Can someone explain to me how a plot to bomb a plane traveling between the U.K. and Canada be a threat made against the U.S.? Has there been a war to take over Canada I missed?
Isn't that the point the author was trying to make?
People preceive them as "just games" even though it's another entertainment medium, no more or less valid than any other entertainment delivery system.
Television can have both "Nova" and "Who wants to marry a millionaire"
Music has Chopin and Britney
And the release of "Dude, where's my car" hasn't ruined movies for people with an IQ greater than that of a stunned radish, so why can't video games be taken as seriously as cartoons are beginning to be now that we have things like Manga for the adults.
It's all in the numbers
When you look at a close-by country with a population of 30 million:
in the '02 census, there were a total of 23 children kidnapped by non-family members. This includes all kidnappings, not just sexual predation
In the '02 breakdown by the Insurance companies, there were a total of between 370-430 children who were injured to the point of hospitalization and/or killed by non-famalial drunk drivers. (The paper cited a range of numbers, the lowest being reported, and the higher being the suspected numbers because of under-reporting)
Your kid is 20 times more likely to be put in the hospital by a drunk driver than they are to have some predator kidnap them.
Predators work geographically, Of the 23 kidnapped, I'd guess that maybe 3 of those were done by someone who didn't live within the same city. I think the chance that the list would EVER be used as a trolling source by a predator is somewhere in the realm of winning the lottery three times in a row.
Especially when you can simply drive around and look for brightly coloured plastic things lying around in the front lawn and see who has kids.
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Can someone explain to me how a plot to bomb a plane traveling between the U.K. and Canada be a threat made against the U.S.? Has there been a war to take over Canada I missed?
Isn't that the point the author was trying to make? People preceive them as "just games" even though it's another entertainment medium, no more or less valid than any other entertainment delivery system. Television can have both "Nova" and "Who wants to marry a millionaire" Music has Chopin and Britney And the release of "Dude, where's my car" hasn't ruined movies for people with an IQ greater than that of a stunned radish, so why can't video games be taken as seriously as cartoons are beginning to be now that we have things like Manga for the adults.
Always been at peace with the brits? Who was it that burned the Whitehouse around 1813.
Yes, but how many Megs per gallon does your car get now?
More to the point, can we sue filmmakers for not disclosing that the movie is a pile of moose droppings?
It's all in the numbers When you look at a close-by country with a population of 30 million: in the '02 census, there were a total of 23 children kidnapped by non-family members. This includes all kidnappings, not just sexual predation In the '02 breakdown by the Insurance companies, there were a total of between 370-430 children who were injured to the point of hospitalization and/or killed by non-famalial drunk drivers. (The paper cited a range of numbers, the lowest being reported, and the higher being the suspected numbers because of under-reporting) Your kid is 20 times more likely to be put in the hospital by a drunk driver than they are to have some predator kidnap them. Predators work geographically, Of the 23 kidnapped, I'd guess that maybe 3 of those were done by someone who didn't live within the same city. I think the chance that the list would EVER be used as a trolling source by a predator is somewhere in the realm of winning the lottery three times in a row. Especially when you can simply drive around and look for brightly coloured plastic things lying around in the front lawn and see who has kids.