I send a postcard saying I will storm the US embassy in London armed with a carrot and a piece of cardboard shaped like a penis, that is a threat, but I doubt that the Marines on guard will need to shoot me dead to contain the peril somehow.
The chances of Iran or any other Middle Eastern country defeating Israel in a war are pretty much zero. When you add in Israel's nukes, they are actually zero.
They might just as well publish a fake book "proving" that Iran is about to conquer/destroy the whole world. I have no love for the Iranian Mullahcracy but the ramping up of hysteria against them is pathetic, and ominously reminiscent of the lead up to Gulf War 2, with the US/UK governments lying about how The Enemy are just minutes away from destroying western civilization.
Neither Iraq nor Iran were/are any military threat to the West. Even Israel is pretty safe unless you want to believe that Iran would commit national suicide by taking them on.
doom^^3 - children must learn at an early age.
Make sure to remove any lightbulbs in the room where they're playing.
You want him to grow up to be a total faggot, eh?
No, it's like calling him Sue. He'll learn how to fight much better against the other M$ shill-bullies at school.
Your 5-year-old has issues.
So do the 5 year old's parents. And I wouldn't let little Benny take pictures of sex toys his dad's done clip art for on his computer to school if I were you, Social services might get a call from the school.
And of course, make computer time a together activity. Sit next to her, actively watching, encouraging, explaining, and participating.
Unless you are someone who enjoys teaching, I can guarantee you that after ten minutes you'll just let them watch funny cat videos on YouTube.
How did your kids learn three languages?
They probably weren't born or brought up in the US, UK or other Anglophone culture. Most other people learn 2 or 3 languages with no problem.
It's copyright that ensures that your child can't (legally) see the programming without the embedded Cocoa Krispies advertisements.
My kids just fast forward through the ad breaks. Unless it's coming up to Christmas and they need some inspiration about what to ask Father Christmas for.
Oh please, the kids who have grown up consuming Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are the same ones who will happily download films, games and music wherever they can without paying for them.
They've hardly been brainwashed into believing that copyright is good and necessary.
Yes, I wondered about the "obviously not shoot-em-ups". Why is that obvious?
Because 3 is self evidently too young to be playing violent, graphically explicit games?
Some of them teach (although rudimentary) important principles like vectors and trajectories.
Let them play Angry Birds or something.
It's a good way to improve hand-eye coordination and brain development
Playing video games does not improve your hand -eye coordination as well as chucking a ball back and forth to your parents, or climbing a tree, and brain development is better done by being told stories and learning to read as young as you can so you can read stories to yourself.
And for that matter, 12 is a bit young for alcohol, but 14-15 is a good time to introduce them to small quantities (soft liquor, mind you, beer or wine).
I fully agree. I got my first taste for alcohol at age 14 months, and I'm fine (true story). I don't generally like drinking these days, but that's probably unrelated.
My grandparents would give gin to babies to help them sleep.
12 is a bit young for alcohol, but 14-15 is a good time to introduce them to small quantities (soft liquor, mind you, beer or wine).
Wow, you're a wuss. When I was growing up by 14 we were drinking regularly in pubs. We used to get cider at home from about 6 or so (my memory is a bit hazy, unsurprisingly)..
"Mormon fuck."
Of course, the intellectual capacity of the leftist drone on full display.
Thank you for proving my point.
If being against a stupid recently-made-up religion is leftist, why would you want to be rightist?
5. We will have actually come up with a better power source. Cold fusion or similar.
No, in 200 years time that will still be 25 years in the future, just like AI.
Will there still be bitter cowards posting their vitriol with impunity?
ISays the AC responding to a non-AC.
PS was it the "religious nutcases" jibe that upset you? I bet it was you fucking god-bothering fantasist.
Looking at Star Trek, we see how much the architecture is so 1960's. The knobs and lights look right out of 1967
Yeah, never mind about warp drive, phaser weapons, communicators, automated sick bays and the rest, let's criticise the fucking set decor.
While wells might be willing to have an open mind about the future, I think he would draw the line at child porn snuff films, and people using the greatest accomplishment since the library of alexandria to wipe their asses with. (Intellectually speaking.)
Maybe you should read de Sade sometime. The days of Sodom contain stuff that would make even internet hardened people sick. We aren't talking about Goatse or 1cup anymore with this fellow, we are talking about stuff even hardcore bondage and fetish sites would not dare to show for real.
Yes, but I think the point is that most ten year olds don't read de Sade as casual entertainment, unlike the crap on the internet.
Worse.
The 1880s were still deely gripped by puritanism, social stratification as being a good thing, institutionalized racism, and a very narrow and rigid view of what was considered "acceptable", and "proper".
you need to talk to your grand parents and great grand parents they were far more pornographic than you give them credit for
please note they have modern distractions like TV (the greatest contraceptive ever invented according to my grandmother) and came up with their own "Entertainment"
Having sex with other real people isn't pornography.
Heck, even greeting cards are nearly all e-cards now.
Yeah, because nothing says "I thought of you" like a fucking email.
Anyone who sends me an e-card gets struck off my birthday/Christmas card list.
What I find amusing is what they thought would improve, and what wouldn't. Wires would still exist.
As opposed to the actual world we live in where electricity is transmitted Tesla-style through the air?